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Revision as of 04:55, 16 August 2022

SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month
SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month cover
Developers
AWE Games
Publishers
THQ
Release dates
Windows September 22, 2002
Taxonomy
Series SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month on MobyGames
SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month on Wikipedia
Subseries of Nickelodeon
SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty 2001
SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month 2002
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom 2003
SpongeBob SquarePants Collapse 2003
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2004
SpongeBob SquarePants: Typing 2004
SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! 2005
SpongeBob SquarePants: Diner Dash 2006
SpongeBob SquarePants: Nighty Nightmare 2006
SpongeBob SquarePants: Clash of Triton 2011
SpongeBob: Patty Pursuit 2020
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated 2020
SpongeBob SolitairePants 2022
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake 2023

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\THQ\SpongeBob 2\Settings

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\saved[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
640x480 only unless hack is applied, See Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution, only possible if you have a 4k monitor
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
possible with dgvoodoo2 See Widescreen resolution
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
By default Caps 15fps.possible with dgvoodoo2 See Widescreen resolution
120+ FPS
possible with dgvoodoo2 See Widescreen resolution

Widescreen resolution

Game only runs at 15 FPS by default and is locked to 640x480 fullscreen. Additionally, some users experience graphical/rendering issues. The following may resolve these issues.
Use dgVoodoo2[citation needed]
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Extract D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll from the MS/x86 folder to the installation folder, where sb2.exe is located.
  3. Open dgVoodooCpl.exe and go to DirectX and configure your settings.

Notes

This removes the frame rate cap and allows the game to be played at modern resolutions. The only downside is that the game is stretched at higher resolutions, but you may be able to fix this:
  1. Open dgVoodooCpl.exe and go to General.
  2. Under Appearance, select Windowed and change the dropdown next to it to "Stretched, keep Aspect Ratio"

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues unresolved

Game crashes on launch

Continuously relaunch it until it works[1]
Try setting "Windows XP (Service Pack 2)" and "Run as Administrator" in compatibility mode settings

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME
Processor (CPU) 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) 16-bit graphics card
4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0 compatible


Notes

  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

  1. Verified by User:Hman360 on 2022-08-16
    Terrible workaround, but I was able to get it running randomly