Hamsterball
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Developers | |
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Raptisoft | |
Release dates | |
Windows | February 8, 2004 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Isometric |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Rolling ball |
Art styles | Pre-rendered graphics |
Themes | Comedy |
Hamsterball is a singleplayer and multiplayer isometric rolling ball game.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Official website |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Raptisoft\Hamsterball |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Data\TOURNAMENT.SAV[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | The in-game camera adjusts automatically, it cannot be controlled. | ||
Windowed | The game may crash if the resolution is set to 1024x768 on Windowed mode. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | It may be possible to force the game to work on Borderless Windowed through an external application. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Game most likely follows the default V-Sync settings | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Game is most likely locked at 60 FPS | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Ray tracing (RT) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | The game allows remapping of most actions that can be done in the game | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | The mouse can be used to control the ball, the mouse sensitivity in-game can be reconfigured to be higher or lower in the Options menu. | |
Mouse input in menus | The game uses the default system cursor. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | The game has a separate volume slider for Sound and Music | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | 4 | Co-op Supports keyboard, mouse, or computer (automatic control) for the 3 other players. |
Issues fixed
Impossible Arena has no music[1]
- Impossible Arena has no music when played, this is caused by a certain typographical error within the game itself which can be fixed unofficially
Manual editing of Jukebox.xml[2] |
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Game has major graphical glitches[3]
- Turning on Safe mode within the in-game options may help solve this issue
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
- No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 2000/Me, XP, Vista, 7, and 8 | |
Processor (CPU) | 600Mhz or faster | |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 30 MB of free space. | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 9 Compatible Graphics Card |
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
- ↑ Verified by User:Stormshadow429 on 2022-01-20
- A bug that most likely has been overlooked, here is a video showing the bug
- ↑ Verified by User:Stormshadow429 on 2022-01-22
- Jukebox.xml can be opened with a notepad
- ↑ Verified by User:Stormshadow429 on 2022-01-20
- The source can be found here