Kureha One

(http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/2401/aoishiro.jpg)

Description
My deceased grandmother liked traveling. Strange scenery. Strange people. She liked to meet them. I am now a high school student and set off on a trip as well. It is just a camp for training of my club. We visit a town near the sea and go to a temple gate located at the cape. What we see there is....

Game OP: Aoi shiro - opening video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGWd6RFc-8c#normal)

English Translation Main page: http://www.solelo.com/aoishiro/pc/index.htm (http://www.solelo.com/aoishiro/pc/index.htm)
The patch: http://wingsofyuri.nekoslovakia.net/aoishiro/pc/aoishiro_pc_eng_patch.zip (http://wingsofyuri.nekoslovakia.net/aoishiro/pc/aoishiro_pc_eng_patch.zip)

Get the game here: http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95183 (http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95183)
There are some direct download links, but i didn't try them. I use the torrent, which i also attached below.
This is not a proper ISO, just the installed contents. But i works for me.
I am using Windows XP SP3 (32-bit). At first i get some dll missing error. But after updating DirectX (as suggested by that hongfire page), it works.
DirectX update for Windows XP: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/d/3/0d307649-9967-49fa-ab27-61f11024e97f/directx_nov2008_redist.exe (http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/d/3/0d307649-9967-49fa-ab27-61f11024e97f/directx_nov2008_redist.exe)
DirectX SDK for Windows 7:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b66e14b8-8505-4b17-bf80-edb2df5abad4&displaylang=en#dx (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b66e14b8-8505-4b17-bf80-edb2df5abad4&displaylang=en#dx)

To avoid problem, please rename/move the Aoshiro game directory to something simple, like C:\Aoishiro.

This is one epic game, both in size and story.
It is fully voiced. In addition, the lips are animated when they talk, synced with the voice. First time i seen that in a visual novel.
As if that is not enough, they fully voiced all the menu items. When you mouse over the menu item, one of the character will say something about it. And there are 11 characters that you can choose to do this voice over.
I don't think this game is 18+ rated. But there are many beautiful CG, with sexy/suggestive poses, and plenty of exchange of liquids.
There are 6 major branches to stories with 56 endings in total.

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Foro MCAnime links posted by laplacian:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6RSR5SI8
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GO4R1DSQ
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GWT1UIDY
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DJE0GCJS
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HD7V28XX
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DKZLL1XP
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JWJ3CFI5
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RRNB072C
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B7ORRXJS
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3B0ETIHW
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LPAOI4B1

Password: kpoeira

Mediafire folder:
http://www.mediafire.com/?b987b63snhzg3

Hmmn thanks I will download and have a look. Glad to see you contributing and following tags.

also Attachments can only be viewed by members.

Mind explaining how to get the game to work?  ???

Hongfire thread doesn't seem to have any solution.

I extracted the directx redist into directx/setup and ran the game. not only was the game title screen not like the one in website screenshot, it never made it past the first sentence (and keeps freezing/error after that). I am on vista/7 with japanese locale and it doesn't seem to matter at all. Any input would be extremely helpful in getting this awesome-looking game running. Thanks O_o

I am not using vista. So no idea if it works the same there. But this is all the steps i do:
1. Copy the game somewhere, most likely doesn't matter where, for me C:\HGames\Aoishiro

2. Extract the english patch.

3. Then copy these to C:\HGames\Aoishiro\
Aoishiro_eng.exe
AoUtil_eng.exe

4. And these to C:\HGames\Aoishiro\SCRIPT\
EXE_CEL.AFS
SCRIPT.AFS

5. Run AoUtil_eng.exe, change nothing and just exit
Basically, i just try run it to see what it is, but see nothing to change. This may or may not do anything. I mention this in case it is important.

6. Run Aoishiro_eng.exe, in japanese locale. For me, i use agth.exe with /L /NH option. Can also use AppLocale, change your whole machine, etc. If you have run japanese games before, you probably know what to do.

The step 5 above, is when i get dll missing error. The missing dll file is part of DirectX, so after I run the directX update, this error is fixed. The error is in english, and will tell you the exact file name it is missing. So if you don't see anything like that, your problem is probably not related to directX.

That's problematic :/

Vista doesn't seem to like apps locale very much, because it already has the necessary language components installed. Mine has been japanese locale and everything from the beginning.

I followed the steps that the website posted of how to install the patch, and although I looked through the utilities apps I don't think I changed anything much. If it's not a direct X problem (and it seems many people from hongfire were stuck at the same place as I was) wonder if anyone else got it to work :/ with some possible solutions.

Title screen different, do you mean you have less choices? That is normal, when you first start you only have 4 choices on the left side (Start, Continue, Organize, and Option). The fifth option "Treasure Box" will only appear after you completed at least one route.

By first sentence, do you mean after you click "Start"?
Try move/rename your game directory, so that it is short.
My Game is installed to C:\HGames\Aoishiro
When i try renaming it to C:\HGames\Aoishiro12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
I can still start the game and get the title screen. But as soon as i click "Start", the game crash.

So uh, I managed to pass the beginning, but after a certain scene - namely after the intro movie, it crashes at a certain point and automatically closes. I don't know what's wrong this time -_- (It's the scene right when they were about to get off the bus and the picture was that of a sunset. the game closes as soon as it reaches there, whether by normal or skip...)

intro movie?  if it's a video scene maybe your codecs have problems?

I just check, the last sentence before the intro movie is "We went towards the Southern Sea...". Is there where you crash?

But you mention after the intro movie. So maybe you have seen it already? The intro is the youtube movie in the first post.

Anyway, if you suspect codec, there is another movie you can try. If you leave the game idle on the main menu (start, continue, etc screen), after about 1 minute, a different intro movie will play.

No, not a codec problem. I installed the CCP beforehand, so the intro movie ran fine. That's not the problem. The problem is that the game crashes AFTER the intro movie has finished and the game revert back to normal mode. The screen first turn black then the sunset. A few sentences after they talk about getting off the bus (and after mentioning how tired the bus driver was) it crashes, always at the same place. It's rather weird how no one else is having same problem... and I really doubt it's my computer's fault (the settings should all work) so... what's going on -_-

Edit: I think the game has something against windows 7/vista. I ran it on my old laptop xp and it's running fine, so I assume the OS might be the case after all... quite lame.

Well then, under Windows 7, ya should just run it under XP mode then. Anything that works under XP should work under Windows 7 using that method (basically it's virtualization, so you'd be running the game in a virtual machine). I do think ya need at least the pro version to make that work though.
Anyway, ya should read up on the function and see if it can help ya.

Unfortunately, that function isn't as reliable as we want, but this shouldn't be one of those cases. I had the opportunity to test several dozens of 98 and XP games on Windows 7 and from the few games that didn't run correctly, some of them were VNs translated by JAST about 5/6 years ago and what they have in common is that they use the same engine. All the other VNs worked just fine.

Not sure if Aoishiro uses same engine (it seems to be a better one at least) but I did beforehand try running with windows capability at xp, but that didn't work. I also transferred the save file from my xp laptop to windows 7. It got past that crashing part, but crashes a scene later. I think it has something to do with the character sprites generated because everytime they are suppose to appear from a screen without them speaking, it crash.

And yeah, if it takes the pro to work, then I have no way of getting it to work on windows 7 since mine is home premium (and it won't allow me to upgrade to pro rofl stupid microsoft) Ah well... as long as my xp laptop doesn't break down I can play the game... :/ until someone finds a real solution.

Aioshiro does work on Windows 7. I passed the intro, I passed the sunset images and it worked like a charm. For those having the problems, are you sure you're using the Aioshiro_eng.exe and not the other one? Plus I have it set it to window mode.

(http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/9616/22299548.th.png) (http://img692.imageshack.us/i/22299548.png/)

windws 7, aoishiro_eng, windows mode, nothing changed, default setting. maybe aoishiro simply hates my laptop :/

I think you are right. When they leave the bus, it is the first time we see character sprites. Before that we only see panning and zooming over static background. So the character sprite or maybe the lip-synch that happen when they show character sprite is what cause your crashing.

Knowing that, the next thing you should try is upgrading your directX and graphic card driver. For directX, don't use the link in my first post, that one may not be for windows 7, and definitely is not the latest version.

This was the DirectX that I was using with Windows 7: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b66e14b8-8505-4b17-bf80-edb2df5abad4&displaylang=en#dx (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b66e14b8-8505-4b17-bf80-edb2df5abad4&displaylang=en#dx)

It may seem excessive in terms of filesize, but some games actually require the SDK instead of the usual DirectX releases.

I'm using Windows 7 64-bit and I don't think I ever downloaded the SDK.  (I did have to download the directx 9 crap, but just not the SDK.)

i didnt know they have finished this game's translation...
too much playing MMO didn't i.... -_-
thx for the share, and this game is really awesome btw (even though i didn't understand most of it when i play the original japanese) :9   

I'm actually having a pretty nasty error after playing for around ~3 mins.

Game just crashes with an error report. I am kinda playing through it with loads of quicksaving, but it's pretty annoying.

Would be great it anyone who experienced the same error and fixed it or can translate the error message could help me out here.

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Edit: Seems I fixed the error by renaming the japanese game directory with western symbols.

Yeah, the naming error makes it problematic if your file directory had an overjumble of characters or those of foreign language. The translation of the error message basically means: Because of program experiencing a fatal error the program will now close.

I downloaded the SDK, and it seems I have no error with Aoishiro afterward. Thanks for the link btw ^^ Still, I'm going to stick with it playing on the XP since that seem to be most error free. Anyway, aoishiro is awesome, and though at first I thought it was filled with yuri, it seems that despite how it first appear, the endings all seem to mark them stopping at the 'friendship' level. Then again, I've only seen Migiwa and Yasumi ending, currently working with Nami ending (you apparently need to unlock a series of endings for other characters before Nami's, so I assume her's is the 'true end'.) SO that means I gotta play through Kaya's and maybe some other characters... Kohaku? Kinda wish they allow an ending with Ayashiro though... <3 hime hair ftw.

I have edited the first post to add the link to DirectX SDK for windows 7. And about using short game directory.

Nami is not the true end. The true end is what they call the Grand route.
The game patch include the complete guide to all the endings.

This page explain the order you need to unlock the seals:
aoishiro_pc_eng_patch\faq\one.htm

Whats everyones opinion of this game so far? from what little ive gleened it seems kinda nice, but id like yalls opinion before i download it

I've played through all routes now, and I really enjoyed it. Been a while since I played a visual novel which kept me playing for so long just because of a great story.

can somebody please upload this game using megaupload or mediafire please...
with my internet connection speed, i can't download using torrent..

It's already in MU, check the following link: http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95183&page=4 (http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95183&page=4)

thx a lot ^^

I'm having some troubles here. There are no problems with the game and it runs smoothly, but when I meet those red-eyed monkeys it takes a pause then goes onto a screen to ask me whether to save or not, right?

There lies the problem. When I click the first option, it automatically goes to another whether I want or not, so I probably chose that I want to save (the voice also says save owatta wa yo). Then I click another text, which probably means okay, and instead of continueing it goes back to the main screen. When I look into my save files where it should have been saved, I see nothing except for one old save that I did myself. I tried every option, but I can't get past the first meeting with the monkeys! I have this problem with the japanese and also the english patched version! I must be doing something wrong, but I can't see what it is. Can someone help me?

Be awesome if someone can reseed this, downloading at 30kb sucks ass.

Those of you who still have problems with running the game one most important thing is there can be nothing other than english in where you put it.
i.e. I put mine C/programfile/[113092][Success]Aoishiro and this caused me to get errors and shit but once i made it into:
C\programfile\Aoishiro it worked fine.

Thanks for the Upload, took 2days to get the DL done.
The Game looks really great, can't wait to get into the story.(Just arrived at the training camp temple thingy~)

ARRRGH! I've run this game on Windows 7 on Japanese applocale but I crashes all the time after the 1st sentence...
Does anyone know what to do?

Did you rename all japanese file names to romanized letters ? That's the only thing I can think about.

man sounds awsome, but the average swarm speed of the torrent is like 20kb/s and its like 7 gig sigh.... im half way through might get it finished by next week looking forward to it

wow, just wow finally finished this today, this is the first yuri VN iv ever played for starters, wasent exspecting that but man the way the plot is so radically diffrent depending on what choices you make was really cool, most VN's have no where near that.... also loved the music, only thing that really spoilt it where how shallow the endings them selves where the "true" ones i mean, you didnt really get that much info on them and for the most part the realtionships you spend an entire game building seem to have been frozen in time for a year + without any evolution.

ah well just my quarms its the second VN after seeing the true end that i want a sequel to (the other being Fate/stay night which luckly i got)

Well, seems everyone has the same problem as me, it seems working after installing and patching the game, you should re-name the directory to an another name like Aoishiro -> Aoi shiro, it works for me afterwards, I tried putting it on my My Documents directory and works perfectly fine.

this game doesn't have any problems on windows xp right if so can someone upload a mediafire links thx in advance

http://www.mediafire.com/?jp917jusjvhb8 (http://www.mediafire.com/?jp917jusjvhb8)

Have fun!

thx

ManaYagami  its 4.6g only and in the hongfire its 7.7g, the mediafire link is it compressed?

It uncompresses to that size.

can someone post savefile after the op cuz mine freezes in the middle of the op

Hello how can i translate menu from japansk to english? from Aliceprincess19

link mediafire 7z.024 isn't there please reupload it...

I'm uploading it right now, give it 15 minutes.

 thanks alot man ;D

my game hang while in the intro.....plis help

 :-\found the problem......there's some file in the MF link that broken
gotta find another way to get this game

If you can point which one it is, it will be easy to replace it.

it's the wks folder all inside are o(zero)bytes

After uncompressing with 7zip?

yes...after unzip with 7z theres sign say wks folder is broken.....start 1 is broken,etc

...I'll have to reupload the entire thing. Give me a day or two.

There's a copy protection on the original dvds, else I'd have uploaded a proper ISO.

I'm reuploading it right now.

EDIT: It's on the final stretch and you will be able to download it on this folder (http://www.mediafire.com/?b987b63snhzg3) in 3 hours. If there is still something wrong with files, post about it instead of doing like everyone else and complain about the wrong things.

EDIT2: It's done.

great i can get it play now...thank for your help ;D

I always get a crash on the first sentence "A long time ago-" on both japanese and the english patched .exe

could it be because some files/folders are in japanese like Aoishiro\WKS\00サンプル ?

That was only a problem if the main folder was japanese, but that doesn't seem to be the case with you installation.

If you change those files/ subfolders into something English the Game wont be able to find them anymore.

so anyone know how I can get past on the first sentence, where it crashes?

I didn't get the game from here, but I have it working (Win7 64bit)

This is from the readme I followed when installing the game (readme by FullArmageddon);
Solelo link is invalid, but I assume the patch here is the same...

Installation tools & Instructions (MF link from the other forum);

I got it working, it seems the path where the game was too long (J:\...\.....\........\Aoishiro) , so I moved it directly to partition drive (in my case J:\Aoishiro) and it worked without crashing

Can somebody please make a portabel for this game? where we unrar it and place the somewere on computer and start to play it, I think it whould be easy that way.

Anybody got the flowchart that was available on the site of the translators? The site is down and I could use that flowchart since it was tranlated if my memory doesn't fail me.

I'm not talking about that, there was a separate flowchart in pdf format. That's what I'm looking for.

I used the internet archive personally. (http://web.archive.org/web/20101024052346/http://www.solelo.com/aoishiro/pc/faq/)

Don't know if this what you meant, but that's the closest thing to a "flowchart" I had found when I played it and if there's a real flowchart then.. hope someone can upload it.
Surprised no one reuploaded it if that's the case though, was really everyone using a direct download from the translator's site? Surely there's back-ups somewhere...

I found a flowchart file (http://web.archive.org/web/20101023183708/http://www.solelo.com/aoishiro/pc/download/aoishiro_flowchart.vsd) on the page, but it's a VSD so you can use that too, I guess. The VSD is still up for download on the site.. but not the PDF, strange...

Well, I suppose I'll have to live with it. Damn, I had it a few days ago and then shit happened to my hard drive and it was one of the things I couldn't save.