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Star Control II

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Star Control II
Star Control II cover
Developers
Toys for Bob
Publishers
Retail Accolade
Digital Stardock
Release dates
DOS November 30, 1992
Windows (DOSBox) April 19, 2011[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) November 29, 2012[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view, Scrolling, Flip screen
Controls Direct control
Genres Arcade, Mini-games
Vehicles Space flight
Themes Sci-fi
Series Star Control
Star Control II on MobyGames
Star Control II on Wikipedia
Star Control
Star Control 1990
Star Control II 1992
Star Control 3 1996
The Ur-Quan Masters 2002
Star Control: Origins 2018

Star Control II is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view, scrolling and flip screen arcade and mini-games game in the Star Control series.

An enhanced freeware and open-source version is available as The Ur-Quan Masters.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Also includes Star Control. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Also includes Star Control.
Windows
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358920/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358920/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian
Fan translation, download

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Other information

Command line arguments

Several commands are available. Use only one of each type.[4]
Command Description
/S:adlib Adlib sound and music
/S:internal Internal speaker sound and music
/S:silent No sound and music
/S:disney1 Disney Sound Source on Parallel Port #1
/S:disney2 Disney Sound Source on Parallel Port #2
/S:lpt1 Covox Speech Thing or other sound peripheral on parallel port #1
/S:lpt2 Covox Speech Thing or other sound peripheral on parallel port #2
/S:sblaster A Soundblaster
/S:pas A Pro Audio Spectrum
/S:sm2 A Sound Master II
/S:asc An ASC Media Master
/S:micro Microsoft Windows
/S:gravis Gravis Ultrasound
/G:bios Loads default color palette from BIOS
/spartan A "no frills" mode to allow faster play on slower machines

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.
  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>/358920/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (358920) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References