Man, I downloaded the game back and this time I'm directly starting on all routes by keeping a whole bunch of saves.
So far tho Yoichi / Iwan's route and Ushio's routes all started w/ MC bottoming... so I'm needa coming back to this comment to reassure myself :D
Also really thx for recommending Textractor to me. I recall that I have used it before, but it didn't work too well with other games, so I gave up on it. But this time around it's working pretty well.