The Secret of Monkey Island
Special Edition or Classic?
In 2009, Lucasarts released The Secret of Monkey Island in a special edition version of the game. This version of the game is already fully compatible with new systems and no changes need to made to get the game to work. The new version includes, improved graphics, music, voice-over work and a hot swap feature to switch between special edition and classic modes.
However the original music and voice over of the CD-ROM version was not included in the special edition when in classic mode. Currently the only way to play the game with the original score is to play the original CD-ROM version.
Classic
Compatibility on Modern Systems
This program replaces the executable for the game.
The rest of this article will focus on the Special Edition of the game.
Special Edition
Useful Programs
Monkey Island Explorer
An explorer tool for Monkey Island 1 Special Edition, it lets you play, dump and compile audio, images, text, as you browse through the files.
Hair Patch
This is a mod that changes the hair of Guybrush Threepwood to resemble the classic version of the game.
MediaFire: Guybrush Hair Patch by Alebrush
Save game cloud sync
Save game location
Windows 7 save game location:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\LucasArts\The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition\
Cloud sync
Steam Cloud: no
Dropbox: unknown
Windows Live Mesh 2011: unknown
GameSave Manager: unknown
Where to buy
The Secret of Monkey Island Floppy/CD-Rom Retail Release
This version of the game has long since stopped being distributed. It can only be found second hand/used.
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is available digitally on,
Retail versions of the Special Edition was released in Europe part of the Monkey Island Special Edition Collection.