362 thoughts on “Clannad

    1. It’s that big, since it also includes voices, which take a lot of space for game that long.
      Anyway – we have games that take double the size of this one School Days has 14*500MB parts.

      1. It’s more than that, though. Remember that the audio and possibly image files are uncompressed in most visual novels, including CLANNAD. If you wanted to you could rip the audio and music into good-quality ogg format and have the size down to maybe 800mb. The only downside is that you’ll be able to hear a small gap when the music loops.

  1. With Zaku’s Files i have to put it in the same folder and extracted in Winrar right? Because thats what i did and its still showing me the black screen do i have to do something else with the files can anyone help me?

  2. Hey guys, I’m getting this wierd error while on Nagisa route.
    Instead of Nagisa saying (in the dialog box) “Tomoya-kun” it appears the following text; “No valid string, make a ticket about it”

    Is anyone else getting this problem in the game?

      1. Been there and done that. Somehow only with Nagisa it comes forward on her route. Last name bases okay, but when she goes first name bases it gives this problem.

        1. The game isn’t completely translated yet. You’ll find when you play it some comments are left behind by the translators, and very occasionally dialogue is untranslated and blank.

  3. So I think this game hates me. Or possibly I’m just an idiot.

    I was able to play this game fine a few months ago, finished a few routes, etc. Today, I finally decided to continue playing. Well, at first the game wasn’t responding, so I uninstalled and installed it a couple of times, then when that didn’t work, just restarted my computer. That fixed the not responding problem.

    Now however, the game is in Japanese, and appears to have no voices.
    Also, the save files from my previous playing of the game (which I kept by copying and pasting the SAVEDATA file between installations) don’t work. The CG data and such still seems to be available, but when you load the saves, you just see the CG and the date in the top left, but there’s no text or text box of any sort.

    I was using installation I successfully used a few months ago, which I got from this page. It was still in the daemontools library and everything. This is on windows 7.

    What have I done?

  4. Hi.

    I had the same problem with the black screen.
    I have a Win XP sp3 on a Virtual Box.
    When I applied the files in the previous comments but the text windows was on top and the menu’s didn’t work and res was 640×480. Tried the second one and the problem was that i had an error about text formatting. Fixed the problem by using the SEEN.txt file from the second fix and the rest from the first one. Menu’s still don’t work but since i have a virtual machine for this i don’t need them ;>

  5. I downloaded it and extracted it all to one folder with winrar but when i click the .exe it goes to a black screen….did i do it wrong?? how are you supposed to start it up?? help please!!

      1. It wasn’t really explained. The previous person just said to reinstall it, which isn’t an option if you can’t install it in the first place. I am using windows 7 and these comments haven’t helped me in the least.

  6. Are this game just extract it and play.
    or I mustuse daemon toll to play it,…
    I not too got to use daemon toll.

    1. You just need to download it and extract tosame folder. If you are using windows 7 you also need to download new patch form earlier comments.

  7. Hi.
    I recently downloaded this game and patched with the newest version for windows 7 patch.
    Game starts normaly and i have main manu where i can start game. After starting new game i can only play becouse when i try to go to menu it doesnt appear so i cant save my game :/

    any1 can help me with it?

    1. i have the same problem, if I save, and exit scenario, then i can load back up, but if I exit the game, no save is there? I tried multiple things, as saving and exiting from both in-game and teh menu, but still the same, had the same problem with shuffle! but it worked out, but still stuck on Clannad, any patch out there? (btw, im on vista)

      1. ok I know I just posted that, but I found my answer on my own, it was due to my antivirus (avast), deactivating it allowed me to save, try it out, and if it doesn’t work, I can’t help ya, sorry

  8. Hi,

    I recently downloaded this game and ran into some problems.
    I extracted the rar files but when I try to run the game all I get is a black screen with the flower cursor. Can anyone help me with this problem?

    1. make sure your computer is on Japanese locale, if it’s on english it might not work. and follow the instructions in the readme.txt file.

      1. thank you very much raitou, I also confirm that this method works. Before I have black screen with flower icon, now I can play without any problem. I appreciate it, thxs a lot !

  9. So I am getting the same error as the above parties in reference to the black screen and the flower courser upon attempted running/installing. I can’t seem to find the place where it states the fix. I run windows vista home edition if it’s any help. Please help meh!

  10. Yeah i have the black screen/only the cursor popping up problem. i put the patch into the folder and everything but it still gives me black screen and an error that says mem error and random gibberish. Now i don’t really know how to change my computer to Japanese local so i haven’t tried that. please help!

  11. help i cant download part 5 from filesonic
    i tried a lot of times but it seems like the file is not there anymore

    1. it’s normal… if something like that happen… just wait until a later time like the next day *it’s always the next day for me* or… the next day after next 😛 then try to download it again…

      the same thing happened to me a bunch of time in a different eroge… but in the end I still manage to play it after I wait for it…

  12. The only problem I has a few months ago was that the game went back to the menu when “The scene ends with nagisa asleep with a fever and tomoya in the room,” This is still around the beginning of the game. I quit the game when i couldnt find a fix for this, and I did try to reload my save file and even make other choices that still led to that moment.

  13. The last time I downloaded this, all I got was one file that I couldn’t figure out how to use and it wouldn’t play. I deleted it, but now I want to play the game again but I’m unsure if I should spend time downloading it AGAIN if the same problem persists. Has anyone else had this problem, or is it just me? Also, I believe the file was a .cdi, but I could be wrong.

    1. Yes, i change uploads from time to time. The .cdi file you mentioned was game disc image – you had to mount it ( “faq” section of this website has instructions for this btw) and install. Current one is just extract and play (you need to apply alternative patch on some windows 7 systems, according to people’s comment – i wasnt able to reproduce this bug tho, game starts fine on windows 7 for me as well)

      1. Can you slice the file to 250m each, I’m scared on downloading such a huge file (I’m experiencing some sudden lags plus the download limits of my plug ins)
        hehehe

  14. just to make sure this game is voiced in english right im just asking because english voices suck much better when in japanese with only the text translated

  15. Having a bit of a BGM issue. It started just after the 1/2 way point of Fuuka’s story (only arc ive played) where the BGM just stops playing … I am already at the end of her story and still no BGM. (Running Vista and the voices and option sounds work just fine)

    1. Just started a new game after I beat the Fuuka arc and the BGM is playing just fine … loaded up the fuuka file to see the alternate ending and its bugged. How odd.

  16. Finally finished the true story, had this VN downloaded months ago, but always forgot about/didn’t had enough time to really start reading it until now.

    What a fuckin great story,so sad at first but still…. very good, Tomoyo & Nagisa ftw!

    On a sidenote admin, are there translated extra expansions/fan content (for certain characters) for Clannad? Thought i heard something about it, or are those for the anime version (i have yet to watch).

    1. I know erogegame has a tomoyo one, but it’s not completed.
      There’s a link to it on this site under partially translated.

  17. I have a question
    Why does all the files that i extracted is the same?
    do Part 1 to Part 8 contains the same data?
    Because after i extracted the first
    the second one said that the similiar file already exist :/
    Can Anyone hlp me with this?

    1. The files are so big that they span across several archives. When you extract from first part, winrar automatically pulls data from following parts, once it is done with first one. Try moving only one part to separate folder and extract it – you’ll get “unexpected end of archive” error.

  18. Okay I love this game, but I noticed many more glitches than those mentioned above but a few are the same.

    In Nagisa’s and Fuuko’s Paths “No valid String, please make a report about it” shows up when ever anyone tries to call Tomoya “Tomoya-kun”.

    Also about 1/2 way though Fuuko’s path the music just quits playing.

    Also quite often an * shows up after a badly translated sentence.

    Are any or all of these due to the game still not being fully translated or some other similar situation?

  19. hi, can anyone give me some help, why does window 7 can’t play this game, is there an patch needed to be download, then please give the the link

  20. I downloaded the .rar file….for Clannad part1 and it keeps saying error. I used the program, WinRar…. don’t know what to do. It keeps saying there are several errors and for Canvas2 too.

  21. I have Windows 7 starter, and none of the downloads work for me. I downloaded the file and then i used WinRar to open it but it says a error screen so i just closed it and opened it. I went inside the folders until I came across BGM14.nwa and now I can’t go any further. I saw that link for this patch or something at the other comments that says SEEN_FV_snapshot_20081220…and copied it to the Clannad file and vice versa……..what do I do now..?

  22. I got the problem that the game suddenly goes to title screen on nagisa route.I could understand it if it does that when the story is finished but it doesnt look like and the anime continued too.I’m at the point where Nagisa is sick in may and its after a festival and blah.
    So is it a bug or is it normal to end the game at this point? Oo

    1. game has two parts – first and after story. you unlock after story by collecting 7 dragon balls light orbs, by completing character routes. refer to walkthrough for instructions.

  23. ok so i downloaded clanned off of the rapidshare but file 4 is corrupted so my question is can i just redownloed the same file from media fire or do i have to redownload all of of it on mediafire plz and thanks for ansewrs i will cheack every day for the anser

  24. I’ve been having a lot of trouble with part 13. A specific file repeatedly shows up as corrupted. I’ve tried redownloading it several times on Mediafire. It’s the z6800.ovk file. Currently checking out rapidshare to see if it’s a problem on both ends.

  25. There are two version of clannad(pc game).
    first is old version release at 2004, and the last is New version that being release in 2008.
    question, what version this clannad?

  26. so I run setup.exe install it and run RealLive.exe from c:key/clannad the game starts normally but when I click New Game it crashes same happens if I choose other stuff like Load or Options

    1. The answer is yes, unless by some odd chance your definition of “free” in this context is different from “don’t have to pay money”.

  27. Hello. I have a strange problem. Once i downloaded the game it worked pretty well. After a few hours when I turned my computer on and wanted to play the game just launches for about 20 seconds and closes . I dont know what to do… i have spent about 6 hours trying to fix it and nothing works… please help me someone :< Im using windows 7 ultimate 64bit.

  28. I have the same problem as Draugur, I downloaded it a while ago and it worked just fine, but now when I want to play it again, it just closes on me when it’s loading the main menu. I tried to open it again and again with different settings but to no avail. Does anyone know how to fix it?

    1. I just found out what was the problem. It was Avast which launched the game in sandbox and that caused game to close. So I just changed options in avast to open reallive.exe in normal window and it works!. Yay im so happy.

  29. I downloaded the game, but when I run it, the screen goes black and nothing happens. The cursor appears as a flower, and I can go to windowed mode or full screen, but nothing else happens. Is there any way to solve that?

          1. How do you fix the black screen problem? people say “solved” how? I got win 7 if it helps!

      1. I have the same problem and I really wish people would answer about how to fix it. Will someone who has bypassed the black screen problem please explain to other people how to fix aforementioned problem?

        1. Okay, for those with the black screen problem: Click the link under the download links that says “Installation Guide/Error Troubleshooting.” It explains what the problem is and includes a link with a download that will fix it. =)

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