Rance 2: The Rebellious Maidens

Rance 2

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)

180 thoughts on “Rance 2: The Rebellious Maidens

  1. the game doesnt work after downloading and extracting with winrar the files seems to be corrupted renaming the __02 files ランス02 the game still doesnt work also while running the .exe with japanese locale
    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

  2. Tried everything advised here, nothing works, only get 2 Sys42 errors and black screen. Yes running Japanese Locale, yes ran applocale too, ran administartor mode, renamed all the files that were ___
    Just a bad upload, imo.

    1. Finally got it to work! Simply download the patch from the orignal translators and apply it again… that’s it. *sigh*
      bad upload indeed.

    2. The upload is fine-ish. It does require some config though.

      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.

  3. Please teach me how to fix this the money is in symbol q and the exp is in symbol p…can anyone teach me how to fix this please I’m using windows 10

  4. downloaded the links then extracted using 9 zip and got an error message but bad pathing but then it extracted anyways. ive gone through the steps for everything else but right when i start up the game i get an error that says DLL[ systemService.dll] and a bunch of Japanese after. cant find anything on this. am i missing a file? haven’t tried re-downloading yet

  5. edit* its actually certain files arent extracting when i do it and it because of invalid characters, i can see the files there when i open the zip but they won’t extract, I’m using 9zip/winzip and neither will extract the files.how do i fix this?

  6. I have no idea what to do to get this to work. I renamed the files to rance02 and went into the alicestart file and changed it to rance02 as well. However when I start up the game I get DLL[SystemService.dll] with some japanese text at the end of it. What do I do?

  7. Im broke my mind, but repair this, Sys42 error JAB with 2 windows
    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

  8. How I solved the issues:

    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

    1. For my case, it appears the downloaded game is already translated to Chinese language so extracting in non-Chinese system locale will ruin the files

  9. it would be helpful if someone tell me how to extract it properly
    i mean step by step
    please respond i really wanna play this game 🙁

  10. It works

    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 .

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