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DQVC at home (offline)

The game's Wi-Fi shop, Sellma's DQVC at the Quester's Rest in Stornway, closed in 2014. The small program on this page brings it back on your PC, offline: it plays the part of Nintendo's and Square Enix's servers. Tried end to end on 04/10/2026. The program's messages are in French; the steps below explain them.

What you get

  • All 52 weeks of the DQVC (2010-2014 calendar, original prices), with a different week every hour. As back then, Sellma offers 6 items drawn at random from the week's list.
  • The original stock when known (files sent by Nintendo in May 2014, kept on archive.org); otherwise a rule taken from those files: 1 for equipment, 1 to 3 for items, 3 to 5 for materials.
  • The 64 downloadable quests and the 23 special guests, as on the last possible connection in 2014.
  • Connect at any time: the game only allowed one connection a day.

Before you start

  • melonDS installed, controls set, and your ROM: see Playing on PC.
  • Be far enough in the story: Sellma sets up her counter from Alltrades Abbey on.

Step 1: install Python (once)

  1. Open the Start menu, type Microsoft Store, open it.
  2. Search Python 3.13, pick the one by “Python Software Foundation”, click Get.
  3. Or: python.org/downloads, yellow download button, then follow the installer.

Step 2: prepare the folder (once)

  1. Click the two buttons above: the files land in your “Downloads” folder.
  2. Create a folder, e.g. “DQVC” on the Desktop, and move both files into it (they must stay together).

Step 3: start the DQVC

  1. Double-click Lancer la DQVC.bat (French for “start the DQVC”). If Windows says “Windows protected your PC”: More info → Run anyway.
  2. A black window opens. The first time, it asks for your ROM: open the ROM's folder in File Explorer, drag the .nds file with the mouse and drop it into the black window (its path types itself), then press Enter.
  3. The program creates, next to your ROM, a copy “… (DQVC).nds” (your original ROM is untouched) and copies your save. The window then shows roughly:
Copy created: C:\Users\You\Desktop\DQ9\DQ9 (DQVC).nds
Save copied: C:\Users\You\Desktop\DQ9\DQ9 (DQVC).sav

DQVC ready. Week 14/52: "Dragon Extravaganza", 43 min left.
Open the "(DQVC)" copy in melonDS and talk to Sellma. DO NOT CLOSE this window while playing.

(The messages follow the language of Windows: English, or French on a French Windows.) Keep this black window open (you may minimise it): it is the server. Closing it stops the DQVC.

Step 4: open the copy in melonDS

  1. In melonDS: File → Open ROM… and pick “… (DQVC).nds”, not the original ROM.
  2. Nothing to set for Wi-Fi: Config → Wifi settings must stay on “Indirect mode (uses libslirp, recommended)”, the default.
  3. Carry on with your adventure as usual.

Step 5: talk to Sellma

  1. Go to Stornway and enter the Quester's Rest. At the big ground-floor counter stand, left to right: Patty, Erinn, the Krak Pot, Sellma (green dress) and Pavo (the wings).
The Quester's Rest counter: Patty, Erinn, the Krak Pot, Sellma in a green dress, winged Pavo.
The counter: Sellma is the blonde in the green dress, just left of Pavo.
  1. Stand facing Sellma, across the counter, and press A.
  2. She welcomes you, warns that she'll update your adventure log (a save), then asks “Connect to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection?” → Yes.
  3. The game connects, downloads, then shows “Data successfully downloaded.” Lines appear in the black window as the DS connects.
  4. The game saves. The first time it also announces new quests and a very special visit at the Quester's Rest (the special guests).
  5. Sellma gives the hour's news, then shows the 6 items: price in gold, stock on the far right.
The DQVC list: six items, their price and stock.
The shop (French game shown): 6 items, price and stock (right column). Top: the selected item's card.
  1. To buy: pick the item with the D-pad (or touch it), A, confirm, then choose who carries it. B to leave.
  2. Come back the next hour for a new week: just talk to Sellma again (6 new items are drawn on each connection).

Next times

  1. Double-click Lancer la DQVC.bat, then just press Enter (the copy already exists).
  2. In melonDS, open the (DQVC) copy and talk to Sellma.

You can play the whole adventure on the (DQVC) copy: only the connection changes. Your save still works with the original ROM.

If it doesn't work

  • “Python 3 was not found” in the black window: do step 1, then start the .bat again.
  • “Port 80 is already taken”: another “Lancer la DQVC” window is open (close it), or another server program runs on the PC.
  • The game says you can only connect once a day: you're playing the original ROM. Open the (DQVC) copy.
  • Download failed, or nothing appears in the black window: check it's open and that Config → Wifi settings is on “Indirect mode”, then talk to Sellma again.
  • Sellma isn't at her counter: you're not far enough in the story yet (Alltrades Abbey).
  • To not receive the quests and special guests: open dqvc_local.py in Notepad and replace QUETES_ET_CELEBRITES = True with False.

Nothing goes to the internet: the game talks to the program through melonDS's internal network. For speedrunners: a successful connection advances table B by 6 (the stock of the 6 items) and table A by at least 6 (the item choice); see The game's randomness.

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