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Custom Sex Doll [PC] by the Zotmeister (Adam R. Wood, ztm@cox.net)
Version 2 [July 7, 2002]
Disclaimer: This document contains words and terms not commonly seen in pre-high-school vocabulary lists (including, but not limited to, 'truncate', 'somatotype', 'pseudonym', and 'masturbation'). It's rather unavoidable if
I'm to present a seriously thorough guide to this game, as perhaps its title implies. If you don't know what any of those words mean, chances are your municipality would prefer you didn't have anything to do with this document, much less the game it details, at least until you're old enough to say 'masturbation' with a straight face. So if you read this, then ask your mommy what it means, I am not responsible for how she punishes you.
In short, if you're under 18, please go read some other game guide. For some other game, if you could. Thanks, I appreciate it.
Claimer: This document is very much "for real". It is a serious, earnest guide to exploring this game fully. Go ahead, read it, you'll see. Any comments regarding improvements and/or additions are welcomed at the email address above. I would also like to point out that I have strived to make this guide as tasteful as possible given the subject matter. GameFAQs posted the first version of this without a disclaimer, so I assume that any mature adults reading this should not be offended. If you are reading this, and you are offended, I think you will find that stopping reading will make you feel better; do not feel compelled to share the experience with me.
In short, this is a legitimate game guide, not a joke, and I should not be subject to the rantings of those with no interest in the game. Thanks, I appreciate it.
Update History:
Version 2:
- Added a Disclaimer and a Claimer (not that I needed to; I just felt like it, and it seemed like a good idea at the time).
- Fixed the training phrase description (she says it to you, not you to her).
- Fixed the progression description (250 is much too small - 300 is better).
- Moved the "less strenuous" parenthetical expression to a more appropriate section and expounded on it a bit (with somewhat amusing results).
- Added a Miscellaneous chapter, with a few new questions that didn't really fit elsewhere.
- Explained the character-input error messages where appropriate.
- Added a note about the persistence of the player and school names.
- Vented a comment on the voice option in Edit Mode.
- Various little alterations not worth individual mention.
Index:
I - General Information
II - How to Install
III - Basic Play Walkthrough
IV - In-Depth Exploration
A - Title Screen
B - Starting the Game
C - Edit Mode
D - Basic Navigation and Menu Options
E - Parameter Window
F - The Countdown and Calendar Events
G - Training
H - Progression
I - Battle Mode
J - Endings
K - Outside the Game
V - Techniques
VI - Mysteries
VII - Miscellaneous
VIII - About the Author
Chapter I - General Information
Q: So just what is this game? The title intrigues me...
A: As well it perhaps should. Custom Sex Doll is a Japanese "bishoujo" (pretty girl) or "hentai" (pervert) game, where the player (which you name!) is hired as an... instructor for a girl's boarding school (which you name!). Instructor for what, you ask? Look at the title of the game and make an educated guess.
The "Custom" part, however, is just that - you get to detail what your dolls look and sound like. (And yes, you name them!) According to advertising, there are 2,845,298,483 possible dolls to create! In training them, you determine their strengths and specialties. And when it's all said and done, it's time to test out your doll. No, not that way - that's what you've been doing training her. :) Perhaps it's a bit of a stretch, but it's time to test her out in BATTLE against other dolls! Use the points you've earned to determine her combat abilities and watch her smack other dolls silly. Then get your fellow perverts to email you their dolls and smack them silly!
That's right, your dolls can fight the dolls of others. You'll play through
Custom Sex Doll once to see what you can see, but then you'll play through it
AGAIN and AGAIN to try to make the perfect doll...
Q: Wow! Can I play? Huh? Can I? What are its system requirements?
A: Supposedly any version of Microsoft Windows from 95 on is fine... IF it's
JAPANESE Windows. HOWEVER, I can confirm that the game will run just fine on U.S. Windows XP - well, Professional, at least. (I don't have a Home edition of XP to experiment with.) The only thing keeping it from running on U.S. Windows is a directory the game creates that has Japanese characters in its name; XP has a very simple way around this (details in
Chapter 2). You will need some way to type Japanese characters; go to
Microsoft Windows Update and download the Japanese Input Method Editor if you don't already have it (or some other method).
If you're all set on the OS, chances are you'll meet the rest:
MMX-capable Pentium processor, 200MHz or better
640x480 high-color display
64 megabytes memory 4x-speed CD-Rom drive
Q: Is knowledge of Japanese necessary to play?
A: Absolutely not. Of course, you will miss out on a lot of the dialogue, which I'm sure would be entertaining and all, but the graphics (and the intonation of the characters' voices) pretty much say it all. You will need to know what certain buttons do, but that's what this FAQ is for! I've done all the translating you'll need to play. (If you can translate Japanese and would like to add to this FAQ, email me! I'd especially like help - and lots of it - for Princess Knights...)
Q: So where can I buy this game?
A: I bought my copy from shop.himeya.com; you'll find it by clicking on
Adult on the left-hand-side navigation bar, then ENTER, then Windows JP:etc.
This page is alphabetized by company for some reason; look under Light.
Q: Light, huh? Never heard of them. They on the web?
A: But of course. Their site is http://www.light.gr.jp/index2.htm; lots of cool stuff there. Use Altavista's Babelfish to snoop around in English.
Chapter II - How to Install
Q: I've got the game RIGHT HERE in my grubby little hands. How do I get it up and running?
A: If you have Japanese Windows, skip this paragraph. If you have any other language version of Windows older than XP, I can't help you. (I warned you in Chapter 1.) If you have XP Professional, here's what to do: Open the
Control Panel titled "Regional and Language Options", and click on the
Advanced tab. The very top option - "Language for non-Unicode programs" - is the one you want. Select Japanese from the menu list. You may or may not need to provide your XP install CD for this. You will need to restart your computer no matter what. When it comes back up, for all intents and purposes you have Japanese Windows. Neat, huh? Most things will run just fine like this; you'll notice that backslashes are now yen symbols, but that's about it. (You are forcing the system to use a Japanese-capable font for system purposes. You may notice its influence in other areas.) Custom Sex Doll can be installed and run just fine in this mode. To switch back to your native language (should you ever find a need to), just go back to that same option in that same Control Panel and follow the same process, just selecting the language you had before. Switch around as much as you like - won't hurt a thing.
NOW then: You have two CDs before you, clearly labelled in English as
"Install Disk" and "Game Disk". Put the Install Disk in your drive (if you have Autoplay disabled, run csd_launcher.exe). You'll get a window with the box art and five buttons. From the top down, these buttons are:
Play the game - can't do that yet.
Install the game - that's what you want.
Uninstall the game - if you ever choose this, the unInstallShield will not remove any of the dolls, unlocked pictures, saved games, fight records, or backup directories you may have created (see Chapter 5). It'll also leave a flag.dat file for you. Save all those files and just copy them back in after a reinstall (or install the game to wherever you stashed them), and you won't have lost a thing.
Install DirectX7.0a - install this first if you need it. To find out if you need it, visit Microsoft Windows Update and see if it lets you install the latest version of DirectX from there. If it does, do so (I suggest from there, not from the Custom Sex Doll CD). If not, you're set. You should never need to click this button.
Exit - this closes the installer window.
When you click on Install, the good-ol' InstallShield comes up. In the first dialogue box, click on the (N) button at the bottom (this is the same "please close other applications" message you ignore in English). Then click on (N) again - that window tells you where to get Japanese help, which you can't read if you're reading this chapter. Then comes the installation directory.
You can click on (N) here, but if you want to install the game into a different directory than C:\Program Files\light\KaSuToMuSEXDOLL (and who doesn't?), click on (R) and a familiar directory browser will appear - you'll know what to do there. Click on (N) afterwards to confirm.
Then comes the big decision: What install size do you want? I recommend the full 1GB installation - YOU WON'T NEED EITHER CD IN THE DRIVE TO PLAY. I assume the 400MB installation needs the Game Disk to be in the drive to play.
The full install installs EVERYTHING, music and all - you neither gain nor lose anything from whether or not the CD is in the drive. Click (N) and off it goes, installing. It will stop at 55% and present a dialogue box; eject the Install Disk, insert the Game Disk, click OK, and it will finish. (If you have Autoplay active, it'll also reopen the launcher. Just click Exit.)
The final window will have one active button on it (it says Exit); click it.
Now guess what - you're not done yet. This game has a patch. Go to http://www.dark.co.jp/light/faq/faq_sexdoll01.htm and click on the top link to download the 1.92MB DOLLUP.exe patch. After downloading it, run it. Oh, look, a Next button, in English no less. Click it and it will create some temporary files, then open InstallShield again. Click (N) and it'll patch the game for you automatically. Then click Exit. NOW you're done.
Phew!
Chapter III - Basic Play Walkthrough
Q: So how do I get started here? No useless crap, now... I hate FAQ writers that get all in-depth and crap when all I want is to look at a nak-
A: This is the chapter for you. (The chapter for everyone else - such as humans - is the next one.)
Okay, the absolute bare essentials to start navigating the game (see the following chapter for anything actually useful, like customizing anything):
When you run the game, you'll get a menu in English; select Start. You'll be presented with a window with three white spots. Turn your Japanese IME on and type a full-size character into each (I'll tell you what these are in the next chapter). Then click Ok. You'll see an office, a menu bar in the bottom left corner (in English), and a text box at the bottom. Click on that a lot to advance the dialog (or click on Skip to toggle high-speed mode, but that way you miss all the character's voices). Eventually, you'll get a window with two buttons labelled Database Mode and Edit Mode. Click on Edit
Mode and you'll see a potential doll. Type a full-size character into each of the two boxes under Name, then click Next and, on the following screen,
Ok.
Click away on the text box and you will introduce yourself to the doll. :)
Forgive the mosaic - Japanese have laws about that sort of thing.
Q: I said no useless crap!
A: Calm down! Sorry. Ahem.
Ultimately, you'll see a box labelled PARAMATER in the top right, a box in the top left with the number 25 in it, and two buttons on the center left.
Click the top one. Always click the top one when the screen looks like this.
You and the doll go to the basement, and you'll get five buttons on the left.
Click one, any one. Then click the top button of the two it gives you. You will teach the doll something as you click away on the text box. When you get back to the five buttons, the bottom one will exit the basement and end
Custom Sex Doll [PC] by the Zotmeister (Adam R. Wood, ztm@cox.net)
Version 2 [July 7, 2002]
Disclaimer: This document contains words and terms not commonly seen in pre-high-school vocabulary lists (including, but not limited to, 'truncate', 'somatotype', 'pseudonym', and 'masturbation'). It's rather unavoidable if
I'm to present a seriously thorough guide to this game, as perhaps its title implies. If you don't know what any of those words mean, chances are your municipality would prefer you didn't have anything to do with this document, much less the game it details, at least until you're old enough to say 'masturbation' with a straight face. So if you read this, then ask your mommy what it means, I am not responsible for how she punishes you.
In short, if you're under 18, please go read some other game guide. For some other game, if you could. Thanks, I appreciate it.
Claimer: This document is very much "for real". It is a serious, earnest guide to exploring this game fully. Go ahead, read it, you'll see. Any comments regarding improvements and/or additions are welcomed at the email address above. I would also like to point out that I have strived to make this guide as tasteful as possible given the subject matter. GameFAQs posted the first version of this without a disclaimer, so I assume that any mature adults reading this should not be offended. If you are reading this, and you are offended, I think you will find that stopping reading will make you feel better; do not feel compelled to share the experience with me.
In short, this is a legitimate game guide, not a joke, and I should not be subject to the rantings of those with no interest in the game. Thanks, I appreciate it.
Update History:
Version 2:
- Added a Disclaimer and a Claimer (not that I needed to; I just felt like it, and it seemed like a good idea at the time).
- Fixed the training phrase description (she says it to you, not you to her).
- Fixed the progression description (250 is much too small - 300 is better).
- Moved the "less strenuous" parenthetical expression to a more appropriate section and expounded on it a bit (with somewhat amusing results).
- Added a Miscellaneous chapter, with a few new questions that didn't really fit elsewhere.
- Explained the character-input error messages where appropriate.
- Added a note about the persistence of the player and school names.
- Vented a comment on the voice option in Edit Mode.
- Various little alterations not worth individual mention.
Index:
I - General Information
II - How to Install
III - Basic Play Walkthrough
IV - In-Depth Exploration
A - Title Screen
B - Starting the Game
C - Edit Mode
D - Basic Navigation and Menu Options
E - Parameter Window
F - The Countdown and Calendar Events
G - Training
H - Progression
I - Battle Mode
J - Endings
K - Outside the Game
V - Techniques
VI - Mysteries
VII - Miscellaneous
VIII - About the Author
Chapter I - General Information
Q: So just what is this game? The title intrigues me...
A: As well it perhaps should. Custom Sex Doll is a Japanese "bishoujo" (pretty girl) or "hentai" (pervert) game, where the player (which you name!) is hired as an... instructor for a girl's boarding school (which you name!). Instructor for what, you ask? Look at the title of the game and make an educated guess.
The "Custom" part, however, is just that - you get to detail what your dolls look and sound like. (And yes, you name them!) According to advertising, there are 2,845,298,483 possible dolls to create! In training them, you determine their strengths and specialties. And when it's all said and done, it's time to test out your doll. No, not that way - that's what you've been doing training her. :) Perhaps it's a bit of a stretch, but it's time to test her out in BATTLE against other dolls! Use the points you've earned to determine her combat abilities and watch her smack other dolls silly. Then get your fellow perverts to email you their dolls and smack them silly!
That's right, your dolls can fight the dolls of others. You'll play through
Custom Sex Doll once to see what you can see, but then you'll play through it
AGAIN and AGAIN to try to make the perfect doll...
Q: Wow! Can I play? Huh? Can I? What are its system requirements?
A: Supposedly any version of Microsoft Windows from 95 on is fine... IF it's
JAPANESE Windows. HOWEVER, I can confirm that the game will run just fine on U.S. Windows XP - well, Professional, at least. (I don't have a Home edition of XP to experiment with.) The only thing keeping it from running on U.S. Windows is a directory the game creates that has Japanese characters in its name; XP has a very simple way around this (details in
Chapter 2). You will need some way to type Japanese characters; go to
Microsoft Windows Update and download the Japanese Input Method Editor if you don't already have it (or some other method).
If you're all set on the OS, chances are you'll meet the rest:
MMX-capable Pentium processor, 200MHz or better
640x480 high-color display
64 megabytes memory 4x-speed CD-Rom drive
Q: Is knowledge of Japanese necessary to play?
A: Absolutely not. Of course, you will miss out on a lot of the dialogue, which I'm sure would be entertaining and all, but the graphics (and the intonation of the characters' voices) pretty much say it all. You will need to know what certain buttons do, but that's what this FAQ is for! I've done all the translating you'll need to play. (If you can translate Japanese and would like to add to this FAQ, email me! I'd especially like help - and lots of it - for Princess Knights...)
Q: So where can I buy this game?
A: I bought my copy from shop.himeya.com; you'll find it by clicking on
Adult on the left-hand-side navigation bar, then ENTER, then Windows JP:etc.
This page is alphabetized by company for some reason; look under Light.
Q: Light, huh? Never heard of them. They on the web?
A: But of course. Their site is http://www.light.gr.jp/index2.htm; lots of cool stuff there. Use Altavista's Babelfish to snoop around in English.
Chapter II - How to Install
Q: I've got the game RIGHT HERE in my grubby little hands. How do I get it up and running?
A: If you have Japanese Windows, skip this paragraph. If you have any other language version of Windows older than XP, I can't help you. (I warned you in Chapter 1.) If you have XP Professional, here's what to do: Open the
Control Panel titled "Regional and Language Options", and click on the
Advanced tab. The very top option - "Language for non-Unicode programs" - is the one you want. Select Japanese from the menu list. You may or may not need to provide your XP install CD for this. You will need to restart your computer no matter what. When it comes back up, for all intents and purposes you have Japanese Windows. Neat, huh? Most things will run just fine like this; you'll notice that backslashes are now yen symbols, but that's about it. (You are forcing the system to use a Japanese-capable font for system purposes. You may notice its influence in other areas.) Custom Sex Doll can be installed and run just fine in this mode. To switch back to your native language (should you ever find a need to), just go back to that same option in that same Control Panel and follow the same process, just selecting the language you had before. Switch around as much as you like - won't hurt a thing.
NOW then: You have two CDs before you, clearly labelled in English as
"Install Disk" and "Game Disk". Put the Install Disk in your drive (if you have Autoplay disabled, run csd_launcher.exe). You'll get a window with the box art and five buttons. From the top down, these buttons are:
Play the game - can't do that yet.
Install the game - that's what you want.
Uninstall the game - if you ever choose this, the unInstallShield will not remove any of the dolls, unlocked pictures, saved games, fight records, or backup directories you may have created (see Chapter 5). It'll also leave a flag.dat file for you. Save all those files and just copy them back in after a reinstall (or install the game to wherever you stashed them), and you won't have lost a thing.
Install DirectX7.0a - install this first if you need it. To find out if you need it, visit Microsoft Windows Update and see if it lets you install the latest version of DirectX from there. If it does, do so (I suggest from there, not from the Custom Sex Doll CD). If not, you're set. You should never need to click this button.
Exit - this closes the installer window.
When you click on Install, the good-ol' InstallShield comes up. In the first dialogue box, click on the (N) button at the bottom (this is the same "please close other applications" message you ignore in English). Then click on (N) again - that window tells you where to get Japanese help, which you can't read if you're reading this chapter. Then comes the installation directory.
You can click on (N) here, but if you want to install the game into a different directory than C:\Program Files\light\KaSuToMuSEXDOLL (and who doesn't?), click on (R) and a familiar directory browser will appear - you'll know what to do there. Click on (N) afterwards to confirm.
Then comes the big decision: What install size do you want? I recommend the full 1GB installation - YOU WON'T NEED EITHER CD IN THE DRIVE TO PLAY. I assume the 400MB installation needs the Game Disk to be in the drive to play.
The full install installs EVERYTHING, music and all - you neither gain nor lose anything from whether or not the CD is in the drive. Click (N) and off it goes, installing. It will stop at 55% and present a dialogue box; eject the Install Disk, insert the Game Disk, click OK, and it will finish. (If you have Autoplay active, it'll also reopen the launcher. Just click Exit.)
The final window will have one active button on it (it says Exit); click it.
Now guess what - you're not done yet. This game has a patch. Go to http://www.dark.co.jp/light/faq/faq_sexdoll01.htm and click on the top link to download the 1.92MB DOLLUP.exe patch. After downloading it, run it. Oh, look, a Next button, in English no less. Click it and it will create some temporary files, then open InstallShield again. Click (N) and it'll patch the game for you automatically. Then click Exit. NOW you're done.
Phew!
Chapter III - Basic Play Walkthrough
Q: So how do I get started here? No useless crap, now... I hate FAQ writers that get all in-depth and crap when all I want is to look at a nak-
A: This is the chapter for you. (The chapter for everyone else - such as humans - is the next one.)
Okay, the absolute bare essentials to start navigating the game (see the following chapter for anything actually useful, like customizing anything):
When you run the game, you'll get a menu in English; select Start. You'll be presented with a window with three white spots. Turn your Japanese IME on and type a full-size character into each (I'll tell you what these are in the next chapter). Then click Ok. You'll see an office, a menu bar in the bottom left corner (in English), and a text box at the bottom. Click on that a lot to advance the dialog (or click on Skip to toggle high-speed mode, but that way you miss all the character's voices). Eventually, you'll get a window with two buttons labelled Database Mode and Edit Mode. Click on Edit
Mode and you'll see a potential doll. Type a full-size character into each of the two boxes under Name, then click Next and, on the following screen,
Ok.
Click away on the text box and you will introduce yourself to the doll. :)
Forgive the mosaic - Japanese have laws about that sort of thing.
Q: I said no useless crap!
A: Calm down! Sorry. Ahem.
Ultimately, you'll see a box labelled PARAMATER in the top right, a box in the top left with the number 25 in it, and two buttons on the center left.
Click the top one. Always click the top one when the screen looks like this.
You and the doll go to the basement, and you'll get five buttons on the left.
Click one, any one. Then click the top button of the two it gives you. You will teach the doll something as you click away on the text box. When you get back to the five buttons, the bottom one will exit the basement and end
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