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English
Manual

The English manual for HIGH-MACS Simulator, written by the game’s developer grape65535. It is not included in the download — the game ships with a Japanese readme only — so it is reproduced here.

NoteVerbatim

Everything below is reproduced exactly as written, spelling and grammar included. The English is grape65535’s own and I have not corrected or rewritten any of it. Source: manual_en.txt from the developer’s official site, which is no longer online — a full backup of that site is on the HIGH-MACS Simulator page.

01

Introduction

The developer’s words

“HIGH-MACS simulator” is FanFic FPS game. Original game has been released in 1996 by Sega Saturn. We reproduced drawing method of Sega Saturn by software rendering. Go back to those days, Enjoy!

02

Controls

Default key settings
Keyboard
W
Move forward
S
Move backward
A
Move left
D
Move right
Shift
Jump
X
Toggle FLIR (night vision)
Q
Flare (deception equipment)
C
Change way point
Mouse
Move
Turn
Left
Fire weapon
Middle
Change weapon
Right
Turret turning while held
Wheel
Zoom / friend’s camera mode
03

Radar

Detection works both ways

You and friendly forces are equiped radar. Enemy is displayed in Map as red dot when they had captured with radar. And they share enemy position. But enemies also has radar, and share it.

If you are captured by enemies radar, sound the warning sound of shorty beep. During capture the enemy, the beep will be repeated. If you are captured by more enemies, Beep will be short intervals. You can hide in the shadow of the terrain for reduces the risk.

04

Tactical Map

Friend’s camera & commanding

Wheel up mouse, will be zoom. If you aiming friendly fources and wheel up again, will be displayed its friend’s camera. And display tactical map. This screen is operated with mouse cursor. You can change frined’s camera, you click blue dot on tactical map. If you wheel down mouse, back to your camera.

You can command friendly forces, by right click button on tactical map. For example, if you select “combat patrol” from context menu (are displayed right click on tactical map), the camera’s friendly forces will be moved to right click position and will try to destroy enemies around. You can command multiple friendly forces with right mouse drag.

The commands are different each friendly forces. Only when selected command-communication-vehicles, can use “support fire”. Support fire are ground attack missile, it need your induction. If you use it, you should change weapon to “radar”, you click(fire) target and keep to aim it until land in.

Quick refMap
Open
Wheel up ×2
Close
Wheel down
Switch cam
Click blue dot
Order
Right click
Multi‑select
Right drag