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M&M's: The Lost Formulas

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M&M's: The Lost Formulas
M&M's: The Lost Formulas cover
Developers
Boston Animation
Publishers
Simon & Schuster Interactive
Europe JoWood Productions
Release dates
Windows September 2000
Mac OS (Classic) September 2000
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Platform, Educational
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Contemporary
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Key points

The game is able to be run off of the disc without installing, but configuration and player files will not save.[1]

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
Mac OS
This game is not available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\M&Ms The Lost Formulas\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
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)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Change value of set G_Refresh to desired refresh rate in Setup.cfg
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
OpenGL
Glide
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0 compatible
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 8.5
Processor (CPU) PowerPC G3 266MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 6 MB of VRAM
Fully compatible with ATI cards only. Mac formatted Voodoo cards will have compatibility issues.


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).

References

  1. Verified by User:AdventureWetpaint on 10 April 2022