Takumi is a high school student. He is withdrawn and is not interested in 3D things. In his town, a mysterious serial murder case happens and people get panicked. One day, when he chats on the internet, a man suddenly contacts him and gives him an URL. He goes to the website and finds a blog image that suggests a next murder case…. On the next day, it really happens….

























Hi! (sorry for my english ( >Д<;) ) I’ve installed the game and runs perfectly in japanese but I have a problem with the english patch ( >____< ) I've been looking for the crass download link but it is host on megaupload ( u__u ) and we know what happend with it ( ;A;)
Would someone please upload the crass file mentioned by Hikari? I’ve looked through the posts and apparently the original crass file was hosted on MU…
Thanks in advance! 🙂
Try go to tlwiki.org and navigate to tools. There’s a collection of VN-related tools, including crass.
I downloaded the DA-1click: Game Download and the English translation patch but when I open the Application it opens for about a few Seconds then closes itself what do I do?
You have to replace the .exe file for the NoDVD patch and it will run perfectly :3 you can find the link to the NoDVD patch in past comments (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ
I am a 12th class student. My school wifi connection does not allow me to download video files larger than 10 mb. I have tried downloading using certain proxy sites. IDM starts downloading the file but the process is terminated admist , hence i am unable to download anything of my interest. What should i do to download files larger than 100 mb using my school’s wifi connection?
Try McDonalds,Starbucks,Tim Hortons
or even your town’s public library.
I think Second Cup also offers free WiFi too.
That’s assuming you live in NA,
cause I really don’t know
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce
This is the crass I mentioned .. Since I have no clue if this will work .. Please help me .. Oh .. I’m also only scarcely online .. So you’ll have to have to try your luck ..
can someone help? i downloaded all the parts and clicked on the chaoshead.exe file which was in the crack file and nothing happened the chaos head application came up for about 2 seconds then closed and that kept on happening every time i clicked on chaoshead.exe
To all people with trouble here’s a condensed guide in order to run ChaosHead on Windows 7/Windows vista.
Thanks to HikariNoYami, for most of the info
here goes:
before installing and all, make sure of the following:
IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO INSTALL THE GAME:
-Change your system locale to Japanese language
do this under control panel/language settings
(any doubts on this google it)
IN ORDER TO AVOID CRASHES, BLACK SCREENS, BROKEN AUDIO:
-Update DirectX! (seriously most of you don’t know this or you simply ignore it)
-Update your video card’s drivers (this should be common knowledge!)
*IMPORTANT: LOW END/SOME INTEGRATED CHIPS/VERY OLD VIDEO CARDS WON’T WORK WITH THIS GAME (your best bet is to update your hardware, sorry.)
-download and install the latest audio/video codec packs (divx codec packs work great)
IN ORDER TO AVOID OTHER TECHNICAL ERRORS:
-Make sure you are the admin/have admin rights
-if possible avoid running apps or other background programs while installing/playing.
*IMPORTANT*
Download the fixed patch crass-1.0.0.14.0 (Hikari provided a MF link, browse the comments to find it. If you’re feeling lazy here’s the link he posted:
( http: ) //www (.) mediafire (.) com/?i42heldagc6na2t
Delete all the ( )s and spaces
Hold onto this patch for now, we will cover it in the guide.
Now we can proceed to the guide:
-Mount ISO with Daemon tools (if you don’t have it google it and download it, I personally recommend “Daemon Tools Lite”)
-Run setup exe
-enter serial 000-702-000-114
-Install normally, don’t launch game yet
-Put English patch english translation RC2 in game folder and run it.
-A CMD window will pop up.When prompted to press any key to continue DON’T DO ANYTHING, instead open the newly created “patch” folder and erase the “crass” folder
-Remember the fixed patch that i told you to hold onto? well, extract its contents then copy the newly extracted folder called “crass-1.0.0.14.0” to “patch” folder and rename it to “crass”
-return to CMD menu and press any key, then wait for the
patch to be applied. Press any key when prompted
-Replace the exe with the cracked version (it’s the exe that’s inside the “Crack” folder)
-Launch the game
if the game’s not in english:
a)you screwed up during the CMD installation. REMEMBER TO follow the instructions and BE PATIENT don’t close the damn window!
b)your language locale is not japanese, make sure it does and leave it like that.
-FOR WINDOWS 7 USERS ONLY! (do this if you have trouble launching the game(NO game screen/window visible upon opening the exe)
-run the game “as admin” and under compatibility mode for “Windows vista””
I did everything you said to do in your post but whenever I try and run the game with the crack.exe the game will run for a few seconds and then the window will close. I have the newest video card on the market AMD HF 7970 and all my drivers are up to date as well.
Apparently I was wrong. It is in English except for the main menu.
Thank you Hikari and Helvetica.
I try to play Chaos Head in english since 2010 and i’ve never managed to do it before.
It seems the original crage.exe from “crass” folder inside translation patch RC1 & 2 didn’t work on Windows7(64bits).
Same here, same exact OS. I guess crage.exe doesn’t like to work with 64bit of win7
Part7: Error-> page seems to be down 🙁
( http: ) //www (.) mediafire (.) com/?i42heldagc6na2t
Delete all the ( )s and spaces .. This is for that crass I’ve mentioned ..
*Sigh* I’ve been trying to get this game to work, on and off, for about a year now.
I redownloaded everything tonight and I was excited because everything finally seemed to work. I was even able to start the game. I then managed to get through all that dialogue with the main character was on the ground. Then the whole screen went black and (I’m assuming) a video started playing. Thing is, I couldn’t see anything, and I lost the ability to click on anything related to the game’s window, including the “X” to close out the game. I could still hear the dialogue and everything. Eventually the dialogue ended (I’m assuming an opening would of had music, right? Well there wasn’t any music during this time)and I regained “control” of the game and could click things again. Problem was, the screen was still completely black, and now, also, without sound.
I’m assuming it’s some kind of codec issue with playing the movie. My Codecs are all up-to-date, however; likewise, I’ve never seen a VN whos’ opening I couldn’t play, that didn’t crash. So I’ve no idea what the problem could be. I’ve looked around and didn’t really find any answers. Maybe someone here can help me.
TL;
Screen goes black as if I can’t play a movie, however the VN doesn’t crash and I can still hear the audio. HALP!!!!
P.S.
Is there suppose to be a “video” folder? Because I don’t see one.
Now I’m far, far, far more confused before. I uninstalled everything again then reinstalled… again. I ran the game in Japanese and everything ran fine. The scene with the Pink haired girl played, then after all of that the OP played. All was well. I (after about 3 or so hours) was finally able to instal the English patch again. Yet the same exact problem persists. Suffice to say, it definitely isn’t anything to do with my codecs. It’s something with the English patch, only, I’ve no idea what.
either your videocard sucks/haven’t updated your videocard drivers/u r using windows7pro/u didn’t update directx/ God hates you.
your best bet is to update your hardware. Sorry-
you can also try running the game on a winxp/winvista system?
also, download an apeshit of codecs. It doesn’t matter if you think you have them all, download as much as you can and install them.
parts 4 and 7 seem to be down from the DA-free game download link. Any help or updates on that?
hi i managed to download this game and it was working fine but for some reason all the sprites have stopped appearing i looked at game play on youtube and sure enough they were there but not on mine ive got windows 7 home premium and ive played the game with admin rights and in compatibility for win vista like it says in the comments but its not working and i cant figure it out thanks for your help
ok its a bit embarrassing but it seems its cuz i had the lingerie mode on which doesn’t seem to work that the sprites didnt come up lol >.> for some reason whenever something goes wrong with with one of the games i dl from here it can usually be fixed by retracing not my steps but my libido…tho i doubt im the only one with that prob >.>
That’s because the underwear patch is not included here.
If you want, I can provide you with download links to it. 🙂
Hello, I have a problem with this game so help me please, if you can.
So this is the problem: I did everything as was instructed, but I did not get a crack folder, i thought that maybe it was not necessary, so I started the game and it worked, but the problem is I can’t do anything in the config and when I star the game it just takes me back to main screen.
so I ask you again, please help if you can.
ermm, crack folder comes with the ISO file.
are you sure you didn’t delete it or something?
if you really don’t have it, I can provide you with links to both the cracked exe and if you’d like, the underwear patch too.
found it, thanks
i re installed the game according to the instructions given by ,Helvetica Standard, in a earlier post, but the game still wont let me use options and still returns me to the main menu after i try to start new game, so please if there is a solution to this problem please help me.
I would appreciate that, but the now the problem still lies in the fact that when i press new game it shoots me back to main menu and the wont let me chance any settings in the config. maybe if i could get a save that is the first words spoken or the first thing that happens in the story, i could try to bypass the actual starting of the game but still be able to play it fully.
@Ryukami: you need the no DVD cracked exe.
you have it? if not here’s a link to it:
http(((((://www.mediafire.(((com/?as2i0f2k))))1k90f62
[remove the ( )]
i downloaded that, but still it keeps sending me back to the start menu when i try to launch the game. (i have my region set to Japan and i’m running it as admin and in vista compatipility mode.
I have the same problem running win7 enterprise i did everything as told but cant do anything in config and start button shows the screen go to static then bumped back to the main menu its really frustrating
The no dvd patch link appears to be dead. Can you re-upload it?
the link is dead. please reupload
Can anyone upload a 100% Save data on this?
Can’t really seem to get 100% CG and am too lazy to play this again and again :p
I keep getting a black screen when I try to play it. I have tried on 2 computers now, following the above instructions as carefully as possible. The music plays but the screen is all black and I can’t even close the game, as a box shows up but no words in it.
directX/video codec problem/old video card/ NON COMPATIBLE VIDEO CARD. (some Intel chipsets DON’T work with this game, some invidia cards have broken video, etc.)
Thx, I updated direct X but that didn’t work, so it has to be my video cards. I guess I’ll have to try on a third one and hope for the best.
I’m having a problem installing the english patch. I do everything that the instructions says and I always get the same error message from the CMD window. The CMD window never installs basically, the error message itself states that it’s not in the game folder and it cannot download, when it clearly is. Now I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the game many times trying different combinations to get pass the error but it always says the same thing even though I have it in the game folder. I’ve even tried moving the setup.bat file to many different folders within the game folder and that didn’t work. Any ideas of what’s going on?
the english translation RC2 file MUST be placed in the CHAOS;HEAD installation folder before attempting to run it. Otherwise it won’t work.
also you must rename the crass 1.0.0.14.0 folder to simply “crass”.
No it’s none of that, I’ve tried everything and it’s not working for some reason. I’m going to try and re-download the english patch again and if that doesn’t work I’m going to give up and learn japanese! D:< Thank you for helping though, I know there have been quiet a bit of problems trying to run this game and I know everyone's been trying there best to keep up with all the questions XD
I figured out the problem! One thing that I kept doing was treating the patch like a zip, so I would manually extract then move it to the game folder. It wasn’t till I started to re-download it that I realized it was an exe file.
So it needs to be within the ISO file?
I have a problem here..
I have smoothly followed the instructions posted here and successfully run the game but there’s no sprites!!
I suspect is it because of LCS patch? Because I didn’t have it or installed it along with RC2?
Ah, crap! I noticed my problem was already posted here..
tl;dr -_-
btw, can someone post an existing file of LCS patch?
I tried googling it but I can’t find any.
here are the links to the Underwear patch (5 parts in rar)
http:()//www(.)mediafire(.)com/?mjareibaw54hjwb
http:()//www(.)mediafire(.)com/?56o9u25johwd4of
http:()//www(.)mediafire(.)com/?4dt4v22eri777z1
http:()//www(.)mediafire(.)com/?lfquyh73234o21t
http:()//www(.)mediafire(.)com/?dsny5zg8u33rg81
(remove the parenthesis)
broken or deleted links, tell me so I can reupload them 😀
enjoy.
Thank you Helvetica! \(^o^)/
You’re truly a big help!
Currently downloading them now.. thanks so much~
Umm, one more thing: Should I patch this right away with my game or do I need to reinstall with the LCS being first?
If it’s the latter then I wouldn’t mind playing all over again (I’m currently at chapter 3) because playing with no sprites isn’t satisfying at all >_>
you can install the underwear patch and still conserve your save data.
Could you please re upload the underwear patch
the links are broken. it gives back error page. please reupload.
umm, links are broken.. can you reupload please? thanks 🙂
I have had a problem. When I pressed “start game”, I had returned into the start menu
Mmm, I fail to see the problems people have with installing this. For me it was just Install game->Install patch->It works?
Using Win 7 btw, just recommending to people trying out all these methods to try doing the basic install first, it just might work for you.
YEP, basic method worked for my second PC…
I wonder what kind of obscure assembled rigs these guys with trouble have… :/
i can’t even start the game… i’ve replaced chaoshead.exe with the patch exe and when i try to run the game i get the message “Please turn off debugger! and try again.”. i’ve googled for answer but couldn’t find any. what to do? 🙁
Is this game worth playing if you’ve already watched the chaos;head anime?
About as much as it is worth reading the Lord of the rings book collection after watching the movies, as in, definitively.
Thanks for the advice, I guess I’ll give it a go 🙂
The anime’s OK(it feels too squished).
The VN is much better
Part 7 seems to not be working
please reload the part 7
The parts are sometimes NOT available .. Just try it in different times ..
Part 4 is down 🙁
I have the problem running win7 enterprise i did everything as told but cant do anything in config and when i pusj the start button i see a black screen und little time later i will back to the main menu its really frustrating
and the point “Replace the exe with the cracked version (it’s the exe that’s inside the “Crack” folder)´´ frome the installation guide i cant make becouse i didnt have this folder
ok i found the crack folde but the problem is not gone
hm i did exactly what hikari said(i took me installing and unstalling about 5 times until i undrestood what he said)… but for some reason when i press the start button it goes back to the title again..
hm i saw that kaugummi had the same problem as me i also changed the exe with the crack but the problem is still not gone =(
My god, how frustraing, i go through all the installation procedures as stated, open the game fine, yet when i click ‘start’ i keep getting returned to the main menu.
actually, i solved the problem that we are having.
LAUNCH THE CRACK THROUGH APPLOCAL ON THE JAPANESE LOCALE.
ON WINDOWS 7 IT MAY TAKE SOME TIME TO STARTUP, BUT WAIT FOR IT AND IT WILL WORK!
i solved my problem by myself 2 it just took me some more hours of deep thinking and realizing how stupid i was
i have the game running perfectly till now i dlld it a million years ago and just installed it but im curious… many people say that the game just dies on chapter 9… is this true? i dont want a story that will crash me at the ending
can upload the crass file can’t find the download the site says file removed by user or is missing
I tried the links for the English patch and Part 7 but I just get HTML files rather than the exe and rare files, respectively. Fix please?
No. I take that back, I just refreshed the page and the downloads fine again. Nothing to worry about.
I have this same issue with the start menu repeating, and so for a few people said the solve it, but no one has posted how they solved it or up a step to step thing to do. Can someone post it up what they did so I can do it too. Because I’m becoming lost what to do.
For those who are returned to the main menu after pressing start game:
There’s not a clear solution to this (that’s why there are no answers on how to work around it) however some possible causes might be.
-Use of Jap locale program or a similar one
PLEASE, DON’T USE THIS, REGARDLESS OF HOW FOND YOU ARE OF THIS TOOL, IT HAS KNOWN ISSUES WITH SEVERAL VN’S (SAVE YOURSELF THE TROUBLE AND CHANGE YOUR LOCAL LANGUAGE MANUALLY UNDER WINDOWS LANG SETTINGS.
-local language is not japanese
I know it should be obvious, but please double check if your local language is indeed set to japanese.
-Faulty video codecs
Download as much video codecs as you can, LOTS of em.
-Admin/permission rights
you’ll need an unlocker tool of sorts and apply it on the game’s exe. (not yet confirmed if it works or not)
-DVD iso image load
you need a no DVD cracked exe, otherwise the game will kick you back to main screen. alternatively, keep the iso mounted on daemon tools you’ll be able to load the game that way but you’ll need to mount the iso everytime before you play.
-Win vista/win 7 x64 bits
Not confirmed if this is an issue or not (the game runs fine on both my x64 PC’s..
A: Applocale works perfectly with the game as long as you have installed jap language (though i havent finished the game yet and im doubtfull if it will crash on the famous chapter 9)
B: Obviously needed xd
C: Usually works with regular codecs and the main comunnity codec pack
D: Being admin is necesary on higher versions of windows… when you think something does not work because of that, right click, run as admin.
E: This site should have the NoDVD patch for download… i found it uberly necesary
F: I cant comment on that
I hope you people keep at it and can play this amazing story have fun
By the way helvetica i have to thank you a lot 🙂 you ve been here for everyone with problems and gladly answered back to all of them .I wish someday we can post a full installation guide here… i could probabbly help through my experience
(although i still fear the crash on ep 9… though i havent reached it xD)
P.D: i love nichijou xD your name is awesome
Chapter 9 crash occurred only with the beta english patch
Beta english patch also caused the game to freeze if you tried to save your game while on chapter 7, other common bugs triggered crashes and freezes if you tried to read the glosary tab and config options from the ingame menu.
RC1 english patch crashed randomly though lesss often and the patch didn’t work on 64bit systems.
RC2 english patch (The one provided here) has no issues or whatsoever, you’ll still need the underwear patch if you enable LCS since if you enable it without it character sprites will be missing.
The only reall problem lies with the noDVD cracked exe
which is NOT provided here (I believe this to be the main cause for the kickbacks to the mainscreen at gamestart.)
Hey! I made a tutorial on how to install this game, so if you need any help downloading and installing it, please visit out blog! You can either click my name or go to sasugasugoi.blogspot.com!
umm.. i had problem installing this
at about 5% of its progress , it stop.. said:
エラーコード: -5003 : 0x8004ace8
エラー情報:
>SetupDLL\SetupDLL.cpp (1001)
pAPP:CHAOS;HEAD
PVENDOR:NitroPlus
PGUID:C0AEC1BB-5731-439A-96B1-66ABD2B24F62
$10.50.0.125
also same prob on hanachirasu
help pls mates,, tnx b4 🙂
You’ve some libraries missing.
Update your .dll files and also update directX
try to update NET framework 1 as well.
base prob, lackin in care,
my old war lappy need total reinstal actualy, or rplacemen ehehe
il try some other time then when got free time
thanks anyway Helvetica 😉
does this have h scenes?
I can’t get it to work, at all, on Windows 7 x64. When I hit the “Install Game” button, nothing happens. The installer shuts down. There’s no black screen, no error message, nothing. The whole thing just…stops.
I wound up getting a preinstalled version elsewhere, and the game doesn’t start up at all, with the same issues as the installer. No error messages, no pop-ups of any sort.
My system locale is set to Japanese, I’ve tried running as an administrator, I’ve tried AppLocale, and I’ve tried every compatibility mode in the list. Any ideas?
Is this a hentai game?
never mind just noticed tags.
can someone upload or share a link of the underwear patch, the links provided here are dead, thanks
awesome game, enjoy it =)
can someone tell me where it makes the save file on windows 7
Thanks for the upload, it works for me. Anyone know what’s the diff between Auto and Skip mode?
Please help! I accidentally installed the game, then uninstalled it because I’m an idiot who didn’t read the readme. After reading it and getting everything done, I tried to re-install the game and it keeps coming up with a box with a whole bunch of question marks and a 1.
man, this game is problematic..
my problem is, after the op at some point in chapter 1, the game crash.. running on Win 7, Professional, 32 bit..
Yeah. It doesn’t help that the error shows Japanese which I can’t read.
its happen to me too… need little help here
Sorry. Okay, so. It’s working now. I had to reload an earlier save. Also, I read somewhere that you cannot save on Chapter 7. That’s the reason why every time I try to load a save, it crashes.
hey thanks . i downloading right now LOL. by the way it’s really tough way to install this . but once again thanks 🙂
Downloading, thanks for upload in 1 link.
i’ve install the game , but it wont start >< everytime i click start it wont start, anyone can help ?? thx b4
same problem, when I click on start the game turn back to menu
I downloaded all the parts and the English patch, but when I opened the set-up of the patch it gave me an error message, but when I hit enter again a message that I couldn’t read (it disappeared too fast) came-up, then closed itself and took away all the programs, leaving me with just the game.
When I double-click on the game it opens, gives a black screen, then closes itself out. I have no idea how to fix this.
i just downloaded the game but i had the same problem with rootless prophecy except the game wont close by it self and it start saying program not responding please help me…. what should i do??