[HELP] VN keeps crashing on boot-up in Win11 (真・兄嫁)

Murakumo

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Just installed 真・兄嫁 /"Shin Aniyome" (Selen) on win11 home, and everytime I boot it up it crashes immediately, also the text seems to be garbled instead of in JPN?
How can I get it to stop crashing? Or rather how do I get it to run on win11 home?
It doesn't seem to be a firewall problem as I checked the Protection history, and nothing relating to the VN popped up
 
From what I see this is an old VN, did you try using Windows compatibility mode when executing the game?
idk if this works but try executing the game from a terminal and see if any useful error message appears.
 
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From what I see this is an old VN, did you try using Windows compatibility mode when executing the game?
idk if this works but try executing the game from a terminal and see if any useful error message appears.
Windows compatibility mode? how do I do that exactly? or rather, as soon as I boot the thing, the VN window pops up, but immediately closes so there's not even an error message to see
 
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Did you try Locale Emulator?
Ok it works with it now and doesnt crash anymore but the garbled wingdings are still present? It doesn't show in Japanese proper; also already downloaded the JP Language pack for windows11home, plz and thanks

sorry I mixed up with my dohnadohna thead, have to still try with Shin Aniyome

EDIT: I tried with ShinAniyome, still same problem, I start in admin with locale emulator, the image of Shin Aniyome cover pops up before switching to the VN window, only for said window to immediately close

EDIT2: I'll have to reboot PC and check again
 
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Ok it works with it now and doesnt crash anymore but the garbled wingdings are still present? It doesn't show in Japanese proper

Hmm, usually Locale Emulator would take care of the locale itself, but if it doesn't, first you should try to set your Windows Locale as Japanese and try again. You will need to cold reboot your PC after changing windows locale setting.

Only if that doesn't work, go to game settings and try to change the fonts if possible, pick some other fonts like MS GOTHIC, may be the font they used were too old and no longer supported by Windows 11.
 
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Windows compatibility mode? how do I do that exactly? or rather, as soon as I boot the thing, the VN window pops up, but immediately closes so there's not even an error message to see
As far as I remember to use compatibility mode you have to: [right click (on the .exe file) -> properties ->... ] I forgot what was next exactly, but on the upper part of the options navigation there should be one part related to execution or troubleshooting, inside there should be a compatibility mode option, once enabled try selecting Windows XP or older versions.

If that does not work you could try opening up a CMD or Powershell terminal inside the folder and type .\[name_of_the_game].exe
some programs will show a message like "file_whatever.dll was not found" or something like that.

Edit: some old games also have compatibility patches to work on newer versions, I don't know if this one does have one, those patches are normally posted on the developer's pages if exists

Edit 2: If there is no open "terminal in current folder" in the Windows file explorer to go to that location you can just copy the path that appears in the upper part in the explorer (for example: C:\users\someone\game_folder\) and paste it in the terminal along with the command "cd" (change directory) it should look like this "cd C:\users\someone\game_folder\" after that you can do the .\[name_of_the_game].exe
 
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As far as I remember to use compatibility mode you have to: [right click (on the .exe file) -> properties ->... ] I forgot what was next exactly, but on the upper part of the options navigation there should be one part related to execution or troubleshooting, inside there should be a compatibility mode option, once enabled try selecting Windows XP or older versions.

If that does not work you could try opening up a CMD or Powershell terminal inside the folder and type .\[name_of_the_game].exe
some programs will show a message like "file_whatever.dll was not found" or something like that.

Edit: some old games also have compatibility patches to work on newer versions, I don't know if this one does have one, those patches are normally posted on the developer's pages if exists

Edit 2: If there is no open "terminal in current folder" in the Windows file explorer to go to that location you can just copy the path that appears in the upper part in the explorer (for example: C:\users\someone\game_folder\) and paste it in the terminal along with the command "cd" (change directory) it should look like this "cd C:\users\someone\game_folder\" after that you can do the .\[name_of_the_game].exe
So the troubleshoot compatibility didn't do anything for it other than redirecting me back to the microsoft help page (which obviously doesn't help), went searching for compatibility for Windows in JP, got this test case which showed the digital DMM Fanza version supposedly working in Win10. This particular game doesn't seem to have a compatibility patch, as I can't even find the developer website anymore; I'll try your advice after going through other troubleshooting things

EDIT: I'm going to try installing virtualbox and see if it works there first
 
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So the troubleshoot compatibility didn't do anything for it other than redirecting me back to the microsoft help page (which obviously doesn't help), went searching for compatibility for Windows in JP, got this test case which showed the digital DMM Fanza version supposedly working in Win10. This particular game doesn't seem to have a compatibility patch, as I can't even find the developer website anymore; I'll try your advice after going through other troubleshooting things

EDIT: I'm going to try installing virtualbox and see if it works there first

I was under the impression that the game had launched for you.

Old game usually have a peculiar DRM system: if it detects that your Windows version isn't the Japanese edition, your timezone isn't set to Japan, or your keyboard isn't configured to a Japanese layout, it will abruptly terminate itself upon launching.

Most of the time, Locale Emulator can resolve this issue for you. As for the jumbled text problem, it's simply an encoding issue. By changing the locale and adjusting the font settings in the game, you should be able to fix that, probably
 
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I was under the impression that the game had launched for you.

Old game usually have a peculiar DRM system: if it detects that your Windows version isn't the Japanese edition, your timezone isn't set to Japan, or your keyboard isn't configured to a Japanese layout, it will abruptly terminate itself upon launching.

Most of the time, Locale Emulator can resolve this issue for you. As for the jumbled text problem, it's simply an encoding issue. By changing the locale and adjusting the font settings in the game, you should be able to fix that, probably
as I said in edit above, I mixed up thread with my Dohnadohna techhelp thread ; my system was already set to timezone Japan and has JP language pack installed before I installed the game, but I'm not too sure what you mean by configuring to a japanese layout

As for Font settings, this particular game Shin Aniyome (package edition) doesn't seem to have an external menu to change game-font, and game window autocloses after showing below picture ( which is part of normal startup process I assume), so I can't change from there either; will post again after I restart PC
sANIYOME.png
 
as I said in edit above, I mixed up thread with my Dohnadohna techhelp thread ; my system was already set to timezone Japan and has JP language pack installed before I installed the game, but I'm not too sure what you mean by configuring to a japanese layout

Well Locale Emulator fixed it all for you, so you don't have to mind it anymore.

But to explain all of that: Modern version of Windows no longer have a Japanese edition anymore, simply installing a language pack will not help. This is only applicable to older version of Windows which actually have a Japanese version, not a some downloadable package that you can install on a whim back then.

For Japanese layout, I'm referring to the keyboard layout. The most common layout is US layout QWERTY but there are variants of them, like the UK layout, and of course, the Japan layout. This is a setting in Windows to match with your hardware keyboard layout, so whenever you type A on your keyboard, it's A in Windows. Some games look for this pattern as a protection mechanism.

But as I mentioned, Locale Emulator fixed all of that for you.

Your other problem can be fixed by setting the correct Windows locale but because you didn't provide any screenshot of how it looks, I basically made an educated guess.
 

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