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Greetings! I remember having a super reliable time tracker but ever since formatting my computer I pretty much lost it forever. Any recommendations? I sometime get distracted in the middle of a readthrough and that messes with any manual tracking...

I am trying to translate a visual novel into English using Kirikiri engine. I also did all the steps on the web. First, I used Kirikiri Extract to extract my data.xp3. Then I searched for scenario in data folder. I used Translator++ to automatically translate all the script files (which are .ks files). After that, I injected all my English scenario files into my data folder. Finally, I repacked my data folder into patch.xp3. But it did not work. I tried to delete my original data.xp3 and replaced with new data.xp3 (which has a translated scenario inside), but it raised an error called script exception. I tried to encode all the files to Shift-JIS, but some still remained ANSI. I also tried not to repack the data folder and put it back into the game, but it did not work as well. Can anyone help me with this problem? P/s: The game I am translating is: Koakuma-chan no Yuuwaku!. The game uses Kirikiri Z core. :<<<<<<<<

Hello friends, I need help because I don't know what's happening, but the tool seems to not extract some files correctly and only extracts some. Do you know what the problem is and how I can solve it?

Hello fuwanovel members/users. I've been using VNR to machine translate novels, but I just wanted to try translating some novels permanently (at the moment I have 11 I'd like to complete, but for now I'm starting on one). At the moment I decided I wanted to start with an eroge, Sister Lesson https://vndb.org/v28016#main Now, after reading through some posts on this site and the others I began my attempt to translate. This visual novel I chose uses the .fpk archival format. I used GARbro to extract the data.fpk file and then edited the ACT_A_JA.txd file, which opened with the script in japanese. I then used google translate to translate a portion of the beginning text to test if translation of the script is possible, inserted the translated text into the file where the previous text was, and finally I repacked with AE (GARbros is unable to create .fpk files.). I then replaced the "data.fpk" with the new "data.fpk" file I created in the games directory and tried loading the game. The game loaded and incredibly, the translated script did in fact appear. However, the script for some reason no longer appears fully within the confines of the text box in the game and sentences are fragmented as a result. I already tried translating the larger ACT_A.txt file, but I discovered that translating that and repacking the data.fpk file with it won't cause the translation to appear. It seems only translating the .txd files causes the translated text to appear (although translating the .txt file as well doesn't seem to change anything in regards to game running and the translation from the .txd file still appears). At the moment only the ACT_A_JA.txd file is translated and repacked into data.fpk. Please provide some advice on what to do to make the text appear within the confines of the text box properly if you can. I've attached screenshots of the game running depicting this problem, along with a screenshot of the txd file I edited. https://ibb.co/HHpCMnk https://ibb.co/mTbFVJ2 https://ibb.co/rm6JsSG

Hi y'all, so currently I am working on an English patch for the Visual Novel Kishin Hishou Demonbane - the sequel of Deus Machina Demonbane. Currently we are having some issues with repacking the extracted script files into a singular .pak file as seen in the attached picture. All of the files are .pak files, we are unable to edit the scripts unless we have learned a way to repack them. Is there anyone who can help us to repack those files? I can send the files or the game if anyone needed, regards.

I'm looking for tools to work with a vn called "A Maiden's Woven Canvas of Love". - https://vndb.org/v7794 I need tools that can decrypt and encrypt scripts in the .wsc format. I also need tools for working with .arc archives of the old WillPlus format.

I'm not trying to make assurances about translating Last Run, but I'm interesting in getting the scripts into a format where they can be edited. I can extract the scenes using Garbro but I don't know how to unpack the .scn.txt files. They're encrypted as far as I know. I should add that I'm a total amateur with Github so if a link to a repository is provided I'll need step by step instructions on how to use it.

Hello me find this Visual Novel about incest! So I've been scowering the internet trying to find this visual novel have a memory of playing way back like...five to four years ago. Here's what I can remember: There was three romancable girls, one of which was as you can tell by the title the characters sister. remember them tackling this topic/route with a lot of seriousness and it felt quite harrowing and emotional. remember there being a scene where right at the end he and his sister go to this cliff and I think in this like weird dissociated state are going to kill themselves together but I swear the protagonist sees a butterfly or something and snaps out of it and they don't? Then there's a scene where it's years later and obviously their relationship ended and she is getting married to a none family member. A few other details recall is there being a scene where he and his sister are... getting intimate and swear he's like sleep deprived and starts hallucinating about what his friends would say if they knew? One of the other romancable girls may have had short pink hair and think the game opens up with a flashback of him in his hometown with a you g girl from his childhood who also believe was a possible romance. honestly can't find any sign of this game anywhere, thought l'd see if anyone else can help.

I could not pirate reflection blue so I will have to settle on normal summer pockets for now.So can you answer this answer?

Hello all. I'm looking to translate Pure x Connect as a project in my Japanese studies. Quite sadly however, I'm not so adept at all the technical stuff. I've mucked around using all sorts of programs but it seems this is what I have so far the works the easiest: Garbro (for unpacking .arc files) Sacanawrapper (for extracting/repacking scripts) AE VN tools (for repacking .arc files) BGIimageencoder (for converting edited .bmp files back to BGI format) Pure x Connect runs off the Buriko general interpreter (BGI) engine. My only problem lies in the repacking of certain .arc files, namely those that have a file inside exceeding 16 characters. Any such files while repacking gets truncated to 16 characters and the game starts acting funny. Please note that I'm repacking using the v1 BGI format because v2 gives me the error: "Access violation at address 005164D0 in module 'AE.exe'. Write of address 00000000." I looked around on another forum on Fuwanovel for another of smee's games with a similar problem and one of the guys said a fix is to adjust the script file engine calls and truncate them as well. For example, changing the file name himari_love_encount to himari_love_enc and the engine call HIMARI-LOVE-ENCOUNT to HIMARI-LOVE-ENC. Tried this method but the same funny things started happening again so that was a bust... Do you guys have any nifty ideas or how to fix that v2 error? Cheers. Edit1: v2 repacking seems to be getting stuck every 6th file hence giving the error, works totally fine if only repacking 5 files at a time though. Edit2: Have also tried on a separate pc, same error for v2 repacking.

I want to translate a game for myself. With GARbro I was able to extract files that have lines to translate, but they are in .scw format. Maybe you know how I can convert from .scw to .txt to translate the lines and then back to .scw. Also, the already finished .scw files need to be packed into the .dat file I extracted them from. Sorry if this is complicated. So: 1) Using GARbro, I extracted the .scw files that are needed for translation from the .dat file. 2) Need to convert .scw to readable .txt for translation. 3) Convert the finished .txt to .scw. 4) Pack all .scw back into .dat. I can't find the engine this dev - Autobahn - uses. The .dat archives use some kind of DataPack5/GsPack4 encryption. I couldn't find any tools that are able to convert the .scw text files to a readable format. Game - https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/work/=/product_id/RJ126977.html

The other day, I was working with some visual novels to possibly start a FanTL and a question came to mind: Is it possible to make a Visual Novel that will only run if you have your region in Japanese, run in any region? I mean, yes, Locale Emulator exists, but that just makes the program you execute think the region is on Japan. So there must be a way to make it work without the use of those tools. But I needed a game to test on, in first place, so I started working with Karenai Sekai to Owaru Hana. This is what I found out until now: First thing I did was open the game executable with Resource Hacker to find anything that could help me. I found the game reads "Shift_JIS" encoding, at first I thought it'd be helpful in the process to make the game run in any region, I've reached somewhere, but I soon hit a roadblock. You see, kirikiriZ executables have two encoding options: Shift_JIS and utf8. Changing the encoding in the .exe to "utf8" made it executable, at least, in any other region. But you'd get this error: Investigating a little bit into the error I saw that the engine working on utf8 reads the files as UTF16 LE BOM, and since most .ks and .tjs files were in Shift_JIS, I had to make myself a tool to change the encoding of all the files from cp932 (Shift_JIS) to UTF16 LE BOM to see if it worked. And would you look at that, ANOTHER ERROR. However, this one was confusing. The error was this one: "What?" "But the startup.tjs IS in the data.xp3 I created..." The next thing I did was to find out what was happening, and when I saw the data.xp3 of the game, THIS is what I found out: If one startup.tjs isn't there, the game will not work. I searched if someone talked about this before, and I found a fairly recent post on this topic with someone mentioning this when trying to extract the data.xp3 of the VN they've been working on. No one responded, sadly, so I had to keep investigating. I remember that in the official Kirikiri tools, there was a startup.tjs in a folder called "Encrypt", but I don't really think it has something to do with it since it's probably for another purpose, like encrypting the .xp3 files. But now, what can I do? I got stuck now since I can't find a way to get two files with the same name in a .xp3 file. And making two patch.xp3 files with one startup.tjs inside each is contraproducent, as patch.xp3 is made exactly to be able to replace files and those two need to "live in harmony" in order to make the game work. After analyzing executables from other visual novels, I realized I may have been wrong this whole time since they all had Shift_JIS as its encoding property. And yet, they ran in any region. The first two I analyzed were Sousaku Kanojo no Ren'ai Koushiki and 9-Nine- Episode 2. The only difference I could find was that the .ks and .tjs files inside the .xp3 were all in UTF16 LE BOM. I appreciate if you read this hell of a text wall I made. Do you happen to know something I don't and want to add info to this thread? You're free to reply to this thread with your findings! This whole investigation was purely made because I wanted to know more about the engine, but it might be of help FanTL if I/we figure a solid way to make the region restriction go away, imo. Update: check at the end of this post. Might update this if I find something else Looks like I'm gonna have to give up on this investigation, at least for now, sadly. I'm lost asf, to be honest. This past week I've been endlessly searching for clues, a form to work with it, anything at all, but to no avail. I haven't found a way to make those two startup.tjs files just... be there, in the same compressed file or just make the game work without emulating region. Just that kind of blocked all of the investigation alone. And there's still things that I haven't covered here that I just couldn't find an explanation for. It was a total letdown for me. If anyone just happens to follow this or saw this obscene amount of text and knows something, you can just post it here. Or not, you do you. There must still be a reason as to why some visual novels run and some don't. A reason I could think of is engine version. For example, Kareseka's executable shows the version is 1.2.0.3 and Sousaku Kanojo's one shows it's 1.4.0.8. It may have something to do with that, but even I think that's kind of... stupid. But for FanTL, you can just kinda do what @Sisulizer suggested. Use the version.dll VNTextProxy by ArcusMaximus provides for Kirikiri, it has a built-in locale emulator and other useful stuff like rendering non-SJIS characters (you know, letters with acute like á, é or í and other characters that don't form part of the cp932 character table). You will have problems if you want to use another version.dll from another tool like Xp3Pack from KirikiriTools (that's also made by ArcusMaximus lol), though. Good luck, programming adventurer! Until next time.

I wanted to translate this vn, so to get things started I tried using Krkrextract, which works out for just about every kirkiri game, but this time, it didn't even identify the process as kirikiri. Then I used GarBro to decrypt and extract the contents of the scenario folder, and tried repacking it with the same encryption method, just to make sure it would work, but when I tried playing the vn, this error popped up: Then I used Translator++ to create an xp3 file, which resulted in this error: And now I'm completely lost as to how to pack the translated files after the translation is done Any help would be appreciated

Help me find this eroge I played years ago. The plot of it is basically about the mc who was sent to his relatives house or something I think it was his aunt and he had to live there for the entire summer so I think theres a limit on the days you can stay there and if that limit is reach the game will end. The gameplay is very unique because or at least for me it was unique, from what I can remember it had like a 2d isometric style. Thats as far as I can remember it though, so if you do know the title please tell me I really wanna play it again and it's also been bugging me for quite some time now. Tnx in advance!!

Hello im trying to Translate a Vn from 2002 i already extracted the data.xp3 file with garbro and translated the scenario files with translator++. Now i wanted to repack the extracted data.xp3 files with my translated scenario files in it. So i choose the path with all the extracted files (+ new translated files in scenario folder) in garbro i mark all the folders and create a new archive named data.xp3 in the game folder. but when i start it it always tells me that garbro could not found the files in the folders i marked. but when i for example go in the scenario folder and mark the files alone it works. I dont know whats the problem can someone help me?

I've been reading a lot of visual novels for the past couple of years. However, I've still got a lot more left piled up in my Wishlist and it can be very time consuming to read all of them by myself. Is there an application of any kind that involves text-to-speech that automatically reads whatever text you copied in your clipboard without having to manually press a button that signals it to read? I'm already using an OCR to copy the text from the visual novel and directly paste it to the clipboard. All I need is something that will automatically read the text for me when it gets put into the clipboard. Any ideas?

I was approached by a translator and asked if I could help find people to create uncensored versions for these VNs: Kami no Rhapsody Amayui Castle Meister Soukoku no Arterial Madou Koukaku ~Yami no Tsuki Megami wa Doukoku de Utau~ Translator partially uncensors with the help of neural network and further needs a person with knowledge of photoshop to complete the phase of uncensoring the images. As a last resort, he agrees to pay some amount of money for the job, but that's a last resort. He hopes that there will be fans who will help in such a difficult task. Hopefully someone will respond to the request and at least 4 more uncensored VNs will appear (the translator will also help port the uncensored version to all kinds of translations of these VNs).

Does anyone know where I can download the game Kusa iro no hitomi? 腐色の瞳 sorry for the inconvenience Clephas Edit: NSFW

Hello, I'm ziege. My actual name is of course not ziege, but my username, it means goat in German. I don't know if you wanted any of this info, but now to the actual issue: In short, VNR translates visual novels, that's why it's called Visual Novel Reader. It has a database with user submitted subtitles for visual novels. The machine translators are garbage and VNR is so old that I never except for one visual novel got it working as it should. Regardless is it the only text hooker that has user submitted subtitles. So I think it's worth preserving. Also, even after I close the application, the cursor stays blue, why is that? Now to a project idea for all developers out there: Take the user subtitles from VNR and make an application that's similar to VNR (and actually works) and runs them. I'm not yet there myself (as a dev), and therefore I allow you to steal my idea (, because I want to play Shinigami to Shoujo so bad). But if no one implements this idea, I will and that's my announcement. PS: I will call this off if you tell me how to start VNR without it crashing. The website where you can download VNR: vnr.aniclan.com You have you make an account. The language options are in russian for some reason. I used a machine translator to make an account. ...

So I wanted to translate a vn which has its archives in the .fpk format, like "BT2N_Sys.fpk" And weirdly enough, the script is a .fbx file, and I've got no leads on where to even start editing the files Any help would be geatly appreciated

Yeah see im a big dumb dumb that wants to take on the massive project of trying to translate Schwarzesmarken. Yeah i know thats a big ol project and in order to do that i need practice so i thought why not finish the translation for the early 2005 to 7ish version of muv luv altered fable by completing someone else's patch https://alternativeprojects.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/muv-luv-altered-fable-patch-3-by-jutsuki-sen/ . I mean its already mostly done i just need to translate small bits and pieces mainly the good ol H scenes but im dam confused on getting the archives to open and etc to work with garbro and im trying to piece pieces on how to work with them from what others have done with it but to no avail but i did manage to get the soundtrack to be extracted out of it so thats nice and i got a semi working cheat engine script for the pain in the ass volley ball game. if anyone could give me a link or two or a blog page of someone translating any other muv luv games i'd love it as i have 4 months to do nothing and i wanna do something for fun like this i just need the tools and the rest is done. edit as of may the 3rd 2024 ive finished the Ayamine route now i need play testers to screen shot things tell me whats wrong with my horrible translation and anything i need to fix i might have missed (note i just did Ayamine route i still got other things to do) heres the patch just shove it in the game folder and it should work i also just made a dozen or so links to were i uploaded the file so theres options in case one of the links die update as of 2024 may the 7th these links are outdated but ile keep em here just in case click on the play test link instead for the up to date files. pic related im the big dunder head with blue hair

Cross-posting this from Lemma Soft. I have a premise for my VN, as well as four endings planned. The problem is that I am unsure on how to flesh out the premise to have a proper plot the player can follow, other than a vague notion of what the plot is going to cover. In other words, I am unsure of how to construct scenes and events stringing together the plot. The VN has everything else, such as characters with backstories and even a planned points system for the choices. For context, the main plot is about two women in a small town who end up in a secret and troubled romantic relationship. The subplot that carries the structure of the story is that a family who runs a church is looking to expand their social reach at any costs necessary. The antagonist wants to achieve this by having the love interest to marry the son of any of the town’s economic head figures for bigger social reach. Meanwhile, the love interest wants to keep her role in her the church, instead being forced to quit her job and become a housewife. For the main plot, both the protagonist and the love interest want to have a relationship that works out, but they have some unresolved issues with key figures in their separate pasts that keep this from happening in a healthy manner. I know the general structure of plots, such as the Hero's Journey or the classic Three-Act Structure, but I am very unsure on how to create an actual plot. How would I go about forming key scenes that form this storyline?

So i was playing Sakura no uta and this popped up in the middle of playing. Every 2 or so lines it pops up. Please help! I really want to keep playing, im invested. It says "The specified file [ke5011aa] does not exist Select "Yes" to force processing or "No" to abort." Please help! Thanks!!!

Salute guys, we need some tips from experienced VN readers. In short, quite a lot of questions arose in my work when working with sex scenes. Of course, I won’t immediately load you with them, but something still bothers me and editors for a wile, even after we made inquiries and used personal experience. Therefore, I decided to contact you, to ask you directly, so to speak, about the morals of the people and What Do You Prefer. Here are a couple of options if it’s hard for you to decide, but I’ll be glad to have a detailed comment with yr opinion as well) - I prefer voiced hentai scenes with a lot of lines - For me, content is more important than lines and sounds - I like scenes where moans and screams are not so pronounced - I love any hentai scenes Also... just waned to put it here for some reason ^^ - I love hentai scenes IF they have some choices in them or before them

I am trying to translate this game but every time I try the translation I get this error I only get that error when I want to start a new game or after choosing. The translation works fine when I view the scenes separately in the gallery. I attach the text of the error window since I don't know how to upload an image, from the error that I get and the number 00_00_.ks changes to another like 99_99_1.ks Information An error has occurred file: line: 137 Tag: jump (even if it indicates the tag before or after the error) first time I have) Cannot open storage 00_00.ks