Since the game's screen is vertical, like many classic shmups, I thought it would be great if you could play the game in ❝TATE mode❞, a term derived from the Japanese word for vertical ( 縦 ) pronounced "tah-tay" (tah teɪ)), which means to play with a vertical monitor setup, showing more game on your screen like so:


Which is epicly FTW and the only way you should play shmups or any vertical game ever.

Apparently, because the game's made in the Gamemaker engine, one dev in the discord said that another dev said that it's a nightmare to implement it into the game. Luckily there's an easy way to do it with ReShade.
I'll drop my ReShade .ini below and write a bit on how to install it (it's insanely easy).

Here's the link to the .ini file[drive.google.com]

*EDIT* You might have to manually adjust the [Rotation Angle] parameter to [89.750] now. Please let me know if this has to be done cuz then I'll edit the .ini file :p

To install Reshade, head over to https://reshade.me/ and download the latest version. Install and run the .exe.

Click on the Star of Providence .exe in the window (if you can't find it, click browse and manually browse to it) and hit next.


After, select DirectX 10/11/12 and hit next


After this, in the next screen you can select the SoP_TATE_Mode.ini and finish the installation (by clicking next) and you can start the game and it will be in glorious TATE Mode.


When launching the game, the ReShade menu will show, (which you can open with the 'Home' button) and asks you if you want to do the tutorial. You can just skip this, tick the performance mode box in the bottom right corner, hit 'home' again and go on with your gaming.


Now, don't forget to turn your monitor in REAL LIFE in a vertical position, otherwise the game will be pretty much rendered unplayable.

It should look something like this. Gaming Time.😎
(yes I know my desk pad needs replacement badly, I'll get to it promptly I swear!)

If you don't select a .ini where the installer prompts it, it lets you install a myriad of shaders manually. There's a lot of useful and awesome looking shaders here and I recommend you to try them all out and tune the games you're playing to your liking.

The shader I used to rotate and resize the screen is called ❝CShade_Transform❞, you can find these in the brilliant CShade shaderpack by papadanku[papadanku.github.io] which comes selectable in the latest version of reshade here:


these are the settings I used:

*EDIT* You might have to set the [Rotation Angle] parameter to [89.750] now.

Now there's many things you could do, you could add a more realistic CRT emulation, you could add banners with art to cover up the wrapping pixels, you could mess the colors up completely, etc. etc.

Go crazy, the world is your oyster, have fun!