This is a hint/walkthrough file for the adult anime game "Meisou". There are supposedly both Japanese and Chinese versions of the game available. The English version is called "Runaway City", and can be bought from J-List or companies that sell JAST USA products. I will only address the English version "Runaway City" in this file, and will assume you legally own a copy of the game; it can be played off the CD-ROM, so I won't discuss copying it AT ALL. Thanks to Li Sun: A guy who is about to graduate can't think of what he is going to do. So he fool around the city, meet and have fun with his friends and strangers, all female of course. After a while, he start to wonder why so many girls (10) love him so. With the help of another girl, he found out he has a gift from a 300 year old tree spirit. Nice gift too, anyone he likes will like him, and anyone he doesn't like will avoid him. But he has to get rid of it, ah well... Based on sample pictures from a game with this name made by Tiare, a company associated with JAST, "Meisou" -is- "Runaway City". Check out the JAST USA site (http://www.jastusa.com). The story is slightly different between Li Sun's and JAST's descriptions, but not enough to be troublesome. English version of the game requires nothing special to display Japanese characters - because there aren't any! No special memory requirements under Windows 9x, although at least 8 MB RAM is usual for Windows anyway. CD-ROM and mouse are required. Uses ?*? ?-color VGA graphics, a 512K video card is enough. Music is MIDI, should have no problems with a sound card that's 100% SoundBlaster compatible. The README file says something about not getting stereo sound while using the CD-ROM, and not being able to control the volume during the game - they suggest changing the speaker volume by hand if necessary. There's a lot of good advice and information in the game's README files (TXT, PDF and HTM formats), although only the HTM one links to the other (QSTART and HINTS) files properly. Run the game by double-clicking on either RUNAWAY or RUNAWAY2 on the CD-ROM. The next 2 sections are copies of what I got from two websites many months ago, before I even had a legal copy of the game. I've only altered them to fix spelling errors. Edsa posted the following from Midi (edsa_m[AT}hotmail{DOT)com): I've compiled this simple walkthru for anyone who have trouble reaching the "happy end" in Runaway City. The last part is where you meet the TREE GOD, the source of Hiroaki's good luck. He goes there with Yuki's help. OK here goes.... When you get to the TREE GOD talk to Yuki 3X and talk to the TREE GOD. Ask him(?) about your power and mother. When he gives you an option to throw away your power, answer DO IT. Now come a test from the TREE GOD to see if you got what it takes to throw away your power. Beware! One false move and you'll get the BAD ENDING! 1st Scenario: Fujiko You see Fujiko in a car with a guy that looks like your father. Think about Fujiko 3X, and on yourself until you come to a YES/NO option, choose NO. 2nd Scenario: Overpass You see a biker girl that looks familiar. Talk to her and think about her. After paying the fee and doing it in public you'll be given a YES/NO option again, choose YES. After a few excuse and text, another YES/NO option appear, choose YES. 3rd Scenario: Desert Eagle(!) You'll find Dr. Negishi is tied to a chair and is being interogated by some guys named Black Snake and Salamander. WATCH a couple of times until you've got the chance to FIGHT. Select an intro sequence and help the doctor. After some dialog you'll be given a question, answer NO, THAT'S WRONG. This scenario cracks me up... if you played SoS before you know this scenario. Final Scenario: The Truth You see Sayaka a rebel who WAS fighting against you, now she is just a woman with no soul. "Do" her then STOP, and REFUSE when Kato asked you if he can finish the job. You've been elected as the first president that won on popularity. Choose INTERROGATION. You'll see Yume on a triangular wooden horse (is that what it is called?) being interrogated. Do the interogation yourself, ask her about her sister and do her as well. While broadcasting the death penalty, choose "MAKE THEM STOP" until an assasin shows up. Don't touch her, ASK her until you can Use the executioners on her. Rape her and when you get an option to stop, STOP 2x!. When an option to save her appear... do so until you hear yourself talking. If you made it out to the park, then..... CONGRATULATIONS!!! Here's another partial walkthrough: Walkthrough For Runaway City By Migor/Raxa` (lunar[AT}hotmail{DOT)com) You should be able to play this game without any difficulties until the part where you reach the GodTree. To get the good ending and save you from commiting suicide, I'll give you some hints. After you see the God Tree, keep talking and asking until the choice 'do it' or 'do not do it' come out. Choose 'do it'. You'll meet Fujiko and your dad fucking, do NOT choose Look at all, instead keep Thinking until the choice 'yes' or 'no' come out. Then you will be transported and meet Mariko. Do look, talk, think until you fuck her and the option yes or no come out. Choose yes or commit suicide. Soon another yes or no option come out again, choose yes again. Now you will be trasnported to a stupid dream where you are supposed to be some sort of a super hero. Choose any option you want as long as you keep watching until it says a hero cannot just sit back, then choose fight, laugh, punch, kick, knockout move. Soon an option will come out, choose No it's wrong. Now you become a mad scientist. Choose whatever option you want but rape her. Then when an option continue or stop come out, choose stop. After that choose refuse and you'll be transported to the next screen. Now you are a President. An option of what you should do today come out, choose interrogation. Then choose let me do it. After that choose interrogate, interrogate, where is sister. Soon you will see Nene, then choose let me do it, interrogate, interrogate, interrogate, ask. Soon you will be transported to the execution room. Now, choose do it yourself, an assassin will come out. Choose watch 3X, Death penalty 3X, Do not touch, ask 4X, look at everybody, set free a few times , Do as you wish, Declare innocent , Rape, stop, stop, then keep saving her, you'll wake up, get Yuki as a grilfriend, THE END! question? I had to use RUNAWAY2; RUNAWAY often got stuck loading the PMDIBM driver. Sometimes the game would require you to click multiple times to make the title screen fade in or out, and the "growing tree" sequence didn't show up at all. If the game gets stuck or crashes - mine got stuck when Dad wants to take you drinking some more, and crashed when about to take Rin to the lab - try loading the game again, and restart your computer if it doesn't work the first time. Saved games are placed in your \WINDOWS\TEMP directory as RUNDATA#.000, where # is 1 through 5. Like most games of this type, reloading a saved game will put you at the beginning of a scene, rather than exactly where you saved. OK, there's 2 partial walkthroughs above, so all you have to do is play the game until you get to the Tree God part. As far as I can tell, there is literally no way to go wrong before then, the worst you can do is get slowed down because you're not picking the right options - the worst is when you're at the Street intersection with 9 or so choices of where to go next. Anyway, follow the Edsa/Midi walkthrough, and you'll be fine. Unfortunately, the end credits usually crash on my machine with an illegal instruction, I can't tell why. But if you get to see all of it, you just go back to the main menu. Sorry, there's no photoshop provided by this game. That's the one major complaint that I have about all the JAST products I've seen so far. One way I thought of to have one is to write your own .OVL files to display the pictures, and then patch a saved game to jump to the start of your hacked photoshop. It turns out that's exactly what somebody has done, although the most I'd done is refer to the possibility a few times. So, thanks to Bowlingman (bowlingman[AT}gmx{DOT)net) for going to all the trouble of creating an initial try at a photoshop and jukebox! I'm going to provide the file on my website (http:/www.geocities.com/hentaihelper/) as RUNAWAYCG.ZIP. To make this work, copy the entire game CD (including the 400 Mb PAIN.DAT) to your hard drive. If you've played Runaway City before, find the RUNDATA1.000 file, and rename it. Then unzip the RUNDATA1.000 in this ZIP file to your C:\WINDOWS\TEMP directory (or wherever you have Windows installed). Now unzip all the .OVL files to the RUNAWAY directory on your hard drive. Now start the Runaway City game, and load the first saved game. You will have choices of Backgrounds, H Pictures or Animations. If you get strange colors on the animations when you pick them later, reboot your computer and try viewing the animations first. Right click at the 3 choices to get the game's normal save/load/quit choices. Anyway, another typical JAST adventure. VERY linear except at the very end, where one wrong move sends you to the bad ending. Decent music, pretty good graphics. Although you can press the Ctrl key to skip the text, you'll want to read through it the first time. But unfortunately, you won't need to play the game a second time. Not as sympathetic a character as in 3 Sisters' Story, I think. After you see a few of these games, you start to wish JAST would move on to something else... But buy it if you haven't already, just to keep the English translations coming! There are much better games out there now (May Club, or even Knight of Xentar), but this isn't bad as multiple-choice linear adventure games go. 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/