King Kong PC Port
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How to install

Four steps to Skull Island.

You need Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) or Linux (x86-64), a graphics card that supports Vulkan (or DirectX 12 on Windows), about 7 GB of free space, and a disc image made from your own King Kong Xbox 360 disc.

Download for WindowsWindows 10 and 11, 64-bit / ZIP Download for Linuxx86-64 / AppImage

Windows

Install.

  1. Download

    Get KingKong-…-windows-x64.zip from the latest release (v1.9.11, 22 MB) and unzip it anywhere.

  2. Start

    Run king_kong.exe. The launcher opens on its first setup.

  3. Pick your disc image

    Choose Select disc image and pick your King Kong disc image. The launcher checks it, copies the game files (about 6.3 GB) into a game folder next to the exe and takes its artwork from them.

  4. Set up and play

    The launcher prepares the graphics once, offers the HD texture pack and the PS2 cutscenes, and walks you through the graphics options and button prompts. Then press Play. What setup does.

The download contains only the port. No game files are included: they come from your own disc. Please don't ask for game files anywhere; the project can't help with that.

Linux

Linux, natively.

The Linux version is a native AppImage with the Vulkan renderer, for x86-64 PCs and handhelds such as the Steam Deck.

  1. Download

    Get KingKong-linux-x86_64.AppImage from the latest release and put it anywhere, for example in your home folder.

  2. Allow it to run

    In your file manager, open its Properties and allow it to run as a program, or run chmod +x on it in a terminal.

  3. Start

    Start it. The launcher opens on its first setup: pick your disc image and set up as on Windows.

  4. Add to Steam (optional)

    To play from Steam's Game Mode, choose Games › Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library in Steam's desktop mode and add the AppImage.

DLSS, FSR 3.1, FSR 4 and XeSS are Windows only; on Linux, FSR 1 and NIS are there. Saves, settings and downloads live in your standard user data folder, and the launcher's About tab opens each in one click.

Which disc

This disc, and only this one.

The port is made for this release of the game. Other versions, the 2005 PC version among them, won't work.

Read the game files guide.

Game
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
Disc
Xbox 360, USA and Europe (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish)
Title ID
555307D3
Version
0.0.0.1 (the original disc release)
Disc image
.iso, 7,834,892,288 bytes
SHA-1
075F43709E9C9A095E099AB5056CC04B768288D1
MD5
35D671ED4E9EAD9E6B288A3441B6C8F9

Check your disc image

The launcher checks the title ID before it installs. To check the image yourself, run this in PowerShell (with your own path) and compare the result with the SHA-1 above:

Get-FileHash "C:\Games\King Kong.iso" -Algorithm SHA1

Updating

Keeping it up to date.

When a new version is out, the launcher offers it as it opens: Update now installs it and restarts the launcher. Your installed game, saves and settings stay as they are.

Where things are

Your files.

WhatWhere
SavesDocuments\king_kong
Settingsking_kong.toml, next to the game
Shader cacheDocuments\king_kong\cache
Downloads (texture packs, PS2 cutscenes)Documents\king_kong
Photo mode picturesthe screenshots folder in Documents\king_kong
Logsthe logs folder next to king_kong.exe
Your game filesthe game folder next to king_kong.exe

These are the Windows places. The launcher's About tab opens each of them in one click, on Linux too. Something not working? Here's how to report it.