I've never encountered an error message displaying in Russian before.adudu4 YnicLo Did both of those, nothing changed.
Two consistent bugs that I've encountered so far, no matter what I do to fix the game:
1) New player experience:
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2) First part time job at the shop:
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I kept having exceptions in these two places, without fail. Downloaded game again, moving SchoolGame folder out, deleting persistent data, nothing worked. There were some more that I found in a longer session back then but I lost my interest already.
Note that I have these issues with and without the patreonhax file, so I doubt it's related.
The first and third issues you've brought up seem to be more about regional encoding issues, similar to the scrambled text found in traditional Japanese ADV games.
It's important to ensure that the game's path is entirely in English and to try out some encoding conversion tools like 'Locale.Emulator' or 'ntleas'.
In cracked:Often, most errors can be ignored.
The second issue, 'When that's done, clicking Character in the lower left menu gave me another exception"
is a common issue with cracked.
A workaround for this is to navigate to the character panel by jumping from the diary located at the very bottom left corner of the screen.