Silent Hill: The Arcade
  ~ Basic set-up guide and tips ~


Four-step quick-start guide:

	1. Unpack the archives to any location and navigate to that folder.
	2. Run config.bat to bind a few necessary keys. This program is kind of backwards compared most key bindings menus; you must first click a key from the column on the left, and then click one of the five functions in the right-hand column to bind it to, instead of vice-versa. By the way, ESC will always quit the game, and left-click will always shoot, regardless of any additional keys you bind to these functions.
	3. You can now run the game via one of three executables:
	 a) "Game Loader All RH.exe" - This is the "default" choice, and will launch the game with a custom crosshair cursor for your mouse, in place of a lightgun.
	 b) "KSHG.exe" - This will launch the game with the same mouse control support, but no on-screen cursor. Useful if you want to play the game with a Wiimote (info on this below).
	 c) "KSHG_no_cursor.exe" - In my experience, and totally counter-intuitively given the "no_cursor" part in the filename (don't bother trying to swap the filenames of KSHG.exe and KSHG_no_cursor.exe; the game will crash), this appears to launch the game with a default Windows cursor of some sort (in my case, a constant spinning "loading" cursor).
	4. Hopefully, the game should now boot right up. It's set to freeplay, medium difficulty, so just use your P1 Start key to begin the game. Click on the monsters until they die. Have fun!


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Additional notes:

- You can use your Service/Test keybinds to access the operator menu and change some basic in-game settings, such as difficulty and violence level.
- As of now, no Player 2 support, to my knowledge. Sorry!
- If you're familiar with using a Wiimote in conjunction with GlovePIE, you should be able to use the script included in GlovePIE.txt to play the game using a Wiimote controller like a lightgun.
- If you would like a higher-visibility crosshair, there is an alternate one included. Navigate to the game directory, and then the "sv" subfolder, and just swap the filenames of "CrossHair.cur" and "CrossHair.cur_". Vice versa to switch it back. The larger crosshair could be useful if you're playing the game with a Wiimote and sitting further away from the screen.
- I wouldn't recommend bothering with the "Game Loader Config.exe" app. It's written entirely in moonrunes, and it doesn't seem to offer any particularly useful options that we can't easily set manually by just tweaking the game's ini files in a text editor.
- The game/loader creates two folders in your Appdata folder: "bemani_config" and "Game Loader All RH." If for some reason you need to delete the small amount of config data they create, that is where it is stored. The path for your Appdata folder is:
	In Windows 7  - C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\
	In Windows XP - C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Application Data\
- The game is designed to run at 640 x 480, in a 4:3 aspect ratio. No true widescreen support is available. You can force a different display resolution, but this results in various problems: the FMV cutscenes end up totally out of proportion, and I've encountered numerous other glitches, like the whole screen being off-center, and the entire game running in slow motion. Some custom resolutions have caused the game to fail to boot entirely. Furthermore, increasing the display resolution doesn't actually seem to result in the game looking any sharper; I suspect that the internal 3D framebuffer renders at the same resolution regardless of the output resolution, similar to unpatched Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition.
- If you would still like to use a different display resolution, the best way to do this is by editing a few lines in the "TTX.ini" file. Open TTX.ini and find these lines (near the bottom):
	ForceDisplaySize = 0
	DisplayMode = 1
	DisplayWidth = 1280
	DisplayHeight = 1024
And change them thusly:
	ForceDisplaySize = 1
	DisplayMode = 0
	DisplayWidth = <desired horizontal resolution>
	DisplayHeight = <desired vertical resolution>
To change the game back to it's default resolution settings, just change these two lines:
	ForceDisplaySize = 1
	DisplayMode = 0
Back to:
	ForceDisplaySize = 0
	DisplayMode = 1


A few things to try if the game isn't working:
- Try running the executables in compatibility mode (right-click -> Properties -> Compatibility tab; try setting the compatibility mode to Windows XP), and/or running them as an administrator (right-click -> Run as administrator).
- Make sure you have the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package installed.
- If the FMVs aren't playing properly, try installing something like the Combined Community Codec Pack (www.cccp-project.net) or the K-Lite Codec Pack (www.codecguide.com) to ensure that you have all the necessary video codecs installed.
- I've never had any trouble running the game from any location on my harddrive, but if it's having problems, you might try moving it close to the root directory, something like C:\SHTA or what have you, just in case.


Have fun!