KoiChoco Not Working

[Ninga_King]

Alright so I am not totally sure I can get help here since I am not totally sure this falls under "licensed" but I am honestly very desperate. I recently bought koichoco on DMM, yes I know it's old but I never played it and I want to first hand and not watch some play through or whatever. So I bought the game on DMM for way too much, downloaded it, got the English patch and launched it. At first I got the error in which you must rename some files so I was content, renamed them, and thought all would go well. However now the game will not launch for more than a second. My locale is JPN, I sdrt file that I was told koichoco needed, and I am even a using a VPN just in case the game is region locked, nothing works. I tried launching without English patch, same thing. Tried using different regions, same thing. Whenever I try to launch koichoco I am greeted with "NOW LOADING" for less than a second and it immediately closes. I have no idea why this happens, but of course I can't play the game if it won't launch. I very much wish I could play this game, apparently a lot of people have, I just wish I could do so as easily as everyone else seems to have played it. Please, anybody that knows something help me out.

[philipmikh]

My copy had many problems as well, but I was able to play after changing the locale to Japanese and running the executable as administrator.

[Nandemonai]

It is true that - legally speaking - a fan translation patch is technically against the letter of the law, but it's not against the rules to talk about such things here.  Witness the ginormous 'fan translation project' section

What the rules (and the mods) care about is not paying for the game.  You bought a legitimate copy from DMM.  You're fine.