Alicia Online: Step-by-step guide on how to run it on Windows 7 Professional / Windows 7 Home using Vistalizator

Friday, February 1, 2013

And a long-due guide, I say! A couple of years ago I thought that Alicia could only run on Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise versions, because they have access to Language packs, and Korean is needed to be installed for Alicia Online to run. That was a mistake, fortunately, which some of my readers proved by leaving comments about being able to run it on other versions. I personally had no access to “lower” tiers of Windows, so I couldn’t see how it works, which is now fixed – here is a guide how I was able to run it on Windows 7 Professional. Should work for Home/Home Premium as well. Click previews to see bigger versions of screenshots.

First thing, you will need to download and install a program called Vistalizator – official site here. You have to download the program itself (like at the top of the site) AND download Windows MUI Language pack for your system. Click the right link, then scroll down to Korean language and download an .exe file.

If you are unsure what version you need, open Start menu, right-click on My Computer and open Properties.

Alicia Online: Step-by-step guide on how to run it on Windows 7 Professional/Windows 7 Home using Vistalizator

I highlighted the important parts on this page:

Alicia Online: Step-by-step guide on how to run it on Windows 7 Professional/Windows 7 Home using Vistalizator

Install Vistalizator, run it, press Add languages button and choose the language pack file you downloaded. it will start installing the language pack, which may take a while.

When it asks if you want to set this language as your system one, say no. At the end your Vistalizator window should look like this:

Now, go to your your Command panel > Region and Languages settings, open Location tab and choose Korea:

Switch to Administrative tab and change system locale to Korean (Korean).

Now, as we’re all set, go to Alicia Online website and login. Press Start.

If you’re running it for the first time, it will take you to this page. Basically it says you need to install a script, on Internet Explorer it will open a panel asking to install, for other browsers (Chrome and Firefox are supported now too) you have to click the button. If you already have installed Gametree Launcher, you will not see these windows and should skip a few steps further down.

Click OK.

Should offer you to download the file now and show this window in browser.

After you download and run Gametree Launcher, it will ask if you want it to install, press Yes.

Okay, go back to the main page and press Start again. It will take you to this page, where to run the game you have to press the second button:

The game will then proceed to downloading (or updating, if you had an install on this machine previously):

It’s done and loading:

Almost there!

And it lives!!

Congratulations, you made it!

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elthar

bethany

How do I play it? Could you tell me how to install please.
- Elthar
  
  the game has been shut down 13 February, 2014
Милена

как скачать
- Elthar
  
  что скачать?
https://www.facebook.com/Alicia3D CrystalFox

Well guys.. this game did close but I’m trying to bring it back and would love support…
Those who did play the game should probably know of Mlocale who did the translations for the game… Well they were attempting to re-create Alicia and bring it back and were succeeding so well, but stopped because of a issue… Which I can show in a email for PROOF :/
Now they need support on the facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Alicia3D
To show people did not give up on this amazing game… I also contacted them about being more active on their facebook to show they did not give up and are at least willing to try again.. So please share … I don’t wanan see a fake game like RidingHigh take away the fun we could be having in Alicia Online …
BlueCandy

can someone give me the link to alicia online FREE sign up and the english translator?
- Elthar
  
  you’re kinda late, the game closes in 3 days..
AnonymousGuest

Alicia online will never be in English as they are closing it Feb. 13th 2014 nearly just a month a way. No more awesome game, I was looking forward to playing it too. To bad that the Korean’s refused to release it elsewhere, they probably didn’t make the funds to continue it because there weren’t many people playing and of course without the people and fans across the world the game slowly went downhill. Good job Korea and Game Tree. Thanks for breaking the hearts of so many people who looked forward to playing it, who waited for it to be released to our countries. If they had thought about it better they probably would have made a lot more money if they released it elsewhere besides JUST Korea.
Crystal

Hi,
I downloaded the Vitaliser thing and already got an account back before 2.0 came out, hopefully it still works xD, but when I try to open the Vitaliser for the installation nothing comes up..? I got the right download version but nothing open past the “Do you want to run this file” pop-up?
mia1273

Okay it works up to when you say ‘log in’. I dont have an account and rumour has it you now cant sign up at all, is this true or have I just been looking in the wrong places?
elis

I badly want to play this game and followed theses instructions until i found out that i need a korean phone number. Do anyone know how to get one? ( I dont have a korean friend) i saw someone selling account but its pricey and I would like to try the game on my computer before i use real money. =)
- Elthar
  
  there are accounts for sale on sites such as newgameway.com. It costs 13$ there, if THAT’s pricey for you, either you don’t want to play this game or you shouldn’t. as for the korean phone number, how do you enter a mobile phone contract in you country? so is the same way in Korea, it’s just –you know– you have to go TO Korea for that.
kitkat

PLZ HELP :’(
kitkat

i think i downloaded gametree launcher but i cant seem to make a account what now?!?!?! it never took me to the page after the download and i dont know what to sign in with what NOW?!?!?!?!??!!?!
CalliCat

Hello there. ^^ I just installed and played Alicia for my first time last night and I loved it! I used their MLocale to translate it to English and it looked fantastic. So I shut down the for the night. I went to go on this morning (using Firefox) and clicked start. The Gametree launcher came up and since then it has been loading for hours. It’s far from halfway loaded. Why does this occur?
- CalliCat
  
  Do you think it’s updating maybe? If I go into game now when its done and exit then go back to start again will it take as long or will it take 45 seconds like it did last night?
  - Elthar
    
    You didn’t mention on which stage did Gametree launcher froze, is it when it says it downloads files, or shows a loading screen, is before or after GameGuard loads up, etc…
    
    So without that info, I dunno which could be it, just some guesses:
    
    1) it’s a coincidence that they may have released a patch overnight and everyone is downloading it, so it’s slow. you can cross that out easily by checking news at Alicia’s website through Google.Translate.
    
    2) Using MLocale could have corrupted some of the game files and that’s the reason for the game to not load properly. Seems like the most reasonable case here.
    Download the full client – on the download page, you can either run a downloader or save an exe file, you need the exe – and reinstall the game, see if that works.
    
    3) There might be some software that wasn’t running yesterday, like an antivirus, Alicia gets skittish around those.
    
    4) Could be that some settings got accidentally changed since yesterday, like region did not save properly or something…
xc vby

Right after I download it, this pops up. D’ya know what it means? I set my location and language to Korean and everything… The game just won’t start.
- Elthar
  
  Does this look like Korean to you? I thought people could at least distinguish Korean letters on my screenshots… You don’t have Korean language in your system, these are garbage symbols of broken encoding. Of course it won’t start.
XxMaybrexX

Please Help
Karla

cuando me meto a la pagina principal la de alicia.gametree.co.kr me pone un mensaje raro en Coreano
- Elthar
  
  Yo no hablo español, pero trato de comprenderte y para responder. Pero también quieres que lea tu mente, o supongo que “extraño mensaje en coreano”?
Karla

no me deja en la pGIN principal no me deja meterme a start game
ophiena

oops it didnt show the picture. it was the one with the horse flying
ophiena

please help me. I tried again but the next steps didn’t come up after it was done loading (downloading)

This page <—– and the pages after didn't show up
- Elthar
  
  i can’t help unless you specify any details, somehow people don’t realize i can’t read minds over internet :)
  
  what did you do with alicia and your computer, if it’s still not working?
LoVeHoRsEs

ok i “fixed it” but i just realized that a hackshield thing didn’t pop up. ?
- Elthar
  
  is it still not working?
  
  hackshield might not be starting because you run antivirus or somesuch software
ophiena

my download was complete but then it didn’t open the game. ????
Serafina

I have Windows XP Russian. I changed everything to Korea except the location, Korea is not one of the options. Is there a Korean language pack I can install? I can’t find one myself.
- Elthar
  
  Не знаю, как вы так искали, за 2 минуты поиска в гугле в два часа утра нашла вот это…
  
  Как ставить с диском:
  http://www.starrguide.com/install-korean-hangul-language-pack-in/
  
  Как без диска:
  http://eastasiastudent.net/study/windows-xp-east-asian-languages-support-no-cd/
  
  Google is your friend ;)
  
  Хотя вообще не знаю, будет ли оно под ХП запускаться и что делать, если нет, такие древности нынче уже редкость.
aliciafan

I know some one already asked this, but do you know if it will work on windows 8? if not i hope they come out with a windows 8 version!
- Elthar
  
  there will be no windows 8 for sure, as they stopped development. No idea if it’s compatible, but W8 is not meant for gamers
- Serafina
  
  On my other computer I have Windows 8 and the game works fine.
  - aliciafan
    
    is there any special way you downloaded it serafina?
    - CalliCat
      
      Serafina probably has Windows 8 Professional or Enterprise. From those two editions of Windows 8 you can install the Korean Language pack right from the control panel. With Home Basic and Premium, you cannot. There is no way to fix this other than upgrading your Windows 8 to a higher edition. Sorry. :/
LoVeHoRsEs

When the dowloading part is almost half way done it dosn’t move and says it has stopped working…? what should i do?
- Elthar
  
  you haven’t installed or enabled Korean in your system, should have done that first
Deropone

Hi :)
When i try to put Korea as my local it doesnt give korea one as the options. Only South-Korea. Is that ok too?
Cheerio

I’m in the middle of making an account to log in but i get to step 3 and have no idea what to do! There are 3 buttons in a row and one looks like a phone and one is an i with a circle around it. Can you help me?
- Elthar
  
  Right now there is no way to register a new account for Alicia online, they now require phone verification, so you’re too late, sorry
Thea

Hi, again
Now I have another problem hehe
When it’s loading the alicia screen (step 14) this comes up, and it shuts down.
What does it say/what shuld I do?
- Elthar
  
  no idea, can’t make out the last symbol in there
Thea

Hi!
I’ve got a problem when I’ve loading the alicia game screen( step 15 I think?)
When thats done it comes up a window that first says errorFlag and Mbox in the corner. Then this comes up when I click on OK
What should I do? :/
- Elthar
  
  the text is,
  
  게임을 시작할 수 없습니다. 게임 웹사이트로 돌아가 start 버튼을 눌러 주세요. 게임이 시작되기 전까지 웹페이지를 닫지 말아 주세요.
  
  You can not start the game. Return to the game website, please press the start button. Before the game starts, do not close the web page.
  - Thea
    
    Tnx :)
Elli76

i have done everything til step 5, but in step 6 the korean option doesent come up… any ideas? sorry for bad english^^
- Elthar
  
  “til step 5″ you mean you’re trying to install vistalizator and it’s not working?
  - Elli76
    
    no, it comes up as it should in pic five and i have installed vistalizator, but when im going to the commando panel to change the settings, korea is’nt in that list :(
    - Elthar
      
      okay
      
      i’m sorry I missed it all this time, that pic #3′s link to the larger version got erased from the post, here’s the big picture
      
      http://chickgeekgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/snap00018.png
      
      now, looking at it, did you download the right version of vistalizator and language packs for your system? i am not sure if that could be the reason, but maybe you’re using x86 version on x64 system and it’s not functioning properly
      - Elli76
        
        yes i did download the right language pack, the 64-bit one for windows 7, it’s really wierd… :I
      - Elli76
        
        oh nevermind, i got it to work without changing location to korea! :D
Kat

i always get this pop up image when trying to download. any ideas? :(
Melanie

hello ! , how did you talk or *send message* to gametree ? (when you asked them about English version ) well .. if you can ask them to make a register page without a korean phone number or anything for english player’s ? thanks .. and if you can’t just tell me how can i connect them .
- Elthar
  
  I answered several times to questions considering why the developers are not allowing non-Korean players into the game – they CANNOT do that, South Korea has a specific law which require that all users of online services (including games) produce their real-life identification to be tied with their online accounts. Allowing citizens of other countries (who are not subject to these rules) to use such Korean services would produce a conflict with the law – this is the reason why ALL South Korean services are closed for non-Korean citizens.
  You would have learned that if you did just a little bit of Googling – “register page for english players” is not happening, asking GameTree for it would be like asking you to break law by stealing something.
Marya

but do we need a KSSN for the english version?
- Elthar
  
  what english version? there is none
ineedalicia

do you know how to get korean phone number ? cause i know how to register on alicia online but i need korean phone number for veifrey … thanks !
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- ineedalicia
  
  + there someone sell alicia online account’s .. do you know how to get money online (stupid Q D: ….)
  - Elthar
    
    what do you mean, “get money online?”
    - ineedalicia
      
      *Earn money online
      - Elthar
        
        huh
        well, if you must know, people earn money online in absolutely the same fashion like they do it offline: look for a job, complete it, get paid. humanity couldn’t come up with anything better so far.
        as you’re looking to earn online I assume you don’t already have an offline job, so you’re probably a teenager and have no specific education/profession/skills, so freelancing is out of the question. stuff like “click ads and earn money” is a waste of time. creating a website and earning on ads takes between a couple of months to several years. maybe you could come up with some idea that gets popular on Fiverr, sometimes people like to pay for children drawings and some such nonsense, don’t know what else.
      - ineedalicia
        
        Thanks
- Elthar
  
  if you have a friend in Korea, they could let you use their phone, i suppose
  don’t know, really
julia

.-. wie geht es
Bridgette

Where can I go to get a KSSN?
- Elthar
  
  search engines
Sarah

do u know when exactly that alicia online is going to become english?
Lisa

När jag har gjort allt det där kommer då spelet vara på engelska helt?
- Lisa
  
  When I have done all that then the game will be in English completely?
  - Elthar
    
    No. You have to write 99 more comments here for that to happen.
Luna

Is this in english…? I’m so confused if it is or isn’t.
- Luna
  
  I mean like after doing this, will the game be in english?
Serafina

Does Alicia work on Windows 8?
- Elthar
  
  I have no idea
  
  it’s certainly not supporting it, if W8 is compatible with older programs, then probably
- GaleForce
  
  Pretty much no games previous to Windows 8 works with Windows 8 because of how it was made. Windows 8 was meant for tablets and most laptops, and is certainly not gamer friendly.
  - Elthar
    
    good to know
    
    from what I’ve read and seen about this system, It’s hard to tell if it’s friendly for anyone at all except for people who only read twitter and emails on their PCs
Elthar

you’re welcome :)
Hallien

Hi, I am having a problem with this as well but I already have alicia online downloaded and installed, I have for months now, I have run into this problem before where it takes to me to the prompt to download page when I click “Game start” it did it before even though i already have it in my PC. I fixed it before but i forgot how but the reason its a problem now is because even if i uninstall the alcia online game and gametree launcher ECT. and I go back to the download thing and click the orange button and then i click OK after the popup comes up and then after it says

“The game tree for the game to run game launcher install is in progress.

Please wait”

it keep goes back to the page where you have to click the orange button and I click it again and try over and over but it just keeps refreshing and going back to the same page the download or nothing comes up. It does this even if i have the game installed, like alicia online website thinks i dont have it installed and downloaded,so even if i take it out and click game start and follow instructions on the page it keeps messing up. =/
- Elthar
  
  what OS and browser are you using? have you tried to use another browser?
  - Hallien
    
    I am using Windows 7 home premium and Ive always used google chrome to launch alicia online,and I have tried to use firefox but i have the same problems.
  - Hallien
    
    I am using Windows 7 home premium and Ive always used google chrome to launch alicia online,and I have tried to use firefox and internet explorer still same problem. I have the latest version of Java,Adobe flash player and shockwave player. I check everyday to see if it will work, still same problem,Please help soon.
    - Elthar
      
      the only thing i can think of, is that something wrong with ActiveX in your browsers. Running Alicia has nothing to do with flash player except for clicking “start” flash button. After that it’s JavaScript and ActiveX. Previously, only Internet Explorer supported ActiveX, Chrome is using the one installed in IE too.
      
      Did you change any settings in IE lately?
      See if this helps:
      http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10973
      
      Other than that, did you install any security software lately? Antivirus, firewall, pop-up blocker, that sort of thing? Do you have problems with any other sites containing scripts? If so, something could have been blocking scripts in your browser.
      - Hallien
        
        it works now on all broswers ty so much for your help <3
- messy
  
  how did you get alicia online account !!!!
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Yomi

Can someone help me? I can’t get past the Gametree installation. I hit the ‘install’ option, then I hit yes when I am aksed if I want the program to make changes to my computer, but then nothing else happens. The page keeps reloiding to the same installation page and there are no other pop-ups. I use Internet Explorer.
- Yomi
  
  Ok, well I get prompted to download, but after I hit OK this just pops up:
  
  Any ideas?
  - Elthar
    
    says the installation is complete, press F5 to refresh browser.
    
    Next time use google.translate please, it has virtual korean keyboard built-in.
    - Yomi
      
      Thank you for the reply. But, despite that being the case, I still cannot get past that screen. It won’t allow me to actually install the game.
      - Elthar
        
        are you 100% sure that launcher isn’t already installed somewhere? it wouldn’t be giving that message over nothing
        
        have you tried another browser?
      - Yomi
        
        Well I tried using Google Chrome and it seems to be working now. The actual game downloader has popped up and seems to be running fine so far. Thank you very much for the help.
http://www.facebook.com/maria.gonzales.73550 Maria Gonzales

No need kssn to play?
- Elthar
  
  who told you that?
  IT NEEDS KSSN
  all korean games need it
  - http://www.facebook.com/maria.gonzales.73550 Maria Gonzales
    
    Sorry, I thought I had found another way, do not know much about games like this. Thank you.