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Ricochet Xtreme

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Ricochet Xtreme
Ricochet Xtreme cover
Developers
Reflexive Entertainment
Release dates
Windows November 30, 2001
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Flip screen, Side view
Controls Direct control
Genres Paddle
Art styles Abstract
Themes Space
Series Ricochet
Ricochet
Ricochet Xtreme 2001
Ricochet: Lost Worlds 2004
Ricochet Lost Worlds: Recharged 2004
Ricochet Infinity 2007

Ricochet Xtreme is a singleplayer flip screen and side view paddle game in the Ricochet series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Amazon.com
CD key
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/Ricochet.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/Stats.dat[Note 1]

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.
In-game video settings, the Fix Color is most likely for legacy graphics cards.
In-game video settings, the Fix Color is most likely for legacy graphics cards.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

In-game input settings.
In-game input settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Only limited keyboard buttons/mouse button (Wheel Up) can be reselected
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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

Essential improvements

Additional add-ons

Ricochet Xtreme has 3 extensions that was available for download before as the game occasionally mentions when it is recently opened, it may seem to be unobtainable but thankfully, a group of people dedicated to backing up the Ricochet games has a copy of it, for more information about the add-ons, here is the link.
To confirm that the game is using the add-ons you applied, from the Main Menu click Options then About, the add-ons should be listed in there along with the game version.
Downloading and installing the add-ons.[1]
  1. Open this link which contains the 3 add-ons for Ricochet Xtreme, the add-ons are Reactive Music, Additional levels, and High Definition Art, download it and extract the contents, if the provided link is broken, the Discord server of Ricochet Players has an another link for it.
  2. Copy the add-ons you want to apply to the game, you can go and apply all 3 or you can apply just 2, it is your choice, after selecting the add-ons you want to apply. paste it into the folder of Ricochet Xtreme where the game executable resides.
  3. Open the game afterwards, the add-ons will immediately be used by the game and the changes will take effect.

Issues fixed

Game has graphical glitches on newer Windows versions

If the game is played on newer Windows versions, the game will constantly leave ghost effects on objects that move fast
Use DDrawCompat or dgVoodoo[2]
  1. Choose the wrapper you want to use for the game, once you've picked up a wrapper, go inside the folder of the wrapper and look for the ddraw.dll file, on DDrawCompat it should be simply within the folder itself that you downloaded, for dgVoodoo it should be inside dgVoodoo2_78\MS\x86
  2. Copy the ddraw.dll file then paste it into the folder location of the game, do not copy it into any other folders, it should be in the same location as the game executable.
  3. Open the game afterwards, the graphics should now be fixed.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 32 MB


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:Stormshadow429 on 2022-02-20
    Credits to Ricochet Players on Discord for their efforts on preserving the add-ons, here is their website.
  2. ↑ Verified by User:Stormshadow429 on 2022-02-20
    If the game is booted up with DDrawCompat, you won't be able to take screenshots within the game using Print Screen