Will Raiden 3 work on my PC?

malcolm · Post by **malcolm** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:29 am

Are PC import games region protected? I've never even thought about it until this evening when I sent away for Raiden 3. Am I to assume that this will install and play just as any old pc game would? Of course it's probably in Japanese so it will be trial and error with the install. Please forgive me if the answer is obvious but I've always been a console guy.
Thanks.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:33 am

Make sure you have a bitchin computer.

malcolm · Post by **malcolm** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:39 am

I have 1 gig of ram and a Radeon 9500 pro with 128 meg.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:22 am

malcolm wrote:Are PC import games region protected?

no

medic · Post by **medic** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:54 pm

Raiden III runs great on my PC (P4 3.0, 1gb ddr ram, x800gt), looks really good too

Most of the menus are in English (at least in my copy), and the few things that aren't are pretty easy to figure out

kong · Post by **kong** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:33 pm

Some games require you to switch your OS to Japanese to get them to install properly, you need to go into control panel and find regional settings. You can also try installing applocale. Once it's installed when you right click on an exe you can select > Locale Japanese.

http://raiden.mossjp.co.jp/pc/SystemRequirements.html

I do know some people have trouble getting the game to run. Unfortunately there doesn't' appear to be a playable demo on the official site.

elvis · Post by **elvis** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:06 pm

Damocles wrote:Make sure you have a bitchin computer.

2GHz with an entry level DX9 video card is hardly "bitchin" any more.

The PC world moves a bit faster than the console world.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:29 pm

elvis wrote:
Damocles wrote:Make sure you have a bitchin computer.
2GHz with an entry level DX9 video card is hardly "bitchin" any more.

The PC world moves a bit faster than the console world.

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iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:32 pm

Wow, and I'm still running on 850 MHz with 300-some odd Megabytes of RAM and a video card that I got for free.

As long as it runs MAME, ZSNES, Gens, MagicEngine, I'm fine with it, even though I hardly use those anymore since I can play on actual hardware.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:31 pm

My PC is a Sempron 2200+ (1.5 ghz), 256 mb of ram and a GeForce Fx 5200 (128mb). I don't have any japanese font or anything installed on my computer.

And it works fine on my computer. The menus are in english and everything is very easy to figure out indeed. There's no frame skipping or anything like that either.

Now if I remember correctly, the game does have some problem running in a certain type of videocard, but I can't remember which one...

shmups.system11.org

Will Raiden 3 work on my PC?

Will Raiden 3 work on my PC?

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