Got to turn 29
Had to download the missing DLL and the console was still there... clunky but I managed to play and it was not bad.
https://www.dllme.com/dll/files/libssp-0/0214ad60b28aabcb4eaecf7ae35773c8/downlo...
there's the link
i just googled the name of the dll file (libssp-0.dll) and found it