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Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Key points
- Running the game at frame rates higher than 60 may negatively affect gameplay.
- Released as Rayman Arena in North America.
- Based on the original PS2 version.
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- This game is not available digitally.
Essential improvements
Patches
- Rayman M menu files patch download.
- Extract and replace the original files on
<path-to-game>
to install it.
- Some re-released versions of Rayman M shipped out with earlier versions of the game's menu assets which can corrupt save files after saving over a certain amount of times.
- Note that the North American Rayman Arena releases do not contain this bug and should not be patched.
- The PC version uses FMV files that are much more compressed compared to the console versions.
Download and install PS2 FMVs[3]
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- Download and unzip the video files.
- Go to
<path-to-game>\videos\ .
- Replace the files in the folder with the downloaded ones.
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Skip intro videos
Skip startup Ubisoft logo and Intro
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\Videos .
- Delete or rename
Ubi.bik and Intro.bik .
- Save this file to
<path-to-game>\Videos .
- Rename it to
Ubi.bik , then create another copy and rename it to Intro.bik .
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
Input
- Xidi can translate XInput calls into DirectInput, restore haptic feedback support, and enable controller hotplugging for this game.
- Xidi only supports Windows 10 and 11.[5]
- For Windows 7 check out this fix
Launch the game by using Xidi[6]
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- Download the latest version of Xidi, and extract them.
- Go into the
Xidi-*\Win32 folder, then copy and paste the dinput8.dll and Xidi.HookModule.32.dll files into <path-to-game> where the game's executable is located.
- Download this configuration file and move it to
<path-to-game> .
- Launch the game and rebind the controls from the in-game options menu.
- The game should now be fully playable with an XInput controller.
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Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Music and Sound Effects. |
Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Royalty free audio |
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The game uses an original BGM score that is not listed on commercial streaming services. |
Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Czech |
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Local retail only. |
Danish |
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Only in Rayman M. |
Finnish |
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Only in Rayman M. |
French |
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German |
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Hebrew |
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Local retail only. |
Hungarian |
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Local retail only. |
Italian |
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Norwegian |
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Only in Rayman M. |
Polish |
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Local retail only. |
Brazilian Portuguese |
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Local retail only. |
Russian |
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Fan translation. |
Spanish |
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Swedish |
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Only in Rayman M. |
Changing language
- The language can be chosen when installing the game.
- To change the language after installation, edit the configuration file. Under the [RaymanM] or [Rayman Arena] section (depending on your version), find the Language= line (create if not present), and set one of the following values: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, (Rayman M only: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish).
- The Rayman Arena installer only supports English, French and Spanish, but the game itself can present Italian and German if specified in the configuration file.
- Setting Rayman Arena to one of the unsupported languages will crash the game after the intro video.
- Localized retail releases (Czech, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese) do not support additional languages and will ignore the Language= setting.
Issues fixed
Install the game on modern operating systems (Retail)
- The retail game discs cannot be installed on 64-bit computers because the installer is a 16-bit application.
Use Rayman Control Panel[citation needed]
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- The polish disc doesn't contain
outro.bik , which doesn't allow Rayman Control Panel to install it.
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Game elements stutter or run too fast
- Rayman M and Rayman Arena might run at 64 FPS on some systems by default. Frame rates above 60 FPS can cause various issues, e.g. some animations play out too fast or stutter, certain platforms disappear more quickly, etc.
The game does not start
Menu music randomly plays incorrectly after transitioning from title screen
- This occurs if you press start on the title screen at a certain time when the title screen music plays, which makes the game load the menu track, but transitions incorrectly thus corrupting the playback.
"Please run the DX8 setup." error on startup
Use dgVoodoo (copy MS\x86\d3d8.dll to your game folder) and run the game as admin with XP SP2 compatibility mode
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Network
Multiplayer types
Connection types
- If you want to play Rayman Arena using e.g. Radmin VPN or Hamachi, you need zZeck's RaymanArenaPatch which fixes detecting multiple network adapters.
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
8 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Middleware
Modifications
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
98 SE |
ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium II 450 MHz
| Intel Pentium III 700 MHz |
System memory (RAM) |
64 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
550 MB |
1.3 GB |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia RIVA TNT2 DirectX 8.0a compatible
| Nvidia GeForce 2 DirectX 8.1 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ 2.0 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).
References