Hello Everyone! While Golden Fantasia is best enjoyed with an arcade stick or game pad, we've made a work-around guide on how you can bind your keyboard buttons in Golden Fantasia. Keep in mind this a workaround using a third party tool, so we can't guarantee it, but it should work for you!

Let's start with the default control scheme. Ougon is technically a 5-button game with a start button.

On an arcade joystick, the button layout on your left six buttons would look like this.

A B C
D E

On the keyboard, Z, X, and C are you Light, Medium, and Strong Attacks - the top row of buttons. S is your default Touch/Tag button, which would be "D" above. The shift key allows your "appeal" - which is a taunt that heals a tiny bit of health, which is the "E" button above.

These buttons can be combined for various actions. AB (Z+X) is what you use for an SP special attack, BC (X+C) and a left or right direction near your opponent is used for grab, and ABC (Z+X+C) is used to activate metaworld. Oh, and of course, the arrow buttons are so you can move.

In fighting games, we always refer to the buttons with ABCDE, and the directional pad like this.

7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3

So quarter circle forward and activating your special simple becomes, 236AB, with jump moves using the "j." prefix. We do this because it makes it easier to communicate, and is a standard notation in the anime fighting game community. Through this notation it's very easy to understand 5A 5B 5C 66 5A 5B 5C 6D 236C means "hit light, medium, strong, dash forward, then hit light, medium, strong, then tag in with 6d and do your quarter circle forward C" no matter what your controls are binded to and would be arduous to write out!

While we have a rebinding mechanism on startup from Steam for Joysticks (in the Launch Configuration tool) If you don't like this default layout for keyboard, the solution is within a free program called VJoy, which you can download here: http://www.headsoft.com.au/download/pc/VJoySetup.exe

For now, there is no way to internally remap keyboard buttons in Golden Fantasia, so this is a workaround. It also lets you map shortcuts if you'd like.

After installing, it will ask you for permission to install a driver, allow it to do so by pressing OK.

Once it’s installed, execute VJoy.exe (there should be a shortcut created on your desktop) and a little icon should appear in your taskbar at the bottom right.

Double click it and a button configuration window will come up. Starting from Button 1, assign the keys you’d like to have as controls for Golden Fantasia. In order to do that, press the little “…” button for the button of choice, and then press the key of choice on your keyboard. If your assigned buttons overlap with Golden Fantasia's default controls (WASD, Spacebar, etc.), enable "Block Keys" so that ingame functions don't overlap.

Once that’s done, press the “Save ini” button in order to save your keymaps to a file. You have to load it every time you start VJoy.

Make sure that you checked the “Enable” checkbox or your keys will not work!

Once all your controls of choice have been mapped, it’s time to launch Golden Fantasia’s configuration tool.

Under Controller Settings, click Controller (Vjoy) next to Player 1. The A B C D Taunt Start menu will show up for the in-game controls.

From there, assign your buttons from Vjoy in this menu. For example, if Button 1 in Vjoy is set to Z, and Button 1 is A (weak) here, then pressing Z will execute a Weak attack ingame. You might want to enable "Use Control Stick" to avoid fringe cases where vjoy prevents you from doing multidirectional inputs, such as forward/back jumps.

Repeat for all your controls and then you’ll be set to play!

Happy mashing!