Overview
All is said, learn to end the Æ curse
The guide
Hi,
you bought the game, installed it and … you can’t play it because every time you try to launch it the only thing you get is this annoying error message about the invalid character Æ.
Well the first good news is that it’s not related to your computer, it’s only a Steam problem (had the R-18 version running just fine and no way to run the game with steam). The second good news is … it’s easily fixed !
First of all you need to supress ALL Nekopara’s files from your common folder, for those who don’t know how to do it : right clic on the game in your Library and you will see “Delete Local Content…” give it a go and when it’s done, go to your steamapps/common (if you don’t know where to find it, right clic on an installed game then go to Properties, Local Files then Browse Local Files, press alt + up arrow and you will be there).
The second stage of this little tuto can be hard if you don’t know Steam and it’s menu very well and if you’re not good with foreign languages. You have to change Steam’s language (to be on the safe side I made it with Japaneese but feel free to post comment with the language you selected if it worked) again for the rookies : Up left clic Steam, Settings, Interface and just select the language in the first list.
A little reminder Steam has to reboot, if it doesn’t, you missed something. And if you changed the language to one you cannot read, just remember “Settings” is the last but one from the first menu on the left and “Interface” is the sixth in the Settings menu.
To be sure I also changed my keyboard localisation, once again I took Japaneese but feel free to try anything or just keeping your native one, if you don’t know how to change it … google is your friend for once.
Now comes a fresh installation of Nekopara, when it’s downloaded and installed, try to launch it once before playing with settings again.
If the game runs fine, you can now exit it, restore your native or prefered settings for Steam and keyboard and leave a comment and maybe an evaluation of this guide so that others won’t feel the frustration of this Æ curse.
That’s all for now, if you find an easier way to fix it, explain it in the comments and I will update the guide.
Once again, step by step
1-Supress Nekopara’s local files with Steam
2-Go into your steamapps/common folder and delete the Nekopara folder
3-Change the language of Steam in settings (it worked for me with japaneese but I don’t know which language is good and which isn’t). Steam will reboot.
4- Change your keyboard localisation (again I did it in japaneese and I don’t know if it’s mandatory)
5-Launch a new installation of Nekopara
6-Once it’s installed, play it once just to be sure that it works
7-You can turn back your Steam and keyboard back to your native language
Screenshot guide
Coming soon