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I-Ninja

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I-Ninja
I-Ninja cover
Developers
Argonaut Games
Publishers
Namco
Release dates
Windows April 23, 2004
I-Ninja guide on StrategyWiki
I-Ninja on MobyGames
I-Ninja on Wikipedia

Warnings

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1] disc check
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Movies
  2. Delete or rename Dolby.bik, Logo.bik and NVidia.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Configuration\options.dat[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saved Games[Note 2]

Video

Widescreen resolution

Requires a No-CD executable.
Stretches HUD elements.
Fix aspect ratio[5]
  1. Open I-Ninja.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Find the hex value AB AA AA 3F
  3. Replace it with your desired aspect ratio (see here for a list). For example use 39 8E E3 3F for 16:9.
  4. Save the file.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
While no information online, the game refuses/refused to remap keys unless a PS/2 keyboard is attached on some legacy systems
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
No mouse input in the game.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Input in game is still recognized while navigating Big Picture Mode.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Button prompts
Uses action names (example: Jump is mapped to the A Button, so the tutorial says "Press JUMP")
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
U.K. or U.S.
French
Standard.
German
Italian
Spanish

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.15 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] 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).

References

Official website - http://i-ninja-game.com/