Okay, gonna make one final effort for anyone struggling starting this one up.
If you were to somehow acquire the v2.03 of the game, like buying it or, dunno, maybe getting it from a cat of sorts, literally ALL you have to do to be able to run it, is change FORMAT (FOOOORMATTTT!!, as shown in post
#14 in this thread)) to Japanese, AND MAKE SURE the files and subfolders (mainly the 'save' folder) in the game's directory are not set to the 'Read-Only' attribute.
And that's it. Even if you start it in non-JP locale then, it loads up just fine, but instead of the Japanese characters in the menu all you will see are ? marks. But you can easily change the language in game even then by going to the config menu and changing an ?? to English (going to it, selecting it with the select button (Z or Enter), right arrow, then select button again), like this:
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On the off chance that the problems may be on account of a not installed Language Pack (0,01% chance) or the antivirus deleting/not letting something run in the background (another 0,01% chance) - then I'm sorry... xD