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Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle

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Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle
Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle cover
Developers
Origin Systems
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS March 25, 1993
Windows (DOSBox) November 29, 2011[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) January 24, 2013[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Ultima
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Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress 1982
Ultima III: Exodus 1983
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar 1985
Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness 1987
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny 1988
Ultima VI: The False Prophet 1990
Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire 1990
Ultima Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams 1991
Ultima VII: The Black Gate 1992
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss 1992
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds 1993
Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle 1993
Ultima VIII: Pagan 1994
Ultima Online 1997
Akalabeth: World of Doom 1998
Ultima IX: Ascension 1999

Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle is a singleplayer RPG game in the Ultima series.

It is recommended to use Exult for various enhancements.

General information

The Codex of Ultima Wisdom - A huge wiki for the series
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.
DOS
GOG.com
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Includes The Silver Seed addon and Ultima VII: The Black Gate. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Origin
Origin
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Includes The Silver Seed addon and Ultima VII: The Black Gate. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Not available in some regions.
Windows
The manual is needed to answer copy protection questions (see answers.pdf for the GOG.com version).

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Silver Seed Included with complete edition.
DOS

Essential improvements

Exult

Use Exult to play in higher resolution, add new features, use mods, etc.
Set up Exult (Windows)[citation needed]
  1. Download and install the latest Windows snapshot.
  2. The installer will prompt for the installation folders; for the GOG.com version these are ULTIMA7 for The Black Gate and SERPENT for Serpent Isle.
  3. Optionally, install the All-In-One Audio Data for enhanced sounds and music.
  4. Run Exult from the Start screen/Start menu and both games will now be playable.
Set up Exult (OS X)[citation needed]
  1. Download and install the latest OS X snapshot.
  2. Optionally, install the All-In-One Audio Data for enhanced sounds and music.
  3. Go to the game installation folder and copy the data files.
    • For retail versions this will be wherever you installed it to.
    • For GOG.com, open Finder, open the Go menu, choose Go To Folder, then go to $HOME/Applications/Ultima 7 The Complete Edition.app/Contents/Resources/Ultima 7 The Complete Edition.boxer/C.harddisk/U7/.
  4. Open Finder, open the Go menu, choose Go To Folder, then go to $HOME/Library/Application Support.
  5. Make a folder called Exult.
  6. Paste the Black Gate and Serpent Isle folders here.
  7. Rename the Black Gate folder to blackgate and the Serpent Isle folder to serpentisle.
  8. Run Exult from Applications and both games will now be playable.

Skip intro videos

Use Exult[4]

Use Exult (set in Misc Options).

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\GAME**.U7
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Boxer/Gamebox States/com.gog.ultima-7-the-complete-edition/Current.boxerstate/C.harddisk/U7/serpent
<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Saves are GAME**.U7; DOS settings are stored in the save file rather than shared.
Exult saves and settings are in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Exult on Windows, $HOME/Library/Application Support/Exult on OS X, $HOME/.exult on Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin

Video

Exult video settings.
Exult video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Use Exult.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Toggle with Alt+ Enter (when using Exult or DOSBox).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
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
Exult has choice of 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, or 10 FPS. Determines game speed.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Use Exult (see Exult keys).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
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

Exult audio settings.
Exult audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Everything is text-based; some minor voices are not subtitled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Use Exult.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

German, Chinese and Korean retail versions only have the manuals translated; the game itself is still in English.[5][6][7]
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Use Serpent Isle In French (requires Exult).
Russian
Use Перевод Ultima 7: Serpent Isle (requires Exult).
Spanish
Spanish retail only. Available a fan translation (includes The Silver Seed expansion) by Clan Dlan (author: L@Zar0), download.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

References