Cave Story's Secret Santa

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Cave Story's Secret Santa is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and scrolling stealth and puzzle game in the Cave Story series.

General information

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Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store (unavailable)		DRM-free when launched directly from executable.^[2]
GOG.com (unavailable)
Steam		DRM-free when launched directly from executable.^[2]

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Nicalis\Cave Story's Secret Santa\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1812280/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\secret_santa.dat^{[Note 3]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1812280/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

General settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Toggle with `Alt`+`↵ Enter`, edit config file or use `-screen-fullscreen 0` launch parameter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Enable windowed mode and use the `-popupwindow` parameter (or see the glossary page).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity		Digital movement only.
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

DualShock 4 controllers		Also DualSense.
DualShock button prompts		Four face button prompts given.
Light bar support		Static light cyan.
Connection modes	V2, Wired V1, wireless adapter and Bluetooth untested.

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Japanese

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Input	Rewired

A 64-bit operating system is required.

↑ Unity engine build: 2021.2.1f1^[1]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1812280/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1812280) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).