Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

Developers
	Yacht Club Games
Release dates
Windows	June 26, 2014
macOS (OS X)	September 13, 2014
Linux	October 8, 2014

Shovel Knight
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove	2014
Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope	2014
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment	2017
Shovel Knight: King of Cards	2019
Shovel Knight Showdown	2019
Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon	2021
Shovel Knight Dig	2022
Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope DX	TBA

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Europe only.
Developer website
GOG.com
Humble Store
Microsoft Store
Steam		Can be played without Steam running, but requires its steam_api.dll file.

Soundtracks for Shovel Knight, Plague of Shadows, and Specter of Torment are available for free.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Plague of Shadows	Included as part of 2.0 update, can be accessed when starting a new game after the Treasure Trove update.
Specter of Torment	Included as part of the Treasure Trove update, can be accessed when starting a new game. Also available as a standalone game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\Yacht Club Games\Shovel Knight\*.bin
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Application Support/Yacht Club Games/Shovel Knight/
Linux	~/.local/share/Yacht Club Games/Shovel Knight/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\Yacht Club Games\Shovel Knight\saveData.bin
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Application Support/Yacht Club Games/Shovel Knight/
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/Yacht Club Games/Shovel Knight/

This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.

Resolution scaling

Games scaling on 2560x1440 display, zoomed 200% for clarity. Left side is game by default, right side is integer scaling with configuration file.

Game uses nearest-neighbor to scale the game from it's 400x224 base resolution. With resolutions which can be divided with integer this should result pixel perfect scaling, however with other resolutions will have slight scaling artifacting which results smoothing, this includes almost all and every modern display resolutions.

Game does offer this scaling option in game settings, however it has too large jumps that it's not possible to get exact values desired, thus not fixing the issue.

Change scaling modifier.

Navigate to configuration files location and open render.bin with preferred text editor. Change screenSizeMultiplier= into desired value. Few examples of highest values based on base monitor resolutions: 1366x768: X3F60E3E4, 300% scale 1920x1080: X3F555550, 400% scale 2560x1440: X3F700000, 600% scale 3840x2160: X3F555550, 900% scale Save changed and open the game. Notes This solution does add black borders around the game to maintain the pixel perfect scaling. You can also calculate value yourself. e.g. 1920x1080, 400 pixels width goes into this resolution 4.8 times, so we want 4x/400% scaling to get best match, so 1600 pixels. 1600/1920=0,8333333333333333 (83,3% scale from selected in game resolution option). Convert this value into IEEE-754 with something like this and you should get 0x3f555555.

Input settings

Relic (in-game item) use can be either dedicated button or Up+Attack making it compatible with more controllers including NES Controller. Can be changed per campaing.

Keyboard remapping.

Controller remapping.

A list of compatible controllers is available here. Incompatible controllers can be submitted here.

Audio settings

Audio settings.

General settings.

Localizations

Language settings.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Japanese				Both kanji and kana
Russian
Brazilian Portuguese

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play		2	Co-op Controllers are chosen by holding down button on desired control method.
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP SP2
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	200 MB
Video card (GPU)	2nd Generation Intel Core HD Graphics (2000/3000) 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0 compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	250 MB

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 12.04
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	250 MB
Video card (GPU)	2nd Generation Intel Core HD Graphics (2000/3000) 256 MB of VRAM