HELLO Pop'n

This game still uses DirectSound so we can skip audio related setup needed for other games. After downloading your data, the first thing to do is make sure your files aren't set to READ ONLY, make sure to uncheck it from the main folder in the Windows Properties tab if so. Then, put your desired 32-bit tools inside the game's contents folder. Pictured below is what your folder should look like.

Now that you have your files ready, open up spicecfg.exe and head to the Options tab. Here you can configure all of the various options that SpiceTools has, but for the purpose of this guide we'll demonstrate how to set up a local server and an online server. You can skip over the parts that you don't need, and feel free to set any other options that you might like.

For our local network configuration example, in the Options tab enable the following options: E-Amusement Emulation: -ea and Windowed Mode: -w.

What do these different parameters do?

• -ea enables an integrated e-amusement server within SpiceTools.
• -w will boot the game in windowed mode which will ease our initial setup and testing later, make sure to disable -w to run the game fullscreen once you're done setting up!

Pictured below, the selected options in spicecfg.exe.

For our online network example we're simply doing the above but with different options!

We're going to use the option PCBID: -pcbid for our PCBID, with XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX as the value.
For the network URL we're going to use the option Service URL: -url, with http://yoururlhere.com/ as the value.
We'll also enable windowed mode by enabling the option Windowed Mode: -w.

What do these different parameters do?

• -p takes your PCBID on your network of choice, simply replace XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX with your PCBID.
• -url allows you to specify a custom service URL to connect with, simply replace http://yoururlhere.com/ with your chosen network's URL.
• -w will boot the game in windowed mode which will ease our initial setup and testing later, make sure to disable -w to run the game fullscreen once you're done setting up!

Pictured below, the enabled options in spicecfg.exe.

One final note, since you're playing on a network, you will have one additional step of setting up your card file within your chosen tools, make sure to check your server's information on how to setup a card file.

While we're still in spicecfg.exe, why not set up the keybinds? To do this you'll have to head on over to the Buttons tab. Here you simply click Bind and press the button on your controller (or keyboard). Below are my keybinds for a keyboard. Notice that I've also bound the Service, Test and Coin Mech buttons to my keyboard. This might come in handy but shouldn't be necessary to play the game.

Boot the game by double-clicking spice.exe.

The boot sequence may have a very light blue background. Press any overlay hotkey (F12, for example) to make it display normally.

Simply follow the on-screen text in the bottom left corner to continue. On the first boot, the game may tell you to press Test, and then Service.

HELLO Pop'n has the ability to run offline, so the network error can be safely ignored.

You're all done! The game takes a couple of seconds to load all of the data.