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

[MachoGuy]

The chime button is the button ends the period.

I figure that would be and I've tried it, and it didn't work.


BUT I just discovered a few hours ago that you should set those things from AAULuncher -> scripts -> settings(of the specific script). other wise they won't work since they aren't assigned to a key, another very useful bit of information that a new player could have used.


Man, I mean no disrespect to anyone especially to Tsugumi who has been on this thread for years but y'all fucking suck at helping new players, I personally never seen a more hostile thread on this site and pointless too.

This is one of the very few games were as a new player it's better just to break the game a few times to figure out of how it works rather than asking for help since that goes only in 3 ways:
1.

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2. vague answers that only makes sense if you already know how to solve the problem you have
3. No answer at all


It sounds mean but look at the problems I've encounter and how I've solved them:



I've fixed audiofiles and faceparts by not installing them, I've thanked Tsugumi for helping me solve the subtitle part but i was just being nice since I already solved that problem on my own, I didn't got any answers on how to chose a PC and that was the "problem" I've spent the most time on (Crazy that Tsugumi answered on the subtitle problem but couldn't be bother to tell me how to chose a PC) for a new player it kinda hard to find out that after you make your roster you press on the sleep button and after that you chose your PC from the exact same place who does something else now.



Still no solution and I think there is none, someone said it was because I was raped but tbh it happens with every H-scenes I don't initiate (Even when I spectate) and it kinda random, sometimes I can exit sometimes I don't.

BONUS: I also wanted to ask how do you spectate NPC ON NPC, I've read on previous comments that you do it by pressing "S" which of course it didn't work and I didn't bother asking since by now I figure out I will also be told to press "S" without any additional information that could be useful. so I went to edit some cards (Had lots of troubles with the editor too, like crashing if win10fix is activated, how to edit a card (you don't, you make a new one and select an existing card by "open the file" and replace the existing one) and you won't see the window which has modules because the program it hiding it so I've pressed ALT+TAB to find it, took me a while to discover those things by accident) and there I've discovered that you need to install the specific module on the PC card (The character you are playing with, for future new players who will find this comment) that allows you to do this stuff, in this case the "

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" one.



I've pressed every button on the keyboard until I've hit "T" to reactivate the background voices



And this is where we are now, again a vague answer that would have been of no use and would have started an argument most likely if I didn't mess around with the scripts and find out to assign the keys in script. (+ There are more useful informations there)



So I think, from my point of view at least, We can all agree that this community is a little bit disappointing when it comes to helping newbies or helping eachother in general.



Of course there are a few exceptions like edgruberman and Grim who will soon be crucified for the capital sin of providing actual, coherent useful information
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[Tsugumi]

hey, can't find help for this. The Harderlinker.bat just...isn't making the extra empty folders. I've tried redoing it a couple of times and still nothing. I have no clue what the problem is. i've followed the little mini guides some posters have put here and still nothing. The batch says it can't find the files specified or something.

Post screenshots of the "data/texture" and "data/texture/harderlinker" folders. Also: you DID make sure NOT to run the .bat as Admin, right?

 

[JustAl]

the game is very laggy, any recs?

You probably need to enable the Win 10 fix. It works for Win 11 too. See that section of the

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[Coolsville]

Post screenshots of the "data/texture" and "data/texture/harderlinker" folders. Also: you DID make sure NOT to run the .bat as Admin, right?

I did not do that, no. the folders in the hardlinker are all empty. Which is what I thought was right, at the very least.

 

[Tsugumi]

I did not do that, no. the folders in the hardlinker are all empty. Which is what I thought was right, at the very least.

No, they should not be empty - the step you missed was downloading

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and putting contents into the "texture/harderlinker" folder.

Basically, the folder on that screenshot and the 7z file you see to the right (with the date in the name) are the same thing, except the 7z is not as up to date as the folder. Word of advice, though: download that folder "as ZIP", because if you pick "standard" MEGA is going to download every single of those 2k+ files separately.

This modularity (sub-folder for each of the outfits) is also helpful in certain situations: for example, when one of the outfits is updated you can simply download that sub-folder separately without having to download the whole folder again; or you can download outfits one by one if you are low on MEGA daily quota or you get slow DL speed, etc.

 

[Coolsville]

No, they should not be empty - the step you missed was downloading

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and putting contents into the "texture/harderlinker" folder.

Basically, the folder on that screenshot and the 7z file you see to the right (with the date in the name) are the same thing, except the 7z is not as up to date as the folder. Word of advice, though: download that folder "as ZIP", because if you pick "standard" MEGA is going to download every single of those 2k+ files separately.

This modularity (sub-folder for each of the outfits) also makes it easier to update them and/or download them in chunks if you, for example, are out of daily quota on MEGA.

OOOHHHHH. Nah, ok. I get it. Thanks.

 

[Arde645]

SNIP

Not to make excuses for people, but I think it's mostly because of how... troubled tech help regarding this game has been over the years. AA2 has never been exactly easy to work with, especially back in AA2's heyday before most of the tools came out and it was the 3D H-game for a while.

It's mostly the same few hundred people that are just done with fielding the same (almost) questions ad-nauseum for the past decade. You still have those that are still super helpful, but they are the minority.

Then you have people like me, whose info is horrendously out of date. The last time I participated in AA2 modding was when Wizzard was the go-to.

 

[MachoGuy]

Not to make excuses for people, but I think it's mostly because of how... troubled tech help regarding this game has been over the years. AA2 has never been exactly easy to work with, especially back in AA2's heyday before most of the tools came out and it was the 3D H-game for a while.

It's mostly the same few hundred people that are just done with fielding the same (almost) questions ad-nauseum for the past decade. You still have those that are still super helpful, but they are the minority.

Then you have people like me, whose info is horrendously out of date. The last time I participated in AA2 modding was when Wizzard was the go-to.

I understand that with complex problems but mine were just simple problems or lack of information, and of course I've search this thread for answers but turns out that people were this unhelpful since this whole thread begin (So there wasn't a time when they at least tried), the guides are also made with spite in mind, hell even the

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The AA2 community has a problem with toxicity and hate towards beginners for sure

 

[idkanymoreatp]

i have the uncensor mod but for some reason all of the penises r one skin tone.

 

[somethingpersonal]

I've reinstalled the game for the 4th or 5th time, everything works perfectly, but now the "AA2QtEdit" won't open. Anyone else has had this problem?
Of course, it's the latest version and the other two .exes work well. I thought it could be something related to firewall/antivirus but I've also checked that out.

Edit: it's like the .exe is decorative, no process shows on task manager.

 

[somethingpersonal]

i have the uncensor mod but for some reason all of the penises r one skin tone.

I had a similar problem before, you have to make sure what type of uncensor you have and that the option check of the launcher is activated/deactivated accordingly. For example, if the .ppx file you have on data is "02_uncensor_CIV_v1_2.ppx", you have to go "AA2Play"->"AA2Unlimited"->"MKIII/CIV". And have the box on the left with a tick, if the uncensor is not MKIII or CIV, uncheck.

If that doesn't work, you have to make sure the other .ppx files on the data folder are coherent, for example I have:

02_uncensor_CIV_v1_2.ppx
21_CCC_CIV_v2_3.ppx
21_CCC_Male_CIV_v2_2.ppx

Make sure you have only one type of uncensor (in my case is CIV, but it could be MKIII or the other one whose name I forgot).

If that doesn't work either maybe it has something to do with "hipixel skin", at that point I would install the game from zero again.

 

[JustAl]

I understand that with complex problems but mine were just simple problems or lack of information, and of course I've search this thread for answers but turns out that people were this unhelpful since this whole thread begin (So there wasn't a time when they at least tried), the guides are also made with spite in mind, hell even the

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The AA2 community has a problem with toxicity and hate towards beginners for sure

I'm a beginner to this game myself. I could not recognize an abnormal level of hate. However it is the kind of atmosphere you would expect in more elitist circles. So in the respect that if you're really courteous and ask concise questions and work a lot on the bit of info you're given and then come back after your efforts, the community is nice enough. However I think for common laypersons this is not sufficiently kind.

I remember hanging around places where the slur help vampire was common. As in, asking for help then asking for help again was enough to get libeled by the community. Now that was considerably more toxic and yet people still lived with it.

I make no excuses for that behavior, no. This is a porn forum and people wanna see curves and play games one-handedly. So advice has got to be accessible when it can be. Still, we should all adults here so sometimes people are busy and not confident enough in how much time they spent and can spend in the moment to give you your advice as you need it.

 

[idkanymoreatp]

i got it to work but the tips are all pink and its a little freaky lol.

 

[tiikerihai]

Complaining about how the "community" is not newbie friendly and the guides are all confusing shit is fine and all, but it reminds me of the type 1 complaint. Which is: "why doesn't someone make AA2Mini with all the mods already pre-installed". It's easy to say "it should be that way", but it ain't nearly as easy to actually achieve what you want.
I used to write the guide for installing the game before AA2Mini was a thing. Was a pretty newbie friendly guide, I guess, since tech support questions never happened. It wasn't all that fun to actually do it, though, that's why I stopped doing it once mini released. There's no reward. That's also why I ignore many questions that aren't potentially interesting to me or take effort to figure out.

It really doesn't help that over the past few years 99% of support questions related to this game stem from people not even reading the instructions on the download page. Such as "why launcher freeze?", so even when people have a legitimate issue with ppexm64 you first have to treat them like a retard because you can't assume they do. I also don't think people in this thread in particular deserve to be called unhelpful, since the guides, the game release itself (AA2Mini PPX), the utilities like AAU etc all originate from somewhere else. It's not like this place is a congregation of seasoned AA2 experts who have all the knowledge and resources.
You may call me unhelpful though, I am proud of it.

 

[MachoGuy]

Complaining about how the "community" is not newbie friendly and the guides are all confusing shit is fine and all, but it reminds me of the type 1 complaint. Which is: "why doesn't someone make AA2Mini with all the mods already pre-installed". It's easy to say "it should be that way", but it ain't nearly as easy to actually achieve what you want.
I used to write the guide for installing the game before AA2Mini was a thing. Was a pretty newbie friendly guide, I guess, since tech support questions never happened. It wasn't all that fun to actually do it, though, that's why I stopped doing it once mini released. There's no reward. That's also why I ignore many questions that aren't potentially interesting to me or take effort to figure out.

It really doesn't help that over the past few years 99% of support questions related to this game stem from people not even reading the instructions on the download page. Such as "why launcher freeze?", so even when people have a legitimate issue with ppexm64 you first have to treat them like a retard because you can't assume they do. I also don't think people in this thread in particular deserve to be called unhelpful, since the guides, the game release itself (AA2Mini PPX), the utilities like AAU etc all originate from somewhere else. It's not like this place is a congregation of seasoned AA2 experts who have all the knowledge and resources.
You may call me unhelpful though, I am proud of it.

"You may call me unhelpful though, I am proud of it."

 

[MachoGuy]

I'm a beginner to this game myself. I could not recognize an abnormal level of hate. However it is the kind of atmosphere you would expect in more elitist circles. So in the respect that if you're really courteous and ask concise questions and work a lot on the bit of info you're given and then come back after your efforts, the community is nice enough. However I think for common laypersons this is not sufficiently kind.

I remember hanging around places where the slur help vampire was common. As in, asking for help then asking for help again was enough to get libeled by the community. Now that was considerably more toxic and yet people still lived with it.

I make no excuses for that behavior, no. This is a porn forum and people wanna see curves and play games one-handedly. So advice has got to be accessible when it can be. Still, we should all adults here so sometimes people are busy and not confident enough in how much time they spent and can spend in the moment to give you your advice as you need it.

I based my opinion in the interactions I had + What I've seen when searching in this thread for the problems I had (Of course, problems I resolved myself since this community wasn't kind to the other people as well)

Who knows, perhaps If I go comment by comment forum page 1 I will see some positive results but I won't do that, but Jesus christ not even telling me how to chose a PC ? C'mon... how complex or "tired" you have to be to not even do that, there no defense for this community and my asumtion are right to the point. If you have a question/problem you either get 1. A link to a guide(nothing to do with your problem) 2. A pointless answer or a good answer that will make sense only if you already knew how to resolve the problems yourself.


I didn't fully fix the game, I still have problems with it, for example I can't make it have other resolutions than 1920x1080p, I have a 1440p monitor so would be cool to have 1440p resolution and to play in fullscreen so I've searched here for a solutions (NOTE: I will learn how to do that myself, I don't want any help from this community anymore, not like I will get any anyway):

Right under this conversation it was this:

(I already explained the "S" thing, and this is a different person who got the same half-answerd treatment. just pointless all around)


I don't know how someone can defend this community in any way, not everyone is bad but the majority absolutely is, I know there are some useful answers in here but I simply couldn't find any.


While I was playing the game I was thinking "This game is pretty good why aren't more people playing it and why isn't there an AA3? It been 10 years already"

But after I interacted with the community I realised that there will never be an AA3 simply because there is no fanbase to it, Almost all the new player quit and never speak again about this game (Hell, I discovered this game by accident while searching on the site)

The majority quit when they can't get the game to work or hit a major bug, others more stubborn will try to fix the bugs and ask for help and will be hit with the

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special (Which will make them want to quit just by seeing it) or given pointless answers (Many of the people who got those answer are never seen in this thread again, which show they didn't want to push it further and quit) what remains of the fanbase at the end is just a bunch of frustrated angry people.

And those people definitely don't deserve a new game.

 

[Tsugumi]

MachoGuy Your posts slowly devolve into subtle attacks on the AA community on F95Zone. If you think the community here is "toxic", talk to the moderators about it - ultimately, they are the curators of this forum; unless you, for some reason, think they are in cahoots somehow - in which case, I am mystified as to why you would keep hanging around such "toxicity". All we can wish you is good luck with other AA communities - the one on F95 is far from the only one and most certainly nowhere near the largest.

I realised that there will never be an AA3 simply because there is no fanbase to it

Or because the developer put their chips on 3D realism afterwards instead, lost that bet and got shut down last year. Please do your own research before making slanderous claims just to fit your narrative.

AA2 is considered by Illusion fans to be their "peak" in terms of game development when it comes to mechanics and interactivity. How you reached the conclusion that the game has "no fanbase" from that - and by having experienced one unofficial community, no less, not to mention one that does not even dabble in modding the game - is simply baffling. "If you have seen one of them - you have seen them all"? Seriously?

If you want to be fair in your evaluation - please do bother to "go comment by comment forum page 1 to see some positive results", because if you do not - you are not. What you are at that point is what you accuse the people here of being - toxic and unhelpful. Not to mention lazy.

 

[MachoGuy]

MachoGuy Your posts slowly devolve into subtle attacks on the AA community on F95Zone. If you think the community here is "toxic", talk to the moderators about it - ultimately, they are the curators of this forum; unless you, for some reason, think they are in cahoots somehow - in which case, I am mystified as to why you would keep hanging around such "toxicity". All we can wish you is good luck with other AA communities - the one on F95 is far from the only one and most certainly nowhere near the largest.




Or because the developer put their chips on 3D realism afterwards instead, lost that bet and got shut down last year. Please do your own research before making slanderous claims just to fit your narrative.

AA2 is considered by Illusion fans to be their "peak" in terms of game development when it comes to mechanics and interactivity. How you reached the conclusion that the game has "no fanbase" from that - and by having experienced one unofficial community, no less, not to mention one that does not even dabble in modding the game - is simply baffling. "If you have seen one of them - you have seen them all"? Seriously?

If you want to be fair in your evaluation - please do bother to "go comment by comment forum page 1 to see some positive results", because if you do not - you are not. What you are at that point is what you accuse the people here of being - toxic and unhelpful. Not to mention lazy.

" MachoGuy Your posts slowly devolve into subtle attacks on the AA community on F95Zone. If you think the community here is "toxic", talk to the moderators about it - ultimately, they are the curators of this forum; unless you, for some reason, think they are in cahoots somehow - in which case, I am mystified as to why you would keep hanging around such "toxicity". All we can wish you is good luck with other AA communities - the one on F95 is far from the only one and most certainly nowhere near the largest."

I'm not only talking about F95zone community, When we were talking about guides someone said "Now is the guide the best worded? No, but that's because the writer got tired of everyone's shit IIRC" + the YouTube videos addressing the new players as idiots, So the problem is beyond F95. BUT, I joined a discord for AA2 community and people there are A LOT more helpful (And I mean A LOT, Mfs really have conversations about a problem until they solve it, not a half hint "piss off already, read another guide or something" answer made me tear up a little) so maybe this might be F95zone only problem.

I can't talk with the mods about it because it not against the rules to be toxic and unhelpful of course, so everyone in here is in thier rights to be an asshole, but that dosen't mean I can't call them out on being one.

I already decided to stop hanging around here since I replied to the chime comment, right now I'm just defending the points I made there since people quote my comments but will stop doing that also after this comment.


"Or because the developer put their chips on 3D realism afterwards instead, lost that bet and got shut down last year. Please do your own research before making slanderous claims just to fit your narrative."

AA2 came out in 2014, they had PLENTY of time to make another game or at least hint at a new one before closing (Especially when it regarded as their "peak") even when they were focusing on 3D realism, I guess they also put all their chips on 3D realism for a reason.


AA2 is considered by Illusion fans to be their "peak" in terms of game development when it comes to mechanics and interactivity. How you reached the conclusion that the game has "no fanbase" from that


I reached the conclusion that there is no fanbase left to this game because

1. Is very inactive. It's an old game so that's logic, but if we take all the troubleshoot away. from everywhere I mean, not just F95zone. How active it is or even was when it first came out? That's right. barely anyone at all. Funny enough, the bugs are keeping this game alive (Killed the company tho)

2. It very hard to find anything about this game. while I was googling to solve my problems most of the time I found the github page and some question on steam and reddit and that's it. I know there should be a big 4chan community but I couldn't find that. I found the discord link in here even tho people are a lot more nicer there the community isn't that much active either. they talk about once a month.

3. I simply never heard of it before. This dosen't mean mutch without context but I knew about Illusion and I've played koikatsu before and asked if there is a game similar to this were you can play female and nobody answered AA2, more than that I've searched for games were you can play as a voyeur and watch other people doing it. Nobody mentions AA2 anywhere and remeber what you said "AA2 is considered by Illusion fans to be their "peak" in terms of game development when it comes to mechanics and interactivity. " that means that there aren't that many fans out there.

- and by having experienced one unofficial community, no less, not to mention one that does not even dabble in modding the game - is simply baffling. "If you have seen one of them - you have seen them all"? Seriously?

F95zone is the biggest unofficial community for H-games out there, if there still was an active fanbase this were you will meet most of the players regardless if they are into mods. But you might actually be right since again, coming back to my complains: people on here are mostly assholes so I can't blame them for not being active here (Hell, I won't be after this comment) but please for the sake of the argument and for the other people post the links to the more active communities so people can experience what the true AA2 community is like, not this toxic place.

If you want to be fair in your evaluation - please do bother to "go comment by comment forum page 1 to see some positive results", because if you do not - you are not. What you are at that point is what you accuse the people here of being - toxic and unhelpful. Not to mention lazy.

I ain't reading allat. Again, I accuse people of being toxic and unhelpful from my own experience + the experiences i saw others had with the same problem I did (and the outside of f95zone stuff) it for the readers to decided who is in the right, maybe I'm in the wrong here and I'm blind of how helpful and untoxic everyone was to me and the others who knows...

But there is a fact here, 27 out of 211 pages mention the word "guide"

20 comments per page that means 540 comments had the word "guide" or were related to a comment with the word guide in it, Do you think people would have needed a guide so much if they will get proper help and other on were were willing to offer it instead of redirecting them to

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? (or a good guide, man that thing sucks ass)


I will leave you all to it, I will still enjoy the game of course but I can't be part of this toxic, frustrated and unhelpful community.

For anyone new reading this: hang in there buddy and

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for ever.

 

[tiikerihai]

The developer didn't shut down, the brand "Illusion" got shut down. Illusion was not an independent company, it was just one of many brands under the parent company.. the name of which I have forgotten. But in any case, they are still there and the developer formerly known as Illusion is now operating under a new name (illgames I think).
Although either way I wouldn't expect a new AA2, because it barely sold any copies compared to games like Koikatsu. Illusion was a shovelware developer, AA2 and AA are anomalies as far as their catalogue goes.

 

[Monosomething]

Funny enough, the bugs are keeping this game alive

I have played this game since november last year and i dont remember running into any bugs. Name one?



PS: ive ran into a ton of shitty and unclear mechanics, though... like MM. Fuck you, MM!