Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
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| Developers | |
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| EasyGameStation | |
| Publishers | |
| Carpe Fulgur | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | December 2007 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 82 |
| IGDB | 76 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
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General information
- Official site - Japanese
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| Retail | |
Japanese only. | |
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| Steam | |
Install the latest patch to remove DRM. | |
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| GamersGate (unavailable) | |
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| GOG.com (unavailable) | |
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- 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).
Fancy Screen Patch for Recettear
- Arbitrary resolutions of aspect-ratios at-least as wide as 4:3.
- Frame interpolation for over 60 FPS.
- Scale pixel sprites to integral scaling.
- Restricting the width of the HUD to a subset of the game’s width.
- Configure control reminders.
Game data
Configuration file location
| System | Location |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| GOG Galaxy | ||
| Steam Cloud |
Video
Configuration tool.
Window settings.
- This game uses a launch configuration tool for video and input settings.
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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| Widescreen resolution | 4:3 resolutions only (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x960). See Fancy Screen Patch. | ||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | See Fancy Screen Patch. | ||
| 4K Ultra HD | Resolution can be overridden using DgVoodoo2 (widescreen not recommended, try 1440x1080 (1080p), 1920x1440 (1440p), or 2880x2160 (4K)) | ||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | Freely resizeable with optional aspect ratio lock. Resized from selected base resolution. | ||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | See Fancy Screen Patch. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | Force in the graphics card control panel. Supersampling can be forced with Nvidia Profile Inspector. MSAA can also be applied with DgVoodoo2 | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | On by default. Can be forced off in the graphics card control panel. Ensure that you do not force "fast" vsync. | ||
| 60 FPS | Options for 60, 30, 20, 12 or 6 FPS cap. | ||
| 120+ FPS | See Fancy Screen Patch. | ||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | All keys have to be bound at once. | |
| Mouse acceleration | Mouse not used in game. | |
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | Only configuration utility and windowed mode buttons. | |
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | XInput and DirectInput. | |
| Full controller support | Configuration utility can't be navigated with controller, but is separate executable. May require initial setup with mouse and keyboard. | |
| Controller remapping | All keys have to be bound at once. | |
| Controller sensitivity | Digital movement. | |
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger vibration |
| PlayStation controllers |
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| Generic/other controllers | ||
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| Button prompts |  |
Also used for keyboard. |
| Additional information | ||
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| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Digital movement supported | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
General in-game settings.
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | Music, sound and voice. | |
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | Almost all speech is text. Actual speech is single words and expressions. | |
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
- Only one language included with every version. With Steam it's possible to change version from game properties.
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | English version has no speech; everything is text-based. | |||
| Japanese |
Issues fixed
Frame drops and stuttering on Windows 10
| Disable MaximizedWindowedModeShim[citation needed] |
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Game crashes when starting in full screen mode
| Start in Windowed mode[citation needed] |
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| Change desktop resolution[citation needed] |
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Game crashes on startup / No sound during gameplay
- Fix only applicable to ASUS Xonar Soundcard
| Changing settings[citation needed] |
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| Install update patch[citation needed] |
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| Using compatibility mode[citation needed] |
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| Disable Steam Overlay[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| Direct3D | 8 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| 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) |
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| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 700 MB | |
| Video card (GPU) | 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible |
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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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 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.