Okay, looks like I have a better fix. In a hex-editor, change a clean copy of ever17PC_us.exe at offset 41382F from:
1C 40 74
to:
1B 31 75
This hijacks a bit of code to reject fonts starting with '@', making it filter for fonts with FIXED_PITCH and FF_MODERN instead (i.e. the fonts we want). With this, Ever17 runs just as it did before on Windows 8.1! This fix should last until we have >100 types of fixed-pitch fonts installed on our systems.
I've gone through the .exe with a debugger and have found the problem. The problem isn't with Windows 8.1 per se - it is due to the number of fonts installed!
Due to shoddy programming, the Ever17 engine only looks at the first 100 TrueType fonts that it finds using the EnumFontFamilies() call. It checks the list to see if it contains a font that it knows about, but doesn't know when to stop checking! This causes it to eventually stumble into an illegal area of memory, causing it to crash.
One solution might be to start deleting fonts until the font that the engine wants (Courier New) comes up in the first 100 fonts found. Probably not a good idea.
I've also tried to skip the font check. This allows the game to run, but you get a weird font in the text. If you want to try this, use a hex editor (e.g. HxD) to open up the ever17PC_us.exe file and at offset 13337 hex, enter:
B8 01 00 00 00 EB 52
I don't have the time to look into this any further at the moment.
Summary
A spin-off of the popular Toradora Anime.
Unlike in the original story, this time Takasu Ryuuji finds himself in a hospital bed. Confused and dizzy he's suddenly greeted by a short girl who calls him by a strange name. Is this his name? Who is this girl? It's soon after that the shocking truth comes to the surface. Amnesia. Poor Ryuuji suffered an accident after christmas eve and forgot everything about his past, his friends, his likes, his relationships, even his own name.
As he leaves the hospital he meets up with all sorts of people who seem to be acquainted with him. A beautiful blonde girl who apparently lives with him. His best friends Kitamura and Minori. The popular model Kawashima Ami and even his pet parakeet Inko-chan. These people hold all of Ryuuji's memories and they are the key to unlocking his past.
What will Ryuuji do? Will he be able to recover all of his past? An eventful journey awaits him as new year approaches and the new school semester comes closer by the day. Will he be able to remember everything before school starts? And if he does will anything in his new life change? It's all up to you to you decide.
Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order
This novel has an enforced playing order so you will not be able to avoid bad endings straight away.
Each ending is graded at the end of the game by Yuri, she'll score it from the worst possible (50 points) to the best possible (100 points).
There's a lot of dialog choices that are only available if you pick certain items while cleaning/talking.
The common route always branches at the exact same point and you'll get a different scenario based on the choices you made.
The game is divided into 3 scenarios: Kitamura & Kano, Courage Test and Solution.
Within each scenario you have several character routes that you can get into. This is an ending guide not a full walkthrough Following this entire guide will get you around 90% completition of the game.
Why not 100%? There's numerous ways of getting into the same ending and each of those counts as a percentage of the game. Every single choice, item and path is a percetange. My goal here is to give you all the endings not every single path in the game.
There is a list at the end with every single item if you want to know where to find a specific one. You can view your items in the extras option. All 21 endings in the game are listed below.
If you want to complete the game 100% you can try and search for new paths by pressing L during dialogs in order to see the route diagram.
Make different choices, pick up all the items you can by cleaning and talking and see if you can go in all the paths. Game Mechanics
Let's break down the mechanics of the game into 3 important ones. Conversations:
Item collecting:
Moving around town:
Route Guideline
Aisaka Taiga
Normal End (75 Points)
True End (100 Points) Unlocked by completing both Minori's Normal End (70 Points) and Taiga's Normal End (75 Points)
Bad End (65 Points)
Kushieda Minori
Normal End (70 Points)
True End (100 points) Unlocked by completing both Minori's Normal End (70 Points) and Taiga's Normal End (75 Points)
Bad End (60 Points)
Kawashima Ami
Normal End (90 Points)
True End (100 Points) Unlocked by completing Ami's Normal End (90 Points)
Bad End (50 points)
Bad End (70 points)
Kanou Sakura
Requires all endings in the game to be completed
When you begin a new game you will be prompted to a choice
Choose "Play Bonus Story" and you'll be in this scenario
Only End (100 Points)
Kanou Sumire
Good End (90 Points)
Bad End (75 points)
Aisaka Taiga and Kushieda Minori
Only End (70 Points)
Takasu Yasuko
Only End (80 points)
Koigakubo Yuri
Only End ("Too priceless to grade")
Kitamura Yuusaku
Only End (80 Points)
Hisamitsu Noto and Kouji Haruta
Only End (85 points)
Neutral Ends (65 Points) Unlocked by completing both Minori's Normal End (70 points) and Taiga's Normal End (75 points)
Worst End (60 points)
Item List
Attribution
Walkthrough made solely by me
Thanks to MottainaiVN for the help in quick checking the walkthrough and helping me add new endings to it and editing it.
Also a thank you to all the users who put up with me and helped me grind the game for Sakura's ending. It took quite a while.
You are free to use this guide anywhere as long as you credit it properly, I'd appreciate if you ask me though.
----
If you have technical issues with the game go here
Kimossab reacted to Tay in Forums Sidebar: Quicklinks
Kimossab got a reaction from Blackbird in Spring Fuwanovel Facebook Banner
Kimossab got a reaction from SoulJustIn in Uhm, hello.