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I expected it, too, but just now I'm playing A-2 and Mayuzumi Yukie is not voiced by Gotou Yuuko, but Sendai Eri. If I'm not mistaken, the voice patch was supposed to change them back, because Gotou Yuuko was unable to perform at the time of the release...
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huh i guess you're right.
I made a quick
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be sure to back up the voice2.pac of the complete edition because i just bonked the Yukie patch and voice file for A2 together and tested it for a handful of Yukie lines, something might break or have the wrong voice lines further down the line.
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I already have my locale set to japanese and have for years. Locale emulator has never worked reliable for me.
If I spam click the .exe I can get A-1 through A-5 to eventually run. No idea why windows 11 is being such a pain.
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I had a chance to play around on a brand new computer with a clean install of Windows 11 Pro. Turns out the same issues happen over on that install. The crash is related to the Kdays.dll, which I believe is the crack for the game.
Disabling antivirus or any other security features has no effect -- so it's not being blocked. The crack, which I believe my be a part of AlphaRomDIE baked into this cracked copy of A - Special Edition is pretty old, last updated in 2014 and seems to be a bit broken in newer version of Windows.
I just double-click the game .EXE until the game launches. Watching in task manager sometime the processes will freeze and need to be killed. They only take up 120 MB of memory each when this happens.
Disabling antivirus or any other security features has no effect -- so it's not being blocked. The crack, which I believe my be a part of AlphaRomDIE baked into this cracked copy of A - Special Edition is pretty old, last updated in 2014 and seems to be a bit broken in newer version of Windows.
I just double-click the game .EXE until the game launches. Watching in task manager sometime the processes will freeze and need to be killed. They only take up 120 MB of memory each when this happens.
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you'll probably have more luck finding help at fuwanovel or some other places dedicated to VNs.
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last i tried, i set the compatibility to xp service 2 or was it win7 to get it running
it'll take time but if you can get the windows to run the old compatibility setting
you can choose which windows you want to set the compatibility
else win11 is just annoying albiet im using 1 atm
Everyone! After days of trial and error I finally found a way to fix the games not launching on Windows 11!
Steps:
1. Rename the .exe and .pac files to NOT have any special/japanese character. For example, A1.exe, A1.pac, A2.exe, A2.pac, etc. Just in case make sure the directories in the path also do not have this issue.
2. Download the program "ntlea" on GitHub.
3. Open ntleasWin.exe. It should say "Japanese Generic" under Current Config.
4. In Component Select, choose "ntleah.dll" and select the game executable in AppPath. The game will now start reliably without issues.
5. You can create a shortcut to launch the games with the "<-" button.
As an example if you want to create this shortcut manually it has the following parameters:
Target: C:\SomePath\ntlea\x86\ntleas.exe "C:\SomePath\Majikoi Love Me Seriously A - Special Edition\A1.exe" "C932" "L1041" "FMS PGothic" "Mh" "P4"
Start in: "C:\SomePath\Majikoi Love Me Seriously A - Special Edition"
Steps:
1. Rename the .exe and .pac files to NOT have any special/japanese character. For example, A1.exe, A1.pac, A2.exe, A2.pac, etc. Just in case make sure the directories in the path also do not have this issue.
2. Download the program "ntlea" on GitHub.
3. Open ntleasWin.exe. It should say "Japanese Generic" under Current Config.
4. In Component Select, choose "ntleah.dll" and select the game executable in AppPath. The game will now start reliably without issues.
5. You can create a shortcut to launch the games with the "<-" button.
As an example if you want to create this shortcut manually it has the following parameters:
Target: C:\SomePath\ntlea\x86\ntleas.exe "C:\SomePath\Majikoi Love Me Seriously A - Special Edition\A1.exe" "C932" "L1041" "FMS PGothic" "Mh" "P4"
Start in: "C:\SomePath\Majikoi Love Me Seriously A - Special Edition"
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Thanks bro. I just renamed the .exe + .pac files and the game opens without any issues again.
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It was really iffy for me. The best I could do was open up Task Manager and click the exe again and again every time the program appeared and instantly disappeared in the processes tab, until eventually it didn't instantly close itself and successfully started. It's a pain and kind of luck-based, but luckily it only takes like a minute tops to get it started.
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I did, but unfortunately it didn't work. It's not a big deal though, and although it's kind of annoying, I can usually get it opened up in under a minute.
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Rename your .exe and .pac files exactly as show in the second image in post #409 above.
However, instead of using ntlea which hasn't been actively developed for about 6 years, use
It is very similar to the archived
I can no longer comment on Windows 11, as I downgraded after getting forced ads on my desktop from Microsoft earlier this week. I do know that Windows 11 has some serious issues running the A collection though.
However, instead of using ntlea which hasn't been actively developed for about 6 years, use
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, which is being actively updated and supports 64 bit applications.It is very similar to the archived
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that many including myself and others have used in the past. Since switching the filenames and using Locale Remulator, I have had zero issues running A-1 through A-5 correctly the first time, every time on Windows 10 LTSC 2021 by just running the .exe with it, no changes besides renaming needed.I can no longer comment on Windows 11, as I downgraded after getting forced ads on my desktop from Microsoft earlier this week. I do know that Windows 11 has some serious issues running the A collection though.
I'm the author of that post. I'm on Windows 11 and while investigating the issue, I tried multiple attempts with both Locale Emulator and Locale Remulator but neither worked for me, I was only able to launch them without issues by doing the steps described in my post with ntlea. Perhaps on non-W11 systems ntlea is not necessary or only any of the Locale programs.
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Yeah, on Windows 10 I can confirm that using either Locale-Remulator or changing your unicode language to japanese work with no issues.
On Windows 11 I had all kinds of issues, and every time the game wouldn't run correctly I would find a Event Viewer entry in Windows Logs > Application. It was always a "Exception code: 0xc0000005" for the "kDays.dll" file.
I grabbed a spare SSD, did a clean install of Windows 11 and it made no difference for me. Spamming the game though it will open eventually. Sometimes it takes 3 tries, sometimes it takes 30, but eventually it will run without crashing. Using ntleas all of the A games have issues. Same thing happens when trying to run them in a Windows 11 virtual machine.
I wonder if the people having issues with A launching are all using AMD CPUs? (Like I am) There are other older games like GRAW 2 that don't run on AMD CPUs without a patch, they have divide by zero issues. First time encountering this issue with a VN though.
I may be stupid, but does anyone have any idea how to save? It's not working for me.
Edit: Ok, so, the fix is really simple but i'll leave it here for anyone else having issues: Change the name of the exe and the pac file to the japanese name(you can find it on the install here on the site), then it should work. It also fixes the weird spacing of the characters.
Edit: Ok, so, the fix is really simple but i'll leave it here for anyone else having issues: Change the name of the exe and the pac file to the japanese name(you can find it on the install here on the site), then it should work. It also fixes the weird spacing of the characters.
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Apologies but as the post above said since I still have to go though Majikoi S I only investigated how to launch it without issues but didn't verify saving, which in fact doesn't work unfortunately and I have not found a reliable way to launch it so I made a simple powershell script that launches it over and over until it successfully launches it by brute forcing it. It usually launches it within 2 to 5 tries (6 to 15 seconds) and 10 at most (30 seconds) for me. For anyone interested here is the powershell script, just change your paths in the first two lines, you can save it as a ps1 file extension. The executable names must be the names in the OP.
$ExePath = "C:\Path\To\Majikoi Love Me Seriously A - Special Edition\まじこいＡ－１.exe"
$LocaleEmulatorPath = "C:\Path\To\Locale-Emulator\LEProc.exe"
$LocaleDirectory = [System.IO.Path]::GetDirectoryName($LocaleEmulatorPath)
$TryNumber = 0
while ($True) {
$TryNumber++
Write-Host "Launch try number: $TryNumber"
Start-Process -FilePath $LocaleEmulatorPath -ArgumentList "`"$ExePath`"" -WorkingDir $LocaleDirectory
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 3000
$IsRunning = Get-Process | Where-Object { $_.Path -eq $ExePath -and [string]::IsNullOrEmpty($_.MainWindowTitle) -eq $false }
if ($IsRunning)
{
break
}
}
Dumb question, but is there ANY actual player agency in this? I really hate seeing 90% of the search queue being VN's that all amount to a glorified CG gallery with an audiodrama attached sometimes. I want to be able to pick a route and stick to it. Not any of the Yes/YES/oui/si illusion of choice bullshit that stopped being funny back in the late 2000's.