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Arcade USA

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Arcade USA
Arcade USA cover
Developers
Tuna Technologies
Publishers
Europe Empire Interactive
Engines
Prophet
Release dates
Windows 2006
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Sports
Sports Bowling
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Arcade USA on IGDB
Arcade USA on MobyGames

Arcade USA is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person sports game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\ARCADE.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Use this FOV fix to set a custom FOV value.
Windowed
Set FullScreen=1 to FullScreen=0 in <path-to-game>\ARCADE.ini.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Set the amount in the AntiAlias= line in <path-to-game>\ARCADE.ini.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Frame generation
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 25 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Edit ARCADE.ini[1]
  1. Run the game at least once and close it.
  2. Open ARCADE.ini in a text editor.
  3. Change the lines Width= and Height= to the preferred resolution.

Notes

Stretched image when compared to 4:3 by default. Use this FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ image.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Versus
LAN play
Online play
See the Local play glossary page for potential workarounds.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8 [2]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)


Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2025-09-12
  2. ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2025-09-12
    According to System Informer, the game loads d3d8.dll. According to DebugView's logs, dgVoodoo2's traces point to Direct3D 8 (it uses functions from the Direct3DDevice8 interface, such as SetRenderState and SetTexture).