User Guide

View Options
The View Options menu includes several features you’ll find helpful for viewing the landscape.
Use these to get a better look at the terrain while building structures. All of these options are
toggles–a click turns each one on or off (a check marks an activated option). You can have any
combination of these–or even all of them–activated at the same time.
View options fall into two groups. The first group includes those that make certain objects see-
through (mostly transparent) or temporarily invisible, thus providing a clearer view of other
objects and land formations.
Underground View Makes the land surface translucent and provides a view of the volume
beneath your park. This is necessary when building tunnels.
Underwater View Removes the water in lakes from view, giving you clearer sight of the
land contours on the bottom.
See-through Rides All your attractions (including shops and stalls) become invisible.
See-through Scenery The scenery (trees, bushes, walls, and so on) is put out of sight.
Invisible Supports The structural supports of your rides become invisible for a clearer view
of the areas beneath the ride.
Invisible People All guests and staff are removed from sight, which is quite helpful
when your visitors are roaming your park like swarms of bees,
obscuring everything.
The second group of options is helpful for determining the heights and positions of objects and
land formations. (These, too, are toggles.) The information these options provide comes in handy
when you’re trying to match up sections of footpaths or of track on complicated rides, and for
making the most efficient use of your landscape.
Gridlines on Land Gridlines mark the borders of every land square, and are especially
helpful for positioning rides and walkways. (By default, this option
is on when the game starts.)
Height Marks on Land Marks every parcel of land (square) with its height level relative to
the lowest point in the park.
Height Marks on Ride Tracks Shows the height level of each section of ride track, relative to the
lowest point in the park.
Height Marks on Paths Displays the height level of every section of footpath and queuing
line, relative to the lowest point in the park.
Game Options
The Game Options menu provides both essential game functions like saving and quitting and also
some convenient customisation features.
Load Game Opens a list of saved games so that you can load one and resume playing it.
Save Game Saves your current game in a file so that you can reload it later.
New Game Ends your current game (you have the option to save it) and takes you to
the first screen.
Screenshot Takes a snapshot of your screen and saves it in a file in the directory where
you installed RollerCoaster Tycoon.
Save Track Design Copies the design of an existing track into the list of standard designs for
that type of ride. You must supply a name for the design when you save it.
This option is only available when the ride window is open for a tracked
ride that has been successfully tested. (Click on the ride Entrance to open
the ride window.)
Options Opens the Options window, which includes a number of game settings you
can change to customise the way RollerCoaster Tycoon works for you.
Simply click on the arrow next to any setting to display a list of the
possibilities, then click on the one you want. You can:
• Choose the Sound Driver you want the game to use.
•Turn Stereo sound on and off.
• Turn the game Music on and off.
• Adjust the Sound Quality of the game (which can help it run faster).
• Set the type of Currency you wish to use.
• Determine what Distance Units the game measures.
• Decide which system of Temperature Units the game uses.
• Set the Display Mode you prefer. The game is designed to provide optimum performance in
full screen 640x480 mode. Only high-end systems can run the game effectively in a window
or in the higher resolutions without degradation in game speed or display quality.
• Customise Keys lets you change the keyboard shortcuts assigned to certain features.
(Please see Keyboard Shortcuts for the details.)
• Turn the mouse Scroll feature on and off.
About Presents the game credits.
Quit Game Ends your current game (you have the option to save it) and shuts down
RollerCoaster Tycoon entirely.
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