I have the pirated one. I have played it withtout any issue on my old pc with win 7. Now i have win10, are you playing on windows 10?.
I have read some threads which have links for rar files which have solved this issue, but the problem is all those links are 2-3 years old and are not working now.
Are you running any joypad emulators etc? If so then try disabling them before playing.
If not then Try playing as administrator. Right click the .exe and in compatibility check run as admin.
I am not sure if this will work but it's worth a try.
Also, have you tried pressing all keys on your keyboard? Try them ALL except function keys, maybe the is odd mapping of keys.
If you have downloaded from torrent, try reading comments of the torrent to see if others face same issue, if so there may be a solution posted there.
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