Tonic Trouble Special Edition

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Tonic Trouble Special Edition

Developers
	Ubisoft Montreal
	Ubisoft Montpellier
Publishers
	Ubisoft
Engines
	Ubisoft OpenSpace
Release dates
Windows	1998

Tonic Trouble
Tonic Trouble Special Edition	1998
Tonic Trouble	1999

Key points

Special Edition refers to many earlier builds of Tonic Trouble released around a year prior to the game's actual retail release date which contain many differences from the final retail version such as different level designs, graphics, lighting, music, tank-like controls, enemies and character designs, etc.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Game also requires you to run it via a shortcut created in your desktop after installation to run it properly.

This game is not available digitally.

Was only available on some OEM discs.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches are available here. The TT_Castlepatch.exe patch is for version 8.5.1 which fixes an issue in North Plain. The ttsv_mat.zip patch updates the Matrox OEM version 8.6.6 to version 8.6.8 to fix a saving issue, note that save files created with version 8.6.6 will no longer be compatible after patching it to version 8.6.8 and must be deleted. The ttsndfix.zip patch is not meant for any Special Editions, but rather the retail versions of Tonic Trouble.

Playing on modern computers

Use dgVoodoo 2.

Play without the CD/DVD and shortcut

Unlike the retail versions, the Special Editions can be ran from the hard drive instead of the game disc with the created desktop shortcut, but the music and ambient sounds will not play unless configured using the following method below.

Copy files from disc
Copy from the game disc all the .MPX and .DSC files in \GAMEDATA\WORLD\SOUND to <path-to-game>\GameData\World\Sound. The only downside to this is that the Intro video can't be played even when pasting the Videos folder into the game's installed directory because the game checks for the VIDEOS directory on the game disc only so the game automatically disables playback of the video.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\GameData\Options %WINDIR%\Ubisoft\ubi.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\GameData\SaveGame

Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen resolutions

Go to C:\Windows\Ubi\. Open ubi.ini. Set to any widescreen resolution and run the game from the shortcut (it will force the game to run at native desktop resolution). Notes This will decrease the horizontal FOV which cuts out part of the HUD and may affect playability of the game. To enhance texture quality, open ubi.ini and set TexturesMem=Vram+ and for particles: ParticuleRate=High. You can also set Buffering=2 to enable Triple Buffering.

Input settings

F9 can disable HUD, F12 will show console (SE), F1 for Glide. Command "version" will show your current game version.

Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian				Italian language support was removed from versions 8.7.0 and onward.
Spanish				Castilian.

Versions 8.5.1 and earlier only support English.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	5
Glide	2	Only available in the earliest Special Edition beta version (8.1.0), currently has only been found in a warez scene release.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	233 MHz Intel Pentium II processor
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	270 MB
Video card (GPU)	AGP based 3D video card or better 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible

After installation, you need at least 70 MB of free space to run the game.