Difference between revisions of "Heart of Darkness"
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{{ii}} A [http://heartofdarkness.ca/HOD_dwn.html demo] is available in English and French. | {{ii}} A [http://heartofdarkness.ca/HOD_dwn.html demo] is available in English and French. | ||
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==Essential improvements== | ==Essential improvements== |
Revision as of 19:52, 8 October 2023
Not to be confused with The Heart of Darkness.
Developers | |
---|---|
Amazing Studios | |
Publishers | |
Europe | Ocean Software |
North America | Interplay Entertainment |
Release dates | |
Windows | June 26, 1998 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Side view |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Platform |
Themes | Fantasy |
Heart of Darkness is a singleplayer side view platform game.
General information
- heartofdarkness.ca - fan remake of official website with demos, trailers and concept art.
Availability
- A demo is available in English and French.
Essential improvements
hode - Heart of Darkness engine reimplementation
- A source port of Heart of Darkness with better compatibility for modern versions of Windows.
- Fixes many bugs and issues from the original release.
- Options for linear, nearest-neighbor and xBRz texture filtering.
Peixoto's patch
- Nearest neighbor or xBRz scaling.
- Removes the black frame around the game screen.
- Fixes some occasional color glitches that happen when the game updates the palette.
dgVoodoo 2
- Fixes broken color rendering.
- Support for integer scaling.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SETUP.CFG[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SETUP.CFG[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | 4:3 pillarboxed. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | Game renders internally at 256x192. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Use hode source port. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Game logic is tied to the framerate, which is capped at 12 FPS in-game, and 10 FPS for FMVs. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Movement is locked to arrow keys. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | Only DirectInput. | |
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | Movement is locked to left stick. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | Use hode | |
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | Use hode | |
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PlayStation button prompts | ||
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes |
Generic/other controllers | ||
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Button prompts |
Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | Options for Mono and Stereo only. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Spanish |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
DirectDraw | 5 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Windows |
System requirements
Windows[1] | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98, NT 4.0 SP3 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel 486 DX2 66 MHz Intel Pentium 75 MHz |
Intel Pentium 90 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB (24 MB on NT 4.0) | 32 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 84 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | PCI or VLB SVGA video card 1 MB of VRAM | PCI SVGA graphics accelerator |
Notes
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Verified by User:Jofrie on 2018-01-21
- System requirements taken from the official Heart of Darkness manual.