Need help with the following VN engines

[Kuroneko30]

for unpack & pack operations in game archives

1. engine Shiina Rio VN:

https://vndb.org/v16337 & https://vndb.org/v24752

2. engine Ikura GDL VN:

https://vndb.org/v54 - Need help decrypting the VN archive from the English version

3. engine ??????

https://vndb.org/v2477 - Need help writing a PAK file encoder/decoder and ED8 file encoder to create new image files.

4. Navel engine developer (several of their VNs)

 

Without your help, there has been no progress for over a year..... 

[kvokkka]

1. Both games has English release

2. Ikura GDL archives can be unpacked/repacked with https://pixeldrain.com/u/H1WfsdvU but you may encounter problems with actual editing texts, because scripts are compiled

3. Looks like this is A98SYS that used in Black Bible. You can check some tools here https://github.com/RikuKH3/bblack_transkit

[Kuroneko30]

On 7/1/2025 at 5:43 PM, kvokkka said:

1. Both games has English release

2. Ikura GDL archives can be unpacked/repacked with https://pixeldrain.com/u/H1WfsdvU but you may encounter problems with actual editing texts, because scripts are compiled

3. Looks like this is A98SYS that used in Black Bible. You can check some tools here https://github.com/RikuKH3/bblack_transkit

Ikura GDL -  

[Kuroneko30]

On 7/1/2025 at 5:43 PM, kvokkka said:

1. Both games has English release

3. Looks like this is A98SYS that used in Black Bible. You can check some tools here https://github.com/RikuKH3/bblack_transkit

1. as if there were no other languages on the planet except English and Japanese.

3. wrong creates the ED8 file (instead of reading new file, I get a VN crash when trying to read a new file)

Edited July 9 by Kuroneko30

[kvokkka]

On 7/9/2025 at 10:52 PM, Kuroneko30 said:

1. as if there were no other languages on the planet except English and Japanese.

3. wrong creates the ED8 file (instead of reading new file, I get a VN crash when trying to read a new file)

For IkuraGDL archives you also can try https://pixeldrain.com/u/c7QQXFYH

1. You didn't mention target language. This is English forum, so, by default, translations creating into English if not mentioned other

ShiinaRio is insane engine with a lot of encryption and there in no known packers for it. GARBro can unpack this archives tho, but only for Sorcery Jokers. For other game there is no encryption keys is GARBro's database so you need to "crack" game and extract them to be able just extract archive. Also, you need to write your own packer or some "hack" that will allow game read extracted files from hard-drive

3. This engine is also insane and provided tools created only for Black Bible. But this is a good starting point to figure out how to deal with acrhives and HGO scripts