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Revision as of 14:07, 5 May 2023

This page is for the original 2000 game. For the reboot, see Kao the Kangaroo (2022).

Kao the Kangaroo
Kao the Kangaroo cover
Developers
X-Ray Interactive
Publishers
Titus Interactive
Poland Licomp Empik Multimedia
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
GOG.com Tate Multimedia
Release dates
Windows December 8, 2000
Reception
Metacritic 60
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
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
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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.

Key points

By default, the PC version utilizes tank controls instead of the camera relative controls used in the Dreamcast port. See Camera relative controls.

General information

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

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
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
 Bundled with Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 and Kao: Mystery of Volcano.
Windows
Steam
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 Comes pre configured with dgVoodoo. [3]
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[4]
  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]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2360020/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\kao*.sav[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2360020/pfx/[Note 3]
The * is the save file number.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For the GOG.com release, windowed mode is already enabled. To disable it, set Windowed to 0 in the configuration file.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Use dgVoodoo 2 and choose between 2x-16x under "Texture Filtering".
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Use dgVoodoo 2 and choose between 2x-8x MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 125 FPS.

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen fix[5]
  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

Control settings.
Control settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
No mouse support.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Requires manually mapping inputs in the options menu.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Camera relative controls

Edit the configuration file[4]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\kao.ini in a text editor.
  2. Add CameraRelativeControll = 1 under // rasterizer

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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

Localizations

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

Issues fixed

Graphical issues on modern systems

Use dgVoodoo 2[6]
Use DDrawCompat
Use DxWnd[7]
  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.

Game launch in windowed

Use DDrawCompat

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).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References