Hi, we’re exploring a possible re-issue of some of the Otaku Publishing games, True Love, Time Stripper, and so on. Can anyone tell me if they run in XP or not? Any help or assistance would be appreciated.
Return to Paradise Heights doesn’t have a big enough story-line to make it important to have played the original game IMO.
I’ll test the games I have on Windows XP when I get home from college - Time Stripper, Paradise Heights and it’s sequel and also Ring Out (That was an Otaku game wasn’t it?).
When I tried installing them on my XP machine, the installer would post an error message on the four games I have : (Paradise Heights, Return to Paradise Heights, Time Stripper, and True Love) I tried running the installers in WIN 95 mode but it would error out as before.
It might have something to do with the way the installers take care of the registry files. When I copied my True Love CD over to my Hard Drive and ran the executable, it stated that the registry files were missing and I should reinstall. I’m going to try something, since my backup machine has Win98 on it, I’m going to copy the registration entries for my four Otaku games and transfer them to XP. I’ll also copy the games folders to my XP machine and get back to you after I get back from work (I work second shift) on the compatibility results. If they do work after this, It’s just a matter of recoding the installer.
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Originally posted by Doug:
It might have something to do with the way the installers take care of the registry files. When I copied my True Love CD over to my Hard Drive and ran the executable, it stated that the registry files were missing and I should reinstall. I'm going to try something, since my backup machine has Win98 on it, I'm going to copy the registration entries for my four Otaku games and transfer them to XP. I'll also copy the games folders to my XP machine and get back to you after I get back from work (I work second shift) on the compatibility results. If they do work after this, It's just a matter of recoding the installer.
O.K. all the games got to their menu screens with no Problems. All games were able to play their MIDI music with only a slight delay in screen loads though not as slow as with Tokemeki check-in!.
True Love ran without problems but the fonts in the black text boxes were blocky looking.
Paradise Heights and Return to Paradise Heights loaded fine, but had the same blocky text in the message box and would error out to Windows when the first wave file would play.
Timestripper had the same problems with the blocky message text, You could play the game but the game would show an unable to load wave file small grey box which you could close without getting thrown out of the game as you would when the Paradise Heights games tried to play a wave file.
I switched my regional settings to run English non-unicode programs for the test.
Thanks for the feedback, it’s very helpful. I wonder if the text-going-off-the-edge bug is the same one that comes up sometimes in X-Change and Tokimeki. Can you try right clicking the text and seeing if it goes away?
If the installer is the problem, that’s a good sign, since we’d be redoing the installer anyway…
Peter,
I have a question. Did you get the rights to all the games that Otaku had liscensed? The reason I ask is because Otaku had the rights to Let’s Party! and Crazy Knuckle but they were never released. Will you be publishing these as well?
What’s Let’s Party and Crazy Knuckle?
We don’t have any rights, we’d be exploring buying them and talking with the company that has them now. I don’t believe Crazy Knuckle or Let’s Party (the original title of this was Let’s Pirate, but Alex at Otaku didn’t like this title for some reason ^_^) were translated.