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Spy Fox: Dry Cereal

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Spy Fox: Dry Cereal
Spy Fox: Dry Cereal cover
Developers
Humongous Entertainment
Publishers
Digital re-release Night Dive Studios
Engines
Original SCUMM
Re-release ScummVM
Release dates
Windows 3.x October 17, 1997
Windows October 17, 1997
Mac OS (Classic) October 17, 1997
Windows (ScummVM) April 17, 2014
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM) April 17, 2014
Linux (ScummVM) April 17, 2014
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Perspectives Flip screen
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, Educational
Vehicles Automobile
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Contemporary, Sci-fi
Series Spy Fox
Spy Fox: Dry Cereal on HowLongToBeat
Spy Fox: Dry Cereal on IGDB
Spy Fox: Dry Cereal guide on StrategyWiki
Spy Fox: Dry Cereal on MobyGames
Spy Fox: Dry Cereal on Wikipedia
Spy Fox
Spy Fox: Dry Cereal 1997
Spy Fox in: Cheese Chase 1998
Spy Fox 2: Some Assembly Required 1999
Spy Fox in: Hold the Mustard 1999
Spy Fox 3: Operation Ozone 2001

Key points

Can be run under ScummVM.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows 3.x
Windows
Mac OS
GamersGate
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Contains a ScummVM-bundled version
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Green Man Gaming
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Contains a ScummVM-bundled version
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
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Contains a ScummVM-bundled version
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Contains a ScummVM-bundled version
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Demos are available from ScummVM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\hegames.ini[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic) <drive_name>: System Folder: Preferences: Humongous Entertainment: Humongous Prefs
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows C:\hegames\spyfox.sg*
<path-to-game>\Saves\spyfox.sg*[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic) <drive>: System Folder: Preferences: Humongous Entertainment: SpyFox SG*
macOS (OS X)
Linux
The original Windows retail release stores saves in C:\hegames\; the Windows version sold on Steam uses <path-to-game>\Saves\.[1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
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
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
When run natively, press Shift+F5. When run in ScummVM, press Alt+ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

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
Requires ScummVM.
Surround sound
Subtitles
See Enable subtitles.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Under ScummVM, game remains unmuted on focus lost.

Enable subtitles

ScummVM and retail versions allow the game to be configured with subtitles on.
Modify configuration file[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\. (If you are not using ScummVM this will be in %APPDATA%\Local\VirtualStore\Windows\)
  2. Open hegames.ini.
  3. Add the following line to the bottom of the file: TextOn=1
  4. Save and close the file.

Notes

This only applies to the vanilla game.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
The US version has American English voice actors and the separate UK version has British voice actors. Also the voice script is slightly different.
Dutch
French
German
Russian

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
64-bit requires 64-bit build of ScummVM.
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) Intel 486
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel 486
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7.0
Processor (CPU) 68040
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 512 MB
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 512 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. Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" - Resources - speedrun.com - last accessed on 17 May 2023
  2. Verified by User:Mr. Eight-Three-One on 11 December 2014