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Kakaoboo
Since it's an old game the Live Games accounts and Games for Windows are obsolete. But if you're reading this it means that suddenly you got the urge to play it today (like me) and you want to save your game without an account.
I found the solution that worked for me in 2020:
1 For now download the torrent file (I don't know if the parts are still up) from their site. Look up and click in torrent site.
2. Mount, install. Follow the instruction of the Admin except the part of installing Games for Windows.
*If you see some gibberish texts in the windows setup ignore it. Click the next button, the one with the " > " symbol.
3. You will need 2 files: xlive.dll & xlive.ini
The rar file is in here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1H9GgIr_7gWnm0nrRqPc-pBGiVsr6wba2
File name: savegame_fix.rar
4. download, extract the 2 files in the folder where you installed the game (You can right click the direct access of the game exe and choose "open file location")
If some pop up tells you to replace some files ( it didnt happen to me, but just in case), just accept.
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From there you can safely play and save your progress without an official xbox/windows account.
You can modify your player name opening the xboxlive.ini with some c++ program, or just the notepad. And change it in "Username = yourname ".
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Big thanks to this guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoM6w2VVslU
check out if you want more details.
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charlotte_7621
it works perfectly, i lost like an hour of progress because I didn't read at first but now I can finally save, thanks you UwU
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Floyd
Except when you start the setup.exe, no window appears. Only the icon in the taskbar shows. And it's not responding in task manager.
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Kakaoboo
what program are you using to mount the iso file?
That happened to me with other games, after 15 minutes the installation begins. No clue if it's something to do with hardware support.
I used Daemon tools lite to open it and choose quick mount. Then I click the setup icon with the picture of the eye and installed it.
The thing that looked weird was the gibberish text, other than that it worked correctly.
https://i.ibb.co/S7mbJyk/capture.jpg
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Floyd
It straight up doesn't work, I left it running and it did nothing. It wasn't responding, people below were saying the same thing. But luckily, in the video you posted of the guide, the creator posted a google link to a working copy of the game and everything works perfectly! So if anyone is having issues, I would go there. Not sure why this copy didn't.
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SamTheEvil
All links are dead :(
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StygianPidgeon
All links are dead :(
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BossFuchs
All links are dead :(
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kkthxboi YT
bruh wtf. I downloaded it and when mounting nothing fucking happens. The icon shows up and thats it. Nothing else. I mounted properly, tried it 5 times and more, nothing.
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Saekotic
got all the part links but when i run any setup.exe all i get is the taskbar ico and nothing happens also not responding in tm
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Dukeombo
The setup won't run
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Ethan
All links are down 9/14/2019
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Vioit Aj
the setup gets to like 20% then just closes....
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Jiyan Carl Caveiro Polinio
I keep getting the error "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b) Click OK to close the application". How do I fix this
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M l
ow the memory's
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vulpy foxy
http://mega.co all link down
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Samuel
Anyone knows how to stop sour creatures to destroy my garden?
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M P
When I launch it, it doesnt show me any texts in the white boxes, and when i go to play (click on the boots) it crashes and i have to restart my pc. I have windows 10 please help, I really want to play this game!!!!
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Snow
its...all in russain when i went to set it up lol tf....
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Luckybaby7711
When I try to launch the game I get an error messages saying file "X3DAudio1_1.dll" is missing, but I extracted all 5 parts and installed everything without any issues so I don't know what I should do :/
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inkylove
I can't find anything to mount it to when I go to mount it, is there something I need to download or am I missing anything?
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inkylove
Nevermind!
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D3me4
Did anyone get a sound problem? after a day i cant get the sound to fix. there's no sound? and only on the game part the scenes before there sound even the viva pinata song intro. does anyone know what i could try to fix it?
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Hes
For those who still have some issues with saving or opening the game. try downloading https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.microsoft.com%2Ffwlink%2F%3FLinkID%3D201134%3A_foAcm-gs1cp0tsJOjdTI-bQ0Js&cuid=3643655 (new GFWL version), that should solve the whole "ordinal 43" problem.
And to save your game, go and "startup" your game to the title screen and create a "Games For Windows Live" profile and instead of continuing, scroll down and click on "create local account".
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Bplak
Thanks man :)
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Marie
le jeux fonctionne très bien les voie et les texte sont en français. la sauvegarde fonctionne. merci beaucoup :)
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Morgane
Comment tu à fait pour les sauvegarde ? :( Moi il me demande de me connecter au windows live pour sauvegardé ? ... Je déprime lol ..
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Mal
If anyone else is getting this error "The ordinal 43 could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\xlive.dll." use this GFWL version instead: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=201134
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Anita Superdinp
The game won't let me save, I don't know how this windows live thing works, can anyone help?
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Paulie Rufio Rivera
just mount and install. if you cant read what the install: click the left button at the bottom, then start clicking the middle button until you get to the language section. one install option will be russian and the other will be english. start clicking the middle button at the bottom again to get to the install part. to run the game i just had to run as admin.
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Stopit
If anyone is wondering how to get the setup working, make sure to have admin rights on the setup as well as compatibility for Windows XP (Service Pack 3), and make sure you have installed all the files from Redist. With that done, open the start menu and type 'msconfig' before hitting enter.
Go to the services tab, look for 'Cryptographic Services' and uncheck the box beside it. It'll ask you to restart your pc, simply press the restart button and let it do its thing.
Now, when you run the setup, it should run perfectly fine!
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inkylove
This isn't working? Setup still isn't running at all and isn't responding. Any other ideas?
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Isabella Cecelia
I love you, thank you
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Danae Russell
All the links no longer work.
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Manuela Xavier
the last one , google drive, is working
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InquisitionImplied
Was this from the newest version of the game?
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Tyffanee
works great thanks!!
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Utsukami
i cant install it... the icon will appear in my taskbar when i run setup.exe, but it doesnt respond at all... i use windows 10 (64bit) and tried it with all compatibility modes etc, but it still doesnt work. other people say it runs on windows 10, so surely there must be a way to run it, right? :/
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Utsukami
mega is down, can you reup please?
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Frayne
I'm getting an error message saying the ordinal 43 could not be located in the dynamic link library. Anyone know a way to correct this?
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Valentin Rousseau
I have same probleme people in the comments have, i mounted it, and when i try to launch the setup, it juste say "not responding".
I tried as administrator, with different compatibilities (xp, vista 7) but nothing work, has someone a solution ?
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Valentin Rousseau
And i also installed gfwl (not the one in the .rar, it is outdated, but i installed the one on microsoft website)
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draculaboy
its working for me as off 3/8/2017
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Valentin Rousseau
hey, can i ask you the OS on which you achieved to play viva pinata ?
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flubiflaps
I can kinda make it work i just need the product code what is it?
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Gagykun
The installer is in a different language i cant understand what it says.
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Andrew
5/8 download links have a suspended AdFly account, 2 lead to an everlasting loading screen, and Mega removed, wonderful.
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Sainwei
Windows 10 - Mounted with Daemon tools lite and hit setup but nothing happens. (shows as not responding)
brother using the same files running windows 8 - works perfectly
tried everything previously mentioned, any solutions?
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Valentin Rousseau
Have you find a way to fix it yet ? I'm on windows 7 but have same problem.
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M. Molli
Tried compatibility mode yet?
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Zgredziomen
Windows XP Is NOT supported by this game - I had original disc and contacted microsoft about it.. They said they no longer support windows xp so they are not able to fix it.
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SomeKidThatsGotNoLife
How do I save?... Its driving me insane seeing this stupid intro! ;-;
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notacop
Get games for windows live and make a profile, it will save to that profile
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tom
It says i need a product key..
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player1
how do i keep my save
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Seadragon
how do you get gfwl to run on windows 10?
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Crawled Angel
It says that the game is already running but it's not :(
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EM E
if the game not have xlive.dll use this, dat works for me :v http://download.dll-files.com/6b78ebb4ddba9000bdbd2973f0e6cd85/xlive.zip?0XHhTIZGeW
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yakoub kito
i download the xlive.dll now what i must do ?
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Joshimito2000
I works with windows 10?
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Andy0085
IGG-GAMES Your really the best and this site is really the best game site EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please accept my humble congratulations for your hard work!!!
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Olaf the Berserker
Sadly this doesn't work it just stops responding on launch..
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Manlio Beltran
Do u found a solution of this?
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Sainwei
Yeah same its not responding, any solutions? tried everything previously mentioned :''''(
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Wilma Ficken
All mirrors are down :/
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caio vinicio
viva pinata trouble in paradise plz!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Deamonis
It doesn't launch :/
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TheAC
Mount and install.
Launch the game, and when it asks you to create an Live Games user
account. Simply click it away, and select Games for Windows Live again.
Now click create an account.
You have to read through a ''i agree'' page if I remember correctly, but
between the lines there's a link saying: create local account.
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Deamonis
Copy Past :p
The Installer doesn't even want to appear
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Andy0085
Please run the installer under Administrator Rights and select the compatipility for Windows XP, also make sure you do accept and install the GFWL that comes with the installer and all the Redist including the DirectX
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1234WARMANNNN
Same here. It runs, then stops responding. Help?
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Valentin Rousseau
did you find a fix ?
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inkylove
any fix whatsoever?
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Games For Cykits
damn this game is old, i remember when it came out, i never played it but watched the show, i liked it i guess
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Joshimito2000
i played it when i was 7 years old ( now i have 15) i have nice childhood memories with this game
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IGG-GAMES.COM (Administrator)
Mount and install.
Launch the game, and when it asks you to create an Live Games user
account. Simply click it away, and select Games for Windows Live again.
Now click create an account.
You have to read through a ''i agree'' page if I remember correctly, but
between the lines there's a link saying: create local account.
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David Ugle
Nothing happens when you try to open it after mounting it