[Tutorial] How to Install Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate (Love, Election and Chocolate) on Non-Windows Platforms

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Today, I'm going to show you how to get KoiChoco High Resolution working in WINE (a Windows compatibility software that allows games and software to run on platforms they weren't made for). Let's jam!!!

NOTE: These instructions will apply directly to the BSD family of Operating Systems but will easily apply to both Linux and Mac OSX past the first step. This game is also an Eroge and does have sexually explicit content; you must be at least 18 in most regions to play and purchase it.

Preparing for Install

1. Follow these instructions first: https://learnjapanese.moe/vn-bsd/ (the 32-bit WINE part needs tweaking for FreeBSD 14.0+ but are mostly the same)
2. On the Winetricks video formats step, you will need to install just lavfilters and not ffdshow with this: winetricks lavfilters. You will still install quartz and everything else otherwise.
3. Configure WINE using the next few steps:
4. Run winecfg
5. Set the Windows Version to Windows 10
6. Add the extracted folder as Drive D. Make sure to click Show Advanced and set the Type to CD-ROM. Without setting this, the CD-Key registration step and launching the game will fail unless you have a physical copy in your DVD Drive.
   

These next steps are optional but highly recommended depending on where you obtained your copy of the game:

1. Install samba server for its Winbindd daemon: sudo pkg install samba419
2. Start the service one time: sudo service samba_server onestart
3. Omit using 7zip for extracting the game install files. tar xvf <name of iso file> works for the extraction step due to the naming conventions of some of the files throwing 7z -x off

Install the Game

1. Kill the current wineserver instance (just to be safe): wineserver -k
2. Run the install from the extracted directory (or your physical disc) with this: LC_ALL="ja_JP.UTF-8" TZ="Asia/Tokyo" wine Setup.exe.

NOTE: You might see some flashing or a blank screen for a few seconds. If everything worked well, you should see this popup:

1. Click the top button on the right hand side. You should see this popup:
   

2. No need to change anything. Just click the left button on the bottom. It will install the game files to $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/c:/sprite/恋と選挙とチョコレート\ HR/ . It took about 5 minutes to install on my 15 year old laptop because of how big the game is but shouldn't be an issue for modern hardware.

3. Back on the Setup screen, the middle button should now no longer be greyed out. If so, click it, type in your CD key on this popup and click OK when done:
   

4. The game will load if it registered correctly. Keep clicking through the screens until you see the Title Screen. Click Exit and then Yes to get out of the game:
   

1. OPTIONAL: Shutdown samba and remove it from your system:
   sudo service samba_server onestop
sudo pkg remove samba419

2. Download the English patch and follow the instructions from the Discord link found on this VNDB page . That's the only safe, official way to obtain it. I won't be linking the others since most are NSFW and could lead to your system being compromised.

NOTE: The original Basic Translations Patch will not work for this release and there are some small parts not fully translated.

Play the Game

There's two different ways you can run the game from now on (up to your personal preference):

1. Make sure to always export the WINEPREFIX correctly before running the game (same one used during install)

Setup.exe (from directory / disc you installed from in previous steps):

1. LC_ALL="ja_JP.UTF-8" TZ="Asia/Tokyo" wine Setup.exe
2. Click the middle button on the Setup window

恋と選挙とチョコレート.exe (from $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/c:/sprite/恋と選挙とチョコレート\ HR/)

1. LC_ALL="ja_JP.UTF-8" TZ="Asia/Tokyo" wine 恋と選挙とチョコレート.exe

NOTE: The LC_ALL="ja_JP.UTF-8" TZ="Asia/Tokyo" will always be required for menus and certain dialogues if you don't want to set your system to encode and render all text in Japanese and your timezone to Tokyo Japan. Most players will not want this.

1. When back on the Title Screen, click System. It should look like this screenshot if the English Patch was applied correctly:
   

2. Enjoy the game

Where to Legally Obtain

• Geestore (Mostly SFW Digital Store) - It will cost you just shy of $60 USD but this site seems to be the only official store front that allows oversea purchases without a Japanese address, ID or bank account.

If you guys enjoyed this tutorial, feel free to reblog, vote and reply down below. Also, check out my mostly spoiler free review of the Anime adaptation here: https://ecency.com/hive-158489/@x5ksub30/anime-review-love-election-and . Thank you for your time and have a wonderful rest of your day.