Shantae Half-Genie Hero

[theelf]

**sorry my english **

Hi,  the other day i get this game, just to get "surprised" did not work on XP

The game ask for some functions in the library dwmapi, (dwmGetCompositionTimingInf, etc)  that are Vista+ only

I tried to hex edit the executable to remove the dependencies, but no luck. It seems the game really uses this functions

 

Using wie source code, i made a dwmapi compatible with XP (maybe windows 2000),  and now the game is working great. 

Just copy the 3 files in the executable folder of Shantae, and enjoy. Tested in XP SP3

http://www.akihabara-online.com/Main/PC/shantaeXP.zip

I just finish the game, no problems, just a little slow because my hardware, but is not a XP problem 

Edited February 5, 2017 by theelf

[Dibya]

Yea! Man XP Rocks . You made it to rock again . I never heard of this game .

[jumper]

It looks like you cross-compiled on a Linux system. Do you have a Windows-based compiler? If you recompile it on Windows without the cygwin and libwine bloat (almost 5MB pre-UPX), it should be much leaner and (hopefully) faster.

You might also want to try the Xompie and ReactOS versions of dwmapi.dll.

[theelf]

Hi, i cross compiled in XP x64 cygwin. Just renamed cygwin dll to avoid any posible conflict

I can compile in a native enviroment, but don't worth the time just for a game (anyways is 1.5GB, dont care bout 2 extra mb).  Faster dont think, i tried the game in same machine +  win7, no difference in speed

I tested reactos dwmapi without success, in fact i always keep some dll from reactos, wine, etc just to try first.

I did not know Xompie, looks great, thanks for advice

Edited February 5, 2017 by theelf

[Damnation]

can you show me how you made this?

I would like to know how to do this for myself