Altered Beast

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Altered Beast

Developers
	Team Shinobi
DOS	Unlimited Software Inc.
Publishers
	Sega
Release dates
DOS	1990

Altered Beast

Altered Beast	1990
Altered Beast (2010)	2010

This page is for the original DOS release. For the emulated Sega Mega Drive version, see Altered Beast (2010).

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\SETUP.DAT

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS

High scores are saved in <path-to-game>\SCORES.DAT.

Video settings

General settings (F1).

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution		320x200 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter (when using DOSBox).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		No mouse support.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Everything is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

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

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	CGA, EGA, VGA, Tandy, Hercules
64-bit executable

System requirements

DOS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)