User blog comment:RottenBlock/Rance 1 Rebuilt/@comment-2003:D6:4719:774C:C4D5:B332:D564:7387-20190717201240/@comment-31720212-20190717234321

It's kind of hard to explain, but you've got the gist of it. A lot of Alicesoft's Windows games from that era, like Rance 1-4, are actually remakes that use System 3.5. System 3.5 is a nice and cooperative version of System that still works today and can be easily localized. But some of the older games still use System 1, System 2 or System 3.0, and they're frustrating versions that don't run on modern computers and make localization almost impossible. The only mainline Rance games that falls under their umbrella are 4.1 and 4.2, which were new at the time and didn't "need" a remake.

I won't bore you by explaining how the localization team got around the problems (it'd just be a guess, anyways), but long story short, it doesn't work with any ports and their programmer hasn't been around for three years.

Basically, my little project is to make System 1, 2 and 3.0 just as cooperative and compatible as System 3.5, without any of this rigamarole.