Rainbow Islands (2002)

For the DOS port with Bubble Bobble included, see Bubble Bobble (also featuring Rainbow Islands).

Bubble Bobble
Bubble Bobble	1989
Bubble Bobble (also featuring Rainbow Islands)	1996
Rainbow Islands (2002)	2002
Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron's Workshop	2021
Bubble Bobble Sugar Dungeons	2025
Bubble Symphony	2025
Puzzle Bobble (series)

Warnings

SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected releases).

Rainbow Islands (2002) is a side view platform game in the Bubble Bobble series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Japanese release is DRM-free. European release contains SafeDisc 3 DRM^{[Note 1]}

SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected releases).

This game is not available digitally.

Japan and Europe only.

Standalone release is exclusive to Japan.

Released in a bundle in Europe with a version of Bubble Bobble by Empire Interactive.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>/rainbow.cfg^{[Note 2]}

This game does not save any data besides configuration files.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Locked at 640 x 480 in fullscreen mode.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Press `F11` to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Credit and player start buttons cannot be remapped.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound on/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles		All game dialogue is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Japanese				Japan release only.

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	2	Co-op
LAN play
Online play	See the Local play glossary page for potential workarounds.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

↑ This version of SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]
↑ 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).