Unable to open the game. Main exe says you need to use a manager program to launch the game. The exe called "HardMan" only has an option for installing, and that fails.
@emptyhead41 Ok, you're right, it works!!! If it's for the current user. Here's the correction, I wrongly typed Installed with capital I instead of small i so the game didn't query registry correctly, I think that was the reason why it said the game was not installed, but now it's working.
Or copy paste and correct it yourself by doing following: Remember you have to place this in .reg file and click on it to import the keys and values and you have to replace single \ with double \ everywhere, because posting here a comment with double \ immediately replaces it with single \
The installer writes registry keys which Hardman.exe checks for to see what to do. Because the download doesn't come with any reg keys it tries to patch the game but the files aren't there as it's already pre-patched. Here's the keys that are missing: ("C:\path\to\gamedir" will be something like "C:\Games\Hardwar")
That's it. Run regedit, navigate to Software/refinery/... etc and enter all these key value pairs. Don't know if it's case sensitive so assume that it is. On Windows you might need to restart after changing registry. Probably not for this, but it's a possibility. Good luck.
EDIT: The path name might need double backslashes (\) instead of single ones. Not sure as I'm running this on Linux
Holy moly, this brings me back. The olden days when I was searching for game that would give me the feel of The Fifth Element flying vehicle combat between mega-skyscrapers and stuff. For similar games there's G-Police and G-Police: Weapons of Justice (which few people are aware of was a sequel). Also B-Hunter. I recommend.
Ok, you're right, it works!!! If it's for the current user. Here's the correction, I wrongly typed Installed with capital I instead of small i so the game didn't query registry correctly, I think that was the reason why it said the game was not installed, but now it's working.
You can either download the regkeys.reg file, which is pure text file here: https://pixeldrain.com/u/Q5yYqVKK
Or copy paste and correct it yourself by doing following:
Remember you have to place this in .reg file and click on it to import the keys and values and you have to replace single \ with double \ everywhere, because posting here a comment with double \ immediately replaces it with single \
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Refinery]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Refinery\hardman]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Refinery\hardman\Config]
"DataPath"="C:\games\hardwar\DATA"
"DataPath2"="C:\games\hardwar\DATA"
"GDVPath"="C:\games\hardwar\GDV"
"GDVPath2"="C:\games\hardwar\GDV"
"GDVPath3"="C:\games\hardwar\GDV"
"installed"="V2"
"RunPath"="C:\games\hardwar"
"SavePath"="C:\games\hardwar\Savegames"
"Skin0"="C:\games\hardwar\moth_moon.bmp"
"Skin1"="C:\games\hardwar\moth_silver.bmp"
"Skin2"="C:\games\hardwar\moth_neo.bmp"
"Skin3"="C:\games\hardwar\moth_hawk.bmp"
"Skin4"="C:\games\hardwar\moth_death.bmp"
"Skin5"="C:\games\hardwar\moth_police.bmp"
"Skin6"="C:\games\hardwar\moth_swallow.bmp"
"SkinDir"="C:\games\hardwar\"
"SourcePath"="C:\games\hardwar"
"version"="UIM.06"
Here's the keys that are missing:
("C:\path\to\gamedir" will be something like "C:\Games\Hardwar")
[Software\Refinery\hardman\Config]
"DataPath"="C:\path\to\gamedir\DATA"
"DataPath2"="C:\path\to\gamedir\DATA"
"GDVPath"="C:\path\to\gamedir\GDV"
"GDVPath2"="C:\path\to\gamedir\GDV"
"GDVPath3"="C:\path\to\gamedir\GDV"
"installed"="V2"
"RunPath"="C:\path\to\gamedir"
"SavePath"="C:\path\to\gamedir\Savegames"
"Skin0"="C:\path\to\gamedir\moth_moon.bmp"
"Skin1"="C:\path\to\gamedir\moth_silver.bmp"
"Skin2"="C:\path\to\gamedir\moth_neo.bmp"
"Skin3"="C:\path\to\gamedir\moth_hawk.bmp"
"Skin4"="C:\path\to\gamedir\moth_death.bmp"
"Skin5"="C:\path\to\gamedir\moth_police.bmp"
"Skin6"="C:\path\to\gamedir\moth_swallow.bmp"
"SkinDir"="C:\path\to\gamedir\"
"SourcePath"="C:\path\to\gamedir"
"version"="UIM.06"
That's it. Run regedit, navigate to Software/refinery/... etc and enter all these key value pairs. Don't know if it's case sensitive so assume that it is. On Windows you might need to restart after changing registry. Probably not for this, but it's a possibility.
Good luck.
EDIT: The path name might need double backslashes (\) instead of single ones. Not sure as I'm running this on Linux
For similar games there's G-Police and G-Police: Weapons of Justice (which few people are aware of was a sequel). Also B-Hunter. I recommend.