Policewoman VX

About
Policewoman VX is a small ADV game developed by Alice Soft and was initially included with all versions of Rance I prior to the Windows release. It got a sequel in the form of Policewoman DA which was released as part Alice's Cottage 2.

Like Gakuen Senki, it's supposed to take place in Dimension 3E2.

Credits for the game are Bacteria88 (バクテリア88): TADA, WAO and YUKIMI.

Versions
This little sidegame also saw quite a few patches over the years, being upgraded for the last time in 1995. Here's a list of the known versions:


 * Ver Rance, the initial text-only versions included with Rance I. Note that there are differences.
 * The MSX version is the only version to ever get a title screen instead of a black space. No other CGs though.
 * The PC-88VA version had music
 * Released on the same dates as the specific Rance I versions.
 * Ver 1.00, the CG version released on ALICE-NET, includes CGs and music.
 * Released on 1990/06/08
 * Ver 2.00, upgraded version, not sure what though.
 * Apparantly this was the same version that was used on some version of the DALK hint disk.
 * Released on 1990/07/19
 * Ver 3.00, now works on drives other than A:
 * Release date unknown
 * Ver 3.10, further debugging. Should now be possible to save/load after clearing on DOS?
 * Release date unknown
 * Ver 3.20, adds MAKO2 (A sound driver?) support.
 * Released on 1994/12/03
 * Ver 3.21, replaced drivers.
 * Same version as the one found in Alice's Cottage 3 CD, check the unitbase folder.
 * Released on 1995/05/16

Story
This game follows the story of Yukiko (Player), Akiko (Partner) and their colleague Mie.

One day, Yukiko and Akiko stopped someone for speeding whilst they were on patrol. Whilst Yukiko was handling the deduction process, someone kidnapped Akiko. A note was left saying: "I took the cheeky policewoman, you understand what'll happen if you call the police ~Kaito 8801". Yukiko decided to investigate Akiko's disappearance on her own.

How to start
As the game was most notably included on disk with releases of Rance I, you generally need to mess around with the disk order to get it to boot. Below is a list on how to boot it per system, it is ordered from first FDD to last FDD if applicable. The ALICE-NET/YUKICHI-NET BBS downloads aren't archived anywhere as far as I know, but the Alice's Cottage 3 version is based on 3.21.

Note that the Windows port of Rance I doesn't include it by itself, but a standalone port of it has been made.


 * For PC98, insert diskettes C and B
 * For PC88, hold ESC during startup
 * For MSX2, insert diskette B
 * For PC88VA, insert diskettes D and C
 * For X68K, insert diskettes C and D
 * For TOWNS, insert diskettes C and B

For Windows, do the following:
 * 1) go here (scroll down) and download System 3 for Win32
 * 2) Get a CD copy of Alice's Cottage 3, open the UNITBASE folder on it, then open Y_SYUREN.LZH and extract FUKEI321.LZH
 * 3) Open your previously downloaded copy of Sys32 and extract System1.exe and fukei.exe (patches/system1) to your Fukei321 folder.
 * 4) Run the patcher (fukei.exe) for fixed music and run the game with System1.exe

Walkthrough (Japanese)
The game itself follows basic system ADV gaming, pick a menu option to do things.

Guide from here. It's pretty basic, but you can spam all options except for the ending and you should be fine.

For the ending, follow the instruction (hold gun, talk, drop gun) and then just pick the top options.

使う→パソコン　厳重原の情報を引き出す

移動→アパート　厳重原の部屋の前へ. ポストを調べるとこちらへの手紙が入っている.

使う→パソコン　厳重原の交友関係を調べる

移動→パソコンショップ　店員と話し、セクハラを承諾するとケッタッキーの情報が得られる.

移動→ケッタッキー　店員や客と話す

移動→警察署　こちら宛ての手紙が届いている

移動→公園　女の子が襲われているので全員射殺. この場では女の子から情報は聞けない

移動→パソコンショップ　こちら宛ての手紙が届いている

移動→公園　女の子から、ケッタッキー裏の倉庫の情報を得る

移動→ケッタッキー→移動→倉庫　厳重原と秋子を見つける

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