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Hi looking for help I've been able to play this game in the past but now it refuses to work anymore it shows up as a background process only and it doesn't give an error code could it be a windows 10 bug? I've tried compatibility mode, my locale region is in Japanese. Went to a different forum download kodec lite to see if that could be it none of these have worked. I've also tried everyone's advice above to see if I could possibly fix it as well but no juice. Also maji and a1-3 work perfectly fine so I'm at a complete lost Edit Nvm I found out bitdefender was being a cuck I had add triple exceptions from it to get it to work
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Half of that seems either unnecessary or solved by the update replacement file.
Either way i only needed that and the game .exe worked fine. What never worked regardless of what i did however was the startup tool. I doubt a desktop gaming pc needs that anyways, so whatever
Your solution might be the last chance I give myself to try to play this game after about two months of brain frying levels of trying to make it work. Please, if you could describe what you meant by triple exceptions I might finally play this game instead of hoping for a less than probable western port.
Considering the gibberish you see on the install screen, the problem comes from you using the wrong language in non-unicode programs by your windows. You can either change your system locale to Japan which can be done in the windows settings.
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View the System Locale settings for Windows
- Click Start then Control Panel
- Click Clock, Language and Region
- Windows 10, Windows 8: Click Region
The Region and Language options dialog appears. - Click the Administrative tab
If there is no Advanced tab, then you are not logged in with administrative privileges. - Under the Language for non-Unicode programs section, click Change system locale and select the desired language.
- Click OK
- Restart the computer to apply the change.
A simpler option to get the game ready is to download it from here. You just have to unarchive and you get the game pre-installed. But you still need to start it using locale emulator each time I think.
I am having a similar problem to the above; earlier this week I played through 2 routes before going back to finish the original Majikoi. Today, I'm back to playing S, but as above, when I start it up nothing happens. I've tried reinstalling as well as restarting my computer. I thought it might be an issue due to having my locale set to Japanese manually instead of using an emulator, so I added LocaleEmulator and tried starting it that way, still nothing.
The only difference I have from the above is it's not even showing up in background processes.
Most probably you need to reattach the crack to the game exe. If you are using Alpha then simply open it and drag the game exe to it and it will work as usual from first try, maybe second or third if unlucky.
The message does not differ from when I just click on the crack. I tried it several times with no difference in response. Thank you for the quick reply.
Try with alpharomdie, a software made to bypass the regional DMR. You can find a link on the fourth page if you don't have it already and after simply drag the ORIGINAL game executable (まじこいＳ.exe) to AlphaROMdiE.exe and then run the new まじこいＳ.exe again to play.
It didn't do anything at first, but I kept trying as you said to and eventually it said "設定ファイルの読み込みに失敗しました" which I believe translates to "Failed to properly read settings file." I speak Japanese to a decent degree. This is the result I get when I bring the まじこいS.exe to the alphaROMdiE.exe's location. When I put the alphaROMdiE.exe in the folder that normally contains the まじこいS.exe, I get a message in Chinese, which I cannot understand in the slightest.
Tried one last thing after typing that, and that was giving alphaROMdiE.exe the ability to run as Administrator, and it works now. Thanks! Leaving this as a tool for others.