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GAME INFORMATION
Official Title: Critical Point
Released: 1998-07-24
Translated: 2002-03
Company: Sweet Basil
Translation Company: Peach Princess
Edition: Regular (Uncensored)

SUMMARY

The year is 2037, and Earth is in the midst of a new cold war -- but things are turning hot in space. When a new situation develops on the Moon, a threat that could destabilize the delicate political balance of power on Earth and in space, it's your job to get to the bottom of things. Peach Princess presents the first science fiction bishoujo adventure ever seen in the English market, written by one of Japan's top SF anime writers!

In the early 21st century, a sudden shortage of food and energy sparked World War III, a massive conflict that saw the deaths of millions and brought the population of Earth to 15% of its prewar level. Years later, an uneasy calm has descended on humanity, although a state of war still technically exists. Four power blocs that share control of the Moon and the earth, each looking for a weakness they can exploit against the others.

You are Captain Leiji Osumi of the Free Alliance Space Force, formerly a fighter pilot in the War. Your past is haunted by a terrible incident that caused you to change careers, transferring to the top secret intelligence division. When a series of technical problems on the Free Alliance Moon Base D-02 hint at sabotage, you are dispatched to get to the bottom of things, under the cover of "Technical Advisor."

The military learned long ago that women are better adapted to lonely assignments in space, and so the base is staffed almost entirely by females. Arriving at the base, you discover that an inexplicable sexual insanity has gripped its normally professional staff, prompting further investigation. Are these strange occurrences connected with the sabotage somehow? You have to untangle the mystery and get things back on track before one of the other power blocs notices that anything is amiss and tries to attack.

You soon meet with Commander Carla Benedict, who is in charge of the base. This mysterious soldier has kept her old history of commando training from being common knowledge, as well as her former marriage and divorce. Ever since her academy days, she has always scored at the top of the curve in any evaluation -- she has brains as well as beauty, but she is at a loss as to what the source of trouble is on her base. Your true identity is unknown to her so that she will not realize that even she is not above suspicion in the mysterious chain of events transpiring under her command.

2nd. Lieutenant Elise Triad is nominally just another engineering support staff member -- however, in actual fact she is codename EL-03, a top secret military prototype android whose true nature is known only to yourself and the base commander. You constantly have to remind yourself that Elise is simply an android, a mechanical doll, not a real human girl. Your horrifying past requires this of you... it's something you can never forget. Elise's abilities would allow her to run the base in place of the central computer, if need be -- she will be an invaluable asset to your investigation.

The story for Critical Point was written by Kenichi Matsuzaki, who was heavily involved with Macross (Robotech), the original Gundam series, Orgus and Bubblegum Crisis. Various bonus materials, including a translated interview with the writer on his works, is included with the game.

A rich erotic space mystery with 24 unique endings and a satisfying science fiction plot, Critical Point is a bold sci-fi mystery adventure with many interesting twists and turns in the story. An excellent and fresh new game concept, from Peach Princess!



VNDB LINK

http://vndb.org/v145



DOWNLOAD

Code:
http://rg.to/file/e27d05adfe057ebf9ce9ddd21567af33/Critical_Point_-_ANIME-SHARING.COM.rar.html
http://rg.to/file/76223e1c121ffa5e82a56df787821feb/Critical_Point_Saves_Plus_Unlocker_-_ANIME-SHARING.COM.rar.html
Code:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/2rn3cpa2yiqj/Critical_Point_-_ANIME-SHARING.COM.rar
http://www.filefactory.com/file/76bdgq4x4z29/Critical_Point_Saves_Plus_Unlocker_-_ANIME-SHARING.COM.rar



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I just downloaded the Fileserve version, and in the iso the contents of the files are random stuff (all but the autorun.inf, the exe is not an exe, the image not an image ect.), and I just leave a reply here, so u can check the files, if they are really a working iso...
 
Re: Critical Point

I used these files to play it; so yeah, they should be working. It's been a few months since I did that, so I'll see which file exactly you need to use to install it.

EDIT: Checked the backup version and that is working just fine. Will also test if the archive got corrupted while packing/uploading, but that will take a bit longer.

Filelist (on the mounted disc):
  • AUTORUN.INF
  • BMG.ARC
  • CFGMGR32.DLL
  • CHIP.arc
  • credits.txt
  • CRITICAL.EXE
  • DIRECTX.CAB
  • DIRECTX.INF
  • DSETUP.DLL
  • DSETUP32.DLL
  • DXM6PTCH.EXE
  • DXMEDIA.EXE
  • DXSETUP.EXE
  • ending.dat
  • index.htm
  • logo.jpg
  • notes.html
  • peach.dat
  • README.TXT
  • RIO.arc
  • SE.ARC
  • SETUP.EXE
  • SETUP.TXT
  • SETUPAPI.DLL
  • SHFOLDER.DLL
  • VOICE.ARC
 
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File unpacks fine, iso file is mounted without hitch and both installing and playing as well as playing from disc work perfectly.
Whatever the error, it's on your end.

Make sure to extract the file with a proper unpacker. ISO should have a size of 662.507.520 Bytes. Mount with a decent program like Alcohol 120% or Daemon Tools. Alternatively use a proper burning program like IMGBurn to put it on a disc.
 
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Thanx for checking, the problem here was that I could unpack the ISO fine, but the install files were wrong (not the name and size but the actual content). I just wanted to make sure that the version here work (for others sake). It's possible that something went wrong when I was unpacking the ISO, but WinRar didn't throw any error. As for me I already downloaded the game from an other source, sorry if i was wrong.
 
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Why would you unpack an iso in the first place? They contain additional information that gets lost when unpacking - thus why you mount them instead.
 
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No, EvanDark is correct, the iso file is corrupt beyond belief. The file headers are fine, but the contents seem misencoded or possibly misaligned by a few bytes. I've tried both the fileserve and hotfile links to no avail, so it's probably the archive itself at fault.

Unpacked results are the same on both WinRAR and 7zip. If I had to guess, I'd say your password encryption is at fault. Could you try to upload a new archive without any special characters in your password? Or perhaps with no password at all, even.
 
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That makes no sense, as once unpacked there shouldn't be any problems. Additionally the files from the hosts work fine when I mount them in Alcohol 120% here.

I'll upload a password free version for testing later. I'll also see about testing the files with Deamon Tools, might be that it's the mounting software not reading the file correctly.
 
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Tested the archives on two different PCs with different localisation settings and with both Alchohol 120%, Daemon Tools Lite and with actually extracting the ISO file. Everything worked perfectly in all circumstances; it is simply not possible to recreate the error described above. Testing on a third PC gave a 64bit system error (program only for 32bit and so on), but this problem does not affect all 64bit OS' (first two PCs were also 64bit).
It's also pretty unlikely that the password would interfere in any way with the contents of the file - either you can't unpack or you can. I added a password free, non-ISO version for those with strange problems anyway, as that should work regardless of any issues you have. Strangely enough this version also worked on the PC that couldn't run it due to a different bit basis, so it should be assumed that it works fine everywhere.

P.s.: If you have a non-western localisation setting (e.g. Japanese) you may have to run the files in AppLocale - they were made for the U.S. market, after all.
 
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By what basis do you say they work fine? Did you try, for instance, opening the readme.txt file? The filenames and sizes would still be intact since the file headers were preserved during compression. Considering this, I can only point the finger to an encryption or decryption error since the file headers are stored seperately from the contents in a RAR format archive.

It's very odd that everything seems to work fine for you while Evan and I are both experiencing the same problem.

To address your concern, the password is not merely used as a check to see whether one has permission to unpack or not; the contents of the archive are encrypted with it to prevent people from simply bypassing the password check and extracting the contents regardless.

Ah, and I should have clarified last night: the files were tested with WinRAR on a Vista 32 Japanese locale PC and with 7Zip on a Win7 64 English locale PC. Not that it should matter in the least unless some kind of obscure 16-bit algorithm was used in the archive since that is, as far as I know, the only implementation missing from the 64-bit Windows kernel.

Regardless, the non-passworded version seems to work fine so far. I'll pack it up in an ISO and mount it later to test it.

Thanks.
 
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By the basis of me downloading the files, opening txt, inf, htm files and seeing them displaying fine, installing the game and running the installed version as well as running it straight from disc. E.g. all possible files tested. ;)
It was running okay on a Windows 7 Professional 64bit (using Alcohol 120% and extracting the ISO) with German locale settings and a Windows Server 2008 R2 (using Daemon Tools Lite and I only tested opening txt files here and used the ISO backup from storage, since it was via RDC) with English locale settings. The PC encountering errors is also running Windows 7 64bit, but I don't know the version (Home(Professional/Ultimate) or the locale settings.

To pack the files WinRar was used, with normal compression level; Test, Audio and True color compression set to automatic; 32-bit, 64-bit and delta compression activated and a dictionary size of 4096KB. Same as the new file. The special characters used are also not uncommon and are present in all codepages, as far as I know. Even if not, copy/pasting should've eliminated the error.

The reasons why I doubt it has to do with encryption/decryption are simple:
On the one hand I use the same password on all archives and there were no problems (reported) with any of them so far. On the other hand the file packed is a single ISO - if there were corruption (due to encryption/decryption) the file itself would most likely become unmountable, instead of there being errors with the contents of it.

If you're up to it I can also upload the non-ISO file with the same password - which would exclude encryption/decryption as possible error source once and for all.
 
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Bah, that won't be necessary, I'm already satisfied with having found a working copy in your non-ISO upload.

Regardless, I still believe the encryption is at fault. It's no big surprise that the file was mountable after extraction given that, once again, the file headers were preserved.

Anyhow, thanks again for the upload. Take care.
 
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit, tried in both English and Japanese locales; I receive an "Application formatting error" when I try to launch the non-iso version, and with the ISO version I receive "The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running"
 
That is positively weird - just did another test, downloaded the non-iso version, run the setup, made a full install, and started it perfectly fine.
Can you give more details as to what executables you have run?
 
don't sweat with win7 64-bit complaints. The game's just not compatible, and will never be (tried, alcohol, DT, power iso, but it's not the file that's the problem, but the OS).
 
The weird thing is that I am running it fine in Windows 7 Professional 64bit - I know some games are not compatible (and have pointed that out in another thread), so I'm surprised that I can run it - don't even need compatibility mode. :confused:
Oh well, I'll chalk it up to be a mystery - either that or some obscure difference between Windows versions (I use a digital download version, while most people (cracked or not) use a retail/MSDN one).
 
Re: Critical Point

Thank you very much! Works fine on Windows 7 Professional 64bit!
 
Greetings!

The links are broken, for both rapid gator and file factory. Could the files be reuploaded please? Thanks!

Cicero1747
 
Is this one the Uncensored version of the game? Or is it the 2nd 'limited to 300' they made after the 1st one? (read on VNDB that there was 1 release with mosaic)
Will download later to check as well. Thanks for the upload.

-rockleevk
 
If I recall correctly it's uncensored, but it's been a couple years since I played it.
 
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Just to confirm it, this game is that UNCENSORED edition. So now you know.

-rockleevk
 
Added the information to the first post so the next one will know. ^^
 

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