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Flying Red Barrel: The Diary of a Little Aviator

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Flying Red Barrel: The Diary of a Little Aviator
Flying Red Barrel: The Diary of a Little Aviator cover
Developers
Orange_Juice
Publishers
Former Rockin' Android
Remaster Fruitbat Factory
Release dates
Windows December 31, 2007[1]
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Direct control
Genres Arcade, Action
Art styles Anime
Themes Piracy

Key points

Keyboard controls cannot be remapped in the original Comiket 73 release and its 2009 English version. A controller is recommended.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Original Comiket 73 release.
Windows
Amazon.com
DRM-free
English version of original the C73 version.
Not available outside of North America.
Windows
Publisher website
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Flying Red Barrel Remastered.
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Flying Red Barrel Remastered. Can be played without Steam.[2]
Windows
Owning the Steam version of Flying Red Barrel will also unlock an extra bonus character, Marc (Pilot), for 100% Orange Juice!.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\config.dat[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1036370/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\system\ranking.dat[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\system\system.dat[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1036370/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

The general settings from the original release.
The general settings from the original release.
The general settings from the 2020 remaster.
The general settings from the 2020 remaster.
The gameplay settings from the 2020 remaster.
The gameplay settings from the 2020 remaster.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
The original C73 version runs at 640x480 only. Although the 2020 remaster supports higher resolutions, the game screen is either displayed as 4:3 Pillarboxed or Stretched to the aspect-ratio.[3]
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Exclusive to the 2020 remaster.[3]
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Capped at 60 FPS.[3]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard remapping from the 2020 remaster.
Keyboard remapping from the 2020 remaster.
Controller remapping from the 2020 remaster.
Controller remapping from the 2020 remaster.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Keyboard remapping is exclusive to the 2020 remaster, while the original C73 version uses a pre-defined keyboard layout.[3]
Mouse acceleration
Mouse not used at all.[3]
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
A configuration launcher pop-ups when launching the original C73 release, but it can be disabled.[3]
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Digital movement.
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Natively supported in the 2020 remaster.[3]
Xbox button prompts
Xbox One variant
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
The original C73 version uses DirectInput.[3]
Button prompts
Input settings icon - Generic Controller.svg
The original C73 version references buttons by number.[3]
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
BGM, Se.
Surround sound
Subtitles
All dialogue is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Only in the English versions.
Simplified Chinese
Exclusive to the 2020 remaster.
Traditional Chinese
Exclusive to the 2020 remaster.
Japanese

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8, 9.0c The original C73 release uses Direct3D 8. The 2020 remaster uses Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 1.3, 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

The original release

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 220 MB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7950

The 2020 remaster

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7, 8, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 512 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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>/1036370/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1036370) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Flying Red Barrel - 100% Orange Juice Wiki - last accessed on 2020-06-03
  2. Verified by User:AmethystViper on 2020-07-01
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Verified by User:AmethystViper on 2020-07-01
    Information is based on the 2009 English version of the C73 release and its 2020 remaster.