Others Completed Artificial Academy 2 [MiniPPX v8] [Illusion]

[Grim]

I will also add that I've been using a couple cards with the Empress and Apricot personalities recently and I haven't encountered this 0% chat issue being mentioned.

 

[reyonathrow]

I don't think it's due to missing voice files, way before AA2Mini existed I remember having the exact problems you two are describing with the Apricot personality which turned out to be due to the nodim mod(without nodim installed the personality worked as intended). However the personality works fine for me with all dialogue working as intended in my install of AA2Mini which has nodim, so maybe the version of Apricot you have is an older one never had nodim functionality integrated into it or maybe you have a different version of nodim installed so maybe redownloading them might fix the issue?

Wow, good call. It's been so long since I last played the original game that I realize now I've been taking nodim entirely for granted. Completely forgot it was a mod in and of itself.

My client had the "clean" nodim, but was missing the HEXA nodim patch. Grabbed a copy from the

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and tossed it in my data folder. From my tests so far, it seems that this has more or less resolved the aforementioned issue with additional personalities.

In hindsight, I should have noticed that the problem only occurred with actions that are affected by nodim... I'm feeling pretty dumb right about now. Thanks for calling me on it; I probably would never have thought to check otherwise. Good stuff.

 

[Lewyn Collins]

I saw a guy saying this game occupies 12 gigabytes back in the first page of this thread. However, when I go to download it, it's only 1,5 gigabytes and it says AA2Mini. What's that "Mini" for? Am I not downloading the full game?

 

[Tsugumi]

Lewyn Collins Putting the technical aspect aside, as far as the average Joe is concerned, some nice people took the original game and compressed the data so the game takes up less space - significantly less, as you can see. In terms of content it still is the original - nothing was cut out.

P.S. unless you have a reason not to - grab MiniPPX (from the Modern Installation Guide link), not Mini.

 

[Erich von Manstein]

Which is better Mini or MiniPPX?

 

[Tsugumi]

Erich von Manstein

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. In terms of content, the two are the same.

 

[TyranntX]

Hang on, is this game the one people upload footage of on porn hub? Usually with Futa x Female Content? or is that something else?

 

[Erich von Manstein]

Erich von Manstein

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. In terms of content, the two are the same.

Thank you, may I know from which page can I download mods for Mini PPX?

 

[Tsugumi]

Erich von Manstein The "Modern Installation Guide" link in Other Sources has what you need: namely, links for the up-to-date MiniPPX and a link to the mod folder (Step 2).

 

[Malik177]

I'm really confused does the mini version not have any sex scenes, nor can you even do sex? I keep getting rejections when trying to have sex with the girls or even do homo sex. Also how can you tell you are setting the lover points and traits right for a character? All of the number are random letters and numbers

 

[FranklinClinton]

There's a nodim patch for both of them which you can get here that might fix the issue because without it the game will give you that 0% interaction bug with nodim installed, although it looks like you might not be able to download the HF version from here so you might be out of luck if that's the one giving you the problem.

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I owe you one, tried the nodim patch available from the docs folder and I could finally have a proper conversation with apricots once again. No more will they suddenly become grouchy.

I'm really confused does the mini version not have any sex scenes, nor can you even do sex? I keep getting rejections when trying to have sex with the girls or even do homo sex.

There are scenes in mini as it's the original game heavily compressed down. Characters virtue, safe days (no factor for male characters) and their current mood all factor into an RNG system on if an interaction passes, highest virtue characters for example won't be the type to be caught lewd anywhere but at home unless they have a lewd promise towards your character (I don't think male characters can give you one however), Did you also enable "skip H-scenes" from under the additional settings, there are also no yaoi scenes by default, but with AA2 mini + unlimited you should be able to enable them through the games launcher, then script settings, otherwise with M/M couples in the original game you'll get a fade to black.

 

[Amy]

Hi everyone, I have a problem where my character have a normal skin on the preview, but when I enter the playmode (walking around), her skin became dark.

Anyone have the same problem or know the solution to fix this? Thank you

 

[belphabet]

Works in Linux (arch, btw) via Lutris/Wine. Previously I got it to work via Bottles as well but an update broke something and I never could get it to work again. Yay, gaming on Linux!

For all the open source degenerates here some pointers:

• Install both lutris and wine
• Get out of
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  with wine and just install everything
• Winetricks: install vcrun2013, vcrun2019 and vcrun6
• Manually add game folder in lutris
• Lutris settings for the game:
  • working directory: where AA2Play.exe is
  • wine prefix: default is usually ~/.wine (should be 32-bit)
  • prefix architecture: 32-bit
  • runner: system
  • check 'use system winetricks'
  • disable fsync
• In the AA2 Start Dialog, Scripts: enable wined3d, disable win10fix, enable fixlocale (otherwise I got always 0% responses and messy text)

Still a million things that can go wrong but maybe this helps someone.

 

[Gragt]

Fellow Open-Source Degenerate here!

That’s a good guide for a manual installation. That said, Lutris features

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that makes things a bit easier. I tested it and it works.

You do not even need to download the script: you can open Lutris, open the menu to install a game and select the first option—the one to search the Lutris website for an installer. Just enter “artificial academy 2” and it should return the installer. Provide it the AA2Mini 7zip file when prompted and it should automatically install whatever it needs. This also sets the Wine locale to Japanese so you can disable the fixlocale script.

I use

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with Lutris. This has given me the most stability and best performance so far. I don’t even need to enable the win10fix and wine3d scripts: it works out of the box! In fact, I have had far fewer problems running AA2 on Linux this way than on Win11. Of course, I imagine that depends on one’s hardware configuration.

The only issue I have encountered so far with AA2Mini is the inability to load ppx files, but I’ve encountered exactly the same problem on Linux and Win11. Enabling the option to load ppx files (and disabling pp2 files, as the two appear to be mutually exclusive) makes the game hang at loading time. pp2 files load fine but many mods switched to ppx and the available pp2 version are outdated. The roundabout way I have found to fix it is to unpack the ppx files and load their contents as sets.

If anyone is interested on how to do this:

• Download
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  and extract it somewhere.
• It is a Windows programme but can be run with Wine. However, it requires the
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  . Install it on your Wine prefix.
• Extract the ppx in a temporary directory with the -e switch, e.g. wine ppexcli -e 20_3drooms_v18.ppx temp/
• In the data/sets directory of your AA2 install, create a new directory. I prefer to name them after the ppx to better keep track of them, e.g., !20_3drooms_v18 (the ! at the beginning is necessary: it tells the game to activate the set; without it it would be inactive).

And that’s pretty much. A bit annoying but it works.

 

[tiikerihai]

• It is a Windows programme but can be run with Wine. However, it requires the
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  . Install it on your Wine prefix.

If you're using the dot net runtime anyway, why aren't you just running ppex AA2 in the first place? I believe it works, but I have no way of testing it or writing a guide since all hardware I have with Linux is too weak. Heroic games launcher might be easier to use with AA2 than Lutris, or so I've been told.

 

[Gragt]

If you're using the dot net runtime anyway, why aren't you just running ppex AA2 in the first place? I believe it works, but I have no way of testing it or writing a guide since all hardware I have with Linux is too weak. Heroic games launcher might be easier to use with AA2 than Lutris, or so I've been told.

Probably because I don’t know it. I only recently got into AA2 and I’m still sorting out the glorious mess of information available—often conflicting, e.g., ppexcli wasn’t in the extra folder of my Mini version (v14) and I had to hunt it down myself. I’m sure there is a better setup available but that’s how I’ve managed to make it work under Linux—I’m actually amazed I managed to get it to work at all!

In all honesty, if there is a better way to do things, feel free to educate me. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t want to pester others and prefers to figure things out on his own, which means I sometimes often usually get things wrong.

 

[tiikerihai]

PPeX mini is in the "Modern installation guide" linked in this thread several times and also in the OP post under "other sources". The page you'd normally download AA2Mini from also links to the download page of AA2MiniPPX with the notice that the regular AA2Mini is obsolete. Since you have version 14 of Mini which is the latest version that was released post PPX and seems unlikely to be stolen by some reupload site, I'd be very surprised if you didn't already see that link.

AA2Mini and AA2MiniPPX are different so that conflict isn't actually a conflict. In your case you've got information about one but are applying it to the other.

 

[Snatched]

That's because 0xC000007B is a Windows system level error. It means some dll component is damaged, it's not related to anything the game is doing, specially if it persists after re-extracting a fresh copy of the game from the AA2MiniPPX-Vxx.7z which is something you should have already tried. It's very hard to diagnose or provide step by step instructions to solve it, since a lot of different things can cause it including various viruses. The easiest thing you could attempt in order to try fixing it is reinstalling the requirements (vcredist, directx 9) and running Windows SFC. If it's not a serious system issue that would probably solve it.

Thanks for the encouragement and detailed explanation. I have already tried re-installing vcredist and direct x 9, but my OS won't let me install at least one of those because it says that "something newer has been installed, too bad. Halt." It's more than likely that my other (job-use) programs need the newere stuf so I don't want to yank all that. I do have an old beater Win 7 laptop that if hobby tome permits I may re-visit this someday, In the meantime Better Repack's KKS and HS2 both ran right out of the box, so paths of lesser resistance have been discovered.

 

[freaksnake]

Ok, I searched in the post but without success...
Is there a way, or a module, to make two npc break up?

 

[VespidV]

Ok, I searched in the post but without success...
Is there a way, or a module, to make two npc break up?

I don't know if there's a module but in the base game you can do that by going to one of them and spreading bad rumors about their lover and then doing it again for the lover if you're successful eventually they might break up if they end up hating each other enough. You could also do romantic interactions with one of them if their lover is nearby as that'll also lower their relationship and make it more likely for them to break up.