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There is a patch with instructions included in the guide, available here

Speak to King Premium once you have all of them. If you missed an item that isn’t covered by this patch, I suppose your only option is the debug menu.

If Lucia says “This sure is a weird spot for a tree to be growing” with no follow-up, it may have to do with your Sensitivity, which you can check by using Mimine in your inventory. If it’s below 20, you should definitely try to get it up.

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Hello! The passwords are case-sensitive, so if you enter it as “Read Quietly” with the first letters of both words capitalized, it should work. I will be sure to fix that slight inconsistency in wording in the next update, thanks!

To scout the black swordsman after the Spritzia event, you just need to find him again at one of his usual places as detailed in the guide, set the [Scout] info, and talk to him. It takes a bit of luck, because the locations he appears at change every day: the Hanger Guild bar, Coriander’s 1st floor, Mt. Guido 1-8, Est’s Cellar Bower, and Ukanets’ Peaceful Pavilion. Also, the Lumberjack axe can be crafted at Mary’s workshop aboard the ship.

Driffid Oil can also be obtained at Bolmeo Marsh with Treasure Eye/Pilfer, so it isn’t a missable Premium Item. I updated the guide to clarify this, so thank you for the report. Also, I’m not exactly sure which debug mode you’re talking about, but EasyRPG does come built-in with a feature like that, yes.

Spoilers Well, if the issue is that your characters are too low level, you could bring a bulkier party of Warson, Lance, and Milca to try and make it through. Spam her AOE heals, try to focus down Mugen first. Maybe you have some Magic Crests that could be put to use as well. Otherwise, if you're absolutely stuck and at your wits' end, and you understandably don't feel like restarting the whole FE, you could always turn to RPG Maker save editors online.

No problem, and I’m glad someone used the patch so I can sort these issues out. I just updated the patch link, so try downloading and replacing the map again and it should unlock what you need. Just don’t forget to speak to King Premium. Also thanks for pointing out the couple problematic quests I missed in the guide.

Spoilers That is indeed the FEX door, and if it’s available then you should be fine to get started with it. However, you will be missing some of the context leading up to FEX. If I had to guess, the patch was probably forced to be this way, skipping the Widow events, because he’s actually a missable party member, believe it or not (Lucia’s FE is a really poorly designed event lol). Judging by what you’ve said, it seems like the Premium Items are the only area you messed up in, so you could theoretically just unlock all of them using that one chest and skip using the FEX chest, then progress with the FEX checklist laid out in the guide if you wanted the full context. Otherwise, if you don’t care, as long as you’ve seen Once in a Lifetime you should be fine.
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Thank you for the report. I updated the link to that file (Map0175), so please try to download it again and see if both chests are there. As for what they do, I will explain the details:

Spoilers 1.The Premium Item chest should cause a door to appear in the same room after speaking to King Premium. This is content meant to be done after the Finale, and I believe it will only work then.

2.The FEX chest causes several side events to appear in the Side Event Room. Watching them should re-open the Fortune Event Door and make FEX accessible, but I’m pretty sure it only works if you open the chest BEFORE actually completing (or starting?) the Finale, so if you’re past that point, you may need to reload a save to access FEX. If it’s still not showing up, I think you need the Philosopher’s Stone, so make sure you completed Coriander Maze. I based the patch on someone else’s work and I’m not entirely sure of the specifics, so do let me know if you run into any other issues.

If you paid the contingency fee, you should have an item called “Supply:Rarity” in your inventory. If so, all you need to do is add Konoha to your party and then visit any one of the three hidden villages to exchange it for the book. The easiest one to get to is north of Mt. Boyd near Ukanets. I’ve just updated the web guide to clarify this, so thank you for the report.

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Yes, you can check what’s your sensitivity with Mimine (the fairy you can summon from your inventory).

Hello! Thankfully, the Fine Art info is only required for the Forte painting. The church painting is a little different in that it requires 30+ Sensitivity for Lucia to react to it and prompt the purchase request. I will clarify this in the guide to prevent any further confusion, thanks!

All I know is, most of the tracks were probably “meant” to be heard using Roland SC-55, but unfortunately I don’t know if there’s any particular file that won’t play properly in MUNT with CM-32.

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It seems you’re actually short of the necessary number of Harpy Feathers (It requires 2, but you only have 1). The dialogue box was a mistake by the dev. It should say “Not enough Harpy Feathers”, but says Sonic Dagger instead.

Hello and I’m sorry to hear that. When you examine a Living Rope climbing point, do you see the text “It seems like you could climb here with a rope”? If so, you may need to enable the rope in the Party Option menu after pressing Shift. Also, because I’m unsure which section(s) you’re referring to, do keep in mind some climbing points require REGULAR ropes, so that could be part of the issue.

Hmm. Okay, in that case, I have a sneaking suspicion it may have to do with the Pickpocket Boy quest. Are you absolutely sure you talked to the tea-drinking man in the bar with the [Scout] Info, then spoke to the boy and went along with his invitation? Maybe you chose not to follow the boy?

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Hello! Both of these issues likely have to do with your Sensitivity count. You can use Mimine (the fairy in your inventory) to confirm how much you have, and if it’s below 30, I would definitely try to get it up closer to 50 by tipping performers, eating at restaurants, etc.

Hello! Just to be sure, you have reopened the art gallery and are sleeping at the Ukanets inn, correct? If so, it could be your Benevolence count, so check to see if you have at least 1.

Hello and thank you for the report. Could you try downloading the Google Drive mirror version again to see if you still get this error?

Hello! It seems you may be lacking the Sensitivity required. Try to raise it by tipping musicians, sending letters to Anna, and eating out at places and see if that changes anything.

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Hello! If you find yourself in this position without any backup saves to rely on, you can try this:

Spoilers https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zWHieqFld8TK5uvNdxExgXWx6q8nCEOh/view?usp=drive_link

Download this file and place it in the “Tobiden” folder. Then, attempt to scout the tea-drinking man again and the event should reset. You may need to exit and re-enter the bar.

If you mean RPG_RT.exe and RPG_RT_original.exe, the former has the default icon changed, while the latter is simply a backup generated in case the executable is corrupted.

You can’t ship “two language versions” of the same game in the same folder, because their files would share filenames, which means the maps would contain either the original or the translated text. You could certainly edit the game and add both scripts plus a flag for the language, but that goes way beyond the scope of a translation.

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Spoilers ahead, so don’t check unless you want to find out on your own.

Spoilers It's only three, and one of them is necessary for the True Ending (and outlined in the guide).

The list is as follows:

  • Number 36: Lezaard Village (Required for the True Ending, time limit: Day 200)
  • Number 64: Mimi the Cat (time limit: Day 100)
  • Number 66: Driffid Harvest (time limit: Day 200)

Oh, thank you for pointing that out, the online guide has been updated.

You have to drop them off at Bonanza Village, located north of Eastwood. Check this map if you don’t remember where that is (hint, bottom center).

Oops, forgot to reply. Thank you for the report! I updated the links and made a quick announcement.

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What you ask may or may not spoil the experience for others, so I’m afraid I’ll have to hide this under a spoiler mark. For anyone else who wants to find out on their own, please do NOT check the rest of this post.

Spoilers There's no romance choices you can make in the game. I'm afraid to say that Lucia has her heart set on someone, and there's nothing you can do to change that (regardless of how it ends). Since you specifically mentioned that this may be a breaker for you, I'll further clarify that this someone is male. And although I'd argue the "romance elements" are fairly minor in this game, that is a subjective appreciation. The fact still stands that most of the important couples in this game (not talking about Lucia here) are male/female pairs, and the motivation of some of these characters are driven by this.

I am partial to same-sex romance, but I do not expect it from a game from 2007, so even avoiding romance altogether would be better than the alternative.

You would be surprised, but this is far more common than you seem to think. Perhaps not so much in the big RPG titles that made their way to the west, but it’s still fairly prevalent in the doujin circles. In fact, one of the female characters has a HUGE crush on Lucia, and it’s not implied or “played as good friends” or anything of the sort. Had Lucia been written slightly differently, I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw more Yuri elements in this game, but unfortunately that isn’t the case.

  1. Oops, you probably missed speaking with Merry (the sheep) the first time, that’s what triggers him to appear later.

  2. We preserved the original game bugs for your maximum enjoyment.

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Hello, thank you for the report! Could you try downloading the GDrive mirror version again to see if you still get this error? If it’s fixed, I can update the downloadable version and make a quick announcement.

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Nothing much, really. There’s two suggestive CGs (probably the “””“worst”””” things in the whole game in regard to “suggestive” content, please note the quotation marks) containing what you’d expect from basically any early 2k japanese game.

Spoilers A mild panty shot CG (unavoidable, story event), and a spring bath CG with a girl covering herself with a towel (avoidable to an extent, you could just choose not to take a bath).

Everything else falling under the “sexual themes” umbrella is basically conveyed through text, and it’s not explicit, either. Essentially (and trying not to spoil much here), it’s stuff like mentions of character X fiddling the diddle with character Y without going into any detail, and then left at that.

To be fair, people have played games with far more suggestive images and text on twitch before (this is fairly innocent all things considered). I personally think it should be fine, but I’m not really an authority, so take this as merely a personal opinion from the person running the account at the moment.

By “the folder doesn’t contain the application”, do you mean an executable that runs natively on MacOS? If so, indeed, that is the case, since RPG Maker was developed for and only runs natively on windows. You can use other tools to run these RPG Maker games, such as EasyRPG.

If you mean something else, I will need more details. Do you see no file whatsoever once you unpack the files?

KANAO I SWEAR TO GOD

I can’t replicate this issue, and the only relevant search result I found after googling is, in fact, your very own post.

In the meantime, you could try the following:

  1. After running Player.exe, press F4. This will change the game from full-screen to windowed mode. If this work and you find the size too small, you can change the resolution of the window by pressing F5 a few times.

  2. If that doesn’t work, create a bat file containing the following:

start Player --window

This will start the player in window mode from the get-go. You can read more about EasyRPG command line arguments in their page: https://wiki.easyrpg.org/user/player/command-line

If that doesn’t fix it… I suspect your problem may be caused by outdated graphical drivers, but I will need more information regarding your hardware to confirm that. If you can, please tell me what’s your CPU, your GPU and the GPU driver version.

No, since this game uses the RPG Maker 2000 engine, which joiplay doesn’t run.

I think you could technically use EasyRPG for mobile; but I can’t really recommend that, since this game has movies, and those may not play with EasyRPG due to incompatibility issues. It’s better to run the game with the original executable on a PC.

Glad that you got it working!

Thank you for catching up that discrepancy in the installation guide, I already corrected it.

.rar is just one of the many formats (like .zip) used for compressing files. Unfortunately, I don’t have a macbook to provide a step-by-step guide, but I recommend looking up tools that are available and compatible with your system for extracting .rar files (you can try “winzip” or “unarchiver”, for example). If you’re not sure how to use them (or want to try something else), you can try searching for “how to extract .rar files macbook [program you want to use]”, or any other similar search.

I hope this works for you.

You can only play fullscreen if you launch the game via the StartFullscreen.exe or via player.exe (the latter won’t show you the cutscenes though). Just to be sure, you did unpack the game, right?

Awesome. Thanks for the reply!

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I’m glad you figured it out!

I knew the steam deck has both a custom Linux and Windows, but I wasn’t sure which one you were trying. I figured Windows was easier to set up if the problem was MIDI support. I suppose either Proton isn’t set up to do MIDI passthrough out of the box, or the original RPGMaker engine is expecting to find some files that don’t come with the installation, or something along those lines.

Just for curiosity (in case someone has the same problem in the future), did you run the Windows version of EasyRPG that comes with the game on Proton, or did you download a native Linux build of it?

You’re welcome!