Astral Chain – v1.0.1 + Yuzu Emu for PC-HohohoGames

Original Size: 9.8 GB

Repack Size: 5.4 GB

Languages: RUS/ENG/MULTI9

Companies: PlatinumGames, Nintendo

Master thrilling synergetic combat against an increasingly powerful alien invasion in ASTRAL CHAIN™, an exciting new action-adventure from PlatinumGames, only on Nintendo Switch Yuzu Emulator. Join an elite task force and work together with a special living weapon to solve cases and save mankind!

Based on Switch release with Update v1.0.1 installed over: 9.8 GB; many thanks to two secret guys for helping me out with building this repack
Portable Yuzu Switch emulator included: Mainline v542 (Feb 17, 2021)
100% Lossless, but NOT MD5 Perfect: encryption on game files was removed for better repack size
NOTHING ripped, NOTHING re-encoded
Significantly smaller archive size (compressed from 9.8 to 5.4 GB)
Installation takes 6-10 minutes (depending on your system)
After-install integrity check so you could make sure that everything installed properly
HDD space after installation: 9.9 GB (19.1 GB during installation)
Language can be changed in Yuzu’s game settings (RMB on a game -> Properties -> System -> Language)
At least 2 GB of free RAM (inc. virtual) required for installing this repack
Please be patient while playing this game – it lags a lot when building shaders for the 1st time. But the more you play – the smoother the process is
Two known bugs are still present for this title: black eyes of main chars and desynced audio in game movies

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It is recommended to always use Magnet for downloads, and we suggest the following open-source clients: Gopeed

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Precautions and recommended settings

Always recommend using magnet links to download games for faster and more stable speeds. Recommend pure, open-source, ad-free download software (such as Gopeed or BitComet).
Before running the game, evaluate the game’s system hardware requirements. If your computer only has 2G of RAM, you basically cannot expect to run large next-gen games smoothly.
Extracting high-compression packages consumes a lot of memory. You must enable virtual memory and manually set it to 1 to 1.5 times the physical memory.
Example: If the computer has 8G RAM, suggest increasing to 12GB – 16GB; if 16G RAM, set to 24GB (both initial and maximum values fill in 24576 MB).
When extracting the game, the hard drive needs 2-3 times the free space of the game installation package. For example, if the package is 10G, the target drive needs at least 20-30G of free space.
The hard disk partition format must be NTFS. The outdated FAT32 format cannot write single files larger than 4GB, which will cause the extraction to freeze.
During game installation, temporarily disable Windows Defender or third-party antivirus software, or add the “game download directory” and “target installation directory” to the antivirus exclusion list.
If the computer has less than 4G RAM, or high-end computers frequently report extraction errors, be sure to check “Limit installer to 2 GB of RAM usage” on the first interface during installation. This slightly limits extraction speed but greatly improves stability and solves 90% of memory overflow errors.
When running setup.exe, always right-click the icon and select “Run as administrator” to ensure the installer has full system read/write permissions.
The absolute path of the game installation cannot contain any Chinese characters, special symbols, or extra spaces.
Correct example: “D:\Games\Steam”
Wrong example: “D:\游戏\赛博朋克 2077”
During the extraction process, the CPU and memory are pushed to the limit. At this time, strictly prohibit playing other large games, background rendering, or opening many browser tabs, otherwise it can easily cause resource contention leading to instant errors (such as Unarc.dll) or even a blue screen.
At the checkbox interface at the end of installation, be sure to check the installation of DirectX and Visual C++ Redistributable (runtime library suite). Many players successfully extract but cannot open the game (popping up 0xc000007b or missing various .dll files) because of missing these basic runtimes.
If the installation completes smoothly but double-clicking the game icon has no response, 99% of the time it is because Windows Defender silently quarantined or deleted the “crack patch” (such as steam_api64.dll) in the game directory right after extraction. Go to the “Protection history” in Windows Security and select “Restore and allow” for that file.
After encountering an Unarc.dll error, never download this DLL file alone from the internet and place it in the system drive. The game compression mechanism uses highly customized dedicated libraries; generic DLLs downloaded online are useless and can easily infect the system.
If you have strictly followed all the above configurations and requirements and still stubbornly get an Unarc.dll error during installation, you basically can only consider reinstalling a pure version of the system.
If it still does not work, then consider installing on another machine.