VNDS

>.< Awesome :-)! Thank you anonl and happy new year!

So... how does this work?

Anyone kind enough to upload their converted ep8 folder?

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YK14U44O

Rika-chama, you're awesome <3 Also thanks to Anonl :D

Let me know if that one works fine for you. I actually set it to scale to my tablet, so it might not work correctly on the ds itself. If that's the case, I'll do another conversion.

Sure sure... Actually, right on the start I get Guru meditation error... So yeah. It doesn't work.

This version should work fine.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BUHM83ST

thanks rika-chama! this one works.

I know that I'm super late, but I just realized that there's no way to get the xtra scenes. For instance, during the quiz chapter, even if you get the answer right, you don't get the extra dialog between the people who gave you the quiz. This also goes for the extra content during the end, with Battler and Beatrice in the boat.

I also wanted to play this game for a long while Thanks for this

i tried using the thing on weaboolnl.

and i tried this game with 1.4.9, it gets guru meditation at the concerts, and cannot find script errors at the choices points.

then i tried it at 1.4.2, it gives me cannot find RETFILE or something like that at the concert points, and it does it again at the choices points.

this forum is probably dead, but might as well put it out.... and hope it gets answered.

You are the best!Everything will be ok!

bah. no help came, so i finished it on my computer. it was a good read.

Sorry to revive this dead thread but I found a fix for the Guru Mediation Error at the concert when the game starts..
idk if the freezing issue people are complaining are the same as mine but here's how I fixed the problem:
1 - Extract the script.zip in X:\vnds\novels\kirakira
2 - Open 9020.scr with Notepad ++ and delete the following line:
jump live_1080.scr (line 47)
3 - Hit ctrl + S or File>Save

Deleting 'jump live_1080.scr' lets you skip the concert animation that causes the game to crash..(it's just lots of backgrounds changing..nothing revelant)
Hope this helps some people

I just converted Kirakira and the Guru meditation error didn't show up in the first playthrough of the game, but happens on all the others. Maybe the problem lies in some variable that is modified after the first time you play the game?

Hi again, deleting the cache folder fixes the first guru meditation error I had that didn't let me load the game after the first playthrough. Then, there's another guru meditation error I hadn't see until now, when you let the concert start.

This game is very good!

I got this errors while converting the game using Kira-kira converter ver. 1.02.
The game also crashed and send me back to main tittle screen showing "invalid label: 0" text.
This happen at the end of script file numbers 1020.scr and 1030.scr.

I hope anyone in here can help me.

my converted game messes up here:

text Hmm, what should I do?"

setvar varD12 = "Ask Kirari to buy Okonomiyaki."
setvar varD16 = "Ask Kashiwara to do the shape game."
setvar varD20 = "Ask Chie-nee to do the target shooting."
choice $varD12|$varD16|$varD20
setvar selected - 1
setvar varD8 = selected
jump $RETFILE $RETLABEL

it always goes with the Kashiwara choice no matter what I choose and not sure how to fix it.

The .wav files used by VNDS, if you've read the documentation, are raw IMA ADPCM files. Windows Media Player can play them, but only with the correct RIFF WAVE headers. You can try adding the headers themselves.

For me, I just built my own decoder for them. It decodes the file, but I don't think it does them nicely. I can share it if you'd like.

Available in PHP or Visual Basic. Pick one.

If you could, the PHP one sounds interesting to use :-). Thanks!

Alright, fixed it up and ready for release!

Source code here: http://pastebin.com/60XNUjwx

Just keep in mind that this is a terminal app, not a web app. So please run it in a terminal, not on a web server.

For Windows: Run in terminal "<location of php.exe> <location of this script>"

For Linux: Install PHP from repositories, then "php <location of this script>"

The decoder 100% correct, I know something's off about it but don't know exactly what.At least you can get some recognizable sounds from it. If someone knows what went wrong, feel free to tell me.

I won't be pedantic about software license, so I'll keep it short and simple. Feel free to use/modify/give out/etc. the software. But please don't do anything obviously wrong such as distributing it without much modification and claiming it as yours. Also, I will not be responsible for anything bad that happens, and will not guarantee that it works as intended.

>php
>Just keep in mind that this is a terminal app, not a web app. So please run it in a terminal, not on a web server.

I wish I could kill you over the internet

It's just me or the VNDS Interpreter 1.5.0 for Android released today is having problems with some files?

I've just made the upgrade and noticed some "Script error" on novels that were playable in the previous version.

Messing around a little bit, I noticed it happens when the app try to load the jpg files from some releases (for example, happened here on Kira -snowdrop-, from Gaidai's port), so I tried to re-convert those jpg (using my freaking old picaview) and it plays fine again.

So, is it a bug (that hopelly will be fixed) or a feature (and we should deal with it :P)?

Thanks!

I just downloaded the update for the interpreter and so far Kira like you said as well as Ballad of an Evening, Red Shift, Saya's song, Nigi no Kanata ni, Narcissu 2, True Remebrance, Tsukihime, and Plus+Disc get strings of script errors.

Below are examples of the errors i'm getting:
nl.weeaboo.lua2.LuaException: attempt to call nil
nl.weeaboo.lua2.LuaException: Lua error

What settings did you use when you converted the jpg images?

>So, is it a bug (that hopelly will be fixed)

Yes, it should be fixed in 1.5.1

>Yes, it should be fixed in 1.5.1

That has been already released!
Thanks, seems to be everything ok now.

>What settings did you use when you converted the jpg images?

I tried with xnview and the problem was still there, then I converted with picaview (version 1.31, from 1999) with all the default/disabled options and quality on 100% and it worked, but now the problem is apparently fixed on 1.5.1

The 1.5.1 version still seems to be having some problems.

I just resumed my save of Saya no Uta and saw an error saying "Unable to find image file: background/ba02no0.jpg", so I extract the zip and the file was there... so I tried recompress that particular jpg (like I did in the previous bug) and now the image is loaded normally.

Here's a sample script with both files, the original one and the recompressed:
http://www.mediafire.com/?a4o0i6aubiyataa

>>116
Thanks. A fix should be out within the next few days.

This way is not working, I'm afraid.

I extracted to d:/projects/vnds, but when running 'make clean && make' I get an error:

linking vnds.arm9.elf
built ... vnds.arm9
make[1]: Leaving directory `/d/Projects/vnds/src/arm9'
Nintendo DS rom tool 1.41 - May 1 2009
by Rafael Vuijk, Dave Murphy, Alexei Karpenko
Nintendo DS rom tool 1.41 - May 1 2009
by Rafael Vuijk, Dave Murphy, Alexei Karpenko
Cannot open directory 'd:/Projects/vnds/vnds'.
make: *** [vnds-EFS.nds] Error 1

Thanks for the detailed instructions, anoNL.

After struggling a while, I finally managed to get it to boot, showing me this error. I tried dozens of possible locations for the novel, but all failed.
I also tried using "ndstool -l vnds-EFS.nds" to check if the files are there, but everything seemed to be inserted correctly.

What am I doing wrong? Where should the files be located when running ndstool -l?

Hint: anonNL will develop a pc version if you send him a pc...

the folder should be only vnds.
ex.
vnds/etc...
NOT
vnds_1.5.1/vnds/etc...

sorry for english.

>>28
Sorry, could you please be a bit more detailed about the folder structure? I tried dozens of possible variations and they all fail. This problem is driving me nuts.

And please feel free to write in broken english, as long as I can get the gist I'd be very grateful.

Need help, so bump.

>>28
if you try all combination
try irc channel of them,
ones who created vnds.

irc.rizon.net #vnds

Why, would you want to?

For testing purposes only.
Porting games requires a lot of testing (more specifically nearly endless modification-testing cycles) and putting all the stuff on the flashcard each time gets a bit annoying after a while.

I have tried all day to get this to work, there were lots of problems along the way:

Compiling VNDS with the newest version of DevKitPro didn't work, I had to use DevKitPro_r32 and replace libnds with version 1.4.8 to even get it to compile (which works fine now).

I had no luck running the converted file in an Emulator though, NO$GBA gives me the error "The rom-image has crashed" for the vnds-EFS.nds file.

If anyone else got this to work this would help a lot, as already said it's very inconvenient developing visual novels for vnds with a flashcart.

and this error is from after what number 2 says

oh... so how do you "store" i'm using xp and i don't see this so called "store" is it add to archive?

oh ew... i just realized well i'll help anyone one who needs help with this post : right click, click add to archive look at compressing method... select store

sigh.. the script/main.scr is still broken though..

I've had to uncompress everyone of the VN's I've downloaded so far. I'm thinking there could be other factors at work that the dev team hasn't considered, such as hardware differences betweenst the various flashcart devices.

I've both of Datel's products. Datel Max Media Dock (CF) and the Datel Game'n Music (Micro SD). For both, I have had to unzip the files in order for the VNDS program to be able to see them.

Thanks for sharing your article. I really enjoyed it. I put a link to my site to here so other people can read it.

The link for narcissu is down. Is there an alternate link?

Just get the Narcissu2 download. It includes both Narcissu and Narcissu2.

i'm wondering is the current version of narcissu had no voice (the character voice) or it mean to be that way? i had background sound though.

>>14
沙耶の呗?A nice game ^ ^

I've read through it and I have to give kudos to the person who converted this! But there's something that kind of bugs me!

I haven't played this on PC, so I got to ask; are there missing CGs? Doing a pic search on Saya no Uta brings up some legit-looking (hentai) images that weren't in the novel.

not sure, but i don't think i missed any.

playing it in the compressed archive could make some images not appear, i had that problem while converting tsukihime plus disk too, with backgrounds not wanting to load because they were zipped.

try unzipping the files and check again.

>>18
Totally worked! Thank you! I'll keep everything uncompressed from now on. (And I missed out on quite a bit. I don't recognise some transition background images, although that could be because I was too focused on the text).

Whenever i load up vnds i get a white screen
and with another emulator it says make sure game is saved in/vnds/
pls help

Make sure that you dldi patch the .nds file...I don't really know what else to say. You could make sure that it at least isn't something with your microSD by backup/reformat. Maybe you could give a little more information on what flashcart you are using and your current setup.

As for using it on an emulator...you have to change the source files by a little bit (just changing a setting pretty much) so that everything is compiled into an .nds file rather than using external files. That means that the "external files" also have to be included in the compiling.

With that, I've always thought it'd be nice to have a already-compiled version, compiled for emulators, available to download on the vnds page.

I wouldn't use it, but it might be convenient for the few people who want it, but aren't 100% on compiling the src.

I tried this game on my DS, I still see japanese characters when this game is already translated. Is this normal or is it because of the monsters talking near the protagonist?

Have you played Saya before? O.o That is how it supposed to be...

This is my first time. I see so that's why, thanks for posting.

Ahhh...okay, I follow you now. Sorry. I'd like to be more helpul, but I noticed you were pretty much having a conversation with yourself on this thread, so I thought I'd try to impart whatever thoughts I could. I'm having that some trouble in the Cross Channel thread right now, heh.

My thoughts on that is that there's something screwed up in the scripts, meaning there's probably a bug in the converter. Just like with a normal visual novel, VNDS scripts can be configured to not display certain options or unlock certain routes until you've completed certain parts of the game. It sounds to me as though there's an error there where the scripts are not telling the interpreter to unlock the UBW path after you've completed Fate. Perhaps there's an if fi argument that's screwed up, somewhere.

Though, again...I know nothing about VNDS on the Android platform. If it was on DS I'd tell you to check out "opening.scr" in the scripts folder and trace the paths it's taking. The problem I would think is near the beginning of the game's scripts, since you have to start a new game to start playing UBW. Therefore if you've completed Fate, the program should be reading the scripts from the beginning when you start a new game, encountering the argument to unlock the UBW route, seeing that you've fulfilled the requirements, and then opening up the path. If it's not at the beginning of the game, then it's probably at the first choicepoint that would put you on the UBW path, but you could trace your way to that by starting from the beginning.

You are the man...Gaidai xD! I've noticed the scripts zip file, but never really thought of checking that to see if there was a way to force my way into UBW's path, primarily because someone suggested modifying the save file on here somewhere. The file fate03-00.scr at the end of the file has those if statements for stopping saber from attacking rin, which is determined by:

[Quote]
text Saber runs at the man in red without hesitation, takes his guard down with one blow, and...
if 桜ルート分岐 >= 3
jump fate03-17.scr
fi
if gセイバークリア == 1
jump fate03-03.scr
fi
jump fate03-17.scr
[/Quote]

No problem, glad I could help. I love VNDS, and I hope it continues to bring interested people around for a long time to come.

Yeah, I see what you're saying in the text you posted. That second bit of Japanese clearly says "(if) Saber Clear == 1" Thought it might have something to do with that. Glad it worked :)

Cross Channel is actually working fine, now. I was having issues with crashing and the choicepoints on weeks 5 and 6, but I got them all cleared up and the port now plays from start to finish with no problems. I posted my solutions in the Cross Channel thread, and the WalkthroughVNDS thread. Let me know if you have any trouble with it.

Heh, I finally got around to skipping the Fate route and ended up having to change that one script the same way you did, Dark. So thanks for posting what you did :)

I was wondering if anyone else would hit that roadblock xD! you will have to do the same thing for the heavens feel route as well (its in one of the fate01-xx.scr files i believe).

Argh, will I? Dang. Do you happen to remember which script it's in? Heaven's Feel is my favorite route, so I was thinking of just skipping UBW as well, this time through. Are there any problems with going from UBW True route to UBW Good route? Haven't tried that yet either, but I know the choicepoints for the two routes start to differ maybe a third of the way through.

I personally only played heavens feel once on PC xD, so i'm not too familiar with that route (I guess its the same way for UBW route as well lol) >.< . I just read thru a few script files to figure out which scripts effected the start of the routes, but didn't think this problem could effect the choices in the endings (sounds like it could though).

thanks for the solution to force it into UBW route, i just purchased VNDS full version yesterday and finished it just now, but didnt get the scene to trigger. i googled and found this thread. thanks man.

Your welcome xD!

While we're at it, to unlock the last route go to fate01-10 (I had to rename it to a .txt file because it wouldn't run .scr as text...) and replace its contents with

jump fate01-14.scr

Yep, I used the guide. I personally felt you explained it quite well. You must have, since I've never done this before, and it ended up working :)

Thanks, I didn't realize there was a thread for Ballad. I'll nab it.

If you end up trying this port and approve of it, is there a chance it might get added to the completed ports page of the wiki?

Well I updated the completed projects page.

tilting my hat Thank you sir :)

A porting guide? Where? On the wiki?

>>13 Yeah...apparently there is a "porting guide" in the wiki, under the link that says "How to port a visual novel to VNDS"...suffice to say it isn't actually a porting guide, but I felt like it would be nice to have that link actually go to something, thus I made a reference sheet for myself in the unlikely event that I feel like porting something over to VNDS.

That's -not- a porting guide? I think you're selling yourself short. Before I got a look at that, all I knew how to do was use NSAout, and do some image manipulation. That page was pretty much responsible for getting me to the point where I feel confident in my abilities to port to VNDS, now. I call it a guide, at least.

Hey folks, here's a new link to Kira, without the save files I accidentally left on there last time:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0BCBFUCR

Sorry, and enjoy!

Here's a hi-res image pack, to optimize Kira Snowdrop when playing it on the android VNDS interpreter. Just extract the contents to the game folder and let them overwrite everything. Now when you're running VNDS on your android device, all of the images will look nice and crisp :)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JY9KOGOK

(Note: There's a script folder in this archive because for some reason when I did the resizing, the Y coordinates for the foreground sprites were not adding up the way they do in the DS version. So I fixed the coordinates in the scripts.)

Enjoy!!

Hello, I'm trying to port Yume miru kusuri, I've extracted all the files so far into usable formats, except for the scripts. The scripts are contained in Rio.arc, and while they do extract, they are encrypted.
http://digital-haze.net/ch/vnds/kareha.pl/1246581569/
It would seem according to this thread, that they use circular encryption, but I have no idea what that is. Perhaps it will help though. Can anyone help with this?

Also if anyone wants, I can upload what I've done so far, which as of now, isn't much, only me play around with what I have, I can technically port it without the script files, but it would be a lot harder it would seem.

Damn, meant to start a new thread, ignore please.

Is there a download for FateDS still floating around? Haven't had luck finding one.

Google. It's your friend.

Anyway it can't be that hard to find a working link. There should be multiple on this place at least.

Wiki has it:
http://digital-haze.net/vndswiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

>>77

I have the same problem. It won't let me go into any routes other than HF. Any ideas?

Is there an Alternate Download for the Sound files?

http://digital-haze.net/files/vnds/novels/fate/fate-sound.tar.gz

Is capping its DL speed at 12 KB/sec then dieing later one? None of the other VN sound files had this issue.

I don't have any music and I have the music vol turned onto max. Is there a seperate file I need to download or is it suppose to be included in the sound file dowloaded from here??

Hmm I cannot get it to save at all.. i mean i can save and load fine when running it.. but once i shut it all off.. and then restart it later... the saves are gone. using latest Vnds version.

and whatever. version the F/sn dl is from main page.

I know this thread is dead, but I have a problem regarding the FSN converter. I've been getting EOFException errors on some of the bmp files. Every other Japanese Character files are okay, so that's not the problem, but files like c26a.bmp show c26a.bmp java.io.EOFException.