Phantasmagoria
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Developers | |
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Sierra On-Line | |
Publishers | |
Retail | Sierra On-Line |
Digital | Activision |
Engines | |
SCI2 | |
Release dates | |
DOS | August 24, 1995 |
Windows 3.x | August 24, 1995 |
Windows | August 24, 1995 |
Mac OS (Classic) | August 1995 |
Windows (ScummVM) | February 10, 2010[1] |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Adventure |
Art styles | Digitized, Pre-rendered graphics |
Themes | Horror, Supernatural |
Series | Phantasmagoria |
Phantasmagoria | |
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Phantasmagoria | 1995 |
Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh | 1996 |
Phantasmagoria is a singleplayer adventure game in the Phantasmagoria series.
Key points
- Can be run under ScummVM.
General information
- Hardcore Gaming 101 - Comprehensive feature
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Requires disc swapping every chapter. Released on 7 CDs. | |||
GOG.com | Pre-packaged with ScummVM DOSBox version is also available (when using GOG Galaxy).[2] |
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Steam | Uses DOSBox. |
- Demos are available from ScummVM.
Essential improvements
Improve FMV scaling and remove interlaced lines
Change in-game option[3] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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DOS | <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.CFG |
Windows | |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/501990/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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DOS | |
Windows | <path-to-game>\Phant\PHANTSG.*[Note 2] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/501990/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
- ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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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) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
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 |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music and Sound Effects/Voice | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file. |
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General MIDI audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | Not available digitally. See this guide. | |||
German | Not available digitally. Use this patch for the Steam/GOG version. | |||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Spanish | Fan translation, download. |
Issues fixed
Objects spin too fast when you inspect them / elements of a game run too fast
Set the cycles limit[4] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DOS video modes | SVGA, SVGA (VESA) |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using ScummVM. | ||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
System requirements
DOS | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 5.0 | 6.22 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel i486 25 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 8 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 5 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | SVGA | VESA |
Other | 2x CD-ROM drive |
Windows 3.x | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 3.1 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel i486 | |
System memory (RAM) | 8 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 5 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 640x480 resolution | |
Other | 2x CD-ROM drive |
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel i486DX2 | |
System memory (RAM) | 12 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 5 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 640x480 resolution | |
Other | 2x CD-ROM drive |
Mac OS | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7.1 | 9.2.2 |
Processor (CPU) | Motorola 68040 | |
System memory (RAM) | 8 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Other | 2x CD-ROM drive |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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>/501990/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (501990) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details. - ↑ 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
- ↑ New release: Phantasmagoria - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Non-interlaced lines for the intro FMV? | GOG Forum
- ↑ Verified by User:Suicide_machine on 2016-08-31