Kao: Mystery of Volcano
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Developers | |
---|---|
Tate Multimedia | |
Publishers | |
Cenega | |
Australia | Auran Games |
Russia | 1C Company |
Release dates | |
Windows | December 2, 2005 |
Kao the Kangaroo | |
---|---|
Kao the Kangaroo | 2000 |
Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 | 2003 |
Kao: Mystery of Volcano | 2005 |
Kao the Kangaroo (2022) | 2022 |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail | Original Polish version uses StarForce 3.0 DRM[Note 1]. Spanish version uses TAGES v5 DRM. | |||
Retail | Later Polish releases and all other localisations. |
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\media\*.ini[Note 2] |
-
key.ini
stores keyboard/controller mapping and sound volume,lang.ini
stores the currently selected language anduser.ini
stores graphical options.
Save game data location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\media\KAO2SGa_bb_ccc_dddd_eee_fff_ggggg [Note 2] |
- Key:
a
- save file number (1-6)bb
- current stageccc
- unknown?dddd
- total number of collected coinseee
- total number of collected crystalsfff
- total number of collected starsggggg
- total playtime
Video settings
Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
- Most languages are available only in their local retail versions.
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | Available only in a rare Australian release. Poor localization quality.[5] | |||
Basque | ||||
Czech | Available on both Czech and Slovak versions. | |||
Dutch | Launcher is in English. Available on both French and Dutch versions. | |||
French | Launcher is in English. Available on both French and Dutch versions. | |||
Hungarian | Subtitles missing due to a game bug. | |||
Polish | ||||
Russian | ||||
Slovak | Available on both Czech and Slovak versions. | |||
Spanish | ||||
Turkish |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
OpenGL | 1.2 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 1.1 GHz | Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 500 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 32 MB of VRAM | 128 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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).