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I last played the game a few months ago, so my memory isn't that good. I have some comments on the gameplay parts you mentioned.

About the minigames:
* For the final robot battle. I tried that over 10 times.

The only way I beat it was through a combination of two bugs. First, I held down the Z (attack) key for a period of time. Somehow, the game continued to recognize the key press even after I released it. As in: after I unpressed Z, the game kept thinking I was pressing it like: Z Z Z Z Z Z (the attack sound was overlapping).

This helped me to win because in order to strike down a robot, I just had to turn towards it for a second, and immediately turn away. Instead of having to turn to it, quickly press Z (attack) before it hits me, andthen turn away.

Second, there was another bug that I don't know how I "activated". But on some of my runs, one of the attack-robots stopped moving completely, which made it much easier.

* The rocket one you mentioned you still can't beat: Yes, I found that one confusing as well. Even after I retried it to get the right sequence, I wasn't sure how the player was meant to come up with that order.

About the items:
* I agree with you, the Antidepressant (heals 1 life) item was most useful. But the way it was set up, there's no way the player would have been able to tell what was useful, before actually getting to the minigame where the items are useful.

Just like some of the minigame instructions (ex. find the crying girl), the items' gameplay use was cryptic and not really explained. So the player would feel a slight sense of panic, not knowing if they were doing/buying the right thing. Maybe that was kind of intentional.

** Also, I felt like there was some comedy in the way I would keep failing some minigames like the robot battle and some horrible thing would happen in response. Like "Aw, not again. Sorry dude, I failed you again".

* You said that the item that lets you save outside of save points is useless. I think there's one case where it would have been pretty useful for me—I wish I could have saved at the item shop, before buying anything, or before the minigames. By the time I got to the final Chapter 3 and ??? battle, I had spent my $ on the wrong items. I didn't want to go all the way back just so I could get more $ or healing items, to have a better chance of beating the battle. It would have been pretty useful if I had a save right before the final item shop or something.

I think this game is unplayable for me. First I got "RTP not found" error so I moved every folder in the RTP into the matching folders in the game (Backdrop, CharSet etc.). Then, I got harmony.dll not found error, I downloaded it from the RPG Tsukuru 2000 Utility and put it in the game folder. Then Direct Draw error, fixed it by running game in compatibility mode for Windows 7 as I learned from another site. Then, upon pressing start, got "Cannot find file vehicle" error. I went into the files and renamed "Vehicles" to "vehicle". Then pressed start again and got "Cannot find file chara1" error. I couldn't find any file named chara1 and didn't know which file I should rename to chara1 so I gave up.

I don't know how other people are getting this to run in 2022.