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Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy

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Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy
Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy cover
Developers
Marvelous Inc.
Opus
Publishers
Marvelous
Release dates
Windows September 27, 2012
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Multiplayer
Series Half-Minute Hero
Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy guide on StrategyWiki
Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy on MobyGames
Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy on Wikipedia
Half-Minute Hero
Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy 2012
Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming 2014

Key points

Evil Lord 30, Princess 30, and Knight 30 are only playable with retro graphics. Neo-cartoon graphics has new versions with one stage each.
No graphical options and game is locked to 1280x720 and 59 FPS. See Widescreen resolution.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.
Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming includes copy of Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy.

Game data

No configuration file, configurations are stored within save file.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <Steam-folder>/userdata/<user-id>/214830/remote/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/214830/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

No video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Always 1280x720 anamorphic. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Toggle with Alt+ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Fullscreen acts as borderless window, but losing focus will toggle it to regular windowed mode.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 59 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Game seen fullscreen (left) and windowed (right) on 1080p monitor.
Game seen fullscreen (left) and windowed (right) on 1080p monitor.
Fullscreen acts as a borderless fullscreen instead of actual fullscreen mode and upscales game from base resolution using Nearest-neighbor interpolation, so with resolutions not divideable with that resolution will introduce extreme aliasing and scaling artifacting (see image example). Some assets in "NEO Cartoon" mode are already upscaled making it even worse[1] and this behaviour can't be changed.
As game is rendered before the scaling, things like overlays are also limited to 720p (see image example FPS counter on top left corner).
There are few ways to bypass this issue.
Use "Retro" graphical style[2]
  1. From games main menu select "Change graphics"

Notes

This mode changes from hand drawn style into pixelated style where scaling method used is more preferred.
Use windowed mode[2]
With windowed, games resolution can't be changed and thus upscaling isn't used.
Change desktop resolution[2]
  1. Change desktop resolution to 1280x720 or 2560x1440.
  2. Launch the game.

Notes

This makes desktop resolution to match games output resolution and forces up/downscaling to be handled by either GPU or monitor.

Input

Controls.
Controls.
Key rebinding.
Key rebinding.
When done rebinding keys or changing key prompts, back button doesn't do anything. Go to top of the list where it says "Settings" and press confirm button (Default: C/A)

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Prompts need to be changed in the settings.
Prompts will not reflect rebind keys. One key per action.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse not used at all.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Axis can't be rebound. Default binding for XInput controller layout.
Controller sensitivity
Digital movement.
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
PlayStation controllers
Shoulder axis will be picked up as right stick, preventing game to be properly played.
Generic/other controllers
Button prompts
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Online play
4

Issues fixed

Lack of Sound/Sound Crash (Error 0x80040154)

Upon launching the game, a prompt appears that reads "Error 0x80040154". The game continues to load. However, after the intro screen for MarvelousAQL, the sound crashes. Upon verifying the integrity of the game's cache, one file fails to validate and Steam downloads a 528 byte file that does not fix the problem.
Manually download and reinstall redistributables[citation needed]
  1. Download and install DirectX End-User Runtimes.
  2. Download and install Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 (x86).
  3. Reboot.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7, 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP SP3
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce FX 5700
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible


Notes

  1. File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/214830/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (214830) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References