Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die

Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die

Developers
	Overworks
	Red Entertainment
Publishers
	Sega
Simplified Chinese	Tian Ren Hu Dong
Traditional Chinese	Dysin Interactive
Russian	Akella
Release dates
Windows	March 1, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Turn-based
Perspectives	Cinematic camera, Isometric
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Adventure, Strategy, Visual novel
Art styles	Anime
Themes	Fantasy, Japan, Romance, Steampunk
Series	Sakura Wars

Sakura Wars
Sakura Wars	2000
Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die	2001
Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning?	2003
Sakura Wars 4: Fall in Love, Maidens	2005

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

This game is not playable in English (see Localizations for supported languages).

Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die is a singleplayer cinematic camera and isometric adventure, strategy and visual novel game in the Sakura Wars series.

It was released on April 4, 1998 for Sega Saturn in Japan. PC port was released on March 1, 2001 in Japan while China and Taiwan version was released on November 10, 2002. An updated port for Windows XP compatibility was released on March 20, 2003 in Japan. A PC Premium Edition, which includes all first four games of the Sakura Wars series with updated higher resolution FMVs and sprites compared to the original releases was released on September 21, 2006, while the DVD stand-alone version of Sakura Wars 2 which the Premium Edition used was sold separately on January 25, 2007. The only western release of Sakura Wars 2 was made available in Russian version on December 24, 2008.

Japanese DVD version of the game is not playable due to SafeDisc DRM no longer working unless with patching which might cause the system to be exposed to known security vulnerabilities while Russian version of the game is not playable due to StarForce DRM incompatible with modern version of Windows, specifically Windows 8 and above.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc 4.60 DRM disc check (DVD Edition) StarForce 5.60.001.018 DRM disc check (Russian release)

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	No microtransactions are available in this game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVEDATA\SAKURA2.SYS

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVEDATA\SW2ADV*.*

Video

General options menu

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Resolution set at 640 x 480
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Inconsistent framerate
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Keyboard input options menu

Controller input options menu

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Known as Cursor Speed (カーソル速度/游標速度)
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music is always set to on, only Sound can be turned on/off.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio		Game contains multiple non-royalty free musics.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Japanese
Russian

Issues fixed

"SetDisplayMode failed (SetDisplayMode に失敗しました/SetDisplayMode 失敗)" error on launch

Enable 16-Bit (65536 color) reduced color mode in Windows compatibility settings

Open the <path-to-game> directory, right click SAKURA2.EXE (non DVD edition) or SAKURA2_2003.EXE (DVD edition), and go into Properties. Open the Compatibility tab, and enable the checkbox for Reduced color mode and have the dropdown box set to 16-bit (65536) color. Press the Apply in the file properties to save changes. Once the compatibility is set and executed the game, you may disable the compatibility mode as it no longer required unless the config file is removed.

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

First Edition

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, ME
Processor (CPU)	Pentium II 300 MHz	Pentium III 450 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	800 MB	1.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	640 x 480 16-bit resolution 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 7.0a compatible	32 MB of VRAM
Other	8x CD-ROM drive	24x CD-ROM drive

XP Compatible Pack Plus Edition

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Pentium II 300 MHz	Pentium III 450 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	640 x 480 16-bit resolution 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	32 MB of VRAM
Other	8x CD-ROM drive	24x CD-ROM drive

Premium Edition and DVD Edition

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Pentium II 300 MHz	Pentium III 450 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	3.3 GB
Video card (GPU)	640 x 480 16-bit resolution 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	32 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectSound compatible
Other	4x DVD-ROM drive