English Vsync patch for EoSD?

[Tinari]

Is there any vsync patch which doesn't require East Asian language support?  Either that or following the step-by-step on using the vsync is causing me trouble and I am screwing up.  Does anyone have a solution to that?

[Drake]

EoSD Vsync requires Applocale because it references the executable as 東方紅魔郷.exe. The rest don't need japanese locale unless you're running the japanese games, IIRC.

Are you talking about

Make a backup copy of your score.dat files in case something weird happens.
Screw around with vpatch.ini to get the results you want.

Leave a copy of vpatch.exe, vpatch.ini and the corresponding dll file in your game folder.
Rename each individual exe file to th**.exe, where the stars are the game number,
except for EoSD and Uwabami Breakers, which must be named 東方紅魔郷.exe and alcostg.exe, respectively.

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How exactly does it not work? What shows up on your screen? Vsync has been known to have quite a few different problem related to it, so it's hard to tell what it is.

[Tinari]

Well, I have no idea alcostg.exe is supposed to be.  So that part I may be screwing up on.  Here's a picture of what it does.

[LHCling]

alcostg = alco stg.

i.e. Uwabami Breakers Vsync. Remove it from your folder.

[Drake]

Get rid of th_dnh.dll and alcostg.dll, run the vsync patch with Applocale instead of just clicking on it.

[Tinari]

Get rid of th_dnh.dll and alcostg.dll, run the vsync patch with Applocale instead of just clicking on it.

Two files removed, same error.

Can't run Applocale. I don't feel like reinstalling windows.  That's why I was asking if there were an english only version.

[Formless God]

Try renaming the .exe to this : ??g?

Yeah. I know it's gibberish, but it worked for me.

[Tinari]

Wow.  I can't believe it but that actually worked.  Thank you so much Formless God.

Also thank you Drake and Baity for offering me help as well.

[Drake]

Oh, forgot about that. Yeah, even in an English locale, unicode programs will parse the equivalent ANSI phrase as a unicode phrase. Glad you got it working.

[Tinari]

This thing is absolutely amazing.  I was able to get to stage five on normal with 5 lives.

I proceeded to lose them ALL on stage five to many, many WTF? moments.  Sakuya's knives have a much bigger hitbox than I thought they did and lost three lives and all bombs to those alone.  The other two were WTF deaths to bullets that I just flat out didn't see.

Otherwise, this thing makes EoSD so much more enjoyable it's rediculous. :3

[Drake]

Don't even think of them as knives; they have a circular hitbox. You can see it if you look hard enough.

[Formless God]

Oh... I'm glad it worked ^^ (I got the same error at first, but fortunately there was this ??g?.cfg around in the same folder so ... xD)

[Alice Fact]

here's a tip: the english translations are supposed to work with japanese locale anyway. I'm pretty sure every translation works like this, so what you're experiencing is a possible side-effect and not the overall purpose

edit: holy fuck no they don't what the fucking hell ugh