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Revision as of 21:59, 2 June 2021

Ball Breakers
Ball Breakers cover
Developers
Lost Toys
Windows Broadsword Interactive
Publishers
Take-Two Interactive
Release dates
Windows November 3, 2000
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Genres Action
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Ball Breakers on Wikipedia

Ball Breakers (known as MoHo in Europe) is a video game developed by Lost Toys and published by Take-Two Interactive for PlayStation, Dreamcast, and Microsoft Windows in 2000.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows

Essential improvements

Fixed exe from myabandonware.com

To run the game on modern systems, you will need the fixed exe available on myabandonware.com.

This works as a no-cd patch, but also seems to fix a crash when loading a level.

Widescreen and high resolution support

Use DgVoodoo
  1. Download DgVoodoo.
  2. Extract dgVoodoo.conf, dgVoodooCpl.exe and the contents of MS/x86 directly into <path-to-game>.
  3. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe
  4. In the "General" tab set the following:
 * Appearance - "Full Screen"
 * Scaling mode - "Stretched, keep aspect ratio"
  1. In the "DirectX" tab set the following:
 * Videocard - "dgVoodoo Virtual 3D Accelerated Card"
 * VRAM - "4096MB"
 * Filtering - "Force anisotropic 16x"
 * Disable mipmapping - true
 * Resolution - choose the max for your monitor
 * dgVoodoo Watermark - false
  1. Press "Apply", then "OK"
  2. Edit dgVoodoo.conf in a text editor and:
  3. Set the FullscreenAttributes property to "fake" (to make cutscenes work somewhat properly)
  4. Set the DepthBuffersBitDepth property to "forcemin24bit" (to fix some z-fighting issues)

Controller configuration

You might need to use XInput Plus for the configuration window to recognize controller inputs (if you want to change the default control scheme). Note that the game will take longer to launch when the xinput files are present. Due to this, it's recommended to delete the DLLs after configuring the controller.
Create XInput DLLs
  1. Follow the guide to create the necessary DLLs.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

{{Game data|

Windows

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound and music volume controlled separately
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Issues unresolved

Music or sound not playing on Windows 10

The cutscenes and music are stored on the CD, so will only work when a CD is present in the drive. However, running the game with the CD will break sound. This results in a choice of whether you prefer to hear sound or music.

Graphical glitches when using dgVoodoo

An odd graphical glitch can occur when using dgVoodoo, where a weird black shadow-like effect with z-fighting can be seen around boost pads.

Issues fixed

Crash when loading a level on Windows 10

Use the fixed exe from myabandonware.com.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Windows 95/98/2000
Processor (CPU) 266MHz (Pentium II or equivalent)
System memory (RAM) 32Mb
Hard disk drive (HDD) 400Mb
Video card (GPU) DirectX compatible 3D Accelerator Card with 8Mb VRAM
DirectX 7


References