Lego Star Wars: The Video Game

Lego Star Wars
Subseries of Lego
Subseries of Star Wars
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game	2005
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy	2006
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga	2009
Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars	2011
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens	2016
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga	2021

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Lego Star Wars: The Video Game is a singleplayer and multiplayer cinematic camera action and adventure game in the Lego Star Wars series.

General information

Wookieepedia - A huge wiki dedicated to the Star Wars universe

Brickipedia - Game page on LEGO Wiki

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 7 DRM disc check

Not sold digitally due to the release of The Complete Saga containing this and the next game's content together.

A demo is available.

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

The latest patch is Version 1.0.0.2.

The latest patch for the OS X version is Version 1.0 Rev A. ^[3]

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

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

Save game data location[edit]

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

* is the save slot number starting at zero.

Video settings[edit]

Video settings

Advanced video settings; only available after booting into a save game at least once^{[Note 2]}

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Stretched. Delete `<path-to-game>\swlego.bin` and set desktop resolution to desired resolution for custom resolutions. Setting a custom 4:3 resolution such as 1440x1080, 1920x1440, or 2880x2160 is highly recommend. Special K can be used to force a resolution without needing to change desktop resolution every time the game launches.^{[Note 3]}
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)	Uses fixed camera angles.
Windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	Nvidia users can force antialiasing in Nvidia Profile Inspector using the `0x000000C0` antialiasing compatibly flag.
Vertical sync (Vsync)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input settings[edit]

Input setup, with default keybinds

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Mouse not used for gameplay
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity		Player has no camera control.
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings[edit]

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music on/off
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Prone to freezing on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Spoken dialogue is infrequent and inconsequential.
Dutch
French
German
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	2	Co-op Shared-screen.
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed[edit]

Running in Windows 7+[edit]

Take ownership of <path-to-game>^[4]

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Executable	PPC	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)				Install the version 1.0 Rev A patch for Intel support. Still limited to 32-bit only.^{[citation needed]}

Mods[edit]

TCS Episode III Music[edit]

Replaces the gameplay background music for Episode III levels with the versions used in The Complete Saga taken from the Revenge of the Sith soundtrack.^{[Note 4]}

Does not affect cutscene music.

Bug fixes and restored content[edit]

Obi-Wan (Padawan) braid fix - By default, the texture for Obi-Wan's Episode I torso is missing the braid found on his texture on the console versions of LSWI, as well as in LSWII and TCS. This texture edit restores the braid. Place in <path-to-game>\lego_data\Chars\ObiWanKenobi.

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon equivalent
System memory (RAM)	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	500 MB
Video card (GPU)	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.5
Processor (CPU)	PowerPC G4/G5 1.2 GHz Intel 1.2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon 9000 Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 32 MB of VRAM

Nvidia GeForce 9400M not supported

Intel integrated video chipsets (including GMA 950) are not supported

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%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ Bumpmapping setting does not work properly on modern hardware, resulting in characters being shaded with improper lighting.
↑ It may still be necessary to delete swlego.bin.
↑ This game was developed alongside Episode III and released over a month prior to the movie, so Tt Games did not have access to the soundtrack in time for release. They were able to fix this for the compilation game, but only did so for the gameplay background music and not the cutscenes.

References

↑ Aspyr to publish LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game - Macworld - last accessed on 2016-7-23
↑ Lego Star Wars: The Video Game In Stores Now For Mac - last accessed on 2016-7-23
↑ Aspyr - Support - last accessed on 2007-08-12
↑ Verified by User:SirYodaJedi on 2019-11-30
Confirmed working with demo on Win10 1903 with my laptop.

[gamedir-4] 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%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Note-5] Bumpmapping setting does not work properly on modern hardware, resulting in characters being shaded with improper lighting.

[Note1-6] It may still be necessary to delete swlego.bin.

[Note2-8] This game was developed alongside Episode III and released over a month prior to the movie, so Tt Games did not have access to the soundtrack in time for release. They were able to fix this for the compilation game, but only did so for the gameplay background music and not the cutscenes.

[1] Aspyr to publish LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game - Macworld - last accessed on 2016-7-23

[2] Lego Star Wars: The Video Game In Stores Now For Mac - last accessed on 2016-7-23

[3] Aspyr - Support - last accessed on 2007-08-12

[7] Verified by User:SirYodaJedi on 2019-11-30
Confirmed working with demo on Win10 1903 with my laptop.

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Developers

	Traveller's Tales
macOS (OS X)	i5works^[1]^[2]
Publishers
	Eidos Interactive
	LucasArts
OS X	Aspyr Media
Release dates
Windows	April 2, 2005
macOS (OS X)	August 23, 2005
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Cinematic camera
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Adventure
Vehicles	Space flight, Hovercraft
Themes	Space, Sci-fi
Series	Lego Star Wars