Hittin' Switchez VM Tutorial

Is VirtualBox currently installed?

Backup any existing VMs (or take note where they are currently stored) and uninstall VirtualBox.

On rare occasion after uninstalling VirtualBox there are files that won’t be removed. This will manifest as an error when you try to start a VM.

If this happens, follow these steps:

• Uninstall VirtualBox from your computer and reboot.

• Press Win + R, paste C:\Windows\System32\drivers, and press Enter.

• Use the search bar and type vbox*.sys

• Delete all matching files (vboxdrv.sys, vboxnetadp.sys, etc.) using Shift + Delete

• If any won’t delete, rename them, reboot, and repeat - they should delete successfully



Proceed to the next step for new installation.

Do you want a regular install (software rendering), or try 3D acceleration (hardware rendering)?

Don't know which one to choose? Just pick software, hardware rendering doesn't look any different.

Download and install VirtualBox 6.0.24 for your OS from the link below, uncheck this option on the last step:



USB 2.0 / 3.0 passthrough requires the Extension Pack, but it is not needed for this tutorial.

Download and install the newest VirtualBox Platform Package for your OS from the link below, and uncheck this option on the last step:



USB 2.0 / 3.0 passthrough requires the Extension Pack, but it is not needed for this tutorial.

If VirtualBox is running, you may close it.

Download the main archive and extract the VM zip inside (WinXP-SP3.zip) from here:



Here is a link to the archive.org page itself:



Extract it to a folder, then double-click WinXP-SP3.vbox

The machine is now in VirtualBox - click Start

Ignore any messages that pop up.

If you're attempting 3D acceleration, click Start then Run and run dxdiag to see if Direct3D is enabled under the display tab.

If it isn't, then welcome to my world. I only had it working once, then never again.

Make sure Auto Resize Guest Display is on, and I set the scale to 225%

Maximize the window, press Right Ctrl + F (the right-hand side Ctrl button), then click Switch

Finally, start the game.

If you're running software rendering you'll see this error - just click OK

Success! If you'd like to now upgrade the game music to official sound tracks (I highly recommend it!)

then CLICK HERE

Before the game was patched, you would have seen this:

Always use Ctrl + F to enter fullscreen BEFORE starting the game, it doesn't like entering fullscreen once in game.

If you ever want to reinstall the game, the installer is in the folder on the desktop along with patched and unpatched files.

Do not ever connect this VM to the internet.

You may drag and drop files from this machine to your host OS, or from your host OS into the machine. I tried this with VirtualBox 7 with the newest guest additions and it would not work properly. I had to have v6 guest additions with newest VirtualBox for whatever reason, likely a WinXP issue specifically but I haven't confirmed this yet nor do I care anymore because it works.

The VM is set to max out at 5GB hard drive size, you can make that larger in the VM settings in VirtualBox, but after that you'll need to boot the VM with an ISO like GParted Live and resize the existing partition.