VNDS

The first Narcissu is also included in the Narcissu2 port (it was in the PC version as well), so you can just download the Narcissu2 port and use that.

oh thanks alot ^^. But where can i download Narcissu 2? i couldve sworn i saw the links for it on this thread a couple days ago. sorry for being so noob >>. greatly appreciate it!

You can get the latest one together by downloading from >>65 and >>73...and you can get the icon and thumbnail from >>68.

Latest links for Narcissu 2:

--No sound (required to play, has scripts/images):
http://www.mediafire.com/?tyzwdmzzw2l

--Newest updated Scripts (required, fixes some bugs/errors):
http://www.mediafire.com/?m2qidkbfuffqg8d

--Sound "No Voices" (sound.zip without voices, not required):
http://www.mediafire.com/?dl4ymrycqoh

--Sound "With Voices" (sound.zip with voices, not required):
http://www.mediafire.com/?i41d2zizojd

--Better Icon and Thumbnail image:

Can somebody upload them to a different site? mediafire doesn't seem to work for me. :(

What works for you? I don't own an account anywhere, so it'd have to be a place that allows either anonymous or free-account uploading.

Rapidshare or Megaupload works for me. Thanks in advance. ^^

Megaupload Mirrors for Narcissu 2:

--Base (required to play, no sound):
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MB3EBR3I

--Sound "No Voices" (sound.zip with everything but voices, not required):
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TQL5HF1P

--Sound "With Voices" (sound.zip with everything, not required):
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KJBS8D1H

This is slightly superior to the Mediafire links, as the updated scripts and nicer icon/thumbnail are already included in the Base download (I hope, I think they're the newest stuff).

Thanks!^^

I've only just come across these forum postings, and I want to say thank you for the hard work so far. A DS or VNDS version of Nocturnal Illusion or Renewal would be simply awesome!

>>109
Oh, well if you want to hear it: Nocturnal Illusion is a great game (I always wondered why they switched the words of the title around when it was originally supposed to be released as "Illusionary Nocturne" , I bet they thought that no American fan of animeporn knows what a nocturne is, but the word can still be seen on the screen frame ("Nocturne from Darkside" or something) nevertheless) and would fit in perfectly between the long commercial Doujin works like FSN and Tsukihime and short freeware novels like Narcissu and EveningButterfly currently available. Just remember that the VNDS community as a whole is not that large, and that many people left the boards because of the recent spammings and general lack of news (VNDS development halted, Ever17 dropped etc).

So, wow great thanks!!! I bet more people would show up posting again if they had a new game to play and talk about. If you think it was too much work, consider uploading the converted pictures and sounds and extracted scripts so that others can help you finish it. Thank you once again.

>>110
Also: Use the VNDS IRC-Channel.

>>110
I'm sorta interested in Nocturnal Illusion, it having been one of my first VNs (since I was still on dial-up and it was small, still have no idea how I found it...). So at least I would be looking forward to it.

Plus, I'm almost always on the IRC channel and you can see that I can help in at least some fashion assuming I'm not too busy (like I would quite often be with college now...).

Same goes for me as it does for ShinseiTom...at least the "Plus, I'm almost always on the IRC channel and you can see that I can help in at least some fashion assuming I'm not too busy (like I would quite often be with college now...)" part....The first half doesn't apply to me (my first VN was...as if I would remember that sort of thing anyways).

I have no idea what my actual first one was. At the time, I didn't even know what they were other than fancy choose-your-own-adventure game. With... other stuff >_>.
That would of been around the same time I found manga and anime. I do remember my first manga.

>>113
meh, maybe I'll upload what I have and make other people work for me...
btw, I'm already on #vnds@rizon.net 24/7

There's a lot of "Engrish" in the English version of the game, but it wouldn't be too hard to correct. I wouldn't mind fixing it myself, if I had a copy of the entire script without playing through the game again to jot down every line.

>>119
Have you tried that old tool used to reinsert and fix the censored scenes? As far as I recall it had a feature for extracting the script. I don't think Gradow "jotted down every line", so he probably used it too.

>>17

Nasu is a great writer whether there's hentai in his stories or not. Also, that so little of the story is pornographic in nature - and that it still functions perfectly fine without the sex scenes there - should make the label of "porn game" kind of inappropriate.
>>14

There's going to be a remake of the original Visual Novel, yes. We may actually get sex scenes that don't reference vomiting!

Apparently we'll see what happens when TM doesn't restrict themselves to the eroge genre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahōtsukai_no_Yoru

Though I do think squandered is too harsh a word, as this company started out making doujinsoft they kind of chose to do exactly what they were doing. I'd start yapping about my opinion on the term 'porn game' but I haven't been active here long enough to get away with rant posts I think. Which it would no doubt become.

You could say the same for Kara No Kyoukai, if they made a visual novel version of that, which I doubt since the movies came out.
I'm trying to resist rant posts too...

>18,19,20

haha, although this sound like I'm being troll-ish, I actually really want to here everyone's thoughts, no matter how rant-ish!
a heated discussion is always the best way to get someone's real thoughts on an issue.

And while IRL I also profusely defend visual novels as more then just 'porn games' (just look at narcissu, or any of the 100+ other novels that deal with more then just sex or eroge), my protection doesn't extend to games that actually have sex in them. I'd defend Clannad to the death (kinda, not Key's best), but I can only half heartedly defend FS/N (as much as I loved that game) because it started life as a game for people to 'enjoy themselves' to, wheather the 18+ was a stupid tacked-on part of it or not.

Well for the most part I agree with that. Maybe though I'm a little more defensive of things like FSN because storyline is the most important thing to me. I'll look past quite a bit for the sake of a good story. Which isn't so much the mindset of the rest of my continent of residence. Which is probably why it's so hard to get someone to sit down with Planetarian for five minutes when I finished it in one sitting. >.<; Though it's not like I'm denying ever playing something because it's an ero/galge. I've played quite a few I will never recommend to anyone... or only to people I dislike.

I swear I've revised this about six times >.>

>>21
The sex scenes are few in FSN and Tsukihime, they consist of very few pictures and these are badly drawn in comparison to professional works. I don't think many played it for masturbation purposes when the overall selection of eroge offers tons of more specialized titles.

Personally I draw the line between games with H-content and said 'porn games' by asking myself whether the title in question could or could not be converted into an 'all-ages' anime TV series (since many of the most famous visual novels already got this kind of treatment in reality).

>>23

hm, while a term as arbitrary as 'porn game' is really up to each person, you cannot overlook the fact that H scenes were added, on purpose, and most likely to boost the game's sales/exposure.

A hypothetical question(that I guess cannot really be answered):
Do you think Tsukihime would have gained the sales/exposure that lead it to become an anime (and a remake on the way, so I've heard?), or to become one of the more widely-known VNs this side of the translating process, If it was originally not a H-game?
A deep story and character development are hard qualities to market, especially in an industry inundated with 100s of new Visual Novels at any one time. But there's always a market for porn...

Oh, and I also didn't use FS/N as the example on purpose: that's one I believe would have gained popularity, as it can/did market its 'action' side

>>24
That's what I'm trying to say.
The very first person who bought Tsukihime probably wasn't counting on an epic story.
I'm sure Type-Moon (Even before they became Type-Moon) would have gained more popularity in the beginning had Mahōtsukai no Yoru and Kara No Kyoukai started as visual novels with some sort of erotic notion. (Choosing those two specifically because they're on the same timeline as Tsukihime)

Still, what I don't get is why stick h-scenes anyways in Fate/Stay Night, even when they were popular with just Tsukihime. Seems like the "all-ages" version was stuck in as an afterthought.

Uhhh, i think the link is broken...can you fix it?

Mediafire is just down. All of the mediafire links will seem broken.

i meaned that i cant extract the file in the rar file, i use that 7-zip program but i cant unpack it with that it gives an error.

can someone please put the file unpacked in an rar file? pls that would be awesome.

It's currently uploading ^^
I'll post it once it's finished

But it's strange, I can unpack it with my 7zip programme =/

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DOWPRWF1

Here it is, sorry for the late... I fell asleep earlier and i just wake up now ._.

Thank you for the upload.

Do you think that the error could come from my DS Tank ?

Tank huh, down under we called it the phat haha.
But that shouldn't be a problem.

ok, one odd question to Taokaka: Have a look at resolution of the background images.

i.e they all should be 256 x 192. if they are not they may cause the error you are having...maybe...

Yes Hogan, it looks good on this side.
Every single image have a resolution of 256*192. Except the icon obviously.

haha, down under we call our grey brick a 'phat' ^^

Taokaka, as a random test, have a look at the resolution of the background images? if they are not 256 x 192, that might cause it to crash..maybe..

Yes Hogan, all the background images have a resolution of 256x192

Sorry about that. Moved into my college dorm, school internet sucks absolute ass, so I couldn't really check anything on here.

>>91
>>93
Let me look, it shouldn't be screwing up but I guess I must have missed something. Hopefully it'll be easy...

>>95
>>99
Yeah, I haven't done any of the extra scenario stuff. I just ran it through my quick converter and fixed up the variable stuff. I'll add it in when I can.

>>96
>>98
I'll post up one post with all the updated stuff soon, once all the quirks are ironed out. I know it's kinda confusing right now.

those are just what i think they should have been, but knowing my not-even-at-beginning level skills, they could be far from what it SHOULD be
i 'think' i've changed the 'risa-problem' to what it SHOULD be
while the extra scenario thing is just a workaround(since i assume extra scenario has to be unlock by clearing main route once, the script that i've posted unlocks them with no requirement...and doesn't actually use the OPEN.scr

have fun with it, now that u have sharin to work on also LOL

my game keeps crashing when sivilianna had stuff injected

and i used poster 101's script, and everything else that was instructed in post 98

Well... what is the crash? Restarting the game, throwing an error, shutting down the ds?

hmm...i just checked the script files on my DS and the silvie error that was mentioned didnt occurred to me...state the details and maybe we can help

btw...the 'Recollection' choice from 007.scr doesn't seems to 'restart' if the game was cleared before...(or at least that's what i think)is it actually suppose to do that?

also...i've been able to find the cause to the 'no voice' problem that i mentioned ages ago...it is because the 'script code' to the sound file are NOT in capital, where the sound file themselves are all CAPITALIZED!
i assume that the problem occurs in 015N, 015R, 015X, 016N, 016R, and H scenes as well(i actually thought the game didn't have voices for H scenes before) ... and by either changing the sound file name OR script code SHOULD fix the problem
which i m too lazy to do them right now...since i only know how to 'manually' edit them by using notepad, and there are TONS of them ^^;

annnnyways, if i ever feel bored and decided to edit them, i'll post an updated version of the script.rar afterward...
p.s. now that i think about it...i still havn't got ShinseiTom's permission to edit anything since this is his port-project...well, hope you don't mind =P and in case you actually do, just post a message up and i'll stop immediately~

Well he doesn't exactly care too much about you fixing up the port...Provided you don't screw something up somewhere else while fixing, none of the porters that I know would actually care...since none of us actually do very much.

I don't care. It's a port. The only thing even remotely my own creation is the program that half-did the work for me, and the modified title screen (now THAT was hell to me).

If you make it better, post it. I know this one isn't really near done, but I figured it at least allowed you to get to the end of both main routes. I guess even that wasn't true until somebody else noticed...

Anyway, yeah, fix it to your heart's content. What with school starting up and having less time, this project has much lower priority than anything else right now.

tbh, i finished this ported version soon after you posted your original version...so it doesn't really hold a high priority on me either, but as i was saying...i'll update it when i have edited something if i m ever bored

the way THIS looks to me now is that both ends are obtainable as you mentioned, some code(on voice) need edit, and the 'extra scenario' option needs to be properly implement

the 'voice' fixing part i can do...since i can at least understand that little; on the other hand the 'extra scenario' i have no idea whats going on(i guess thats another title screen hell waiting for u). So if theres another update from me...it'll probably be a voice-fix

Oh yeah, and that damn-awful if-fi block-o-doom I had to do by hand.
That sucked mightily.

Anyway, do whatever you want.

http://www.mediafire.com/?a7xqh1ws1y54u57

well...since i WAS ACTUALLY bored and something good happened to me...here's the voice-fixed-script file
it SHOULD have the voice enabled for 'normal' story H-scenes, scenario that happen in the later story(015N/R/X, 016N/R, and RIS/NAD .scr), ANNND the extra scenario also
if the voice are still 'muted' in those part of the story...you might need to clear the cache for vnds to 'reload' them again...(not quite sure about this...since it didn't work for me on my first try, so i ended up clearing the cache). speaking of which...i thought there was an option in vnds itself to reload everything?

as usual, have fun

>>119
me.
Please do it. I beg you.

>>18

Yeah, AnimeED extract all the resources pretty easily (was using it when attempting to translate ever17 psp), but again no luck on scripts.
and Sharin looks interesting, if not a bit generic.

Gonna see about that ren'py script extractions, as there's a few small games that are mildly interesting. Maybe find one as good as TBEE haha

>>119
bump for Sharin <3

>>119
Oh, please do.
This is one of my favorite VN's.

>>120 >>121 >>123 >>124
Crap, maybe I shouldn't have said anything. Now everyone expects me to actually do it XD

Too late, now you have to do it :D

That is why you should just place this stuff on the IRC, though I guess it just isn't as great now that there is school bursting into our great ways of wasting time.

If you feel like doing it, then feel free to do it xD. If you need help, I'm always happy to help (even if it takes some obscure or lame method to do so).

hm, out of curiosity, anyone heard of a script to extract text from ren'py '.rpyc' files?

I think they're "encoded" just using a form of zlib, so if no-one has anything I might see what I can do...

I'm the only one that actually spent time looking for such a thing, but never found anything. Renpy's source code is available (I think) so you could just look at that (me being the illiterate fool in coding, I felt little use even attempting to look).

haha, I've been looking around as well, but no luck.
Been looking at the source code over the last week (that how I worked out it was using zlib), so maybe I can work something out. No promises, as I'll be learning python on the fly ^^

[Update]

alright got the sound fx and bgm mostly converted (7 files were like 0.01 seconds so won't convert(error: duration of audiofile is too long O_O)

[what i have]
all background images
all sprite images
almost all soundeffects(except for the 7 i mentioned above)
all script files (207 in total (wtf)

[what i don't have]
voices (are in an encoded .pak file)

[unless vnds supports]
OP movie

>>37
I can record the voices if needed (I need to get the game though)...as for the video...a slideshow would sort of work, but full on video is not going to happen.

>>37
The script doesn't look too terrible, but I'd really like to look at the full thing. Do you think you could zip them up so I could trawl through them? I could probably come up with a program to quickly port most of it minus a little manual work.

As far as everything else, it looks like it's all pretty easy to work with, unlike Wanko.

And yeah, I've been trying to get some kind of movie-like thing working, but a slideshow is as good as it'll get.

i got the voice files they are in the really old .669 format

converting to wav gives scrambled sounds..so need to find a way to do that

--669 format is a 8bit sound format--

will zip everything up now

hmm..i opened up the 669 file

and it seems the big one contains all the voices

ok here are the files ( i left the voice files out)

http://www.4shared.com/dir/hJIpw8Rf/sharing.html

My script looked like total ass when I got it so you're better off than I am. I think I got three or so scenes in before I got fed up with ERRORRRRR EVERWHERE.

Good luck to ya.

Ew pics should be forbidden or something now.. Well I hope the top 10 vn gets ported this year! At least a few of em

yo jim bo

Yo jin bo? The Otome game?

My dream port would be Kagetsu Tohya; I've been wanting to replay it for a while now, because I really loved most of it (the loli I could have done without), but the laptop I had it on before has long since packed up, and I only really have time to read when traveling or in bed (which makes VNDS easily my favourite program for my R4) so reading it on my main computer is not going to happen. This said, we all know no-one with the know-how cares enough for the commitment this would take, so this is never getting done.

However, if Gore Screaming Show ever gets translated, a port would be very much appreciated.

>>43
Kagetsu Tohya?
I remeber an Alpha/beta build floating around somewhere...

Yo jin bo? The Otome game?

yes, i going to port it expect it next month.

>>45
AND HE WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN

Eight reasons that have lead me to believe you shouldn't post ever again.

1. That has nothing to do with CLANNAD.
2. This isn't 4chan.
3. The only one who replies to spam is me because I'm just about the only person that checks this place on a regular basis.
4. Those aren't even decent pictures.
5. THE WHOLE FORUM IS ALMOST FU*KING DEAD!
6. That doesn't motivate Boinciel in the slightest.
7. Uselessly bumping a thread that nobody has cared about for over a month.
8. At max, there are maybe 3 people that will ever see that; the poster, the moderator, and me.

Hey, I'm still here everyday!
and I'll totally dispute 4 ^^"

But seriously, While i agree with you, there's really not too much we can do. very few people use VNDS nowadays, although it was a great ride while it lasted, especially for us, the people who helped port over all those games. Maybe once 3DS homebrew kicks off in about 8-14 months, We'll look at doing it all again. I know I'll have to know-how and intrest by then

I may not be a contributor, but I also check here daily, just to see if there are any new developments, ect. :s And I thought after the anti-bot verification code thing was added to this forum, our spam problem would have been gone...I guess there are still idiots who want to ruin that idea..

I'm not so sure that Jake will actually make a VN3DS xD...He is fairly indisposed to working on VNDS as it is. If anything, I'm sure Wanko might end up ported...xD if motivation is high.

Its nice to know that there are actually some people who check (despite being almost nothing to check...the IRC has slightly more life...when I'm there xD). As for the spam problem, its definitely not as bad as before, plus I ate the fruit of power and gained the banhammer for the wiki (so there is a LOT less spam there xD).

I'm actually thinking of putting the Wanko to Kurasou script on the wiki and letting people edit it and hopefully lighten up the load of monotonous work xD (of course I would need to put up all of the images and whatnot as well as an example script...though maybe I'll just use the mockup Wanko port as the example).

well i check here when ever i can remember the url. Anyways 3DS would first have to have flashcarts for it made before anything else. Btw what happened to that dude who was working on that vn called Planetarian?

xD Why even have to remember the url? I just search "VNDS" in google and use the first link to get here. Supposing there is still DS mode, it wouldn't be any harder using a flashcart with a DSi, though it wouldn't be VN3DS xD.

As for the dude that was working on Planetarian...xD that was me. I've just been really lazy at working on it (maybe I'll start back on it when ShinseiTom and I have the Wanko issue all sorted out).

why don't we just put the script up on wiki and have a giant collaboration project? Also I believe that the dsi mode (the dsi special features for some games) hasn't been cracked yet.

lol I doubt putting Planetarian on the wiki would really help for anything. The last time I remember, Hogan completely changed all of the image file names when he used them xD, whereas I being my lazy self just left them as is. It would work better if all of the extracted files were hosted up, but meh...since they need to be resized and I haven't exactly made the animated screens yet...for the most part, I just don't want to put it up because it would be a pain since the releases that I have put out up until now are pretty much final product releases that have been checked and are working perfectly (from what I remember). Also, I doubt anyone would take the time to go through Planetarian at a snail's pace and repeat parts to get every single ribbon color change displayed in the right order (I set up the sprites the same way the game does, so there are body parts rather than full sprites...and they always need to be in the right order to be displayed correctly...and I always check them to make sure they are in the right order and are displayed correctly). The sheer monotony of porting would keep most people away anyways, which is why even though I have all 2300+ voices that ALL need to be fixed (the end of every single one of them needs to be silenced...because there is some random echo at the end), I don't upload it for others to fix because chances are that nobody would actually even attempt something like that (though I plan to eventually). If I really feel like it will make me commit suicide to continue, then I'll probably host up the voices in chunks so that they can be done at anyone's leisure (maybe just 5-10 a day over a span of...230+ days).

In any case, its always worth a shot trying for a collaboration project (though something less demanding of the public would be a better test candidate), which is why I suggested it for Wanko to Kurasou (which is a smaller download anyways and with less files to worry about thankfully).

No you cannot use the same save as some peoples routes are entirely different and do not include the dream. The only exception to that is possibly Arcueid and that girl with glasses who you see fixing stakes at the back entrance of the school near start of game. (i forgot her name, she wasn't really memorable)

My good man, Surely you jest, and you have not spoken Ill of Ciel?!

no one cares about ciel

Maybe he didn't want to spoil her name? I mean, it's pretty clear that someone named Ciel would be a foreigner, and well, ...

So what are the global variables called? I'd like to manually fix my global savefile so I can skip the routes I have already played on PC.

You meet her in the first chapter. How is that spoilage? Let's face it. The faggot deserves the chair for speaking of Ciel like that.

Ciel? You mean Chie-sensei?

me?? deserve a chair?? sure you can be my chair. Also I don't remember there being a chie-sensei

I think he was making a joke about Chie-sensei (from higurashi) since they're really (intentionally) similar.
Or, I assumed he was.

oh from higurashi. Is that the blue haired teacher?

Yeah, that's the one.

>>22
I didn`t even get those.

>>23
After the whole "hey free psp" thing wore out in my mind and I actually tried thinking about how to go about doing everything, I realized that it would have to be text on image. And on something with that small a resolution, it sounds really hard on the eyes.

It wouldn't be so bad - take a look at all these ONScripter screenshots from the japanese version of the build.

It looks awesome!

I'd kill for the VNDSx PSP port/version... :(

Maybe set-up a donation thingy?

I'd be more than glad to donate for a VNDS PSP version.

(420x272 isn't as small as people make it to be).

Anyone tried running it on the DS emulator on PSP?

Would the psp one have faster and more stable image loading and no pause before speech and etc..?

>>28
As far as we discussed, VNDS doesn't even work on PC via emulation.

Are you guys still serious about making a port of VNDS to the PSP if you were to receive one? If so, I may possibly be able to help out in that regard.

>>32
actually I eventually ended up with a psp (it is bad at being a psp since it does not seem to charge the battery(its the psp's fault not the battery)).

but due to MAN FUCK THIS VNDS SHIT dont ever expect something to come out.

vnds has taught me to never make a program that I dont really use and is for other people.

Just a preference. I'd prefer the PS2 stuff if it covered everything (apparently some stuff is missing) simply because I watched the anime first, and it's closer in style to what I remember the most.
On the flip side, I like the Umineko VN character sprites more than the anime's, as I read the VN before I watched the anime.

oops I just deleted a perfectly good not-spam post

sorry :<

Yes you did, and now it makes my post look out of place....
Haha, oh well.

And for some reason my name wasn't there too. Weird.

Well regardless, its like...if someone remade a Dr. Suess book, and changed all the artwork, its just nto the same in my opinion. (I'm the person's who's post was deleted by the way). And I also saw the anime adaption first..But I guess its simply personal preference

I wish they would find a way to stop this freaking porn posting bot >_>

Oh wow, this is still kicking about. Yeah, I kinda gave up on it, as I ended up getting a full-time job.

>>18
On Insani's site, there's a couple of onscripter decompilers that will dump the script for you. That's what I used originally.

do \es any one of you know how to run ds perfectly on an emulator?
i means its continuously showing white screen

G'day,

See BlackCat's post here
http://digital-haze.net/ch/vnds/kareha.pl/1232303013/21

in essence, you need to compile the source with a setting changed. then it should work fine