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Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!

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Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! cover
Developers
Sierra On-Line
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Codemasters
Engines
VGA Version SCI1.1
SVGA Version SCI21
Release dates
DOS November 1993
Windows 3.x 1994
Mac OS (Classic) 1994
Windows (ScummVM) January 17, 2013[1]
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM) December 17, 2015
Linux (ScummVM) December 17, 2015
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Flip screen
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance
Series Leisure Suit Larry
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Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! on IGDB
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! on MobyGames
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! on Wikipedia
Softporn Adventure 1981
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards 1987
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) 1988
Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals 1989
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work 1991
Leisure Suit Larry's Casino 1992
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! 1993
Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! 1996
Leisure Suit Larry's Casino (1998) 1998
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude 2004
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust 2009
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Reloaded 2013
Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry 2018
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice 2020

Warnings

The Windows 3.x version of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! is a singleplayer flip screen adventure game in the Leisure Suit Larry series.

The game had two different versions: VGA (1993 original, floppy disks) and SVGA (1994 CD-ROM remake with speech added).

General information

Can be run under ScummVM.
Leisure Suit Larry Omnipedia - Leisure Suit Larry Wiki
Al Lowe's Humor Site - The series on Al Lowe's personal website
Sierra Gamers - Game page on Ken Williams' personal website
Hardcore Gaming 101 - Comprehensive feature on the series
Larry Laffer Dot Net - Active fan site featuring music from Larry games
The Sierra Help Pages - Extensive troubleshooting guide
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
DOS
Windows 3.x
Mac OS
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Both VGA and SVGA versions are included.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Part of Leisure Suit Larry 1-6 bundle. Both VGA and SVGA versions are included.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Green Man Gaming
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Both VGA and SVGA versions are included.
Windows
Steam
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Both VGA and SVGA versions are included.
Windows
ZOOM Platform (unavailable)
DRM-free
VGA version. Part of Leisure Suit Larry 1-6 Collection. Also includes Softporn Adventure.
Delisted on March 31, 2023.[2]
Windows

Version differences

The original VGA version was released in 1993 on floppies. It was later re-released on CD-ROM in 1994 with added speech. This version runs in DOS in 320x240 256-color mode.
The SVGA remake was released in 1994 on CD-ROM, with updated graphics and full voice acting. It runs in DOS and Windows 3.1 in 640x480 256-color mode.
The GOG.com and ZOOM Platform re-releases are a bundle based on the 1997 Leisure Suit Larry: Collection Series. They include:
The GOG.com re-release uses ScummVM for the VGA version of Leisure Suit Larry 6, and DOSBox for the SVGA remake.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.CFG
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/765910/pfx/[Note 2]
The GOG.com re-release uses ScummVM configuration file lsl6-cd.ini for the VGA version, and DOSBox configuration file dosbox_L6.conf for the SVGA remake.
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\LSL6SG.*
Windows <path-to-game>\LSL6SG.*[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/765910/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

General options (VGA version)
General options (VGA version)

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Only Master volume can be adjusted.
Surround sound
Subtitles
CD-ROM version only.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Speech with subtitles in CD-ROM version only.
German
Retail version only.
Polish
Available in the retail collection Leisure Suit Larry's Greatest Hits & Misses!

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA, SVGA VGA supported by the original release; SVGA by the remake
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using ScummVM.
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 286 16 MHz
System memory (RAM) 640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
Other The remake requires Intel 386 CPU, 4 MB RAM and an SVGA card.
Windows 3.x
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) Intel 386 16 MHz
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) SVGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 550 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7.0
Processor (CPU) Macintosh II
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 256-color display.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/765910/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (765910) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References