Rayman + Rayman 2: The Great Escape torrent

For all those who've had enough of the Rabbids running the show with their family friendly wacky slapstick party games, why not step back in time a moment to the tooth-gratingly unforgiving platformers that started it all?


- RAYMAN -

The original 2D debut. Mr. Dark steals the Great Protoon and the Electoons are scattered all over the world! Now it's up to you to find every last one of the hidden cages to even be allowed into the last level to do battle with him -- don't you just love that?

Native to Win3.1/95/98. This can be incredibly irritating to get working with sound; your best bet is to install Windows 3.1 on DosBox, install Rayman under Windows 3.1, and then return to DosBox's regular DOS mode to actually play it. As of this writing, there's a handy guide to the 3.1 installation process including special drivers at http://www.sierrahelp.com/Utilities/Emulators/DOSBox/3x_install.html and I've even included the 3.1 installation files for your convenience.

If you still can't figure it out, go dig up the PlayStation port and play it instead. It's pretty much exactly the same.

- RAYMAN 2: THE GREAT ESCAPE -

The inevitable jump to 3D. The evil pirate Razorbeard has taken over Rayman's home planet, destroyed the planet's 1000-lum core, turned everyone into slaves, and captured all his friends... including Rayman himself! Time to bust out and kick some robot pirate butt. See if you can find the elusive 1000th lum!

The PSX and N64 ports of this kind of suck for their own respective reasons (800 lums instead of 1000, lack of CD music), and the Dreamcast version you pretty much need a genuine Dreamcast to run properly. The PS2 version omits the 1000th lum! The PC port is the most faithful to the Dreamcast, and easier to get working.

The only other torrent I was able to find of this was in French/Polish only. Fear not, this one has English available for the other 99.7% of you. Native to Win95/98 but should install and run fine under XP. If you want to change the resolution in the game's options and it's crashing, try switching to '95 compatibility mode, changing the resolution, and switching back. Compatibility mode seems to do strange things to it during gameplay.


Both games should automatically support most gamepads, but there are no real configuration options so... good luck.