Asterix: Mega Madness


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Asterix and the Magic Carpet	1987
Asterix: Operation Getafix	1989
Astérix: Caesar's Challenge	1995
Asterix & Obelix	1996
Asterix und Obelix: Die Suche nach dem schwarzen Gold	1997
Asterix: The Gallic War	2000
Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar	2000
Asterix: Mega Madness	2001
Asterix & Obelix XXL (series)
Asterix at the Olympic Games	2007
Asterix & Obelix: Slap Them All! (series)
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Babylon	2025

Asterix: Mega Madness is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action and mini-games game in the Asterix series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Depends on version, either a simple disc check, SecuROM 2 DRM or SecuROM 4 DRM
Retail		World of Asterix re-release.

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

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	None

System	Location
Windows

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\ASTERIX.cfg^{[Note 1]}

External video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Can be selected but will flip the game upside down.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Individual games have a few presets to choose from. General controls cannot be changed at all.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		CD Audio, Sound Effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		The game pauses on lost focus.
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio		On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Polish				Retail release only.
Portuguese				Fan translation by rubinho146, Download
Brazilian Portuguese				Astérix em uma Mega Confusão.^[1]
Russian				Retail release only.
Spanish

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	2	Requires a joystick or gamepad for Player 2.
LAN play
Online play

Instructions^[2]

The old version of DirectX used in the game causes this problem on modern systems.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, ME, 2000
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	350 MB
Video card (GPU)	8 MB of VRAM DirectX 7 compatible

↑ 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).