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Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge

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Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge cover
Developers
LucasArts
Publishers
LucasArts
Disney Interactive Studios
Engines
SCUMM
Release dates
Windows July 7, 2010
Reception
Metacritic 87
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, Puzzle
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Comedy, Piracy
Series Monkey Island
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Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island 1990
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge 1991
The Curse of Monkey Island 1997
Escape from Monkey Island 2000
Tales of Monkey Island 2009
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition 2009
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge 2010
Return to Monkey Island 2022

Key points

To switch between Classic and Remastered mode, press F1.
Voice over: Complete voice over using original Monkey Island franchise cast members brings the story and characters to life like never before, now available for both the Special Edition and Classic modes.
Original developer commentary – Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman.
Renewed music score: Re-mastered and re-recorded musical score using live instruments.

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)
SecuROM 8 DRM in Special Edition Collection.[1]
Windows
Amazon.com
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Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\LucasArts\Monkey Island 2 Special Edition\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/32460/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\monkey2.bin[Note 2]
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\32460\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/32460/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings
Video settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
50:27 (~1.85) static aspect in Special Edition mode. 4:3 static aspect in Classic mode.[2]
Multi-monitor
50:27 (~1.85) pillarboxed. Game menu interfaces are stretched.[3]
Ultra-widescreen
50:27 (~1.85) pillarboxed. Game menu interfaces are stretched.[4]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse controls
Keyboard and mouse controls

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings
Game settings
Game settings
Bonus feature settings
Bonus feature settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, SFX and Dialog
Surround sound
Stereo.[5]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Subtitles include captions for certain sound effects, such as phones ringing.[6]
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Localization differs from that of the original release. This is most visible in the library, where the book titles are translated literally instead of being adapted to the spirit of the language.
Italian
Polish
Fan translation, download.
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation, download.
Russian
Fan translation by «PRCA/ENPY Studio», download.
Spanish

Changing language

If the configuration file is deleted, the language selection prompt will appear next time the game is started.
To change the language without losing other settings, edit the configuration file and modify the language=x line. Valid values are 0-English, 1-French, 2-Italian, 3-German, 4-Spanish.[7]

Issues fixed

Crash when installed in a 3 TB hard drive partition

The Game will refuse to run when installed on a large drive partition.[8]
Installing the game on a smaller partition will fix this issue[citation needed]

DVD version launcher does not work on Windows 10

Running Launcher.exe shows a black screen and "Failed to initialize renderer" pop-up
Set Launcher.exe to run in Windows 95 compatibility mode[9][10]

Choppy scrolling or low FPS

The game's built-in FPS limiter may cause choppiness or low framerates
Game executable needs to be de-obfuscated using Steamless before applying the fix.
Hex-edit the executable to remove the frame limiter[11]
  1. Open Monkey2.exe in a hex editor, such as HxD.
  2. Search for 76 05 0F 57 C0 EB 06.
  3. Replace it with 89 C0 0F 57 C0 EB 06.
  4. Make sure to use a frame limiter (such as the one in the Nvidia Control Panel) to cap the game's FPS below 1000, or the game may not start.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 2.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio iMUSE

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.8 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
Shader model 2.0 support
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compliant


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/32460/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (32460) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  2. 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

  1. List of DRM-free retail games - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2022-09-29
    Tested at 2560x1600 resolution
  3. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2022-09-29
    Tested at 2560x480 custom resolution
  4. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2022-09-29
    Tested at 2560x1080 custom resolution
  5. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2022-09-29
    Tested with Orban Loudness Meter.
  6. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2022-09-29
  7. How to Change The Language in The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition - last accessed on May 2023
  8. Games will not start in 3 TB drives - Steam Users' Forums (retrieved)
  9. Steam Community - last accessed on May 2023
  10. cloakedthargoid.wordpress.com - last accessed on May 2023
  11. https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/topic/4736-monkey-island-2-se-low-fps-bug/?do=findComment&comment=13862