The Typing of the Dead 2

The Typing of the Dead
The Typing of the Dead	2000
The Typing of the Dead 2	2008
The Typing of The Dead: Overkill	2013

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

The game is not sold digitally.

The game was only released in Japan.

Essential improvements

Fix garbled text

Starting the game normally will display garbled text and make most text unreadable.

Install Locale Emulator^{[citation needed]}

Install the Locale Emulator, which can be downloaded from here
Right-click tod2.exe and choose Run in Japanese.

Notes

For Windows XP to Windows 8.1, using Microsoft's AppLocale may also fix this problem (unconfirmed)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\SEGA\THE TYPING OF THE DEAD II

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\SEGA\THE TYPING OF THE DEAD II

Video

Graphical options menu

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Only supports resolutions up to 1280x1024.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Up to 4x
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS		Cap cannot be changed.
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		Japanese only, cannot be toggled
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Japanese

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
Asynchronous multiplayer

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Issues unresolved

Symbols and punctuation

The game registers symbol and punctuation input differently than usual, making certain sections of the game extremely difficult if one does not know which key corresponds to the right symbol.

On Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600, using the "English (United States) Swiss French" layout

Exclamation point: ⇧ Shift+1

Question mark: ⇧ Shift+underscore key (- and _)

Dash: ^/tilde/` key

Issues fixed

Can't make new save files under "Game Start"

When attempting to make a save file for the main game mode, the player is unable to give the save file a name.

Use Japanese IME^{[citation needed]}

Go to Control Panel > Clock, Language and Region > Change input methods
Choose Add a language and install the Japanese input method.
Switch your keyboard layout to the Japanese IME.
Right-click the new taskbar icon that appears, and switch to Full-width Alphanumeric.
Make sure to run the game with the Locale Emulator/AppLocale.
Choose Game Start, and pick an empty save file. You should now be able to give the file a name.
You can switch back to your preferred keyboard layout after you create the save file.

Notes

Upon entering the name of the save file, the first letter will be cut off - this only happens once, and the name entry will work fine afterwards.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP SP2
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	530 MB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM

References

Developers

	Smilebit
Publishers
	Sega
Release dates
Windows	March 6, 2008
Taxonomy
Series	The Typing of the Dead