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Reader Rabbit: 2nd Grade

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Reader Rabbit: 2nd Grade
Reader Rabbit: 2nd Grade cover
Developers
The Learning Company
Release dates
Windows 3.x April 8, 1998
Windows April 8, 1998
Mac OS (Classic) 1998
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Flip screen, Side view
Controls Direct control, Point and select
Genres Educational, Puzzle
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Contemporary, Fantasy
Series Reader Rabbit
Reader Rabbit: 2nd Grade on MobyGames
Reader Rabbit: 2nd Grade on Wikipedia
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Reader Rabbit: 2nd Grade is a singleplayer flip screen and side view educational and puzzle game in the Reader Rabbit series.

Key points

Released as Billi Banni - 2. Klasse in Germany and Reader Rabbit's Key Stage 1 Year 2 in the UK.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows 3.x
Windows
Mac OS

Version differences

The game has been re-released several times with various technical changes. The original installer is a 16-bit executable. Later releases use a 32-bit one.

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions None

Essential improvements

Bypassing the CD check

Instructions[1]
This method might only work for earlier releases, since some of the re-releases use a different file structure.
  1. Copy the DATA folder from the CD to <path-to-game>.
  2. Go to the Configuration file location and open rr2g.ini.
  3. Set the value of CDDrive to <path-to-game>\DATA\.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/rr2g.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/RR2GDATA[Note 1]

Video

Settings.
Settings.

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
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Software renderer
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker Video Technology, QuickTime QuickTime is used and required in later releases only.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)


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:Nessy on 2022-02-08