This file is for the English/Italian/French/German (although still 
best played in Japanese) release from Hobibox titled "LoveLoveShow!"
It contains some game operating advice, photoshop patches, and a 
mini-review.

Before buying or playing "LoveLoveShow!", you should read the review 
found at J-Mate: http://www.jmate.com/
I'll let you find it in there, rather than give a link to a PHP page 
that could easily change. I agree with that review, except that luckily 
for me, the music didn't work under Windows XP, and I found it annoying 
that a girl "winning" meant you got to see pictures of her being 
abused in the Gallery. Note too, that Kirara has only 1 H image instead 
of the usual 2, and while the box says all characters are aged 18 or 
older, I have some doubts about kawaii Kirara.
Also, you should read the limited documentation (in English and Italian) 
available at: http://www.hobibox.com/love/


The "original" Japanese game played without background music under 
Windows XP for me, because somehow CD-audio wasn't being requested 
properly through the MCI API. It was fine under Windows ME though.
Right-click during the story segments (Japanese or unreadable text in 
a window at the bottom of the screen) to remove the window for a full-
screen image.
The file that records your progress in the game is GAME\SAVE0000.DAT. 
Unfortunately, I accidentally discovered that the "Unistall" (sic) 
option wipes out ALL the files in the GAME folder, but doesn't remove 
the folder itself; annoying and strange. So, it took me longer than 
expected to create a photoshop (Gallery in this case) patch for this 
game.  I actually had to play through the entire game like a normal 
person, because every time I thought I had the photoshop codes 
worked out, some feature of the game wouldn't work. Anyway, the 
instructions for a photoshop patch are below.

Game A is a "Concentration" puzzle; flip over matching pairs to remove 
them. Each round you solve, it gets tougher, until the last one you 
have only 10 tries; you have to be persistent and lucky to finish that 
one. When you complete a round, you get an image or 2; complete them 
all to get a slide show with a "Thank You" at the end. If you haven't 
finished them all, choose "Continue" to resume where you left off.
Partway through playing the Game A, I got a request to find TRACK02.WAV 
for the game; any file that I picked was enough to let  it continue. 
Obviously, one of the music files was left out when the game was made, 
and insufficient testing was done.

Game B is a "15" puzzle, and each time you solve it you get to see one 
H image, a non-H one, then the same H one again. Luckily, if the puzzle 
is accidentally scrambled so you can't solve it (exactly 2 pieces need 
to be interchanged), just do the best you can until the "bad" pieces 
are near the bottom right corner where the "space" goes, and the game 
will recognize the problem and consider itself solved. When you've 
gotten all of the images, or gotten bored, you can click on the 
"Continue" under Game B to see the images you've gotten so far. If you 
haven't gotten them all, the game will start at that stage. The pieces 
move rather slowly on this one, and you can't make a whole row move 
at once, just one piece into the hole at a time. After several 
crashes under XP, I also think that you should wait until a piece 
stops moving before you click on the next one. Great, it makes a 
slow and boring process even slower.

Game C is another "15" puzzle, but nothing seems to happen after 
you solve it. At least the tiles move quickly on this one.

The "Bonus" item on the menu is just some CG from "How about a luv 
sweet tart", a game that Hobibox Europe plans to release on DVD in 
early 2003. Click on the "Coming Soon" to go to the Hobibox 
website.

The BONUS folder on the CD contains some images and demos. 
Unfortunately, the demo program in the ALCHEMIC folder (which I assume 
is for the long-quiet "Alchemic Girl" release) doesn't work. The 
GOKUDEMO.AVI is a promo movie for Viper Paradice has OK sound volume 
under Windows ME but no sound under my Windows XP Pro. And the M1.EXE, 
which you'd assume is a demo of Viper M1, is just an animated 
non-interactive movie (you can click to skip voice samples but 
sometimes it hangs after doing that); the *.MID files aren't part of 
the demo and I guess are just there for you to listen to if you love 
game music. 
There are a few images in the GAME2 directory, but they're just the 
backgrounds for the "Concentration" game and some mad/sad girls for (I 
guess) when they lose.


Photoshop patch:
Make sure the original game is installed, and you know where on your 
hard drive(s) the files are. Start up the original game, then Quit. 
Make sure a GAME\SAVE0000.DAT file was created where you installed 
the game. Make a backup copy of it, in case you make a mistake, or 
you can try copying the file from the game CD-ROM.
Using a hex editor, modify only the following locations (all values 
are in hexadecimal):
addresses 04,18,28,38   contents 80
address   08            contents FF
address   10            contents 90
address   20            contents 50
address   30            contents 40
address   88            contents C0
Then save the modified file, and you should have all girls available 
in the Gallery, and the Special command will work.

For the uncensored games, look for the files FS1 and FS2 in your 
C:\ directory. If they aren't there, you can create them with 
Notepad or Wordpad - any text file editor - but NOT Word or anything 
that allows special formatting of text.
Change or create FS1 with the contents "888fin" and save it; file 
length should be only 6 bytes. Take out any extra lines or use a 
hex editor to do it if your text editing doesn't work.
Similarly, the file FS2 should be "finpxcxx", total 8 bytes.
        

Pete's mini-review:
With more translation to get the Japanese game story/dialogue, and the 
data on the girls, this would have been an excellent product. In the 
state it's in, this is only a half-hearted attempt at a port to 
English. I feel sorry for the French and Germans, who get nothing but 
some text on the back of the box to guide them.


If you have anything to add to this file, let me know.

Peter Karsanow - bishoujo.helper[AT}sbcglobal{DOT)net
http://www.geocities.com/hentaihelper/p_hgames.htm