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Dark Sun
Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands	1993
Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager	1994

Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager is a singleplayer bird's-eye view RPG game in the Dark Sun series.

General information

Characters can be imported from Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (see Import characters).

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Floppy version prompts for answers from the manual. CD version has a disc check.
GOG.com		CD version. Bundled with Dark Sun: Shattered Lands. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Steam		Bundled with Dark Sun: Shattered Lands. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.

Essential improvements

Import characters

Characters can be imported from Dark Sun: Shattered Lands.

Import characters^[2]

Make a new folder in the Wake of the Ravager installation folder (e.g. dsun).
Copy the Shattered Lands saves (*.SAV) into this new folder.
Edit the DOSBox configuration file (dosbox_darksun2_single.conf for GOG.com).
Change ravager to chartran, then save the file.
Run Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager.
Press 2 at the prompt.
Type C for the drive.
Enter the name of the installation folder (C:\ for GOG.com).
Press ↵ Enter, then follow the prompts to choose the save to import from.
Edit the DOSBox configuration file again.
Change chartran back to ravager, then save the file.
Run Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager. The imported characters are now available in-game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\DARKRUN.GFF
Windows	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Linux	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1904601/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\SAVE**.SAV <path-to-game>\CHARSAVE.GFF
Windows	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Linux	<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1904601/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

CHARSAVE.GFF contains saved characters.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings (CD version).

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		320x200 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		For DOSBox toggle with `Alt`+`↵ Enter` (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
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

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Sound Effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		For DOSBox change the `priority` background value in the DOSBox configuration file.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1904601/.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1904601) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Release: Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Krynn Series - GOG.com
↑ Dark Sun character transfer?, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023

[DOSBox_mounted-3] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

[Proton_path_note-4] 2.0 ^2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1904601/.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (1904601) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1904601/.

[5] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[6] The app ID (1904601) may differ in some cases.

[7] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[8] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[release_date-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Release: Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Krynn Series - GOG.com

[2] Dark Sun character transfer?, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023

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Developers

	Strategic Simulations Inc.
Publishers
Retail	Strategic Simulations Inc.
Digital, GOG.com	GOG.com
Digital, Steam	SNEG
Release dates
DOS	1994
Windows (DOSBox)	October 27, 2015^[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox)	October 27, 2015^[1]
Linux (DOSBox)	October 27, 2015^[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Turn-based
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Genres	RPG
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Dark Sun