Simon the Sorcerer's Pinball

Simon the Sorcerer
Simon the Sorcerer	1993
Simon the Sorcerer II	1995
Simon the Sorcerer's Pinball	1998
Simon the Sorcerer's Puzzle Pack	1998
Simon the Sorcerer 3D	2002
Simon the Sorcerer 4: Chaos Happens	2007
Simon the Sorcerer 5	2009
Simon the Sorcerer: 25th Anniversary Edition	2018
Simon the Sorcerer 2: 25th Anniversary Edition	2018
Simon the Sorcerer Origins	2023

Simon the Sorcerer's Pinball is a singleplayer cinematic camera pinball game in the Simon the Sorcerer series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

System	Location
Windows

System	Location
Windows

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 by default.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Graphics are pre-rendered.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Graphics are pre-rendered.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Mouse is used only in menus. Keyboard/Gamepad control only in-game.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		While the game has a controller option, it is unresponsive. Workarounds are required.

Controller types

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French				Selecting French on startup changes only the exit popup as the majority of menu graphics are pre-rendered. Audio is still in English.
German				Selecting German on startup changes only the exit popup as the majority of menu graphics are pre-rendered. Audio is still in English.
Italian				Selecting Italian on startup changes only the exit popup as the majority of menu graphics are pre-rendered. Audio is still in English.
Spanish				Selecting Spanish on startup changes only the exit popup as the majority of menu graphics are pre-rendered. Audio is still in English.

Use winevmd to install

Get winevmd (otvdm) from here. Instructions for getting binaries from github project here.
Extract the contents of the downloaded archive to a folder on your hard drive.
Navigate to your Simon the Sorcerer Pinball CD
Enter the subdirectory Pinball
Drag and drop setup.exe from the Pinball subdirectory onto otvdm.exe located in the folder created in step 2, to start the installation. Alternatively, launch otvdmw.exe, navigate to your simon the sorcerer CD pinball sub-directory and select setup.exe
Follow the on screen instructions to install the game

Install dgVoodoo2

Download the latest version of dgVoodoo2 here.
Open the downloaded archive and extract the contents of the MS/x86 folder along with dgVoodooCpl.exe and dgVoodoo.conf into the <path-to-game>\sorcerer folder.
Run dgVoodooCpl.exe
Click the icon with the symbols .\ near the top right to reassign the location of the configuration file for dgVoodoo to <path-to-game>\sorcerer
Click the "Okay" button to close the dgVoodoo control panel.
Launch the game using the winpin.exe executable in <path-to-game>\sorcerer.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

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Developers

	Adventure Soft
Release dates
Windows	1998
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Cinematic camera
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Pinball
Art styles	Pre-rendered graphics, Realistic
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Simon the Sorcerer