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Ikaruga

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Ikaruga
Ikaruga cover
Developers
Treasure
Publishers
Steam Treasure
Epic Games Store Nicalis
Release dates
Windows February 18, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 84
OpenCritic 88
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view, Scrolling
Controls Direct control
Genres Arcade, Shooter
Vehicles Flight
Themes Sci-fi
Ikaruga on HowLongToBeat
Ikaruga on IGDB
Ikaruga guide on StrategyWiki
Ikaruga on MobyGames
Ikaruga on Wikipedia

Key points

The PC version was released through Steam in 2014 and is reportedly based on the latest arcade release.
Uses Steam for global leaderboards, achievements and ability to upload and download replays.
The PC version uses analog movement for player's ship (similar to Xbox 360 version). The original digital movement is still available.
The August 2014 update added Appendix to the PC version, although some of the text in Soundtrack and Documents is missing unless switching game's language to Japanese

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM-free after installation through Epic Games Launcher (notes may include more details)
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\boot.txt[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/253750/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/253750/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
The game always uses a 90° vertical perspective by default, rotate the screen in the options for actual widescreen.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Set resolution to "Desktop"; maximum resolution is 1280x720 otherwise.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Up to 16 samples.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Up to 4x MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Turn on/off in boot.txt
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 60 FPS and is tied to the game speed.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Set borderless fullscreen[1]
  1. Set the in-game video settings to full screen mode and desktop resolution.
  2. Install Special K by following the Official Special K Wiki Guide. Manual local installation may work better.
  3. Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created.
  4. Open <path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\game.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method you used.
  5. Change ForceWindowed=false to ForceWindowed=true under [Display.Output].
  6. Change Borderless=false to Borderless=true under [Window.System].
  7. Change Fullscreen=false to Fullscreen=true.
  8. Change OverrideRes=0x0 to your desktop resolution (e.g. OverrideRes=1920x1080).

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, music, SFX
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
See Mute on focus lost.
Royalty free audio

Mute on focus lost

Set mute in background[1]
  1. Install Special K by following the Unofficial Special K Guide. Manual local installation may work better.
  2. Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created.
  3. Open <path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\game.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method you used.
  4. Change Borderless=false to Borderless=true under [Window.System]
  5. Change MuteInBackground=false to MuteInBackground=true.
  6. Change OverrideRes=0x0 to your desktop resolution (e.g. OverrideRes=1920x1080).

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
The game has very few spoken lines which are not important to the story.
Japanese
The game has very few spoken lines which are not important to the story.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
Shared single-controller mode also available.
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Fullscreen mode defaults to 60 Hz, even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.
Set screen refresh rate[1]
  1. Install Special K by following the Unofficial Special K Guide. Manual local installation may work better.
  2. Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created.
  3. Open <path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\game.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method you used.
  4. Change RefreshRate=-1 to RefreshRate=0 under [Render.FrameRate].
  5. Change Borderless=false to Borderless=true under [Window.System]
  6. Change OverrideRes=0x0 to your screen resolution (e.g. OverrideRes=1920x1080).

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo
AMD Athlon 64 X2
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 512 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/253750/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (253750) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Verified by User:Keith on 2017-11-26