Armored Hunter Gunhound

Warnings

This game is not playable in English (see Localizations for supported languages).

This page is for the original 2009 game. For the 2013 remake, see Armored Hunter Gunhound EX.

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Key points

Cannot remap keyboard bindings.

Exclusive fullscreen is broken on Windows 10. Use a borderless fullscreen program as a workaround, and if need, set the game to 16:9 widescreen mode.

General information

Official website (Japanese)

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Developer website		Digital re-release.

A demo is available from the official website and DLsite.

Owners of this game can upgrade to Armored Hunter Gunhound EX for free by using the upgrade tool supplied by the developer. An internet connection is required to download and install the necessary files, and it is not compatible with "DRACUE the BEST" budget reprints of the game.^[1]

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is available on the developer's laboratory site here, marked under the "最新アップデートファイルをダウンロード(ver 1.06)" (Download the latest update) download link.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\^{[Note 1]}

Video settings

General settings.

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Input settings

Controller remapping.

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
Japanese				Some parts of the menus are in English.

Issues fixed

Game does not render properly in exclusive fullscreen

Run the game in borderless fullscreen^[2]

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
Shader Model support	2.0b

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Armored Hunter GUNHOUND EX upgrade tool

Running this program through Japanese Unicode settings may be required. See here for more details.

This tool will allow owners of Armored Hunter GUNHOUND (retail disc or digital download) to upgrade the game to Armored Hunter GUNHOUND EX.

How to use the upgrade tool^[3]

Download the tool from the developer's laboratory site here, marked with the "GUNHOUND EX" banner, and extract it somewhere to your computer temporary.
Run UpGradeEXVer101.exe, and then click the LNKファイル選択 (Browse for Game Shortcut) button to point the tool to where Armored Hunter GUNHOUND is installed.

Note: If you do no have a shortcut to the game, create one by going to into <path-to-game>, right-click GunHound.exe, click Create shortcut from the context menu, and rename the shortcut to "機装猟兵ガンハウンド".
Once the tool verifies the location of your Armored Hunter GUNHOUND installation folder, click the large アップデートを実行 (Perform Upgrade) button. The installation process will take several minutes to finish.
After the program finishes installing the upgrade, run GunHoundEX.exe to play Armored Hunter GUNHOUND EX.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 1 GHz	Intel Pentium 4.2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0b compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX-compatible sound card

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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

↑ From a translation of the tool's readme file.
↑ Verified by User:AmethystViper on November 29, 2018
Like its remake, exclusive fullscreen mode is broken on Windows 10 due to sharing a similar engine, but Borderless Gaming can render the game to borderless fullscreen windowed albeit stretched to the screen. The widescreen mode can alleviate scaling issues for those with 16:9 displays, however.
↑ Verified by User:AmethystViper on November 29, 2018
Was able to upgrade the original 2009 game recently to the EX version with the retail disc release of the game via the upgrade tool from the developers, despite that Armored Hunter GUNHOUND EX was no longer being distributed from Playism and Steam after the temporary suspension of the developer.

[gamedir-2] 1.0 ^1.1 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).

[1] From a translation of the tool's readme file.

[3] Verified by User:AmethystViper on November 29, 2018
Like its remake, exclusive fullscreen mode is broken on Windows 10 due to sharing a similar engine, but Borderless Gaming can render the game to borderless fullscreen windowed albeit stretched to the screen. The widescreen mode can alleviate scaling issues for those with 16:9 displays, however.

[4] Verified by User:AmethystViper on November 29, 2018
Was able to upgrade the original 2009 game recently to the EX version with the retail disc release of the game via the upgrade tool from the developers, despite that Armored Hunter GUNHOUND EX was no longer being distributed from Playism and Steam after the temporary suspension of the developer.

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Developers

	DRACUE Software
Release dates
Windows	December 18, 2009