Tick! Tack!

Tick! Tack!

The game is the first sequel to Navel’s first game, Shuffle!, continuing Nerine’s path.

The basic set-up is that Rin, Nerine, Itsuki, and Mayumi find a strange watch that transports them back in time, where they met Forbesii before he is married and has Nerine. While he is engaged to Ai, his maid, Sage, is also in love with him, causing a love triangle. The players actions determine who Forbesii ultimately ends up with, and thus who is the mother of Nerine.

283 thoughts on “Tick! Tack!

  1. anyone have a darn clue what kind of knowledge is required to crack games like this? It might be worth the effort to take a shot at it yourself. :S

    1. You need some familiarity with PE decompressors, a fair bit of knowledge on x86 assembly code, and a shitload of patience.

      I typically spend 2-3 hours on cracking this kind of game.

      1. thanks again for the exe… I managed to work around the soft denchi login but can’t run the game properly. Looks like i’ve reached a dead end but i’m sure other people will managed to crack it soon

        1. I think mangagamer is also using some kind of encrypted file on the smaller .xp3 file too. It seems they had to replace the smaller .xp3 with MG’s last game SSSS with a modified file to make it run correctly. So, It seems they did the same here. I sort of made a work around for the .exe, but mine just seems to start, go to a black screen, then crash. I woulden’t even call myself a hacking noob though, so I might not even have that right and thus even attempting to decreypt the .xp3 out of my league.

          1. hmm yea i see. Looks like i can’t just crack the exe. looks like i can’t do anything but wait or learn how to modify that type of file to work… Anyways i hope someone will be able to crack it soon.

  2. I’m going to try and patch this myself after I’ve downloaded it. But don’t get your hopes up, i know i’m not.

  3. Whatever happened to SSSS and Moero Blaze’s download pages? Is MG finally targeting this site? I have yet to read Shuffle but maybe I should download this while I can 🙁

    1. MG gotta protect their business. Harder crack means people won’t wait and they’ll buy it. I’m sure they haven’t bumped up their security, just people aren’t cracking it at the moment or their going at a slow pace.

  4. You can download the 1.01 update from Mangagamer’s blog directly – http://blog.mangagamer.org/2013/05/10/tick-tack-update-ver-1-1/

    It’s just a patch1.xp3 file that you put in the game folder. (Where navel.exe and the other data files are.)

    First time I started the game the “Navel” logo appeared and a soft voice kinda whispered it out.

    Then when I quit the game and run it through applocale (Unsure if it’s still needed but it helps with the text appearance in certain games like this.) the logo appear again but this time the voice screams it out like NAAAAVEEEL!!!! in a very deep voice so I had to hurry and turn down the speaker volume, made me jump a bit but it seems promising for the rest of the game. 😀

  5. damn guess its actually 5 yrs b4 the crack arrive :(. o well cant complain abt it. ill just hav to endure the 5 yrs of coldness and discomfort until the warm light finally arrives

      1. Heck if you’re willing to wait 5 years just learn how to read kanjis it will take you only 2 years or less but i assure you it’s less than that because i memorized 515 kanjis and it only took me 1 month

    1. could just cough up the cash and buy it ^_^ lol that would solve your problem
      then again if we had that kind of money we would not need this site ^_^

    1. Nope, it isn’t. It’s the same protection SSSS had. People who can do it simply don’t care.

      1. I mean, before they changed their website, they had a different defense, no? SSSS I did not watch because it is not interesting to me, I do not really like nukige.

  6. It’s not that the protection is so good, just that it’s new, and our crackers are on vacation

  7. you people don’t have to do anything but wait about 3-6 months and you can find cracked version online.or buy the game,it doesn’t cost that much

    1. I have… no money. I’m barely able to afford the necessities I need to run a business. That’s why I download stuff, not because I’m ‘too cheap to buy them’ but that I simply do not have the resources to do so. If someday my finances improve and then, I will buy it. Till then, why should I have to miss out on enjoying a great game just because I am unable to buy it when I’m already running myself haggard keeping my life together?

      1. Pirating is pirating, why even bother trying to justify it? You either do it or you don’t. No one cares why you do it. But if it makes you conscience feel better, no one is a saint.

      2. I bet you go without other luxuries in life if things are that bad, so why are games (a luxury item) an exception from this?

          1. But to try and excuse the downloading of games by saying you can barely afford the necessities is the height of hypocrisy, do you not agree?

          2. Go and live in some piss poor country, living just from average salary(or better minimal) for few years and when preach about hypocrisy, etc.

          3. I love arguments like this.

            So because you’re worse off than some others, you should get stuff for free, right?

          4. I pirate because i don’t feel like spending $20+ ($30+ in this case) on Visual Novels that i’ll only play for a few days before i complete it and move on to the next one.

          5. what he’s saying is he doesn’t have enough money to buy a game and only enough money to buy daily necessities because a game like this is a luxury it’s not a need it’s a want and you need extra money to buy daily necessities are needs, that you need to buy in order to survive please people it’s the basic of economics

          6. Reading this gave me a fucking headache… you download everything and buy what you like– end of story

          7. Maybe, but sometimes you want to get away from the sad reality, games allow you to do it, but not everyone can afford them. No one is saying that it is good, but in my opinion those who really can not buy them do not buy them, whether they will be cracked or not.

  8. man this is a real head scratcher, since calling myself a “noob at cracking” would be a huge overstatement. I’ve even gone and looked up tutorials, they haven’t really helped however because they seem to say the same things “look for the error message in the coding” problem is when i go to play the game and put in any key code, no error message pops up so i don’t know what to look for. I’m not gonna give up though, going to keep looking things up and working on it and see if i can get somewhere, if anyone has any tips it would be much appreciated.

    1. You need some familiarity with PE decompressors, a fair bit of knowledge on x86 assembly code, and a shitload of patience.

      I typically spend 2-3 hours on cracking this kind of game.

      1. If you typically spend 2-3 hours on cracking this kind of game, would you mind actually spending 2-3 hours cracking THIS game for us all?

        1. I think someone said something similar in the earlier comments. If not exactly the same message, it really doesn’t help me with what i need to find though v.v

    2. You will need a legit copy of the game and from there can reverse engineer the executable. It’s impossible to decrypt the data without a key unless there was a serious error in the implementation.

      1. ah thanks for letting me know that Morth, i’d need the Legit exe of the game to even try v.v.

      2. It has almost always been badly implemented. You don’t need a serial or an activated copy to crack SoftDenchi. MangaGamer added a hash check in the XP3 filter to prevent running the clean exe, which slightly complicates things.

  9. Finally I had downloaded this game before on another site it was fully functional but I only know a couple of Japanese symbols.

  10. this serial might help hackers crack the drm

    acv8 1tg4 35kn hy2p ue80

    ps: serial wont work but it lights up the activate button

    pps: in case you didn’t read serial won’t work

  11. ahh thank you for that Mao, i was waiting to be able to get that activate button to light up so i could search for the error 😀 maybe now i’ll be able to get somewhere

  12. bcv8 – 1tg5 – 45kn – hy2p – ue83
    ccv8 – 1tg5 – 45kn – hy2p – ue84
    dcv8 – 1tg5 – 45kn – hy2p – ue85
    ecv8 – 1tg5 – 45kn – hy2p – ue86
    so on…

    this is a pattern who i see, and

    ccv8 – 1tg5 – 35kn – hy2p – ue83
    ccv8 – 1tg5 – 45kn – hy2p – ue84
    ccv8 – 1tg5 – 55kn – hy2p – ue85
    so on..

    i do not know if this gonna help, but there is,

    P.S. : I HAVE TESTED ALL THIS AND SOME MORE, BUT ANY JUST FAIL, JUST SHOW “[error-code]11101”

  13. Crack:

    filerio (dot) in (slash) cp4c9f2ka3lu

    Replace (dot) with . and (slash) with /
    Couldn’t upload to downloadanime due to file size limit.

    Read instructions in the zip for installation information or just install the game and extract the files where you installed.

    Only very lightly tested.

    Apologies for being late, I forgot about this game’s release date.

    Posting attempt 6: are you blocking proxies, admin? Please make it easier on me to upload these.

    Enjoy.

      1. Make sure you replace all the original files or follow the instructions exactly.

        That error is caused by not replacing extrans.tpm with the cracked version in the zip. Read patch.txt for more details.

        Files that must be replaced: TickTack.exe extrans.tpm data.xp3

        Jjredster, I don’t know what causes your problem, what did you do to get it? It looks like a corrupted file. Make sure you extract and install the game correctly and that there’s no archive errors when extracting the crack.

        As far as light testing goes, I’ve played some of the game, but have not completed it.

        1. well what i did was, downloaded it (i already had the game installed by this point) then i extracted the crack to the main-game directory where it went when it installed, then i started the game and got that error v.v

          1. and yes i did follow the instructions to the letter, all that needed to be replaced got replaced but i still got that error.

          2. ahh now i feel dumb lol, i forgot to put the crack into the plugin folder so it didn’t replace. Thanks for the crack man ^^

        2. I’ve tried installing the game without extracting it with 7-Zip.

          I found that to make that work, you must replace extrans.tpm in plugin directory with the cracked one, or extract archive and delete the one in plugin. The uncracked extrans.tpm shouldn’t exist anywhere in the game path, or a decryption related error will occur.

          Angelus, your logs show that both cracked and uncracked plugins get loaded:
          23:02:37 (info) Loading extrans.tpm
          23:02:37 (info) Loading extrans.tpm

          I’ve done more testing and managed to reach an ending now, I assume it should work for everyone, but if it doesn’t report it here.

          Example game directory file listing that works:
          plugin\windowEx.dll
          plugin\csvParser.dll
          plugin\krmovie.dll
          plugin\extrans.dll
          plugin\wuvorbis.dll
          data.xp3 – cracked version
          extrans.tpm – cracked version
          TickTack.exe – cracked version
          gamedata.xp3

    1. h t t p : / / o i 3 9 . t i n y p i c . c o m / 6 j j 6 k k . j p g
      In according of the print screen on the above link Tick! Tack! crashes on my Windows XP,the extrans.tpm is in the plugin folder,I will replace correctly all files u.u

  14. Is the game difficult to have all the CGs ?
    Or does anyone have a walkthrouth ?

    How long the game is ?

  15. Thanks! It works great. It took a while to find a walkthrough but thanks a lots for the game and crack

  16. big thanks to cracker i’d have you’re babies if i was a girl.

    also kaien can you post a link to that walkthrough?

  17. Ok so noticed that there is now a crack download…. I have tested it and good news people IT WORKS YAY!!!!

    only thing to note extrans.tpm needs to go into the plugin folder, while the other two files stay in the main directory haven’t done the whole game but no crashes so far

  18. The walkthrough is in japanese (use google translate-sama right now) and the translated text is a little different from the game choices.

  19. Tried the crack, didn’t work get:

    “A script execution error has occurred
    Invalid character: ‘\x04′”

  20. Could you provide a link to that walkthrough? The only Japanese walkthrough I found turned out to be a dead link.

  21. And now all we need is a walkthrough. With all the stopwatch micromanagement and the prerequisite scenes on top of the standard heroine points we’re probably gonna need one.

    1. Well i found a walk through on gamefaq, but not sure who’s a fault, person that uploaded it the site cause it formatted so bad its easy to loser your spot. I am messing with formatting but gonna take a some time since gotta check everything ;/

    2. i was suppose to make a walkthru from my agreement with Ivan..
      but the systems seems so fucked up..
      even i was reading the jap walkthru..it still seemed impossible

      1. www. gamefaqs .com/pc/929299-tick-tack/wiki/2-1-tick-tack-walkthrough-

        One i got but like i said its formatting is pretty borked up.

        1. Oh god, that monstrosity? Yeah, I found that later. It’s a total mess.

          It also uses the “Save here, reload X save” approach, which I outright DESPISE for visual novel walkthroughs.

          1. They do that for certain CG unlocking, makes it easier then started from beginning every time. don’t want to do it then just ignore the save’s. I been reformatting it over last day or so, but some choices in the walk through are not identical as the game, So i end up having to make some guess’s based on what was said in walk through and the game.

          2. I’m in the process right now of redoing this walkthrough , fixing up the horrible grammar and format to make it easier on the eyes. That said since you also say that some of the walkthrough choices aren’t the same in the game so that I may or may not figure it out. I’m most likely just doing to redo the walkthrough with choices as is.

          3. I been reformatting as well, all routes cept Ai one done. Some of choices made educated guess on which it was. There was one route that well choice is not even close. maybe you can figure it out, “Nerine recovery” reload after 2nd save on day 5 afternoon.

          4. Jesus, yea wow the walkthrough for that was complete dog shit, I don’t think there’s much hope for the recovery route 2 for NErine.

  22. Someone please upload the crack onto MF? Can’t access the current site from my country… :'(

  23. h t t p : / / o i 3 9 . t i n y p i c . c o m / 6 j j 6 k k . j p g
    In according of the print screen on the above link Tick! Tack! crashes on my Windows XP,the extrans.tpm is in the plugin folder,I will replace correctly all files u.u

  24. I keep getting a TVP 2 Core Scripting platform for win32 has stopped working. Does anyone know how to fix this?

  25. Thanks ANON!

    One observation: It works fine but only if I put the extrans.tpm in the MAIN folder, otherwise I get that error message about “script execution error”.

    1. try upgrading directx and : Microsoft Visual C++ runtimes

      if not work you can upgrade your so to windows 7 or 8

      The crack works well in Vista/7/8

  26. Well, I have a Windows XP and the cracked files work just fine. The game certainly doesn’t waste time as it heads straight into action immediately. The game feels a bit like a expansion to the original game as opposed to a another game but I see no problem with that.

    I just finished Ai’s route using a walkthrough. I probably like her the best in this game.

    I would have loved and even paid to be able to play Shuffle Essence + since I get to pursue both Nadeshiko Benibara AND Kareha.

  27. Crack doesn’t work at all. After copying everything where it should go and starting game(or at least trying to do so) nothing happens.

  28. I don’t suppose anyone knows what the differences are between a Recovery and a Capture route are do they? O_o

  29. I do have a slightly rough but fairly clean translation of it.

    The translation could use improvements and I didn’t feel like editing it perfectly to look nice with no errors and conflicts in code. Forgot the origin of the walkthrough (had the original for a while).

    Don’t feel like paying for account like MediaFire Pro to allow lots of free 1-time downloads. Hmmm…

    Shall I just e-mail it to you guys or does anyone can take it, clean it up, claim it (whatever), and post it online?

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