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Bad Toys 3D

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Bad Toys 3D
Bad Toys 3D cover
Developers
Tibo Software
Release dates
Windows 3.x 1995
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Shooter
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Contemporary
Bad Toys 3D on MobyGames

Warnings

The Windows 3.x version of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Unpractical to emulate. The game performs poorly when played at a resolution higher than 320x200 under any kind of emulator.

General information

Official game page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
CD key
Windows 3.x
A shareware demo containing the first three levels can be downloaded from the game's official page.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\bt3d.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\GAME_*.SVG[Note 1]

Video

Game settings external window.
Game settings external window.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
No spoken dialogue.
Closed captions
No spoken dialogue.
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Game doesn't run on 64-bit Windows operating systems

Use winevdm[1]
Run the game on Windows 3.x via DOSBox[1]
Windows 3.11 is a 16-bit OS and is fully supported by DOSBox.[2] It can be obtained via MSDN Subscribers Downloads.

Follow this guide and install the game as one normally would.

For further help (i.e. CD-ROM drive mounting), please refer to DOSBox's wiki.

Mitigate poor performance on DOSBox

Set cycles to 100000[1]

Joystick controls are drifting

Increase joystick sensitivity to its maximum[1]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Software renderer
Executable16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
See Game doesn't run on 64-bit Windows operating systems for non-16/32-bit OSes.

System requirements

Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1, 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 (32-bit only)
Processor (CPU) 386 processor or better
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 MB


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Verified by User:Azatoth on July 23, 2019
  2. Windows 3.11 compatibility page on DOSBox.com - last accessed on May 2023