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LEGO Island is one of my favorite childhood games and I thought it'd be a fun project to do some hacking/modding. I've consolidated all my patches so far into one tool: the LEGO Island Rebuilder. It's a LEGO Island launcher/mod tool that currently does the following things: * Set turn and movement speeds. If you're sick of turning too fast on modern PCs, use this to slow it down to a more sane speed (or turn up the movement speed to cheat in races). * Set windowed/full screen mode without editing the registry/administrator privileges (software rendering modes only) * Keep the game active even when defocused (windowed mode only) * Extract and insert music. No sound effects yet, but all music can be replaced with other music of any length or quality. * Doesn't require administrator privileges to run * Patches at runtime - doesn't permanently modify any files. * Can redirect LEGO Island's save files to %APPDATA% so the game doesn't require administrator privileges either (September build only) * Supports Windows 98+ (requires .NET Framework 2.0) Obviously this is a work-in-progress (and your mileage may vary depending on your setup), but check it out if you're interested in LEGO Island! http://itsmattkc.com/rebuilder

I was about to give up but I managed to play it without the weird white black errors, game is now running flawlesly, it saves, and plays at full speed, I still cannot believe it I managed it on win 10 with AMD. I already wanted to buy some old Thinkpad laptop with Win XP so I could play this game again.... the prices of these things are suprisingly low. To fix this, I had to change one thing in the dgvoodoo - Output API in General tab - change it to "Direct3d 11 (feature level 10.0)" and voila, suddenly it worked without trouble. DONT leave it at "best available". This will probably not help you much, but reinstall from scratch, follow this guide to the letter (BUT MAKE SURE TO INSTALL THE LATEST dgvoodoo 2.62), and then, always change one thing in the dgVoodoo, try to run it, if it does not work try again changing another setting, and again run it... It took me whole week but there are so many specifics that can work on different machines. And don´t forget the D3D9.dll, it may not make a difference but try every possible fix one by one, there are many fixes described on the forum.

I ripped music from LEGO Battles years back and also noticed at least one test map among its map files. Didn't really try modding it though. But if anyone wants to try, that might be a good starting goal; getting that loaded up in-game (swapping it around with one of the normal maps perhaps?).

I won't say that it's super difficult but it's more like different playground. If you want to be legal then the starting modding your game is the hardest part because you first have to own the game, then you have to own some dock where you can insert the game (that dock/system has to be accessed to PC) and you have to download the right programs to mod your ROM file (I think that it's almost impossible to hack your cardridge or it isn't worth it). Many console modders just makes their life easier and download the ROM files from internet and that's illegal. Modding console games also needs usually homebrewed console which allows to mods be activated (luckily original DS/DS Lite have a little security and you don't have to download crazy homebrew installers). If I don't remember correctly it's not allowed to mod your console if you want to access internet services on that console so if you are ready to lose one feature on your console then you're ready to mod it. About modding DS games: I think that it have been break down several times in DS hacking/modding communities. I belive that those communities have some modding tools to just export all the files which that game includes. I'm pretty sure that there's no level editors or other fancy programs to LEGO Battles. Maybe if someone talented at coding is willing to take task to check how LB works it can make modding of that game way easier than now. Now the modding involves checking every file, how they interact and then making little changes around the code and hope that it won't break the game. @Lord Maplefrost If you are just interested to talk about LB then be brave and start conversation in Game Discussion I have played LB when I was child and I quite enjoyed it. To be honest that game have too many flaws which makes defence play more important than offence... But I like the themes and overall LEGO vibes around that game!

Hello and welcome to RRU! ? I think the major reason is that it's not immediately available. As someone without any consoles I've never had access to it - while I've been able to back-fill my collection of older PC Lego games I hadn't even considered Lego Battles. It took me many years to even become aware of its existence! It's also my understanding that modding consoles is infinitely more difficult than modding PC games. LRR has the largest section a) because it's a very good game but also b) it's extremely easy to mod [1) unpack WAD files; 2) go ahead and edit, even in Notepad (not reccomended, but possible) 3) recompile!] I'd be totally happy to be proven wrong though! I say this with minimal knowledge on Lego Battles other than it existed.