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Revision as of 17:04, 16 February 2021

Kao the Kangaroo
Kao the Kangaroo cover
Developers
X-Ray Interactive
Publishers
Titus Software
Poland Licomp Empik Multimedia
Release dates
Windows December 8, 2000
Reception
Metacritic 60
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Platform
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Oceania
Series Kao the Kangaroo
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Kao the Kangaroo on HowLongToBeat
Kao the Kangaroo on IGDB
Kao the Kangaroo on MobyGames
Kao the Kangaroo on Wikipedia
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Kao the Kangaroo
Kao the Kangaroo 2000
Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 2003
Kao: Mystery of Volcano 2005
Kao the Kangaroo (2022) 2022

Kao the Kangaroo is a singleplayer third-person platform game in the Kao the Kangaroo series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 European copies use LaserLock DRM.
US copies use SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 Sold Out Software, and White Label (German) rereleases.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Bundled with Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 and Kao: Mystery of Volcano.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Replace video file[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\.
  2. Delete or rename the tate.avi file.
  3. Download the blank_MSVC.avi file.
  4. Move the file to <path-to-game>\.
  5. Rename this file to tate.avi.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\kao.ini[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\kao*.sav[Note 2]
The * is the save file number.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen fix[4]
  1. Open kao.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Press Ctrl+F and set Datatype to Hex-values.
  3. Search for 24080000803F and click OK.
  4. Replace the 0000803F value with:
    • 5555553F for 16:10 screens
    • 0000503F for 15:9 screens
    • 0000403F for 16:9 screens
    • 0000103F for 21:9 screens
  5. Save the file. If it won't save because of no permission, go to the Properties of the file and uncheck the Read-only box.
  6. Edit kao.ini and set Width and Height values to match your resolution.

Input settings

Control settings.
Control settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Dutch
German
French
Italian
Polish
Spanish

Issues fixed

Graphical issues on modern systems

Use dgVoodoo2[5]
Use DxWnd[6]
  1. Download DxWnd and extract it.
  2. Launch DxWnd.
  3. Set the path to <path-to-game>\kao.exe.
  4. Choose Edit, and Add.
  5. Type in the name for it (e.g. Kao the Kangaroo).
  6. Under position specify the X, Y position of a window for the game and Width (W) and Height (H) of the window.
  7. Go to DirectX tab.
  8. Under Emulation, choose the primary buffer renderer.
  9. Go to Direct3D tab.
  10. Under Direct3D tweaks, check Clean ZBUFFER @0.0 fix.
  11. Click OK to save the settings.
  12. Minimize DxWnd and launch the game.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233 MHz MMX
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 150 MB

Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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