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Revision as of 04:36, 15 May 2023

Space Hack
Space Hack cover
Developers
Rebelmind
Publishers
Meridian4
Release dates
Windows November 15, 2005
Reception
Metacritic 63
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Space Hack on HowLongToBeat
Space Hack on IGDB
Space Hack on MobyGames

Key points

Released in the United Kingdom as Maximus XV: Abraham Strong - Space Mercenary and in Europe as Novasphere 13.
For Windows 8 and later use dgVoodoo 2 to fix frame rate issues.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 3.4.50.01 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Windows
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Publisher website (unavailable)
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Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.03 fixes various issues.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save\config\[Note 2]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Rebelmind\Space Hack\[Note 3]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/315260/pfx/[Note 4]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/315260/pfx/[Note 4]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Edit <path-to-game>\data\config\config.txt.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
3D Sounds, Interface, Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Most speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Automatically mutes and pauses.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail only; download for digital releases.
Spanish
Fan translation, download.

Issues fixed

Low frame rate in fullscreen mode

This game has frame rate issues on Windows 8 and later when running in fullscreen mode.
Apply the dgVoodoo 2 to where the game is installed[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D
Use dgVoodoo 2 to use Directx 11-12.
DirectDraw
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
XP, Vista, 7, 8 (Steam)
Processor (CPU) Celeron 800 MHz
1.5 GHz (Steam)
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
256 MB (Steam)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7.0 compatible 3D accelerator with at least 16MB of video RAM (RivaTNT2 class)
16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0
DirectX 9.0c (Steam) compatible


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. 2.0 2.1 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).
  3. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References