Heart of Darkness
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Not to be confused with The Heart of Darkness.
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| Developers | |
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| Amazing Studios | |
| Publishers | |
| Europe | Ocean Software |
| North America | Interplay Entertainment |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | June 26, 1998 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Side view |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Platform |
| Themes | Fantasy |
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Heart of Darkness is a singleplayer side view platform game.
General information
- heartofdarkness.ca - fan remake of official website with demos, trailers and concept art.
Availability
- A demo is available in English and French.
Essential improvements
hode - Heart of Darkness engine reimplementation
- A source port of Heart of Darkness with better compatibility for modern versions of Windows.
- Fixes many bugs and issues from the original release.
- Options for linear, nearest-neighbor and xBRz texture filtering.
Peixoto's patch
- Nearest neighbor or xBRz scaling.
- Removes the black frame around the game screen.
- Fixes some occasional color glitches that happen when the game updates the palette.
dgVoodoo 2
- Fixes broken color rendering.
- Support for integer scaling.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\SETUP.CFG[Note 1] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\SETUP.CFG[Note 1] |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | 4:3 pillarboxed. | ||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | Game renders internally at 256x192. | ||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | Use hode source port. | ||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
| High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Game logic is tied to the framerate, which is capped at 12 FPS in-game, and 10 FPS for FMVs. | ||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Input
Control options menus.
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | Movement is locked to arrow keys. | |
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | Only DirectInput. | |
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | Movement is locked to left stick. | |
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
|---|
| XInput-compatible controllers | Use hode | |
|---|---|---|
| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger vibration |
| PlayStation controllers | Use hode | |
|---|---|---|
| PlayStation button prompts | ||
| Light bar support | ||
| Adaptive trigger support | ||
| DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
| Connection modes | ||
| Generic/other controllers | ||
|---|---|---|
| Button prompts |  |
| Additional information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Digital movement supported | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Sound options menu.
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | ||
| Surround sound | Options for Mono and Stereo only. | |
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Spanish |
Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| DirectDraw | 5 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows |
System requirements
| Windows[1] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 95, 98, NT 4.0 SP3 | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel 486 DX2 66 MHz Intel Pentium 75 MHz |
Intel Pentium 90 MHz |
| System memory (RAM) | 16 MB (24 MB on NT 4.0) | 32 MB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 84 MB | |
| Video card (GPU) | PCI or VLB SVGA video card 1 MB of VRAM | PCI SVGA graphics accelerator |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Jofrie on 2018-01-21
- System requirements taken from the official Heart of Darkness manual.