what...the...hell...HELP!!! i'm the 1st to admit i dunno much when it comes to computers, but i've played over 50 VNs the last few years, n NONE OF THEM involved what's going on w/this game when i'm trying to get set up to play it. every other game i've downloaded from here, u just open the zip file, n there's a master file you extract to the desktop, then that single icon appears, you open it, n after applying any mods/patches thru either copy-n-paste or dragging, double-click the ".exe" file n start playing...easy enuff.
this game didn't have a master file when i opened the zip file...there's a whole crapload of stuff there that i've never seen before when downloading a game. so i just chose to extract it from the list of WinRAR files, n BAM!!! i've got like 15 icons popping up on my desktop!! n i have NO IDEA what to do in order to actually even find the folder to start the game, let alone where to put patches n mods.
i don't wanna take up a bunch of posts here in the thread, n waste ppl's time that already know this stuff. but if someone who knows what to do can PLEASE pvt msg me, i'm in dire need of someone holding my hand n doing a step-by-step tutorial on actually getting this freaking thing setup n started...thanks!
UPDATE: ok ok ok...i think i'm getting a handle on things after taking a step back n looking at what all that crap actually was. so please correct me if i'm wrong, but in those 16 desktop icons, there was a file labeled "LifePlay", n so i dragged all those other icons into that folder, which is how i'm guessing it should've been organized in the 1st place. because i was still confused i couldn't find the ".exe" application in any of those things, until i saw the icon w/the "LifePlay" graphic with the green circle; so i put that in the folder also, n then saw that was actually the ".exe" application i was looking for.
SO...now everything on the desktop is back to being neat-n-tidy, w/all those things in 1 file, like all the other games i've downloaded, including the .exe application to actually start n play the game. if i've done something wrong, please lemme know; OTHERWISE...i haven't been able to find anything that says where/what file to put the patch n mods into yet; but i'm still clicking links n reading stuff, hoping i'll stumble across something that makes sense, where even an idiot like me can figure it out n do it. but until then...help would still be appreciated so i don't fuck anything up