Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator

Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator

Developers
	Valkyrie Studios
Publishers
Retail (Europe), digital	TopWare Interactive
Retail (North America)	Monolith Productions
Release dates
Windows	October 1999
macOS (OS X) (Cider)	November 15, 2013
Linux (Wine)	November 14, 2016
Reception
Metacritic	72
IGDB	40
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Continuous turn-based
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	RPG
Art styles	Anime
Themes	Fantasy, Sci-fi

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) release of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator is a singleplayer bird's-eye view RPG game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		*UK release appears to be DRM free
GamersGate
GOG.com		Digital Deluxe Edition with Soundtrack also available.
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam
ZOOM Platform

Version differences

The GOG.com and Steam versions are pre-patched with the newest patch (1.04).

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.04 updates the game to the latest version.

Other Patches

SR - recompiled 32-bit executable that allows the game to run flawlessly on modern Windows and Linux systems with minimal setup. The Septerra.cfg file contains numerous settings, including windowed mode, display resolution, v-sync, and the ability to skip intro movies. If using a high DPI mouse, change "CPU_SleepMode" from "standard" to "reduced" or "nosleep" to prevent stutter.

Peixoto's patch - allows nearest neighbor or xBRz scaling and has detailed instruction to correctly setup quicktime and solve issues with FMV playback

DSOAL - fixes a bug with the dialogue audio in the retail version. The bug is fixed in the GOG.com version.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\
macOS (OS X)
Linux

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\savedata\
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			640x480 only; use the Timeslip patch for pillarboxed 4:3.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Use the -windowed parameter (use Timeslip patch to fix color depth requirement).
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		Frame rate is capped at 60 fps
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

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

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, FX, Speech
Surround sound
Subtitles		Always turned on by default. Can be hidden with a hidetext cheat, but re-enabling them requires restarting the game.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
German				Retail and Steam only; download for GOG.com version
Polish				Retail only.
Brazilian Portuguese				Fan translation by Tribo Gamer; download.
Russian				Fan translation, download

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	ARM	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)				This 32-bit-only macOS game does not work on macOS Catalina (10.15) or later.
Linux				ARM32 support requires M-HT SR. No ARM64 support is known to exist.

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System
Cutscenes	QuickTime	Version 4.0 required for playing cutscenes

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 200 MHz		Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	5 MB		150 MB
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible
Other	4x CD-ROM drive		8x CD-ROM drive

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.7.0
Processor (CPU)	1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM

Linux
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	SteamOS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Processor (CPU)	Single core		1.5 GHz, single core
System memory (RAM)	512 MB		1 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM		128 MB of VRAM