Took me an age to get this working (in 2025 on Windows 11), but thought I'd mention the steps I had to take here to get it to do so:
1. Downloaded this version (via torrent if that matters; I think there were 5 seeders so thank you kind souls). Just could not get the Ryuugames version to do anything.
2. Used the App Locale emulator found here whenever I had to open files:
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3. Had to whitelist the folder after moving it to my Games directory (also had to recover the crack from my quarantine, as Trend identified it as a Trojan - which is hopefully incorrect)
4. Leaving the executable in Japanese (ie. not renaming it) and leaving it in the default directory, I had to open the Crack folder in a second window, and drag and drop the game exe onto the crack exe. This seemed to do the final trick after nothing else was working.
5. Start the now-cracked exe via Japanese Locale as admin. I've now started it twice with seemingly no issue.
Edit: after the above, 100%'d the game over multiple sessions without encountering any issues at all.