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Cave Story

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Cave Story
Cave Story cover
Developers
Pixel
Release dates
Windows December 20, 2004
Cave Story guide on StrategyWiki
Cave Story on Wikipedia
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Warnings

This game is only playable in English with a fan translation (see Localizations for details and other supported languages).
Cave Story
Cave Story 2004
Cave Story+ 2011
Cave Story's Secret Santa 2021

This page is for the original game. For the enhanced remake, see Cave Story+.

Key points

Multiple language translations available.

General information

Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari) - A Tribute Site
Unofficial Cave Story Wikia

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
DRM-free
 Freeware.
Windows

Essential improvements

Graphics Enhancement Pack

A patch that includes various improvements and fixes for the game's graphical fidelity like widescreen support, 60 FPS etc. More info here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Config.dat[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Profile.dat[Note 1]

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Use the original Japanese version.
Korean
Lithuanian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Portuguese
Russian
Russian

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 5 compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ 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