Rance 4.1 - Save the Medicine Plant!
Rance 4.2 - Angel Army
English Translation ports by Alpharobo & BabaJeanmel
V 1.0 - 10/19/24

Rance 4.1 and 4.2 are short, budget games that share much more with the first Rance iteration than the further, more traditional RPGs the series became afterwards. They're basically ADV with minimal RPG elements, and can be completed in a couple hours without too much trouble. 256-color CG work is superb, as well as the SD spritework. The script is pretty funny, and Rance doesn't disappoint, being somewhat even more of an asshole than what he usually is.

Once again, we used 2.0 Translations' script, with minor edits (mostly to prevent text from overflowing menus). It's also our first System 3 port. Needless to say, it's a lot easier to work on this engine than the dreadful System 2! Both ports were completed in a couple weeks, the most annoying task was to split a couple scripts in each game to prevent data overflows, but they went pretty smoothly in the end.

This release leaves the AliceSoft porting project to yet another hiatus, until the terrible mess that is Toushin Toshi 2's code is finally sorted out. In the meantime, we hope you'll enjoy these two silly little games!

USUAL CONTENT WARNING
Rance is not a nice person. To say he doesn't care a lot with sexual consent would be a big understatement. Even if the game is supposed to be written as comedy, I can't blame you if you find it offensive. So don't play it if you're likely to be offended.

HOW TO
These games are freeware. Download the official digital releases from the AliceSoft website: http://retropc.net/alice/menu.html
Copy the patch for the selected game to the folder you extracted its disk images to and launch "PATCH.BAT". You'll get an autobootable HDI to boot inside your emulator of choice. Repeat the operation for the second game. If you're using real hardware, extract the contents of the patched HDIs with DiskExplorer and copy the I_R41 and/or I_R42 folders to your PC-98 hard drive. The games can be launched with their respective GAME98.BAT.

*Original Translations*
Translator: Tulip Goddess Maria
Hacker: SomeLoliCatgirl
Image Editor: Vodka
Script Editor: Pi-R
Port to System3ENG : Rottenblock

*PC-98 backports*
RottenBlock: engine hacking
Alpharobo: executable hacking
BabaJeanmel: script insertion, additional translation and editing
