Escape from Monkey Island

Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island	1990
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge	1991
The Curse of Monkey Island	1997
Escape from Monkey Island	2000
Tales of Monkey Island	2009
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition	2009
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge	2010

Key points

CD/ISO installer is 16-bit and doesn't run under modern systems. See: Issues fixed.

No resolution option, game set to 640 x 480 without modifications

General information

Monkey Island Wiki

The International House of Mojo - In-depth article including developer interviews and game trivia

SCUMM Bar - Comprehensive fan site for the series

The World of Monkey Island - Another great fan site

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com
Steam

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

Patch v1.1 is the latest patch.

Replacement installer and launcher[edit]

Bennyboy's Replacement Installer enables installing the game on modern systems. It includes his Improved Launcher which enables CD-less play and can also install the latest patch.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saves\efmi.cfg^{[Note 1]}
Mac OS (Classic)
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/730830/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saves\^{[Note 1]}
Mac OS (Classic)
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/730830/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

Launcher video settings.

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In-game video settings.

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Use the `-w` command line argument
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)		On by default in Direct3D mode; off in OpenGL.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Color blind mode

Input settings[edit]

Error creating thumbnail: convert: Expected 8192 bytes; found 8151 bytes `/tmp/localcopy_b1b3ff2eb75d.png' @ warning/png.c/MagickPNGWarningHandler/1654. convert: Read Exception `/tmp/localcopy_b1b3ff2eb75d.png' @ error/png.c/MagickPNGErrorHandler/1628. convert: no images defined `/tmp/transform_346c4876d1f3.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3258. Error code: 1

Key mapping.

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Controls mapping.

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		Mouse is not used by the game.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging		Joystick/Gamepad setting must be enabled first
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings[edit]

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Audio and input settings.

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Sound Effects, Voice
Surround sound
Subtitles		Adjustable speed.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish

Issues fixed[edit]

The game won't install[edit]

Use Replacement installer and launcher^{[citation needed]}

(alternative) Run the game using ResidualVM^[1]

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7
OpenGL	1.2	Set in the launcher.
64-bit executable

Middleware[edit]

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System, iMUSE
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98, ME, 2000
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 200 MHz	Intel Pentium II
System memory (RAM)	32 MB (9x/ME) 64 MB (2000)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	8 MB	1.2 GB
Video card (GPU)	PCI or AGP 3D accelerator card 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0a compatible	AGP 3D accelerator card 8 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	16-Bit Sound card

Mac OS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	9.2.2
Processor (CPU)	PowerPC G3 233 MHz	PowerPC G3 333 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	96 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	250 MB	500 MB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Rage Pro 3dfx Voodoo3 OpenGL 1.2 compatible	8 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/730830/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (730830) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ ResidualVM: Running GrimE games

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).

[Proton_path_note-2] 2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/730830/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (730830) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[3] ResidualVM: Running GrimE games

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

[1]

Developers

	LucasArts
Engines
	GrimE
Release dates
Windows	November 8, 2000
Mac OS (Classic)	November 17, 2001