Fancy Screen Patch for Recettear is a patch for the video-game Recettear.
The patch adds supports to Recettear for:
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Arbitrary resolutions of aspect-ratios at-least as wide as 4:3.
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Raising the frame-rate limit above 60-FPS, whilst retaining the game’s original frame-rate of 60-FPS for game-logic.
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Configurability for the texture-filtering algorithm used to up-scale a given category of textures.
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Restricting the up-scaling of 2D art to integral scaling multipliers.
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Restricting the width of the HUD to a subset of the game’s width.
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Hiding some persistent control reminders from the HUD.
Additionally, it can install and configure DxWrapper, dgVoodoo2, and Special K to make the game use DirectX 12, 11, or 9 instead of DirectX 8.1, with improved handling of Alt-Tab and a hardware-accelerated swap chain.
This patch supports both the latest English version and the latest Japanese version of Recettear.
In short, all that’s needed to install the patch is to execute the Install-FancyScreenPatchForRecettear.ps1 script-file with at-least version 5.1 of PowerShell.
If that instruction is insufficient, please see below.
- On Windows 10, and later
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There are no prerequisites.
- Otherwise, on previous versions of Windows
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At-least version 4.7 of the .NET Framework, and at-least version 5.1 of PowerShell.
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Download the patch’s script-file,
Install-FancyScreenPatchForRecettear.bat, from https://github.com/Unjust-Harry/FancyScreenPatchForRecettear/releases/download/v1.0.3/Install-FancyScreenPatchForRecettear.bat. -
Run the downloaded script-file by double-clicking it.
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Follow the instructions provided by the script.
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Download the patch’s script-file,
Install-FancyScreenPatchForRecettear.ps1, from https://github.com/Unjust-Harry/FancyScreenPatchForRecettear/releases/download/v1.0.3/Install-FancyScreenPatchForRecettear.ps1. -
Make note of the file-path of the downloaded script-file.
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Open a terminal.
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Open a PowerShell shell by running the command:
pwsh. -
In the opened PowerShell shell, run the file-path of the downloaded script-file as a command.
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Follow the instructions provided by the script.
It is possible to use a resolution with a width less-than 640 pixels, or a height less-than 480 pixels, but this may have adverse visual effects, and is unsupported.
It is possible to use a resolution with an aspect-ratio narrower than 4:3, but this may have adverse visual effects, and is unsupported.
It is possible to restrict the HUD’s width to a width less-than the width that an aspect-ratio of 4:3 would have, but this may have adverse visual effects, and is unsupported.
It is possible to restrict the HUD’s width to a width greater-than the game’s width, but this may have adverse visual effects, and is unsupported.
- GameGlitch-001
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When a wrapper is used to translate the game’s Direct3D 8 usage to a different API, the video that plays in the main-menu, when the background artwork scrolls to its topmost point, fails to play, and instead locks the game with a white screen. To workaround this, the patch disables that video. To watch the video when the patch is applied: open, in a video-player, the
recet_op.wmvfile found in the game’s directory. - GameGlitch-002
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When using a resolution with an aspect-ratio wider than 4:3, and when in a 2D area of the game’s town (e.g. the Market): when the game is paused, off-screen menus that were previously hidden will become visible in the pause-menu’s blur-effect.
- GameGlitch-003
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When using integral-scaling for 2D art, and when using a resolution with a height that is not a multiple of 480: when scrolling down a list of save-slots (when saving or loading the game) the animation for the fourth (off-screen) save-slot becoming the third (on-screen) save-slot is missing.
Fancy Screen Patch for Recettear was authored by Harry Gillanders <https://harrygillanders.com>.
The Fancy Screen Patch for Recettear, and its accompanying documentation, is distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.