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Typing Space Harrier Revisited

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First post, by liqmat

Posted on 2020-04-11, 23:25

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Was going through my game archives and had forgotten I had picked up a sealed copy of Typing Space Harrier. If you are a fan of Typing of the Dead, you would love this title. I ended up donating my sealed copy to The Strong since it is rare to find it sealed/mint condition. I picked it up on Ebay years ago.

Anyway, never actually got to play it and went hunting for the demo. Unfortunately, the Sega link to the demo is long dead. Finally found an archived link that works. Luckily the game does have English characters so it is very playable, but can be fairly difficult.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020621122147/ht … rri/tsh_try.exe

I'm running it on Windows 7 64 and had to set my compatibility settings to the following or the colors were wrong:

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TSH Demo Compat Settings.jpg

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Fair use/fair dealing exception

Archived website >> https://web.archive.org/web/20050204160049/ht … jp/pc/typharri/

Reply 1 of 10, by liqmat

Posted on 2020-04-12, 00:05

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Tried it on Windows 10 and unfortunately with every combo of compatibility settings it refuses to go to true full screen resulting in sluggish performance. If you have Windows 7 it works perfect with the settings above. Haven't tried Windows 8. Of course you could always throw it on one of your Win9x systems and have a blast.

Reply 2 of 10, by Errius

Posted on 2020-04-12, 09:41

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Windows 8 also runs it very slowly in a window.

Is this too much voodoo?

Reply 3 of 10, by ZellSF

Posted on 2020-04-12, 13:14

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Obviously, it runs fine at full speed on Windows 10 with ddraw wrappers. I tried dgVoodoo 2 and DxWrapper's ddraw>d3d9 wrapper.

If you want a typing game, both Typing of the Dead and Typing of the Dead Overkill are better choices.

Reply 4 of 10, by liqmat

Posted on 2020-04-12, 14:42

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ZellSF wrote on 2020-04-12, 13:14:

Obviously, it runs fine at full speed on Windows 10 with ddraw wrappers. I tried dgVoodoo 2 and DxWrapper's ddraw>d3d9 wrapper.

If you want a typing game, both Typing of the Dead and Typing of the Dead Overkill are better choices.

Oh, "Obviously"? Well, thank you so much for letting us know that. Personally I find Typing Space Harrier just as much fun as the other "better choices", but thanks for that opinion.

Reply 5 of 10, by ZellSF

Posted on 2020-04-12, 16:01

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liqmat wrote on 2020-04-12, 14:42:
Oh, "Obviously"? Well, thank you so much for letting us know that.

The most common tools for running very old games on new systems should be obvious here, because that's what this forum is about.

It isn't obvious to anyone landing here from a random Google search, which is why I mentioned it.

Reply 6 of 10, by liqmat

Posted on 2020-04-12, 16:49

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Speaking of Typing of the Dead, my wife works remotely and she ordered a laptop body harness so she can walk around while working. I immediately knew what to do. She now has friends.

Reply 7 of 10, by Jorpho

Posted on 2020-04-12, 17:36

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Other amusing recent typing games include Epistory and The Textorcist.

And I'm very interested to see that Naomi emulation has apparently progressed to the point where Lupin III The Typing can be emulated, though I've yet to try it out myself. (It is similar to The Typing of the Dead.)