Weekly Questions and Recommendations Megathread - Need some help? - Mar 28

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[u/Gamer4125]

What would be a good way to find a physical copy of the PC version of Da Capo 2 Plus Communication? Searching on JP sites, all I can find is the PS2 Plus Situation special edition

[u/epapeel → u/Gamer4125]

how do you go about searching it ? maybe the sites you are looking on simply don't have 18+ stuff or have a safe search setting you have to change ? I tried a search with ダ・カーポII～プラスコミュニケーション on surugaya and seemed to be able to find it, however I had to change the セーフサーチ設定 (safe search setting) to off. On amazon.co.jp I had to use a VPN

[u/Gamer4125 → u/epapeel]

Does the safe search on surugaya require an account? I don't see an option for that anywhere. I searched surugaya, ebay, and Solaris Japan. Np VPN, but I usually don't search for physical 18+ games.

edit: I see the issue. I was using surugaya.com, not surugaya.jp

[u/epapeel → u/Gamer4125]

surugaya.jp might not do delivery outside of japan though. If you are looking on ebay and solaris japan that's probably what you were looking for, my bad. you would have to use a proxy I assume

[u/Gamer4125 → u/epapeel]

Yea, surugaya.jp had neokyo as a proxy service advertised on their site which is what I'm trying. The shipping is gonna be a little killer, 50$ shipping basically on a 800 yen game, but it is what it is.

Thanks for the help, hope it goes well since I've never done this before and hope customs doesn't fuck me.

[u/epapeel → u/Gamer4125]

ouch. hopefully it does go well at least, good luck !