The Curse of Monkey Island PC Keyboard Controls Guide

by Falagar / Articles, Game Controls & Hotkeys, Misc. Guides / 23 Mar 2018

You hardly need the keyboard to play this game, but some of the keys can be very handy from time to time. Here follows a short list of all the important options:

PC Keyboard Controls

F1 (Function key 1)

Calls the log-book where you can Save/Load your game and set some of the options for more playing comfort.

Esc (Escape the cinema)

Skips the cut scenes, so you can continue on with the game. Personally, I recommend that you watch them, they are quite fun and sometimes provide some information about the current situation.

Enter (Left Mouse Button)

Exactly the same function as a click on the left button on the mouse would have on the current location of the cursor.

Tab (Right Mouse Button)

Opens the Inventory in the regular game scene and fires the cannon in the Ship-to-Ship Combat scene of Chapter 3.

D (Difficulty)

Check In-Game whether you are playing a regular game or the Mega-Monkey difficulty setting.

E (Examine)

Guybrush gives the player a description of the current object/event if something useful can be said about it. This is actually the same as the Skull option of the Verb Coin.

I or Tab (Inventory)

Opens the Inventory; just like a click on the right mouse button.

G (Grab)

Select an item from the Inventory

T (Talk)

Same as the Verb Coin’s Parrot option, you can talk to someone or drink some Grog.

U (Use)

Again, this is just a shortcut key to the Hand Option from the well-known Verb Coin. Use it to “Use” the object if possible.

Alt + (F4 or X or Q) or Ctrl + C (Quit)

Answer the Yes/No question with “Yes” to quit the game and exit back to Windows.

Shift + W (Win Game)

Skips the entire game and shows you the Credits List. There isn’t much fun to this, but if you wish to make this the fastest speed run you ever performed just press this combination so you can instantly finish the game.

Shift + ?

You will get the message: “machine rating is” and that is all. I don’t know what this is used for. It might yield different results on your PC. You should not need to use this option during regular gameplay.

Shift + J

Use this during Ship-to-Ship combat and the following insult sword fights change the sounds of the swords into Lightsaber sounds similar to the sounds from Star Wars.

Ctrl + B (Buffer change)

If you have trouble with static bursts during the conversations of the game, press this button combination to increase the buffer from 5 to 7 (or back). This might solve the problem on older PCs.

Ctrl + M (Move)

Guybrush will home in on the cursor just as a click on the left mouse button would do when the cursor is a white cross.

Ctrl + T (Toggle Voice and/or Text)

Toggles “Voice”, “Text Only” and “Voice & Text” options. This will cause text messages to appear when somebody says something or you will hear speech if that particular option is active.

Falagar

He is the founder and editor of Magic Game World. He loved gaming from the moment he got a PlayStation 1 with Gran Turismo on his 7th birthday.
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