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This is the worst Wiki you will ever see, not on just Dragon Quest, but the worst Wiki for anything ever.

TEMPORARY TEXT REAL GUIDE VERY SOON:

uh do the thing lmfao!!!!!

http://hiroba.dqx.jp/sc/public/playguide/wintrial_1/

Heres the link lmfao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll get a real guide up soon lmfao if you cant figure out how to get hte download started but its really as easy as downloading this and logging in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Make sure you have a Japanese VPN running when you log in to your account to play the game.

Fair warning: this is the full game itself being downloaded and patched, so expect time sink.

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I don't know who wrote the stuff above but it hasn't been updated for ages and probably won't be any time soon. I'm going to document the process I've stumbled through to get started, hopefully it will help others avoid the confusing trial and error I had to go through.

How to set up your VPN, I put this here because I don't have edit access on the main page :(
There are a handful of ways to connect but I've put the simplest ones here.

Setting up a VPN - SoftEther and VPN Gate (recommended for the tutorial and beginners)

Setting up a VPN - Amazon Web Services (highly recommended if you want to play past the tutorial)

How to log in and start playing
When you first start up the launcher, you'll probably see something that looks like this: On your very first login, you can't use the inputs it shows here; this will log you into the online mode, but you need to clear the offline mode/tutorial thingy first. You need to click the button in the bottom left to create a Guest Player profile. It will prompt you with this popup: Click the left button ("Square-Enix Account") and you'll be taken to this view: Type in your credentials and press the green button on the bottom, and you'll have created your offline mode profile.

To play offline mode (now and on subsequent logins), click the top most option on the left section of the launcher. This appears to be your offline profile. When you click it, it should show you this view:Pressing the blue button will start up offline mode!