Darius Gaiden

Darius Gaiden

Developers
	Taito
Windows	Fukuoka Soken Inc.
Publishers
Japan	CYBERFRONT Corporation
North America/Europe	Acclaim Entertainment
North America	Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
Windows	November 1997
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Side view, Scrolling
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Arcade, Shooter
Vehicles	Space flight
Art styles	Pixel art
Themes	Sci-fi
Series	Darius

Darius
Darius Gaiden	1997
G-Darius	2000
Dariusburst Chronicle Saviours‎	2015
Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade‎	2021
G-Darius HD	2022

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Runs directly off of the disc.

This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Play without the disc

At least copying the game files to a folder on your hard drive is the bare minimum requirement for more fixes, if needed.

Music will now loop correctly, and will play on cue 100% of time as side effects to this fix.

How to run the game completely off the hard drive

Copy all of the files from the disc into a folder of your choosing. Download the _inmm.dll installer and extract it, then run the installer. Open your game CD in any application that rips audio CDs, and rip the audio into an easy to find place, preferably into a folder in the game’s directory. Open _inmmcnf.exe, and on the "Method" tab, change the "default" option to DirectShow. Select the "_inmm.dll" tab, then click "add". Go to the folder you ripped the game's music into. Then select all of the "track" files. Select "Save", go to the folder you installed Darius Gaiden in, then save the ini file. Close _inmmcnf.exe, then drag darius.bin onto the _inmmcnf.exe file itself. This will pop up a message asking if you want to patch the executable. Select "Ok". Launch loader.exe whenever you want to play the game, or rename darius.bin to darius.exe, and launch the newly renamed file to skip the launcher.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Only two resolutions to choose from: 640x480 and 320x240.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Capped at 60fps.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Windowed

Force windowed mode
Download and run DxWnd. Click on Edit, then Add. Set the name and executable path. Set the window position and size. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed. Click OK, then File and Save.

Input

Control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		Only for game settings window.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Have to use mouse for game settings window.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		All dialogue is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play		2	Co-op
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 133MHz
System memory (RAM)	16MB	32MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	More than 1MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectDraw-supported GPU