[Illusion]Artificial Academy

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Instructions:
First and foremost, I'll assume your PC/Laptop is already capable of playing visual novels, so the locale is now in Japanese. If not, then please read this first.

• Download all the 21 parts and extract all the files included in the .zip files, namely: "Disk1.iso", "Disk1.mds", "Disk2.iso", "Disk2.mds", and "Artificial Academy HF Patch 3.7.exe".

• Insert Disk1.iso into a virtual drive(Daemon tools) and an autorun.exe should start up and look like this.

• If you can actually click the first two buttons it means you need to install the DirectX and Visual C++ 2008 SP1, so go ahead and install those. If you can't click the first two options then skip this part.

• What you want to do is to click on the third button to install the Artificial Academy Editor, so go ahead and click it to install the said program. TAKE NOTE:You need to change the DESTINATION of the file to " C:\illusion\AAEdit\ ".

• After that's done, you can now click the fourth button which installs Artificial Academy Game. Just like the previous instruction you need to change the destination again into " C:\illusion\AAPlay\ ". Halfway during the installation process it will ask you to insert Disk2, so go ahead and mount "Disk2.iso" to your virtual drive to continue with the installation.

• Now that the installation is complete you might want to test if the game has installed properly, so mount "Disk1.iso" again and launch the game by clicking "AAPlay.exe".

• If the game runs perfectly, now you can install the English patch by clicking "Artificial Academy HF Patch 3.7.exe".

Note/s:

• I recommend using 7-Zip to decompress these files.

• Patching the game to English temporarily needs 2GB hard disk space on where the game is installed.

• Before you play the game I highly recommend to change the names of the characters by using the editor(Artificial Academy Editor).

Artifical Academy is fun.

redownload the file. I downloaded and had no problems.
Now i have to find out how it works -_-.

What do you mean? Like installing the game? If so check the things I listed under instructions, alternatively you can check this out. If it's about the gameplay, check this.

Pretty good, but School Mate 2 is more boner-inducing to me.

i love this game XD easy to control but the character creation is a bit confusing

No problem, and about part 2, I tried to download it and it downloads just fine.You might want to try downloading the said file on another PC, or try using another browser to download the file. If it the problem still persists the problem lies with the server so you might want to try to download on another day, it'll sort out eventually.

I got language problem installing&running AA on windows XP.
even though I set non-unicode language to Japanese already.

at worst , game crash when i try to choose protagonist = =

run perfectly fine in Windows 7
no language abnormality appear

but initial sample character provided by Illusion still have UFO language on it.

Files re-uploaded, check OP for the new links. Same instructions and passwords for downloading and installing the game.

I'm having a bit of an issue. I'm having trouble installing this title. I go to install the second option, because I can't click on anything else until I install it and then it crashes and I get this message





I'd like to note that this is the first time I've had trouble with an Illusion game so far.

The 2nd option is to install Visual C++ 2008 SP1, might be a problem with the files given in the disk. Also, I didn't encounter such error since I can't click the first two options(direct x and Visual C++ 2008 SP1) so all I had to do was to click the 3rd option to install the the game's editor and then the game itself.

So you might try to download this as an alternative and try installing AA again to see if the third option lights up.

Also for additional reference, here's the wiki for the game.

When I try to extract with 7zip I get an "unsupported compression method" error and can not extract. Anyone else with this problem?

Have you tried re-downloading the files?

I really did not want to but I did and it works now. Thanks.

Question, do I have to have the image loaded at all times in order to play the game?

If you install the game with the english patch made by the guys at hongfire, then no. But if you play it without the patch, then you need to either burn the ISO or just keep the ISO loaded on your virtual drive.