bought this game but it doesn't seem to accept any controls i try

where's the control list? i hit enter to start a new game and nothing.. i click on it with the mouse and nothing? what gives?

[tech7]

Hehe, short answer. Japanese games don't use the typical enter controls cheme, they often use Z,X,V. If that doesn't suit you right click on Recettear and choose Launch configuration tool. Or open the directory of the game and doublecick on custom.exe. There you can change the key bindings.

Long answer,
I will quote Carpe Fulgur for that .

RPS – What’s the key stuff you’ve learned during the process? And what would you do differently if you could do it again?
...
Now, what we’d do differently? Above all else, EXPLAIN THE DAMN KEYBOARD CONTROLS. This was our single biggest screw-up in the game and it’s the one that keeps me awake at night, wondering how many sales we lost due to this. The number one email in our support inbox is “the game doesn’t work! I press buttons and nothing happens!” when it turns out they didn’t check the config utility for the controls and didn’t grok that “z” was the main action button… and, in retrospect, why should they? It’s been a standard setup in JAPAN for years and years, but it’s unknown here. That was a serious screw-up, and it’ll thankfully be fixed in Chantelise on various levels. A bit late to salvage it in Recettear, unfortunately.

thank you kindly, sorry i'm a newbie at japanese games