It's unzipped. There's MARLO.args in there but renaming it doesn't help. Windows 10.
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Hum... strange, but let's try:
1) The ".args" file must be in the same directory of the .exe
2) Try deleting the "cabinet.ini" file, it's de configuration file, the executable will create a new one.
3) Try to activate "Direct play" on the windows 10, here is a tutorial:
Let me know if this have solved the error or not. Thanks.
So today I'm starting the game and it works when freshly extracted from the zip. I made some windows settings changes because indexing (well, searching for apps by typing in start) wasn't working. One of the things I did besides few GPEDIT and registry changes was deleting my user's locale folder (which got re-created at next boot). Perhaps that's related or my system is/was messed up in just some other way.
Anyways, now it's working. Thanks for the help and sorry for this weird non-reproducible error.