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Latest revision as of 23:58, 2 February 2023

Marble Drop
Marble Drop cover
Developers
Maxis South
Publishers
Maxis
Release dates
Windows February 28, 1997
Marble Drop on MobyGames
Marble Drop on Wikipedia

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
Demo

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest patch for the game (v1.1) can be found on EA's FTP server.

Note that the patch cannot be installed on 64-bit Windows as the installer is 16-bit only.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Maxis\Marble Drop

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

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
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
No speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Cannot change resolution

Enable the following compatibility settings: Compatibility mode (Windows XP (Service Pack 3))[citation needed]

Notes

Even with the fix, the game cannot be set to 1024x768 without crashing

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) Intel 486 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA
512 KB of VRAM


References