How to install
Four steps to Skull Island.
You need Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), a graphics card with DirectX 12, about 7 GB of free space, and a disc image you made from your own King Kong Xbox 360 disc.
Windows
Install.
Download
Get KingKong-…-windows-x64.zip from the latest release (v1.9.11, 23 MB) and unzip it anywhere.
Start
Run king_kong.exe. The launcher opens, and the shader pack downloads by itself.
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
gamefolder next to the exe and takes its artwork from them.Play
Press PLAY. New versions are offered by the launcher when it opens.
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.
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.
- 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 SHA1Experimental
Linux and Steam Deck, through Proton.
This is the Windows download running through Steam's Proton, not a native Linux version (that one is in development). It was tested on a ROG Ally (Z1 Extreme) with Bazzite, where it held 120 FPS on the 10 W power profile.
Unzip
Unzip KingKong-…-windows-x64.zip anywhere, for example in your home folder.
Add to Steam
In Steam (in desktop mode on a Steam Deck), choose Games › Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library, browse to king_kong.exe and add it.
Pick Proton
Right-click it in your library, choose Properties › Compatibility, tick Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool and pick Proton Experimental.
Play
Start it from Steam (Game Mode works too). The first start takes about half a minute while Steam sets Proton up. Pick your disc image as on Windows: your Linux home folder is on the Z: drive.
Your saves and settings are kept in Steam's Proton folder for the game, under steamapps/compatdata. The full Linux guide.
Where things are
Your files.
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| Saves | Documents\king_kong |
| Settings | king_kong.toml, next to the game |
| Shader cache | Documents\king_kong\cache |
| Logs | the logs folder next to king_kong.exe |
| Your game files | the game folder next to king_kong.exe |
The About page in the launcher opens each of these in one click. Something not working? Here's how to report it.