The House of the Dead Remake



"THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake is a remade version of the game introduced in 1997 in arcade platform. A classic arcade rail-shooter receives a whole new entourage and gameplay changes to suit modern gaming standards."

The House of the Dead Remake is available to buy from Steam or GOG.

The game was released without proper lightgun support and MUST be patched.


 * Dual Lightgun patch supports 1 and 2 players and is the recommend patch.
 * Single Lightgun patch is the day 1 release and only supports 1 player.

Read about the MysterWizzard patches below.

Video Setup Guide
https://youtu.be/KMj0q6AmlRs

Game options
You might need to change the Quality settings > Full Screen Mode to Full Screen Window for the Sinden software border to work properly:



You can disable the crosshair in the Gameplay settings (currently not available on the GOG version of the game) Reported that GOG version has been updated:



Dual Lightgun Patch by Mystery Wizard:
Thanks to Mystery Wizard for developing this fix. Patch Features:


 * Light gun support 1 & 2 player (Fix centering, enable raw input)


 * Skip cutscenes with Right button click instead of hold


 * Sensitivity and crosshair speed settings are ignored


 * 2 Player support

Note Enabling 2nd player currently has some drawbacks, see more below


 * Enable and disable 2nd player by clicking checkbox in patch menu (F1 Key)
 * To disable the entire patch uncheck the Enable LightGun Patch in patch menu (F1 Key)

Download Patch
Download the Current Version of Patch: HERE This patch currently  does not work  with the latest House of the Dead Remake update (released July 15th 2022).

Patch Installation

 * Open your game installation folder:


 * Extract the files in the rar into your game folder:
 * Run the Game
 * Press the F1 key to open up the Patch menu. In here you can enable and disable the patch and the dual lightgun support patch.
 * You must assign your lightguns!!
 * Click Assign Player 1 Lightgun, Point gun at screen with sinden border on, pull trigger. Repeat for player 2 gun.
 * Restart the game for changes made in Patch menu to take affect.

Single Player only VS Dual Player Patch Enabled
Having  Enable 2 Player LightGuns checked will work fine in 1 player mode as well (in fact the mouse input will perform better) but there currently some tradeoffs with the 2 Player LightGuns patching
 * Weapon switching is disabled
 * Flashlight key is disabled
 * Extra Continues key is disabled
 * Using a standard mouse is disabled

Patch by default has Dual player enbaled. It can be reverted back and forth with the Single Lightgun patch version by unchecking the 2 Player checkbox in the F1 menu. Restarting the game is required after making patch changes.

Be sure to enable Multiplayer Mode in the New Campaign menu when you want to play 2 player!!

AHK Script for weapon change and Credits.
If you wish you can use the following AHK script to enable you to change the weapon bindings and insert credit bindings (or any others you choose) with the gun.

The AHK is made for Steam and you need to put it in the HOTD-R root directory.

Just change the 1,5,F and X to whatever you require.

Soundtrack mods:
This mod allows you to replace the game soundtrack with the original game music (or any other music of your choice).

Download Soundtrack mod
Download and instructions: https://github.com/tuglaw/hotdr-ost-mod

Goondam Mods
Soundtrack mods by Goondam - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/acfxgua4fhn4m7l/AAATm0slUXOg_8LBi_kAj8Oja?dl=0

DOOM OST - Replaces music with Doom 2016 tracks and phases reload VO to sound a bit darker.

SCORE MUTE - Mutes the score noises only.

SPOOKY JUST MUSIC - Replaces music with tracks from Evil Within 2.

SPOOKY RELOAD - Replaces music with tracks from Evil Within 2 + Changes the reload VO to a gun dry fire SFX.

Single Lightgun patch by Mystery Wizard
Legacy Version of 1 player only patch. Mystery Wizard does not recommend this version. It has performance issues and is less refined. It is recommended to use the newer patch linked above even if only intending to play single player. Simply uncheck Enable 2 Player LightGuns in Patch menu


 * This version does include right-click to skip cut scenes
 * To disable the patch rename the file winhttp.dll in the game folder to something else before running the game.
 * To re-enable the mod change the file name back.

Thanks again to Mystery Wizard for developing this fix.

Download Patch
HERE

Installation
Same steps as above but there is no patch menu or lightgun assignments.