The Emperor's New Groove

The Emperor's New Groove

Developers
	Argonaut Games
Publishers
	Disney Interactive Studios
Russia	Noviy Disk
Engines
	BRender
Release dates
Windows	November 21, 2000
Reception
Metacritic	66
Taxonomy
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Platform
Themes	Pre-Columbian Americas, Comedy
Series	Disney Classics

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		See Run without CD.

Essential improvements

Run without CD

Copy files from disc
Copy the contents (not the folder itself) of Setup\ENG\Cd from the game disc to <path-to-game>. Skip files that already exist.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Disney Interactive\Emperor's New Groove\1.0\

Emperor's New Groove can in some releases instead be named Emperors New Groove.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\

Video

Display settings

Graphics settings

Color settings

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen			Use Brandondorf9999's fixed exe.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		Run the game through DxWnd.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Capped to 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Field of view (FOV)

Hex edit exe files[citation needed]
Download Brandondorf9999's fixed exe from the WSGF attachment for this game. Open groove.exe with a hex editor such as HxD. Go to offset 0x16D736. Replace bytes 00 00 80 3F with bytes representing your float value multiplier (default multiplier is 1). Remember to invert the byte order to Little Endian.

Input

Keyboard settings

Joystick settings

Miscellaneous options

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Mouse is not used in-game.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		The pause menu cannot be mapped to a controller.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Effects, Music.
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output. Requires DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles		Most dialog is accompanied by subtitles. Movie clips and random voice clips do not have them.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		EAX 2.0.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Brazilian Portuguese				"A Nova Onda do Imperador".
Russian				Local retail only.

Issues fixed

Installer not working correctly

Install game manually

Create a new folder to install the game to and name it The Emperor's New Groove or something similar. Go to the CD's game files at Setup\Eng\Hd. Move the contents of the Hd folder to the newly created installation folder. Right-click groove.exe and create a desktop shortcut by clicking Send To... > Desktop (create shortcut), if desired. Notes Tested with US retail release. File directory may change based on localization. See Run without CD to remove the need for the CD-ROM.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	100 MB
Video card (GPU)	8 MB of VRAM DirectX 7 compatible
Sound (audio device)	16-bit compatible
Other	4X speed CD-ROM drive