Picking this one up as well. It should be a lot easier than Kanon. The thing I'm worried about most with this one is screen effects. It's going to require some testing but I think I might release a full episode 1 for people to test after I get up to a certain point. Let's say the first twilight since that should be enough to test a bit of the commands. Otherwise it'd take a while for me to release something major since I'm a pretty slow reader.

This small demo is the opening of episode 1 and goes up until where the OP movie plays. I am not affiliated with Witch Hunt in any way but I will deal with misc errors like typos if people report them here. I know the script is littered with them so you'll not only be helping out the DS port by reporting errors but also the PC translation.

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?y2yhz3yzym5

Credits:
Maker: 07th Expansion (http://07th-expansion.net/)
Translation: Witch Hunt (http://witch-hunt.com/)

>>1
Parse error :: main.scr:9 :: Missing parameter (index=2, type=string)
if completed !=0

^ Looks like you forgot a space there

>>2
Thanks, fixed that up. :)

I seem to have run into a problem. From my testing it appears to be the middle sprite causing the problem. Switching the order the sprites are displayed fixes it also. Instead of left, center, right; center, left, right works. Also removing the middle sprite fixes it but removing the right sprite does not. Here's the code for that section but nothing seems wrong with it from what I can tell.

bgload BACKGROUND/AIRPORT/AIR_IN1C.JPG
setimg TATI/ROS/1/ROS_DEFA1.PNG -64 0
setimg TATI/EVA/1/EVA_WARAIA1.PNG 0 0
setimg TATI/RUD/1/RUD_DEFA1.PNG 64 0
text "Oh, don't complain.
text Compared to being shaken around for six hours on a boat, I'd rather have only thirty minutes on a plane.
text Even if we're kept waiting an hour, it's still much faster."
text ~

>>3
Maybe you're going over the maximum size for sprites (256x192)?
Code seems fine.

>>4
Resolution seems fine for all 3 images. I had this same problem occur a little later with 3 different sprites too. Seems to only happen with the left sprite.

Sorry for the double post but I decided to give it a go in r119. It's working perfectly there.

>>6
Then it's probably the image cache not leaving enough memory for the drawing code. (I'll run some tests later)

Bug has been fixed, expect a new release soon.

As I said in the first post, I am a slow reader but would upload Episode 1 after I reached the first twilight. I've finally reached that point and it seems to be playing well.

Some things to look out for:
Graphic effects where they shouldn't be (rain mostly)
Abnormally long delay timers
Off center character sprites
Broken images (if you constantly get a Guru Meditation error in a single spot, broken images could be causing it as I found out)
Any crashes

Optional:
Grammar, spelling, or other missing characters.

What has not been tested:
Anything not long after the morning of the first twilight
Tea Party
Secret
Some major revisions were made before the first twilight so those could use rechecking

Sound effects are kinda weird right now as VNDS does not support playing multiple sounds at once. Sometimes the rain sound effect will get knocked out of the buffer by a knock sound effect or something similar. I could probably implement something for this some other time but it's not at the top of my list.

Umineko has some really long lines which go over the 500 character limit if you don't follow the same clicking points as the PC version, so sometimes you have to click in weird places. Report any weirdness that might've resulted from this but I don't consider this a bug as it plays like the PC version.

Download (main, without sounds): http://www.mediafire.com/?3yx0mmiuot4
Download (sounds): http://www.mediafire.com/?tbndl4dng2x

I plan to require Episode 1 for future episode releases to cut down on space. These downloads will give you all resources except BGMs required for Episode 2 and above. Future downloads should in the 50mb area.

>>10
I also forgot to mention that the only screen effect displayed is the rain. The clock doesn't have graphics right now but will display a message like "Time: 0600" when it clock changes. I'll try to add in the clock sometime later.

>>10

>Broken images (if you constantly get a Guru Meditation error in a single spot, broken images could be causing it as I found out)

Do you still have one of those images? -- I want to try and find out why the program crashes.

Hey Nagato, thanks for the awesome work so far!

And a small favor please. Could you upload that to Megaupload or Rapidshare or anywhere else other than MF or SS? >_>

>>13
Here you go.
http://rapidshare.com/files/223322833/Umineko.zip.html

>>14
Thanks mate.

Has anyone managed to get the sound effects with the japanese filenames to play? I've installed them to the correct directories but VNDS doesn't seem to recognise them.

>>16
your best bet's probably to rename them just like what was done in fsn.

stupid japs, can't even follow standards.

A portable Umineko would be excellent... just finished the first part on PC. Good luck with it!

good luck also!

>>17

Hmm, probably a stupid question but, what should we rename them to?

>>20
anything.

numbers. google/babelfish translated titles. random jumble of letters. whatever you want.

batch rename to numbers, then it doesn't take a long time to rename them all

Is this still being worked on, by the way?

i doubt it since nagato if i remember right lost interest in porting

That's a pity, from what I remember a lot of work was done on it, and the translation of the 4th episode was recently completed, as well as translation fixes to the 1st one.

That said, I'm not sure how the whole red and blue text issue would've worked with VNDS.

please continue with this!

Bump for 2

lol, "Bump for 2" when its the same guy

If I had the tools, I could probably try it. Wish I knew what nagato did.

Im very sad to see this project down. I guess im just one of the useless masses who arent experienced in this... :/ If anyone would be willing to take this up then theyd have my thanks. :p
Just for a positive word, i have to say that VNDS is by far my favorite homebrew!

well it'd be easier if it was possible to use colored text. right now it only has white for past text and blue for curently displayed text, so no specific red text or blue text lines are possible.

sure, ep1 didn't use that but i'd prefer to port ep3. delicious virgilia.

Are the different text colours necesary? Infact even if it is, why not add e.g "(Blue)" in text in front of a line supposed to be dictated in blue? Im not sure how manual this all is so it could become more time consuming than it already is. :/ Ive only played through the first ep, so im a novice at umineko so if what im saying is kinda pointless then just say, and ill moan with the rest of you :p (jkin)

someone got colored text working(theres code to do it, just not a script command to change it).

but it wasn`t in .patch form so I ignored it

>>32
Yes, the colors are necessary and that ($color) stuff gets confusing real fast, especially with sentences that have mixed red and white.

Meh, :/ I think i understand the problem better now, pity. T_T

A umineko converter has been released
http://weeaboo.nl/index.php?aid=28

Any attempts to convert Umineko during the mp3 conversion are met with errors and the program freezes. This was done on a fresh Episode 4 copy with the Witch Hunt patch just added. Repeated 3 times and several others have had the same problems.

I have the same problem. Posting a picture with the "Cannot run program ffmpeg" error, in case that may be related.

[v1.0.1]
http://www.mediafire.com/?n2nzmzmdujt
http://rapidshare.com/files/297824504/UminekoConverter-1.0.1-win32.7z

The program was looking for ffmpeg/lame/faac in the wrong folder.

Any chance something similar would work with the PC version of Higurashi, what with the commercial translation in the pipeline? (and the first EP already fan-traslated)

I put the converted umineko folder inside the vnds/novels directory but the program doesn't detect the novel.What am l doing wrong?

Darn xD I don't have the PC version of Higurashi so I can't convert it.

>>39
anoNL, you're alive and kicking again?!
Good to hear that!

So what is that VNDSx 1.4.8 version on your site?
Is it the dream version we had been waiting for, combining all good aspects from 1.4.7 and 1.5.3?

Not quite, blank lines of text are broken and the save/load menu is crashy.

Can you please add an 256kbit option to the converter?128kbit is kinda low for maximum quality.

>>45
the ds will probably die trying to decode that.

>>42
You can get it from here: http://sonozakifutagotachi.blogspot.com/2008/04/acquiring-our-releases.html

It's just the translated first ep, but it shouldn't be that much different from Umineko.

Also, out of curiosity, has anyone tried using it with EP5 yet?

>>44
So should I upgrade or keep my 1.4.7 until the next release?

>>48
Why not keep both on your card at the same time? It's not like another megabyte will hurt, is it?

WOW great work!
Thanks alot for this, works like a charm.
Nice to have you back anoNL.

VNDS always crashes on me once I get to a particular line in the first episode. Am I the only one to have encountered this?

>>49
As far as I know, there can only be one VNDS directory at a time, so that switching between them would at least require changing the folder names each time. Also I'm not sure if just linking the novel directories works out. Surely you know a method to avoid having to duplicate each novel into the second VNDS directory, since that would "hurt" for sure, in terms of megabyte.

Please elaborate your suggestion accordingly.

>>52
Have both .nds executables named differently, and keep them in the same folder/merge the old vnds folder with the new one? It shouldn't hurt, since there won't be de-constructive file conflicts.

anoNL back.
Glad to hear that!

>>53
Thanks for the info, I'll try it out.

Uhm, I've got a problem, the links posted by Nagato in post n°10 aren't working anymore... anyone could re-upload the files?;_;"

And just to know... any progress with the other episodes?^^

Hey...It's gonna be a long post XD I had converted english patched umineko ep4...The converter progam run just fine and finished convertion...It generated 3 diffrent folders - "umineko" (29kb), _generated(289mb) and _orginal(4gb @__@)...well since umineko folder was kind of empty and _orginal was too big for my sd card to handle I uploaded _generated flie (The only diffrence between this and umineko folder was that there wasn't a save folder and there where actualy graphic and sound files in folders). VNDS detected the novel and the main menu with the choises of the episodes worked just fine but when I chose any episode I got a bug report "Unable to open script file: script/umil-opning.1.scr" I looked into the scrpit folder and there are only two files there - folder "special" and "main" file...
well...how should it look like? Did I do something wrong? Anyone?

About that previous post...I run convertion again but this time I have read the Script Convert report...it appears that program has trobbule conveting script...can comeone upload a good script folder if it isn't a problem? ;]

Early EP5 build:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1SXGL2L0

i have another glitch , my ds freeze after a few lines but i can use the main menu to jump everywhere background slideshows and characters seems to work fine

>>60
Fixed,there is a mistake in the foreground .zip created by the 1.03,it puts everything in a subfolder

Can someone upload the ep1-4 script, everything else converts just fine, but when it gets to extracting the script, i get a java error :(

Or possibly tell me how to fix my problem? :x

>>62
What's the error message?

It says something about the script file not being found or something :x

Its the same error that the other person posted about. :x Anyone?

"something about the script file not being found or something" is not really helping much.

Do /_original/script/nscript.dat and /_generated/_temp.scr exist?

No, I'll run the converter again and post a screenie of the error itself

Here's a picture of the error

"C:\Program Files\07th_Expansion\Umineko4\nscript.dat" appears to be missing.

This tells me two things:

1. Since there is no "[WH] Umineko English" in the path, you seem to be converting a non-translated install.
2. Every valid Umineko install should have an "nscript.dat" file since that contains the script.

Your Umineko install seems to be broken/modified/unreadable in some way. Doing a clean install should fix the problem.

I reinstalled and now I'm getting a new error, which i will include in this post. What directory do i set the converter to find the game, in the actual folder, or the patch folder. Any help will be appreciated.

1. Original game folder, it detects the patch automatically
2. Try the newly released 1.0.5

Okay

I think I may have found my problem. The folder I had containing WH's patch wasn't named "[WH] Umineko English". Converting now, I'll post again if its not successful this time around. Thanks for the help.

I just tried again and got the same error -_-. Can someone please just upload ep4 for me. Or just the script files. I've been at this since I finished 'End of the golden witch' and to no avail.

>>75
v1.0.5 download was of a broken test version, whoops...

Try redownloading the converter:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2maxgzmu5tm

Just tested a clean convert and it seems to actually work now.

Okay,I'll give it a go again.

Here's the new error that I'm getting ._.

That's still the broken test version.
Also, you're converting Umineko-Chiru now?

I downloaded the one you linked me to. And I figured that I would try Chiru since alliance hasn't been working for me, but Chiru is a no-go as well. So...which converter should I be using now?._.

Btw, I just ran converter 1.0.3 again, trying to convert ep4, and got this error again.

Simple check to see if you're using the version from >>76

• Does _generated/namemapping-background.txt exist?
• Does it contain an a line with "bmp/background/mainbuilding/m1f_p2br"?

The text file exists, that line isn't in the text file though. Should I post whats in it?

And as I said, that error came with version 1.0.3, not the one you posted, since you said that the one you posted was a beta of some sort. Sorry for all of the double posts by the way.

Use http://www.mediafire.com/?2maxgzmu5tm (see >>76).

Clean the _generated folder before converting.

When the _generated folder is recreated by the converter it should contain these text files:
_generated/namemapping-background.txt ~149KB
_generated/namemapping-foreground.txt ~197KB
_generated/namemapping-sound.txt ~8.56KB

I don't know if that will do any good, seeing as how whenever the conversion fails, i whipe the folder of its contents before attempting again :S. but I'll try again.

And before deleting it, I just noticed that there is only one text file, and that is "namemapping.txt but I'm guessing 1.0.5 does the conversion differently or something? Guess I'll find out.

Same error as before. I don't think the converter is making those text files that you're speaking of. Here's a screenshot again.

>I don't think the converter is making those text files that you're speaking of.

If it creates a _generated/namemapping.txt file you're using the wrong version.
If it creates nothing the program must have already printed an error earlier.

When I used the 1.0.5 converter, it created the three files you spoke of, so now I know that I'm using the correct converter. However, the file sizes aren't the same you listed, I don't know if that means anything or not. All three files are 4KB, so I'm assuming something is missing in them or something. But the files are indeed here, any other idea for what the problem may be?:(

I'm having the same error when it converts the script,it's a clean install and i already converted with 1.0.4 without too much problems.
Is there a way to not convert the pictures again?

Just to check:

• Your Umineko install runs on your PC
• An Umineko Chiru install should be around 1.9GB
• _original/arc is ~3.3GB
• The _generated folder contains a foreground and background folder. Both contain 2000+ images.

I don't know about Chiru, but when I'm doing ep1-4, my _original folder comes out to only 1.03gb

Hi anon , i have successfully converted umineko ep1-4 (with the latest patcher) , but i don't know what to do with the various files that i got now , should i include them in the vnds directory or do they work independently ?

>>93
Then your PC install is still broken.

>>94
Copy the "umineko" or "umineko-chiru" folder that was generated to "/vnds/novels/" on your flashcard.

I'm going to reinstall again then. I'll post the results again. Thank you for all of your help so far by the way.

I'm going to reinstall again then. I'll post the results again. Thank you for all of your help so far by the way.

I'm about ready to give up, I did another fresh reinstall from my disk, same error appears, I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I guess all I can really do is wait and hope someone posts a pre-converted batch of ep1-4, since nothing I've done seemed to fix the problem. If anyone would be kind enough to do that it would be greatly appreciated ._.

A valid Umineko-Chiru install should look like this
293 files, 1.91GB

Mines has all of that. Also, I played through episodes 1-5 flawlessly on my PC, leading me to believe that there is nothing wrong with my install :s. I replay specific parts daily, so I know currently that banquet-end of the golden witch function properly. So I'm really at a loss at this point :(

Okay, I finally sucessfully converted episodes 1-4 (yay me). Now on to Chiru lol.

there are problems with butterflies in ep 1 and 3 and ep3 crashes fairly often

also some problems with red text

i'll give more detailed informations when i get the time
(i have the exact lines where it crashes)+screeshots

Could someone upload just the converted scripts for EP1-4 and EP5 somewhere? Everything else converts just fine, but for some reason it won't convert the scripts won't, even though everything is in the correct directories.

>>103
it wouldnt be possible since picture are randomply named
Also ep3 is not working at all,and i'm slowed down due to university,sorry for the inconvenience

Hi guys i have a little problem (how surprising indeed :P ) I converted the game for vnds and it seems to be working fine (i start it and it caches and all ), but after i turn off the DS and then start the game again then it just crashes with guru error all the time. I suspect that after the first load the files become corrupt of something :S Does anybody know a fix for this?

It seems that I've the same problem that the N°51. Did anyone found a way to fix it ?

Hello all, I was just wondering if episode six would be ported now that Witch-Hunt has released their English patch for it.

>>110
I'm already working on EP6, but quite a lot has changed internally so it may take some time...

Take your time, I'm just satisfied that someone's taking the time to work on it. =^-^=

I am also very happy someone is working on it. I've read the first five VNs on the DS, and I would be very happy if I could read the 6th on it as well.

Early EP6-capable build:
http://www.mediafire.com/?n0qzzbzmzyj

...this is sort of useless to me, as all the versions I have played were pre-converted for me. D:

I'll test this version and tell you the results, thanks for the effort once again ^^

Also I'll upload the converted version of episode 6 once I'm done, for people who don't want to use the converter themselves, if that's allowed that is.

sighs I'm having trouble with this converter, I've tried converting episode 6 with the converter you provided three times, and it keeps giving me an "umineko-chiru" folder with no contents whatsoever in the subfolders. I've checked to make sure the patch is in its proper place (then again since i just finished dawn yesterday that was a given). Anyway, I was just wondering whether its a bug with the converter or something? Thanks in advance.

I was trying to convert ep6 and everything seemed to go fine, until the converter tried to convert the script. At that point it started to throw errors and in the end it didn't convert the script. I can boot the novel on vnds, but it won't go past the episode select screen, since it cannot find the script.

EP6 converter v2:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0jzmounnu1gn2go

I get that so far their is no red text option for the VNDS, but my biggest problem is the slowdown. During big fight scenes like in ep 3 and 4, the sword swing sounds are delayed and not as sharp not to mention it takes forever to get past these parts since it loads so slow. I imagine this is because of my conversion settings, can anyone tell me the parameters for conversion so that I get more fluid battle scenes?

I don't believe that its your conversion settings that cause the lag between fight scenes, its the command in the script for the repeating sounds, which VNDS most likely cannot handle. Also there is red text support for VNDS 1.4.9.7 ( I believe that it's a custom edited version). Here's the link http://www.mediafire.com/?5temjd5wwnw

Also, I'm going to give the updated converter a try, I'll post my results.

The conversion was a success this time. I did however find one minor bug so far. Erika's normal sprite isn't present in the scenes where they should be. Instead, she's always wearing her wedding dress. So far that's the only noticeable bug, I'll report any other ones i may stumble upon (I know my knowledge isn't very vast in this subject, but I'll at least do what I'm capable of). Thanks again for your effort. ^^

-UPDATE- I just realized, it's not just Erika, everyone has their alternate outfits, like caped battler, and meta-Maria, ect.

Playing through it now, and I realized sometimes it randomly freezes, usually when a lot of sounds are playing. For example it too me 6 tries to get through the final scene of Episode 2 because it kept freezing at different parts. Same with the Beato vs Virgilia battle. Is this normal due to hardware restrictions on the DS or did I mess up?

Rika Chama, could you upload your successful converted version?

>>124
How far are you? I would assume you are saying even the non-meta Battler/Maria/Erika are dressed wrong, but I just want to make sure. I can't convert mine right now to make sure.

EP6 converter v3:
http://www.mediafire.com/?wmlzn2tqm3o0tyv

The alternate costumes should revert back properly now.

I'll upload mines, however, It's going to be the buggy one, until i can get back home to my pc i can't use this new converter. For some reason my laptop doesn't like converting episode 5/6 properly lol. So everyone's costumes will be messed up.

Actually my upstream at my current location sucks, so you'll have to give me till tomorrow to upload mines, sorry. I definitely will upload it though, so check back in this time tomorrow.

Here's Episode 5+6 converted and working as well as I think it can. I haven't tested anything but the ending chapter of Ep6, but it worked flawlessly minus slowdown.

Part 1
http://www.mediafire.com/?ty20mryoi2qkwtc
Part 2
http://www.mediafire.com/?wlfmodyyuuodzuy

If anonl objects to uploading it, considering he randomizes everything, I'll get rid of it.

Thanks, you've saved me some time uploading it myself xD. Also, is this a conversion with the newest converter?O.o If so I may download it myself to test out, until I can get back to a pc that will allow me to convert it with my preferred settings.

Yes, this is the newest converter. So it should have all known and fixable problems ironed out.

Okay, I'll keep an eye out for any more possible bugs as I run through this tonight/tomorrow.

@ShinseiTom: The converted version runs perfectly for me in EP6

The only bug I encountered so far is that the sprites' clothes in EP5(cape!Battler and suit+longhair!Beatrice, etc.)
That probably doesn't matter for people who just want to read EP6 though

Well ShinseiTom, I just played through the entire thing. Minor freezing from time to time, but no major issues for me. Thanks a lot for the conversion.

Also, thank you for your efforts too Rika Chama.

Well, the one who should really be thanked is anonl, since he's the one who actually made the converter. :s All I did was look for possible bugs, nothing anyone else couldn't do. But your thanks is appreciated regardless.

Shinsei, I ran into a problem with episode 5, epilogue 2. All through out the Battler sprite appears with his cloak, even when he should just have a suit.

Well, I can't really do much. anonl is the one who made the converter, I just used it. If I really had to I could creep through his code to see what the problem is, but considering the size of the source and my ignorance of his code, it really wouldn't be worth it in the end for me to try to fix it.

He'll probably make a new version of the converter soon if he has the time considering the problems that have been posted so far.

And please, I don't really need to be thanked. I ran the converter, waited a little for it to finish, then uploaded what it spat out.
No work for me at all. Hell, I didn't even do but a tiny bit of testing to make sure it even worked ran.

I know this may be a silly request, but is there a way you can implement an option for the converter to ignore the sounds, and just convert the bgm's? I'm assuming that what causes the lag during the action scenes is the sound repeating, but if I'm wrong (and I won't be suprised if I am) then just forget I asked something this silly, lol.

If you want to test it, you can do a quick search/replace in almost any text editor on the script files.
In Notepad++'s case, search for "sound (.*).aac" and replace with "#sound \1.aac", without the quotes and with the regular expressions radio button selected.
This should find every 'sound' command and comment it out, without having to worry about it putting something in and unwanted spot, such as when a character says 'sound'.

Thanks for the quick reply, I'll try that out, and post my results, for future reference.

Well I did as you said, and the sound was taken out, it didn't change anything however, and it seems like the script is still giving the command as if it were loading the sounds...anyways, it was a good try I guess, but I figured that it would have been too easy of a solution xD.

>>145
There are "delay" commands in the script to prevent it from pre-empting its own sound effects. Those cause delays, but you can skip them by pressing any button (though there may be 5-10 in a row in some places).

excuse me for the dumb question but are episode 1-6 of umineko avaiable for vnds and if so where i can get them?
i see a link only for episode 5-6

I don't think episodes 1-4 were ever uploaded, however there is a converter in which you can convert them for yourself. Here's the link to the latest version.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gg104v1p881m0c8

If someone could upload a valid version of the converted 1-4 episodes please, it'll be very nice.
Every time I've tried, my DS crashed at the same places because of a background error.

Help please !

What did the error say? It might be easily fixable without having to upload the whole thing (it's fairly large).

I'll explain it simply.
I have the exactly same error as the number 51. A guru meditation error :
http://digital-haze.net/ch/vnds/thumb/1256703784431s.jpg
My DS freeze exactly at the same place. After many tries, I saw that if I make the backgrounds illisible or just delete them from the folder, I pass through the freeze.
I played the episode 1 just because of the demo who works on my DS.
Then I tried to play episode 2 with the episode 1-4 installation. My DS freeze again at a certain line. I tried to remove the backgrounds, play until a certain time and play with backgrounds again. The same guru meditation error freezes my DS a few lines after.
And, using Notepad +, I saw that my DS freezes every time with a bgload line.... But the files are ok because I saw them earlier on the game...

I don't know how to fix the error and a friend who have a "valid" version give me his entire folder, but I got the same error, and another friend have the same problem...

Did it come from my flashcard ? I dunno, it's a R4 but the demo of episode 1 and other VN from VNDS works perfectly...

So if somebody could tell me howw to fix the error, or just upload his folder, it will be pretty nice. Thanks

And sorry for my bad english.

Huh, odd. I have an R4 too and I've never had an error like that before except when I knew I caused it myself.
What place is it? I'll play my way up to that point myself and see if it freezes. If it doesn't, I'll try to upload my 1-4 version.

I'll give you two examples :
EP1-Beginning : At the airport; right after "...Both groups are at the top of my must-kill list." line.

EP2-Beginning of the "'Furniture'" chapter : In the garden, with George, Shannon and Jessica. Right after the "George didn't know the details, but he naturally joined in, laughing the same way."

Thank you for your help.

Sorry for the double post, but this is the output.txt files I received from your "test debugger" :
http://www.mediafire.com/?9f15mxng0b1nlns

Well, I can't see anything glaringly wrong from the debugger (lol, even with it continually yelling everywhere, need to fix that).
I guess I'll just have to test.

Was this EP1-4 made with the most recent version of the converter?

Yes, I tried with the last version of the converter.... Maybe it's my PC install which is wrong but a frind who have a valid version give me his and I had the same problem.

I think his converter has a lot of unused trash code (which some is wrong and picked up as such), plus uses a LOT of variables for name stuff that my program doesn't like at all.

I couldn't find anything guru-error inducing, so I guess I'll just need to install and convert my own version. My 1-4 was from an older version of the converter.

I am going to ask something though. The point in an image VNDS uses for displaying a image is the top left, right? In the output log of my program, I found some places where the X value used for displaying a sprite was > 256, therefore meaning it wasn't getting shown. Is that supposed to happen, anonl?

That was me, btw.

Do I have to give you any more informations or do I just have to wait ?
Anyways thanks a lot. It's very nice.

No, no more information. I'm just being lazy and not installing it/converting/checking. I should actually install it just so I can reread the first 4.
You'll just have to wait a little while.

>>161

>Is that supposed to happen, anonl?

No, but it's probably harmless. I don't properly convert rotated/zoomed sprites, it might be related to that.

The crashes are most likely due to memory fragmentation in vnds.

Okay no problem I'll wait.
I also tried a defragmentation of my flash card but it changes nothing.

erm, eh??
dragging flash memory doesn't really do anything...its not like a hard drive.

BUT, out of curiosity, what flashcard are you using, and what system? (i.e. are you using a DSi?)

It's useless, it's aaall useless! Everytime I try to open the converted version of EPs 1-4 I have this "[script] Unable to open script file: script/umiX-opning.1.scr" (X being 1, 2, 3 or 4, depending on the episode I want to play). So can anyone help me? Where can I find these scripts? Can someone upload it???

Also, I don't know if this is normal, but when I'm converting sometimes it says "Ignoring huge image". I'll upload a pic of it.

This is a R4 used on a tank DS.

It's normal for those images to be skipped.

>>171
Got it, thanks! But do you know what may be causing those missing scripts problems?

Same as Roll.
I have the exactly same problem as you :/
I don't get it what is wrong...

For that problem, I have no clue....which episodes do you need? I'll just upload them for you both.

>>174
None of them work for me good sir/miss. I guess I just need all of the .scr files that go in the "script" folder. (Btw, in said folder, I just have 1 file called "main" and another folder called "special" which has 4 files called "ep1_end, ep2_end, ep3_end and ep4_end". But if you could upload the 4 episodes I'd be really grateful :D.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PN8TRO56 I made this for those who want, it works for me.

>>177
Thanks Mazeck. I'll try it right away.

>>177 cant extract it it gives me an error.

It extracts fine for me. I'm using Winrar.

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

I wanted to let you guys know, using Mazeck's (well appriciated) conversion I get a guru meditation error (pc: 02026D50 addr:01FFFFFF) during EP 4, at the same point, anyone else experiences it?

I could convert Ep 6 just fine, but whenever I try and convert Ep 4, I get this error.

Thanks in advance.

Im also having problems with the scripts.Can someone upload only the script part in Ep4.I have a limited bandwidth.T_T

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

Now I know how to deal with the script problem.I just used the first patch for the ep1-4 and the latest patch for ep5-6 though I'm having problems with guru meditation error

Now I finally got rid of the guru error.I just used the default setting(you know the one that come when you open up the program).

>>184 it works perfectly :D Mazeck your totally awesome.
sorry for the late response but had a hard time at school.

love you Mazeck, thanks

Congratz for you people.

Ep7 IS NOW TRANSLATED! Someone please get this on the DS quickly, so I can read it :O

EP7 converter beta:
http://www.mediafire.com/?u2hwwgwk6b3jl21

I can never get it converted, but if someone could post it here after conversion, it would be awesome.

I'll skim through it and post if i see any glitches, as usual, lol.

You should post the converted one again like you did for me last time Rika-chama :3

I would, but...for some reason the converter isn't picking up the english patch...so I haven't had any success with it yet :s.

>>206
Do you get the "Game detected as Umineko-Chiru" and "Game language detected: ENGLISH" messages in your log?

The installer and ZIP use "[WH] Umineko Chiru English" as their folder name, the install guide stil uses "[WH] Umineko English" -- both appear to work. The converter only finds the translation if it's in a subfolder called "[WH] Umineko Chiru English".

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NAK0EP9M

There you go. By the way, am i the only one who has problems with vnds locking up after playing umineko for a certain amount of time? It just randomly freezes sometimes ;x

And I don't know what the conversion problem was, just switched from my laptop to my desktop, it converted fine on the desktop.

Thanks again, Rika-Chama, works great! :D

Also, when playing it, I have noticed it does lock up at times. It's why I save a lot.

Is there BGM for the Ep 1-4 DS link you had on 4chan's /rs/ Anonl?

If it is in the folder, then I must've upacked something I shouldn't have or not unpacked something as I don't seem to get any sound so far in the game. Just the beginning, so if it kicks in later I apologise.

Sooo i've been having a play round with a few of the versions.

The 575mb package for episodes 1-4 above give me the same errors as stated, crashing when he says he's going to kill them, at the airport.

I tried copying the sound files from this version over to the 30mb one posted on /rs/, no dice, just messed up sounds. Assuming that versions not meant to handle sound?

The only thing is the no sound version is working fine, no errors and whatnot unlike the bigger, soundier package.

o.0 this stuff is on 4chan's /rs/? I always went to just the downloads that were linked here.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this bug "Unable to open script file: script/umil-opning.1.scr"?

...You check to see if there is a file similar to that name and then change it to umil-opning.1.scr...or you find the script file that gave you the problem and edit that to use the script file that is already there...it's a pretty obvious thing to figure out...

I didn't find anything except main file, foder special in _general forder and nscrip. I don't know where to get umil-opning.1.scr or anything like that.

Aside from the various typos and folders that you speak of and I don't see in either of the downloads provided by Rika-Chama, I'm fairly certain you are doing something completely wrong somewhere. On the other hand, supposing you are using the converter on your own copy of Umineko, you are still probably doing something wrong anyways (in which case, I would haphazardly guess that you don't have the first arc of Umineko). As I find no point in doing something myself if someone else has already spent the time to do so, I would recommend just using Rika-Chama's downloads as they don't seem broken (not that I really looked) and should you be using Rika-Chama's downloads, I would suggest deleting what you have an redownloading, because once again, I don't really see any problems with his downloads.

So i'm download the game from Mazeck but now i have guru mediation in ep1, anybody know how to fix guru error?

The most evil error ever! I wish I knew.

Hey, Can anyone show me how to convert this game? whenever i convert my game, it's show different with the game from Mazeck.
Sorry for the bad english.

>>221
You somehow don't have charsets.jar in your Java installation. It should be included in the default installation...

Thanks!!

anyway to stop Guru error?

only restart your vnds....
...and....save everytime...

Several lines in EP5 and EP6, the ones that inclute time (such as '3:00 AM', mostly notable in EP5 trial), are cut out after the colon. Is that an error in the converter? Is someone still working on it?

Is there by any chane a complete version of EP1 compatible wth the DS?

I'm having a guru problem thing in EP1 in the part where they're in the airport and about Battler's name. How do I fix this?

I also have a Guru Error in EP 1 using Mazecks game. I tried restartting the VNDS, but it always gets the error at the same point of the game.

Would there be a way to get the Umineko converter to recognize and convert the ps3 sprite patched version of 1-4?

>>232
Not with the current version -- the converter assumes a 640x480 resolution in half a dozen places and I'd have to add explicit support for the voice acting.

At first glance it doesn't look like too much work to support though. I'll look into it in more detail after I finish my current projects.

Will there be an EP8 coming out for the DS?

anon is most likely waiting for the full patch to be released before releasing a converter for it, since WH has only released a 50% patch thus far.

Played around with the PS3 patch a little.

TODO:

• Crop the sprites (they're actually taller than the screen)
• Convert voice files
• Support dwave command used for voices in the script
• Automatically upscale non-replaced images to 1920x1080

As far as EP8 is concerned, I'll have to play it before I can convert it.

How to convert umineko game with ps3 patch on DS? I have tried and the converter created a 21Go file, impossible to put that on my SD card lol.

>>237
You'll have to wait for 1.3.0, should be ready in a week or two.

Woo, I can't wait (Not that I mind r07's original artwork).

Have a beta:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/dxzqwwznxhhyk21/UminekoConverter-1.3.0-win32.7z

Adds support for the PS3fication patch, including voice acting. Be warned that the patch itself is still work-in-progress and sometimes sprites/backgrounds use the old image instead of the PS3 ones.

I'll test this the second I get home, and post my findings late tonight, or tomorrow.

So I did a little bit of testing this morning, and here are my findings. As stated, there were instances where old sprites collided with new sprites; however, I noticed this when flipping through episode 4, so I don't know if this is due to the fact that the ps3 patch only supports episode 1, or if that's what you were referring to. Secondly, the voices don't seem to work for me. No errors displayed, but I'm going to chalk this up to me using cm7, so I'll update my post once my phone charges and am able to test this with the stock firmware (since the stock firmware seems to not have problem with .aac files).

Yes, the ps3==>pc patch only supports episode 1.

And did you get this sprites collisions problem on episode 2 and 3?

I've only played episode 2 briefly, but from what I've seen so far, there are no mismatched sprites/bg's. I was well aware that the ps3 patch only covers episode 1; however, I wasn't sure if that would still ring true with the vnds converted product. I haven't installed my ofw yet, so I can't say for sure the state of the voices.

I just got to test the voices on my stock firmware, and everything seems to be in order (at least for the bit that I tested). As far as episode 2 goes, it seems like every ones sprite is its ps3 counterpart, with the exception of game board-Beato, where her pc sprite is displayed. As far as 3 and 4 go, I'm not too sure yet, as I haven't really tested any of them extensively. On an unrelated subject regarding the vnds android port; would there be a way to implement an option to choose the alignment of the text hub in a future update? I'd much rather have the text toward the top of the screen, rather than under.

>I'd much rather have the text toward the top of the screen, rather than under.

Can you draw exactly what you had in mind in Paint or something?

I have a feeling that EP8 will be a big file. So maybe you should split it into two parts just in case?

No new characters appear in episode 8 from episode 7, so all that's being added is more text to the script. It should be around the same size as a converted version of episode 7.

Can anyone who has the PS3-ificiation patch upload the VNDS version? Please if its not ridiculously big it would be a great help :D

Is episode eight completely translated yet?

http://witch-hunt.com/news.html
no, not yet

Over the weekend i've been messing with this VN and got episodes 1-4 converted fine, but 5+ has been running into problems with the 1.3 converter. First I tried to convert the standard installation of Umineko 8 (and english patch) and it failed with an out of memory error:

<quote>
Game detected as Umineko-Chiru
Extracting data from game archive, this may take a long time (> 15 min)
Game language detected: ENGLISH
<...alot of text later...>
Invalid image for ld :: NAT_TukareA1 tmbpw.png.png
Invalid image for ld :: NAT_nayamuA3 apdlf.png.png
<...many of these errors later>
Exception in thread "Thread-4" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

at java.util.Arrays.copyOfRange(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.String.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.StringBuffer.toString(Unknown Source)
at nl.weeaboo.vnds.AbstractConversionGUI$1$1.write(AbstractConversionGUI.java:114)
at java.io.OutputStream.write(Unknown Source)
at java.io.PrintStream.write(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.writeBytes(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.implFlushBuffer(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.implFlush(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.flush(Unknown Source)
at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.flush(Unknown Source)
at java.util.logging.StreamHandler.flush(Unknown Source)
at java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.publish(Unknown Source)
at java.util.logging.Logger.log(Unknown Source)
at java.util.logging.Logger.doLog(Unknown Source)
at java.util.logging.Logger.logp(Unknown Source)
at nl.weeaboo.vnds.Log.w(Log.java:65)
at nl.weeaboo.vnds.Log.w(Log.java:62)
at nl.weeaboo.umineko.GraphicsCommandHandler.cmd_ld(GraphicsCommandHandler.java:274)
at nl.weeaboo.umineko.GraphicsCommandHandler.handleCommand(GraphicsCommandHandler.java:123)
at nl.weeaboo.umineko.UminekoConverter.parseCommand(UminekoConverter.java:556)
at nl.weeaboo.umineko.UminekoConverter.parseLines(UminekoConverter.java:360)
at nl.weeaboo.umineko.UminekoConverter.convertScript(UminekoConverter.java:217)
at nl.weeaboo.umineko.UminekoConverter.convertScript(UminekoConverter.java:154)
at nl.weeaboo.umineko.UminekoConverter.main(UminekoConverter.java:137)
at nl.weeaboo.umineko.ConversionGUI.callScriptConverter(ConversionGUI.java:119)
at nl.weeaboo.vnds.AbstractConversionGUI.convert(AbstractConversionGUI.java:371)
at nl.weeaboo.umineko.ConversionGUI.convert(ConversionGUI.java:102)
at nl.weeaboo.vnds.AbstractConversionGUI.convert(AbstractConversionGUI.java:284)
at nl.weeaboo.vnds.AbstractConversionGUI.run(AbstractConversionGUI.java:265)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

</quote>

I also noticed the _generated background files are all 0kb in file-size.

Then I tried copying the PS3fication from Umineko 4 to Umineko 8's installation directory and run the converter and it finished fine at least (with errors, but pimarily the Invalid image for ld :: xxx), but the scripts in the _generated folder were for episodes 1-4 and not 5-8.

The 1.1.4 converter works fine for Umineko 8, but doesn't give you the option for higher-res images >.< lol.

Just wanted to put this information out there to see if anyone else is running into this problem with converter 1.3.0.

>>255
Please try 1.3.1, it should fix the errors:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tdh2n1r7tsn17kh

I've been trying converting my copy but I failed lot of times. Could someone please post a converted and working version of Umineko's question Arcs? I've been triyng playing the ones posted before, but they all freezed at some point! Thanks ;A;

Can anyone tell me how to use the converter and everything?
I really a beginner at this and I don't know anything.
Can someone give a me a step by step instruction to convert umineko from episode 1-8? I really want to play this game on my ds.

There not a whole lot to converting a game. just run the converter.exe file, a window will pop-up asking the directory where umineko is install, fill in that part with the path.

Next is the temp directory, which is typically c:\temp . Target platform is default to nintendo DS. Just click start and the conversion process will start, and will take a good amount of time to get everything done.

Once its done it should have created a directory in the temp directory, just copy that into your ds flash cart where vnds is located.

Minato, what errors are you getting during the conversion? I just noticed your post >.<;

Here's episode 1-4 ps3 patched without voices:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7CXUXLKU
Tested a bit, and it works fine.
I didn't upload the game with voices because my internet connection sucks.
Hm.. Well Maybe I'll upload another day.

Do we need the umineko pc game to convert it into ds with the converter?

Yes, you have to have the game installed to specify the path to the game in the converter.

If we want to try the PS3 VNDS patch, do we need to point the directory to an already PS3 patched copy of the PC game, or will just the regular install do?

Umm... Is the VNDS version of the first part of Episode 8 out already?

Does the converter work for the Umitweak?

Okay, I know this has nothing to do with the converter you guys are talking about but I'm kinda need help with the pc installation of umineko (5-8). I already posted this material at another forum but I suppose it won't hurt to ask here...

Okay I'm at the part of the installer where it says "Japanese game files required". So I try to put the location of my installer file and I see this message:

"The specified file does not exist. Please insert the DVD or enter the download installer location, and try again."

The only way I could continue the process and click "next" is if I put the file location as:

C:\Users\Name\Documents\UMINEKO8_DL\UMINEKO8_DL\Um ineko8\うみねこのなく頃に散.exe

So, is the .exe file (うみねこのなく頃に散.exe)
the only thing I have to put on the installer location?

Then, it takes me to the "Ready to Install" part and when I click "Install", the Japanese version starts to run. Is this suppose to happen?

Next, the screen says, "extracting downloaded archive Please wait..." (this is the small screen witht the Beatrice thumbnail) and it's taking forever. When I say taking forever I mean the "extracting files from download bar" bar makes no progress.

There's something wrong with the Episode 2-4 PS3 version. The sprites for, example, ange, is the sprites from the original novel. That includes Eva-Beatrice and others.

ya, thats to be expected when the Umineko PS3 patch only modifies Episode 1 sprites. Most sprites will be the older quality in episodes 2-4.

So... EPISODE 8 is now completely translated!!!! :D

If anyone is kind enough to convert Episode 8... Please do.

Spent the whole day trying to convert Umineko8 (with latest patch), and every time it was and out of memory error:
http://jeserver.net/vnds/vnds-wip/temp/Umineko8-converter-v1.32.txt

The way costume changes are implemented seems to change with every episode, that's what's causing the missing image errors.

I've hacked together a workaround and am now working on the quiz chapters. After that, there's still the purple text part that I have to convert (mostly) by hand.

>.< fun...stuff lol :-/

Godspeed anonl, I look forward to your conversion.

Here's a pre-release for those who can't wait:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?963hsmssi3xsswm

The quiz chapters are implemented, but not thoroughly tested. Everything will break once you reach Bernkastel's game (chapter 9).

Epic win :-) thanks anonl! I just need to play through the rest of the game, then onto EP8 >.<!

So... This is my first time converting. I'm not sure what I should be doing >_>

I messed around with the beta at a glance. So far, the only error that I noticed was battler wearing his Game Master cape during the scene following you picking the correct culprits in Bern's game. I wasn't sure if you meant that Bern's game itself would be broken upon reaching it, or other things would get wonky following her game, but that's all that I've noticed so far. I'll post again if I discover anything else.

v1.4.1, you can now do Bern's challenge:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?uqn3ffhcdlx1cbi

With this, episode 8 should be fully playable.

>.< 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.