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Robotics;Notes Elite

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Robotics;Notes Elite
Robotics;Notes Elite cover
Developers
5pb.
Publishers
Spike Chunsoft
Engines
MAGES. Engine
Release dates
Windows October 13, 2020
Reception
Metacritic 80
OpenCritic 82
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Perspectives First-person
Controls Menu-based
Genres Visual novel
Art styles Anime
Themes Contemporary, Japan, Sci-fi
Series Science Adventure
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Robotics;Notes Elite is a sci-fi visual novel and the third mainline entry in the Science Adventure series developed by 5pb. It is an updated re-release of Robotics;Notes, featuring improved character models, short clips of footage from the 2012 anime adaptation added to improve several scenes and adjusted pacing in certain parts of the story, with this PC port additionally featuring new 1080p versions of the game's existing graphical assets.

The game was originally released on the PlayStation Vita in Japan on June 26, 2014, before eventually receiving a PC port and an official English localization on October 14, 2020 alongside its sequel Robotics;Notes DaSH.

The PC port does not support mouse input and its official English localization is considered to be of poor quality. Both issues are rectified by the Robotics;Notes Elite Steam Patch.

General information

Visual Novel Database article
Steam Community Discussions
Kiri Kiri Basara - An English fan site and news resource for the Science Adventure series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Improvement patch

Install Robotics;Notes Elite Steam Patch
A general overall improvement patch that includes many fixes and improvements for translation, image and audio quality as well as restoring mouse input support and adding an improved font and typography for the visual novel text.
  1. Extract the contents of the downloaded zip folder.
  2. Run RNEPatch-Installer.exe. Note: the patch installer will play music.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\mages_steam\Robotics Notes ELITE\eng
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1111380/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\mages_steam\Robotics Notes ELITE\eng
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1111380/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
In-game general, graphics and audio settings.
In-game general, graphics and audio settings.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Maximum resolution is 1920x1080.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Appears to use MSAA, with no options to disable it or adjust its quality.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

The Kill-Ballad tutorial image shows PS4 button prompts regardless of what input device is in use.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Separate sliders for voices, music and sound effects with additional sliders for each individual character's voices.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Official localization is widely considered to be of poor quality, see Robotics;Notes Elite Steam Patch for an improved translation.
Japanese

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Criware
Cutscenes Criware

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 15 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce
1 GB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
Despite the listed HDD requirement, the actual installation size after download is 5.7 GB.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/1111380/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1111380) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References