Title: Rance - Hikari o Motomete - Original title: ランス －光をもとめて－ Length: Short (2 - 10 hours) Year: Japan 1989-07-15, English Patch 2011-01-21 Translation: Rance Translation Project Description: The story is pretty simple - Hikari (“Light”), the red haired girl that you see in an opening clip, has been *napped. And Rance get the mission from his boss (the bald guy) to investigate the case. Title: Rance II - Hangyaku no Shoujo-tachi - Original title: ランスII －反逆の少女たち－ Length: Medium (10 - 30 hours) Year: Japan 1990-05-15, English Patch 2011-06-10 Translation: Rance Translation Project Description: Ten years ago in the town of Custom, four young girls were appointed as disciples to old mage Ragithis. They were to be raised as mages and then to work as town’s guardians. But after the ten years of training due to unknown reason girls rebelled against Ragithis and *ed him. During the harsh magic battle a whole town were entombed in the underground and a barrier spell was put on town preventing everyone from going out. This is when Rance appears with Sill on his side, and taking a job of defeating magician maidens and saving the town. Title: Rance III - Leazas Kanraku - Original title: ランス III －リーザス陥落－ Length: Medium (10 - 30 hours) Year: Japan 1991-10-15, English Patch 2012-12-25 Translation: 2.0 Translations Description: Leazas is a peaceful and prosperous nation, under Queen Lia’s rule. However, one day Helman’s Third Army crossed the Barao Mountains and invaded. Their overwhelming force soon marched over to the Leazas Castle. Inside the castle, Lia estimated that Royal Guard lead by Leila should be able to hold on until morning, by when the Leazas armies stationed at the borders would have rushed back to help. However, soon Kanami reported that Royal Guard has been beaten back. Kanami reported of a man of incredible powers, a Demon in fact. Hearing there is a Demon involved, Maris commented that the demons must have come for “Chaos”. Lia ordered Kanami, with her ninja abilities, to escape Leazas with the Leazas Holy Shield, and seek help from “that person”, while Lia and Maris stay and defend against the intruders. Title: Rance 4 - Kyoudan no Isan - Original title: ランス4 －教団の遺産－ Year: Japan 1993-12-11, English Patch 2013-09-04 Translation: 2.0 Translations Description: After the events of Rance 3, Rance and Sill find themselves on the floating island of Ylapu were they find themselves swept into a race to stop the awakening of an ancient super weapon from lost times. Rance IV -Legacy of the Sect.- is a retro styled turn-based dungeon crawler RPG with a top down interface. Title: Rance 4.1 ~Okusuri Koujou o Sukue!~ Original title: ランス４．１ ～お薬工場を救え！～ Length: Short (2 - 10 hours) Year: Japan 1995-12-01, English Patch 2014-01-25 Translation: 2.0 Translations Description: This is a side-story in Rance series, released shortly after the fourth game, but dedicated to an entirely different quest. All kinds of troubles are happening to a factory where a new Happiness Medicine is being developed. The mercenary Rance is hired by the manager to investigate the source of these troubles. First task: clear the factory of the monsters… Title: Rance 4.2 ~Angelgumi~ Original title: ランス４．２ ～エンジェル組～ Length: Short (2 - 10 hours) Year: Japan 1995-12-08, English Patch 2014-03-28 Translation: 2.0 Translations Description: Rance 4.2: Angel-gumi is the second part of the story that began in Rance 4.1: O-Kusuri Koujou o Sukue! rather than an all-new Rance adventure. The hero continues to investigate the weird occurrences connected to the Happiness Medicine Factory. Since the story picks up directly where it ended in the sequel, Rance begins his adventure already commanding an all-female squad called the Angel Team. Title: Kichikuou Rance Original title: 鬼畜王ランス Length: Long (30 - 50 hours) Year: Japan 1996-12-19, English Patch 2014-09-13 Translation: Arunaru Description: This game is not part of the official Rance universe timeline, forking off after the events of Rance 4.2, as a “What if” episode. The prelude starts with Rance leading a band of bandits in rural Helman Empire. The Imperial Patrol crushed his band with overwhelming force, and captured his slave, Sill. Rance fled to the borders of Leazas where he was rescued by Kanami, personal ninja of Lia, queen of Leazas. Eager to take revenge upon Helman and rescue his slave Sill, Rance agreed to marry Lia. As the new king of of Leazas, Rance set his first step on a path that eventually leads to world domination, or death. Title: Little Princess Original title: リトルプリンセス Length: Short (2 - 10 hours) Year: Japan 1986-12-25, English Patch 2014-10-14 Developer: Champion Soft (Alicesoft) Publishers: Champion Soft (Alicesoft) Translation: 2.0 Translations Description: Before the Rance Series, there were two games featuring characters that would later appear in it. Little Princess and Little Vampire. The stars of these games were none other than Kentarou and Miki. This is a game by Championsoft, a parent company that would eventually be succeeded by Alicesoft. Little Princess is a game from 1987, it’s a classic adventure game that has the player make use of a text input system to progress. The player is thrust into the role of Kentarou, a character many of you may recognize from the games Kichikuou Rance and Sengoku Rance. Kentarou’s girlfriend Miki has been *napped and taken to another world by the nefarious Count Dracula (who would in later canon be retconned into Demon King Gi). It falls upon him to go and rescue her. Title: Mamatoto ~a record of war~ Original title: ママトト ～a record of war～ Length: Medium (10 - 30 hours) Year: Japan 1999-07-01, English Patch 2015-02-01 Translation: Arunaru Description: You (Nanasu) are the prince of Mamatoto. You go out and conquer other nations in order to conquer the world. Title: Kaeru nyo Panyon Original title: かえるにょ・ぱにょ～ん Length: Medium (10 - 30 hours) Year: Japan 1997-08-29, English Patch 2013-11-14 Translation: 2.0 Translations Description: A magician changes the prince of Parancho into a weird creature while he is on an errand in a distant land. Since his new form isn’t very strong he has to entrust his life to a group of adventurers to get back home safely. Title: Toushin Toshi Original title: 闘神都市 Length: Medium (10 - 30 hours) Year: Japan 1990-12-15, English Patch 2013-05-24 Translation: Arunaru Description: Custom, a swordsman from a small village, is on a journey when he comes across a carriage being attacked. He defeats the attackers, rescuing the lovely maiden Kumiko. Kumiko was on her way to Toushin Toshi (Combat God City) to search for her father. She suspects her father is in the Combat God Mansion, residence of the annual combat tournament’s champion. In order to get in, she needs to partner up with someone who can win the tournament that year, and Custom agrees that she can be his partner. They head to Combat God City to enter the tournament. Title: Toushin Toshi 2 Original title: 闘神都市II Length: Medium (10 - 30 hours) Year: Japan 1994-12-10, English Patch 2013-10-17 Related Anime: AniDB Translation: Arunaru Description: You’ve been in love with your old *hood friend Hazuki ever since you can remember. You’ve become a couple and all seems perfect…except that she is the daughter of the person you’ve been studying swordsmanship under. And the fact that you have been stuck at Level 4 for the longest time makes winning her hand a bit out of your reach… Then comes the Toushin tournament… Additional Info Developer: AliceSoft Publishers: AliceSoft Language: English Important: 1. You need to change locale to Japanese. 2. No need to install. 3. Notes: - You'll need to install _inmm238.exe for Rance 4, Rance 4.1, Rance 4.2, Kichikuou Rance, Mamatoto, Kaeru nyo Panyon and Toushin Toshi 2. You'll find the exe file inside the folders of the games. - Rance 2 - Start Rance02.exe; Ignore or click OK on DrawMovie2.dll error; Select game_main and click on the middle button. - Little Princess - In some cases you need to right click on the exe > Properties > Compatibility > enable “Disable display scaling on high DPI settings”. - Kaeru nyo Panyon - Only if you have problems with the fonts in the game: Run “FONT_SUBSTITUTES.reg”, when asked, click “Yes” or “Ok” or “Confirm”. - Toushin Toshi 2 - DO NOT make the protagonist’s name any longer than it is. If you do, you will cause a lot of text to be pushed outside the borders of the screen. - For more info read the readme files inside the game folders. !!! More fan translated AliseSoft games: Daibanchou Widenyo Sengoku Rance Screenshots: