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Ballance

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Ballance
Ballance cover
Developers
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
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General information

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Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Coming soon.
Windows
Free demo with the first level is available.

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions No microtransactions are available in this game.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Level 13 - 速度 (SuDu) Free download from official website(web archive).
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
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
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
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Windowed

Set windowed mode.
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Change the value of FullScreen from 1 to 0.

Input

In-game keyboard settings.
In-game keyboard settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse is not used in gameplay.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
No speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
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]

Fixing issues with operating systems newer than Windows XP

Use dgVoodoo[2]
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Copy dgVoodooCpl.exe, dgVoodooCpl.conf and MS\x86\D3D8.dll from archive to <path-to-game>\Bin.
  3. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe from <path-to-game>\Bin\ folder.
  4. On General tab select preferred scaling mode.
  5. On DirectX tab select preferred antialiasing, anisotropic filtering, watermark, resolution etc.
  6. Apply and exit dgVoodoo setup.
  7. Run the game.
Enforcing widescreen resolution in dgVoodoo DirectX settings would make image stretched.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 350 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
128 MB (2000, XP)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 150 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible
Windows NT is not supported by the game.


Notes

  1. 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. 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.
  3. 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

  1. Verified by User:Silent on 2023-07-01
    Fixes the game freezing upon picking an extra life.
  2. Verified by User:Mastan on 2019-05-04