- May 19, 2020
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Same thing on 5-1, game is fully softlocked due to this. RIP.Seems like the game is bugged on stage 3-2 actually. There are certain traps you have to put on the map before allowing the hero to take their turn, but there is one spot left over when you have placed the 'before-starting' special traps. When you try to pass the turn over to the hero the game asks you if you are sure about leaving one trap unused, but you can't place the last trap, nor can you say you are sure - there is no option. So you get stuck and can't progress.
So I couldn't actually play this in my VM either, but long story short, it's because they use some special d3d9 texture blending modes that seem unimplemented by vmware. I tried forcing software rasterizer, and that lacked even more features it needed. I ended up trying third party rasterizers, one that worked was SwiftShader, but they really want to squeeze money out of software devs so any version you find has super annoying watermarks and they're kind of hard to remove. Google eventually bought them and cannibalized (and open sourced) the code for their purposes, but d3d9 support became broken in Google's care and now that branch is archived, so I just cracked the oldest version of it that I could find (1MB in size), unlike the 3MB newer one it doesn't have potential security holes (the 3.0 listens on port 8080 for configuration changing), and the google version 4.0 is 15mb and broken with this game (barely shows textures). I'm not entirely sure if it's within the rules, but I've attached the crack to that old version of SS, it should make every BRUNS game playable even if the VM has no 3d support.Oh goody, another game from this company. A small warning to Linux and virtual machine users, the prevoius games by this company would refuse to work on Linux. I tried playing those games years ago on a gaming laptop with a 4th gen i7 cpu and nvidia 770m gpu on Linux through "wine" and "VmWare". The games would refuse to lunch, instead erroring out with the message that "your gpu is not strong enough" (its been a few years so I do not remember exactly what the error message said, but that was the general idea). Eventually I managed to play the games on my laptop by setting up rdp server on a windows install on a desktop with a dual core amd athlon cpu and a Nvidia GT 420 GPU, running windows in my laptop's VMware as a vertical machine, and connecting to the desktop from the virtual machine using rdp.
The game ran perfectly fine on a Nvidia GT 420 running Windows but refused to even start on Linux with a Nvidia 770m. While I understand that some game developers do not want their games to run in a virtual machine (usually online multiplayer games [which the games by this developer were not]), the lie that "your gpu is not strong enough" used for the error message by this game developer is INSULTING. I will not give this developer any money just on principal.
As much as I like the game play and artwork of their previous games, because of the the previous insult and the fact that this hacked release is bugged I am going to have a strong pass on this game. Sorry for the rant.
The first release had some problems that you needed to switch between the japanese version, now it has a crack so you don't need the japanese version.what is the extra "japanese" ?