[Software House Parsley] True Love
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Tsujoi
Social Media Manager
iceloops123 wrote...
i want to know does true love have the midi soundtrack dlc? will it be available or steam only because i wouldn't mind paying 4 or 5 bucks for it.The soundtrack is included and free when you purchase the game!
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luinthoron
High Priest of Loli
dee6ix wrote...
Thanks! It's reassuring to get a second opinion. My security still isn't cooperating and keeps on deleting the game but I sent a message to their customer service so hopefully I can get it running sooner or later.Not sure if this works for you as we are using different software, but in the antivirus software we use in the office you can mark certain locations as exceptions that are not scanned. Have had to do this for some specific work software that similarly got constantly deleted due to false positives.
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luinthoron wrote...
dee6ix wrote...
Thanks! It's reassuring to get a second opinion. My security still isn't cooperating and keeps on deleting the game but I sent a message to their customer service so hopefully I can get it running sooner or later.Not sure if this works for you as we are using different software, but in the antivirus software we use in the office you can mark certain locations as exceptions that are not scanned. Have had to do this for some specific work software that similarly got constantly deleted due to false positives.
Thanks a bunch for the suggestion, it worked like a charm! My security's a little odd, it calls it "exclusions" but either which way, the game's running now!
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In my case the game still doesn't load. I posted about this on Steam. I'm in no major rush to play this. It was probably less than a year ago when I last played the web version. Still, it's a shame. I'd be the first to support an engine rewrite. I just suspect that because it is reportedly very buggy in the first place it's probably selling considerably fewer units than it should. I can understand why Fakku wasn't in a position to rewrite the engine beforehand, but I do appreciate the notion and hope this happens.
There have been various fixes in different threads. MIDI fixes supposedly work very well (who wants to wait thirty seconds for a music change?), it's just that the suggested fixes for getting the game running aren't doing a thing on my end. Best I can do is use a virtual machine.
Does Fakku know anything about True Love Select? If you guys already have it, that's cool (you'd save me a purchase if you included it in a potential engine rewrite) but if I do see it at an affordable price (knowing it may only be a weird demo devalues it, still would be cool) on Yahoo Japan Auctions in the future I can also snatch that up and share the data.
Edit: Refunded until fixed.
There have been various fixes in different threads. MIDI fixes supposedly work very well (who wants to wait thirty seconds for a music change?), it's just that the suggested fixes for getting the game running aren't doing a thing on my end. Best I can do is use a virtual machine.
Does Fakku know anything about True Love Select? If you guys already have it, that's cool (you'd save me a purchase if you included it in a potential engine rewrite) but if I do see it at an affordable price (knowing it may only be a weird demo devalues it, still would be cool) on Yahoo Japan Auctions in the future I can also snatch that up and share the data.
Edit: Refunded until fixed.
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a fanartwork i made some time ago of TRUELOVE 3D a 3dcg version and a cel shade version. I may complete the whole game if peeps demand it so far I haven't heard anything from anyone so motivation won't start
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Hey, I bought the game (or so I thought), was able to download it, and after getting frustrated with the MIDI loading times and then suddenly not being able to launch the game at all, I was considering asking for a refund. But then I checked my inbox just now and got an e-mail asking for me to complete my purchase. And sure enough, when I visit the store True Love is somehow still in my cart. I'm not sure what to do now.
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Sorry to necrobump this thread, but this just happened:
A whole year after I left a comment on the True Love '95 page saying that I couldn't get it to work (and never did; I was just too lazy to complain more/ask for a refund because I just assumed Fakku intended to fix the compatibility issues), my comment gets downvoted to hell by a bot or something. Seriously, what happened here?
A whole year after I left a comment on the True Love '95 page saying that I couldn't get it to work (and never did; I was just too lazy to complain more/ask for a refund because I just assumed Fakku intended to fix the compatibility issues), my comment gets downvoted to hell by a bot or something. Seriously, what happened here?
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Anita7054
Cannon Fodder
RockXLight wrote...
Sorry to necrobump this thread, but this just happened:A whole year after I left a comment on the True Love '95 page saying that I couldn't get it to work (and never did; I was just too lazy to complain more/ask for a refund because I just assumed Fakku intended to fix the compatibility issues), my comment gets downvoted to hell by a bot or something. Seriously, what happened here?
This is quite the achievement but a nuisance to your notifications. I would assume a consumer got really pissed at your statement lol.
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So, dunno if the Fakku team members who worked on the True Love 95 release will take this into account, considering this game launched nearly three years ago on the store, but I did a bit of investigation on the MIDI load times, and I found what could be a lead towards a potential fix.
I used Visual Studio 2022's ability to profile not only CPU usage, but also file IO.
When loading a new MIDI track, the game first writes to a file named ADL.mid in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp, then reads back from it. Reading back is the bottleneck, for some reason. Sadly, I don't have any reverse engineering skills to take an in-depth look at it, but maybe someone else could.
EDIT: I used Process Monitor to get a better look at file IO, and it seems the game reads from the ADL.mid file in smaller chunks (512 bytes max) than when it writes to it. Maybe increasing the size of those chunks could help reduce load times ?
I used Visual Studio 2022's ability to profile not only CPU usage, but also file IO.
When loading a new MIDI track, the game first writes to a file named ADL.mid in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp, then reads back from it. Reading back is the bottleneck, for some reason. Sadly, I don't have any reverse engineering skills to take an in-depth look at it, but maybe someone else could.
EDIT: I used Process Monitor to get a better look at file IO, and it seems the game reads from the ADL.mid file in smaller chunks (512 bytes max) than when it writes to it. Maybe increasing the size of those chunks could help reduce load times ?