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	Rosenkreuzstilette. I was at an auction when a tray of hard drives came up. Most hard drives are made up of aluminum, and aluminum is about 30 cents a pound. I have torn hard drives apart before and know that there is a lot of iron in them. That drops the price to about 20 cents, there was ten hard drives, the auctioneer said "Two dollars!" I raised my hand and the auctioneer said "SOLD!" Then the math caught up. I still had to pay commission and sales tax. I was already in the hole on this deal. I paid my bill and hoped that maybe there was something useful on them. Read on.
	RKS 2: Teh search for more references.  When I first started Googling Rosenkreuzstilette all kinds of forums and wotnot came up with all kinds of references to Megaman and Castlevania. I wanted to join in, but by the time I discovered this game in 2009, all of the really good ones had been sniffed out already. Plus I noticed that people were taking reference hunting a little too seriously. So seriously in fact all I can do at this point is to riff at it. Read more.
	Rosenkreuzstilette 3:Musical chairs.  New hero. Freudia's move set is identical to Spiritia's, but her game is much harder. You have a limited supply of you own weapon. Freu's weapon is altered by the bosses she defeats. Think Zero. Many people compare Grolla to Zero, duh hard to miss. But look at the way Freu's and Zero's weapons are enhanced by beating bosses. What I'm liking the most is the stage design.Winds blowing you around in Liebea's stage, blood rain and bloody floors in Grolla's, to the use of those infernal disappearing bricks in Zorne's. Read forward.
	Rosenkreuzstilette 4: I ain't tired of it yet.  Now I have already gone into excruciating detail on how to change the music in this wonderful game, Rosenkreuzstilette. There was actually another hack that I had, (which I no doubt you already did,) discovered. That is editing the graphics. That thought came to mind while looking through the files for Megaman 7: 8-Bit. All the graphics are laid out in an easily viewable manner. Plus openable in MS Paint. Though I never tried any edits. I just wasn't interested. Rosenkreuzstilette on the other hand... Read into it.
	Rosenkreuzstilette 5: Inconventionable. Yes, I wound up using songs from all across the Megaman universe. From Complete Works, Powered Up, Arcade, Maverick Hunter X, to name a few. After about a day of trying to find a CW replacement for Replay Grolla, I gave up and went with Zero's Sacrifice from MH X. I discovered It really didn't matter if the styles didn't match, as long as it sounded close enough. Read enough?

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Rosenkreuzstilette Oddities.

A fellow devotee of this fine video game, Super Justin, who has done the real yeoman's task of spreading the word that is Rosenkreuzstilette to the masses has come up with his own alternate sound track. After unzipping the download this happened:



When using Windows 7 Explorer or unzipping utility the text comes up green. But if I used QuickZip the text comes up normal.


The next odd bit is these two images.

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Out of the literally thousands of images on this site. These are the only two that ever show up on my visitor's log. The only real difference from the rest is that these two are the only bitmap images on my site.

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The Rosenkreuzstilette 106a English Patch Workaround.

A fellow fan of this magnificent game is having a problem getting the English Patch to work with the latest version of the game. First thing I did was to replicate the problem.

I got it to happen in three ways. I pointed the patch to a file that contained that zip file. The patch failed. Then I tried changing the name of the main Rosenkreuzstilette folder. The patch worked every time. However I remembered noting to myself awhile ago that the "manual" and "omake" folders are deleted when the patch is installed. So I deleted them myself. The patch failed. (Ironic.) Now there was one more test, but I couldn't try it.

Patching 106a. I don't have a copy. (Damn the irony.) But I did get one, without having to buy yet another copy of the game. I was trolling erka:es looking for a graphic reference when I saw patch downloads. So starts patching adventures. There's about a thousands variations of the game and a thousand patches for each. After an hour of trial and error, (mostly error) I finally succeeded in upgrading one of my many copies of 105c into 106a.

And the English Patch failed.

But, I had already tested a solution. (Which I have no doubt everybody else has already done.) I took the "scenario" file from the English Patched game and copied it to 106a. And It seems to be working. Now, I have only tested one stage, and went trough it pretty quickly, but I'm sure It works all they way through.

For this video, I threw in a few extras.



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That graphic reference. I couldn't find it. Let's just say that fairies are evil and if it weren't for their infinite capacity for stupidity, they'd rule the world.

The Rosenkreuzstilette 106b English Patch Workaround of sorts.


I was at a friend's place to help him fix his computer the other day. (I owed him a favor.) Mostly it wound being downloading and installing service packs, getting rid of no longer used programs, updating various other stuff. Taught him how to score free music off of YouTube. When I was done I turned it back over to him and started to leave. (I heard the latest issue of Rosario Vampire was out) when he tells me about this game he just got.

"I just bought this cool game. It's like Megaman only it's all girls. It's called Rosenkreuzstilette."

"Tell me more." I'm thinking: "This guy has been my friend now for several years, he's never been to my site? Hell, my own brother never even goes to my site. Let's see how far playing dumb can get me." (Believe me, I can take it pretty far.) My evil plot is to play the game and make all the usual first time mistakes: sliding into pits, jumping on the bad guys, thinking that spikes are cuddly. I'll let him think that he's teaching my something, then I'll spring the trap and not get killed until the Raymond Battle, or until I stupidly slid into a pit.

I blow it within one second. Mis Amigo still had the game windowed. In the upper left corner it said "Rosenkreuzstilette - Version 1.05c"

"1.05c! When did you get this game?"

"Yesterday."

"You bought it? From DLSite?"

"Yeah, how'd you know?"

"Could you download it again?" So he went to DLSite and re-downloaded it. Unzipped and indeed it was version 1.05c. When I wrote my article about the 106a English Patch Workaround I had ASSumed that 106a was the version being offered from DLSite. The workaround is the same, but there is more detail to add. This works for people who have just bough the game, or those that have an un-altered copy of 105c from DLSite.

MAKE A BACK UP COPY! AND ONLY SCREW WITH THAT COPY!

Now, with the COPY apply the Rosenkreuzstilette English Patch. Note this makes an additional copy of the game. Next, with the COPY of Rosenkreuzstilette 105c you got from DLSite apply Patch 106b. Finally copy/paste the "scenario.dat" file from English Patch to 106b. This only changes the talking back and forth with the giant floating heads. This doesn't change any menus and other wossnames. If you have already patched you one and only copy of Rosenkreuzstilette 105c from DLSite to 106b you are probably SOL. And I don't mean the Satellite of Love, worse. In doing the research for this I have yet to get the English Patch to work with any version other than what came from DLSite. I have version 1a that I got off that hard drive I bought at auction years ago. If I patch that one to 105c, the English patch fails. I swear to Belldandy that is the version I used to to apply the English patch from the very beginning. So you are going to have spend the $15 something dollars to get another copy.

There's a little bit more. I have actually been asked to provide links to or to send in email the English version of the "scenario.dat" file

No.

I have gone through the EULA for the Rosenkreuzstilette English Patch and the best of my understanding is that no individual part of the patch can be redistributed. Out of respect for the work I won't do that. I do suggest pestering the programmers to release the "scenario.dat" file by itself.

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