Martian Gothic: Unification
Developers | |
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Creative Reality | |
Publishers | |
TalonSoft | |
Release dates | |
Windows | April 30, 2000 |
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail |
Essential improvements
Peixoto's patch
- Forced resolution and 32 bit color depth
- Fixes the game not responding to gamepad input and adds better compatibility with Xinput gamepads
- Fixes a graphics glitch when you change characters
- Fixes gamma calibration not working
- On the Peixoto patch utility's Martian Gothic page, you will also find links for other patches that are necessary to get the
game running.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\[Note 1] |
Video settings
Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Italian | ||||
German | ||||
Russian |
Issues unresolved
Matlock gets up inside a vent duct
At Mai Lin's bedroom, Matlock (the woman), crawls inside a vent duct to go to another place, but when says "keep going, keep going", she gets up inside the vent and gets stuck in the "room". She can walk standing in the duct without following the 2D background and doesn't do the transitions to other rooms [1].
Doing some research, although the game is fully patched, this bug appears when the game is in Spanish and Italian, but doesn't when the game is in English or French. Other languages are untested because the version tested only have these four languages.
Workaround: Put the game in English or French and revert back after the vent [2]
1. Save the game in the near save point. Exit the game.
2. Change language to English (or French):
Create [MartianENG.reg] and add to registry |
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Martian Gothic] "Language"="eng" Notes
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3. Go through the vent and advance until the next save point. Save and exit the game.
4. Revert back the language (Spanish or Italian):
Create [MartianSPA.reg] and add to registry |
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Martian Gothic] "Language"="spa" Notes
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5. Load your last game and continue.
Issues fixed
Game not responding to gamepad input
Use Peixoto's patch[citation needed] |
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Graphics glitch when changing characters
Use Peixoto's patch[citation needed] |
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Gamma calibration not working
Use Peixoto's patch[citation needed] |
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ADPCM codec not installed
Use [Create fix.reg] paste
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MediaResources\acm\msacm.msadpcm] "Driver"="msadp32.acm" Add to registry[citation needed] |
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Game freezes randomly
See Force CPU affinity to run the game on one core
Recommended and tested[3] ImageCFG to use it alongside with Peixoto's patch. |
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Ending video doesn't play and game crash
Ending video can be corrupted and make the game crash
Change outro.bik from <path-to-game>\data with this one
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VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | Attempt with DGVoodoo2 2.6 and vorpx, retail game was crashing. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 6 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | QSound | 4.13 (QMDX.dll) |
Cutscenes | Bink Video | 1.0h |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 98 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 2 266 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 450 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 2 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.0 compatible |
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Sound (audio device) | Sound Blaster or compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Matlock gets up inside a vent duct" unresolved issue: Proof of the bug in a Spanish gameplay - last accessed on March 22, 2021
- ↑ "Matlock gets up inside a vent duct" unresolved issue: Proof of workaround changing the language. - last accessed on March 22, 2021
- ↑ Complete walkthrough with issues in the firsts videos (without the fix) and without it in the lasts ones (with the fix) - last accessed on April, 2021