Please help me run Danmakufu

[sygoomei]

I recently purchased concealed the conclusion, and upon pressing start in the Danmakufu engine, the game switched from fullscreen to window mode and gave me an error. I have googled around and read a few nice Engrish translate pages, but the only seeimingly useful info was to update my video card drivers (which I have now done). Does this engine have difficulty running on a North American based computer?

I'm running an Athlon xp 2600+ running at 1.8Ghz, 1Gb ram and a Geforce 6600 with 128Mb memory. This is of course running off of xp pro service pack 2.

I've been playing Shoot the bullet for a number of weeks now, and today unlocked stage 6... of which currently I see now way I'm going to beat any of the levels. However, I've said that a number of times... I thought stage 2 was terribly difficult, 3 took a week of thought, then something hit and I hit 4, less than an hour later, 5... then a few days pass again and suddenly I knew how to beat 3 more on 5 in 2 days and hit 6... but 6 is where things are going to slow down.

So far my favourite shmups are; Shoot the bullet, Mushihimesume (ps2), Raptor: Call of the Shadows, B-wings (NES), R-type: Final.

Anyway, I'd appreciate any help... its rather annoying to have waited this long for a new shooter and find out that after paying an arm and a leg, that the engine seems incompatable with my computer... or something.

[Damocles]

Make sure that you have the JP language pack installed and set up. I'm not sure if it would be a problem in this case, but also make sure that all your directories are in english...windows sometimes has trouble with non-english characters.

[sygoomei]

Thanks for the quick reply . I originaly had a problem, but I solved it myself. Thanks again, I'll post when I find out whether this helps or not.

[Kaiser]

You need applocale to run the game i think

[sygoomei]

Well I guess I just bought a bunk game unless there's a way to get applocale or the asian language pack online, but not from microsoft itself. I'm not willing to let Microsoft to Genuine Advantage me... Ug, what a load of nonesense... :'(

On a positive note, I beat another Shoot the bullet stage last night, and think I can find 3 stage 6's

[sygoomei]

Well I got applocale from another site and got a step further... I think. So do I NEED the language support package? My xp disc is having troubles getting files copied from it and again, I don't like WGA. Well I got the register coding to allow me to right click on the link and locale it to Japan, BUT then it gives me a menu asking which language I want... which wouldn't be so bad, but it says whatever language IN that language... I can't read japanese, so there are a bunch at the bottom that look like japanese, and then there's the square ones.

[Kaspal]

Well I got applocale from another site and got a step further... I think. So do I NEED the language support package? My xp disc is having troubles getting files copied from it and again, I don't like WGA. Well I got the register coding to allow me to right click on the link and locale it to Japan, BUT then it gives me a menu asking which language I want... which wouldn't be so bad, but it says whatever language IN that language... I can't read japanese, so there are a bunch at the bottom that look like japanese, and then there's the square ones.

i got that game...

and the fisrt time i tried it, i tried it from the CD... with no luck.

then, i installed the game, applied the 1.01 patch and now, im enjoyin this game like a madman.

you should make sure that you have the jap setup on your computer b4 runnin this one...

here is my current setup, so that you know what to touch just in case:

WinXP Pro SP2
512 RAM
GeForce 5200 w. 128 MB VRAM
SB Live! 5.1
Non Unicode settings to Japanese (you can do that with your Windows install CD)

thats it... the game runs just fine for me.

if you wanna get the patch, go here www.danmaq.com and get it.

[sygoomei]

w00t!!! My disc finally came through and I can see both katakana and kanji!!!! Yay!!! its interesting to see all that I've been missing the last few years. I've got things on my hd that were previously jsut squares and they're now languages I can't speak. :p

Thank you all for your kind support and I'm really enjoying the game; even though it seems I MUCH prefer shoot the bullet to this thus far.

[BlazeReap]

Bump, and I still seem to have problems getting it to run, I put my CD in, no errors, I restart my Comp, the "Install Eastern Asian Language Packs" is checked, but no Japanese support T_T Please help

[Kaspal]

Bump, and I still seem to have problems getting it to run, I put my CD in, no errors, I restart my Comp, the "Install Eastern Asian Language Packs" is checked, but no Japanese support T_T Please help

remember to set your country to japan, and the Non Unicode Settings to Japanese. thats what i did back then, and it worked.

[BlazeReap]

I try that, but I can't do that because it keeps on saying that I don't even have the Japanese Files installed T_T

[Cthulhu]

These sound a lot like the errors I got trying to run JP software on Win 98...

Are you sure you actually installed the Japanese system files? It's been a long time since I've had to do this, but I seem to recall it being easy to install Japanese "text support" separate from the Japanese system files. I could be mistaken though, it's been years.

[BlazeReap]

Well, I'll take any help it takes, I have installed only 1 Japanese Text from a Website

[Ed Oscuro]

I have installed only 1 Japanese Text from a Website

Shouldn't that be enough for all the Text? Just so long as you have the fonts and select the right encoding style (Shift_JIS is the main one I see, followed by rare uses of EUC-JP).

[Kaspal]

I have installed only 1 Japanese Text from a Website

Shouldn't that be enough for all the Text? Just so long as you have the fonts and select the right encoding style (Shift_JIS is the main one I see, followed by rare uses of EUC-JP).

the best way of doing this is with a windows install disk. then go to the regional settings and theres a tab in which you are asked if you wanna install asian fonts and middle east font support... it will eat up like 100mb on your HDD, but after that, you wont have to look for fonts on the internet or whatever, since you will have the most common installed, and most often than not, those are the ones you need to run japanese heavy games or appz.

after you've installed those, you can do what we've told you b4, and it should work.

you can also go the AppLocale route... but since i havent used it that much (like 2-3 times) i cannot give you enough advice aobut it.

[Cthulhu]

I have installed only 1 Japanese Text from a Website

Shouldn't that be enough for all the Text? Just so long as you have the fonts and select the right encoding style (Shift_JIS is the main one I see, followed by rare uses of EUC-JP).

the best way of doing this is with a windows install disk. then go to the regional settings and theres a tab in which you are asked if you wanna install asian fonts and middle east font support... it will eat up like 100mb on your HDD, but after that, you wont have to look for fonts on the internet or whatever, since you will have the most common installed, and most often than not, those are the ones you need to run japanese heavy games or appz.

after you've installed those, you can do what we've told you b4, and it should work.

you can also go the AppLocale route... but since i havent used it that much (like 2-3 times) i cannot give you enough advice aobut it.

This is all from crusty old memory at this point but, what you just described sounds right. However, some games I had (don't ask me which ones, I had dozens) didn't work even after I did this. I had to set the system default display to Japanese and reboot.

Strangely, this caused some but not all system things to display in Japanese. It also turns all of your backslashes ( \ ) into yen symbols. This drove one guy I know nuts and he banned Japanese games from his computers because of it. Once I did this though, I believe I was able to run every game I tried.

Sorry, I don't have an XP box anymore and can't attempt to reproduce the actual menu names & selections for you.

[BlazeReap]

Hm, Well I can try that, but like I said, I tried the Disk and everything I guess I just need the OFFICIAL Japanese fonts

[jonny5]

go to the control panel and select regional and language settings.....once in that select install east asian languages....it will ask you to insert your XP install disk....it will search for a second and start installing the language packs....should be around 250mbs.....

now go back into the reginal and language settings and go for the heading for non-unicode and set it to japanese....restart and it should be fine now....with this option you should be able to run everything now

although as some others have said some things will display in kanji now, and careful installing multi region software cuz it will install in japanese

for those that would rather just use applocale and avoid having to run in japanese.....follow the same steps to install the language packs and then once you have applocale running japanese is the last character in the drop down list

applocale wont work with some games.....

hope this helps.....

[BlazeReap]

I just wish I knew how to make it run like that, Well, I am getting a New Computer in like 2 Weeks, I suppose I can wait until then.

[Kaspal]

This is all from crusty old memory at this point but, what you just described sounds right. However, some games I had (don't ask me which ones, I had dozens) didn't work even after I did this. I had to set the system default display to Japanese and reboot.

Strangely, this caused some but not all system things to display in Japanese. It also turns all of your backslashes ( \ ) into yen symbols. This drove one guy I know nuts and he banned Japanese games from his computers because of it. Once I did this though, I believe I was able to run every game I tried.

Sorry, I don't have an XP box anymore and can't attempt to reproduce the actual menu names & selections for you.

very true what you said here... what you're describing is in the Unicode settings, in which it asks you how you want to default the display of non-unicode programs, if you select japanese, its almost guaranteed that you'll run every japanese game with no problem.

this setting, is usually, in the last tab of the regional settings, for the ones that dont know.

[Cthulhu]

This is all from crusty old memory at this point but, what you just described sounds right. However, some games I had (don't ask me which ones, I had dozens) didn't work even after I did this. I had to set the system default display to Japanese and reboot.

Strangely, this caused some but not all system things to display in Japanese. It also turns all of your backslashes ( \ ) into yen symbols. This drove one guy I know nuts and he banned Japanese games from his computers because of it. Once I did this though, I believe I was able to run every game I tried.

Sorry, I don't have an XP box anymore and can't attempt to reproduce the actual menu names & selections for you.

very true what you said here... what you're describing is in the Unicode settings, in which it asks you how you want to default the display of non-unicode programs, if you select japanese, its almost guaranteed that you'll run every japanese game with no problem.

this setting, is usually, in the last tab of the regional settings, for the ones that dont know.

Thanks for the clarifications there. I'm pretty sure that if you follow all the instructions on this thread (including this last bit) you'll be able to run pretty much anything on XP. Vista and Win7 are probably another story. I imagine on those you'd also have to set the games to run as admin and run in XP compatibility mode.

[cj iwakura]

Is there a way to get Japanese text support without the XP disc? I had to reinstall Windows after a virus nuked my system, and it still lacks Asian text.

And my computer didn't come with a disc.

[Kaspal]

Thanks for the clarifications there. I'm pretty sure that if you follow all the instructions on this thread (including this last bit) you'll be able to run pretty much anything on XP. Vista and Win7 are probably another story. I imagine on those you'd also have to set the games to run as admin and run in XP compatibility mode.

i remember tryin to play some JP gamses on a vista system awhile ago... maybe those games were f the non-exigent kind, but they ran with a stock vista system.

i cant assure you that it happens always, since i dont have that (*cough*virus*cough*) OS installed, so i cant try with games that complain when you dont have the full japanese settings on... but its pretty much possible that you will end up using the XP compatibility mode, and some obscure settings with those games... thas just M$ way of trying to screw you up... thank god PCs are somewhat open machines, and you can mod them to your likes.

[Cthulhu]

Is there a way to get Japanese text support without the XP disc? I had to reinstall Windows after a virus nuked my system, and it still lacks Asian text.

And my computer didn't come with a disc.

Try looking around MS's support sites. I imagine they offer it for download in some form.

[BlazeReap]

Well, I now have a Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1, and I'm still confused *sigh*

[BlazeReap]

Ok, fixed, now I'm having fun :3