You guy gotta need only two things installed in your game and no, I am not giving you a troyan virus

You guys gonna need Reshade[reshade.me] which it doesn't which installer you downloaded but I prefer the standard one without addons, and The Magnifier Shader[github.com] to make zoom into it the game!!!

Also in this guide i will use the GOG copy of the game basically making this guide for non steam people. BUT DON'T WORRY The steam copy will work too.

Por cierto si encontraste esta version pero no entiendes muy bien el Ingles quizas esta version de la guia te ayude un monton ;)
Version en Español

It's pretty obvious how to install any program but in this case i have to tell you how to install it.




And don't worry if in the screenshot appears two Hotline Miami 2, it was me because i have two Hotline Miami 2 lol but basically you guys should appear only one.



The Directx 10/11/12, Vulkan and openxr you have to ignore them, because Hotline Miami 2 Runs between Opengl and Direct 9, now how can i know which one i have to choose, well honestly i have no idea BUT the most common answer is Directx 9 mainly because his graphics are based on it, and also because it's too way easier to fix the common errors with.

So basically, Pick DirectX 9.


honestly why would you wan't graphics in a pixel art game...



From here, I highly recommend you open the game to check if the reshade is working, to know about it just open the game and check if a black windows pops up at the top when you are running the game, if it does it's mean you made it great.

The directory of the shaders will be directly at the folder which we don't want to right? so basically what are we gonna do is go the Hotline MIami 2's Folder and create a new folder called whatever you want.


Then you will open your game and press The Home Key (not the windows or start key), and go to the setting's tab, and then just copy the same folder's name that you created.

Now with this smally issue fixed, Now i will start with the step two.


Just hit the [[BIG GREEN BUTTON]] and then click on "Download zip"



Now instead to click the [[BIG GREEN BUTTON]] we will click the [[HYPERLINK TEXT]] at the description.




And now you should be completly done.

So basically using the magnifier reshade is not hard but it's kinda dizzy to use it, But you will getting used to it. So now where should i move this big windows?


In my personal opinion i like to have it like this.

But basically feel free to choose your own.

When you turns on the Magnifier by clicking the Magnifier.fx button duh you will see this ugly circle that difficult to see closer in the editor, it's just easy only clicking the shape options and you can choose between the Rectangle or if you are insane or cannot see anything the Fullscreen option, Now if you wanna disable the zoom just go click the Magnifier.fx and done.

At the option just below the shapes you can change it between linear (Anti-Aliasing) and point (the most accurate one) it is obvious which option you have to choose


Basically the two first options works in the same way, the tops one are for positioning the display and the botton to positioning the "Magnify zone" making them really important to use

At the botton between CircleRadius and the Zoomlevel there is a option which basically allows you set the size of the Display, The left box it's for the Horizontal Range and The Right for the Vertical Range, it's not that important but really useful for people who has low resolutions.

And that's should be all i didn't cover the rest of the option because, or these are too useless or they are too self-explanatory.

If you have any question you can ask me in this Discord server which there's not too many people but they are too skilled in the place, also you can ask me in the comments if you don't have discord.

VHS PALACE[discord.gg]

Wait... this is not The Workshop Labs WHAT IS GOING ON?!
Basically i got banned from there so i wouldn't be active there and kinda gonna be useless find me there :p

Anyways i will be almost in my time answer your questions with, so basically i hope you like it and enjoyed and finally felt relived by finally found a way to make zoom in the editor without closing yourself to the screen.