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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale cover
Developers
EasyGameStation
Publishers
Carpe Fulgur
Release dates
Windows December 2007
Reception
Metacritic 82
IGDB 76
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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale on Wikipedia

General information

Official site - Japanese
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Japanese only.
Windows
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Version 1.106. English only.
Windows
GOG.com (unavailable)
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Install the latest patch to remove DRM.
Windows
Demo version available at the official site.

Essential improvements

Patches

Latest patch can be downloaded from the official site. GOG.com and Steam versions should be up to date (though installing the patch on the Steam version will remove the DRM).

Game data

Configuration file location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\recet.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/70400/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save.dat[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/70400/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Configuration tool.
Configuration tool.
Window settings.
Window settings.
This game uses a launch configuration tool for video and input settings.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

General in-game settings.
General in-game settings.

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Localizations

Only one language included with every version. With Steam it's possible to change version from game properties.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
English version has no speech; everything is text-based.
Japanese

Issues fixed

Frame drops and stuttering on Windows 10

Disable MaximizedWindowedModeShim[citation needed]
  1. Download patched d3d8.dll.
  2. Extract d3d8.dll to the installation folder.

Game crashes when starting in full screen mode

Start in Windowed mode[citation needed]
  1. Start the game in windowed mode.
  2. Change to full screen mode with Alt+ Enter.
Change desktop resolution[citation needed]
  1. Reduce your desktop resolution to 1024x768.

Game crashes on startup / No sound during gameplay

Fix only applicable to ASUS Xonar Soundcard
Changing settings[citation needed]
  1. Open Xonar Control Panel
  2. Under DSP, deactivate GX

Game crashes / Non-responsive main menu

Install update patch[citation needed]
  1. Install the update patch from the official website. This will stop freezing during certain sequences. It will also remove the DRM from the Steam version.
Using compatibility mode[citation needed]
  1. Run recettear.exe using Windows XP Compatibility mode
Disable Steam Overlay[citation needed]
  1. Go to the game's properties
  2. Disable "Steam Overlay"

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1700+
System memory (RAM) 256 MB (XP)
512 MB (Vista/7)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible

Notes

  1. 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/70400/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (70400) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References