Hello. I hope this is the right place to ask, I am having a bit of a problem and I hope you guys can help me with it. I have an old NTR VN (NSFW: https://www.dlsite.com/ecchi-eng/work/=/product_id/RE132981.html) which has already been translated in the past. I have the english patch as a .xp3 file and apart from a few translating errors it works without a hitch. The VN I am talking about has been updated with a higher resolution, nothing else has been changed by the developers as far as I can tell. Here is the link for the new updated version: http://www.dmm.co.jp/dc/doujin/-/detail/=/cid=d_154308/summer-001
I want to update the new version with the patch of the old version. If all else fails I want to extract the .xp3 of both versions and copy paste the text from the translated version into the new version.
This is the folder structure of the old version:
this is the folder structure of the new version:
Both folders have a patch.xp3 which I assume contain the actual text of the game. I copy pasted the translated patch into the new folder and started the game. It loads into the main menu but as soon as the game starts it gives me this error message:
Now as far as I know wide strings get used with special characters like kanji, I assume the game expects a kanji but gets a regular character? I guess copy pasting the old patch is not going to work here so how can I "translate" this VN? I tried extracting both patch.xp3 files but I get errors using krkrextract. I assume this is using a newer game engine?
TLDR: I want to unpack the translated old version, copy the text and paste it into the patch.xp3 of the new version.
I am grateful for any kind of help