Maniac Mansion Deluxe

Maniac Mansion
Maniac Mansion	1988
Day of the Tentacle	1993
Maniac Mansion Deluxe (unofficial)	2004
Maniac Mansion Mania (unofficial)	2005
Day of the Tentacle Remastered	2016

Key points

Freeware fan-made remake of Maniac Mansion

General information

The International House of Mojo - In-depth article including developer interviews and game trivia

Hardcore Gaming 101 - Comprehensive feature on the series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Publisher website		256-color VGA remake with modernized interface (archived original)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\acsetup.cfg^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\agssave.*^{[Note 1]}

Video

General options

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Only two resolutions: 640x400 and 320x200. Does not include built-in aspect ratio correction.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		See Higher resolutions.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Achieved through scaling filters.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Off by default.
60 FPS
120+ FPS		60 or 85 FPS only.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Higher resolutions

Change value of screenres=^[2]

In acsetup.cfg, change the value of screenres= to one of the following to force higher resolutions:
0 = 320x200
1 = 640x400
2 = 1024x768 (not recommended, causes windowboxing and messes with cursor)
3 = 1280x800
4 = 1600x1000
5 = 1920x1200
6 = 2240x1400
7 = 2560x1600
8 = 2880x1800
9 = 3200x2000
10 = 3520x2200
11 = 3840x2400
12 = 4160x2600
13 = 4480x2800
14 = 4800x3000
15 = 5120x3200

Certain textual elements, such as dialogue and action prompts, do not scale to higher resolutions, and as such are smaller on higher resolutions. Try Lossless Scaling instead.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound can only be toggled.
Surround sound		Uses Midi driver.
Subtitles		Game is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
General MIDI audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Bulgarian
Dutch
Finnish
Esperanto
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Also available in Maltese.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	5

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	18 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 5 compatible

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).

References

↑ Maniac Mansion Deluxe - Adventure Game Studio - last accessed on May 2023
↑ Verified by User:SirYodaJedi on 2018-10-23

[gamedir-2] 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).

[1] Maniac Mansion Deluxe - Adventure Game Studio - last accessed on May 2023

[3] Verified by User:SirYodaJedi on 2018-10-23

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[Note 1]

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Developers

	LucasFan Games
Engines
	Adventure Game Studio
Release dates
Windows	May 21, 2004^[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization	Freeware
Series	Maniac Mansion