Getting Weasel to run!

Unzip WeaselGame to wherever you want.
Launch WeaselShell.exe

Click the Settings Tab

Ensure "Skip To A Level" and then "Load Custom Level" are checked. 
Character should be Weasel (don't know what happens if you choose another)
Point "Load Custom Level" to HATDEMOLVH1 in the folder you unzipped to.

Back on the Settings Tab
On the right options checkboxes, ensure Load AI and Real-Time Mode are on and Target FPS is 30. 
Leave everything else alone for now.


Under the Configuration Dialogs of the Settings Tab (lower right)

Click "Configure Video"
Check "Find Best Video Mode"
Aspect Ratio to 4:3
Shouldn't need to touch anything else.
Hit OK

Click "Configure Sound" 
Check the Available Sound Driver list - choose relevant sound driver. Your onboard Motherboard sound or card should work.
Check the "Use The Above Selected Sound Driver" checkbox.
Ensure Sound Enabled is checked. If you experience crashes, try unchecking the Sound Enabled checkbox as a solution.
Hit OK

Click "Configure Paths" 
Set the Bookmark Filename to the Bookmark.BMK file from the folder you unzipped to
Set the R2 filename to the folder you unzipped to
You do not need to set any other folders here. Just the two above.
Hit OK

You do not need to confure the "User Tools"

Click "Configure Controls" 
****You will need a USB controller! It DOES NOT NEED to be one of the ones shown in the drop down menu.
I am using a PSX/PS2 USB adapter (use those controllers on PC) and it recognizes it just fine.
It will auto-find the controller as "Microsoft PC-joystick driver as the default in the Available Input Device dropdown.
If you don't have a controller, you cannot move within the game but can still launch it - NO KEYBOARD MOVEMENT.
If your Available Input Devices dropdown is BLANK, then you have no device it can find and you CANNOT MOVE until you get one.
Available Input Maps should be set to USE HW Map
Don't bother with either Axis checkbox unless you can get camera movement to work (I couldn't)
Hit OK

Click "Run Game"!
It will launch with the Weasel backdrop painting - hit spacebar (or possibly a controller key, but spacebar worked too).
Play!

Within the game, you'll need to find the corresponding controller keys that work.
The Dpad should generally work as Movement, no matter the controller type.
One of the buttons will be jump
One will be punch (it was a shoulder button for me on my PSX pad)
One will act as a Fly Cam on the first press (which will change some buttons to fly up, fly down, forward, and dpad to pitch, etc)
That same button will snap back to Weasel on second press.
Experiment.
Enjoy.





