Like most Source-engine games, Double Action: Boogaloo needs the voice codec to be changed from the default. This just requires the host to set "sv_use_steam_voice" to "0" in the console.

Unlike pretty much any other Source-engine game I've encountered, DA:B's "host_writeconfig" command outputs to a really weird directory, which breaks HLDJ. To fix this, you'll need to create a 'symbolic link' between the directory it's trying to write to and the directory HLDJ is looking for the config files it's writing. I'll walk you through how to do this on Windows 7, I suspect this will work roughly the same on most Windows versions, but on other operating systems you'll probably need to do at least some googling about creating symlinks.

This will be located somewhere like Change the directories as necessary if your Steam or DA:B files are in an unusual place. I suspect you can just delete the folder without issue, but you may want to copy the contents and dump them in Just remember that the one you want to delete is the da_info\cfg folder, not the dab\cfg one.

Open the command prompt and enter
Again, adjust the directories as needed. If it executes successfully your C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Double Action\da_info\ directory should look like this:

Note the "cfg" has the shortcut icon.