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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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:322 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
:322 Jan. 2025
у меня старт не работает а так игра запускается что делать?
3
controller problem20 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
Lemon02 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
Josiah02 Jan. 2025
I love wallace and gromit And it's just me being like
1
Foxy25 Dec. 2024
Game loads but controls don’t not anyone got around this
0
Wallas y wallas sas16 Dec. 2024
La PTM Gromit olvidamos los platos!
1
mouni29 Aug. 2024
the game launches normally but gromit doesn't walk don't know why can anyone explain what should I do?
0
Chumpus19 Jun. 2024
Oh, my bad... There was a solution to my problem in the comments.
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Chumpus19 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
Tom30 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
Jangir28 Mar. 2023
The game is beat
0
Aiden11 Jan. 2023
How do you play the game with a controller?
2
STM01 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 dog31 Aug. 2022
Anyone know how to change the controls?
-1
ttea07 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 Swayne24 Sep. 2021
I downloaded the game but when I run it, it freezes my computer up....rip
2
Alex Hobson13 May. 2021
not downlaoding always failing on firefox chrome and internet explorer
0
Froggy30 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'tWorryPals07 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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3EGaming10 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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omg26 Jan. 2020
Jesus guys stop crying, you have crack on iso image....
0
Леонид04 Jun. 2019
Привет я люблю играю
-3
how to fix the no cd or wrong disc19 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
Dylan18 Nov. 2018
It says 'Wrong disk inserted' does anyone know how to fix this??
-3
Turtles16 Nov. 2018
"The wrong disc was inserted."
3
elif28 Jul. 2018
its a free??
0
Steve09 Jun. 2018
When I get to the first boss fight (stomping on drilling machine part), the game freezes. Help please
1
Bottlehead07 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
DrTydefe23 Feb. 2018
Same, I can't launch the game because "the wrong disk is inserted".
0
Miranda13 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
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.
Comments and reviews
Plese can i play Wallace and Gromit project in zoo on may Xbox 360 console
Can you install Wallace and Gromit in project zoo Xbox disk on uour newest
Xbox 360 console
Spanish :
https://archive.org/details/WallaceGromitInProjectZooPC
Russian 2-CDs :
https://archive.org/details/zoo-pc-1
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
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
у меня старт не работает а так игра запускается что делать?
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.
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.
I love wallace and gromit
And it's just me being like
Game loads but controls don’t not anyone got around this
La PTM Gromit olvidamos los platos!
the game launches normally but gromit doesn't walk don't know why can anyone explain what should I do?
Oh, my bad... There was a solution to my problem in the comments.
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.
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,
The game is beat
How do you play the game with a controller?
Why when I go for a lvl 4 (after saving monkeys) my PC shows just black screen? How can I fix this bug?
Anyone know how to change the controls?
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
I downloaded the game but when I run it, it freezes my computer up....rip
not downlaoding always failing on firefox chrome and internet explorer
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?
-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!
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.
Jesus guys stop crying, you have crack on iso image....
Привет я люблю играю
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
It says 'Wrong disk inserted' does anyone know how to fix this??
"The wrong disc was inserted."
its a free??
When I get to the first boss fight (stomping on drilling machine part), the game freezes. Help please
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.
Same, I can't launch the game because "the wrong disk is inserted".
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.
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.