Electronic Super Joy

Electronic Super Joy
Electronic Super Joy	2013
Electronic Super Joy: Groove City	2014
Electronic Super Joy 2	2019

General information

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Availability

Name	Notes
Bonus Content Pack!	Complete soundtrack, HD poster, bonus levels 'Thin Ice' and 'Treacherous Footing'
A Hot Sticky Mess

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Michael Todd Games\Electronic Super Joy\
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$HOME/.config/unity3d/Michael Todd Games/Electronic Super Joy/

This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\esj.sav^{[Note 2]}
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam	<Steam-folder>/userdata/<user-id>/244870/remote/esj.sav

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Pillarboxed by default. See Ultra-widescreen for a workaround.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Enable windowed mode and use the `-popupwindow` parameter (or see the glossary page).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Incorrectly named as "frame limiter". 60 FPS is regular vsync, 30 FPS is half.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Frame rate is capped at 1000 FPS. Character movement is capped at 60 FPS.^[2]
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Modify a game file to force Hor+ scaling^[3]
Open `<path-to-game>\ElectronicSuperJoy_Data\Managed\Assembly-CSharp.dll` in a hex editor, such as HxD. Search for `39 8E E3 3F` Replace it with the desired aspect ratio converted to hex - e.g. `26 B4 17 40` for 2560x1080 or `8E E3 18 40` for 3440x1440.

General settings. From left: PG Mode, Timer, Video settings, Audio settings, Rebind controls, Reset control bindings and Clear progress.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Mouse not used outside menus.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		XInput and DirectInput.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		D-pad unrebindable with some controllers.^[2]
Controller sensitivity		Digital movement.
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings.

PG mode in settings disables erotic sound effects.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Background music and sound effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles		All in-game speech is text.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP	7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Dual Core or Equivalent	Intel Core 2 Duo or Equivalent
System memory (RAM)	3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	350 MB
Video card (GPU)	512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0 compatible

↑ Unity engine build: 4.6.3f1^[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).