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The Pink Panther's Passport to Peril

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The Pink Panther's Passport to Peril
The Pink Panther's Passport to Peril cover
Developers
Wanderlust Interactive
Publishers
United States (1st edition), France BMG Interactive
United States Simon & Schuster Interactive
United Kingdom Anglia Multimedia
Denmark Funsoft
Netherlands The Learning Company
Russia Noviy Disk[1]
Engines
OxCart Runtime[2]
Release dates
Windows 3.x October 1996
Windows October 1996[3]
Taxonomy
Controls Point and select
Series The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther's Passport to Peril on IGDB
The Pink Panther's Passport to Peril guide on StrategyWiki
The Pink Panther's Passport to Peril on MobyGames
The Pink Panther's Passport to Peril on Wikipedia
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther's Passport to Peril 1996
The Pink Panther in Hokus Pokus Pink 1997
Pink Panther: Pinkadelic Pursuit 2002

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows 3.x
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wanderlust\The Pink Panther's Passport to Peril

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\*.ptp[Note 1]
Save game data location can be changed during saving.

Save game cloud syncing

ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

Launcher display configuration.
Launcher display configuration.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Based on system settings.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
A Pantera Cor-de-Rosa: Passaporte para o Perigo.[4]
Russian
Розовая пантера. Право на риск.
Spanish
Swedish

Issues fixed

Installer does not work

Setup executable is 16 bits and won't work on 64 bits OS.
Copy the game files from the CD[5]
  1. Go to the INSTALL folder on the installation CD.
  2. Copy the following files: ALLSONGS.PTP, BATCHMAN.EXE, BCKGND.GIF, LOGO1.GIF, LUST.HTM, MSS32.DLL, PINK.HTM, PNKSTD1.GIF, PPTP.BRO, PPTP.CNT, PPTP.EXE, PPTP.HLP, PPTP.ICO, QA.HTM, README.WRI, SUPPORT.HTM and WINNER.HTM
  3. Paste them on your hard drive.
  4. Use the PPTP.exe file to launch the game.
Files on the CD may be hidden.

Game no Launch (Spanish Version)

For some reason the Spanish version does not run on Windows XP or higher.

Use Windows XP Patch

Sound does not play

Enable the following compatibility settings for the PPTP.exe file: Compatibility mode (Windows XP Service Pack 2 Compatibility mode (Windows XP Service Pack 2 And Compatibility mode (8 bits (256 colores))[6]

Stuck at 640x480 when closing game

Enable the following compatibility settings for the PPTP.exe file: Run in 640x480 screen resolution

Crackling sound

Enable the following compatibility settings for the PPTP.exe file: Compatibility mode (Windows 98 / Windows ME)[7]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 6
Executable16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using ScummVM.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System

System requirements

Windows 3.x
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) 486 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 color, 640x480 capable
Sound (audio device) 8-bit, 22 kHz Windows compatible
Windows NT is not officially supported, though the game should run without problems on NT 4.0 or later.


Notes

  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