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Guten Tag,

this is my first thread and I only bothered coming out of lurking because I couldn't stand the thought of this - in my opinion - pearl of a game not being discussed on ULMF.

Kamidori Alchemy Meister AKA God Catcher Alchemy Meister:

A VN/turn-based RPG game made by Eushully, KAM centers around you being an Alchemy Apprentice, with in this game Alchemy being a mix of several crafts+adventurer. After the mysterious death of your parents a year ago, you are now compelled to move up the ranks in the guild and get a grip on your life again.
By chance you team up with a mysterious tsundele swordswoman, a calm elf hunter/healer and an over-the-top little magician that kinda looks Loli but isn't (I think?).

Of course there's way more than that, after all the game comes with a whooping 4,6 Gb. However, the CG are all beautifully done, the voice acting (female only) descent quality and the story... well, I can't say anything about that myself yet since I forgot to save and have to replay the last 2hrs first.
I generally heard only positive things about it though.


A more professional game description as well as some screenshots may be found here:

Also take note of the translator's blog (also more screenshots) here:


The was a complete english translation done only recently. You have to install and patch the game first, though.

Here's how to:

First, download and mount the DVD image of the main game, its 26 .rar files and you should have Japanese Region settings already, since you have to patch the game later!




Then, you will have to apply the three patches/expansions/whatever in the order listed (IMPORTANT!), they're CD images as well. Mount the image, scroll down and click on either Internet Explorer or Firefox - so you should probably use either of them for this one - then click "Run" and "(Moonspeak for "OK").

Ver. 1.0 part1
Ver. 1.0 part2
Ver. 2 /some expansion
Ver. 2.0 last one

Once you got that done, it's time to apply the translation patch. Here's the kicker: The translation patch uses a modified game executable, which of course will alert your antivirus program. If you count yourself to the unlucky fools that use Avira, it will delete the new .exe file without further notice and you will have to install from scratch. So better deactivate your Antivirus temporarily.
The translation patch can be located here:


Unpack it into the game folder before executing.

PS: If there is an issue with the Antivirus going off and me not having posted much yet, it would be great if one of the more "well-known" members could check it out? Thanks in advance!

EDIT: A small wiki about the game.
 
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Re: Kamidori Alchemy Meister

This might sound dumb... but is this a hentai game? I'm not seeing much hentai from the descrips (And can't find hentai screenshots anywhere)
 

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Re: Kamidori Alchemy Meister

It's like most visual novel games. Consensual sex with the heroines at some point.
 
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That's right, and since it is a rather large one, playing it just for the faps of it will probably leave you disappointed.
 

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Thanks for the heads-up regarding this game! :D
 

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Guten Tag,

this is my first thread and I only bothered coming out of lurking because I couldn't stand the thought of this - in my opinion - pearl of a game not being discussed on ULMF.

Kamidori Alchemy Meister AKA God Catcher Alchemy Meister:

A VN/turn-based RPG game made by Eushully, KAM centers around you being an Alchemy Apprentice, with in this game Alchemy being a mix of several crafts+adventurer. After the mysterious death of your parents a year ago, you are now compelled to move up the ranks in the guild and get a grip on your life again.
By chance you team up with a mysterious tsundele swordswoman, a calm elf hunter/healer and an over-the-top little magician that kinda looks Loli but isn't (I think?).

Of course there's way more than that, after all the game comes with a whooping 4,6 Gb. However, the CG are all beautifully done, the voice acting (female only) descent quality and the story... well, I can't say anything about that myself yet since I forgot to save and have to replay the last 2hrs first.
I generally heard only positive things about it though.


A more professional game description as well as some screenshots may be found here:

Also take note of the translator's blog (also more screenshots) here:


The was a complete english translation done only recently. You have to install and patch the game first, though.

Here's how to:

First, download and mount the DVD image of the main game, its 26 .rar files and you should have Japanese Region settings already, since you have to patch the game later!




Then, you will have to apply the three patches/expansions/whatever in the order listed (IMPORTANT!), they're CD images as well. Mount the image, scroll down and click on either Internet Explorer or Firefox - so you should probably use either of them for this one - then click "Run" and "(Moonspeak for "OK").

Ver. 1.0 part1
Ver. 1.0 part2
Ver. 2 /some expansion
Ver. 2.0 last one

Once you got that done, it's time to apply the translation patch. Here's the kicker: The translation patch uses a modified game executable, which of course will alert your antivirus program. If you count yourself to the unlucky fools that use Avira, it will delete the new .exe file without further notice and you will have to install from scratch. So better deactivate your Antivirus temporarily.
The translation patch can be located here:


Unpack it into the game folder before executing.

PS: If there is an issue with the Antivirus going off and me not having posted much yet, it would be great if one of the more "well-known" members could check it out? Thanks in advance!
You know, you can have Avira ignore a file or files...
 
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Re: Kamidori Alchemy Meister

That is if you're prompted. If it's deleted right while being unpacked, that's rather difficult. Also it isn't copied into quarantine. I'm not the only one with that problem either...
 

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Re: Kamidori Alchemy Meister

Right-click the umbrella, left-click Realtime protection enable.

Unpack the files, copy over the crack etc.

Double-click the umbrella icon

Realtime Protection -> Configuration

Click the + next to Scan

Click Exceptions and add it in.
 

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Re: Kamidori Alchemy Meister

If you like tactics RPGs download this, it is a pretty good one. If you are only in it for the porn, you need to find a save file. I am 4 chapters in and I haven't seen any of the hentai scenes.

I love tactics RPGs though. Thanks for the links.
 

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I wouldn't really call this a tactical RPG, nor would i recommend it to anyone for the sake of the gameplay.

While my opinion on this should be taken with a grain of salt, I do recommend never playing this on hard, the combat in this game is going to end up being completely random (to the point where it takes constant save/loading to advance)

Case in point, later mobs get a chance to instantly kill any character they hit, get something of a 20% chance to evade an attack regardless of your characters hit ratio and much much more.

It's getting to the point where I think the game makers have just been trolling, no one can seriously consider basing the entire gameplay around luck to be a good idea. To make matters worse, level up skill gains are again, completely random, and unless you waste a lot of time trying to break the system they have in place to prevent just save-scumming better level ups your characters can go from hero to zero in just a couple of levels. I had one character be an amazing tank that was nearly unkillable for most of the middle portion of the game, now at the end she can't kill a single mob and dies to everything because for 20 or so levels she got nothing but hp and no other stat.

Seriously, don't play on hard. This game isn't about tactics, preparation or planning, it's completely about luck and in most cases little to no preparation is required (tried to see the difference between meticulous preparation and just rushing in blindly and little changed)

It's like chess, but your pieces have a random chance to explode, enjoy.
 

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Re: Kamidori Alchemy Meister

Wow, I can't believe I never played this game before. I simply love it! Thanks for bring this game to my attention Obsidious!
 

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Re: Kamidori Alchemy Meister

Something is not right for me...he always say i dont have all 3 discs installed.

Idownloaded all 26 packs, than mounted Kamidori and Renkin isos (4,56 Gb)
- installed kamidori
- started renkin, scrolled down to firefox, downloaded patch and installed patch

- unpack v 1.0 (which seems to be the same file as renkin) did same as abouve
- unpack appendix hana...., mount and same as abouve
- unpack v 2.0 mount and installed

- made copy of original exe and renamed it on desktop
- unpack translation pack, startet english patch

Error, files not found after a 3 mind search trough my hole PC.

Edit: there also seems to be no crack in the zip file but maybe the english patch is rewriting the exe
Screenshot:
 
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Re: Kamidori Alchemy Meister

Something is not right for me...he always say i dont have all 3 discs installed.

Idownloaded all 26 packs, than mounted Kamidori and Renkin isos (4,56 Gb)
- installed kamidori
- started renkin, scrolled down to firefox, downloaded patch and installed patch

- unpack v 1.0 (which seems to be the same file as renkin) did same as abouve
- unpack appendix hana...., mount and same as abouve
- unpack v 2.0 mount and installed

- made copy of original exe and renamed it on desktop
- unpack translation pack, startet english patch

Error, files not found after a 3 mind search trough my hole PC.

Edit: there also seems to be no crack in the zip file but maybe the english patch is rewriting the exe
Screenshot:
There is no crack, it's all taken care of in the patching process (if it's even necessary).

Where do you have the game installed to? And did you change any of it's folder naming?
 
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Re: Kamidori Alchemy Meister

Something is not right for me...he always say i dont have all 3 discs installed.

Idownloaded all 26 packs, than mounted Kamidori and Renkin isos (4,56 Gb)
- installed kamidori
- started renkin, scrolled down to firefox, downloaded patch and installed patch

- unpack v 1.0 (which seems to be the same file as renkin) did same as abouve
- unpack appendix hana...., mount and same as abouve
- unpack v 2.0 mount and installed

- made copy of original exe and renamed it on desktop
- unpack translation pack, startet english patch

Error, files not found after a 3 mind search trough my hole PC.

Edit: there also seems to be no crack in the zip file but maybe the english patch is rewriting the exe
Screenshot:
Hallo Moonchaos (guess what gave you away),

I compared your game folder to mine and you seem to be missing way more than a few files, albeit that could be because some are hidden. In my folder there are about 250 files.
As far as I know, the 26 part split archive only contains one .iso, yet you claim that it contains renkin (I don't quite know what that is btw) as well? You installed the add-ons in the right order, yet anything installed besides these could possibly screw up the process, I think. So you should probably reinstall, skip "renkin" and skip right over to 1.0. All while having Japanese Unicode and preferably admin privileges enabled. Also Antivir screwed me over that one time and I had to temporarily disable it in order to install and patch correctly. Hope it works out for you ...
 

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Re: Kamidori Alchemy Meister

Something is not right for me...he always say i dont have all 3 discs installed.

Idownloaded all 26 packs, than mounted Kamidori and Renkin isos (4,56 Gb)
- installed kamidori
- started renkin, scrolled down to firefox, downloaded patch and installed patch

- unpack v 1.0 (which seems to be the same file as renkin) did same as abouve
- unpack appendix hana...., mount and same as abouve
- unpack v 2.0 mount and installed

- made copy of original exe and renamed it on desktop
- unpack translation pack, startet english patch

Error, files not found after a 3 mind search trough my hole PC.

Edit: there also seems to be no crack in the zip file but maybe the english patch is rewriting the exe
Screenshot:
Appendix 01 wasn't installed correctly, you should have UninstAP01.exe in your folder. Try installing it again
 

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Re: Kamidori Alchemy Meister

You are right it seems to be missing...not sure why but maybe something interfered...1 of the installations was taking a long time and after i came back it was finished maybe it wasn´t complete.
Worked now, this also proves that the order of patching is not that important.
 
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Re: Kamidori Alchemy Meister

I wouldn't really call this a tactical RPG, nor would i recommend it to anyone for the sake of the gameplay.

While my opinion on this should be taken with a grain of salt, I do recommend never playing this on hard, the combat in this game is going to end up being completely random (to the point where it takes constant save/loading to advance)

Case in point, later mobs get a chance to instantly kill any character they hit, get something of a 20% chance to evade an attack regardless of your characters hit ratio and much much more.

It's getting to the point where I think the game makers have just been trolling, no one can seriously consider basing the entire gameplay around luck to be a good idea. To make matters worse, level up skill gains are again, completely random, and unless you waste a lot of time trying to break the system they have in place to prevent just save-scumming better level ups your characters can go from hero to zero in just a couple of levels. I had one character be an amazing tank that was nearly unkillable for most of the middle portion of the game, now at the end she can't kill a single mob and dies to everything because for 20 or so levels she got nothing but hp and no other stat.

Seriously, don't play on hard. This game isn't about tactics, preparation or planning, it's completely about luck and in most cases little to no preparation is required (tried to see the difference between meticulous preparation and just rushing in blindly and little changed)

It's like chess, but your pieces have a random chance to explode, enjoy.

Ehh, you're doing it wrong. Certain characters are better at things than others, and it doesn't always last, the 30-50 area is where you have to pay attention to stat caps. Some have incredibly low ones, but they start near the cap. Also, events unlock stat caps and give new skills as well. So a tank that's unkillable at level 30, is probably shit at level 45 if you didn't uncap her.

As for the characters with instant kills, yeah, there's a few. But that can be mitigated with A: High dark resist. B: Natural dark characters.

As for missing, that's called the Evasion skill, it's a flat 10-15-20% bonus depending on the level, and can be completely negated with Focus.

The gameplay associated with this game is better than most games I've seen in a long time, much less in a H-Game, it's defiantly worth looking at. If you're having trouble, there's always a way around it if you take the time to learn the mechanics.
 

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As for stat level ups, you can actually go around the system by saving every turn, skip current turn and next turn, and the 3rd turn should give you (for better or worst) different stat ups, I wouldn't recommand going for incredibly good stat ups, just relevent stats that matter to the character (for example, if Yuela got 1 Hp and 1 Int, for christ sake, please s/l.) But something to keep in mind is that a lot of results (level up, skill process, hit/miss etc.) are predetermined for your current turn, and next turn.
Example:
Turn 1: Saved
Yuela attacks and missed 1 and crit the other one. leveled up with fail stats.
If I save/load here nothing would change.
If I continued to Turn 2 instead of attacking on Turn 1.
Turn 2:
Yuela attacks, hit twice, leveled up with meh stats.
If I take the stats, yay, but if I saved and loaded back to turn 1, turn 2 results wouldn't change, I would get the same stats from level up and probably the same battle results.
Now, if I am unhappy with these two turns I would load back to Save at Turn 1 and skip till Turn 3 untill I got what I wanted because the game would've generated new "outcomes" everytime it got to Turn 2.

I think resaving also change the results in turn 2, but this I am not extremely sure about, but yeah, try that too if you would like.

I've been playing this game(in jap) for a while so msg me if you got some questions and maybe I can answer.
Thanks for the trans find.
And uh... yeah, are there stat caps?
I've always wondered about that since yeah, there is a point where stats seem stuck at certain levels until class up.
 
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Re: Kamidori Alchemy Meister

I'm having trouble with the english patch. info can be found here any help? please? :confused:
 
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I'm having trouble with the english patch. info can be found here any help? please? :confused:
Since you have Japanese regional settings enabled and the file itself shouldn't be corrupted - providing you didn't download it from some place where I can't guarantee that - there is only the issue of you decompression program left. Is 7z itself even able to decompress Japanese named files? Well I guess it should but try using Winzip or Winrar just once to make sure ...
 
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