Magical Chase

Magical Chase

Developers
	Quest
Windows	RSP Team
Publishers
	Bothtec
Release dates
Windows	April 10, 1998
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Side view, Scrolling
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Shooter
Vehicles	Flight
Art styles	Cartoon, Pixel art
Themes	Fantasy

Warnings

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

Key points

Requires an Japanese OS to work properly.

Is somewhat finicky on modern OSes.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Simple disc check.

This game is not available digitally.

Japan exclusive.

Essential improvements

Patches

The controller patch fixes issues with controllers.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\QUEST\Magical Chase for Windows95\1.00.000

This game does not save any data.

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		4:3 aspect ratio.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Locked at 640x480 when in fullscreen mode.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Press Alt+↵ Enter to switch between fullscreen and windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Capped at 60fps.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Input settings (keyboard).

Input settings (controller).

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		Mouse not supported in-game, needed for launcher and configuration menus.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Need to use keyboard or mouse to launch the game, quit the game, and to use the configuration menus.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

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

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		All dialogue in the game is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio		Also have the choice of using .wav versions of the music instead. This is also streamed directly off of the disc.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
Japanese

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Issues fixed

Black screen after the Quest logo

Use DxWrapper
Download the latest release of DxWrapper. Go to <path-to-game>, and extract dxwrapper.dll, dxwrapper.ini and ddraw.dll (the last one is inside "Stub" folder) there. Set EnableDdrawWrapper=0 to 1 in dxwrapper.ini Click the Compatibility tab, and set Compatibility mode to Windows 95. Run the game.

After beating a level, the game will not proceed after the level end fanfare

Use .wav soundtrack
.wav tracks aren't as high quality as the CD audio tracks.

_inmm.dll

The game will now not pause as much when seeking the correct track as a side effect of this. Download the _inmm.dll installer and extract it, then run the installer. Open your game CD in any application that rips audio CDs, and rip the audio into an easy to find place, preferably into a folder in the game's directory. Open _inmmcnf.exe, and on the "Method" tab, change the "default" option to DirectShow. Select the "_inmm.dll" tab, then click "add". Go to the folder you ripped the game's music into. Then select all of the "track" files. Select "Save", go to the folder you installed Magical Chase in, then save the .ini file. Close _inmmcnf.exe, then drag MCHASE.EXE onto the _inmmcnf.exe file itself. This will pop up a message asking if you want to patch the executable. Select "Ok".

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 100mhz	Intel Pentium 133mhz
System memory (RAM)	16MB	24MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	16MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectDraw-compatible GPU