This file contains some information for the Windows adult anime game "True Love" in English from Otaku (Bishojo Manga #5). I don't know which Japanese game from Parsley this is translated from. Otaku was supposed to have released this game as early as 6/98, but I didn't pre-order and finally got around to ordering it (and some others) in June 1999. Note that the hype described this game as "girls chasing guys" but it's just the usual guy chasing girls. It runs under Windows 9x, but the package says nothing about Windows 3.x so don't expect it to work under that old OS. The CD allows installation for text in English or German, and lets you choose between using about 9.4 Mb or 1 Mb on your hard drive by leaving various files on the CD or copying them to your hard drive. Video resolution needed is at least 640*480 256 colors - the game will switch back to the current resolution if you leave, and exhibits no strange behaviors if you pop in and out to do stuff in Windows, except that the game stops running, especially the credits. All necessary files necessary reside in one directory on your hard drive, but you'll need to leave the CD in the CD-ROM drive while playing. You don't need any special Japanese fonts or software to make this game work, although a MIDI device is needed to hear music (make sure you aren't playing other MIDI files, even "paused", or you'll get lots of pop-up messages). Li Sun has nothing for this game as of 19 July 1999. I'm going to call this one "solved," even though I haven't seen all of the endings, because: 1. I have a photoshop patch below 2. Several people are interested in me producing a file for this game. First time anybody has asked for a game file before I've even unwrapped the package! I don't know of any files that this game copies to C:\WINDOWS (or equivalent), but that doesn't mean there aren't any. To uninstall the game, double-click on the CD (Autoplay) and pick Uninstall. Once the main program (T_LOVE95.EXE) starts, you have no normal Windows controls unless you use keyboard commands, e.g. Alt-Tab. The mouse does all the work in the game. Right- or left-click while text is slowly printing out to finish it. The Photoshop shows up as the "CG ROOM" option on the main menu. It starts out with 11 entries all at 0%. Click on a girl's name, and then you get the pictures in the photoshop for her, one at a time. Each one is shown with two options: the bottom one exits back to the main menu, the top one goes on to the next picture. When you get to the last picture, it goes back to the CG menu. You will get sick and tired of that "venetian blind" transition effect here, and while playing the game. The Music player has 15 selections. To switch to a different selection, press the ">>" or "<<" buttons. Note that #10 has no description until you get to 100% with Anze. Press the eject (triangle above horizontal bar) button to leave the Music player screen. Up to 6 saved games are allowed. The English translation could be better. Notice that Mikae mentions on July 1 that it might snow!? Amazing how September 1 is both the first and last day of the term/semester... Your first choice in the game is what to say to Mikae - love / hate / "want to have sex" (which she basically ignores). Next, if you'll loan 3,000 Yen to Kazuhiko - yes / no. If you do, you'll open up a sequence involving seeing Chiemi and getting the "Final Oxymoron VII" game cartridge that helps you see Kazuhiko's sister Arisa. Things get complicated after that... There's some randomness in what happens, you can reload a game and get different results! Especially for the events that occur as you walk from place to place - one time I found Mayumi's panties, but when I reloaded 5 times the best I got was being chased away by Mikisaki. THE GIRLS (AND ONE GUY) Anze (the Angel): 1. buy "angel feather" item at wierd shop for 10,000 yen 2. take in cat 3. several days later, the cat will turn into Anze 4. "could this be it?" will lead to sex with Anze, she turns back into a full-fledged (heh) angel 5. she'll be back at the very end of the game, choose her Her CG can't be selected even when it's 90% - you have to get to 100% with her to see any of them. She's the first hidden character in the game, and the most obvious. Mikae: Call her on the 15th? (of July or August?) Wants to see "At the end of youth and love" at the movies, you'll need 2600 or 1300 yen to pay for tickets. Birthday September 28th. She WILL know if you've fucked Remi or even gone on the kidnapping/date with her, so you might as well not even bother meeting her after doing Remi. If your statistics aren't acceptable at the end of the game, Mikae says you should be kinder. Remi: need to have high Scholarship - 160 will get you #1 of 194, and a date with Remi except that she's kidnapped! go "left" to save time. choice of "make love to Remi" or "resist her" - duh! By the way, you have a choice of meeting her for the date/kidnapping/possible sex on the 27th or 28th. Does something special happen if you give Remi the rabbit pendant from the wierd shop? May have to do this before the library date? Does it matter which of the 3 places (library, college, love hotel) you propose for your next date? Although the weird guy who calls himself the Meiai defence force says he wants 3000 yen to open the locked boot (car trunk), the game won't take any of your money. Do NOT ask Remi for a date on the 28th, or somehow she and Mikae will meet and both will leave. Arisa: Katzuhiko's sister who looks much younger than the 18 she's supposed to be. At the swimming race on 7/27, go after the drowning person to save her and first meet Arisa. Not sure what you need to do after that... Your chance to go further with Arisa is when Kazuhiko gives you the "Final Oxymoron VII" cartridge - she'll come over to your flat to play it. Mayumi: Will meet you for lunch, and comes up for a voucher to pay even if you have the money. Will drop a pair of panties in front of the "used clothes" store, and you keep them. Mikisaki will tell you to leave the area, or you can get an event where you don't get the panties and he tells you to go away anyway. You can give Mayumi's panties back to her, 9/07 evening to go to an amusement park. 2000 yen each for park, 4000 or 7000 yen for love hotel. There's a scene where she's molested by Mikisaki, but you and Yumi find out and bust him. Yumi: after the "pile of papers" breast fondling, and the panty viewing when she visits your flat, you have to find Yumi out on the street at night when she's drunk sometime after Mikisaki left (see Mayumi). There's a wierd guy, probably a mugger... Miyuki: probably need to have high Appearance and/or Physical Strength and/or Art, but she'll ask you to model for her. Buy shorts for 3000 or 4000 yen. Her place next Sunday lunch/afternoon. If your statistics are unacceptable at the end of the game, she says you should "reflect on yourself more." Ryoko: first shows up on September 1, then you can meet her on the roof of the college to first get the idea that she looks like somebody else without those glasses... Kazuhiko will mention Sonoko Takahashi, and you'll finally figure it out. That skinny guy with the beard is her brother/agent. Misako: meet her at the train station the first time. She eventually becomes the substitute school nurse. Akane: shows up around August 08 when you see the guy with a beard looking for girls (Ryoko's brother). says she'll be back, haven't seen her yet... may not be a real character... Kazuhiko: can be your gay boyfriend!? Lend him 3000 yen on the first day to see Chiemi (or at least some girls) in the changing room, allows him to buy the "Final Oxymoron VII" game cassette that he gives to you later. Arisa will come to your flat to play the game. NOTES ON PLAY maximum Passion is 99 maximum Appearance is 160 (150 +10 for wiseman's jeans) maximum Scholarship is 160 (150 +10 for wiseman's jeans) maximum Physical Strength is 160 (150 +10 for wiseman's jeans) Fatigue is set to 0 if a god visits you (do a lot of one activity, gets you a +20 bonus in it too) or you have an encounter/date with any girl. If you "Pleasure" a lot, a god will visit and give you a special power - what? If you get the high score at Kazuhiko's game on August 6th, the god of games give you +10 or so in all the good statistics. I'm not sure what you need to get the high score, but I had over 100 in everything at the time, including a rabbit pendant and wiseman's jeans. Shopping items: energy drink - 3000 yen - +20 Physical Strength, -(>=15) Fatigue study book - 3000 yen - +10 Scholarship art book - 3000 yen - +10 Art adult magazine - 3000 yen - +? Passion, -20 Fatigue accessory - 6000 yen - for a girl cuddly toy - 6000 yen - for a girl flowers - 9000 yen - for a girl (they last?) rabbit pendant - 500 yen - +5 Appearance Misanga of Passion - 3000 yen - ? red bracelet - 10000 yen - ?great fortune? wiseman's jeans - 12000 yen - +10 to all except Fatigue golden frog - 20000 yen - "cleans men of all sins, brings happiness", cursed? lottery ticket - 1000 yen - drawing on 20th of month Blackjack game - 500 yen - may win Can only buy one each of energy drink, study book, art book per shopping trip. There's a random event where you find 10,000 yen in an envelope. Your father will give you 10,000 yen when he visits one day in August. Apparently the Anze sequence is supposed to involve you seeing a fortune teller during play, but I didn't see him until the end. The fortune teller, if you meet him, should charge you 300, 500, or 1000 yen to give you some hints. Some of these hints are: You may find luck if you get bad test results on purpose. You may get something good if you keep your grades up. You may meet a young-looking girl at the beach (probably refers to Arisa and the swimming contest). I see ears and a tail... (gives $ back) Keep your Passion high! (probably refers to Anze) (500 yen) I see a girl, a man & a woman in the student counsel room. You will meet Miss Yumi when drunk. (300 yen) Watch your promises to 2 girls, do you like cats? The game text is in the DATE file (DATG for German). A lot of what is mentioned above is from there, so don't be surprised if I got a few things wrong, or they can never happen in the game. The boss at the part-time job (WORK) is Remi's father. Work always pays 3000 yen, raises Physical Strength and Fatigue, but lowers Appearance and possibly Scholarship & Art. When you get to September 30, the game will give you an opportunity to save, then let you pick a girl to propose to. You'll probably have only a few of the total that may say yes, some you may have seen only once in this particular play of the game. Pick one, then you find out if she likes you too - if she does, you get one more picture (several more for Anze) and then the credits; if she doesn't, you get a speech and the credits. Either way, the credits are really annoying after the first time you see them... I couldn't find any way to speed them up! They do mention there may be a sequel. My first time playing, I managed to get all the statistics up to maximum at least once (except Fatigue), and be able to choose between Mikae, Remi and Anze by backing up to 9/27 and either doing or skipping the date with Remi. So you shouldn't have any trouble getting the highest statistic values if you concentrate on them, I think you can get some up to maximum even faster if you work and spend money on the shop items. Review: Graphics are excellent, although I wish the CG ROOM had a way to do -all- the categories. Translation to English could have been better, including a few "line too long" problems, and some British expressions (naff!) that us Yanks will just have to gloss over. My biggest complaint about the game is nothing to do with the software, but how the game was advertised! Even the package says "An adventure game with a difference... You're up against a gang of sex mad girls on the rampage!" Hah! The pre-release hype said something similar, and none of it is true. As the main character, you are a male college student, and none of these girls are remotely on a rampage, and there's no gang of them. The hype implied that you'd be playing as a girl competing for guys against other girls, and this game is just another "choose your girlfriend" in the genre of May Club or Nanpa. I would have bought it anyway, I'm just disappointed that the game isn't what it was promised to be. Compared to May Club, playing this was a lot quicker, even with having to figure out the photoshop patch. To patch the Photoshop (CG ROOM) so all pictures are visible, use a binary/hex file editor on the file END in the TRUELOVE directory on your hard drive. Change the entire contents of this file, all 256 (FF hex) bytes, to the value FF hex, and all the categories will go to 100%. This will NOT do anything for seeing the endings so you know what really happened, it just turns on all the pictures. IF THIS DOESN'T WORK FOR YOU, LET ME KNOW AND I'LL TRY IT ON A FRESH INSTALL. 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/