HARU NO ASHIOTO - STEP ON SPRING
OFFICIAL TITLE  Haru no Ashioto - Step of Spring
COMMON TITLE  Haru no Ashioto - Step of Spring
SERIAL NUMBER(S)  SLPM-66318
REGION  NTSC-J
GENRE / STYLE  Adventure

DEVELOPER  Alchemist.
PUBLISHER  Alchemist.
DATE RELEASED  6 April 2006
DISC NUMBER &
PRINTED SERIAL NUMBER		 DISC 1

SLPM-66318
SERIAL NUMBER IN DISC SLPM-66318
MEDIA DVD-5
NUMBER OF TRACKS 1
( 1 Data Track )
BARCODE NUMBER(S)
( UPC / EAN )
From the back cover.
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Japanese
Menus and gameplay are in Japanese.

Haru no Ashioto - Step of Spring is an adventure game released by Alchemist in 2006 for the Playstation 2 console that is a port of the PC title of the same name.

In this love sim, you play as a character who got rejected by a girl he had the hots for in Tokyo, and fled to his home town of Mebukono-cho. You end up working for half a year as a school instructor, and experience a love relationship with three students, growing up along side them.

After spending some time in Tokyo, the game's protagonist returns to his hometown where he is temporarily working as a teacher at a girls' high school. The game boasts a total of five heroines: Yuu Sakurano is the protagonist's cousin and at the same time, one of his students. Before the protagonist left his hometown for Tokyo, the two had a brother/sister relationship.

Yudzuki Kaede is a quiet and absent-minded daughter of a good family. She loves fast food and spends a lot of time together with her friend Nagomi Fujikura. While Nagomi is generally a nice girl and an elite student, she does not get along with the protagonist at all. Aoi Kusunoki is a fellow teacher and becomes the school's acting headmaster, after headmaster Daiki Sakurano (who happens to be Yuu's father) collapses during a school festival and is taken to hospital. Chika Shinomiya is the school's insurance doctor. She happens to be a childhood friend of the protagonist and Yuu.

The Playstation 2 version in addition to new opening and ending sequences without captions and subtitles, Alchemist is also adding its standard Omakase mode, an arrange version of the game's ending theme and a batch of new CG sequences.

The deluxe Step of Spring Paku Paku Pack comes with puppets of the three main heroines (Yuzuki, Y , and Nagomi). Also, the Paku Paku Pack box is exceptionally big (about twice the size of the PlayStation 2's). The opening movie is done by Makoto Shinkai.

  MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:

Adventure game type of novel depicting the youth story that resonates in the hearts of the girls three. Miracle and magic is not, to a large pillar growth story of characters who are troubled and trouble of life-size, Yuku overcome and face to face with it, in the form of a straight more thought and world, and the surrounding human tells purely me.

  FEATURES:
  • First person perspective.
  • 2D graphics
  • Cartoon graphics
  • Romance & Anime themes.
NUMBER OF PLAYERS  1 Player
NUMBER OF MEMORY CARD BLOCKS  92 KB Minimum
COMPATIBLE CONTROLLERS TESTED
( OFFICIAL GAMEPADS ONLY )		  Standard Controller / Analog Controller ( Dual Shock Controller compatible )
COMPATIBLE LIGHT GUNS
( OFFICIAL LIGHT GUNS ONLY )		  None
OTHER COMPATIBLE CONTROLLERS
( OFFICIAL CONTROLLERS ONLY )		  None
SPECIAL CONTROLLERS INCLUDED OR
SUPPORTED ( OFFICIAL ONLY )		  Logitech GT Force
VIBRATION FUNCTION COMPATIBLE  Yes
VIDEO MODES  50 Hz = No / 60 Hz = Yes / Progressive Scan = No / 16:9 Option = No
AUDIO MODES  Stereo = Yes / Mono = No / Dolby Sorround = No / Dolby Digital = No / Dolby Pro logic II = No
MULTI-TAP FUNCTION COMPATIBLE  No
LANGUAGE SELECTOR  No
NETWORK ADAPTOR (ETHERNET) COMPATIBLE  No
EMULATOR  PCSX 2 v.0.1.0.0 (Software)
SPEED HACKS USED  EE Cyclerate = 2; VU Cycle Stealing = 3; Enable INTC Spin detection = Yes; Enable Wait Loop Detection = Yes; Enable fast CDVD = Yes; mVU Flag Hack = No; MTVU (Multi-Threaded Micro VU1) = No
SPECIAL GAME FIXES USED  None
VIDEO PLUGIN  GSDX r5559 ( Allow 8-bit textures = Yes; Alpha Hack = No; Offset Hack = No; Skipdraw Hack = No )
AUDIO PLUGIN  SPU2-X r5545 ( Interpolation = 4; Disable Effects Processing = No; Use the de-alias filter = No; Enable Dubug options = No; Module = 1; Synchronizing Mode = TimeStretch Mix; Audio Expansion Mode = Stereo )
CD-ROM PLUGIN  CDVDolio Cdrom plugin v.0.1.0
GAME PAD PLUGIN  LilyPad svn (r3993) 0.10.0
VIBRATION COMPATIBLE  Yes.

  NOTE:   This is not the only possible combination of plugins. There are others that will work (better or worse) for your particular hardware. We provide you with one working set-up so that you may get the game up and running, hassle-free. Testing other emulators/plugins is up to you.
 

 BASIC CONTROLS:
  Fast forward text -  Left or Right Analog Stick
  Select action or answer -  Circle Button
  Cancel action / Show or Hide text -  X Button
  Backlog -  Triangle Button
  Menu -  Square Button
  Auto -  L1 Button
  Skip -  R1 Button
  Quick Load -  Select Button
  Quick Save -  Start Button

 



 
 
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  • Haru no Ashioto - Step of Spring [Paku Paku Pack] [ALCH-00005]  - 
     

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