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I know this is an old thread but can someone give me instructions on how to run the game. try speaking to me like im 11 because im actually stupid
 

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Anyone know why i can't seem to rename any monsters? Either it crashes or the keyboard input simply doesn't register.
Could be tot do with the locale, maybe using japanese locale would fix it.

I'm not getting voices... what should I do?
Scream and cry. Then try the usual stuff, like setting locale to japanese, changing the compatibility mode to windows xp, making sure the settings aren't configured to mute voices, and so on.

Also, I might be misremembering, but the game might have had a setting where u install it where u can choose a full install or partial install, if so u need to make sure u do the full install cuz otherwise some stuff will be missing if ur running the game without the image mounted.

So i suppose that's another thing to try, mount the image before playing see if that fixes it.
 
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I know this is an old thread but can someone give me instructions on how to run the game. try speaking to me like im 11 because im actually stupid
If you know what you're doing (you are tech savvy) follow this.

If you're 11....
  1. Use Japanese Locale for everything we're about to do. Some japanese games won't work without this, better safe than sorry.
    Windows: You can either go to ur region and language settings and set your locale to japanese systemwide (I do this, then just go to the settings for date and time formatting and manually set that back to the wanted format), or you can use which functions similar to the old applocale for windows xp did.

    Linux: The following command will run a (hypothetical) Software.exe with japanese locale.
    Bash:
    LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine Software.exe
    Download main game, patch 1.20 and hotfix 1.21
  2. Mount the game's CD image. (You do not need japanese locale for this part, need it for step 3 though)
    Windows: Download dameontools or poweriso to give you the ability to mount image files (this allows you to mount an iso or mdf file so it will behave as if you inserted a game CD into ur pc). Then use whichever software u used to mount the MDF file you got for the main game.
    Tip: You may need to restart ur pc after installing one of the programs, after that you should be able to double click the mdf to mount it.

    Linux: Use this command to mount the image, same concept as the thing the windows users are doing, it just doesn't require third party software to do on linux.
    Bash:
    mount -o loop -t iso9660 /path/to/image.mdf /path/to/mountpoint
  3. Install the game by running Setup.exe which you can find on the mounted image, in windows it'll be somewhere under 'This Pc' or whatever they call it these days, in Linux it'll be at the mountpoint you're using.

    The installer is all in Japanese, you can set an installation path at the bottom, then the install button is top left, click it and ur good to go.
  4. Move the english patch exe for 1.20 to the install directory and run it to patch the game to english
  5. Move the files from 1.21 hotfix to the game directory to fix whatever that's supposed to fix.
  6. Navigate to the location you installed the game and run it, or alternatively just run it like you would any software if ur on windows (by hitting start and searching for it)
    Tip: If you're on linux and ur having problems with fullscreening the game, use proton instead of plain wine.
If you run into problems, try setting the compatibility mode to something like windows XP, see if that fixes it.

I tried everything but always get this error.
Can someone help me?
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This error is complaining that it cannot find the CD/DVD, the CD/DVD in our case is the mounted image. which you should have mounted through daemontools or poweriso.

If you get this error, you need to mount the game's image to proceed to make the game think you have the CD inserted in ur pc. Sometimes getting a game to actually detect the mounted image may require a little bit of finessing (like making sure it's mounted at a drive with a letter that's early in the alphabet) but usually just having it mounted at all will suffice.

Based on that screenshot, I believe the dude was trying to install the game by extracting the files from the image to run them instead of mounting it.
 
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