/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>14350291
Already got it :)

tfw Higurashi is LITERALLY older than /jp/ yet you realize a whole new generation of edgy "otaku" "hikkikomori" dormnorms are now enjoying it for the first time on Steam while voicechatting with their dudebros

Humbly asking to not turn this thread into shit.

Btw waiting for the other anons who helped patching the voices and graphics back when EP1 was out. I'm the repository/organization owner, so I hope we can start patching the second episode soon.

Partial voice patch uploaded here: https://mega.nz/#F!SRt1DTKI!0vSWMtBLaa2VO0bDgfzb7A for whoever wants to finish it.

Same deal as last time. This adds about 7000 voiced lines, the rest need to be filled in manually. Requires the s02, s19, and s20 folders this time.

mion is super duper cute to the max. thanks for reading.

>>14350419
I agree

tfw 30 years old by the time they finish every chapter

>>14350328
please post a picture of yourself

i want to see how fat and/or ugly you are

New repository: https://github.com/higurashi-mod/watanagashi

>>14350394
Thanks as always for the files, anon.

I will start working on the files, but I still don't have the game. Hoping to see the same anons helping just like the first episode.

That's cool, but it's hard to care when Higurashi Sui exists. It contains pretty much every arc and is fully voiced.

Also it's becoming hilarious how many different Higurashi versions with different art are out there now.

>>14351088
>That's cool, but it's hard to care when Higurashi Sui exists.

Yeah this. Still I find it good that higurashi gets more available.

>>14350394
>>14350791
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ggd83ppkclafg/Higurashi_EP2_-_Graphic_mods

The folder I'll use for my graphic mods. Already uploaded as well a first version of the full ps3 one some hours ago, which just replaces the sprites, bgs and set the wide screen for now. Didn't touch the scripts files yet.

>>14351148
For the content of the future release(s), will be like the first episode with the fixed night backgrounds, the color palettes for the sprites, the sunset mode, the cgs, and new sprites added.

That will include Tomita's and Okamura's for example. Chie in curry mode as well.

>>14351148
Does this include the updated MG art sprite?

>>14351174
The updated MG sprites mod will have a separate download like for the first ep. Didnd't begin working on it yet. I think I'll do it after I'm fully done with the ps3 mod, after that I'll just have to set the Steam sprites in it anyway.

Talking about them, Steam Shion's is pretty nice so I don't think I'll have to change anything about it. Though I'll still check if they properly adapted the expressions considering they managed to fuck that up for several of them in ep1.

>>14351179
Wow, Shion looks really creepy.

>>14351184

By the way, seems like they tried to do their version of the "eye cg" pic with Mion's eyes. Honestly it looks pretty bad compared to the original one.

>>14351189

>>14351185
Wow, they really did a great job on Shion overall, especially compared to how meh Mion looks.
There's also these eyes.

>>14351189
Goddamn it, I was about to post that.

>>14351190
Not entirely sure which is creepier, maybe the original since you don't see 'Mion's' face.

>>14351189
I'm honestly a bit disappointed by the eyes, it was one of the thing I was looking forwards to in this new art. It really just looks like a pair of anime eyes rather than creepy sadistic crazy eyes from a murderer.

>>14351197
>creepy sadistic crazy eyes from a murderer.
>implying Mion is any of that

More like MG actually played the game

>>14351199
Who are ye quoting?

>>14351088
It is worth buying vita just to play this?

>>14351199
Have you? It's obviously Mion is the killer, she even confessed!
Come on, don't be so dense. I put, 'Mion' in apostrophe, I'm joking that a new reader would think it's Mion as the killer, not Shion.

>>14351209
It's also on PS3.

And no, I don't think so, but it's worth buying the Vita play more more of its games.

Also you know Japanese, right? It's Japanese only.

>>14351215
shit you are right, I overlooked the apostrophes. Sorry for that misstep

>>14351243
I still think that Shion and K1 had the most romantic chemistry in the entire story.

Don't worry about it, it's fine.

>>14351227
I want to play this game very much, but I don't know of any other games for Vita that are not available on PC I would be interested in. Same for PS3. I mostly just read vns these days and don't really care for the consoles.

Yeah, I've been learning Japanese for about 2 years. Probably not enough for reading Ryukishi, but I'm getting there.

I'm slowly losing hope the for the Hou DLC for Sui. Were Tamura's and Une's sprites in the opening and this picture just tease? Godamnit Alchemist.

>>14351088
>Higurashi Sui

I played the PC version with the ps2 sprite patch back in the day. Looks like theirs a lot of new art added in. Is the new Sui stuff in the steam version?

>>14351331
Of course not. /jp/ adds in whatever content is in Sui to the MG Steam release. I'm honestly curious to know what the MG version of Hanyuu will look like.

>>14351334
>what the MG version of Hanyuu will look like.

At this pace, see you in 3 years.

>>14351334
No fucking point to the steam version I suppose. Just some faggots trying to cash in on unaware weaboos.

>>14351331
When you mean "new Sui stuff" you're talking about the graphical content of it or the extra arcs? The latter obviously aren't.

>>14351346
You're totally wrong.
First, we're getting a proper translation for the serie.
Secondly, the new software is league better than the one they were using and Onscripter, because they made it mod friendly. The voices and everything can be easily added. It also allows to set the game to wide screen and in whatever resolution you want, while it was limited to 480p before.

This new release is totally worth it, even more combined with the recent Ps3 assets.

>>14350291
Is /jp/ going to patch voices into it too?

>>14351396
At least read the thread.
>>14350394
>>14350791

>>14351088
If that game was in english I would instantly buy it, I would even pay 100 dollars for it even if it was vita only.

>>14350291
How many episodes will this have? I dislike reading, watching or playing something unfinished.

>>14351209
No one likes the vita escept people stupid enough to buy one and not selling it fast enough.

>>14351346
Steam is big and will bring many more people to experience this work.

>>14351409
Jokes on you I love my Vita.

After all these years I still can't tell Mion and Shion apart. Am I retarded?

>>14351243
>I have two cups because I'm so thirsty
heh heh hehehe

>>14351248
>tfw they will never get together and there will always be rena/mion arguments.

>>14350291
Dont care, they completely fucked up the sprites. PS2 master race.

>>14351497
> Ps2 master race.
> Ps2

You're literally 7 years late.

>>14351506
This whole thread is 69 years late, Takano did it, you aren't proposed that this is a mystery novel with a culprit until the very end where it's too late to try to make guesses, the end.

Can someone upload HigurashiPS3-Voices01.zip? Mega link doesn't work for me.

On the side note, also working on converting the ps3 content with waifu2x from 720p to 1440p. The result looks fantastic in fullscreen.

I'll try to do it for the original assets as well.

>>14351566
Damn, that looks amazing. Probably the best waifu2x result I've ever seen.

Voice patch work on pirated version?

>>14351940
ofc it works

Hey guys what happens to your patch when the game updates? Does it break?

Was EP1 1.07/1.08 patch ever pirated?

>>14351901
Waifu2x works incredibly well with the original and ps3 higurashi sprites. Same for the backgrounds and cgs of both.

>>14351958
We never had this problem because Toddler was aware of the modding scene. Actually we got so far because he was willing to update the engine to support our demands (higher resolution, multiples scripts, etc).

>>14351971
I guess the simple shading really pays off with waifu2x. Can you upload everything after you're done? Including the old sprites, if you want to upscale them all.
Doesn't look like a bad ideia to have the old sprites also included in the new patch.

>>14352007
Well, they'll be in the mod.

Though doing it manually from the site takes quite some time. Wouldn't mind if someone wanted to help and waifu2x'd the original assets.

>>14352020
I can at least help with the original sprites.

Also you should take a look at this http://inatsuka.com/extra/koroshell/ (or https://github.com/WL-Amigo/waifu2x-converter-cpp/))

>>14352025
Can you batch and keep the same filename with it?

>>14352007
Kek, just noticed I wrote Toddler instead of Doddler. It wasn't on purpose.

>>14352035
Not normally, you would have to create a batch command. I'll try to write something that works.
As for the filename, it adds the settings you used to the end, like "(noise_scale)(Level1)(x2.000000)". At least it doesn't completely change the name like the site does.

Here is a GUI for waifu2x, you can convert the whole folder at once, it also allows to keep original file names. But it's in japanese, check the image for a translation.
https://github.com/lltcggie/waifu2x-caffe/releases/download/1.0.0/waifu2x-caffe.zip

>>14352107
Based anon, I never tried this one because always using the command line.

If >>14352020 still wants my help I can still make the sprites. It'll take a while to upload, though, my upload is 60kb/s.

>>14352107
Oh shit, great. And here I was doing everything manually.

>>14351961
Nope, i think

>>14352117
Yup. Would be cool to do the backgrounds as well.

>>14352128
Sure, I'll do something about it in a few hours. 40°C here now, won't take any chances of frying my CPU.

After putting the voice file folders s19, s20 and s02 into the SE folder and putting the files from the Partial Voice Patch into the Update folder the game just crashes while the 07thExpansion logo appears.
What am I doing wrong?

>>14351443
mion is the cute one, shion is the harpy

>>14352414
It needs manual fixing. Probably a broken syntax in the init file.

>>14352107
I tried a lot but I can't get the program to work. After adding cuDNN to my PATH the program refuses to open, the latest version opens and actually detect the CUDA, but crashes as soon as I execute the conversion. Any ideas?

>>14351243
I know you love Japanese grammar, but please cut down on the ellipses. This is English here, creative writing is fine, but replacing all instances of commas with ellipses is just too much. The , and - are your friend.

>>14352598
You can try using CUDA instead of cuDNN. For that just delete the cudnn64_65.dll from the programm's folder. You can aslo try swithching to CPU in the programm's menu.

So, would the current 'PS3/Steam sprite + Widescreen' mod apply to Ep. 2 as well, or will that need some tweaking?

Also, does this require PS3-Voices01 or 02?

>>14352886
Look here >>14351148

Voice folders needed are s02, s19, and s20.
s19 and s20 are in HigurashiPS3-Voices01, s02 in HigurashiPS3-Voices02.

>>14352897
Fuck, can't believe I missed that post.
Regretting deleting my Voices01 file now, being stuck with Australian speeds sucks. At least I won't have to worry about having been retarded in the past and using the PS2 voices I guess.

>>14352748
Still not working. CPU rendering crashes, no cudnn64_65.dll in the folder.

>>14352910
Know that feel, mate. Hueland internet is just as bad.
Spent the entire afternoon downloading all packs, at least now I have a proper backup.

Can I be a gay corporate slut for a second? I really wish MG would make some of the emotes/bgs use the original art.

>>14350791
>>14350394
Well, I'm excited.

Thanks for doing god's work, anons.

>>14352916
What value did you put in the "分割サイズ field? Try putting 100. Aslo check if you have vcredist_x64 and vcredist_x86 installed https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=40784

>steam

N..no thank you!!

>>14352107
Interesting. Think I'll add those TL into the exe and upload it in English. Would be better than having it in JP.

>>14351971
Saw that when you posted it before. Looks great.

>>14352107
Okay, can't seem to even load the program since it just gives me an error (yes, I have that stuff already installed) but I still managed to translate the settings and such. I uploaded just the exe since that's all which needed editing so just drop that into the folder and overwrite. Enjoy. At least now you'll not need to constantly reference an image on using the program.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/q7t9yn34njd8b04/waifu2x-caffe_exe_ENG_TL.7z

Repository updated, tips 01~04 already done. Can anyone here upload a completed save? Or at least with all tips unlocked.

>>14358310

>>14358337

>>14358484

>>14358487

>>14358595

>>14358596
Progressing pretty well for now.

>>14358639
Oh well, stopping here for today, got less than half of the chapters left to fix/complete. The full ps3 graphical mod should be fully done after that. Will probably finish somewhere in the week.

>>14358758
Great work there, mate. Are you changing anything else in the scripts? I want to sync your changes with the voice patch.

>>14359117
> Are you changing anything else in the scripts?

I said I have a little less than half of the chapters left to do, isn't that a given...?

>>14359123
No, I mean, are you changing anything more than graphics on your scripts? I'm interested in merging the scripts, otherwise the voice patch won't have CGs.

>>14359242
What do you mean by "more than graphics"?

>>14359270
Behavior, lines, anything that isn't related to graphics. Actually, forget it, I'll run a diff on your script either way. That will be enough to merge both scripts and make both patches fully compatible.

>"The second chapter of the critically acclaimed romantic comedy VN finally comes to Steam. Lovable characters and a cute story makes this a must-play."

Did they not play it or are they just skewing expectations to make the fun shit more effective?

Did anyone ever patch the music to the PS3 versions?

>paying for books
>using DRM services

I thought /jp/ was better than this.

>>14364156
Some must pay so others can NEET.

Just finished reading the last episode of Kai. What a trip. Took a little over a year and a half to read the whole series (I took large breaks though). I didn't care at all for the last episode, I had to force myself to read it at parts. I definitely preferred the murder drama parts. Are any of the side stories worth reading? Has the newest one been translated yet?

>>14363771
that guy usually does joke or ironic reviews

>>14364213
Donate money to Ryu07's bank account and send a nice letter instead of showing support for filthy practices like Valve's malware then.

>>14365607
About 10 years late on fighting steam.

fuck this shit, the original art had more charm

>>14364987
Kai's final ark where based detective-san fucking shits on everyone coupled with the music that plays in the background was the hypest shit. Wish I could get the same experience from a replay.

>>14365687
> the original art

Which you can still play with.

>>14365663
Consumers were fucked before steam even dropped the green design. As soon as people got over needing steam for counterstrike and half life digital distribution was all theirs

>>14350394
>voices
WHY
This is a damn book! What's the fucking point of having a shitload of text if you're going to have them read to you?
Also,
>muh immersion
Have fun not being spooked at all.

>>14358310
>>14358337
>>14358484
>>14358487
>>14358595
>>14358596
>>14358639
>japanese honorifics
My bad, I though it was an official release. Not a fantranslation.

so why should i get this on steam instead of downloading an older version?

>>14366270
Because you're dumb. Or because you don't want to use the mangagamer's release or wait for the game to come in your mailbox.

>>14366050
Don't be silly, actually translating things is lazy. This version is superior for not doing that; they said so themselves. Heck, they even added one or two honorifics that weren't in the original.

>>14366503
>actually translating things is lazy
>working more is lazy
Fuck that.
Fuck them.
Fuck you.
Fuck moot.

>>14366503
There's one scene where "Mion-ojou-chan" is translated as "Young Miss", and then left untranslated a few pages later. There's another bit where all the honorifics are briefly in capital letters for some reason.

>>14364156
You do realise Mangagamer sells the game outside of Steam as well?

>>14366595
>wasting his energy with the special needs kid
I wasn't aware 4chan was doing charity work.

>>14366611
I need to do something easy while eating breakfast. Once that's done, I'm out of here!

Waiting for PS3 Anon to finish his work.

>>14350328
fuck I'm so old ;-;

>>14350328
>mfw I really fucking loved Higurashi the first time I read it
>no I can't enjoy it anymore because I remember everything about it
I want to be spooked. I want to hear someone walking behind me. I want to scratch my throat. I want to be terrified.

>>14368127
>mfw Higurashi was literally the only novel that genuinely spooked me even after I turned it off

>>14366611
>>14368127
>>14368207
Who are you quoting?

Saw the Higurashi anime, been meaning to play the VN for a very long time and ended up starting with the Steam version, do the later episodes have CGs or what?

>>14370593
What do you mean by CGs?

>>14370593
You had to play with the ps3 mod to get the CGs.

>>14372618

>you will never have a psychotic waifu bringing you food whilst you think she's trying to kill you

>>14370931
Like this >>14358487

>>14372618
Thanks anon

>using Steam
Enjoy losing your freedoms, normie.

>>14374221

>>14374226

>>14363771
To be fair, Shion and K1 do have somewhat of a romantic time together.

where's the PS3 patch Anon?

>>14378416
See
>>14358758

>>14363771
I went in mainly expecting light hearted slice of life and didn't know much of the series
I was wrong, but it was oh so right

>>14379105
Did her left boob go in her belly or something?

>>14374221
What's wrong with steam?

>>14387845
What isn't wrong with Steam, is the real question.

>closed source, proprietary software
>injects DRM into all your games
>tracks your internet history to make sure you don't hack
>wordfilters links they don't like in their chats
>Valve takes a huge cut on all games that benefit them more than the developers
>games are all digital that you can't back up, so byebye games if something happens to your account
>the community is garbage and greenlight was one of the worst things to happen to Steam, enjoy your influx of indie shovelware
>GabeN would rather nickle and dime you off Team Fortress 2 hats than put effort into making any new or good products
>lack of actual quality games, and lack of Japanese games since Japan isn't really into the PC gaming scene, most Japanese ports are trash as well

>>14387845
Not al whole lot. Bashing Steam just makes them feel better because autism.

>>14388397
To not talk about how they cash on stuff that should be free like profile options and their attempt to get money from mods (before you get into the stupid argument of "don't you want to support modders?" you can already do that because literally every relevant mod has an adfly link and a paypal button on the dev's page.

But oh yeah you get discounts on games you never planned to buy and fill your library with shovelware you'll never play, hooray let's all praise the gaben pope, does he hate money?.

Shoumeeeeen

dare?

>No update in three days
Is he okay?

>>14374221
You can also buy a completely DRM-free version on MG's site instead of Steam. This is what I have done.

>>14388397
>injects DRM into all your games
http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

ded thread.

>>14401950
Did the mod guy die or something?

>>14388397
Now, to pick out the lies/bullshit.

>injects DRM into all your games
Not all Steam games even make use of the DRM, which is entirely up to the developer/publisher by the way.

>tracks your internet history to make sure you don't hack
/g/-tier tinfoil hattery. No evidence whatsoever.

>Valve takes a huge cut on all games that benefit them more than the developers
The cut is somewhere in the 15-30% range, which is far less than the combined costs of physical distribution, especially if you consider the game still costs just as much.

>games are all digital that you can't back up, so byebye games if something happens to your account
If you're not an idiot, you can easily recover a hijacked account. The only problem is Steam Support, which can take ages to respond to a ticket.

>the community is garbage and greenlight was one of the worst things to happen to Steam, enjoy your influx of indie shovelware
All communities are inherently garbage, non-argument. Most of the shovelware released on Steam lately didn't even go through Greenlight, actually.

>lack of actual quality games, and lack of Japanese games since Japan isn't really into the PC gaming scene, most Japanese ports are trash as well
Mostly an opinion of yours, Steam's library is vast. Japanese games are starting to appear in larger quantity as well, and not just shitty cookie cutter VNs.

I don't support Valve's business practices by any means, but you could try to be less of an idiot sperg, senpai.

>>14402015
The game came out like 10 days ago, at least give it a bit of time.

>>14402018
>/g/-tier tinfoil hattery. No evidence whatsoever.
No. He is referring to this incident
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/17/5421054/valve-isnt-tracking-internet--says-gabe-newell
Read about it, it's not looking at your browser history but Valve does not deny looking for DNS requests which is an indicator of which sites you visit. Valve anticheat do track programs loaded in memory and look for cheating/hack programs for botting etc and they supposedly added that DNS checking for that. It is still fucked up no matter what.

I wanted to read this so I got the PC nonsteam version
Should I patch the music or leave it as it is?
What about the sounds?

Will the rest of Outbreak ever be animated?

>>14402829
that's the old version, forget about it, it's garbage.
> 480p
> shitty translation

>>14403004
Please no. The first one was terrible and we don't need another one.

>>14403004
You mean Kamikanshi-hen? Probably not.

>>14403386
Fuck.

>>14402015
Voice patch is going fine. First full version will probably be out next week. The graphics guy disappeared, though.

>>14404429
Should be done this week end. Probably.

Did that new Higurashi arc ever get translated? The one with the two new gods? I haven't heard anything about it since last year it seems.

>>14408560
There's an English patch, but the translation has lots of typos and poor grammar. I offered to edit for the guy, but he got all offended. He ended up just letting me correct all the places with "your / you're".

Personally, I'd recommend waiting until MangaGamer releases their translation of it (which they have announced they'll do).

>>14408690
But that'll happen in four years, depending if MG realized their low Higurashi sells and decide to pull the plug entirely.

>>14402018
>The cut is somewhere in the 15-30% range
This is bullshit. It's in the 30-40% range. The only good thing about Steam is the massive normie audience, you can get those suckers to buy anything and there's plenty of them.

Source: I sell my shit on Steam early access.

>watched the anime so long ago I don't remember anything so this was semi blind run.
>tfw I forgot to use the patches on the first chapter
>feel like shit because I didn't experience it with voices and CGs
Kill me.
How long until chapter 2's patch is ready?

Where the fuck is the Mod guy.

>>14408560
>>14409910
>>14409885
See
>>14404429
>>14407713

>>14410667
Didn't mean to reply to that first guy but yeah I think >>14407713 is graphics mod anon

>>14409543
>low Higurashi
How are they low? The VN is selling fine.

>>14410667
So you're saying the mod is basically working?

>>14408690
Which was all fixed after the initial patch.

>>14411388
Fine? That's what they want you to believe.

Saving a good thread.

Did anyone ever rip the script from Sui?

>>14414881
I heard the voice anon added them in the Steam game through a script that compared both the Steam text and Sui text, so I guess he should have it.

If only there was a full voice patch for the original VN

>>14416098
Lets hope he's in this thread. Please. I want.

>>14416555
>tfw he's gone

>>14414881

If all you want is the text, this should have everything: https://mega.nz/#!GANzWBZZ!DSdFcfL-wFPyxOHHLK5jkQ2zWCJlgKZueialL1PyLtg

As I've mentioned before, though, I can't really be assed to pick apart the format enough to get anything more useful than that out of it.

>>14418025
Hee hee. Thanks a bunch.

graphic mod guy here, sorry but it will take a bit more time before the release, still have a few chapters to fix. I'll try to finish it as soon as possible this week.

>>14421785
Oh wait, seems like I had left to do than I thought. Done with all the general problems and tips, only two days (four chapters) to go, should be done tomorrow.


On the side note, didn't manage to make waifu2x's software work, so would be nice if someone could do it in my place, there are a few backgrounds and all the sprites left to resize.

>>14421997
Alright, thanks for waiting, the PS3 Graphic Mod is now available.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ggd83ppkclafg/Higurashi_EP2_-_Graphic_mods

>>14426961
Thanks a lot! Your work is appreciated

>>14426961
Thanks! I've been waiting for this since the game was released.

>>14421785
>widescreen support
You're doing god's work, anon

>>14350291

>>14426961
Good job, thank you, I've been also waiting since ep2 came out.

>>14426961
Now we just need a script sync with the voice mod.

>>14426961

On the side note, a simple way to confirm you installed the mod properly is whether Tomita's and Okamura's sprites appear in the first chapter at the tournament.

Was Kira shit? It was, right?
Also why/how was Hanyuu in spirit form during Rei?

>>14430509
Kira was fucking great. Probably the best thing DEEN ever did. The only people who think Kira is shit are people who only watched the anime and bitch that the horror aspect was no longer there, when Higurashi was mainly a SoL with things going to shit.

>why was Hanyuu is spirit form during Rei
In ep 8, Hanyuu was able to put a Hanyuu piece the same way Bernkastel was able to put her own piece (Erika) on the board.
Although Hanyuu literally put herself in the world, Bernkastel put a literal self insert in a literary form by way of a mary sue.

Hanyuu was being both physical and in a spirit form in Rei.

>>14428766
That looks great.

>>14433480
> Kira was fucking great.

This. The opening felt a bit too forced and I really didn't like it. It's still interesting to note it's the only one that includes all the adult characters (besides Takano in Kai and Rika's parents in Rei).
But otherwise?
Episode 1 adapted a ministory of the VN and was pretty damn hilarious. A bit of lewd once doesn't hurt. Also, SOULS BROTHERS.
Episode 2 was a fucking great parody of mahou shoujos.
Episode 3 focused more on the romance part and it was really nice how they put in it secondary characters like Teppei or Oryo. Though adding Shion in the whole thing felt a bit forced and NTRish toward Satoshi.
I don't know what I expected from episode 4, wasn't much of a fan, but it wasn't bad either. Wished they focused a bit on Hanyu's mature side.

The episodes had tons of references toward the serie, and both the character designs and animations were top notch. I don't know what hapened to DEEN but they did a damn fine job in the OAVs of Higurashi compared to the 2 seasons.

>>14426961
Can you please stop using mediafire?

That captcha is fucking obnoxious and I have to use the audio option each time because I don't want to watch an ad.

Anyone got a clue which music Sui replaces from the original? Like which tracks to Sui ones?

How come there are no doujins of Bernkastel or Lambdadelta? What is Japan doing? Why is this

>>14435200
>No doujins of a shifty series with a retarded fan base
No surprise there.

>>14435225
Those are all intelligent characters and the fanbase are sophisticated, intelligent, mature and mysterious people.

How long until the full release? Please respond.

>>14435461
The full release of what?

>>14436110
Think he means the voice patch.

>>14433681
Everything except maybe the OP was fucking great. The OP is a bit forced but meh. Plus it was produced by Ryukishi (the ED too, as well as the music) which is probably why DEEN accepted to make Kira, since Ryukishi paid a decent chunk of it.

Ep 1 was hilariously fanservice-y but in a good way. A lot of people complained that watching Rika wash the window made them completely uncomfortable and I understand since I also felt like shit. Watching a character you like being sexualized like that felt weird but whatever.
The greatness of ep 1 is that it shows complete fanservice then, in the typical Ryukishi fashion, he offers fanservice to the women as well by the girls going full fudoshi.

Ep 2 was a great parody of mahou shoujo, like you said but the genius is that Ryukishi knew that Rika has the same voice as Nahona and used that as a joke. And Satoko's seyiuu used to be in Sailor moon which is also funny. The fact that their special attack is 07th Explosion is always funny. I just wish there was a mahojou series of that, I'd watch it.
Ep 3 might have been forced, like you say, but it does answer the question as to why K1 doesn't go for his harem. I found it hilarous, especially Rika and Satoko just not giving a shit and making everyone uncomfortable just to fuck with everyone.
Ep 4 was cute as fuck and possibly the best way to end Higurashi on. The contrast between pure Rika and older Rika was hearthbreaking for me and cute at the same time.

What's great about Kira is that the anime of Higurashi is mostly meh to shit. DEEN missed out on a lot of what made Higurashi good. They removed too much but this time around, they got everything right. If you only watch Kira after reading Higurashi, you'd swear it was simply extended stories intended for the VN. A great example is Chie-sensei. She barely gets any focus on her curry obsession in the original anime. She gets some focus in Rei but it's completely joked upon in Kira. A person watching the anime wouldn't have cared or noticed but a person who read the VN would laugh at it.

The anime should be avoided but Rei and Kira are must watches for anyone who loved Higurashi.

>>14437397
Actually, fuck it, even the OP was great. All of the Higurashi OP are great and set the mood for the current mood of the season.
The first one is mysterious and creepy.
The second is sadness and struggle.
The third i brooding sadness and then becomes optimistic.
And the last one is simply happy-lucky-yes-yes-yes.

It's all good.

>>14437397
>That animation
Ugh. Shivers me timbers.

>>14435252
Good joke, Anon-kun. Now fuck off and die in a hole, faggot.

>>14435461
Voice patch is taking a little longer than expected because I'm the only one working on it atm. I'm trying to make at least one script every day, but help would be appreciated.

>>14439149
Nice to hear that progress is being made on it. Ideally I would love to re-read the VN with the original sprites and backdrops, but with CGs and voice acting like I did with Umineko.

>>14435188
Bump. Anyone?

>>14402018
>The cut is somewhere in the 15-30% range, which is far less than the combined costs of physical distribution, especially if you consider the game still costs just as much
You can just buy a steamkey for cheaper from a 3rd party seller. Valve sees nothing of the money that way.

>You will be able to play Higurashi voiced and widescreen with improved backgrounds and sprites in your lifetime

>>14448381
Implying people actually care about that crap, steam.

>>14448430
You can just use the voice acting patch on a pirated copy, and give RS07 your money by importing copies of the original VN.

>>14449316
Not that. Voices, different graphics and not reading it how it was originally intended, plebs.

>>14402599
That's only if you play games that use VAC though. CSGO and stuff. They're not gonna snoop in your hosts file if you're just playing VNs.

>>14448381
One day... one day.

>>14449316
>not buying Sui
>not buying Hou
>not buying the French Higurashi Vns
>not buying all of the episodes of MG to get the voice patch

>>14452408
>French
Why? And why should we support scummy companies like MG? Plus the voice patch was already done for them first chapter and the second should be out in a few months.

>>14453162
Because I can read French.

>And why should we support scummy companies like MG?
For the voice patch and to make sure they keep translating the rest of Higurashi Hou.
Plus, I'm rich so I can buy whatever I want. The voice patch only works with the MG version, unless there's a version I don't know of, which, meh.

>>14454489
And you're probably the one who does. Seriously, who the hell mentions another language version on an English board? And nobody cares if you're rich, Muhammad.

Higurashi - moe loli gorn

Umineko - deep, mature, intellectual story

>>14457217
Kill yourself back to /v/ and /pol/.
sage

/b/ has invaded /jp/ again
/jp/ is supposed to be for elite nerds. /b/ is for normies

Niggerashi a shit. Even Type Moon filth is a more interesting read.

>>14458430
>Type Moon
>interesting

I'm guilty of reading Tsukihime and Fate but I can admit those are the most bland, generic edgelord teenage shit writing I've ever read. At least Higurashi was fun and wasn't pretentious/obnoxious as Umineko and Type Moon trash

>>14458449
>he didn't understand umineko

>>14453162
There's a certain charm in reading something in a different language after having read it in your native language. "A different language is a different vision of life". If you can read/speak a language, then you have a different way of analyzing and interpreting the world for a speaker of another language. Even if two very similar languages such Polish and Ukrainian, which are to some extent mutually intelligible (at least for me), are ultimately two different worlds, two different mentalities to taste. What I am trying to say is that it is a very good way to relive the experience again, a way to feel the adventure fresh and new as if it were the first time, like hearing your favorite songs being sung by someone else. A beautiful experience (sometimes).
>>14454489
Please stay humble, nobody likes a conceited person, although I'm not really the right person to say this and you know it, dear. [spoile]Also, you're not rich, your parents are. You're just a spoiled child, like me. Just because we have access to daddy's money (and grandpa's money in my case) doesn't make us rich (yet):[/spoiler]

>>14453162
There's a certain charm in reading something in a different language after having read it in your native language. "A different language is a different vision of life". If you can read/speak a language, then you have a different way of analyzing and interpreting the world for a speaker of another language. Even if two very similar languages such Polish and Ukrainian, which are to some extent mutually intelligible (at least for me), are ultimately two different worlds, two different mentalities to taste. What I am trying to say is that it is a very good way to relive the experience again, a way to feel the adventure fresh and new as if it were the first time, like hearing your favorite songs being sung by someone else. A beautiful experience (sometimes).
>>14454489
Please stay humble, nobody likes a conceited person, although I'm not really the right person to say this and you know it, dear. Also, you're not rich, your parents are. You're just a spoiled child, like me. Just because we have access to daddy's money (and grandpa's money in my case) doesn't make us rich (yet):

>>14459526
Then just read it in Japanese and English instead of French. There still isn't a good reason to give money to MG, when you can just order a physical copy of the VN from Japan and directly support the creators, instead of giving money to middlemen.

>>14459620
>Then just read it in Japanese
Terrible, I am just terrible in Japanese...
>and English instead of French.
That's exactly what I did. It completely natural to me to go from French to English, after all, the first one is my native language.
>>14459620
>There still isn't a good reason to give money to MG
>support the creators, instead of giving money to middlemen.
I can understand why you're mad, but I can't feel what you feel because that's how the world works. Why should they have money, when it's not them that did the hard work? That's the way it's been and how it always will be. Nothing we can do to make it different. This world is full of all kinds of leeches, seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of someone else's work, and that's fine. They never going to disappear, it's not my money and we're all some kind of bloodsuckers in one way or another so meh.
It really doesn't matter how those hungry dogs get money for their food. Ryukishi is not an idiot, he's a very funny and brilliant writer, and he's not going to die from starving. I'm sure that the good old man is pretty comfy right now.

>>14460037
So there still isn't a good reason to support MG over RS07? Good to hear.

>>14457217
>who the hell mentions another language version on an English board?
Because there's the official french translated version I can buy? The french version is also well known for being the better translated work of Higurashi which was approved by Ryukishi. And, if it wasn't for the french version, you wouldn't have GuraGura (supposedly) working on the voice patch and art.

I care and I don't care if you don't care. I just get whatever I want because I love Higurashi.

>>14459526
>stay humble
Alright, alright.

>doesn't make us rich
True but it's my money to spend, so meh.

>>14460340
>it's my money to spend
Yes, I know that. I'm not telling you how to spend your money. You're cute, so do whatever you want, just like me, dear.

>>14460340
>Multiple arcs of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni have been translated by MangaGamer and ported to Apple's touch screen products. This translation has been approved by original author Ryukishi07.
Oh my, it's true. I didn't know that, kind of embracing... So it's all good then~

Are there CGs in the steam version?

>>14350291
Why do the english weebs think this is new? Birds of a feather, flock together?

>>14462667
Nobody think it's new.

>>14462660
No, but the ps3 graphic mod adds them.

>>14462754

>>14462660
>Not knowing the original game never had any
>Not knowing anything
Please leave.

>>14462747
Then why are people posting about it when it doesn't really matter, reddit?

>>14462928
Ugh, gross.

>>14462928

>>14463728
> >Not knowing the original game never had any

Yeah, not like the Steam version have new sprites, asking if there are CGs as well isn't crazy.

>>14463732
Yes, we know your a lolicon, Gura. Now fuck off.

>>14463748
Why would they add them? Sprites are a different matter because that's more or less all they added side from the new translation.

>>14463732
Do you have the rest of what you did for >>14462928 ?
I only saved the one for Rika and the archives are gone.

Wouldn't mind seeing more Rika with large hips.

>>14463910
That's some old stuff. Checked and doesn't seems like I saved it.

>>14463923
Fuck. Ah well. The only one that mattered was Rika but it would have been funny to have both Satoko and Rika with large hips.

>>14463910
Ah ha ha ha ha. Here's one I saved from before.

>>14463939
You sure kept all this old stuff pretty well.

>>14463939
You fucker.

>>14463728
>>14463849
>>14463939
At least don't make it too obvious it's you Xpearse, still butthurt Mangagamer didn't remake Satoko's towel sprites after you shouted so much about it? Or that another team continued Terraformars and that you can't put gay pics at the end of each chapters anymore?

Now, now, everyone. Let's all take a moment, chill, and refrain from childish insults.

Up you go.

>>14464082
Ha ha. What's that got to do with anything? And like I actually cared about that Satoko shit. I was shitposting, Gura-kyun. Also, you forgot about all these posts.

>>14354725
>>14355276
>>14403386
>>14414881
>>14416555
>>14419703
>>14435225
>>14438391
>>14446325
>>14448430
>>14451096
>>14453162
>>14457217

>>14469900
Consider suicide.

>>14470030
Come on, cheer up a little and listen to some music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A

>No sexual content
In the trash

>>14472221
>being a pervert
>>>/b/

>>14472221
Ryukishi loves to be lewd without being explicit.

do the mangagamer releases add or change bgm stuff?

>>14474462
No.

>>14474751
>>14474462
I am pretty sure the mangagamer release omits a few tracks due to copyrights

Use
http://higurashifix.wikia.com/wiki/Tweaking_Higurashi_Wiki
To add in the lost music tracks and sound

Good if you want things closest to how Ryukishi07 originally released the games

>>14474810
That's for the old release though. The Steam one keeps every original bgm.

>>14474462
They removed the new music they added and kept the original music that was originally in Higurashi. I still have mixed feelings about MG's music because the SoL music was horrible but the horror music they had was pretty creepy, if horribly overused. The original Higurashi SoL music was cuter in every way while the new they replaced was horrible to the ears.

>>14474939
Oh
Neato

>>14472946
Friendly reminder that R07 wrote this.

>>14480012
I don't quite remember this from the VN.

>>14474939
They changed this sound to something else though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVay367HM3Y
Maybe the one they changed it too was just what was in the original VN, but I liked that one more.

>>14480012
I pretend that the manga never existed.
Higanbana was edgy but the manga cracked that shit to 12. I'm still unsure if it's the way Ryukishi imagined it when he was writing or if it's the artist's choice.
It's really as though Ryukishi read reviews of people bitching that Higurashi wasn't creepy because the characters didn't look deformed, just weird cute moe girls and demanded the art to look fucked up.

The manga is still the reason why most people hated Higanbana before it got translated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JiToRdwVyw

>>14480012
>>14481875
Ins't the script still more or less the same? I'm not sure how that went, but it seems pretty obvious all the over edgy part of the manga that came with the ridiculous art comes from the artist, it was nothing like what Ryukishi used us to when it comes to horror, and the VN of Higanbana clearly showed that.

Damn kinda wish I modded shit before playing, maybe I will for the next one, kinda like it legit though

Anyway, does anyone have a link to the distorted higurashi sound that plays? The one thats like the normal higurashi crys but all electricy and spooky, can't seem to find it

>>14484231
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgfxMGBa9Ks
aka higurashi_soundscape.mp3.mp3

>>14487445
Thanks

Is the mod ready yet?

>>14491291
Graphic mod is ready, voice mod isn't fully fixed yet.
https://github.com/higurashi-mod/watanagashi

Up you go

You can't die yet.

Is it really worth replaying, jaypee?

>>14499817
No.

>>14499817
Of course it is.

Who cares.

Why is the mod taking so long, I need to play it, it's been a month...

>>14503822
Because Christmas or some shite.

>>14503822
It's almost there, hang on. Christmas season is always slower than expected and I have my hands full with other stuff.

I'll try to deliver the first version on christmas. There's only seven scripts left.

Will there even be Hou DLC for Sui? I thought they'd do it one year from Hou's release.

>>14506537
You'll also merge it with the graphic mod right?

>>14507246
Yes, that's the plan.

Bump

>>14507758
Doing God's work, anon. Take your time, rushing won't help you or the people that want to play the mod.

Bump

Patch guy here. There's only 4 scripts left to fix, one of them is already in progress. Expect a full release on christmas.

The patch should work fine with the graphics patch, but also expect some bugs. After that it's just a matter of fixing stuff that went unnoticed.

Last but not least, Onikakushi v2.0 was released earlier today: https://github.com/higurashi-mod/onikakushi/releases/tag/v.2.0

Pretty much a complete translation overhaul. You're going to miss some scenes from the PC version, but at least now all content from the PS3 version was translated and ported.

>>14522780

i've checked the github today and surprised only these were left to do.

>wata_007.txt
>wata_008.txt
>wata_009.txt
>wata_009_02.txt

thanks and merry christmas, patch guy

>>14522780
Sweet. Merry Christmas.

>>14522780
cheers

>>14437397
>A lot of people complained that watching Rika wash the window made them completely uncomfortable and I understand since I also felt like shit. Watching a character you like being sexualized like that felt weird but whatever.
Rika is perfect for sexualizing you fucking normie.

Merry christmas!
https://github.com/higurashi-mod/watanagashi/releases/tag/v0.5

I don't have the time to properly test the patch, so I'm hoping someone will take their time to report the bugs (I'll fix them asap). Also take a look at the known issues.

The whole graphics patch was merged, but I might've goofed somewhere. That was my first time merging scripts. Install Gura's patch first, then the voice patch. Overwrite the Update folder.

There's also a voices-only patch. Just download the master file and get the Update folder inside the dev folder. Thought someone would prefer playing with the original sprites.

>>14527764

What should i look for aside of the known issues?

>>14527801
Just install the patch (there's a nice tutorial here https://github.com/higurashi-mod/onikakushi#installation)) and create the symlink if you have the first game with patch installed. Then you're good to go.

>>14527850
>tfw replaying the first chapter fully voice patched to enjoy this more
Merry christmas, anon-sama, keeping the thread alive was worth it.

>>14527764
Just in time for Christmas.

Good job, anon.

No matter what I do the game always crashes at the 07thExpansion logo when I apply the patch

>>14527764
Quick question, I only have to import s02 to SE, right? Or do I have to import all of these folders? I already made a symlink for s19 and s20.

>>14528469
That's right. Since both s19 and s20 were used on EP1, you only need to symlink them to save hdd space. s02 was never used at all, so you place it in your EP2 folder.

You can also create a common folder for all sXX folders, and then symlink everything from there to subsequent chapters. That looks better in the long run, but might be confusing for some people.

>>14528432
Did you properly install both patches? If you didn't install the graphics patch first, the game is going to crash. There's a file called output_log in \HigurashiEp02_Data, you can find why it crashed there.

>>14528671
Voices don't play for me and I'm not sure what I did wrong.

>>14528676

check the sound option. my fresh install + new patches for some reason mute both sound and bgm option

>>14527476
I'm simply saying the overall opinion people had while watching Kira and not reading the VN.

>>14528676
Clean both CompiledScripts folders. I had this problem a while ago while I was building the patch. Sometimes the game just refuses to compile things right.

>>14522780
> Pretty much a complete translation overhaul. You're going to miss some scenes from the PC version, but at least now all content from the PS3 version was translated and ported.

Shit, for real? Though I just remembered a few lines being changed in the first discussion with Mion, what was changed otherwise?

>>14528934
What do you mean by clean? Should I just delete everything in there?

>>14527764
Thank you for your work. Hope you have a good Christmas

>>14529201
Yes. Backup them first, just in case.

>>14529185
Most changes are related to copyright issues, others to sexual innuendo. To be honest I'm not a big fan of these changes, but there was no way to have a perfect voice patch without changing stuff.

RIP in peace Steam

>>14530208
6 hours in and loving it, anon. Thanks for everything.

You really made my Christmas.

>>14527764
The entirety of chapter 5 does not have voice, and this is with CS and CUS folders cleaned.

>>14532429
Just fixed it, you can get the right file here: https://github.com/higurashi-mod/watanagashi/releases/tag/v0.5

Somehow git uploaded the wrong script, most likely because I didn't run a touch command on tje last file.

>>14531289
Thanks, I only got so far because so many people helped me.

Snort.

>>14527764
Chapter 9

>>14534163
Easy five second fix.

If Italo wants to add me to the repo, I can start looking out for small things like this as I run through the game.
I haven't had a chance to get around to watanagashi until today.

>>14527764
For some reason, the game doesn't let me progress past this point. Clicking, ctrling, and trying to exit back to the main menu do nothing.

>>14534481
What chapter?

>>14534485
Chapter 12. And it had to happen when the story was at its climax too. ;_;

Guess I'll just go to sleep and leave the rest for tomorrow.

Anyone want to try translating the following?
This is for tips 01; there are a few voice files that can't be used with our version because the script is different.

梨花rvS20/05/440500017.「……魅ぃに百億兆者ゲームを借りたことをコロリと忘れてしまったら、リアルで百億兆者ゲームをプレイさせたるどーと凄まれましたのです」

r………梨花ちゃんがリアル百億兆者ゲームをプレイ…。

r……したたかにＩＴ長者にでもなっていそうな気がするけど……。

沙都子rvS20/04/440400025.「リアルに百億兆者ゲームをプレイなんて、なかなかに愉快そうですわね～！」

r……もっとも。

r…こいつの場合、人から恨みつらみを重ねてとんでもねー目にあいそうだけど。

rまぁ、それはそれで沙都子らしくていいかもな。

r俺と梨花ちゃんが沙都子の頭をなでなでしてやる。

>>14534163
Fixed, download the master file if you want the new script.

>>14534480
Just give me your github username and I'll add you.

>>14534481
Doesn't make any sense because the script looks fine. Pic related.
Can you upload your save file? I'm still not that far in the game.

>>14534664
The guy who went through all scripts for Onikakushi v2 will probably do it. I'll talk to him later.

By the way, on the second chapter, Mion's flustered sprite gets squashed. I think it's just one particular sprite, but I can't say for sure. This happened on chapter 3 and it happened again on this TIP, called "It was delicious".

Since when is Higurashi on steam?

>>14534817
How do you use the master file?

>>14534836
Here https://github.com/higurashi-mod/watanagashi/archive/master.zip
The file updates automatically everytime someone updates the repository.

>>14534852
I meant as in, do I just drop the Update folder in my higurashi Streaming assets folder, like you do normally with the patches?

>>14534855
Yes, it works the same way.

>>14534817
Where is the save?

>>14535245
%appdata%\Mangagamer\higurashi02

>>14535589
http://www.mediafire.com/download/t27al4pdc85oj3v/higurashi02.zip

Where would we contact you when the thread goes down?

>>14535598
Thanks, found the problem and already fixed it.

New patch: https://github.com/higurashi-mod/watanagashi/releases/tag/v0.5.1

Bug reports should be sent as an issue at github: https://github.com/higurashi-mod/watanagashi/issues
I'll still take bug reports while the thread is alive. Someone should make a new one, though.

>>14534817
>Just give me your github username and I'll add you.
I have the github name in the post, I worked a lot on onikakushi.

>>14535804
My bad, didn't see it. Added you to the collaborators list.

>>14535648
I seem to have the same issue at a different point, created a github issue for it.

Why does the game say that it has "difficulty" when it doesn't have any choices/routes?

>>14538606
Difficulty = difficulty of solving the mystery, I believe. Also, mental anguish caused.

>>14538606
Difficulty represents the difficulty of understanding what is going on and/or being tricked.

I put up an updated chapter 2 on the github, which can be tested by downloading the master file.

In regards to the Sakura scene:
I added in a few voices that seemed to align with what was being said, but otherwise it'll need to be retranslated and fixed later.

I also tried out fixing the timing and flow of words in regards to spoken dialogue.
In some parts, a line will be spoken but the sentence will stop while the voice will continue going on.
I have put in a fix that will make these parts flow better by allowing the next sentence to display that goes along with what is being said.
Also, the timing when Mion is announcing the topics was increased so it matches the pause in the spoken dialogue.

>>14540446
Added fixes to TIPS #2 as well, to showcase what I mean.

I noticed here especially that there was a lot of times in manual mode where the written words would stop while the spoken dialogue would continue on.
It's not a perfect fix, it makes it a little too fast in some cases for auto mode, but auto mode will have this issue regardless without more tweaking to the timing.

Also fixed the two Mion sprites that were stretching.

I'm starting Minagoroshi-hen for the first time today so don't be sad that the thread is dying /jp/ I'll make another one soon!

Bye-bye~