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anyone manage to get the sa spell practice exe to work? the one from https://mega.nz/#F!Ulw2kKpK!NGRXQaC7AxfQgygIBAPhKw.. if so, how? alternately, can anyone confirm that it's also borked for them?

i've gotten all the others from there to work except for sa. sa gets past the loading screen then crashes at this exact point in the title screen every time; two beats of the title theme and it's dead. like with the others, i've confirmed that th11.dat is the jp file, and i even tried re-dling both the game (from the nyaa torrent) and the practice exe to make sure the files were good. tried running as administrator and tried compatibility mode for xp and win7 (running win8.1). even tried without pre-existing cfg and score files and with/without applocale and vpatch. i haven't tried booting in jp locale, but i'm hoping that isn't required since it wasn't for the others (and applocale is good enough for eosd). sa works just fine by itself; put many hours into it with no issues.

any ideas? also, does anyone know where these originally came from? i'm guessing that the mega is a re-upload, and maybe the sa exe somehow got corrupted, in which case the original upload might be good. in case it helps, sa exe has a file size of 696,320 bytes with an md5 of b26b9b6ee97a2e055cdaadd59a110c8c.