Ballance
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Developers | |
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Cyparade | |
Publishers | |
Retail | Atari |
Retail (Russia) | 1C Company |
Digital | Ziggurat Interactive |
Engines | |
Virtools | |
Release dates | |
Windows | April 2, 2004 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Rolling ball |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
Steam (unavailable) | Coming soon. |
- Free demo with the first level is available.
Monetization
Type | Notes |
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One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
Microtransactions
Type | Notes |
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No microtransactions | No microtransactions are available in this game. |
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Level 13 - 速度 (SuDu) | Free download from official website(web archive). |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ballance\Settings[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2000770/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Database.tdb[Note 3] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2000770/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Only 4:3 resolutions are available, up to 1600x1200. See the community mod. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | See the community mod. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Always exclusive. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Set in dgVoodoo. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Set in dgVoodoo. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Called Synch to Screen. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Windowed
Set windowed mode. |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | Mouse is not used in gameplay. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | No speech. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Russian | Local retail only. | |||
Spanish |
Issues fixed
Game freezes on Windows 10
Enable Windows 98/Me compatibility mode on <path-to-game>\Bin\Player.exe [1]
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Fixing issues with operating systems newer than Windows XP
Use dgVoodoo[2] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8.1 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 350 MHz | Intel Pentium III 450 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB 128 MB (2000, XP) |
128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 150 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0 compatible |
- Windows NT is not supported by the game.
Notes
- ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details. - ↑ 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>/2000770/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (2000770) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details. - ↑ 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
- ↑ Verified by User:Silent on 2023-07-01
- Fixes the game freezing upon picking an extra life.
- ↑ Verified by User:Mastan on 2019-05-04