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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition cover
Developers
LucasArts
Publishers
LucasArts
Disney Interactive Studios
Engines
SCUMM
Release dates
Windows July 15, 2009
macOS (OS X) July 15, 2009
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition guide on StrategyWiki
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island 1990
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge 1991
The Curse of Monkey Island 1997
Escape from Monkey Island 2000
Tales of Monkey Island 2009
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition 2009
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge 2010
Return to Monkey Island 2022

Key points

To switch between Classic and Remastered mode, press F10

General information

Official game site
Monkey Island Wiki
The World of Monkey Island - A fan site for the entire series. No longer active
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Incorrect store name. See here for available options.
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Monkey Island Explorer

An explorer tool for Monkey Island Special Edition, it lets you play, dump and compile audio, images, text, as you browse through the files.

Hair Patch

Hair Patch
Hair Patch
The Hair Patch changes Guybrush's hair to resemble the classic version of the game.

Windows version
OS X version

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/32360/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/32360/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

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Input settings

In-game keyboard/mouse layout screen.
In-game keyboard/mouse layout screen.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Crash when installed in a +3TB hard drive

The game will refuse to run when installed on a large drive.[1]

Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
OpenGL 2.0 OS X only.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium IV 3.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
System memory (RAM) 256 MB (XP)
512 MB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Shader model 2 support
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6
Processor (CPU) Intel 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon X1600
Nvidia GeForce 7300
512 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References