[Arcade PC Mod] House Of The Dead : Remake (PC) - Arcade Mod

[argonlefou]

Il y a 15 heures, cardet a dit :

Hi Argon, great work as always. I found that the second player can´t reload off-screen.

 

If you want people to be able to help you diagnose your issue, it would be better to give information about :

- what devices you're using (mouse ? Sinden ? Gun4Ir ? other ?)

- how  you set up the plugin with the config tool

- how you run demulshooter

 

The offscreen reload feature itself it working perfectly, for both players.

[THE RETURN OF HBP]

On 1/25/2023 at 4:35 AM, hippopippo said:

https://archive.org/details/the-house-of-the-dead-remake

Is this the dump everyone is using to play this game? Everytime I download it...it completes downloading but it says the files are corrupted after I unzip it and try to run it. Maybe there is a different dump elsewhere someone can give me the link to? Thank you.

[cardet]

On 2/13/2023 at 8:06 AM, argonlefou said:

 

If you want people to be able to help you diagnose your issue, it would be better to give information about :

- what devices you're using (mouse ? Sinden ? Gun4Ir ? other ?)

- how  you set up the plugin with the config tool

- how you run demulshooter

 

The offscreen reload feature itself it working perfectly, for both players.

I´m using Sinden for player 1 and a regular mouse for player 2, with the multiplayer option activated in the plugin and using Demulshooter. But for some reason right now the cursor of player 2 is stuck in the upper left corner. I´m runing demulshooter with AHK as always: run DemulShooterX64.exe -target=windows -rom=hotdra. Thanks

[jimmyuk86]

On 1/27/2023 at 11:54 PM, argonlefou said:

 

Well...you can also replace DemulShooterX64.exe  by DemulShooterGUI.exe or even Notepad++.exe, if you like it better 😄

It doesn't change the fact that if demulshooter instructions explicitely specify to use DemulShooterX64.exe...that's for a good reason.

 

 

I won't say anything about the AHK scripts, between the path with spaces in name and missing argument in the "run" call, there are many different possibility to make things go wrong.

So as I always say, when you want to find whats is going wrong : start simple :

1) Run the game exe by hand

2) Run Demulshooter command directly rom a powershel/command window

3) Check if demulshooter is hooking (icon becomes green in taskbar) or not (icon stays red)

4) You can also get a demulshooter debug file https://github.com/argonlefou/DemulShooter/wiki/Debugging that can be helpfull

 

then only later, if it's working, try adding scripts, frontend and other bug-friendly things

 

 

So..i got demulshooter to hook by going into the game exe's properties, checking the run as administator in the compatibibility tab and also in the compatibility for all users tab. Then replacing the AHK back to DemulShooterX64.exe instead of DemulShooter.exe did the trick. Thanks

[argonlefou]

Il y a 5 heures, cardet a dit :

I´m using Sinden for player 1 and a regular mouse for player 2, with the multiplayer option activated in the plugin and using Demulshooter. But for some reason right now the cursor of player 2 is stuck in the upper left corner. I´m runing demulshooter with AHK as always: run DemulShooterX64.exe -target=windows -rom=hotdra. Thanks

Regular mouse won't work with DemulShooter.

You need a lightgun, a gamepad or any other device outputing coordinates with absolute values.

 

Mice are only outputing relative values coordinates 

[richardprotohype]

Hi I have the same problem as other in that the second gun is only point at the bottom left corner of the screen. I am using 2 sinden Lightguns with Demulshooter and the script ran using auto hotkey as provide on the wiki page. when the system run anything else e.g. I do a alt tab and the gun point to the correct point but point it to the the game and it is at the bottom left again. I am running version 1.08 of the sinden light gun software. I run auto hot key as admin

 

Please my someone give me a bit more advice on how to sort this problem so I can show my friends how cool this game is. 

[Axl72]

Hi guys! I have a small but big problem to solve, I start by saying that I use demulshooter on many arcade game dumps and they all work, only with this hod remake, demulshooter does not hook the game (the crosshair remains red) I desperately need your help, thank you very much

[argonlefou]

Did you rename the .exe file ?

What is the exe file name ?

[Axl72]

good morning Argon, meanwhile thank you very much for your help, I didn't know that the exe had to be renamed!! it is currently called: The House of the Dead Remake.exe

[argonlefou]

exe should not be modified, that's what can cause the issue sometimes. That's why I asked.

 

Make sure you run DemulShooterX64 as an Admin, and please try to get a debug file (https://github.com/argonlefou/DemulShooter/wiki/Debugging#step-3)

[Axl72]

Thank you Argon,i”ll try!👍🏻

Modifié le 30 juin 2023 par Axl72

[Axl72]

hi Argon! It is the debug file generated

Modifié le 30 juin 2023 par Axl72
Sbaglio

[Axl72]

I read in player 1 mode: RAW INPUT, normally these analog machine guns (the machine guns of alien extermination arcade! to understand) with teknoparrot work with DIRECT INPUT ... could the error be there? the fact is that it is not clear why demulshooter does not hook the game

[argonlefou]

This has nothing to do with the analog gun and RAWINPUT.

 

The error comes from the OS : Windows does not allow DemulShooter to access the game process.

This is usually caused by privilege issue with the exe/demulshooter.....unfortunatelly I don't have any other solution than really checking that Demulshooter is run as an administrator. The rest is up to your OS and your settings

 

[Axl72]

Thank you very much for help, Argon! I will try with other pc!

[llll55]

thanks a lot for the mod...is there a way to make the "free play" logo, stop blinking ingame? i find it distracting and give me headache.

will be great to be able to disable it in screen or at least make it static.

[argonlefou]

Le 07/07/2023 à 09:58, llll55 a dit :

thanks a lot for the mod...is there a way to make the "free play" logo, stop blinking ingame? i find it distracting and give me headache.

will be great to be able to disable it in screen or at least make it static.

 

If I remember correctly, this text is either a clone of, or an already existing and reused, blinking text asset that was already there.

 

So, although there has to be a way to change it to another kind of asset (or maybe disable the blinking), I do not plan to update the plugin for this but I can point out where to look in the code if you want to compile your own

 

Edit : Or I might be blinking the text myself (depending on which text you're talking about) and, again, I can point out where to change

 

Please understand that I can't change everything each time people asks me to for their personnal preference (text color, text font, text size....yes these examples happened already !😅)

Modifié le 8 juillet 2023 par argonlefou

[Ericg384]

Any chance of getting this amazing mod for the house of the dead 2 remake?

[Stefane10]

yess i hope an demulshooter arcade mod HOTD2 remake by Argonlefou , PLEASE !!!!!!!!

[Johno]

Argon’s already said no on his forum unfortunately. 
 

Totally respect and understand where he’s coming from.
what’s the point in a company releasing a Light Gun Game that doesn’t work with Lightguns!!!! 
 

Only for himself to put hours of work into a Mod to make this playable for the larger community where the company is to lazy!!!! And profits from his work!!! 
 

There is a Mod available from another source though by

Team Encoder  

Modifié dimanche à 20:57 par Johno

[Ericg384]

3 hours ago, Johno said:

Argon’s already said no on his forum unfortunately. 
 

Totally respect and understand where he’s coming from.
what’s the point in a company releasing a Light Gun Game that doesn’t work with Lightguns!!!! 
 

Only for himself to put hours of work into a Mod to make this playable for the larger community where the company is to lazy!!!! And profits from his work!!! &nbsp
 

There is a Mod available from another source though by

Team Encoder  

Yeah, the wizard mod is nowhere close to this mod!!!

I don’t know how the developers are profiting sure not from where I get my games!!!

really hope he changes his mind. This game is unplayable as is

Modifié lundi à 00:30 par Ericg384

[bojo5150]

4 hours ago, Johno said:

Argon’s already said no on his forum unfortunately. 
 

Totally respect and understand where he’s coming from.
what’s the point in a company releasing a Light Gun Game that doesn’t work with Lightguns!!!! 
 

Only for himself to put hours of work into a Mod to make this playable for the larger community where the company is to lazy!!!! And profits from his work!!! 
 

There is a Mod available from another source though by

Team Encoder  

you have a link to the mod?

[Ericg384]

1 hour ago, bojo5150 said:

you have a link to the mod?

https://archive.org/details/hod-2-fix-alpha-0.2-hide-crosshairs-ed

[WildWolf]

According to Dev : https://steamcommunity.com/app/3376690/discussions/0/596266417888750499/

 

I don't know this stuff, I hope they will work on rawinput stuff. Whatever they do this remake is a big fail again, I prefer 10 times to play the arcade original games.

[Ericg384]

For some reason, I can’t start the game. With or without the wizard mod  can move the mouse around the screen, but left-click doesn’t do anything, and nothing else works either. That’s why I was really looking forward to this mod it removes all the unnecessary inputs and replaces them with just four buttons: Player 1 Start, Player 2 Start, trigger,and Credits. How do you even manage to remake a light gun game without actually using light guns?

[Gtguy]

HOTD 2 remake lightgun mod

 

 

[joe555]

13 hours ago, Ericg384 said:

For some reason, I can’t start the game. With or without the wizard mod  can move the mouse around the screen, but left-click doesn’t do anything, and nothing else works either. That’s why I was really looking forward to this mod it removes all the unnecessary inputs and replaces them with just four buttons: Player 1 Start, Player 2 Start, trigger,and Credits. How do you even manage to remake a light gun game without actually using light guns?

try hitting tab, in that screen, or you can switch to controller to bypass and then back, but it's tab, but the game is beyond awful

 

Modifié mardi à 02:11 par joe555

[Ericg384]

9 hours ago, joe555 said:

try hitting tab, in that screen, or you can switch to controller to bypass and then back, but it's tab, but the game is beyond awful

 

Nope tab doesn’t work either I don’t know what’s going on I can’t even get to the control settings to set them.

[vic_vp]

10 hours ago, Ericg384 said:

Nope tab doesn’t work either I don’t know what’s going on I can’t even get to the control settings to set them.

From mystery encoder himself, he said

 

his issue is he played the demo before and needs to delete the saves

 

 

https://archive.org/details/hod-2-remake-helper

[Ericg384]

9 hours ago, vic_vp said:

From mystery encoder himself, he said

 

his issue is he played the demo before and needs to delete the saves

 

 

https://archive.org/details/hod-2-remake-helper

I never tried the demo before, but just for kicks, I downloaded it and deleted the game files. Sure enough, the same issues persisted. That’s why I prefer the other mod — it reconfigures the inputs so there are only four: credits, one player start, two player start, and triggers. No stupid game modes or anything extra. It strips out all the unnecessary stuff, which is exactly what this game needs.

Modifié mardi à 23:00 par Ericg384

[joe555]

Your putting to much time and effort into a inferior game, just play the original version 

[Eric310]

2 hours ago, Ericg384 said:

I never tried the demo before, but just for kicks, I downloaded it and deleted the game files. Sure enough, the same issues persisted. That’s why I prefer the other mod — it reconfigures the inputs so there are only four: credits, one player start, two player start, and triggers. No stupid game modes or anything extra. It strips out all the unnecessary stuff, which is exactly what this game needs 

Hey bud, Argon already said he wants nothing to do with this game. We’re lucky that Mystery Encoder is taking the time to get it to work for the community. Ya, Blame the devs for botching another HOD release but you complaining about the mod is just pissing in the wind. Who’s to say that he can’t come out with an arcade mod later? 

Modifié mercredi à 00:30 par Eric310

[vic_vp]

2 hours ago, Ericg384 said:

I never tried the demo before, but just for kicks, I downloaded it and deleted the game files. Sure enough, the same issues persisted. That’s why I prefer the other mod — it reconfigures the inputs so there are only four: credits, one player start, two player start, and triggers. No stupid game modes or anything extra. It strips out all the unnecessary stuff, which is exactly what this game needs.

Mystery encoder cant make an account cause of emuline for some reason so I relayed the message

 

But you originally wrote you cant even play the game even without the mod... so even a fresh install of the game you cant play thus game even with a mouse?

If thats the case then you definitly have some other issue happening that has nothing to do with the mod or mystery encoder

[Ericg384]

On 8/12/2025 at 8:34 PM, vic_vp said:

Mystery encoder cant make an account cause of emuline for some reason so I relayed the message

 

But you originally wrote you cant even play the game even without the mod... so even a fresh install of the game you cant play thus game even with a mouse?

If thats the case then you definitly have some other issue happening that has nothing to do with the mod or mystery encoder

Correct  I can’t play the game at all, with or without the mod. What issue could be causing that? 

On 8/12/2025 at 8:29 PM, Eric310 said:

Hey bud, Argon already said he wants nothing to do with this game. We’re lucky that Mystery Encoder is taking the time to get it to work for the community. Ya, Blame the devs for botching another HOD release but you complaining about the mod is just pissing in the wind. Who’s to say that he can’t come out with an arcade mod 

Modifié jeudi à 16:55 par Ericg384

[vic_vp]

3 hours ago, Ericg384 said:

Correct  I can’t play the game at all, with or without the mod. What issue could be causing that? 

Hey buddy fuck I hate people that talk like this! Why don’t you mind your own fucking business instead of replying with this stupidness Who’s fucking complaining I’m simply trying to get the game to work!

Id look into seeing if you have all your c++ stuff and directx up to date

[Ericg384]

6 hours ago, vic_vp said:

Id look into seeing if you have all your c++ stuff and directx up to date

All my drivers, C++, and .NET are fully up to date as well.

[PolybiusExtreme]

51 minutes ago, Ericg384 said:

All my drivers, C++, and .NET are fully up to date as well.

You can try to disconnect all controllers and inputs that you don‘t need.

I had control issues and that helped me.