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 .

Never thought this would work, seemed so out there, but it did, thanks a lot!

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

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

How do you install the patch ? I follow what it said but it doesn’t work.

thank you my god man

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.

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

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