Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II
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Developers | |
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The Dreamers Guild | |
Publishers | |
Encore | |
Engines | |
SAGA[1] | |
Release dates | |
DOS | 1997 |
Windows | 1997 |
Faery Tale Adventure | |
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The Faery Tale Adventure: Book I | 1989 |
Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II | 1997 |
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Plays without the CD but prompts for optional CD video playback (see play without the CD). |
Essential improvements
Play without the CD
- The largest install size can be played without the CD, but when a video is to be played the game will show a prompt for inserting the disc or skipping that video.
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Skip intro videos
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Game data
Configuration file location
System | Location |
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DOS | <path-to-game>\FTA2.INI |
Windows | %WINDIR%\FTA2.INI[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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DOS | <path-to-game>\0**.SAV |
Windows | <path-to-game>\0**.SAV[Note 1] |
- Saves are
000.SAV
to049.SAV
(999.SAV
is an autosave)
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | 640x480 only. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter for DOSBox; for the Windows version see Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Windowed
- Windowed mode colors in the Windows version are corrupted on modern versions of Windows.
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file. | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sound Effects, Speech, Music. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
Issues fixed
Installing on modern versions of Windows
- Attempting to install the Windows version on modern systems results in various errors ("The operating system denied access to the specified file" etc.)
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DOS video modes | SVGA |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Smacker Video Technology |
System requirements
DOS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 6.0 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 90 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 8 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 4 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | SVGA |
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 90 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 8 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 4 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectDraw compatible SVGA |
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
- ↑ Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II - ScummVM :: Wiki - last accessed on 2019-09-23
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Verified by User:Garrett on October 30, 2017