Tomoyo After ME Region Locking

[King of Koopas]

Hello, I wasn't sure whether to put this in here or in the help section, so sorry if it's in the wrong area.

I bought a legit DVD disk of Tomoyo After ME and for the heck of it I wana see all the CGs and see how far I can get despite knowing no Japanese.

I installed the game, however there appears there be 2 different checks to make it so the game won't run on western PCs. I was able to get around the first lock by changing my timezone, however the second one appears to have to do with it not being a Japanese version of windows. I'll attach a picture for reference sake. (For the record my unicode settings and language are also both set to Japanese)



Now before I go booting up VMware and trying to track down a Japanese version of XP, is there any way I can get around it, maybe by spoofing the windows version somehow? If not I"ll try using a Japanese version of windows and see where that takes me. (I'm very bored as you can see)

[shawurai]

I'm not sure what you'll need to do for this particular game but I've played several others where I had to change several settings:

Date and Time display: Set to "Japanese (japan)"
Location: Set to "Japan"
Display Language: Set to "Japanese" (should be displayed as "日本語" in you windows settings)
Timezone: Set to "(UTC+09:00) Osaka, Sapporo, Tokio"

For some games you can also try using NTLEA.