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The Emperor's New Groove

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The Emperor's New Groove
The Emperor's New Groove cover
Developers
Argonaut Games
Publishers
Disney Interactive Studios
Release dates
Windows November 21, 2000
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Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 See Run without CD
Windows

Essential improvements

Run without CD

Copy files from disc[1]
  1. Go to Setup\ENG on the game disc.
  2. Copy the Cd folder to <path-to-game>.
  3. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  4. Change the CDPath value to <path-to-game>\Cd.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Disney Interactive\Emperor's New Groove\1.0\[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 2]

Video settings

Display settings
Display settings
Graphics settings
Graphics settings
Color settings
Color settings

Template:Video settings

Field of view (FOV)

Hex edit exe files[citation needed]
  1. Download Brandondorf9999's fixed exe from the WSGF attachment for this game.
  2. Open groove.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  3. Go to offset 0x16D736.
  4. Replace bytes 00 00 80 3F with bytes representing your float value multiplier (default multiplier is 1). Remember to invert the byte order to Little Endian.

Input settings

Keyboard settings
Keyboard settings
Joystick settings
Joystick settings
Miscellaneous options
Miscellaneous options

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings
Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Installer not working correctly

Install game manually[2]
  1. Create a new folder to install the game to and name it The Emperor's New Groove or something similar.
  2. Go to the CD's game files at Setup\Eng\Hd.
  3. Move the contents of the Hd folder to the newly created installation folder.
  4. Right-click groove.exe and create a desktop shortcut by clicking Send To... > Desktop (create shortcut), if desired.

Notes

Tested with US retail release. File directory may change based on localization.
See Run without CD to remove the need for the CD-ROM.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible
Sound (audio device) 16-bit compatible
Other 4X speed CD-ROM drive

Notes

  1. ↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more 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. ↑ Verified by User:Mars icecream on 2019
  2. ↑ Verified by User:Cptmold on 2020-12-29
    Tested with the original CD-ROM release.