TROUBLESHOOTING

Having trouble getting Muscle Fight to work? See below for solutions. Problem not listed or solutions not working? Email mail@musclebusting.com

GAME CRASHES IMMEDIATELY

If the following problems occur:

• The game crashes immediately without giving an error message
• Muscle Gear crashes immediately and gives a gibberish error message

then you need use Locale Emulator or change your Windows region settings.

To use Locale Emulator:

1. Go to the Locale Emulator github page
2. Click Download from GitHub
3. Extract and install the program
4. Right click on the Muscle Gear or Muscle Fight exe and select Locale Emulator > Run in Japanese

If you do not wish to use Locale Emulator, you may also go into Windows Control Panel > Clock and Region > Region and set your system locale to Japanese.

GAME LOADS THEN CRASHES

If the following problems occur:

• The game loads, but crashes before the theme song and gives a gibberish error message
• Muscle Gear crashes immediately and gives a gibberish error message

  
then you have likely checked "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" in your Windows region settings and need to uncheck this option.

GAME DOES NOTHING

If neither Muscle Gear nor Muscle Fight load at all or produce an error message, then chances are the filepath to the .exe files is too long.

TO FIX THIS, move the Muscle Fight installation closer to your root directory. C:/Games/MuscleFight is fine, but C:/Games/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/MuscleFight will fail to load.

FILENAMES ARE RANDOM ASCII

If you extract the game files and the filenames are gibberish ASCII characters instead of Japanese script, change your system locale to Japanese (see above) and try again.

CHARACTERS MISSING

If a .player file is missing, the game will not load that character or any subsequent character on the character select screen. The character file downloads on the characters page are provided in the order characters are registered in the game so you can easily replace a missing or corrupt .player file.

JOYSTICK/GAMEPAD NOT RECOGNIZED

We recommend Joy2Key to use your favourite PC game controller with Muscle Fight.

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