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Released Pokémon Crimson & Cobalt (Act I)

This project has a release available. The full version is still a work in progress.
Project Status
Released
Project Version
1.6
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Journey through the region of Ibara, on your quest to become the strongest Trainer - Pokémon League Champion!
Along the way, meet new friends, battle new foes, raise the ultimate Pokémon team and... take down a secret cult?!

Crimson Society, the group that ravaged the region five years ago, seeks to make a comeback!
What could they want this time, and what does this bode? One thing's for sure...

It's time you get your revenge...


----- Screenshots -----
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----- Starring -----
Protagonist (You):
A beginning Trainer, sullen but not silent. He has a fierce determination to achieve his goals!
Kane: Rival of the protagonist, an aloof and reserved older boy who is almost always one step ahead.
Valerie: The Champion of Ibara, her spirited and bubbly disposition never fails to light up any room she's in.
Gen: A member of the Elite Four, he is amiable and mild-tempered, often acting as a voice of reason.

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----- Featuring -----
New adventures:
New stories, new characters, new battles, and a new region to visit!
Familiar faces: All Pokémon (bar Starters, UBs and Legendaries) from Gen1-7 are obtainable!
Challenging battles: Mid-battle shenanigans for Gym Leaders and important boss fights!
HM Modules: They allow Pokémon to use field moves without taking up a moveslot!
Fast Forward: Press the "Alt" key to zoom through the region at up to 3x the speed!
Unreal Time: One hour in real life = one day-night cycle in game! This affects wild encounters!
Crafting Recipes: Create special Poké Balls and stat-boosting Aprishakes from Apricorns!
Secret Hollows: Optional dungeons with quests, rare items, and exclusive Pokémon!
Triple Triad: The hottest card game sensation! Challenge duelists and win their cards!

CONTENT WARNING:
A dialogue-heavy game with lots of reading and multiple long cutscenes.
Some content may not be suitable for all audiences, including and not limited to:
profanities, black comedy, flashing lights, graphic depictions, dubious morals, and possibly heavy themes.
Player discretion is advised.


----- Download -----
Game (v1.6) | Game Guide

Act I: "A Thousand Crimson Blooms" Now Available!

~Around 15+ hours of content!
~4 (out of 8) Gyms and 3 (out of 7) Secret Hollows!
~Act II currently in development!


Game may crash unexpectedly. Save regularly to avoid losing data!

~Version 1.6 - Updated 29 October 2023
~Version 1.5 - Updated 11 October 2023
~Version 1.4 - Updated 6 October 2023
~Version 1.3 - Updated 2 October 2023
~Version 1.2 - Updated 30 September 2023
~Version 1.1 - Updated 15 September 2023
~Version 1.0 - Released 7 September 2023
----- Pokémon -----
The Pokémon Company
Nintendo
Affiliated with Game Freak

----- Pokémon Essentials v18.1 -----
Flameguru
Poccil (Peter O.)
Maruno

With contributions from:
AvatarMonkeyKirby | Marin | Boushy | MiDas Mike
Brother1440 | Near Fantastica | FL | PinkMan
Genzai Kawakami | Popper | Rataime | help-14
IceGod64 | SoundSpawn | Jacob O. Wobbrock | the__end
KitsuneKouta | Venom12 | Lisa Anthony | Wachunga | Luka S.J.
and everyone else who helped out

----- RPG Maker XP -----
Enterbrain

----- MKXP -----
Roza
Based on MKXP by Ancurio et al.

----- Title Screen -----
Gundam Wing: Endless Duel
Font: Dark Seed by Chequered Ink
Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire
Game icon: Roselia (BanG Dream!)

----- Animations, Cries and SFX -----
hadecynn | James Yevon | KazoWAR | Lemon
Phasma | Random Talking Bush

----- Tilesets and Graphics -----
19dante91 | Akizakura16 | Alucus | Amras Anárion
AsdSimonE | Aten974 | aveontrainer | Barubary
BoOmxBiG | carchagui | ChaoticCherryCake | Chris M "Ranger"
CNickC | CrimsonTakai | Cuddlesthefatcat | DaNerdyDude
Dazz | Death Strike | ditto209 | DonLawride
Ekat | EpicDay | Erma96 | EVoLiNa
Flurmimon | Gaia Project | Gamezop10 | Gigatom
Heartlessdragoon | Hek-el-grande | Hydrargirium | iametrine
idilio | ItsHydro | Jack | Jackster
JesusCarrasco | J-Treecko252 | kaitoooo | KingTapir
KioRaka | Kizemaru-Kurunosuke | Kyle-Dove | LimeZu
marcosik1992 | Magiscarf | MewTheMega | Midnitez-REMIX
Minorthreat0987 | Neslug | Newtiteuf | NikNak93
norma_2d | Pablus94 | Pano26 | PixelMister
PeekyChew | Phyromatical | Poison-Master | Pokemon-Diamond
princess-phoenix | ProudToBeTasteless | PureAzuure | PurpleAladdin
Rayd12smitty | Reck | Sagaxxy | SailorVicious
Scarex | Seiyouh | Shutwig | Slaqueen
SL249 | Spaceemotion | Speedialga | SteinNaples
Sylver1984 | TeaAddiction | ThatsSoWitty | TheDeadHeroAlistair
The Libertine | The-Red-eX | Thurpok | TyranitarDark
UltimoSpriter | Vazquinho25 | Vicente Nitti | Vurtax
Wergan | WesleyFG | XDinky | Xenphoro
Xxdevil | Zein | Zeo254 | zetavares852

Cooking Mama: Let's Cook!
Meteos
Mother 3
Pokémon Café ReMix
Pokémon Shuffle
Pokémon Sword & Shield

Atomic Reactor and the Pokémon Infinity team (tiles, battle bases and panoramas)
Amethyst and the Pokémon Reborn team
Janichroma and the Pokémon Rejuvenation team

----- Battlers and Sprites -----
2and2makes5 | Appletun's Apples | Atomic Reactor | Chocosrawlooid
cSc-A7X | DarkusShadow | DiegoWT | Fernandojl |
Gallanty | Getsuei-H | Gizamimi-Pichu | help-14
kdiamo11 | Kid1513 | KingTapir | Kyle-Dove
Kyt666 | LarryTurbo | LilMicolash | LunarDusk
Maicerochico | Milomilotic11 | MissingLukey | Neo-Spriteman
piphybuilder88 | Pokegirl4ever | Poltergeist | princess-phoenix
PurpleZaffre | SageDeoxys | Silver-Skies | spritesstealer
Syledude | tammyclaydon | TintjeMadelintje101 | Tustin2121 |
TyranitarDark | VanillaSunshine | WolfPP | Zyon17

Relic Castle Staff
Smogon X/Y Sprite Project
Smogon Sun/Moon Sprite Project

----- Resource Packs -----
Pokémon and the Last Wish Part II by:
ENLS | Voltseon | PurpleZaffre

Pokémon Battle Spotlight by:
HollowGap | RandoDev | TabletPillow

Pokémon Bushido by:
LuxDiablo | Thundaga | HauntedArtStudio | Tristantine The Great

Pokémon Nightshade by:
Ekat

Pokémon Parallax by:
LuxDiablo | AnonAlpaca | Maks | ToxicStall

Pokémon Shikari by:
MewTheMega | BrysoonYe | idilio | Riddle

Pokémon Syvin by:
Ekat | MewTheMega | Michael | Monika

Pokémon Tempo Rising by:
Akizakura16 | Dusky | Deo

The Last Nurse Joy by:
AnonAlpaca | TechSkylander | Monika | nomi

----- Music -----
MapleStory Music by:
Studio EIM | ASTERIA | M2U | Creed Sound
S.I.D-Sound | SQUARE MUSIQ | ESTIMATE | Initium SoundLab
CODASOUND (LedZeper, Lee Jun-Hee)
Moonsoo Park (LoudBell Studio)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle R OST by:
Anny-K | Ryosuke Terao | Erica Kiyosaki | Masaki Kuniwake
Masaki Hara | Chikayo Fukuda

Pokémon Diamond & Pearl, Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver
Super Music Collection by:
The Pokémon Company
Pikachu Records (Media Factory)

手心的蔷薇 (Beautiful) by:
JJ Lin feat. G.E.M.
Piano cover by Nice piano sheets

----- Scripts -----
"Always on bush" by:
KleinStudio

"Animated Title Screen" by:
Rayd12smitty

"Berry Trees" by:
Maurili

"Better Fast-forward Mode", "DP Pause Menu",
"Easy Questing System", "Enhanced Staircases",
"Marin's Footprints", "Marin's Map Exporter",
"Marin's Scripting Utilities" by:
Marin

"Big Push Events", "Pokemon Exploration",
"Torterra Tree Minigame" by:
Vendily

"B2W2 Bag" by:
LackDejurane | Erassus | StCooler | BadSamaritan
Maruno | Marin | Luka S.J.

"BW Save Screen"
HDrawer | shiney570

"BW 'Shout' Message Effect", "Step On Spot",
"Water Puddle Animations" by:
Boonzeet

"BW Storage System", "Pokédex BW Style",
"Gen V Summary Pack" by:
DeepBlue PacificWaves | NettoHikari | Xtreme1992 | Barubary
redblueyellow | Shashu-Greninja | Mr. Gela | Tommaniacal
Lucidious89 | Weibrot | Kobi2604 | Ploaj

"Check for Pokémon of a certain Type" by:
Defa

"Checking for shiny Pokemon" by:
Rot8er_ConeX

"Custom Gen 4 Day & Night Tones" by:
VanillaSunshine

"Diploma", "HMs as Items",
"Punch Bag Game", "Roulette mini-game",
"Triple Triad Booster Pack", "Unreal Time",
"Watch in the Pokégear Menu" by:
FL

"HGSS Trainer Card", "Message Portraits",
"Pokémon holding Mail", "Passwords" by:
Mr. Gela

"Hidden Ability by percentage" by:
Mashirosakura | Scyl | NettoHikari | Marin

"Item Crafter Scene"
kcgcrazy

"Lagless Path Finder" by:
Blizzard | khkramer

"Luka's Scripting Utilities"
Luka S.J.

"Mid Battle Dialogue/ Scripted Battles" by:
Golisopod User | Luka S.J.

"Name Windows" by:
mej71 | Vendily | Mr. Gela

"Overworld Shadows" by:
WolfPP | Marin

"Party Switcher" by:
Michael | TechSkylander1518 | Marcello | ZeroKid

"RGSS FmodEx extension" by:
Enterbrain | Nuri Yuri | GiraPrimal | Firelight Technologies

"Simple Encounter List Window" by:
raZ | Nuri Yuri | Vendily | Savordez | Marin

"Textbook Script" by:
TechSkylander1518

Voltseon and the Pokémon Splice team
Zerokid and the Pokémon Zero team

----- Additional Thanks -----
Audacity
Bulbapedia
Clip Studio Paint
donjon
KHInsider
Resource Hacker
Slip's Music Database
Smogon
The Spriter's Resource
Maybe this is my way of giving myself permission to exist.
Which is why, if you played it, and somehow enjoyed it in any way or form, you have my deepest and most sincerest gratitude. <33
 
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I am going to need an address and bank code to charge you for all the insulin I'll need, this game is going to give me diabetes! The characters are so cute!The dialogue is so cute! Too cute! Stop! AAAAAAAAAAAAA!
 

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I am going to need an address and bank code to charge you for all the insulin I'll need, this game is going to give me diabetes! The characters are so cute!The dialogue is so cute! Too cute! Stop! AAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Awww thank youuu, you're so sweet <33 looks like I'm the one getting diabetes from you instead ehehe
I hope this is enough insulin for you!!! ->💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉
 

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Just one small critique for this version, for people that do not have debug mode or backup, the Skarmory fight with Jangmo'o is either a gigantic softlock or a slog of RNG fishing for hours, it definitely needs either a rework or to be axed entirely.
 

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I wanted to ask if this game have like a discord server so I can follow it? I like the appeals of this game and can't wait to try it out!
 

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I am fond of the reptile theme! The 3 starters suit the protagonist because of their cool and snappy image, with a cute side to them too ^^
Totodile isn't changed, but Feraligatr in this game learns some additional moves at level 1 (to make it comparable to Charizard and Sceptile), whereas it doesn't in the official games.
Thanks for the reply! Sorry for the stupid question, but the guide doesn't seem to say what the changes to Treeko and Charmander are, where can I find them?
 

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Thanks for the reply! Sorry for the stupid question, but the guide doesn't seem to say what the changes to Treeko and Charmander are, where can I find them?
That's because the 2 of them aren't changed from their original Gen VII selves! Only those Pokemon specifically singled out in the guides are changed, the rest are untouched (and based on Gen VII).
 

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i want to ask what is the starter canon and the canon name of the main character
There is no canon starter or name for the main character. His default name is "Chase" but it's not quite a canon name if you ask me haha 😅 You can choose for him whatever starter or name you like!
 

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1st Anniversary Post
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Valerie: It's been a full year since Pokémon Crimson & Cobalt's Act I release! Hooray, hooray!
Kane: According to trivia, today also happens to be Gen's birthday.
Valerie: Indeed - such a wonderful coincidence! This calls for a celebration!
Valerie: How about we treat ourselves to... cake!
Valerie: A cake on every route, in every town and city of our region!

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Protagonist: Are you kidding me?! That's like... ten thousand cakes we have to prepare!
Protagonist: How in the world are we getting ten thousand cakes?
Kane: Actually, we only need thirty-three...
Protagonist: And that makes our Champion's brilliant plan soooo much more feasible, am I right?!
Valerie: Teehee! I'm glad to hear that from you!
Valerie: No doubt, thirty-three cakes must hardly be a challenge to a master baker such as yourself!
Protagonist: I - I mean...! That's not what I -
Protagonist: Just because I can bake them, doesn't mean I will for you bunch of assholes!
Protagonist: Four cakes, okay?! Four cakes is all you're going to get! Take it or leave it!
Valerie: You have my eternal gratitude!

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Gen: Hey, look who's here!
Gen: Is this your doing, Valerie? Did you invite the Gym Leaders?
Valerie: Oh, you understand me too well, Gen!
Valerie: Although, I couldn't have done it without my helpful little messenger!
Clefairy: Pippi!
Gen: Ahaha, Larvitar and I were thinking of doing the same thing ourselves. But you guys beat us to it!
Valerie: Great minds think alike! Joy, cheer and delicious food should be shared with everyone!

x2UGnPB.png


Larvitar: Bruloooh...
Gen: You're stuffed, huh, Larvitar? So am I...
Gen: Guess there's really a limit to how much cake one can eat in a single setting... no matter how good it tastes...
Gen: In the end, having only four cakes turned out to be the right call...
Protagonist: About time you realized. In what universe is that idea not way too excessive?
Protagonist: Thirty-three cakes... thirty-three routes and cities! I can't believe our dev has to map out all of them...!
Valerie: And it's not just outdoor maps that have to be created for our game, no?
Valerie: Caves, building interiors, Secret Hollows... we'd want to adventure in those places too!
Gen: Now I'm curious - what's the progress on Act II like?

Trainer sprites: 95%
Outdoor maps: 90%
Indoor maps: 75%
Story writing: 0%
Coding the story and trainers into the game: 0%

Protagonist: What the hell??? You call this "progress"???
Protagonist: A Relaxed Shuckle with a Lagging Tail can crawl faster than that dev can make a game!
Protagonist: And instead of actually working on said game, the bastard decides to make this totally irrelevant anniversary post, complete with fake screenshots of fake events - copy-and-pasted events at that...
Gen: Oh, but the locations are real though!
Protagonist: Not my point! I'm talking about misplaced priorities! Severely and utterly misplaced!
Kane: Wait till you hear how development has essentially halted to a stop in recent months due to the dev being occupied with other stuff...
Protagonist: No way...
Kane: It's safe to say that we won't be seeing Act II any time in the near future.
Protagonist: But... if that's the case, then... why even bother with writing this in the first place...?
Valerie: Because our dev loves us, of course! And misses us dearly!
Valerie: Spending time with us, even in this manner, has never failed to be a source of happiness and comfort -
Protagonist: Alright, stop, I get it! If those cakes didn't already give me diabetes, you will!
 
1st Anniversary Post
9DPiivi.png


Valerie: It's been a full year since Pokémon Crimson & Cobalt's Act I release! Hooray, hooray!
Kane: According to trivia, today also happens to be Gen's birthday.
Valerie: Indeed - such a wonderful coincidence! This calls for a celebration!
Valerie: How about we treat ourselves to... cake!
Valerie: A cake on every route, in every town and city of our region!

WCE0CjK.png


Protagonist: Are you kidding me?! That's like... ten thousand cakes we have to prepare!
Protagonist: How in the world are we getting ten thousand cakes?
Kane: Actually, we only need thirty-three...
Protagonist: And that makes our Champion's brilliant plan soooo much more feasible, am I right?!
Valerie: Teehee! I'm glad to hear that from you!
Valerie: No doubt, thirty-three cakes must hardly be a challenge to a master baker such as yourself!
Protagonist: I - I mean...! That's not what I -
Protagonist: Just because I can bake them, doesn't mean I will for you bunch of assholes!
Protagonist: Four cakes, okay?! Four cakes is all you're going to get! Take it or leave it!
Valerie: You have my eternal gratitude!

rQc4zLK.png


Gen: Hey, look who's here!
Gen: Is this your doing, Valerie? Did you invite the Gym Leaders?
Valerie: Oh, you understand me too well, Gen!
Valerie: Although, I couldn't have done it without my helpful little messenger!
Clefairy: Pippi!
Gen: Ahaha, Larvitar and I were thinking of doing the same thing ourselves. But you guys beat us to it!
Valerie: Great minds think alike! Joy, cheer and delicious food should be shared with everyone!

x2UGnPB.png


Larvitar: Bruloooh...
Gen: You're stuffed, huh, Larvitar? So am I...
Gen: Guess there's really a limit to how much cake one can eat in a single setting... no matter how good it tastes...
Gen: In the end, having only four cakes turned out to be the right call...
Protagonist: About time you realized. In what universe is that idea not way too excessive?
Protagonist: Thirty-three cakes... thirty-three routes and cities! I can't believe our dev has to map out all of them...!
Valerie: And it's not just outdoor maps that have to be created for our game, no?
Valerie: Caves, building interiors, Secret Hollows... we'd want to adventure in those places too!
Gen: Now I'm curious - what's the progress on Act II like?



Protagonist: What the hell??? You call this "progress"???
Protagonist: A Relaxed Shuckle with a Lagging Tail can crawl faster than that dev can make a game!
Protagonist: And instead of actually working on said game, the bastard decides to make this totally irrelevant anniversary post, complete with fake screenshots of fake events - copy-and-pasted events at that...
Gen: Oh, but the locations are real though!
Protagonist: Not my point! I'm talking about misplaced priorities! Severely and utterly misplaced!
Kane: Wait till you hear how development has essentially halted to a stop in recent months due to the dev being occupied with other stuff...
Protagonist: No way...
Kane: It's safe to say that we won't be seeing Act II any time in the near future.
Protagonist: But... if that's the case, then... why even bother with writing this in the first place...?
Valerie: Because our dev loves us, of course! And misses us dearly!
Valerie: Spending time with us, even in this manner, has never failed to be a source of happiness and comfort -
Protagonist: Alright, stop, I get it! If those cakes didn't already give me diabetes, you will!
I LOVE THIS!!

Happy birthday Crimson & Cobalt!!! Only 3 more years until Act II release! (right? 😉)
 

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So, I just found this game and it looks really good, but I keep getting an error message when I try to play:

Script 'MKXP Compatibility' line 37: Errno::ENOENT occured.

No such file or directory - Data/Animations.rxdata

If anyone knows how to fix this, I'd greatly appreciate it (I have already tried re-downloading the entire .rar file, and that has not changed anything)
 

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So, I just found this game and it looks really good, but I keep getting an error message when I try to play:

Script 'MKXP Compatibility' line 37: Errno::ENOENT occured.

No such file or directory - Data/Animations.rxdata

If anyone knows how to fix this, I'd greatly appreciate it (I have already tried re-downloading the entire .rar file, and that has not changed anything)
I know sometimes, if the file path the game folder is in is too long, it can cause errors where the game isn't able to recognize and access all the files it needs.

Sometimes, this can be fixed by moving the game folder up one folder in the path, until the file path is short enough for it to detect the files the game needs to.

If I may ask, where did you put the game folder?
 

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I know sometimes, if the file path the game folder is in is too long, it can cause errors where the game isn't able to recognize and access all the files it needs.

Sometimes, this can be fixed by moving the game folder up one folder in the path, until the file path is short enough for it to detect the files the game needs to.

If I may ask, where did you put the game folder?
Sure, like with any Pokemon fan game or rom hack I play, I always put them within a folder titled "Pokemon Games" in my second ssd so it looks like this on the navigation bar: D:\Pokemon Games\Pokémon Crimson & Cobalt v1.6
 

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Sure, like with any Pokemon fan game or rom hack I play, I always put them within a folder titled "Pokemon Games" in my second ssd so it looks like this on the navigation bar: D:\Pokemon Games\Pokémon Crimson & Cobalt v1.6
Hmm... That close to the drive, there shouldn't be an issue with the game accessing the files it needs.

Sadly, I'm not sure what else could be the issue. Hopefully, @Armin will be around before too much longer to provide insight that'll help you play the game.
 

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Hmm... That close to the drive, there shouldn't be an issue with the game accessing the files it needs.

Sadly, I'm not sure what else could be the issue. Hopefully, @Armin will be around before too much longer to provide insight that'll help you play the game.
Thanks anyways. And yeah, hopefully it will not take too long but the game looks great so I am more than willing to wait if it means I get to play it
 

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Thanks anyways. And yeah, hopefully it will not take too long but the game looks great so I am more than willing to wait if it means I get to play it
This error message means that the file "Animations.rxdata" could not be detected... you might want to try going to the "Data" folder in the game folder (i.e. D:\Pokemon Games\Pokémon Crimson & Cobalt v1.6\Data) and make sure that "Animations.rxdata" is there. You may also want to try downloading this and moving it into the "Data" folder.

I don't guarantee it'll work, because I've seen others with the same issue as yours, and the method above didn't seem to solve it. However, this is the only way I could replicate the issue on my end. If you want to try redownloading the .rar file again, you may want to do so from this alternate Google Drive link, and make sure that "Animations.rxdata" is properly extracted. Apologies for the inconvenience!

Aside to @Pandemoniu, thank you so much for helping! <3
 

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This error message means that the file "Animations.rxdata" could not be detected... you might want to try going to the "Data" folder in the game folder (i.e. D:\Pokemon Games\Pokémon Crimson & Cobalt v1.6\Data) and make sure that "Animations.rxdata" is there. You may also want to try downloading this and moving it into the "Data" folder.

I don't guarantee it'll work, because I've seen others with the same issue as yours, and the method above didn't seem to solve it. However, this is the only way I could replicate the issue on my end. If you want to try redownloading the .rar file again, you may want to do so from this alternate Google Drive link, and make sure that "Animations.rxdata" is properly extracted. Apologies for the inconvenience!

Aside to @Pandemoniu, thank you so much for helping! <3
I solved it. The problem was the "Administrative Language settings" for my computer, specifically the "Language for non-Unicode programs." I had mine set to Japanese so I could play some fan translations of some old jrpgs. Setting it back to English lets me run the game. Thanks anyways for the help and I'm really looking forward to diving right into the game.
 
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