The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

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Subseries of Nickelodeon
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Main Menu

Key points

Despite being called "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", this game is not a port or has anything to do with the PlayStation 2/Xbox/GameCube game of the same name.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

This game is not available digitally

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\THQ\SpongeBob 4\Settings
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\saved^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)

Video

Settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Locked to 800x600 Unless hack is applied, See Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Widescreen resolution
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See Widescreen resolution, seams may appear if forcing higher resolution with antialiasing
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		There's no frame cap
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Game is locked to 800x600 fullscreen.

Use dgVoodoo2^{[citation needed]}

Download dgVoodoo 2.
Extract D3D8.dll from the MS/x86 folder to the installation folder, where sb4.exe is located.
Open dgVoodooCpl.exe and go to DirectX and configure your settings.

Notes

This 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:

Open dgVoodooCpl.exe and go to General.
Under Appearance, select Windowed and change the dropdown next to it to "Stretched, keep Aspect Ratio"

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Effects
Surround sound
Subtitles		Can be turned on within 'Options', via the 'Captions' section
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98 / ME / 2000 / XP
Processor (CPU)	500MHz	733MHz or higher
System memory (RAM)	128MB	256MB or higher
Hard disk drive (HDD)	700MB
Video card (GPU)	16MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible	32MB or higher of VRAM

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.3.9
Processor (CPU)	PowerPC G4 800 MHz	PowerPC G4 1 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon 8500 or NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

Notes

↑ 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

[gamedir-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).

[Note 1]

Developers

	AWE Games
Publishers
	THQ
OS X	Aspyr Media
Release dates
Windows	October 27, 2004
macOS (OS X)	2005
Reception
Metacritic	67
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	Cinematic camera
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Adventure
Art styles	Cartoon
Series	SpongeBob SquarePants