YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World (2000)

YU-NO
YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World (2000)	2000
YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World	2019

Warnings

This game is only playable in English with a fan translation (see Localizations for details and other supported languages).

General information

Visual Novel Database entry

TLWiki entry for the English fan translation (Wayback Machine)

Archive for the Saturn voice and PC-98 music patches

YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World is an adult visual novel originally released on PC-98 computers in 1997. It was ported to Windows in 2000, with a modern remake released for PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC in 2019. A fan translation for this original Windows release was completed in 2011.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		CD not required for play if a full install is done.

Essential improvements

English Fan Translation

Unofficial English translation patch.

Saturn Voices

Unofficial patch to add the voices from the Saturn version. Unzip into the YU-NO directory.

PC-98 Music

Unofficial patch to replace the General MIDI soundtrack with lossless rips from the PC-98 original. Unzip into the YU-NO directory.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>^{[Note 1]}

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		The game runs at 640x400 in both windowed and fullscreen.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
General MIDI audio		The CD contains Windows MIDI renditions of the original PC-98 music. This can be added back in with the music pack.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
Japanese				This archive adds the voices from the Saturn version.
English				Fan translation released in 2011 via TLWiki.

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

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

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2.47 GB with all improvements installed.

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Note 1]

Developers

	ELF Corporation
Release dates
Windows	December 22, 2000
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Relaxed
Perspectives	Cinematic camera
Genres	Visual novel
Art styles	Anime
Themes	Adult
Series	YU-NO