Mobile Suit Gundam SOZ

Arcade Game
License:	Commercial
Game info
Developer:	Banpresto
Released:	2006
Players:	1-2 Players
Type:	Rail shooter
Note: Demulshooter required

Mobile Suit Gundam Spirits Of Zeon: Memory of Soldier is an arcade lightgun game based on the Gundam franchise. Notable is that players act as Zeon villain protagonists, rather than for the Earth Federation Forces. The game is set around U.C.0079. The two main characters, Lieutenant Kurt Roswell & Lieutenant Robin Bradshaw, use their respective Zaku Mobile Suits Zaku to accomplish missions given by the Principality of Zeon.

Setup Guide

• Download and extract the game files.

Compatibility mode

• Right click the game.exe and click Properties

• Click the "Compatibility" tab, enable the check box that says "Run this program in compatibility mode for" and select Windows 98 from the dropdown underneath.

Loading time

• We need to time how long the game takes to load on your system, Load the game.exe and time it in seconds.

Alt+F4 back out of the game

DemulShooter setup

You will now need to install DemulShooter if you have not already, if you have not instructions are on the DemulShooter page.

• Once you have DemulShooter installed open the demulshooter_gui.exe and select Gundam_SOZ from the drop down.

• Enable the pedals and bind a pedal key then press save config.

Nomousy

You will also need Nomousy to hide the cursor which can be downloaded from Google Drive

Extract the Nomousy files to your games root folder.

Crosshair Removal

Download the No-Crosshair Patch from Mega.nz
Extract all of the patch files into the data\images folder.

AHK Launch script

You will now need to edit or create a AHK file to load the game, Instructions on AHK can be found in the AHK page.

The AHK should look like this:

Run, "D:\Demulshooter\Demulshooter.exe" -target=ttx -rom=gsoz, D:\Demulshooter
sleep, 500
Run, D:\nomousy\nomousy.exe /hide
sleep, 500
Run, "D:\Mobile Suit Gundam SOZ\game.exe"
sleep, TIME IN SECONDS
send {1 down}
sleep,100
send {1 up}
sleep,500
send !{b}   ;loads Sinden border

Esc::
Process,Close,game.exe
Run,taskkill /im "game.exe" /F
Run, D:\nomousy\nomousy.exe
send !{b}   ;removes Sinden border
sleep, 50
send !{b}
sleep, 50
ExitApp
return

AHK Script notes

Where it says "sleep,TIME IN SECONDS" put the amount of seconds it took your game to load where 1 second is 1000, eg 10 seconds would be 10000 so it would say sleep,10000

You can also change the exit key from escape if you wish.

Once you are done you will need to compile the Script, To do this just right click the AHK file and press on "compile script"

Then right click the newly compiled AHK, select Properties and navigate to the Compatibility tab.

Next select "Run as administrator".

Once done you can run the game from this executable.

The Test menu can be accessed using the "F2" key.

2 Player Setup

To get 'Mobile Suit Gundam Spirits Of Zeon' 2 player working, you will need to:-

• Find the file "3 - Gundam SvPatch Dummy Data.rar" off the internet (Google search)
• Use the 'dual screen' version of game.exe (do not rename this file)
• The Command for DemulShooter is "DemulShooter.exe -target=ttx -rom=gsoz2p"
• Add a custom resolution of 1280 x 480 using your graphics card software