Lego Island

Lego Island

Developers
	Mindscape
Release dates
Windows	September 26, 1997
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Adventure
Vehicles	Automobile, Bicycle, Helicopter, Track racing, Truck
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Contemporary, Comedy
Series	Lego Island

Lego Island
Subseries of Lego
Lego Island	1997
Lego Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge	2001
Island Xtreme Stunts	2002

Key points

Modern systems need workarounds for some compatibility problems; see Installing on modern versions of Windows.

Keyboard control is extremely twitchy due to the game being programmed for low framerates. Using the LEGO Island Rebuilder is recommended.

General information

Unofficial Lego Wiki

Brickimedia

Rock Raiders United - A fan forum for all of the classic Lego games.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		See Run without a CD

An official release of the soundtrack was never made. A project to restore the soundtrack to 44.1 kHz stereo from the original composer's backup tapes (compared to the 11.025 kHz mono found in-game) can be found on the Project Island website.

The Italian release uses SecuROM DRM copy protection.

This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

LEGO Island Rebuilder

Allows for frame rate capping, patching the notoriously-twitchy keyboard controls, and music replacement.

Runs on hardware near-contemporaneous with the original release; see Frame rate (FPS)

Works without administrator privileges.

Game freezes when beeing placed on the secondary monitor of an extended desktop. Game continues when being moved back to the primary desktop.

Erorr: "Lego Island failed to start"

Run the game's CONFIG.EXE as administrator
If you are not logged in as administrator on your computer, the game cannot write the initial keys to the registry. Therefore, start CONFIG.EXE as adminstrator before you run the Rebuilder.exe: Right click on the shortcut CONFIG.EXE. Left click Run as administrator. Set RGB Emulation as Direct 3D Device You only need to do this once.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mindscape\LEGO Island

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\

Video

External options screen.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Use dgVoodoo 2.53 to force wide screen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Use dgVoodoo 2.53 to force wide screen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Edit the registry or use ICU Windower. This feature is incomplete; it always uses the same rendering mode regardless of what is chosen.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS		See Frame rate (FPS).

Frame rate (FPS)

The game locks its framerate 90 FPS when exploring the world and either 30 or 90 FPS in certain indoor environments.

Since the game was never intended to run this fast (it was designed with 10 FPS in mind), many timer issues also arise as a result; for example, turning is very sensitive and many of the animations run too fast. A 30FPS cap is recommended, to prevent animations from running too fast.

Cap the framerate

Use LEGO Island Rebuilder
Download LEGO Island Rebuilder and extract it to <path-to-game>, then run it. Set the option Turning: Unhook From Frame Rate to True Select "Run" to run the game.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
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

Audio

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

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Danish
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian				Published by Noviy Disk in 2002
Spanish

Issues fixed

Installing on modern versions of Windows

Use alternate installer[citation needed]
Use Lego Island Alternate Installer. The full install also counts as a no-CD patch.

Install with workarounds[citation needed]

Install by exploring the CD and running INSTALL.exe (the Autorun menu will crash if you try to use it). Go to \redist\directx on the disc and copy d3drm.dll into the installation folder. Run CONFIG.exe in the installation folder. Click Advanced. Ensure Ramp Emulation is selected. Alternatively, use Direct3D HAL for better transparency and filtered textures in combination with dgVoodoo 2. Run the game from the .exe The game will crash if you exit via ESC but is otherwise playable.

Progress Doesn't Save

Close the game with Alt+F4[citation needed]
Trying to close the game via Esc causes a crash and does not allow the game to save your progress. Instead, close the game using Alt+F4. You should see your progress the next time you play.

Run without a CD

Change the cdpath registry value[citation needed]
Copy the full contents of the disk to a folder on your computer Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mindscape\LEGO Island The cdpath value should have been set to the cd drive letter by the installer Set the cdpath value to the folder where you copied the CD files Notes You can also change the savepath value to change the save game data location

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 120 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 MB
Video card (GPU)	Direct3D-compatible DirectX 5 compatible