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Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo

Windows - 2003

How to Play

All files are clean, even the trainer has a very low flag score on VT, safe to use.

Comments and reviews

Matthew 01 Oct. 2026

Plese can i play Wallace and Gromit project in zoo on may Xbox 360 console

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Matthew cox 18 Aug. 2026

Can you install Wallace and Gromit in project zoo Xbox disk on uour newest
Xbox 360 console

0
KASUMI65 17 Jan. 2026

Spanish :
https://archive.org/details/WallaceGromitInProjectZooPC

Russian 2-CDs :
https://archive.org/details/zoo-pc-1

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Serhii 03 Nov. 2025

Works perfectly fine on my Win11 laptop, so here's how I ran it:
1. Download ISO with English version (543MB), not English-Italian one
2. Download separately NOCD (3MB)
3. Extract Project Zoo.zip and mount zoopc100en.iso from it
4. Select newly created DVD Drive and run InstallZoo.exe on it and complete installation
5. Then on this DVD open DirectX81 folder and install dxsetup.exe
6. On this DVD open English folder and copy all-two files (Options.txt & ZooLaunch.exe)
Go to the folder where you installed your game and paste those 2 files there with replacement
7. Back to DVD open ZooFiles folder and copy all-four files (overlay.zip, Preload.dat, Zoo_no_sse.exe, Zoo_SSE.exe)
Go to the folder where you installed your game and paste those 4 files there with replacement
8. Next we extract files from separetly downloaded Wallace-Gromit-in-Project-Zoo_NoCD_Win_EN.zip, we not using NoCD from Project Zoo.zip
9. There you copy two-four files (Zoo_no_sse.exe, Zoo_SSE.exe) again and paste those 2 files into your game folder with replacement
10. In that game folder you should apply compatability settings for all 3 files (Zoo_no_sse.exe, Zoo_SSE.exe & ZooLaunch.exe) in their properties:
- Run this program in compatability mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
- Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution
- Disable fullscreen optimization
- Run this program as an administrator

* Here I suggest you try to start the game from Zoo_no_sse.exe and see if it runs.
If it does - start a new game, watch first cutscene and let Wallace build Banana Gun (don't forget that for moving we use NumPad for now, we'll change it later), after that escape to menu and Save the game (don't worry, you'll be able to start again a new game after we do a bit of settings), and exit the game.

So for Screen settings we open our ZooLaunch.exe, and make sure you applied compatability settings listed above or it might crash-close when we open Screen & Graphics Options.
1. In Screen & Graphics you drag resolution to 1920 x 1080 Widescreen
2. Select Colour Depth 32-bit
3. Enable Hardware Acceleration, Enable Shadows, Enable Heat-Haze Effects
Press OK, Exit and when it'll prompt you - press Save.
* Now you can run the game using said Launcher or Zoo_no_sse.exe to test your save that we created earlier if those settings were applied.

! Optional note - you might skip it if the game runs every time with saved settings. I don't know if it actually does something but in the game folder will be file Options.txt, so you can change it defaults to what we've done in the launcher:
ScreenSize:1920
ScreenHeight:1080
Widescreen:1
Format:3
Acceleration:1
Fullscreen:1
Heat Haze:1
Entity Shadows:1
Language:1
! Optional second note - in the windows root folder enable to view hidden folders and files, and go into ProgramData, ProjectZoo where we can find the same file Options.txt along with save data and controls. You'll need to open Options.txt as admin copy-paste that settings again and save.

The fun part begins with controls, and if you played the game back in the days on PC you might have not so great experience with this. Now we'll change keyboard mapping and then we'll map our controller for how it was meant to be played.
1. Start the ZooLaunch.exe go to Keys and Controller, there you can get familiar with intended controls, make screenshot or write those default controls down, and there you'll also see the instructions how to reassign keys.
* Here I suggest you try out my personal mapping:
Action - Key:
Go Forward - Up (Arrow)
Go Front Right - none
Go Right - Right
Go Back Right - none
Go Back - Down
Go Back Left - none
Go Left - Left
Go Front Left - none
Jump - Space
Fire (Attack) - F
Use (Action, Whistle for Wallace) - G
Inventory - E
Look (Aim Weapon, Camera View) - D
Roll (Crouch) - S
Pause / Start - Esc
Camera Left - Num 4
Camera Right - Num 6
Camera Up - Num 8
Camera Down - Num 2
Camera Toggle - Num 0 (looks like it does nothing, it won't even maps for controller)
Menu Select - Enter
Menu Back - Esc
To center camera view around Gromit default key is Z
2. Press OK, Exit and when it'll prompt you - press Save.
* Now you can run the game using said Launcher or Zoo_no_sse.exe to test your save that we created earlier if those keyboard settings were applied.

For better experience I strongly recommend using the controller. I'm using the generic one that make my PC think it's an xbox360 controller. So button mapping below will be for that instance. (For your controller buttons you may use windows calibration tool to know what their corresponding numbers). This mapping mimics original controls from PS2, Xbox, GameCube.
1. Start the ZooLaunch.exe go to Keys and Controller, click mouse in the button field and press controller button it will auto place your input number there.
* Here I suggest you try out my personal mapping:
Action - Button:
(Go / Camera buttons will be assiggned to Left ThumbStick / Right ThumbStick by default)
Go Forward - none
Go Front Right - none
Go Right - none
Go Back Right - none
Go Back - none
Go Back Left - none
Go Left - none
Go Front Left - none
Jump - 1 (it will be A button)
Fire - 3 ( X )
Use (Action, Whistle for Wallace) - 4 ( Y )
Inventory - 2 ( B )
Look (Aim Weapon, Camera View) - 5 ( Left Bumper)
Roll (Crouch) - 6 ( Right Bumper )
Pause / Start - 8 ( Start )
Camera Left - none
Camera Right - none
Camera Up - none
Camera Down - none
Camera Toggle - none
Menu Select - 1 ( A )
Menu Back - 2 ( B )
To center camera view around Gromit default button is 7 ( Back )
! Enable Camera Axes - that's important for camera controls with Right Stick
Pan Axis - 4 (move RS - left / right)
Tilt Axis - 3 (move RS - up / down)
2. Press OK, Exit and when it'll prompt you - press Save.
* Now you can run the game using said Launcher or Zoo_no_sse.exe to test your save that we created earlier if those controller settings we've applied.

Note that to exit the game you still need to use Esc on keyboard.
One more thing - camera controls are inverted by default, that's how developers have done it. You'll get use to it in 10-15 minutes, especially if you're using gamepad.

At this point the game should be completely playable at their best available native settings. You can launch via ZooLaunch.exe then press Launch, or with executing Zoo_no_sse.exe, and start a new game save.

Enjoy the game, find bonus levels and remember to get back to lost & found room once you gain all control of the zoo
Don't forget to save manually
Also in the game menu options enable subtitles

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:3 22 Jan. 2025

я если что бываю путаю то что пишу, просто у мене Zoo_no_sse.exe не запускается просто загружается что делать перезапускать ноут не хочу по сто раз

2
:3 22 Jan. 2025

у меня старт не работает а так игра запускается что делать?

3
controller problem 20 Jan. 2025

If your controls don't work. Open the file project zoo start Zoo_no_sse.exe.

Obviously don't forget to extract the files before hand and load the game. At first it won't work (at least for me). Then start the game again but as I said at the beginning.

3
Lemon 02 Jan. 2025

This was working perfectly for me once I'd used the fixes mentioned in the comments, but I've got to the beginning of the panda level and it's stopped. The previous cut-scene ended and loaded to a black screen, although I could hear the ambient level sounds. I hit esc and the menu popped up like normal, hit it again and voila I thought, black screen is gone and I can see again. However then it froze immediately on hitting any other key, and this bug repeats on reloading the game.

0
Josiah 02 Jan. 2025

I love wallace and gromit
And it's just me being like

1
Foxy 25 Dec. 2024

Game loads but controls don’t not anyone got around this

0
Wallas y wallas sas 16 Dec. 2024

La PTM Gromit olvidamos los platos!

1
mouni 29 Aug. 2024

the game launches normally but gromit doesn't walk don't know why can anyone explain what should I do?

0
Chumpus 19 Jun. 2024

Oh, my bad... There was a solution to my problem in the comments.

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Chumpus 19 Jun. 2024

I installed the NOCD version and ran into a problem where the game says "The code execution cannot proceed because ijl15.dll was not found." I reinstalled it multiple times and it says the same thing as before. Please let me know if I did something wrong.

0
Tom 30 May. 2023

The Chicken Run video game (based on the movie of the same name from the creators of Wallace and Gromit) seems to be an abandonware too. Will you upload it here too please?

Thanks,

1
Jangir 28 Mar. 2023

The game is beat

0
Aiden 11 Jan. 2023

How do you play the game with a controller?

2
STM 01 Jan. 2023

Why when I go for a lvl 4 (after saving monkeys) my PC shows just black screen? How can I fix this bug?

1
D dog 31 Aug. 2022

Anyone know how to change the controls?

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ttea 07 Oct. 2021
Top comment

Wrong disc inserted, someone posted a fix but I don't understand any of it, could someone post one step by step simplified version for a dumbass like me

11
Nathanael Swayne 24 Sep. 2021

I downloaded the game but when I run it, it freezes my computer up....rip

2
Alex Hobson 13 May. 2021

not downlaoding always failing on firefox chrome and internet explorer

0
Froggy 30 Jan. 2021

Cutscenes were working at first in-game, but now only the audio does. When I tried playing the cutscenes in the game folder, they work fine, but it says a plugin is broken. Can anyone help me please?

1
Don'tWorryPals 07 Oct. 2020
Top comment

-Extract the .rar anywhere
-Run installZoo
-A folder named "Project Zoo" will be created
-Copy the exe files from crack.rar (don't extract them, just copy them)
-Paste them in the folder "Project Zoo" (You'll need to change the name of 2 files named the same in that folder)
-Run the exe file "zoo_no_sse"
-Enjoy!

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3EGaming 10 Jul. 2020

FIX FOR "wrong disk inserted": copy the files from deviance/crack.rar to the install path, then open Zoo_no_sse.exe. then your game should load.

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omg 26 Jan. 2020

Jesus guys stop crying, you have crack on iso image....

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Леонид 04 Jun. 2019

Привет я люблю играю

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how to fix the no cd or wrong disc 19 Mar. 2019

what might help is installing the game and then changing the ISO from the game files with a crack version it worked with the hobbit game from 2003

0
Dylan 18 Nov. 2018

It says 'Wrong disk inserted' does anyone know how to fix this??

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Turtles 16 Nov. 2018

"The wrong disc was inserted."

3
elif 28 Jul. 2018

its a free??

0
Steve 09 Jun. 2018

When I get to the first boss fight (stomping on drilling machine part), the game freezes. Help please

1
Bottlehead 07 Mar. 2018
Top comment

You have to copy the 2 exe files in the crack.rar file from the iso to the game directory. It is in the iso's deviance folder.

7
DrTydefe 23 Feb. 2018

Same, I can't launch the game because "the wrong disk is inserted".

0
Miranda 13 Jan. 2018

I installed the game, but when I tried to launch it a pop-up appeared with the message that the wrong disc was inserted. So, unfortunately the game does not work.

1

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Downloads

Windows version
ISO Version
United Kingdom English
543 MB
ISO Version
United Kingdom English
Italy Italian
547 MB
Disc Image
Spain Spanish
618 MB
Disc Image (2CD)
Russia Russian
1.0 GB

Extras

Misc Misc 1
Trainer - Unlimited Bananas & Bolts/Nuts
Windows 89 KB English English
NoCD NoCD 1
Extra file
Windows 3 MB English English

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