Peach Princess VN Demos...?

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#1

Hello, everyone.

A friend of mine has recently taken a liking to visual novels (Katawa Shoujo deserves the credit for this). I’ve been sending a handful of freeware titles and demos of commercial VNs his way to foster his growing appreciation for the medium, and it seems to be doing just the trick.

I recall playing through trial versions of Yume Miru Kusuri and Little My Maid a couple years back. I’d like to let him check these out as well, but I can’t seem to find them anywhere. Since HGTP and VisualNews have closed up shop, the download links on the Yume Miru Kusuri product page are broken. I don’t know where to begin looking for the Little My Maid demo (if memory serves, I found it mirrored at a VN / bishoujo gaming fansite and not on the PeaPri website, and Google isn’t helping me retrace my steps…).

Would it be possible for the JAST staff to repost the demos on the PeaPri and JAST USA sites? I doubt I’m the only person interested in checking them out. Alternatively, if someone has either of the installers on-hand, could you send it my way?

Thanks in advance.

#2

Heya it’s X-Calibar~ :slight_smile:
I would say check the Peach Princess download section… but I just tried it and got :
"Miva Merchant has encountered a fatal error and is unable to continue. The following information may assist you in determining the cause of the error:

Error Code:  MER-DTB-00022  
Description:  Category 'downloads' not found (oui/oui_ud.mv:138)  "

Well I happen to have the trial version for Yume Miru Kusuri in case it has been misplaced…
YumeMiruKusuriTrialEdition_English - June 08, 2007, 7:03:15 PM

I don’t know anything about Little My Maid trial though :o

#3

Thanks.

If I could predict that the files would go down, I’d never have deleted them from my machine in the first place. I could say the same thing about the developer interviews on the Hirameki site; I deliberately avoided the Animamundi one for the sake of spoilers, but after finishing the game, I can’t go back and read them since Hirameki removed everything from their site. It’d be nice if someone made a copy of that or the four Ever 17 interviews, but I doubt I’ll ever find them. :cry:

I wonder which visual novel fansites were around five years ago… I know a Flash version of the LMM op and the demo were hosted side-by-side, but that’s about all I can remember… Oh well. When I realized that some JAST titles were going out of print, I got a little overzealous and picked up two copies each of Little My Maid and Critical Point. My friend already intends to buy the duplicates off of me, so it’s not a big deal. Just something I’d prefer to have in my archive for other VN newbies…

Thanks again, X.

#4

Oh good news~

Since nobody has posted the Little My Maid demo yet, I decided to google a little…
lmm_demo - 5 - 17 - 2004 (based on the most recently modified file)
Found it from this old fan-site : http://engbishoujo.tripod.com/mainpage2.html

As for the Ever17 interview…
This is all I could find :
http://web.archive.org/web/200602190542 … s/weblog1/
“This interview is a translation of an interview originally printed in the Enterbrain “EVER17 -out of infinity- visual fan book.” The copyright belongs to Enterbrain, and unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.
Magi-cu, Enterbrain’s editorial department, is the largest publisher of bishoujo game fanbooks in Japan; please go here for more information.”

Can’t use the wayback machine’s archives for the interview… since you had to be logged in at the time to read it :confused:

And with Animamundi’s interview …
http://web.archive.org/web/200607040136 … s/weblog1/
"We managed to get a direct interview with three of the most important people from the main development staff! Hear everything there is to know about “Animamundi” - from the making of the art to the character concepts to the themes hidden in the game.

This is a translation of the staff interview from the official “Animamundi” fanbook
(ISBN4-7767-9256-7, Oozora Publishing)."

Duuuuuuuuude! lol just for fun…
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://peachprincess.com
So that’s what peachprincess looked like in the beginning! :open_mouth:

Whoa what the heck Hirameki used to look like that?
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www … i-int.com/

Oh my…Jast in its infancy…
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.jastusa.com

EDIT:
btw just noticed this on an old copy of the peachprincess support website :
"Q. I have the Little My Maid demo installed previously, and I cannot install the actual game.

A. Unfortunately the demo and the game cannot co-exist on the same machine. Please uninstall the demo first by going through the demo installer (simply deleting the files will NOT do). Afterwards, run the game installer on the game CD and it should be fine.
"

#5

Huh, LadyPhoenix’s fansite still has the demo. I see she updated it in 2008 even, with one of those “I swear I’m going to start updating again” updates that so commonly are the death knell for sites like that.

She used to be a regular on the board here … a long time ago. She even worked with Peach Princess as a proofreader on Gibo, if I’m not mistaken.

#6

well I dont think there are any demos. I cant find the Yume Miru Kursuri one anymore

#7

Thanks, X. That’s the third time in recent memory you’ve come through for me. If you’re ever in the Montreal area, I have to buy you a drink or three. It’s the law or something. 8)

Wait a minute…

It was on the Coming Soon page…!? That means my memory wasn’t playing tricks on me, then. I remembered LadyPhoenix’s page being among the sites I visited when I first got into visual novels. I revisited the place a few weeks back, but I couldn’t find anything on Little My Maid. Figures that what I was looking for would be on the one page I didn’t check… :shock:

Actually, the support question about the demo is still on PeaPri’s site - that’s why I was positive I wasn’t just imagining the whole deal.

The Wayback Machine was the first place I checked when I realized I couldn’t access Hirameki’s community page anymore. I’ve been asking around, hoping that someone might have saved a local copy of the five interviews, but I’ve had no luck whatsoever. Like I said before, I wanted to read the Animamundi interview after I finished the game, but I didn’t find the time to play through it until after the company had closed up shop (the game is long). The story’s really good if you don’t mind the heavy shonen-ai overtones, but Hirameki censored the game to Hell and back (pun intended). That’s nothing new, though; even when Hirameki was translating anime, they were allergic to anything that wasn’t work-safe. Why they wanted to release only all-age titles yet licensed a bunch of adult-only stuff (including the anime version of a strip mahjong game), I’ll never know.

On the positive side, I managed to find the Eve Burst Error “Hint Paper” thanks to the Wayback Machine. Too bad the Divi-Dead one wasn’t backed up. I found an edited copy of the sheet elsewhere, and I can always use GameFAQs if need be later. Still, it’d have been nice to find an official, unmodified version for posterity.

moesan, with all due respect, please read the other posts in the topic before making a post like that. X-Calibar has already uploaded both demos to 4Shared, easily disproving what you just said.