This is a hint/walkthrough file for the adult anime DOS/V game "CRESCENT", also known as "CRE", from Silky's (although it doesn't say so anywhere during play). Dos/V or DOSJ is required to be loaded to play this game, along with (512K?) of EMS (expanded memory). No problems with auto-detection of sound cards (I have a ProAudio Spectrum 16 emulating a SoundBlaster) to get sound and music. Graphics are apparently 640*480 16 colors (VGA). Run the "CRE.BAT" file to start the game. I haven't found an easy way to exit the game, although pressing may work eventually (and leaves your screen a mess: use "mode co80"), and I have to restart anyway. The game starts with a menu that has two options: I have no idea what the difference between these is! There's no apparent difference in how the game acts if you choose either one! After that, you get a second menu with two options, labeled "2 ..." on the left, and "1 ..." on the right. Same thing applies here - no apparent change in the game no matter what you choose. (Almost there...) Next is a menu with four choices. This is where you choose between one of four sequences in the game. These are (rough diagram follows): Mummy & Fairy Office Girl & Hostage Schoolgirl Shower Geisha & Pool Li Sun said: This is four mini games in one. One is a prince trying to defeat a witch. One is a detective saving some friends. One is a bright young scientist that drank an invisibility potion having fun in an all-girl school. And one is where a lost guy bump into an inn with some easy females. The interesting part about this game is that you can choose two ways to play it. With MCTC or just with mouse clicks on the picture screen. But before you start your chosen sequence, there is one more menu! This one has 3 options (rough diagram follows): Play Selecting Text Play Finding Spots Photoshop (may not be there) I guess the Photoshop would appear only after you finish a particular sequence correctly, but the "control" files in the zip file were already set up with the photoshop engaged for all 4 sequences in this game. Anyway, the "Play Selecting Text" is that you play the sequence with lots of text and choosing options at various menus. Doing this one requires a lot of persistence in choosing options over and over until the text you get back stabilizes. And always look for options just added to the menu. The "Play Finding Spots" is the same sequence, just that you have to find the "secret spot(s)" on the image with the mouse in order to proceed. Keep left-clicking in different spots, and notice how the text changes. This one can actually be a lot tougher than the first, because you may have to repeat the clicking several times to move on. Sometimes the "Play Selecting Text" turns into "finding spots" for a sex scene. The Photoshop has no interaction; you just click or press a key to go to the next picture in the sequence. The key can be used to quickly move through most text screens during a sequence, but will stop whenever your input is required. Hold it down to move quickly through a Photoshop. To turn on the Photoshops, use a binary file editor on the "FLAG0" file to make bytes $214 and $215 have the value $11. This was done to all copies I've seen so far, but just in case you get a "virgin" copy, you can do it yourself. If your copy of the game crashes during the Schoolgirl Shower sequence, and gives you a line with the word "S309" at the top of the screen, you are missing the S309.E file. A work-around is to create a zero byte long file S309.E; this will cause the graphics to be messed up on one screen, but the game will continue to run. To create a zero length S309.E file, at a DOS prompt enter: sort > s309.e and then press Ctrl-Z until you get back to the prompt. If you want the "real thing", thank the very nice person who sent me the correct S309.E file recently! It should appear on my web site right next to the 'crescent.txt' file as the file S309.ZIP (20K long). Just put it in the same directory as the rest of the Crescent files. I verified that it corrects the graphics in the photoshop, but I haven't checked it in the actual game play. But I expect it will work... Also, you may get messed up graphics during a few screens while actually playing a sequence. I noticed problems with the first "Mummy" screen, and the "Witch with 2 potions" screen too. These may be due to data errors in game files, but the game is still playable. Or they could just be an incompatibility with my video card or something. There were no problems seen with the Photoshop though. Also, I just noticed that I'm not getting any sound in the game. I guess I used to, since I mentioned it above. Don't know what happened besides that now I have a SB32 AWE PnP which otherwise works fine. If you have anything to add to this file, let me know. Pete Karsanow - bishoujo.helper[AT}sbcglobal{DOT)net http://www.geocities.com/hentaihelper/