Ten years ago in the town of Custard four young girls were appointed as disciples to old mage Ragithis. They were to be raised as mages and then to work as town’s guardians. But after the ten years of training due to unknown reason girls rebelled against Ragithis and killed him. During the harsh magic battle a whole town were entombed in the underground and a barrier spell was put on town preventing everyone from going out.
This is when Rance appears with Sill on his side, and taking a job of defeating magician maidens and saving the town. But after some research he finds out that actual evil guy was Ragithis himself, who put four magical rings on four maidens. That rings are giving a great boost of magical power to it’s bearers, but aslo able to steal magic power from virgin sorceresses and after collecting magic power of 40 maidens anyone could use these rings to obtain unlimited power. The leader of girls, Masou Shizuka, figured out Ragithis’s plan and rebelled against him but it was too late - cursed rings could not be removed and the curse started to dive maidens crazy. Now they are sheltered in the labirinth beneath the town abducting young girls from the town and killing everyone who tried to go into the labirinth and stop them. It seems that the only way to release them from the curse of the rings is to steal a virginity from them, and the only man up to this job is Rance.
(This is 2010 remake, English pre-patched)
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ランス０２BA.ald in other words only highlight and change the __02 parts.
anyways, thanks for uploading
2. Rename every “___02” or so to “ランス０２” line in your gamefolder.
ATTENTION: There are 8 files 2 of them have noting at the end so you put just ランス０２ but there are also 2 “GA”, 2 “BA” and 2 “WA” files at the end (not an extension but file name like\____02BA.ald\ you need to make it \ランス０２BA.ald\), so dont remove them! That’s the most common misunderstanding.
So one files name is ランス０２GA for example
3.) Start the game with Applocale or set your windows to japanese mode
To everyone trying to get the game running follow these instructions.
just open the file alice.ini
(seems that this is the configuration setting), then change the qoutation ????.ain into rance02.ain
save it then look for the filename ????.ain (written ____02.ain literally) in the same directory, change the ____02.ain into rance02.ain and DONE!
open the main game .exe you will see the 3 or 4 choices, click on the center choice and you're done..
remmber only the .ain file is the trick to open this game.
the .dll files will pop as you open the games but just continue clicking. it works well and also has sound. gudlck!
Since I too struggled to get this working with AppLocale & renaming the __02 files, let me share how I got it working.
Credits goes to John V on Oct 2012. And here is a more english-friendly version what what he said. Thanks John!
Install Instructions
Extract .RAR's
In the extracted directory, do the following
1. Rename the eight files prefixed with "___02" with "rance02"
2. Edit alicestart.ini with notepad
3. Replace parameter [gamename] with "rance02" and parameter [codename] "rance02.ain"
4. Launch Rance02.exe, ignore the popup message, select the button "(the center ??)" and contine
Viloa, sound, music, eng patched :D
No need for App Locale
No need to run Rance02.exe in Wins XP Compability mode
Thanks for posting this! hehe so excited to play this (just beat rance 1 earlier today)
Just did what you said with help of a simple SH file* and it works perfectly on Linux using Wine (sounds included)
Thanks to all guys who mounted this.
(Goes to play)
*: Why rename file-by-file if I can write a simple Shell Script do to this for me? ;)
It looks like this:
http://oi58.tinypic.com/33cbrrl.jpg
and display a black Window...
messed up menu => error in file naming, basically all have to have same name beginning, menus are *WA.ald file
Sys42VM Error Box => run it with jap locale, since you have jap names in file names you cant run it otherwise, with english names you can use english locale, but get messy characters in text
theres only 2 windows poping up one with 24vm with some giberish in japanese not giving up yet ill try to collect all of the rance games available
Just a bad upload, imo.
bad upload indeed.
Firstly, it was compressed wrong, so the Japanese characters in the filenames get messed up on unpacking. This leads to errors and ___02 filenames. Those are actually perfectly fine. Just go into AliceStart.ini and change GameName to "___02" and CodeName to "___02.ain". You don't even have to change the locale for this. Honestly it's even better if you don't, since this way you can more easily ensure the encoding of the names is identical (make sure to delete everything of the original settings, including the " characters, to make sure you got all the invisible ones). Optionally, you can replace the ___02 part in your filenames with whatever you want, so long as you then put the same thing into those two options.
The game will work now, but the number displays will likely be messed up. To fix that, switch the system to the Japanese locale, or install AppLocale and run it through that with Japanese as your choice of language. You can make a shortcut which does that, so with that route the initial setting is a one-time thing. Presumably other locale emulators will work too, though I haven't tested any.
1)rename 9 files( ランス０２ , ランス０２BA , ランス０２GA , ランス０２WA (use this for copy) )
2)Use english patch from vndb.org
THIS IS REALLY WORK
Go to Windows Settings >
Time & Language >
Click "Language" on left >
Click "Administrative language settings" on right >
Below "Language for non-Unicode programs" click "Change system locale..." >
Change to Chinese (Simplified, China) >
Restart computer THEN ONLY extract the game file
Then play the game with Chinese locale and no more problems at all
Patch English translation if needed after extraction
im kinda stupid on doing these stuff
i mean step by step
please respond i really wanna play this game :(
Ive got the fan patch from alicesoft.fandom.com and replaced the _____02.ain with the patch file.
ThenI renamed every _____ file to rance02 .
After this ive got in the alicestart.ini and wrote before the .ain rance02 .