[AliceSoft][TRPG] Rance IX: The Helman Revolution [v2.00 out][2014/04/25]

[sailabc1]

RANCE IX IS NOW RELEASED!!!

This game takes place after the end of Rance Quest Magnum route, where Rance goes to Helman in search of a treasure that will supposedly release Sill from her frozen state which she suffered at the hands of the Demon King Little Princess during the events of Sengoku Rance. He there encounters Patton Misnarge, exiled prince of Helman and Rance's former comrade from Rance VI, who requests Rance to help in his rebellion to take back his country from the clutches of the traitors who banished him. Rance jumps the gun and takes charge of the rebel forces, this time aiming to bang Princess Siera Helman, plus any and all other cute girls that he may come across on his way to conquering Lang Baw, the Helman Capital!

Main Heroines:

Russian Kalette (new)
Kentou Kanami
Masou Shizuka
Tokugawa Sen
Pigu Geliciam (new)
Tillday Shape
Milacle Tou (new)

Other heroines:

Alkanese Rize
Crook Mofus
Siera Helman (new) who is actually disguising herself as Russian Kalette.
Maria Custard
Hanty Kalar
Amitos
Cream Ganoblade
Ruberan Zulle
Marcie Archer (?)
Elena Flower (?)
Anasel Kaspora (?)

AliceSoft have released a benchmarking tool (no gameplay no nothing, just 3D graphics display of several characters rendered by the engine) to let you people test if your machines can handle Rance IX. If your framerate is 22 or more in a given level of detail, you should be okay for that configuration. This benchmarking tool has also been TL'd in English by The Rance Translation Team.

English version of Rance IX benchmarking tool

OFFICIAL SITE [REQUIRES CAPABLE UNBANNED JAPANESE PROXY]

GETCHU PAGE [DO NOT CLICK DIRECTLY OR ELSE YOU'LL GET A "FORBIDDEN" ERROR]

TRIAL VERSION DOWNLOAD:

DMM [RESUME NOT SUPPORTED - FINISH IT IN ONE GO]
Click the 体験版ダウンロード button to the right. If popup blocker is enabled, middle-click instead.



SOFTWARE UPDATE PATCHES:

V1.01 [Sendspace] [LATEST SUPPORTED]

V2.00 [Sendspace] thanks to Pyottl [LATEST UNSUPPORTED]
Adds 4 new maps and makes Amitos & Elena playable characters [NG+ only?].

CAUTION: v2.00 is INCOMPATIBLE with v1.00-1.01 saves. You must start a new game. Only CG/scene/music and clear data for NG+ are retained. If you're in the middle of a playthrough, finish it first and only then install v2.00.


ENGLISH TRANSLATION INFORMATION:

Spoiler

NAW DICE NAWP.

This space is reserved for whenever such development occurs, but honestly, don't expect this to happen for years.

For now, an interface translation has been released on 4chan.

[mega.co.nz link] Compatible with v1.01 only.

H-code for text hooking: [DON'T USE AGTH; USE LATEST ITH INSTEAD]

Furthermore, it seems different codes are working/failing for different people, possibly depending on OS/ITH version... By "failing" I mean causing the game to crash at certain points where "ーー" characters (two successive prolongation marks) are used. Please try them all one by one to see which one works for you. The first one works in my personal experience using ITH 2.3 (2011.07.09) on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, but it doesn't for some.

/HB-C*@56FE3D
/HB-8*@56FE61
/HB-C*@56FE3F

Above only works for dialogue, and not for anything else like options/tutorial/mission objectives/item description/encyclopedia etc.)

GAMEPLAY HELP/FAQ:

Pastebin (by PoingdeFeu) [INCOMPLETE]


Gameplay overview:




OST demo:




One warning to be given to all is that this game contains optional netorare. In certain maps, if a main heroine (Kanami, Senhime etc.) is KO'd in battle, the player is allowed to view post-battle events corresponding to both cases - one where the heroine safely escapes from the captives, and the other where she is tortured, raped and likely mindbroken by the Helman captors, resulting in her bad end. The game, however, can be continued thereafter assuming the "good" escape route. But be mentally prepared for this possibility - it's upto to you to view these bad ends or skip them altogether by choosing "escape", but if you're aiming for 100% clearance, you'll likely need to view them.

[WandererXI]

Ok so it turns out

Spoiler

There's multiple endings. After you clear the game in the "Revolution End" you can reload/replay and get endings for each girl it seems, either that or there's pathing because the final chapter has multiple "doors" at the bottom of the screen which replace the standard chapter interface

And here I am struggling at chapter 8, someone already cleared the game.

[Nyu666]

What are the orbs you get when "romancing" an heroine? Seems like you can use them in battle, or on characters or something.

[sailabc1]

... The crash is occuring on those "―" characters even if I use ITH rather than AGTH. Is it just me?

[Nyu666]

... The crash is occuring on those "―" characters even if I use ITH rather than AGTH. Is it just me?

With the code /HB-C*@56FE3D on ITH I get no crashes. Do you have an updated version?

[sailabc1]

With the code /HB-C*@56FE3D on ITH I get no crashes. Do you have an updated version?

This one worked, thank you. Where'd you get it? The one SaintLouisX mentioned was

/HB-C*@56FE3F

and I couldn't find anything else anywhere.

[Nyu666]

Was mentioned before for the demo in this thread I think. Or maybe I got it from 4chan, I had it on the demo quick access.

[TokiNoKimi]

Is it just me or does this game not play very well on older systems with smaller resolution? My mouse cursor seems to be always left of what it seems, which means I literally can't click on anything that's at the most far right of the screen because my mouse goes out of bounds.

Hope Alicesoft fixes this in a patch because as of now it's unplayable for me.

[sailabc1]

Was mentioned before for the demo in this thread I think. Or maybe I got it from 4chan, I had it on the demo quick access.

It is for the demo lol... So the demo code works fine with full ver. while the one for full version fails

[SaintLouisX]

Use this H-code instead for full version: /HB-8*@56FE61

That should stop the game crashing. Unfortunately a couple characters will be omitted now (the places where it crashed before), but it's only a couple and they're all multiple punctuation characters, like ーーーー. It doesn't affect the actual text you'll want to read.

They really really need to implement pointers to pointers in ITH, without it, lose so many possible places to hook. There weren't any more possible 5 byte gaps where a hook would fit, and it's all because we can't use pointers to pointers. QQ.

@Nyu666: That one should still crash the game, since it breaks the loop just as the other one did. It's weird I didn't get any crashes with it either though. The one I just posted should be a lot safer either way though.

[Garusu]

Is it just me or does this game not play very well on older systems with smaller resolution? My mouse cursor seems to be always left of what it seems, which means I literally can't click on anything that's at the most far right of the screen because my mouse goes out of bounds.

Hope Alicesoft fixes this in a patch because as of now it's unplayable for me.

Yeah I have a somewhat similar issue, when I do not play fullscreen, my in game cursor is always a bit above the windows cursor.

Little question, I know characters have an usable skill and one super/special. But there's a box bellow those with lots of characters, can someone tell me what it means?