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Worms Blast

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Worms Blast
Worms Blast cover
Developers
Team17
Publishers
Mac OS, OS X Feral Interactive
Release dates
Windows March 30, 2002
Mac OS (Classic) 2003
macOS (OS X) 2003
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Worms Blast on Wikipedia
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General information

Official website
Unofficial Worms Wiki
Dream17 Softography
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
Mac OS
macOS (OS X)
Amazon.com
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Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
A demo is available.

Essential improvements

Widescreen resolution, windowed mode, fix crash on game minimised, visual and other improvements

Widescreen resolution, windowed mode, fix crash on game minimised, visual and other improvements
  1. Create a start.bat file in the game's root directory with the following text,
SET XEF=./XEF
SET XOM=./XOM
"./XOM/bin/WormsBlast.exe" /W [width] /H [height] /WIN

The /WIN parameter is very important, as it starts the game in windowed mode, which means the player can safely Aft-Tab between the windows, a feature that is otherwise broken.

Other available parameters are,

  • Checking of text disabled /DONTCHECKTEXT
  • Checking of text enabled /CHECKTEXT
  • All maps locations enabled - this will have no effect unless the game save file has been deleted /ENABLEALLROUTES
  • Map Locations Enabled /SHOWMAPLOCATIONS
  • Debug Keys Disabled /DISABLEDEBUGKEYS
  • Debug Keys Enabled /ENABLEDEBUGKEYS
  • AI Details Enabled /ALLOWAIDETAILS
  • Camera movement keys enabled /ALLOWCAMERAMOVES
  • Show character radius /SHOWCHARRADIUS
  • Showing direction controls /SHOWDIRECTIONS
  • Setting XOM variables /SETXOMVARS
  • Not setting XOM variables /NOSETXOMVARS
  • Screen depth /D
  • Disable hardware T&L /NOHWTL
  • Enable 4 player /4PLAYER
  • Hide AI calculations /NOAI
  • Show AI calculations /SHOWAI
  • Skip Logos /NOLOGO
  • Skip frontend /NOFEND
  • Bouncing blocks using box collision /BOUNCECIRCLE
  • Bouncing blocks using spherical collision /BOUNCEBOX
  • Hide debug menu /NODEBUGMENU
  • Show debug menu /SHOWDEBUGMENU
  • 3D Water /3DW
  • 2D Water /2DW
  • Screen height /H
  • Screen width /W
  • Windowed /WIN
  • No Music /NOMUSIC
  • No Sound /NOSOUND
  • Full screen /FS
  • Running in Direct3D /D3D
  • Running in OpenGL /OGL

Note that the "/OGL" flag crashes the game and hence is broken.

My personal set-up is,

SET XEF=./XEF
SET XOM=./XOM
"./XOM/bin/WormsBlast.exe" /NOLOGO /ENABLEALLROUTES /ENABLEDEBUGKEYS /ALLOWCAMERAMOVES /3DW /W [width] /H [height] /WIN

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/70650/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/70650/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Launcher options menu.
Launcher options menu.

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Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

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

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Local retail version only.
Spanish
Russian
Local retail version only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 (but up to 4 players possible with memory hacking and specific run commands)
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
OpenGL 1 Mac OS and OS X only.
Shader Model support 1.4
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 350 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/70650/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (70650) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References