SECONDLY'S PROFILE

(This text was translated by DeepL. I am a Japanese player.)

I was playing this game in Win11 environment, and suddenly one day I could not start it. Specifically, before the title screen appears, the program is forced to terminate with an error.
I found a solution to this problem, and I will write about it here.

The solution is to delete "winmm.dll" in the "Data" folder. This is all.

Additional information
The "winmm.dll" was originally introduced by the author to solve a problem caused by an error while launching the game. The reason for this was to solve the error "If the BGM stops playing while playing the game, saving the game will destroy the saved data.
This error was known in the Japanese version as of 2002, and the history of the error was saved as of 2022/10/15 (2022/1/1 in the Japanese version).
And since "winmm.dll" will be removed this time, the above error may occur when you play. However, I have never encountered the above error in several hours of playing. I have played this game many times around 2002. In other words, if you save often, and shut down promptly when you no longer hear the background music, you should be able to play without any problems.

By the way, I think we should refrain from asking the author to address this issue.
There are two reasons.
1. It is not a symptom that occurs at least to all Win11 users, and it has not been confirmed outside of Win11 (I have confirmed that the problem described at the beginning of this article does not occur in Win10 environments).
2. The cause of the error is contained in the development environment, RPG MAKER, and is not something that the author should deal with.

Thank you for reading.