Lego Island
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Developers | |
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Mindscape | |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 26, 1997 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, Adventure |
Vehicles | Automobile, Bicycle, Helicopter, Track racing, Truck |
Art styles | Stylized |
Themes | Contemporary, Comedy |
Series | Lego Island |
Lego Island | |
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Subseries of Lego | |
Lego Island | 1997 |
Lego Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge | 2001 |
Island Xtreme Stunts | 2002 |
Key points
- Modern systems need workarounds for some compatibility problems; see Installing on modern versions of Windows.
- Keyboard control is extremely twitchy due to the game being programmed for low framerates. Using the LEGO Island Rebuilder is recommended.
General information
- Unofficial Lego Wiki
- Brickimedia
- Rock Raiders United - A fan forum for all of the classic Lego games.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | See Run without a CD |
- An official release of the soundtrack was never made. A project to restore the soundtrack to 44.1 kHz stereo from the original composer's backup tapes (compared to the 11.025 kHz mono found in-game[1]) can be found on the Project Island website.
- The Italian release uses SecuROM DRM copy protection [2].
- This game is not available digitally.
Essential improvements
LEGO Island Rebuilder
- Allows for frame rate capping, patching the notoriously-twitchy keyboard controls, and music replacement.
- Runs on hardware near-contemporaneous with the original release; see Frame rate (FPS)
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mindscape\LEGO Island[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\[Note 2] |
Video settings
Frame rate (FPS)
- The game locks its framerate 90 FPS when exploring the world and either 30 or 90 FPS in certain indoor environments.
- Since the game was never intended to run this fast (it was designed with 10 FPS in mind), many timer issues also arise as a result; for example, turning is very sensitive and many of the animations run too fast.
Cap the framerate |
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Use LEGO Island Rebuilder |
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Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Danish | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Portuguese | ||||
Russian | Published by Noviy Disk in 2002 | |||
Spanish |
Issues fixed
Installing on modern versions of Windows
Use alternate installer[citation needed] |
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Install with workarounds[citation needed] |
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Progress Doesn't Save
Close the game with Alt+F4[citation needed] |
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Run without a CD
Change the cdpath registry value[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 120 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | 32 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 20 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | Direct3D-compatible |
Notes
- ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details. - ↑ 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).