This is a ending spoiler/patch/review file for the Windows adult anime 
game "X-Change" from Peach Princess. This is their first English 
translation, the original game was in Japanese by Crowd Co. Ltd. 
(http://www.hs-crowd.co.jp/main.html); I don't have the Japanese one, 
but I dimly recall that good things were said about it. You can check 
the reviews at www.densetsu.com yourself. As the graphic of the game's 
title runs all the letters together to make the title "Xchange", but 
the Japanese version was consistently referred to as "X-Change" and 
the English one uses "X-Change" too, I'll use "Xchange" as an 
alternate.

I just received the English release in the mail (on 12 March 2001) 
after placing a pre-order with JAST USA at the beginning of February 
2001. I figured out a photoshop patch pretty quickly, and got some 
help figuring out the multiple game endings from a guy who posted at 
the Peach Princess site's BBS.

Li Sun says: nothing yet!

English version requires Windows 9x or better. System requirements on 
the box or in the README file. Has an Autorun program (more on this 
below) for setup and play. Note that if you install the game to some 
directory besides the default, the Autorun program will not be able to 
start the game; you'll have to use the link that the installer puts on 
your desktop, or the links put in your Start menu in the Peach 
Princess group.

Mouse optional but highly recommended; keyboard possible but I can't 
confirm using it. Uses 640*480 16-bit graphics. Sound unknown; 8 audio 
files of unknown format on CD for the music take up about 200 MB of 
the 265 MB on the disc.

Very nice packaging! I like these DVD-style boxes better than the 
clear plastic CD ones.
I strongly suggest you read the README file (available as an option on 
the Autorun menu) before installing and playing.
Note that there is basically a working copy of Autorun Maestro by 
Pollen Software in the MAE directory of the CD-ROM. But it won't run 
from there on the CD.
As with the JAST USA products already released in English, there are 
some directories with game images on the CD. Invoke the "Browse the 
CD" option on the Autorun menu, then look in the "Image Archive" 
directories with a JPG viewer. Note that "Little My Maid" is mentioned 
as being the first of a series, but there are no notes on the X-Change 
or Tokimeki Check-In images about those games.
I don't know why there are 0-byte "ICON_" files in most of the CD's 
directories, but they don't seem to hurt anything.
The file XCHANGE.TXT in the "X-Change Files" directory is in 
Japanese. Contents are apparently system requirements and other 
information about the Japanese version of the game.
Requires the CD in the drive while playing? (The README file warns 
you not to take it out and put it back in while playing.)

The main menu seems self-explanatory to me. But the Music mode 
(jukebox) option could use some documentation: only the 1 through 8 
buttons, the 4 arrow buttons to the right of them, and the 2 Exit 
areas do anything on this screen. The "equalizer" display is just 
random lights, although they're synchronized to the tempo of the 
musical selection.
If you leave the game at the main menu for about 20 seconds, it will 
show you "bio" screens for 5 of the characters.

While playing, the "Data Format" button will wipe out ALL your saved 
games and H images seen status when you press "Yes". DO NOT PRESS 
THIS BUTTON UNLESS YOU WANT TO START ALL OVER AGAIN!

The H images that you see while playing the game are immediately 
available in the CG Mode (the game's photoshop). Unfortunately, for 
some reason this doesn't include the very first shot of Tatsuya with 
breasts, when Tatsuya first exposes "herself" to Asuka or the parents, 
when Tatsuya is shown as an overlay in a room while topless, etc. 
That's too bad, but with 10 saved games, and a simple "high speed" 
mode, it's easy to get to those if you really want to see them again.

After playing the game for a while, I finally noticed a few glitches 
in the translation. Most of these appeared as places where there was 
literally a "***" in the text. I'm guessing the translator intended to 
go back and fix these, and forgot. Only a few other minor errors were 
noted besides those.


ENDINGS: (thanks to Doug (lodossknight[AT}juno{DOT).com) for a lot of 
this)
#1: For both #1 and #2 endings, have to pick a certain sequence of 
    choices: Miyagi when feeling sick (or you'll get to one of the 
    other endings before you make all the choices that get you to this 
    one); "restrain yourself" with Satoh; "apologize" to Miyagi; just 
    don't "cry out for help" with Seiji; "go to chemistry room"; "red 
    medicine"; and finally "Don't choose Satoh". This will get you 
    Asuka, with a credits sequence after the sex. You have to click 
    the mouse to exit the Peach Princess/Crowd screen and see a final 
    sequence.
#2: Follow the ending #1 choices, except "Choose Satoh" at the very 
    end, instead of "Don't choose Satoh". This will get you Asami 
    Satoh, with a credits sequence after the sex, just like Asuka's 
    but with a different image. You have to click the mouse to exit 
    the Peach Princess/Crowd screen and see a final sequence.
The rest seem to be considered "unhappy" endings to the game, since 
there are no credits shown, and Tatsuya doesn't change back to being 
a male in any of them.
#3: "She-Male" with Satoh. Two ways to get this:
   a. First, must choose Miyagi when feeling sick (or you'll get to 
      one of the other endings before you make all the choices that 
      get you to this one). When Satoh examines naked Tatsuya, you get 
      the choice: "restrain yourself" / "go for it". "go for it" gets 
      you 5 H pix with Satoh. Avoid the Seiji ending, and later choose 
      "go to chemistry". Satoh will have a green potion to try that 
      turns Tatsuya into a "she-male".
   b. Even if you "restrain yourself", avoid the Seiji ending (#7), 
      and go to the chemistry room, Satoh will have a red and a green 
      medicine to choose from. Pick the green one to get ending #3 a 
      slightly different way.
#4: 3-on-1 forever. When feeling sick, choose to go to Miyagi. If you 
    choose "agree to model" (instead of "apologize") or "go to art 
    room" (instead of "go to chemistry room"), you'll get this ending.
#5: Terada's Woman. When feeling sick, choose to go to Terada. You'll 
    get to an ending with him regardless of further choices.
#6: Too much fun. When feeling sick, choose to go to Nurse. You'll 
    get to this ending the next day regardless of further choices.
#7: Two-timing with Seiji. At end of 3rd day, choose "don't go to 
    sister's room", then "cry out".
This appears to be all the endings. Getting all of them, as well as 
going through the "one more time" optional sequence, and then both 
the "go to sister's room" and "don't go to sister's room" + "give up 
and endure" sequences, will get you 100% CG seen. I'm pretty sure 
"one more time" and "go to sister's room" don't change any of the 
endings, although Doug said you needed to pick "enough for today" and 
"give up and endure" to get to endings #1 or #2.


The saved game data and the H image status are stored in the file 
C:\WINDOWS\XCHANGE.DAT, length 4620 ($120C) bytes. The saved games are 
near the beginning, the H image status near the end of the file. To 
turn on all the H images (CG 100%), use a binary file editor to change 
bytes $1168 through $11B7 (80 or $50 bytes) all to $01.


There certainly are a lot of H images (while the case says "hundreds", 
that must be counting stuff that's not in the photoshop), and the 
translation is pretty good. The interface could have been documented 
better, and some of the screen is never used for displaying text, yet 
you can tell that sometimes there's not enough room to fit everything. 
Some people may miss the lack of sound effects or voice, and think the 
graphics are too "simple", but the story is rather original and the 
de-censorship well-done. I'd call this an excellent first effort by 
Peach Princess, worth what I paid, and I'm looking forward to not only 
finishing this game but the next 3 titles as well (when they arrive; 
did you pre-order 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/