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Troubleshooting

HetCreep edited this page Jun 12, 2026 · 4 revisions

Troubleshooting

🌐 Language: English · ไทย · Tiếng Việt

The game still shows Japanese after a successful install

Most often this is a wrong Windows clock, not the patch. A clock that is off by more than a little can break the game's online time check (so the mod loads degraded) and can break the installer's HTTPS / version checks.

  1. Fix your date/time: Settings → Time & language → Date & time → Set time automatically (and the correct time zone).
  2. Reopen the game.
  3. If it still doesn't translate, run Reinstall in the app (re-fetches and re-applies the current patch).

Also check: the game actually launched with BepInEx (the first launch after install creates a BepInEx log), and you didn't move the game folder after installing.

SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC"

The binary is not Authenticode-signed yet, so SmartScreen warns on first run. This is expected.

  • Verify the download first: Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 .\PriconneReALLTLInstaller-<version>.exe and compare to SHA256SUMS.txt / the release notes.
  • If it matches → More info → Run anyway. If it does not match, do not run it.

"Close the game first" / "a file is locked" / an operation won't start

Install / Update / Uninstall are blocked while PrincessConnectReDive.exe is running — close the game (and any launcher that re-launches it), then retry.

A reinstall/uninstall also verifies every file it must remove is unlocked before touching anything. If the game, antivirus, Windows Search, a cloud-sync app (Drive / MEGA / Dropbox), or an open editor is holding a translation file, the operation stops with a "file is locked — close X and retry" message and leaves your install completely intact. Close whatever is holding the file, then run it again. (The Setup installer/uninstaller likewise asks you to close a running copy of the app first.)

Vietnamese: why does the install download ~330 MB? / images are still Japanese

The VN patch (NTP335/PriconneRe-VN) ships text only (~15 MB), so the installer automatically fetches the ImaterialC modloader engine base (~330 MB) first — that download is expected on a fresh Vietnamese install and is shared with an English install (cached, SHA-256-verified). Updates of the VN text reuse the cached engine.

In-game images remaining Japanese under Vietnamese is a known limitation: the translated image pack belongs to the English language folder and doesn't load under Language=vi. Text is fully translated. The Gemini-AI quality notice you see when selecting the source is by the translation author's own request.

The game / DMM can't be found

The installer reads DMM Game Player's dmmgame.cnf to locate the game. Make sure the game is installed via DMM Game Player; if prompted, browse to your dmmgame.cnf.

A GitHub rate-limit error (HTTP 403)

Version checks are cached, so a token is optional — but if you hit the limit, add an optional GitHub token in Settings → GitHub API Settings (DPAPI-encrypted, never logged) to raise it.

An install half-failed / something looks broken

Run Reinstall — it re-downloads (or reuses the verified cache) and re-extracts everything, so a partial/broken install self-heals.

Where are the logs?

%LOCALAPPDATA%\PriconneReALLTLInstaller\ReALLTLInstaller.log — paste that path into Explorer. Attach the log when you report a bug.

Uninstalling cleanly

  • To remove the translation patch from your game: use the app's Uninstall operation. It follows the install manifest and keeps your own edited files plus other installed languages / mods.
  • To remove the app: uninstall it from Windows / the Setup uninstaller — but run the app's Uninstall first, because removing the app does not remove the patch from your game folder.

Launching: per-account / update + play

The main Launch Game button opens the game through DMM. For per-account play or one-click update + play, either wrap a launcher shortcut (DMMGamePlayerFastLauncher or a PriconneMultiAccountLauncher account shortcut) or use Create AutoUpdater Shortcut (it updates the patch, then launches). Un-wrap restores the original.