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Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered

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For the original game released in 1996, see Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror.

Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered cover
Developers
Revolution Software
Engines
Virtual Theatre
Release dates
Windows December 2, 2009
macOS (OS X) April 9, 2011
Linux April 1, 2014
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Cartoon, Comic book
Series Broken Sword
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Broken Sword
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars 1996
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror 1997
Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon 2003
Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death (Secrets of the Ark) 2006
Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars (unofficial) 2008
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered 2009
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut 2010
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse 2013
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged 2024
Broken Sword - Parzival's Stone 2024

Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered is a singleplayer adventure game in the Broken Sword series.

General information

Developer Discord server
Broken Sword Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GamersGate
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes the original Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror.
Windows
Linux
Humble Store
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Original Version Steam. Available for free.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Broken Sword II - Remastered\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror - Remastered/
Linux $HOME/.bs2/
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Broken Sword II - Remastered\
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application Support/Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror - Remastered/
Linux $HOME/.bs2/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings
Video settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Fullscreen always uses desktop resolution. Hor+ on ultra-widescreen resolutions, pillarboxed 16:10 on 32:9 resolutions.[1]
Multi-monitor
Pillarboxed 16:10
Ultra-widescreen
Hor+
4K Ultra HD
Scaled from lower resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Two windowed resolutions are supported: 640x400(Original) and 1280x800(Augmented).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Capped at 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings
Language settings
Language settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
SFX, Music, and Speech
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Subtitles include captions for a few sound effects that are important to the plot and/or gameplay.[2]
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation.
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Erratic cursor movement in full screen mode

Replace the sprite cursor with the hardware cursor

Using a hex editor, open the game's executable and replace the hex " E8 50 E6 05 00" with "90 90 90 90 90."

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL
Interface SDL 1.2
Cutscenes Theora

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) Intel 486 DX2 66 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 5.0 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
Other 2X DVD-ROM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.5.8, 10.6.3
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
A 64-bit operating system is required.
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM


References

  1. Verified by User:Mastan on 2022-09-15
    Tested at custom 2560x1080, 3840x1080, 3440x1400 resolutions.
  2. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2022-09-22)