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Rockman X7

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Rockman X7
Rockman X7 cover
Developers
Capcom
Windows Multi-Enterprise
Release dates
Windows April 29, 2004
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Scrolling, Side view, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Platform, Shooter
Vehicles Hovercraft
Art styles Anime, Cel-shaded
Themes Sci-fi
Series Mega Man X
Rockman X7 on HowLongToBeat
Rockman X7 on IGDB
Rockman X7 guide on StrategyWiki
Rockman X7 on MobyGames
Rockman X7 on Wikipedia
Subseries of Mega Man
Mega Man X 1995
Mega Man X3 1997
Rockman X Math Whirlwind 1998
Mega Man X4 1998
Mega Man X5 2002
Mega Man X6 2003
Rockman X7 2004
Mega Man X8 2005
Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2018
Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2 2018
Rockman X Dive 2021
Mega Man X Dive Offline 2023

Rockman X7[Note 1] is a singleplayer third-person action platform game developed by Capcom Production Studio 3 and published by Capcom. It is the seventh mainline entry in the Mega Man X series, which attempted to bring the series into 3D by featuring fully 3D graphics while mixing the series' 2D action-platforming with 3D third-person shooter gameplay. It was, however, was panned by critics and players alike for the game's poor execution of its interchangeable 2D/3D gameplay.

The game, also known as Mega Man X7 outside of Asian territories, was originally released on PlayStation 2 in 2003. It was ported to PC by Multi-Enterprise and released exclusively in South Korea and Taiwan on April 29, 2004. The PC version has been reportedly considered to be inferior to the PlayStation 2 version in many ways, such as missing visual effects and shadows, incorrect sound looping, and contain no video or sound settings. Despite being a PC port of a console game, it does not have gamepad support, and the default key bindings are awkward and only the hard-coded keys can be changed (see Input settings). The PC version is also region-locked to restrict the installations and functionality to Korean PCs.

The PlayStation 2 version served as the basis for the port of Mega Man X7 featured in Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Non-Korean systems needs to use Locale Emulator to install the game.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.02. If you cannot install it, see can't install patch for a guide.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savedata\[Note 2]

Video

Widescreen resolution

Play in widescreen
  1. Download ENBSeries DX8 to DX9 Convertor.
  2. Open the downloaded zip and copy d3d8.dll and enbconvertor.ini to the installation folder.
  3. Download DXOverride or DX9res.
  4. Extract to the installation folder.
  5. Open d3d9.ini(DXOverride) or d3d9.cfg(DX9res).
  6. Set the resolution values as needed.
  7. Optional, for DXOverride: Set ForceSMAAMode to any value you desire, between 0 and 4; 5 and higher will make the game refuse to boot.

Notes

Certain elements, such as the fading transition or loading text, only appears in the upper left corner of the screen. Likewise, enemies will spawn once they enter the center 4:3 portion of the screen.

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Play in Borderless Windowed mode
  1. Download and install 3D-Analyze.
  2. Launch 3D-Analyze as Administrator.
  3. In 3D-Analyze, click the SELECT button and choose <path-to-game>\RMX7.exe
  4. Check "force windowed mode".
  5. Click the RUN button.

Notes

This method requires a No-CD patch; an installed Korean executable can only be launched with a locale emulator.

Input

Control settings; English text patch used, otherwise Korean would be used.
Control settings; English text patch used, otherwise Korean would be used.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Only allows you to redefine the existing keybinds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Korean, on by default.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Lacks the bilingual audio support from the PlayStation 2 release.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Not all text is translated, and voices are allegedly incorrect. Download from here.
Japanese
Although the PC version is only released in South Korea, in-game voice acting is in Japanese.
Korean
Certain elements are in English, such as the title screen or button prompts.

Issues fixed

Game cannot be installed on non-Korean versions of Windows

As the game was released only in Korea, the installation will fail to proceed on worldwide versions of Windows.
Instructions
  1. Download Locale Emulator and extact its contents somewhere convenient.
  2. Open LEInstaller.exe and click Install for current user to install the locale emulator.
  3. Click Edit global profile list to create a Korean profile.
  4. Change Location to Korean (Korea), change Timezone to (UTC+09:00) Seoul, and check Run as an administrator, Fake registry, and Fake system UI language.
  5. Click Save As to save your profile.
  6. Go to C:/Program Files (x86)/Common Files.
  7. Delete or rename the existing InstallShield folder.
  8. Go to My Computer or This PC, depending on the version of Windows you're using, and open the disk drive, where Rockman X7 is located.
  9. Right click setup.exe and highlight Locale Emulator to select the Korean profile you created.
  10. You will get an error message (#1628), this is not important, we did it just to create a new InstallShield folder, the specific one the game uses.
  11. Go back to C:/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/InstallShield/Driver/7/Intel 32/.
  12. Right click iDriver.exe and select Properties, set compatibility mode to Windows XP (Service Pack 2) and check Run this program as an administrator.
  13. This step is important! Right click iDriver.exe and run it with the Korean locale. Nothing will happen, but that's okay.
  14. Open the drive where Rockman X7 is and run setup.exe with the Korean locale again, and it should now ask you where to install your game; feel free to choose your own directory and folder name.

Can't install patch

The 1.02 patch cannot detect the installation path
Instructions
  1. Click Start and type in regedit in the search bar, then open regedit.exe.
  2. Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then SOFTWARE, then Wow6432Node.
  3. You will likely see two folders at the top with gibberish characters, as well as a folder named 록맨X7 at the very bottom.
  4. Two of these folders, the one with gibberish characters and 록맨X7, don't contain anything important (only (Default) REG_SZ (Value Not Set) keys), while a folder named ??X7 has the install directory the installer needs to fetch.
  5. Make sure to find the folder that has the InstallDir REG_SZ <path-to-game> directory key, it might not be named ??X7.
  6. Delete the unnecessary folders, and rename the ??X7 folder into 록맨X7.
  7. Run the patch with the Korean locale emulator. It should now install.

Game refuses to start

Game will not boot and will throw out error screens.
Instructions
  1. See above to install Locale Emulator.
  2. Right click RMX7.exe in the installation folder and select Locale Emulator and the Korean profile you created.

Game freezes

Upon booting the game up, the game will freeze and require a restart to terminate.
Instructions
  1. Set Compatibility Mode to Windows 98/Windows ME.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible
Other 8x CD-ROM Drive


Notes

  1. Japanese: ロックマンX7
  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).

References