Tokimeki Memorial: Oshiete Your Heart (Windows 95) - ときめきメモリアル～おしえてYour heart～ (Windows95)

by: Konami

Publication date: 1998-03-26

Topics: CD-ROM, Konami, Windows 95, Konami Windows Games, Japanese Windows Games, Tokimeki Memorial, Konami Computer Games Aoyama, コナミコンピュータゲームス青山, ときめきメモリアル

Language: Japanese

A Windows PC port of the Konami arcade game of the same name, itself a truncated retelling of the original Tokimeki Memorial -- game flow is focused squarely on going on dates with girls, eschewing the additional activities and micromanagement of the original. In the arcade version, players placed their hands and fingers on a heart rate sensor, which would show their heart rate in the game, and that works in conjunction with the traditional dialogue choices in the game to inform the girls' reactions. In this Windows 95 version, the lack of a heart monitor is solved with a mouse, where you must press and hold both left and right buttons while moving the mouse slowly up or down to affect the reading. (The relatively hyperaccurate laser/optical mice of today can throw this out of whack, so you may want to make some adjustments.)

After a game session, you can choose the "Print" command to get special picture of one of the girls for printing. The arcade game handled that automatically, but to facilitate this on Windows, the game saves a .BMP image, and then you can print it in the included "Tokimeki Memorial Photograph" app. The app also has its own feature where it can read from a digital camera (contemporary device/driver necessary) and lets you take pictures with one of the game's girls in the frame.

This item includes:

Disc images:
- oshiete.bin+.cue (Image without bad sectors)
- oshiete.ccd+.img+.sub (Complete image with bad sectors)
- (Variations provided for archival purposes; either image format is fine for playing the game)

Patched game executable (patched.zip) (See below)
Document scans: Manual (Reader), registration card
Sample screenshots

Technical Notes & Instructions

This item's "patched.zip" file includes a patched version of the game's main executable which bypasses a false positive error in checking for the CD despite it being present (note that it's merely a bypass, and you will still need the disc/image loaded). Once you install the game normally, extract/copy the patched "YourH.exe" to the game's installation folder (default: "C:\Program Files\Konami\おしえてYourheart\"). You may overwrite the original .exe; it can be grabbed again from the disc in the "SETUP\DISK1" folder.

The game has been tested to work (with the patched .exe) on Windows XP in a VMWare virtual machine, and on real hardware using Windows 98 and XP.
In VMWare VMs, something doesn't map the CD-ROM drive as the game expects, resulting in errors referencing "C:\YHV\YHM...", meaning it can't find music files in the C: drive/folder, though it should be pointed to the CD drive. The easy fix is to copy the "YHV" and "YHC" folders from the game disc to the root of the C: drive.
VirtualBox VMs didn't have the file path problem, but VirtualBox doesn't support CD audio (redbook) playback and will give an error referencing "CDAudio" once the intro theme song (among others) are cued. A test with optical drive emulators from within the VM did not fix this.
Any other startup errors referencing the CD should not affect gameplay.