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The Curse of Monkey Island

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The Curse of Monkey Island
The Curse of Monkey Island cover
Developers
LucasArts
Engines
Original SCUMM
Digital ScummVM
Release dates
Windows October 31, 1997
Windows (ScummVM) March 22, 2018
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM) March 22, 2018
Reception
Metacritic 89
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Comedy, Piracy
Series Monkey Island
The Curse of Monkey Island on HowLongToBeat
The Curse of Monkey Island on IGDB
The Curse of Monkey Island guide on StrategyWiki
The Curse of Monkey Island on MobyGames
The Curse of Monkey Island on Wikipedia
Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island 1990
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge 1991
The Curse of Monkey Island 1997
Escape from Monkey Island 2000
Tales of Monkey Island 2009
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition 2009
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge 2010
Return to Monkey Island 2022

Key points

Can be run under ScummVM.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Use ScummVM or the Curse of Monkey Island Launcher to run without disc.
Windows
GamersGate
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Preconfigured with ScummVM.
Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Preconfigured with ScummVM.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Preconfigured with ScummVM.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
Icon overlay.png
Preconfigured with ScummVM.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Preconfigured with ScummVM.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
A demo is available from SCUMMVM's demos.
The GOG.com release does not include the original desktop icon, and the Steam release uses a lower resolution icon. A replacement can be found here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\monkey3.c01[Note 1]
GOG.com <path-to-game>\monkey3.ini
Steam
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/730820/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\monkey3.c*[Note 1]
%APPDATA%\ScummVM\Saved Games
GOG.com <path-to-game>\Saves
<path-to-game>\Saves\monkey3.s*
Steam
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/730820/pfx/[Note 2]
Traditional saving is unreliable in the GOG.com re-release; it is recommended to use ScummVM to save instead using the F1 key.
ScummVM Save file extensions are numbered relative to the save file (e.g. Save 4 will be named monkey3.s04)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

In-game settings, accessed by pressing F1 (Ctrl+F1 when using ScummVM).[Note 3]
In-game settings, accessed by pressing F1 (Ctrl+F1 when using ScummVM).[Note 3]

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
640x480 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Alt+ Enter if using ScummVM or set in replacement launcher.
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
Only applies to cursor speed, sprites are pre-animated at a lower frame rate.
120+ FPS
Use ScummVM.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects, Voice, Music
Surround sound
Stereo only.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
Retail only.
French
German
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese
Retail only — A Maldição da Ilha dos Macacos.[1] Steam guide.
Russian
Fan translation by «Dragon's Dominion Group»
Spanish

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
64-bit support requires a 64-bit build of ScummVM.
macOS (OS X)
Use ScummVM.
Linux
Use ScummVM.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio iMUSE
Cutscenes INSANE

Curse of Monkey Island Launcher

This program replaces the launcher of the game, and it also adds a number of features to the game

  • Can run Curse of Monkey Island from hard drive (play without the discs) and can automatically copy the required files to the hard drive.
  • Can run Curse of Monkey Island in windowed mode
  • Can enable Curse of Monkey Island's debug mode.
Not compatible with digital rereleases.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.2 MB
Video card (GPU) PCI graphics card
DirectX 5 compatible
Sound (audio device) 16-bit sound card
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7.0
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 40 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/730820/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (730820) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  3. The greyed out Enable 3D acceleration is a gag, and does not actually do anything, even on capable hardware.

References

  1. BraSoft (archived, 2001). - last accessed on May 2023