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The Legend of Kyrandia

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The Legend of Kyrandia
The Legend of Kyrandia cover
Developers
Westwood Studios
Mac OS (Classic) The Dreamers Guild
Publishers
Retail Virgin Games
Mac OS MacPlay
Digital Electronic Arts
Engines
Kyra
Release dates
DOS May 1992
Mac OS (Classic) 1993
Windows (ScummVM) September 12, 2013[1]
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM) November 15, 2013[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Themes Fantasy, Comedy
Series The Legend of Kyrandia
The Legend of Kyrandia on HowLongToBeat
The Legend of Kyrandia on IGDB
The Legend of Kyrandia guide on StrategyWiki
The Legend of Kyrandia on MobyGames
The Legend of Kyrandia on Wikipedia
The Legend of Kyrandia
The Legend of Kyrandia 1992
The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate 1993
The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge 1994

The Legend of Kyrandia is a singleplayer third-person adventure game in the The Legend of Kyrandia series.

General information

Also known as Fables & Fiends: The Legend of Kyrandia and The Legend of Kyrandia: Book One.
Can be run under ScummVM.
Hardcore Gaming 101 - Comprehensive feature
Game Nostalgia - Detailed game information, developer interviews and game-related media
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Floppy and CD-ROM "talkie" release. Floppy version uses manual-based copy protection.
DOS
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
CD-ROM "talkie" re-release. Pre-packaged with ScummVM. Includes the Official Prima Strategy Guide for the series.
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch for the floppy release can be found here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\WWSETUP.CFG
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\_KYRA???.SAV
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
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
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound Effects and Speech can only be toggled.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Adjustable speed.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
FM Towns port only

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Speech in CD-ROM version only.
French
German
Italian
Local retail floppy version only.
Korean
Spanish
Local retail floppy version only.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes MCGA, VGA 320x200
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
64-bit requires 64-bit build of ScummVM.
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.3
Processor (CPU) Intel 8088
System memory (RAM) 640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA
The CD-ROM version requirements are: DOS 5.0, Intel 386, 2 MB RAM, 1 MB HDD and VGA.
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9 compatible
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 6.0.7
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)


References

  1. Release: Legend of Kyrandia - GOG.com - last accessed on 17 May 2023
  2. Mac Game Update: 34 New Additions - GOG.com - last accessed on 17 May 2023