Difference between revisions of "Lego Island"

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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 an Xbox 360 control pad or other game controller for movement is recommended.

General information

Unofficial Lego Wiki

Brickimedia

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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 soundtrack at 44.1 kHz stereo from the original composer's backup tapes (compared to the 11.025 kHz mono found in-game^[1]) can be found on the Project Island website.

Essential improvements

LEGO Island Rebuilder

Allows for framerate capping, movement speed alterations when using FPS rates beyond 10 FPS, and music replacement.

Runs on hardware near-contemporaneous with the original release.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mindscape\LEGO Island^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\^{[Note 2]}

Video settings

External options screen.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Danish
French
German
Japanese
Korean
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

Notes

↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
↑ 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

↑ A Technical Look at LEGO Island's Soundtrack - YouTube

[HKLM-2] Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

[gamedir-3] 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).

[1] A Technical Look at LEGO Island's Soundtrack - YouTube

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[Note 2]

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 {{ii}} An official release of the soundtrack was never made. A project to restore soundtrack at 44.1 kHz stereo from the original composer's backup tapes (compared to the 11.025 kHz mono found in-game<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF66z7lVRZ4 A Technical Look at LEGO Island's Soundtrack - YouTube]</ref>) can be found on the [https://projectisland.org/music/ Project Island website].
+==Essential improvements==
+===[https://github.com/itsmattkc/LEGOIslandRebuilder LEGO Island Rebuilder]===
+{{++}} Allows for framerate capping, movement speed alterations when using FPS rates beyond 10 FPS, and music replacement.
+{{++}} Runs on hardware near-contemporaneous with the original release.
 ==Game data==
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 |60 fps notes               =
 |120 fps                    = false
-|120 fps notes              = Locks at 90 FPS when exploring world, locks at 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.
+|120 fps notes              = Locks at 90 FPS when exploring world, locks at 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. Use [[#LEGO Island Rebuilder|LEGO Island Rebuilder]] to cap the framerate.
 |hdr                        = unknown
 |hdr notes                  =

Developers

	Mindscape
Release dates
Windows	October 2, 1997