102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue

102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue

Developers
	Crystal Dynamics
Windows	Prolific Publishing
Publishers
	Eidos Interactive
	Disney Interactive Studios
Release dates
Windows	November 9, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Platform
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Europe
Series	101 Dalmatians

101 Dalmatians
Subseries of Disney
Disney's Animated Storybook: 101 Dalmatians	1997
101 Dalmatians: Escape from DeVil Manor	1997
102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue	2000
Disney's 102 Dalmatians Activity Center	2001

102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue is a singleplayer third-person platform game in the 101 Dalmatians series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\pcdogs.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\savegame.dat

Video

Options menu

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor		See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Can be run in a window with dgVoodoo 2.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Widescreen resolution
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See Widescreen resolution
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Capped at 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Widescreen resolution

Use Elisha's DxWrapper (For Dx7 games)

If you want to skip all the steps below, just download fix present in Controllers. Download files for DX7 games from this page Unpack the archive anywhere Open dxwrapper.ini using any notepad application. Set next options to 1 instead of 0: Under [dd7to9]: DdrawUseNativeResolution=1 Under [d3d9]: AnisotropicFiltering=1, AntiAliasing=1 (for better graphics) and FullscreenWindowMode=1 Save dxrapper.ini Move every unarchived file (should be 3 of them) into <path-to-game> (next to the pcdogs.exe)

Use the FOV fix and set the preferred resolution in a DirectX wrapper like dgVoodoo 2

Modify the executable to change the aspect ratio

Open Pcdogs.exe with a hex editor (e.g. HxD). Go to hex offset (Ctrl+G) 52F58 for the French/German/Italian/Spanish/Dutch version of the game, or 50F60 for the English one. The next 4 bytes after the cursor should be 00 10 00 00. If not, find the correct offset manually: Search (Ctrl+F) for the string Emulated. In the hex view, look for the next FF byte before the string. Find the first 00 10 00 00 byte sequence after that. Click the first 00. In the data inspector, change the Int32 value from 4096 to: 3067 for 16:9 3412 for 16:10 2340 for 21:9 For other aspect ratio values, calculate 4096'*1.333/ratio (e.g. 4096*1.333/1.78=3067 for 16:9). Save the file and close the hex editor. Use dgVoodoo 2 to force a widescreen resolution and make sure Scaling mode is set to Unspecified.

Input

Input configuration menu

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		No mouse input in the game.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		For modern controllers, see Controllers. Otherwise, you can load official configurations available in-game for the Hammerhead FX, Microsoft SideWinder, Gravis GamePad Pro, and Wingman RumblePad.
Full controller support		See Controllers.
Controller remapping		In order to remap the controller, the game has to recognize it. See Controllers.
Controller sensitivity		See Controllers.
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

Additional information
Controller hotplugging		Game crashes if controller has been unplugged.
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Controllers

Use Chip-Biscuit X-Input Support D3D9 Wrapper

Follow instructions provided on this page: controller calibration fix "Revives" native controller support of the game, which means the left stick movement is analogue. Supports right stick camera movement, which is something not possible by the nature of the game by default, as the game was released when right stick wasn't really an option on most controllers yet. An ability to change sensitivity/deadzones of the controller in d3d9.ini Includes Elisha's DxWrapper pre-configured. Fixes Widescreen, automatically applies best possible resolution of the current monitor and adds highest Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering available for smoother edges. An option to have Xbox button prompts (via a simple "hack" in the bonus section)

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and Sound.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech				Fan - 1
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Spanish
Swedish

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium MMX 233 MHz		Intel Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB		64 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	50 MB uncompressed		500 MB
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0a compatible