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Here's hoping for a proper PS2 sprite faces, DS sprite body pack to come out. I really don't like the new sprite's artstyle, coupled with the fact that they didn't even make new backgrounds.

I play with ORIGINAL BOXING HANDS sprites so no problemo.

>>13494913

True, but even they look better with the alchemist backgrounds.

>>13494956
Nah, I prefer the realistic background, makes it scarier.

>>13494956
I'm usually not a fan of filtered photographic backgrounds, but shirakawa-go is picturesque as fuck. I couldn't imagine not using the original BGs at least

It's really easy to make a quick BG patch with new sprites. You just need to unpack old BG only ps2 patch, convert images to .png and paste them to \Higurashi Chapter 1\HigurashiEp01_Data\CG directory. BGs seem a bit blurry after upscaling, but well, ps2 BGs are only 640x480.

>Reading steam's community hub
From time to time I forget how absurdly awful the community around everything "anime esque". But this time it's even worse, fucking hell.

That aside, what's censored for the steam release? Satoko's sprite?

>>13495051
Doubt anything would be censored for Ch.1, Satoko's sprite will most likely be censored, at least with the new sprites.

>>13495051
Who are you quoting?

>>13495043

Yeah, I still wish the PS3 assets would be ripped already.

Nothing can go wrong when Hanyuu is around!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jM5OslNI3w

>>13495412

Amazing. At least Rena used to try to hide her lewdness.

>>13495147
Satoko's sprite will be censored for Steam, but not if you buy directly from MangaGamer.

>>13495546
Fucking hell Steam.

But MG release will be DRM free so more power to them!

>>13495462

Satoko's sprite being censored doesn't matter because the new build of the game is mod-friendly, meaning that as soon as chapter 3 comes out there will be a naked Satoko mod for the steam version.

Speaking of mods, I thought you lot were anticipating the release of this game, where's the ps3 background patch?

>>13495864
I pity people who buy this on Steam when you can buy MG version where it's DRM free where you can play everywhere even without internet connection.

>>13495883
I was gifted the steam version. Can't really beat free.

well shit, they weren't lying when they said it was mod friendly, even the text is easily replacable, so language patches aren't a problem either. I'll try to look if you can add CGs.

>>13495903
Oh lucky.

Does anyone at least know where to FIND the background rips from Higurashi Sui?

>>13495904
first test. CGs can be easily added too.

>>13495984
hype hype hype hype hype hype

Is someone going to upload the new version of Onikakushi-hen?

>>13496026
It's like 5 dollars, poorfag.

>>13496037
And there are like 12 episodes including Rei and Hou.
That's a lot.

>>13496043
I have a feeling we're only getting 8 of them. At least I fucking hope we're getting 8 and not just getting screwed over again and only getting the question arcs again.

>>13496037
Never oppose piracy.

>>13496054
Pretty sure they're including every episode up until Hoe.

>>13496055
Fancy background/cg patches are much more important than pirates begging for people to buy the game for them right now.

>>13496066
Nah, piracy just means you are really free to do whatever you want.

>>13496066
If someone uploaded it I would've started on the BG already, I have the asset rips from Hou.

>>13495984
After more checking, it seems like we can :
- replace sprites/backgrounds
- mod scenes to add new bgs/sprites and CGs
- replace music
- add voices (didn't test yet, but should work)
- create brand new scenes like the Alchemist's. Tough making choices features might be a bit complicate.
- making a language patch

It's really mod friendly. I had no problem to add a graphic full textbox either.

>>13496116

>>13496119
of course, the switch still works, tough we either have to replace the original or Steam parts, that still let us have slot graphic "slots".

>>13496168

Did anyone go see Ryukishi07 at anime central?
I got my copy of Matsuribayashi signed.

>>13496116
Sucks that my .arc files from the original no longer work for modding, looks like I'll have to scour around for image versions of all the individual assets. Have their been any DS body with PS2 face sprites made yet?

>>13496168
Replace the original, nobody gives a crap about those, if anyone wants them they can revert the mod and get the craptastic photo backgrounds back with it.

By the way, to the anon doing the mod, do you think screenshots from the anime would serve as decent replacements for the backgrounds that don't have PS2/PS3/DS equivalents?

>>13496043
Back in the day, I bought ep1-4 from MangaGamer for 37 euros, back when the Euro was still over $1.30 (so over $48). Then MangaGamer tried to sell me the answer arcs for 20 euros EACH.

THAT is a lot.

>>13496286
clearly not. Besides, the Alchemist backgrounds have less and more files. The more being mainly the sunset versions, which is a pretty good deal I think.

Hanyuu's not at fault for being supernaturally retarded!

For those of you wanting the ps2 mod in the steam version, there's a bit of an issue.

When the sprites from the ps2 arc packages are extracted, they come out like this.
While it's not impossible to fix them, it would just take a really long time to fix all the sprites.

The backgrounds are fine though.

>>13496496
The files from the arc.nsa packages are less fucked up, but again, would take forever to fix.

>>13495412
How's saying that line?

>>13496501
I take back that statement, seems like they still have the garbage in them..

AFAIK, the only sprite rip that fixed this are the wrong size.
It's not impossible to expand the canvas size, but that makes them lose transparency, and again would take forever to fix them all.

>>13495546
I think Steam allows nudity so long as it isn't pornography.
Out of the top of my head Sunrider and The Witcher have some nudity.

I don't know if they'll censor Satoko's original sprites, but I doubt there is reason to.

>>13495883
You can play Steam games with no internet connection.

>>13496496
Let's crowd source cleaning!

>>13496501
Isn't that clipping mask on the right the only thing that's important? all of the garbage behind her will be gone if that mask is applied, right? Unless that's the fixed version you just posted.

>>13496501
You can use the outline on the right to do the cleaning.

>>13496558
Yeah, I'm not getting what he's posting. If there's a mask for every PS2 sprite, fixing the noise should be trivial to automate.

>>13496391
I meant the backgrounds that don't have Alchemist equivalents (or ANY replacements, from any game in the series.) Even if it doesn't look great it would still look better than a filtered photograph with anime sprites over it.

>>13496543
I could upload what I have, I'll need a few minutes though.

>>13496558
The garbage shows up in game if that's what you mean.
I tried adding in the pictures as is and they won't work if it's not a clean png with transparency.

>>13496562
I wish I were that smart enough to be able to do that to hundreds of png files.


Side note, I find it pretty ironic /jp/ already discussed doing ps2 sprite rips 6 years ago and most of these links are megaupload links.

>>13496496
Why don't you wait for Sui rips?

>>13496604
Who?

>>13496604
Because they're never coming out until further notice. We can assume that they're never coming because the game has been out for over a month and nobody has said a god damn thing about Sui rips yet.

>>13496609
So just download the game and rip it?

>>13496617
I don't know how to rip it. I'm not the guy who ripped Matsuri's sprites.

>>13496608
Sui is the ps3 version of Matsuri.

>>13496496
why bother ? I have all of them improved >>13495984 along with some of the Sui backgrounds. I'm already working on the background replacement at the moment, tough it's just the basic one and doesn't have the sunset versions.

>>13496617
It has already been talked. Sadly, The Sui bgs/cgs/sprites are compressed in a fucking weird way that makes any rip extremely hard. For now the best option is using the ps2 assets, and replacing what I have so far for the Sui content.

>>13496638
hype hype hype hype hype

>>13496516
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3hfvhm2wj4ww4f8/KakeraAsobi+Sprites+and+BGs.rar

>>13496496
https://mega.co.nz/#!vk1mhTYI!oQZHoz6LXMEEUypTcEN7gUcdENLkKTzGBk43ZITnO5Q
Password is forjpwithlove

>>13496501
https://mega.co.nz/#!upFl3KQR!-uLg1F-mf5m7vV58w3FY5TDwNWmMxYyeSsvo4ZTvJRo
Password is forjpwithlove


I put in passwords b/c it's a direct rip of assets.

3rd link has voice assets if someone is interested in them.

Just applied the mask on GIMP, easier than I thought it would be.
Still it'd be hell to do it to all sprites without automation.

>>13496661
Yeah, that's the issue.

The other issue is the sprites MUST be 640x480, with the sprite at bottom center if we're replacing the old sprites.

You would have to expand canvas, and keep transparency.

>>13496661
FORGET.
IT.

I already have all of them and more assets than anyone (and when I mean anyone I mean EVERYONE in the fanbase), stop bothering with that already.

>>13496661
>>13496669
Yeah man, stop, the clean sprites are already available.

thanks modding

>>13496669
>>13496677
Sheesh I was just having some fun.
But fine, I'll stop.

>>13496691
Has science gone too far?

>>13496677
Upload them then?

I don't see them anywhere, hence this whole discussion.

>>13496698
Ask this anon >>13496669

>>13496694
Also that is perfect, if only there was a way to automate that on to a hundred or so images.

So, who's working on voice patch? I like my piñata hands and filtered chinese trailerpark photos.

>>13496702
Ok then.

>>13496669
Please upload whatever you have.
I have been searching for proper sized clean sprites for the past 12 hours.

>>13496698
no point, just wait for the mod to be done.

On the side note, don't have much time lately to work on this whole thing. If anyone is willing to help, there is the script part to work on : add the CGs, sunset backgrounds, susnet sprites, and also "fix" the backgrounds used to fit the one in the Alchemist games. To do so, check the script from my version where I already did this whole mess, and make the same changes on the Steam game.

Don't count on me either for the Voice patch.

>>>/v/294655957
Could this work?

>>13496734
I had a quick look to test the single case using the voice files from >>13496659

It plays, but is really sped up. The culprit is likely the sample rate of the voice files being 22.05 instead of 44.1 (assetsradme.txt seems to say that's a problem). I'd address that problem before looking into the parser.

That said, I can't see anything wrong with the parser idea to lighten the workload.

so did they fix the sounds and music in the steam version or is it still butchered?

>>13497041
From what I've seen so far, they've fixed the sounds and music.

>>13497041
yes, they did.

>>13496669
>>13496720
Who would trust an anon at his word, and why would you not share what you have if you do indeed have something you could share with the community?

For those interested I've written a little program to do this.
Fixed sprites*: http://vdzserver.org/misc/HigurashiSprites.rar
Fixer program source (C#/XNA): http://pastebin.com/g2iRHKsb
Fixer program binary: http://vdzserver.org/misc/HigurashiFixer.exe

* The images provided by >>13496659 are in JPG format and contain artifacts; notably, the mask has been corrupted slightly. The output sprites use this flawed mask and are therefore less than optimal. If you get the PNG equivalents, you can put those in a folder named 'input' in the HigurashiFixer folder and create a text file named "usepng.txt" in the HigurashiFixer folder (doesn't matter what's inside the file) to have it use PNG sources instead of JPG sources.

Side note for program: Due to laziness on my part, you'll get weird bugs if the path where you put HigurashiFixer contains 'input' (as it autoreplaces 'input' with 'output' to get the output folder to save to).

>>13497121
>Who would trust an anon at his word

I've been here since ever tough, you seems to be pretty new here on the other hand.

What kind of Sui assets hasn't been ripped yet?
If nothing was ripped at all, which type is the most important one?

>>13497183

Mostly just graphics, I think. It's not impossible to rip them, but it'll probably take quite a bit of trial and error to find a way to get them.

Would it be possible to make the Sui sprites their own third set instead of replacing the original or the steam ones?

>>13497211
not like it's any hard to replace the files, make a folder, rename it and here you are.

>Sui backgrounds

I'm not getting my hopes up, but it would be awesome if there ends up being a way to make the game run in widescreen.

>>13496638

>Sui backgrounds

I'm not getting my hopes up, but it would be awesome if there ends up being a way to make the game run in widescreen.

>>13497417
16:9 ratio ? yeah, would be great, but that would need the help of someone that knows how to mod compressed Steam files. But anyway, we don't have all the Sui assets to begin with for now.

Anyway, getting near finishing up the basic patch/mod. But that would still need some more work to add the Alchemist exclusive backgrounds (sunset,...) and the CGs.

>>13497417
The game can already be run in widescreen, technically speaking. Dunno if the engine cuts off anything outside the 4:3 box though, but it likely won't. It would require some script editing though to make it draw the backgrounds from the top left corner of the window, not the top left corner of the 4:3 box.

>>13497533
> Dunno if the engine cuts off anything outside the 4:3 box though, but it likely won't. It would require some script editing though to make it draw the backgrounds from the top left corner of the window, not the top left corner of the 4:3 box.

And that's exactly the problem;

>>13497533
>>13497563
Never mind, it does shrink anything outside the box to fit inside the box. Weirdly enough even changing the only reference to 640x480 (mainData 0x106C) seems to do nothing. It does indeed seem to be a more complicated issue.

>>13497517
good news, adding the night/sunset variations works really easily.

>>13497649

Satoko has quite the chest for a loli

So is the anon working on the background/cg/audio patch here the same anon who was working on it in the /v/ thread?

>>13498009

Different anon here. There was a /v/ thread? Do you still have a link to the archive?

>>13498014
>>>/v/294655957

>>13498014
here's the new thread
>>>/v/294697796
This anon is adding a few of the ps3 backgrounds as well, waiting on his delivery tonight. If Higurashi is as easy to mod as it's supposed to be, I don't see why we couldn't combine the best of both mods when both of you are done.

H-hey guys.

What if. What if. Hanyuu is actually a Rika persona, as Shannon/Kanon are Yasu personas.
As we know, when Rika eats something, it affects Hanyuu too. And in the beginning, Rika and Hanyuu are Auau pieces, Bern was born later, as Rika kept dying.

In the eight's episode, Rika's friends acknowledged her existance, but what if it is actually just fucking Rika.

>>13498542

Except Rika and Hanyuu both appear at the same time to everyone. Even in a full classroom of students.

>>13498546
They all aknowledge Rika's autism because Cie told em to.

>>13498546
But from whose perspective was that scene written? That's right, it wasn't from Keiichi's perspective. Rika herself claimed that was the case.

>>13498546
Yes, everyone sees them both because their existence has been accepted by the class. The kids have been told by Chie to acknowledge the existence of Rika's imaginary friend - Hanyuu to keep her happy.

>>13498557
Or this one is real.

Remember Umineko and the narration. It is the same with Higurashi.

Is this a new background image? It's been a while since I've read Higurashi so I might not remember this one.

>>13498633
I remember seeing that one. That scene where Keiichi makes miso shiru came to mind after seeing it.

Does one of these files have all of the dialog in the game?

I want to use this to practice my Japanese reading a bit, but it doesn't seem to work with ITH and it takes so much time to manually identify and type out every word that I don't recognize when reading a VN.

If I can find the file that just has all of the dialog in the game then I can just keep it on the side of the screen like a movie script and reference that whenever I see a word I need to look up.

>>13498722
Yes, search for a file called onik...something something and open it in a text editor.

>>13498722
All the script files are under assets. How do you expect to learn moonspeak if you're too lazy to browse through a couple of folders?

Alright, uploading it.

To make things faster, ended up cutting it into two version (full console mod, steam sprites + rest of the console assets).

The first one is being uploaded at the moment, expect to have it in like 5 minutes. The second will take more time because of the sprites being of much bigger size.

Here is the folder where they'll be available. If I end up making an update in the future, it will be available here too.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/xq4ncmss3yiwr/Higurashi_Steam_Modding

I probably still made some errors so feedback is appreciated.

Here is a summary of its content :
- ps2/ps3 backgrounds
- ps2/ps3 sprites (or not, depending on the two versions)
- sunset/night variations
- some CGs
The game shouldn't have any problem up to the Usoda scene where I didn't get to check ingame.

>>13498944
Thanks, waiting warmly.

>>13498944
it's here. Uploading the Steam sprites mod now.

>>13498944
This is great, I love you for doing this.

>>13498944
Hey, as a final request, can you upload all the sprite and bg assets you have?

The sprites you have are way better than the original ps2 version.

>>13498944
You forgot me_se_ma_a2.png

>>13499649
It's the same as me_se_ma_a1.png so you can just copy that.

>>13499727
I know, but if he plans on making a v2 of his mod, I might as well let him know just in case he didn't catch it.


Also, re_se_ko_b1.png is the wrong resolution.

>>13499793
The colors on re_se_ko_b1.png are wrong too (at least it's inconsistent with the other sprites).

>>13499827
How so? She's blushing if that's what you mean.

>>13499833
Unless there's something wrong with my image viewer, the colors are different.

>>13499862

Different anon here, but he's been re-creating these sprites using scans long before Sui was announced. That's probably why the colors are off.

>>13499879
That was the only one I found with inconsistent colors, though.

bg_219.png has a space in the filename.

VOICE PATCH! VOICE PATCH! VOICE PATCH!

>>13500221

We all do, but you'll drive any willing people away with your whining. Every patcher is a blessing, you faggot.

>>13500221
>"durr maybe if I whine about it it'll come faster"
This was you.

I wonder if many new people bought the VN? I get the feeling between this thread and the ones on /v/ that the great majority of people talking about it had already read or at least watched it, which I guess makes sense seeing as it's pretty old.

>>13499862
I still don't see a difference, used the eyedropper tool and everything.

Irfanview confirms it as well.

>>13500176
bg_219 in the Steam Sprite + Console Background+CG version has the space before its name, seems as though the full console version lacks said space.

>>13500830
I personally already owned it before it came to Steam, so that's one less buyer.

>>13499862
Blushing and not blushing variation.

>>13499862
>>13501032
On the other hand, the problem is that it wasn't properly resized to 4:3. Here is the fixed file you can replace it with.

I'll upload a new version today, with more CGs, problems resolved and ps3 backgrounds I set up.

>>13501512
Out of curiosity, what's the original resolution of the ps3 sprites?
Is it really only 640x480?

Not that that's bad, but I would've thought they'd be bigger to stretch out better on 720p/1080p tv screens.
Even the steam sprites are bigger too.

>>13501535
1280x720 (still less bigger than Steam's tough). As said before, those sprites aren't rips of the ps3 game.

>>13501547
Oh really? My mistake then.

The sprites are fine otherwise, I'll have to train myself not to notice it since I play in fullscreen.

On the side note, someting else I forgot and doing at the moment :
in the ps3 game, the sprites got resized to look smaller on the screen, to have more space, I'm doing that too (the screen is still in 4:3 ratio tough).

>>13501651
Is you mod supposed to have special scenes like this?

I was poking around on google and found some screenshots on a tumblr (maybe yours?).

I just went through this part and this image did NOT trigger at all.

Here's the screenshot of what it should be...

>>13501672
And here's what I saw.

>>13501672
that means there was a problem then, I'll check it and try to fix that for the new release.

If I have read the whole manga, is there something I have missed in the Higurashi series?

>>13501695
The manga is much more complete compared to the Anime but it's still couldn't obviously say everything. The first arc is a bit rushed in its first part in manga too. The atmosphere is different too (more textual than graphic), so reading both sure isn't a waste.

trying to fix at Least Oishi since I'm at it, how is that ?

>>13501779
Much, much better. I would use that version. Really, the main issue was the mr potato nose.

>>13501779
And Tomitake.

>>13501890
Maybe make less obvious the line separating the arm and the right hand?

>>13501898
nah, that's pretty normal considering the position, try by yourself. I'll give Takano a try too and stop here.

>>13501890
>>13501905
Alright, here is Takano.

before.

>>13497121
It's funny because I actually scaled all the Matsuri sprites with transparency on to 640x480 size images last December. Oh well, maybe I should have stayed in touch with the community.

>>13496669
Also, you really are possessive, aren't you, Gura-kun? Taking this burden all onto yourself, and painstakingly working 10 hours straight just to put out a patch the following day. Was that really necessary? Though, that's not to say I don't appreciate your efforts.

>>13502028
after.

>>13502033
You can say I wanted to get shit done the faster I could, at least it will be done and I won't have to work much more on it now.

>>13501779
>no manboobs
0/10 would not fap

>>13502062
But 10 hours? That's just going overboard. You must have a really huge boner for Higurashi.

>>13502100
I've been already working on that for years, hence the fact making this mod didn't take that long. Compared to everything I've done, 10 hours is pretty much nothing actually.

Recoding the whole onscripter game.
Looking on the net for ds graphic files I could use.
Remaking the sprites with scans.
Creating whole new menus and their buttons from scratch.
Adding the voices for some files
Playing the ps2 and ds games to compare and record the scenes.
Looking for the ps2 musics, comparing them to the original to look which one can be replaced by which.

All that on my own.

>>13496661
Photoshop has "actions" where you record all the actions you do on one picture and then you can apply it to others.
It would be a simple matter of copying the right 50% of the picture, cropping the right 50%, pasting as a layer mask, and exporting.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/actions-actions-panel.html

>>13502125
Which is precisely my point. You're obsessed. It's sickening. You've spent years obsessing over the one show and show no signs of letting up.

>>13502178
Actually I did. Been months and months since I stopped working on this and fully take my time on drawing and art. I was planning to draw the whole weekend too, then I saw he Steam game came out and tought "oh well, fuck this shit, at this point, might as well go back a bit and use everything I've done so far to make a mod considering I have way more assets than anyone else".

Don't count on me for the voices tough, I'll never work on that again.

>>13502205
And not like the whole thing wasn't fun, I was excited to make more progress (how could i make this even better ?", and learnt many stuff in the progress.

So, is the reason why we're not using ps3 sprites is because no has created a way of converting them?

I found the game, found a way of extracting data.rom and got bombarded with a ton of bup, pic, at3 files.

It seems for the umineko game a few years ago, someone wrote a program to convert those files.
While that's nice, it doesn't work on the higurashi files.

>>13502254
> It seems for the umineko game a few years ago, someone wrote a program to convert those files.

Yes. I already talked about that with the one who made it (one of the members of the Umineko ps3fication group), and last time he told me that would take him too much time and that for now I should abandon the idea that he would do it. Tough he said if someone is willing to do it he could give him their tools.

>>13502205
Well, all things considered, you haven't quite shared all of these assets now, have you? I saw someone else point that out, too. Then again, it's not only for this, as you even had a Higurashi Daybreak rip for years and never bothered to share. Though, I'm curious, would you have a Jan rip by any chance?

I'll just upload this in case someone wants to take a stab at it.

Includes everything I got from Higurashi Sui (or Best, for the ps3) data.rom but the at3 and pam files (which is just a movie file).
I'll throw in ps3umi because I can't find it anywhere else.

https://mega.co.nz/#!C1sygB6R!zMR_zHInHKCSN7Jyo9A4bHR-kg1xJ0zRTLhp19hsDgM

password is ps3umi

>>13502365
Thanks. That's great. Also, did people not upload a PS3 Umineko rip in the past?

>>13502462
They did, but whatever magic they did doesn't work on the higurashi files.

Or I could be retarded, which is why I'm giving out what I found.

>>13502469
Oh, right. Anyhow, how do I work these dump files?

>>13502496
If I knew that I would've converted them.

I'm >>13502254 and >>13502365, I was trying to figure this out but gave up.

>>13501779
>>13501890
Looks great.

Having a bit of fun.

>>13502071

How tragic.

>>13503049
How is that ?

>>13503349
What's wrong with bellybuttons?

>>13503384

Nothing, but swimsuits aren't vacuum sealed around the body.

Makes no sense to see it. Same as the lines of the boobs, that makes it looks like some bodypaint.

>>13503049
>>13503349
And yet one more, how is that looking ?

>>13503049
>>13503349
>>13503589
why do you hate boobs

>>13503608
Please, the way they were drawn is retarded.

>>13503619
Besides, I made them appealing, just in a different way. If I hated boobs I would have added so much shadows to show them;

R07 namedropped /jp/ as a place to where he goes from time to time for fan theories and discussion on his games earlier today, at his panel at ACen.

>>13503668
Lies. I'm pretty sure he can't speak english.

>>13503668
On the entirety of 4chan I doubt he would choose this horrid place full of autists memehating on umineko and obsessed over rika and nothing more.

>>13503049
Bad

>>13503349
Good but keep the navel

>>13503589
Good

>>13503668
Someone said on /a/ that he mentioned 4chan, not any board in specific.

>>13503672
one can translate things from one language to another

>>13503702
That is true, he just said "4channel" rather than any particular board. It's a pretty safe bet it's /jp/, though - it certainly couldn't be anything besides /jp/ or /a/, and I expect he was looking more for discussions on the story as he was writing it, not as the anime was airing.

>>13503914
/a/ had plenty of VN discussion back in the day, in fact it occasionally still has some Umineko threads that go past 500 posts.

>>13503929
Hm, I see. I was not aware, as I've never really gone to that board.
Fair enough, then.

>>13503914
>>13503702
>>13503668
Makes you wonder if Ryukishi himself has read any embarrassing posts you wrote.

>>13504301

>Ryukishi himself has read any embarrassing posts you wrote

Oh god, please no.

>>13504301
I hope he knows how much I want Erika to rape me non-intellectually.

Tweaking the Steam expressions.

Rena doesn't have her ahegao anymore.

>>13505054
Mion is finally looking at you in the eyes, and both have their mouth closed with their default expression.

>>13505067
And several other changes, mainly for Rena and Rika, to fit what each expression was supposed to portray in the original. God, some were totally wrong.

>>13505054
Rena's new sprite actually looks kinda cute now.

>>13505115
that's how it was supposed to be to begin with. In this scene, the part where Keiichi is making fun of her make it looks like she's some kind of masochist in the untweaked version.

"Yeah, please, step on me, treat me more like shit !"

I'd work on the VA patch myself if I knew how to really, but looking through the text files I'm confused as to what I'd insert to cause the audio to play. The files from the old patches don't seem to be compatible with this engine anyways so I imagine someone would have to re-rip the audio.

Uploading the 1.5 versions of my mod now.
Folder is still the same >>13498944

Hey, guess whose sprite they made for Higurashi Sui ?

Fucking Hibari 13. What the hell seriously, they added a ton of stuff in this new game and they just kept showing us what was already in the previous ones.

>>13505469
I checked your patch, and by looking at your posts, I'm assuming your fixes to the Steam release sprites haven't been uploaded yet, is that correct?

>>13505802
No, they're in it. The Takano, Oishi, Tomitake fixes along with the tweaking of some of Rena's, Mion's and Rika's expressions. Oh, and Mion's swimsuit sprite too.

>>13505138
It looks like they went for an embarrassed laughing expression but it didn't come out right.

>>13505816
I'm stupid I didn't see the second link in the mediafire folder. Nice job, they are looking good.

Really appreciate the fixes to the Steam sprites! When I get my CFW PS3 I'll see about importing Sui to dump things.

I was bored, so I threw together a partial voice patch. Voices were pulled from the PS3 version and inserted automatically, matching lines against the Steam script. The PS3 script differs from the PC one in a number of ways--from typo fixes to entirely rewritten scenes--so there is a not-insignificant number of voices that couldn't be placed automatically. In particular, dialogue divided up with a Line_ContinueAfterTyping flag was almost certainly missed. That said, this patch adds 4400+ voices, I just couldn't be assed to go through the entire thing and manually add the ones that weren't.

So, I uploaded what I've already done in the hopes someone wants to finish the job. First, here's the patch: https://mega.co.nz/#!3Q9ySDCY!2sXGQXyOtH-bRA0hFt6RhAtDSldyhNchHjNJb6v6Mig Drop the contents into the HigurashiEp01_Data/StreamingAssets directory (you'll need to be fully updated for the game to recognize and use the "Update" directory).

That download only contains the voices actually inserted, so if you want to add the rest, you'll need to grab this too: https://mega.co.nz/#!rUMxwbTY!6Ral1MRTC266DVg4SM-P01s3Gnflo2StDdF0RrgigrY It contains 3 of the 23 voice folders from the PS3 release, which *should*, as best I can tell, cover everything used in Onikakushi. With it, I've included a dump of all the voiced lines in the PS3 script and the name of each associated voice file. They're mostly in the order they show up, so it should be easy enough to find and fill in missing lines.

I'll go ahead and finish the voice patch if no one else does but one of my arms was injured recently so it'll take a while one handing it.

I started adding voices to the missing parts but I realized this might complicate things being in line with the BG/Sprite Edit patch. Is there going to be more work on that front or am I free to continue?

>>13506212
I already got a copy of the game...
You can't dump shit unless you can figure how to convert the pictures files.

See:
>>13502254
>>13502365

Voice files are the only ones that can be pulled from the game atm.

>>13505054
>>13505067
>>13505076
>>13505469

They're all nice, but how come you resized the sprites from 1280x960 to 1024x768?

Also, Satoko's sa_se_ak_b1 is in her Alchemist version.

>>13508133
because 1024x768 is the bigger resolution of the game. It's useless to have files bigger, resized them so that they would take less space and have a less pixelated look because of the automatic resizing of the engine (which is less optimized than a manual one).

As for the file you're talking about, it seems like I forgot to remove her, she's not even used in the game (go take a look at the original files).

>>13508496
Not really, the game stretches and scales as needed.

>>13508496
You aren't correct. Here is a comparison screenshot. On the left picture there are original sprites, on the right picture - yours. You can clearly see that on the right picture characters are blurry, it is most visible around eyes and hair.

>>13509085
Oh well, seems like I fucked up a bit.

>>13507658
As long as everyone is working from the base Steam scripts (which the voice patch is), it should be trivial to perform a three-way merge to combine the voice patch with any updates made to the sprite/BG patch. (tl;dr, you're good to go)

So, what does everyone think about the steam version? From what ive seen im disappointed at the quality of the release. It seems like all the steam VN releases are like this and its a little saddening.

>>13509529
It's twice as good as the original MG translation and if there's something you don't like you can very easily change it yourself. I'd say that's about as much as we can ask for from MG.

>>13509537
I suppose I might be being a bit to hard on it, Things like Sakura spirit and that other one that I cant even remember the name of have really turned me off steam releases.

>>13509558
Sakura Shit shouldn't even bother you because it's EVN trash.

The new Higurashi release is excellent. I'm still getting used to that larger font though.

>>13509565
I know it *SHOULDN'T* but it flairs my autism so bad.

>>13507026
A-are you God? Thank you so very much anon-sama!

>>13507026
>>13507418
>>13507658
Waiting warmly.

>>13507026
Damn, great. And they're the ps3 voices ? Which means they're in even better quality than the ps2's.

>>13509722
I was about to correct you before remembering how fucked up the ps2 voices were in random points for seemingly no reason.

>>13507026
Can't you combine that with the edited script of >>13505469 ? Using your version remove the script tweaks, like the sunset variations and the CGs.

>>13509804
Not that anon but yeah, it can be combined with a merging tool by having the original as base, the voice as an edit, and the mod bg edit as another edit.

I think I might take a stab at this, not to simply merge them, but to add in the missing voices.
I noticed while talking to Rena in the first 5 minutes of the game that the voice patch has missing parts.

Luckily the voice files are in order so I don't have to search for what they are, though I wouldn't mind if someone who knew japanese would help me out and confirm that the translation match the voice.

>>13509866
Would be damn cool. Besides, it's a bit weird. The voices works totally fine for me in some scenes, but not in others. The problem is that when I check the script, the voices does seems to be added for those same scenes.

>>13509876
Yeah, I don't get it either.

The background bit in >>13501672 didn't trigger for me at first despite the code being just fine.

Maybe this steam version has a weird bug in it somewhere.

>>13509890
Guy who made the mod here. I added the CGs with the Club and Rena's punch at first, then before continuing with the rest the game updated itself with the 1.1. Even though they were still in the script it's like it wasn't modded at all even though the rest I added later is totally fine. Don't get it.

>>13507026
Just out of curiosity, what did you use to automatize the editing?

>>13507026
but wait, did you use the demo's script with the voices added ? I guess it won't be that easy for the next arcs isn't that right ?

New update.
1.02 Update

Features

- Press the 'P' key to swap between the original and new sprites. Note that to prevent bizzare bugs, you can only do this while the game is waiting for input.

Modding

- Init.txt and Flow.txt are now provided so you can make changes.
- Init.txt also has some new tools that were added to allow for easier control over the text window.

Fixes

- A few more typo and consistency fixes. I hope we're running out of these to fix!
- The text shader was incorrectly targeting shader 3.0, which may have made some systems unable to see text properly.

>>13509876
It's possible they're conflicting with other sound effects. I'm not sure. I didn't test it very much, but I use the same command to play voices as the script uses for all its sound effects, and I think it will only play one at a time. (First parameter looks like it's the audio channel used? So it might be worth experimenting with changing that to avoid conflicts.)

>>13509917
I wrote my own script to dump the voices/associated lines and find matches in the Steam script. It's a bit hacky, but it's a decent starting place.

>>13509943
No, I did this from scratch. Future chapters will be easier, in fact, since I've already got the code written.

>>13509866
>>13509890
Christ, doing this manually isn't hard, but it is tedious since there is a lot of missing files.

I can figure out who says what in a context, but this will probably take a while to do just the first file.

>>13510031
>I wrote my own script to dump the voices/associated lines and find matches in the Steam script. It's a bit hacky, but it's a decent starting place.
What language?

Alright, here's an early test of the fixed voice and bg patch:

I fixed all of Keichii's voices, and Rena's voices in the first scene between Keichii and Rena (where they are talking about the pickles).

This no way complete, as I noticed missing voices files for other beginning scenes, I just want you guys to confirm the voices match the words they're saying:

http://a.pomf.se/qhsvyi.txt

Rename as onik_001.txt
Place in HigurashiEp01_Data\StreamingAssets\Scripts

I didn't think pomf would rename the file.

>>13510098
I'd check but I don't have a clue about spoken japanese, sadly.

>>13509978
Looking a bit at it, init can let you modify the text window. The text being smaller looks much better.

As for Flow, its lets you have much more freedom trough the chapters. With that you can easily replace onikakushi by another arc.

>>13510031
Considering you managed to adapt the voices, what about the script for the Ps3 exclusive scenes themselves ? That would be awesome.

Do you think they will do Seacats after they are done with Higurashi?

>>13510201
> after

Dude, we've got 13 arcs to go, let's talk about that again in 3-4 years. Besides, I don't really see the point. Umineko doesn't have Higurashi's problems and got fully translated on Onscripter besides getting a full ps3 patch.

>>13510201
Not sure, considering they didn't translate Seacats themselves, only sell the japanese version and just link to the Witchhunt translation, so I've no idea how that would work on Steam.

>>13510213
I'm pretty sure they don't even sell the japanese version at the moment.

>>13510201
I wouldn't be surprised if something was announced at the mangagamer panel at anime expo in July. Whether it's Umineko or Trianthology, we just can't be sure.

hey boys, two questions

1) do we have an estimate for when the next chapter will be out/general frequency of releases?
2) any update on a mod to change the sprites/backgrounds with the ps3 ver?

>>13510087
Python.

>>13510185
>Considering you managed to adapt the voices, what about the script for the Ps3 exclusive scenes themselves ? That would be awesome.
The way I pulled the voiced lines out of the script is not pretty and not really usable for anything but this. It'd take a lot more research into the game's data to port entire scenes over, and I'm not really interested in doing that.

>>13510244
>2) any update on a mod to change the sprites/backgrounds with the ps3 ver?

It's already available.
>>13505469

>>13510251
psh, damn you guys are fast. thanks lad.

>>13510245
>The way I pulled the voiced lines out of the script is not pretty and not really usable for anything but this. It'd take a lot more research into the game's data to port entire scenes over, and I'm not really interested in doing that.

Fair enough, still much much better than nothing. Never would have expected to get the voices made so easily, even Matsuribayashi and Saikoroshi will for sure get their voices after their release now.

>>13510262
Voicing mod is also available but it fucks up with the script of the graphic mod, so I guess you should wait for more progress to use them.

is the watermark on the bottom right supposed to be there?

>>13510098
In order to test this, do I need all the voices in both uploads, or just the first one? Also, you said your patch added 4400+ voices, but how many more are there? I'm scared because the first file that "only contains the voices actually inserted" is just 150mb while "the rest" is 1gb.

>>13510312
Yeah, it's part of the black box.

>>13510364
Oh I'm not the original author of the voice patch, I', just tweaking it so A. It has the bg edits and B. It fills in the missing voices.

Yes, get all the voices because the original guy only added in what was only being used.
I'm not going to isolate what we need and don't need.
I don't know what the next steam games are going to do, you might as well have all the voices.

>>13510434
>I don't know what the next steam games are going to do, you might as well have all the voices.
But those are just the voices for Onikakushi? The voice patch guy uploaded only 3 out of 20-something folders worth of voices from Sui.

That's why I don't get the voice patch, supposedly all onikakushi voices are worth 150mb (added) + 1000mb (not added). So all the aumated process did was add barely over 15% of the total voices for onikakushi?

>>13510364
The 1 GB archive contains a lot more than is actually needed for Onikakushi, but is only around 20% of the voices in the entire PS3 game. They just aren't organized in a way where I can isolate exactly what goes with what arc.

>>13510468
No, they're probably used for other parts as well.

If there was a better way of sorting them I'd do it, but doing this shit manually is already pretty taxing.

>>13510478
>>13510475
Oh ok now I get it, perfect. Anyway I think it wouldn't be difficult to make another script to sort the voice files per episode, just getting the filenames from the respective episode scripts and copying them to a separate folder.

>>13510505
I'm sure it can be done but I don't know what kind of sorcery is needed.

I just know how to use notepad++ so things can work properly.

>>13510526
Let's wait for the python guy to show up again.

>>13510505
The PS3 script is all one compiled 17 MB file. Like I mentioned in >>13510245 the way I got the data out of it wasn't pretty, so it would take a lot more research to get any structural information.

>>13510547
I see. So basically you need to know where each episode starts and ends in the script in order to extract the data per episode. I hope it's all sequential with no jumps.

>>13510569

It'll be a pain for any question arcs, but Kai should be fine.

Can someone who has already played through the steam release confirm that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVay367HM3Y is in the game?
I just got to the Watanagashi scene with Takano and Tomitake where it's supposed to play for the first time, but it seems to have been replaced by a sound effect I've never heard before.

Holy shit, this voice thing will make such a difference.

If this works, this part right, they'll actually all say itadakimasu as per the description here.

>>13510098
So I tried this, but I must be doing something wrong because I can't hear anything.

Copied onik_001.txt into Scripts.
Copied SE folder in first link here >>13507026 merging it with my SE folder.
Copied Update folder (didn't exist in my installation).

But voices are not playing.

>>13510721
did you try with several scenes ?

>>13510692
Forgot my pic.

Anyways here's the link for the first two files.
http://a.pomf.se/mndtmv.7z

This covers up until the first day (when Keichii agrees to meet up with Rena).

>>13510721
Make sure everything is in streamingassets folder.

>>13510732
I skipped forward from the beginning to k1 talking with his mom, then the first conv with rena, but nothing.

>>13510721
Files in the Update folder take priority over the Scripts folder, so if you put fixes in the Scripts folder, you won't see them.

>>13510742
actually I couldn't hear anything either for this scene, but it worked fine for others, like day 9.

>>13510744
Yep, that's why I also copied onik_001.txt into Updates folder, still nothing.

>>13510745
I tried more, seems like the only voice I can hear is the first one of k1's dad in the train. From there to after school nothing it seems.

>>13510793
did you download the graphic mod ? Is there the club CG in the chapter ?

>>13510809
I only downloaded the voice patch and the voice files. No CG.

So how many tens of copies do you think it sold so far

>>13511467
I have no idea how credible of a source it is, but through the release of Higu on steam I've been introduced to 'steamspy' which claims it's sold '7,454 ± 2,303'.

I'm beginning to think there's some kind of cache the game is pulling from that's preventing it from reading the updated scripts.

I've been tweaking this shit and it seems sometimes it doesn't want to read the updated script.

>>13511665
Yeah, there's something up with this.

Even though I changed the text it still has the old one.

This is going to make the voice patching harder to troubleshoot.

>>13511702
...

I even went as far as to delete the script files (in both Scripts and Update folders) and the game still runs.

I don't know how this game can be moddable if the game won't check for modded files.

>>13511665
>>13511702
>>13511897
Last post of samefagging here, would you guys be interested in a mod that replaces the music with the anime's music?

>>13511936

The anime's music?

Nah, I'd personally rather have the PS3 soundtrack, since it combines the best of the PC and PS2 ones.

>>13511897
If anything, you need to delete the stuff in CompiledScripts to force it to rebuild them from the text files.

Which version is the best one to play? Original, PS2, etc, etc? Which sprites are better? Please /jp/ enlighten me.

>>13511995
It's literally aeshetics but I always choose the blurred real background and original BOXINGHANDS sprites for maximum R07.

>>13511993
It doesn't seem to be as easy as that.

Deleting anything in there breaks the game.

>>13512031
It's possible you have a syntax error in one or more of the scripts, so it's failing to compile. output_log.txt in the HigurashiEp01_Data folder should tell you if it couldn't compile something.

>>13511995

I guess it boils down to personal preference.

There are the original ham hands sprites by R07, the PS2 sprites, the DS/PS3 sprites (which are touched-up PS2 sprites), and the new Steam sprites (pic related).

>>13512000
>>13512090

>>13512000
>>13512090

Thx /jp/ tards, so it all pretty much summarizes in one's own preferences? Is there no version superior to another or viceversa?

Also yeah, I was aware of the different versions that exist, but thanks anyways, I just wanted to know which could be considered "the best", so I can go through downloading the whole thing without regrets.

>>13512076
That's exactly what it was.

Surprised I didn't notice it earlier, but the log file even shows the exact line and column with the error.

Works fine now, thanks.

>>13512121
>Thx /jp/ tards
The correct and accepted /jp/ person nouns are: /jp/edos, /jp/ers and /jp/sies.

>>13512237
Annotated...yeah I kind of forgot it.

New voice and bgm patch:

http://a.pomf.se/qwjhhy.7z

I finished up chapter 1, I fixed everything but the scene in which they're talking about Keichii's dick.
I can't figure out which sound files are supposed to play since they sound pretty off giving the kind of context going on.

Everything else for that chapter is fine though.

What I'll do is make a rough patch combining the voices and bgm for the later chapters, then manually fill in the missing pieces.

I also had to make a sound file combining their voices because apparently you can only play one sound at a time.

Here's the rough patch of the voice and background update.

http://a.pomf.se/ufxxwl.7z

You need >>13507026
and >>13498944

I still need to work on all voices outside of chapter 1, but voices and all day/night/whatever scenes will play.

>>13512609
For future updates, I will upload these files to mega.co.nz:

https://mega.co.nz/#F!7ptQSB6K!o4rkCJjPn-NUHZQiNe7hNQ

>>13506212
Importing makes no sense if you have a CFW PS3, just torrent the game and start messing with it (while waiting for the game disc to arrive if you really want to own one).
You can easily make screenshots on CFW to get BGs, but they are in 1080p on my end - which is odd, because the screenshots are always taken at native resolution of the game in question (so 720p or 1080p mostly), and Sui is supposed to have fullscreen images in 720p.
Also, I can't for the life of me make Target Manager (let alone ProDG) detect my PS3 running Rebug REX in DEX mode regardless of CFW and debugger versions. It's most likely a user error though, because I see no reason why it shouldn't work this way.
At least it runs fine with webMAN, so you can run the game from your PC's HDD avoiding the need to reupload 5GB data.rom back to PS3 after every modification.

In theory, reverse engineering the image decompressing routine in PS3 debugger to rewrite it for PC might require considerable RE skills and familiarity with compression algorithms (implemented by the Japanese on top of it, so it's more effort than it's worth). It's likely easier to find the responsible function in disassembly and copy-paste it into your own converter binary written for PS3 (assuming that you have PS3 SDK - note that PS3_SDK_450_001-YLoD is just an update for PS3_4.00_SDK-YLoD so you need both to have full 4.50 SDK).
I don't expect rpcs3 emulator to evolve fast enough for our needs, but who knows. If/when it's able to show the startup logo of Sui, consider the job done.
So far there's no problem with converting audio files (BGM, speech and SFX) to PC format, script can be decompiled with some effort - probably minimal because it seems to be the same main.snr of S-NEO engine as in all previous PS3 (Uminekos) and PS2 games (Parfait, Keyorina, KonnYaku, PureCure, Chanter, Higurashis...), so I'll try to get PS3 sprites and leave BG screenshoting to someone else.

This thread reeks of lost crossies but thank you for your continued effort patcher-kun. I never thought I'd see the day when actual progress was made again on the voice patch.

>>13513926
Well, it's not their fault. Mods and janitors on /a/ have gone full retarded and they are deleting higurashi threads.

>>13513792
> but they are in 1080p on my end
Wait, does that mean you already tried to screenshot them ? Uploading them would be great, the only ones I coul get so farwere from screenshotting YT videos, and it was far from being great (had to resize them to 480p to make them looks ok).

>>13513794
Good luck then, I'll make sure to adapt them to my mod if that happens. There aren't any yet in Onikakushi, but i'll make sure to add the exclusive sprites too for the following arcs (like Tomita, Okamura, Kameda, ...)

Here is a dump of the ps3 music and sound effects:

https://mega.co.nz/#!fkVwTAZS!wDY513M9bs3eVc2SL_QvKn5XONBFFXJd0ToaBHN9ng4

password is cicada

I've converted the files to ogg so they can be easily modded in.
I don't have the time myself to figure out what file can replace the steam version's, so someone will have to pick this up.

>>13514274
Wont a lot of this modding work be able to carry over into future chapters since a lot of the assets are the same?

>>13514437
Yeah.

There are plenty of unused assets though because it's only chapter 1.
Over time, almost everything will get used at one point.

>>13511599
>7,454 ± 2,303
Does this mean 7454 with a deviation of 2303? Is this a good number to sell?

>>13514637
>deviation of 2303
'up to' 2,303

>>13514637
Steam takes 30% of their revenue, so 7500 copies at 5.39$ each means they got close to 30000$ at the time of that statistic.
Maybe decent for the first day? I don't know how much those games usually make and how much they send back to 07th Expansion.

>>13514796
I just hope it does well enough for MangaGamer to continue releasing future chapters. I haven't read anything beyond the Onikakushi arc, since I've been waiting forever for a release with a decent translation and its content intac. The fan translations were taking far too long, so this (re)release is a godsend for me, especially with how easy modding is, and how fast MangaGamer seems to be fixing problems. I'm really looking forward to the Watanagashi arc.

>>13503049
Your brush is bleeding onto the transparent part. Be more careful kudasai.

>>13514947
Yeah, already saw that. Didn't include it in the mod anyway, I was satisfied with the swimsuit's but this one could be better.

>>13514947
Those are obviously the sweat stink clouds
Just like in my corean colouring books

>>13514947
>>13514988
Otherwise, I'm still open for suggestions to improve them, be it making the expressions better or improve the overall details like for Mion, Tomitake, Oishi and Takano.

>>13515276
Why is her hair in a different shade in the middle picture?

>>13515444
Middle is the real Steam sprite. Right one is the tweaked one, changed the hair's color to make it like the vanilla's.

Question. Just how much assets are missing for creating a Matsuri/Sui patch for Rei?

>>13515781
If Sui's graphic assets gets successfully ripped, none. those are mainly backgrounds, besides obviously the CGs.

>>13512609
Tried this again, everything works now. There are missing rena voices in the pickles scene, is this normal?

>>13512609
Dumb question: do I need to put the combine.ogg file in the Scripts folder or do I need to put the whole edit folder inside Scripts?

>>13515882
Which line?

I try to get all the voices but there are a few that elude me.

>>13515899
it goes into se effects folder
streamingassets/se

can't check it atm but if i forgot to make the folder, then I'll fix it on next version

>>13516150
Pretty much everything from Rena from the "why are you so mean? why?" onwards.

>>13516174
Get the full voice patch linked earlier in this thread.

I'll have to mirror the full voice pack to mega folder so people don't get confused with the old patch.

>>13516162
SE? In the patch file you put combine.ogg inside a Scripts/edit/ folder though. It also generated a .sfk file after I copypasted the edit folder inside Scripts and started the game. I'm gonna try to put it in SE anyway, thanks.

On an unrelated note, since someone asked about the watermark in the text box before, you can replace the windo_filter.png file in the CGAlt folder with something like pic related.

>>13516256
My mistake then, I was putting it together at 1 AM in the morning.

And that seems useful, I was getting pretty annoyed by that watermark.
I could make an extras folder and add it in.

>>13516242
You mean the second link here >>13507026 ?

>>13516256
Thanks, I'm going to use that because the logo is annoying.

>>13516284
Yes.

The reason for this is that I'm adding in lines to voices that don't exist in the first pack.

>>13516300
Ok now I can hear a lot more lines. There are still some missing in that scene though.

>>13498944
I guess something is broken because I'm not getting the background here.

Also tried applying the voice patch but I get no voices. I think I'm going to need more clear instructions for that.

>>13515276

If you can, keep the sprite resolutions at their original size.

As for suggestions, I think several people asked about Rena's weird black collar being turned back into it's short light-blue version earlier in the thread, so I'll just ask for that too.

((Seriously though, what was the artist thinking when he changed it in the first place? If this was any other character, it wouldn't really matter. But this is Rena; arguably the most iconic R07 character.))

>>13516462
scripts mods doesn't work most of the time since the last update.

>>13516462
>>13516481
Well now I got it to work.
Took a backup of CompiledScripts. Deleted the contents. Let it rebuild everything. Added back flow.mg and init.mg.

>>13515802
I meant using existing accessible assets, more so the sprites and backgrounds only.

anyone got a download for the new steam release?

>>13516786
_______________it's only 5 bucks_____________

>>13516808
It's okay, I stopped being a retard and checked the usual spot
I'm too broke for 5 bucks for a video game right now

>>13516815
It's alright, I'm just being a lazy shit.

Voice and BGM Patch v. 0.2

https://mega.co.nz/#F!7ptQSB6K!o4rkCJjPn-NUHZQiNe7hNQ

v. 0.2
Chapter 2 finished
Fixed folder structure of patch archive
Added in Extras folder with watermark-less window.

Playing videogames like fps or mmos just feel so pointless now. Always the same shit with depending on others to carry you through regardless of how good you do.

Reading is where it's at. Have I reached the next stage of NEET evolution?

>>13517909
>watermark-less window

I love you.

>>13518233
Go thank >>13516256 for it.

>>13517909
v.0.3 is out.
I know, I move at a snail's pace.
I try to make this shit as high quality as possible though.

v 0.3
Chapter 3 finished
Fixed an error in Mion's dialogue in which PlaySE showed up
Changed bg_45 to bg_44 in scene when Keichii mentions Tomitake while he walks to the dump site.

>>13505720
He was in the manga.

>>13518283
>Voices not properly aligned during the talk about Keichii's dick scene.
This is one of those scenes that looks like it was rewritten for the PS3 version, so it's not going to match up.

>Missing Voice for Satako during the picnic scene
This line doesn't appear to exist in Sui at all, for whatever reason.

>Satako's missing a voice file for "You're so naive, Rena!" 990400055? and "The Law of the Jungle is survival of the fittest!" 990400056?
Those are S19/04/VT0_satoko0001 and S19/04/VT0_satoko0002. If you look for the previous line in s19.txt (990200174), you'll see them listed right after that.

>>13518472
Yes, and ?

My wish for helping the chink..halt a bit.

>>13518283
I guess I ask before it's too late. Wouldn't it be better to do it like this?

PlaySE(4, "S19/02/990200078", 128, 64)
(text)
StopSE(4)

It just annoys me when voices still play after clicking the text. Especially when there's a long line.

>>13519486
I have a totally opposite opinion. I really dislike when this shit happen.

>>13519486
It could work, but that would mean changing the timing of the sentences to fit the voices if you wanted perfect timing.

I noticed when playing on auto, some sentences are faster than the voice.
That would aggravate the problem with the current timing.
I'd rather let the voice file play and not risk having them cut off too often.
They currently play out longer than they should, but at least they won't stop suddenly.

Does this new version have all of the original music from doujin game? Including all the copyright stuff?

My question is, are they gonna adapt the minigames? That shit was fun.

>>13520376
Yeah,i guess.

>>13520383
Probably not, most likely not. Nope, they're not coming back.

>>13520376
Yes, apparently so. Thank god for that. Those mangagamer exclusive sound files were shit.

>>13514796
For a doujin game, that sounds pretty darn good. Especially considering it's just the first of 8 parts (plus side stories).

Just got here, no time to read all the posts but read many already. Doesn't it seem counterproductive to mod the game in 640x480 when we could try to push the game to run in 720p to 1080p? There are some posts trying to do it, but AFAIK most people are just trying to include sprites and backgrounds in the original resolution, which looks really bad when upscaled.

Not complaining, I'm here to help with modding. Any to-do lists floating around the thread?

>>13520445
Finish the voice mod first,and then mod the background to work with 720p at least.

I'll just wait until the final patch comes out...Whenever that may be

>>13520450
Yeah, that's what I intended to do. Anyone here is already fixing >>13507026 script? If not I can try to do something about it.

At times like this I think we should keep a git repository, that will make the overall work faster and avoid dropping files in mega for small fixes. It might not be enough to hold voice files, though, but seems enough for script and graphics.

>>13520481
Yeah, I am
>>13517909
>>13518283

The fixes aren't complex or anything, it just needs someone to manually add in lines because they don't exactly match up the ps3 version.
The process is just tedious, takes a while.

If you want to help, start with the last chapter first and work backwards or something.
I'm currently doing chapter 4.

>>13520580
Great, I'll start working in the last chapter today. I don't have a save in that part but that's fine, I just need to put my japanese to work. Or is there a way to edit the save files to jump anywhere in the novel? I still haven't found the save folder.

>>13520607
AppData\Roaming\Mangagamer\higurashi01

Dunno about editing them though, maybe a good anon who's already finished the novel can share some files.

Here's how I've been editing them:
onik_000.txt -> onik_15_03.txt are each individual chapter.
The voice commands look like PlaySE(3, "S19/04/990400107", 128, 64);
S19 seems to be the folder that houses the voices for chapter 1
The 04 folder is a character (in this case, Satako) and the 990400107 is the corresponding .ogg file

In the full patch, there is a s19.txt that has the exact order of all the voices for the ps3 version.
For the most part the dialogue and order is the same, however the dialogue isn't exact and some scenes were extended, hence while the original anon who did this couldn't fit every line to a voice.

>>13520648
/jp doesn't have a feature so I'll jsut make do with this:

//「圭一く～ん＠　待ってたよ。今日もがんばろ！＠
PlaySE(3, "S19/02/990200268", 128, 64);
OutputLine(NULL, "「圭一く〜ん！",
NULL, "\"Keiichi-kun~!", Line_WaitForInput);
PlaySE(3, "S19/02/990200269", 128, 64);
OutputLine(NULL, "　待ってたよ。今日もがんばろ！」",
NULL, " I was waiting for you. Let's try our best today!\"", Line_WaitForInput);
OutputLineAll(NULL, "\n", Line_ContinueAfterTyping);

The average dialogue and voice looks like this.
As to be expected, voiced parts start with 「 and end with 」
The PlaySE goes above the dialogue it plays for.
Don't mix them up or else the game won't load that onik file.

>>13520680
Another note, sometimes the dialogue is broken up over multiple parts yet a single voice file covers them all.

This is where the s19.txt comes in to tell you what the voice file exactly says.

>>13520580
>>13520648
Were my scripts changes for the graphic mod kept ? Guess I'll work it again after you're done anyway, wasn't fully finished.

>>13520686
Yes, this is why it's the voice and bgm patch (it combines the voice edits and the sprite/bgm edits).

>>13520688
Oh god damn it, I've been using bgm this whole time even though I haven't touched the background music.,

Voice and sprite/bg patch.

I need a better name for this.

Voice and Graphics patch?

>>13520688
Thinking about it, I don't think the SE were changed right ? (replaced by Alchemist's) Did that for my previous project, could do the same here, except if the ps3's were ripped, which should have a higher quality than the ps2's I had.

Same for the BGMs, went to the trouble of comparing which Vanilla songs could be replaced by which Alchemist's, wouldn't take that much time since I already know.

Makes me think if setting them in a BGMalt and Sealt folder could let them be swapped like the graphic, though I doubt that.

>>13520706
Already ahead of you on that,
Dump of PS3 SE and BGM: https://mega.co.nz/#!fkVwTAZS!wDY513M9bs3eVc2SL_QvKn5XONBFFXJd0ToaBHN9ng4
password is cicada

The names don't match up the steam version so you'd have to go through them manually and rename them.

>>13520728
Unfortunately, that rip isn't going to work. The Steam release expects stereo, 44.1kHz audio files for everything.

>>13520756
Do you want the original at3 files then?

All I did was quickly convert them to ogg, I'm sure there's a way of getting them to exact specification.

>>13520648
>>13520680
>>13520685
Thanks, already got the gist of it.

Looking at the files, s01.txt have all the stuff I need for onik_015_03.txt. It just seems that a line in particular is missing:

//「五萬切ってもテンパイ崩れませんから。＠
OutputLine(NULL, "「五萬切ってもテンパイ崩れませんから。」",
NULL, "\"You're still in tenpai if you cut the 5 manzu.\"", Line_WaitForInput);
OutputLineAll(NULL, "\n", Line_ContinueAfterTyping);

After this one I have S01/19/123100004 and before S01/19/123100002. I think I'm not wrong here, because I could find the next missing file easily (S01/11/120700519).

>>13520782
>五萬切ってもテンパイ崩れませんから
Yeah, you're right, there's nothing there for this line.
>S01/11/120700519
and that doesn't have an equivalent in the steam version.

Doing this is not hard, it's just tedious.

>>13520773
https://mega.co.nz/#!Wsdx3CbJ!Rvvr2hwWqJpbimqmNEHvQg-U9EAqkwwG_AINLsNvYVI

Here are the originals.

I converted them with foobar and an extension for at3 files (vgmstream).

>>13520782
That voice does appear to exist in the PS2 version though, and the files are named the same (just sorted into different directories), so it might be possible to fill in some blanks using that.

>>13520814
This one plays here:

//「ちなみに、ハイテーで当たり牌出てもロンしちゃダメですよ。＠
PlaySE(3, "S01/11/120700519", 128, 64);
OutputLine(NULL, "「ちなみに、ハイテーで当たり牌出てもロンしちゃダメですよ。」",
NULL, "\"By the way, you can't call ron with your winning tile in that haitei.\"", Line_WaitForInput);
OutputLineAll(NULL, "\n", Line_ContinueAfterTyping);

I'll try to finish at least half of this chapter today. I just need to find a way of wasting less time.

>>13520893
There are probably even more occurrences like this one, maybe we will need a dump of the PS2 files to actually finish a complete voice patch.

>>13520914
>There are probably even more occurrences like this one, maybe we will need a dump of the PS2 files to actually finish a complete voice patch.
I'm sure something already exists, but I was planning to upload the rest of the PS3 voices later today anyway, so I'll convert and upload the PS2 ones too in a format the Steam version can use.

>>13520893
>>13520914
>>13520926
Sounds like a plan.

Just as long as we keep note of what's missing, we can fill in the blanks.

Chapter 4 finished.

Renamed the mod for more clarity.

https://mega.co.nz/#F!7ptQSB6K!o4rkCJjPn-NUHZQiNe7hNQ

v 0.4
Chapter 4 finished.
Fixed Satako's voice during the Old Bachleor Scene in Chapter 3.

>>13516786
Fuck you.

>>13521120
Who are you, thedoddler or something?

>>13520926
If it exists, any idea on where I could find it?

>>13520954
Couldn't you guys compare the script to the console one. Does anyone have the Matsuri PS2 script lying around? I'm positive I read someone had it before.

On the side note, began working on adapting some exclusive scenes of Alchemist's games, since Baratomaya translated 3 of them some times ago, began with the one that replaced the "discussion" about Keiichi's pants after Mion's introduction. The following ones are choices, but i'll simply replace them the same way.

>>13521612
>If it exists, any idea on where I could find it?
Reading. You will find a spoken line without sound, but there will be no sound to match the line. More in the next part:

>Couldn't you guys compare the script to the console one.
The PS3 voice dump have the entire script with their voice files. It's all in order, so it's just a matter of finding the line without voice and then finding the right voice file.

About the PS2 script, never seen it.

>>13521612
>>13521643
Oops, read the first part wrong. My bad.
I'll be waiting for that anon, looks like he have all the files we need.

Just finished onik_015_03. I will keep my files in a github repository, so if anyone wants to join the repo and upload their scripts there, just open an issue or give me your username. It's also ok if you want to upload sprites/bgs (but there is a 1gb limit).

Here's the repository: https://github.com/higurashi-mod/scripts

I'm porting this to javascript if anyone is interested.

>>13521730
>>13521059 Here, add Kiruku

I'm not really a programmer per say so I don't know if I can utilize github to it's full potential, but at least people could keep track of the patch's progress.