The patch for the “ELITE” version of STEINS;GATE is now out! We know absolutely everyone was asking for it so we delivered on the day of STEINS;GATE’s 15th anniversary!

If you didn’t catch the sarcasm, we still heavily recommend reading through the original game first. However, if you’re diving back in for a reread, or you’re curious about the new animations, the new scenes, and what it looks like in general, this patch is here to make the difference in content a little less massive.

Download link and instructions are ↓ below.

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Screenshots

Terminology
Terminology
Subtitles
Subtitles

Features

Here’s the full list of improvements. Each can be turned on and off individually, if you like.

Script fixes

A full proofreading pass of the game has been completed, fixing slight grammatical issues, minor typos and wording issues, as well as an extensive amount of inconsistencies with text formatting and a handful of translation fixes. Also includes display fixes in Suzuha’s route.

Karaoke subtitles

Adds styled karaoke subtitles to openings and endings.

Guides

Installation instructions

  1. ↓ Download the installer. You want SGEPatch-v<version>-Setup.zip, not the source code.
  2. Extract the archive somewhere on your hard drive, not in your game directory.
  3. Go to the newly created SGEPatch-v<version>-Setup folder and run SGEPatch-Installer.exe. Warning: Has sound.
  • If the installer quits with an error about MSVCP140_1.dll, install Visual C++ Redistributable (32-bit version, vc_redist.x86.exe - regardless of your system) and try again.
  1. After you click Finish and the installer closes, you can delete the SGEPatch-v<version>-Setup folder.

Troubleshooting

If you’re having a problem not covered here, please ask us on Discord about it.

Note: The game requires the latest DirectX 9.0c redistributable (having a higher version of DirectX installed is not sufficient). If the game fails to run for you, install DirectX 9. (Steam should take care of this for you, but we’re leaving it here just in case.)

Game/launcher fails to start from Steam

You can try starting the launcher from the desktop/start menu shortcut (if you created one during the installation) or by directly running LauncherC0.exe from the game directory (right click STEINS;GATE ELITE in your Steam library, Properties → Local Files → Browse Local Files…). Make sure you’re logged into Steam, though.

Phantom inputs make the game impossible to control (menu selections automatically go up)

On some systems, the game detects false controller inputs (mostly on Linux, but we’ve heard this from Windows users as well).

In the launcher, click More Settings if you haven’t already, go to the Controller tab, select a different controller if you get multiple options, or just disable controller input altogether by unchecking Enable.

Game shows an error about mgs::Audio::CPlayer::InitializeXaudio()

XAudio2 error

Install DirectX 9.0c and try again.

Installer shows an error about MSVCP140_1.dll

MSVCP140.dll error

Install Visual C++ Redistributable (32-bit version, vc_redist.x86.exe - regardless of your system) and try again.

Installer shows an error about api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll

UCRT error

Update Windows. You may need to install the Visual C++ Redistributable again afterwards (file above) - use “Repair” when prompted.

Credits

  • Image editing: Choccy, Enorovan
  • Hacking: JoseJL, Enorovan, SomeAnon, daxxy, MrComputerRevo
  • Translation: Enorovan
  • Subtitles: zahj, Enorovan
  • Subtitles editing: Kumin

Special thanks to grechnik for contributing to our open-source repository!

This project includes a number of third-party components. See this page for attribution.

See our other patches