This is a hint and patch file for the "XGIRL" (X-GIRL, XGIRLWIN) 
adult Windows Japanese anime game from Red-Zone and IDES'.

WARNING: If bondage and torture turn you off, avoid this game!
Same goes for women peeing.

The game is distributed as 3 ZIP or RAR files, each equivalent to 
one 1.44 floppy. According to the NFO file (this game was 
apparently cracked and distributed by the RTN (REVOLUTiON) 
group), this is a sexy adventure (AVG) game that requires a 
Pentium 90, 8 MB RAM, 20 MB HD space, Win 95, comes on 3 disks. 
They gave it a 7 out of 10 rating.

The game needs NJWIN or something similar to display the Japanese 
text. My copy of NJWIN 1.2.15 had problems with the on-screen 
text, and kept showing left brackets ([) all the time. Sound and 
music support is automatic. Graphics are 640*400 256-colors. 
Keyboard and mouse supported, but only mouse used to play game. 
Right-click to speed up text display during the introduction, 
and bring up localized option menu (when there is no text in 
bottom box). The game may crash your system if you change the 
graphics resolution while playing. The 20 MB is exaggerated, it's 
less than 9 if you clean out all the excess files once the game 
is installed.

Phillipe (my source) had this to say: It's XGIRL and it runs 
under WIN/V. Try to beat it! It is rather hard to understand! You 
have to click everywhere on certain scenes and if you don't know 
that the right button of your mouse opens a menu of possible 
actions, you can click for a very long time!

Run the XGIRL.EXE file in a temporary (empty) directory, then the 
XGIRLDLL.EXE file as well. Don't overwrite the README.TXT file, 
the one in the DLL file just says to copy all the DLLs to your 
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. I'm not sure about the WINNLS.DLL 
file, because its labeled as being from TwinBridge, and I have a 
Microsoft one there already. I'd suggest that if you have a 
WINNLS.DLL already, don't use this one unless the game refuses to 
run. Also, all of these files except TBIMM.DLL are in the 
XGIRLWIN directory already. When I removed TBIMM.DLL, the game 
still ran the photoshop normally, so you may be able to get away 
with not installing any of the DLL files in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM 
directory. A good thing too! I've already got 723 files there... 
TBIMM.DLL appears to be used by the TwinBridge system, so in my 
case with the Microsoft WINNLS it isn't even called. I didn't 
need to run SETUP or WINSTALL either, but you may want to look at 
the INSTALL.BMP file - it isn't for this game.

The text files that come with the game say something about a 
CD-ROM, both Windows 3.1 and 95, 256 colors, and mention the 
ADM.DLL and WINSTALL.EXE files. If somebody can translate the 
README.TXT to find anything I missed, please let me know what it 
says. Because you don't have the proper disc for this game, you 
get no music, and a lot of popup error messages during play.

Run ADVWIN.EXE to play the game. There are two window options 
always available while playing: Exit (left side) and About (right 
side). After the opening screen and sound, you get a menu with 5, 
6, or 7 options:
Start new game (long intro)
Load saved game (1 to 5, cancel)
Change names? (red select box doesn't match my font size)
Music jukebox (requires CD-ROM, bottom option to return)
[if enabled]Show introduction
[if enabled]Photoshop (CG)
Exit game (slower than by Alt-x though)

Appears to be a "Cyber Punk Adventure" with a lesbian dominatrix 
(yes, you in this game) summoned and asked to do something by an 
albino girl and a general. Left-click on things in the scenes to 
get text, especially people's faces. When you run out of new 
things, right click to get a menu when there is no text being 
displayed below. If you haven't clicked on everything, no menu 
will appear. Since you don't have the correct CD-ROM for this 
game, put up with pop-up error messages. The "show introduction" 
option appears on the initial menu only after you have seen the 
introduction once. Something in the FLAG9 file turns this on.

You can only save your game (right-click, top option, slot 1 to 5 
uses files FLAG0 to FLAG4) when in "your" room - two blue chairs, 
large windows with red curtains.

Occasionally you will go into a "combat" mode with a green screen 
and a red display in the bottom left corner. You need to hit 
(click on several secret spots on) your opponent several times 
before the numbers count down. The first 4 girls you get as 
above. You get the blonde in the white dress without combat. But 
you have to hit all the girls once to get the last one (no green 
screen).

Once you capture these girls, you get to torture them. Click on 
the large cabinet in "your" room to get access to them via a 
menu. The menu shows one entry for each girl captured but not 
tortured (into giving you information?) yet, plus the bottom one 
to cancel. If you choose a girl, the game goes into a completely 
different mode. The large vertical panel can be moved left or 
right by clicking on the top arrows. The other items are sex or 
torture tools. Select one, then click it on your victim. Enough 
abuse and the scene changes.

What worked for me was using one whip until I stopped getting new 
marks, then using the other until I got one new mark, then using 
the "special" device that should have been enabled by then. Use 
that (the clips and the needles are used in at least 4 
locations), then use either whip again until you get one more new 
mark. Click on the girl's face before you use something else.

There are two different endings to the game. When you torture the 
albino girl, you get a menu with two options in the upper left 
corner of the screen. The top option is the good ending (a girl 
shoots the guy at the desk, you shoot the general, a building 
blows up, you and the albino get on a plane), the bottom option 
is the bad ending (you have sex with the general but end up 
imprisoned with the other 7 girls). After you reach either of the 
endings, you have to sit through a long credits sequence.

The photoshop has menu entries for each of the 7 girls, plus one 
for all the girls in sequence, plus exit. Left click to advance, 
right click to exit. Unfortunately, all the photoshop shows is 
the torture sequences, and not any of the other sexy pictures.
You can see these with the Susie viewer (see below) in GPC.VFS.

The photoshop flag is somewhere in the file FLAG9, as is the 
"introduction seen" flag. The easiest way to get everything set 
up correctly is to start up the game once, watch the introduction 
through, then exit the game once you see the room with the two 
blue chairs. This will have set up the FLAG9 file properly, and 
set the "introduction seen" flag. Now use your binary file editor 
(hex editor) on file FLAG9, and change $7C from $00 to $80. Save 
and check your work - there should now be 7 options on the main 
menu, and the 6th one is the photoshop.

If you don't want to be bothered with all that work, you can 
download a (I assume it's been fixed like I said) CG file from 
Edsa's site:
http://home.onestop.net/edsa/xgirlcg.zip

If you have the Susie graphics viewer, the XGIRLWIN contains 
the GPC.VFS and ICON.VFS files with some .IPF graphics in them, 
the GPA subdirectory contains lots of .IPQ files with .IPF 
graphics that form animations in them. You need the F&C plug-in 
to view the graphics for this game.
By the way, if your GPC.VFS file is damaged (mine somehow became 
320K instead of 4.12Mb) the game will crash with a GPF in 
ADVWIN.EXE.


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/