Help with running a Touhou fangame (The Last Comer) (SOLVED!)

[frostare]

Hello, I feel kinda ashamed to ask for help on my first post, but I don't know what else to do. Basically a Touhou fangame called The Last Comer won't run on my new computer with Windows 8 (not that it ran pefectly in old Vista one), can anyone help me out? Here's the rundown:

-What happens when I run the game WITHOUT Applocale is: I get to the first boss, and a message pops up. Something among the lines of script(Event01) and then gibberish. The program then goes back to the main menu.

-Most of these fanmade games, like Mystical Power Plant, I have to run with Applocale or a similar message would appear. What I do is set them to 中文 (简体) and they work just fine. From I understand, 日本語 would be ideal thing to do, but I can't, see below for more details (also please excuse me, I don't know any of those languages). The only one I know of that won't work with 中文 (简体) is The Last Comer, a message will appear just as I select the game and doesn't even let me play the first stage like in the above case. The message says something about script_stage_main.

-Finally, setting them to 日本語 with Applocale is a no-go. ANY program I try to open with such setting crashes immediately, not just Touhou fangames. I feel that the solution lies in being able to correctly open it but I have no idea why it keeps crashing.

Thanks a lot, everyone.

[Helepolis]

日本語 is Japanese
中文 is chinese

You're trying to run Japanese fangames, you should always stick to Japanese (日本語). I have no idea about the Last Corner, but the Mystical Power Plant should not cause errors. There could be some issues regarding applocale and Windows 8 but someone with some more technical OS skills should appear.

Script_stage_main is an coding error in Danmakufu. It almost sounds like you're missing files or extracting/placing files wrong. Not sure about Last Corner but MPP is an extract + run the exe game. Don't mess around with the files.

[Karisa]

Nothing wrong with asking for help on your first post.

Anyway, have you tried setting your computer to use Japanese locale? It's more time-consuming since you need to restart after changing the setting, but sometimes works when AppLocale doesn't-- it's worth a try, at least.

[frostare]

Thanks for the replies, everyone! The Last Comer is probably my favorite fangame from what little my old computer would let me play it, and I appreciate your help.

@Helepolis: Well, as I said, that is what I would love to do if only every program I tried to open with Japanese settings didn't crash. Chinese works just fine for other games though, this is the only game where something's amiss. Once I figure out how to upload pictures I'll post the messages that appear whenever I try to simply open it and whenever I open it with the Applocale Chinese setting.  As for the Japanese setting, it's just a plain ol' "Program has stopped working" message so there's nothing worth noting there. I'm still pretty sure opening it in japanese is the key, but I first gotta find out why it's the only one that crashes, for ANY program. Still, thanks and I did not modify anything, don't worry.

@Karisa: Oh you mean like changing the language in the Language for Non-Unicode Programs section in the Administrative tab in the Region window, right? I kinda remember trying it out before but I'll see if it works this time. Thanks and  I'll keep you updated.  OH! I forgot to mention: I got Windows 8 in Spanish, my native language, I dunno if that's of any importance to this issue, but sorry if I got the names wrong.

UPDATE: Did not work, it just crashes immediately after opening it, as if I had opened it with applocale in japanese setting. I would appreciate more suggestions.

LATEST UPDATE: IT'S WORKING NOW! I felt the need to post how it was fixed as well as words of gratitude to my brother who came up with the idea and the user WanderingShadow of this very same forum. The solution? Installing the English patch! My guess is that doing so made the dialogue "understandable" to my computer and now it doesn't detect that a scene is missing. I also can tell you that Applocale isn't even necessary; my OS is operating in spanish but The Last Comer still opens and plays! well, I had to download danmakufu again because one of my copies was seemingly faulty, but I think that was an entirely different problem.

Well, any way I look at it, part of the credit on this goes to the Shrine Maiden forums for helping, thank you everyone.