/vr/ - Retro Games

Incoming gifs for your pleasure.

>>1482105

These ones look to be plot sensitive, so I shall be spoilering them.

i hope to have my reproduction of garage done in a couple weeks

>>1482118
will you be providing templates for others to create their own?

>>1482118

I've begun reordering the pages of the manual for easier printing. They're not perfect, but until someone more skilled in Photoshop provides alternatives, they will have to do for me.

Here's the first page for printing (front and back):

http://picsurge.com/ayGyeU

That sounds like a lot of work so maybe,

garage-san-scanning-manual.gif

>>1482127

>>1482120
I can probably do the box outline pretty easily. Might need a big printer though for some sexy replication I will see what is easy. Could just go to a place and get them to print it for you , and have something easy to fold and cut around

>>1482120
Yeah i have to iron this box and use another scanner, ill put up a template, its almost completely straight forward besides a slide bend on the flaps. Feed it some cardboard into an online service or a local place and you got yourself some classy replicating.

>>1482142
awesome, sounds good

>>1482150

>>1482125
Page 2:

http://picsurge.com/g/xSSFaO

>>1482175

End of gif dump. I'm not going to post what happens to the player's character in the end, as some people have spoilers turned off.
There does seems to be a good and bad ending from what I can tell, however.

>>1482160
Page 3:

http://picsurge.com/g/hr5Uf6

Will try finish these tomorrow, I gotta head off. Bye all.

Anyone have the walkthrough?
I have http://hanamushi.jp/garage/g_map.htm, but I recall there being a slightly more in-depth walkthrough available.

>>1482270
Check the lostwikia with all the nicovideo's. full playtrhough.

So how exactly do I install this guys? I downloaded it yesterday but I'm kind of stuck as how to proceed in actually playing it.

>>1482707
use a Virtual machine.
Boot Windows XP on it.
Set everything in japanese language.

>>1482707

Use japanese locale or just set the japanese language for non unicode programs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyT673GCzvc

>>1482145
Huh, I don't remember seeing that one in the Nicovideo playthrough. I wonder where it figures in.

>>1482903
I would love to see orchestral remakes of the ingame songs

so, what's next on /vr/'s hitlist?

>>1483143
eastern mind 3

>>1483153
There's a third?

look what i caught

has VR done anything with Heroine Anthem 1 or 2?
800x600 sprite based chinese PC game came out around 2000.

Just started downloading. Is this easy to get running?

>>1483237
Pretty easy. I've got it running as per these instructions >>1477193

>>1483246

Thanks for the link.

>>1482145
>>1483030
i just found it, it plays when you click on シャドーマーダーショウ (shadow mother show)

>>1483461
wrong pic

>>1483461
It's actually "Shadow Murder Show". But yeah, I don't think the Nicovideo playthrough showed any of the projector slides, so that would explain it.

Yeah a few things to program an XP virtualbox of your flavor:

I open the [Control Panel] from [Start].
↓
I open the [Advanced Settings] from [system].
↓
Press the Setup button on the [performance] to open the [Advanced Settings].
↓
Press the SET button of [virtual memory].
↓
To reduce the value of the initial and maximum size after selecting the [Custom Size].
I think that there are such people, which is also the D drive and people drive C only (boot disk) is (drive, but it does not seem mind these two hard drives. But also report that could not be improved if there is only only boot disk there.)

In Settings] button → [OK] button, to close the window and hold down the OK to order the rest, and then restart the computer.
Because it depends on the memory you have gained for values to actually set, we will decrease the value further by repeating the above steps if you do not go well.
-Install Windows XP SP1 in VirtualBox
-Go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options
-Click the Languages tab
-Tick "Install Files for East Asian Languages
-Click Details under Text Services and Input Languages
-Click advanced then tick "Extend Support of Advanced Text Services to all Programs"
-Click OK
-Click the advanced tab of the Regional and Language Options window
-Change "Language for non-unicode Programs to Japanese.
-Hit apply and restart.

>>1483153
>>1483180
I think he means the Rolypolys games by Osamu Sato, which aren't actually connected to Eastern Mind.

>>1483658
And theyre not that exciting, just annoying not to have for completion sake

Bump

A kind Redditor translated the opening sequence for me, which I then used to put this together. We're both not sure about the whole "sports equipment thing", see note within.

>>1484653
It's "sports shoes" or "sneakers". (運動靴, "undougutsu") They actually show up later in the game.

>>1484669
thanks :)

>>1484653
>>1484669
Revised version.

>>1482097
Is it fucking that other robot?

Can't into moonrunes, anybody know what this error says?

>>1485130

It says you need at least 3 mb of virtual memory to run the game.

if you are someone who is easily disturbed is this a game safe to play? I hear good things about it. I can't browse x without getting scared.

>>1485156
Play it in a windowed virtual machine whilst watching the nicovideo playthrough.

>>1483153
Xia-Che

>>1485049
Yes.

>>1485156
jesus christ

>>1485130
not entirely sure wtf but I'm pretty sure most people are running XP SP1 so maybe that's the issue, also I saw a post in the old thread about changing memory alottment or somesuch, maybe check there

>>1485410
what's that?

So, now that you guys are finally playing this game, is it actually any good?

>>1486360
it's ok, not really interesting since there was already the complete walkthrough on niconico

>>1486362
of course it's not gunna be interesting if you have no context and are just going through the motions as per the playthrough. This game really needs to be translated for most to enjoy.

>>1485410
wait.. there actually is a third one?

>>1486484
I don't think so. I think Xia-Che was just some sort of promotional video that Sato did for Sony.

here go, all the obscure games /vr/ has got together, zipped and uploaded to the one mediafire from torrents .ru and whatnots.

http://pastebin.com/zBtztRhK

This should be an obscure general too, all sorts of cool unknown games keep popping up.

How do you go about inspecting the game's assets, modifying them and then reinjecting them? I wouldn't mind playing through a Google translated version of the game at this point

>>1486989
I dunno they seem to be director projects, hopefully they open in one version. The chances are they are locked and uneditable but im gonna give it a shot now

>>1487041
>The chances are they are locked and uneditable but im gonna give it a shot now
thanks, keep us posted

>>1487045
yeap protected through and through.
hardcore mofos can hexedit graphics. :|

>>1487045
trying an app called diropener, if anyone knows diddly about opening macromedia stuff that would be epic.

>>1487045
HEY success the files can be decrypted.
Now just have to trial and error which version it was made with.

>>1487158
nice!

totally busted.
no idea what im doing though.
needs a plugin, which was easy to find. other than that no idea how to get to the text.

uses macromedia mx 2004, and only it. sweet, nice and compatible.

>>1487283
awesome

>>1487283
>>1487285
Any experienced anon care to shed some light on the next steps?

I still have to encrypt it back and slide it back in but im pretty confident that itll be fine. Ill upload my discoveries and everything needed soon

>>1486832
awesome.

>>1487296
Seriously its like whenever someone inputs things for the greater good theres always one retard to sage it. Go out and do something productive rather than slag others.

>>1487293
thanks dude :D

>>1487298
What ?

Its possible to extract music for garage?

Its so creepy that its enjoyable.

>>1487342
Yeah I really like the music too. Before the game was up, I used to just listen to the playthrough on repeat

https://mega.co.nz/#!SYol0JZY!AA4_YCf-j9J7E1L1mxJm93BDYztvV9AqAQQ5GMmgJ80

- director 2004 mx
- unencrypted files

if anyone knows their way around how the assets work with the text by all means feel free to share.

>>1486832
this is my idea in the old thread but now we need a thread only for Garage.

Any way to get this running on Windows 2000?

>>1487575
Should work relatively similar to the instructions given to get it working in XP

>>1487430
which file am i supposed to open in Macromedia Director? is there any logical order or is it just a case of trial and error?

>>1487625
Theyre all assets in the game, im not sure which has text in it.

I can't get the damn game to work.

Virtual CloneDrive is taking a shit. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling VCD as well as deleting and re-downloading the game's files. I just want to mount this thing to an ISO, is that so hard?

If someone can help me out, that'd be nice.

>>1487667
burn it.

>>1487667
Convert it into .bin

>>1487703
>>1487704
No, you see, I get a "Error: Can't open VCD!" message when I do this.

I've even tried VirtualBox, I can't get that thing to boot.

Why do I always have shit luck when it comes to computers and programs?

>>1487712
try PortableWinCDEmu-3.4.

>>1487720
Tried that. No luck.

>>1487747
Can someone just give me a good walkthrough on how to properly run this game?

One thing I honestly hate about PC gaming is how complicated it can get when it comes to things like this.

>>1487751
then, just burn the game.
Hey, it's not like on console, you can mount iso.

>>1487774
I even tried burning it to a CD. Wouldn't work from there, either.

>>1487781
Hell, can someone just upload the playable file somewhere? I really can't take much more of this fiddling around.

>>1482135
>Yan falling asleep at the end like "Fuck this, i give up"

>>1487790
Its pretty easy man

I´m new to /vr/ and what the fuck this I just saw?

I read the wiki entry but does the fame have a goal at all?

So, what's the statut on the translation ? Is it possible to translate all the text and make an english version ?

>>1487790
Will do.

>>1487890
I'm just a collector who is sharing at the same time. No big deal, if that what you wanted to know?

>>1487790
here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/cda9cicv0eqd4p1/garage.rar

>>1487667
Maybe your download just got corrupted?

>>1487995
I just gotta say thank ya for making this game available to us unworthy masses.

>>1488085
And you thank you for making it so easy to run for us lazy masses.

I know a lot of you Garage guys are Sato fans too, so if anyone wants it:
>>1488210

>>1487821
Dude, if that ends up being a major spoiler I'm going to rape you with a squid jig.

>>1488030
Was Zeddas 2 available before Discoalucard upped it today?

bump

>>1489071
No. There wasn't any ISO rip of it to be seen. I have an article soon to be released on HG101 about the first game, the one that did make it here, but I also talk about the almost complete non-existence of the sequels online or physically. However he managed to buy Zeddas: Horror Tour 2 when it cropped up on a Japanese auction site, and ripped it when it arrived yesterday. I've been playing through it despite it being entirely in Japanese but it feels way more polished than the first one.

>>1489059
In the matter of fact, the main characters name is yan from what i know
Some guy did a short translation of the opening from the playthrough and "yan" was mentioned multiple times. Probably the MC

>>1486989
There are tools for extracting and reinjecting. I'm still not sure whether it's best to do that or work with them in Director

>>1487116
The text is zipped. That's more compression than protection.

>>1487158
It was made with Director 6. No need to decrypt anything the files aren't encrypted to begin with.

>>1487430
From this I'm guessing you feel that rebuilding it in a newer version would be the best way to go, however since you didn't include AlphaMania I'm guessing you haven't tried? There are pros and cons each way. Would be good to have some discussion on it so people can coordinate their efforts.

>>1491067
Why?

it only opens in director mx, they had to be unencrypted, and the plugin is there.

I dont even know if there are build problems with encrypting them again but anyone interested in taking it further with macromedia experience its all in the file to give some input

>>1491171
Didn't see the plugin at first. Thanks.

Can you elaborate on this encryption? I seem to be able to get at all the text just by unzipping the data. I haven't tried modifying and reinjecting yet.

Are you saying it won't open in the version it was designed with for some reason or that MX 2004 is the most recent version that can open it?

>>1491305
I used Diropener to make it read inside MX2004. i tried 5 and 6 on the files and it said the file was too new. As for the text, they seem to use the plugin and not stored as bitmaps, i wouldn't have a clue. Can always put a bounty on it and some sri lankan midget will figure it out

>>1487575

That adapter.

Does only the right port work on yours too?

>>1491305
Thanks. Won't waste my time trying those versions that don't work.

I reinjected some text and the projector throws an error about the file having a problem. I'll play with it a bit more as I'm hoping I just something i missed and not some checksum that needs finding.

If you used diropener when you don't have the scripts right? There's still a lot of script information in cleartext though. Things like menus and stat changes are pretty clear.

I guess it comes down to whether it's better to try to kludge a translation into the existing framework or redo the game using the available assets. Maybe some of the people doing a walkthrough could give an idea of how complicated the timelines are.

>>1491727
Sounds like something a forum on assembler would do nicely on

>>1491785
Forgive my ignorance but I don't know what that is?

>>1492168
assemblergames. forum for programmers technician sort of crowd

I doubt it will se a re-release simply because it's a limited item.
The japanese love their limited items and hold reputation in very high regard.
Re-releasing a limited item would be taken as being dishonest towards former customers.

>>1492275
Thanks. Do you know if there's any interest there? I was really just hoping to contribute to a translation of something that's been talked about a lot here and that some fucking awesome dude here paid a shit tonne to bring to us.

>>1493043
Someone was speaking up about iover there but eventually a thread should be made there, will prob do it myself

>>1485410
I want to believe

>>1487342
if no one is going to rip music, I'm going to try doing it myself tomorrow

So, you guys who are playing it, do you know some japanese? It seems like it'd be nearly impossible to play an adventure game without knowing the language it's in. Or is it easier than it seems? I really want to play this but I'm pretty intimidated by the language barrier and am just kind of hoping for a translation of some kind at some point (probably not going to happen).

>>1496000
Personally I'm still holding onto hope of a translation before playing though it. My initial idea of taking screenshots then using OCR software to translate with Google has proven pretty unsuccessful unfortunately.

>>1495965
had any luck with this?

>>1496000
I downloaded it, played a little of it, and came in here to ask the same question. There's no point in playing a game like this if you can't understand what's going on. You're missing like, 60% of the experience.

Looks like a neat game. Reminds me of those old Haruhiko Shono games, only more of a depressing, slightly creepy atmosphere.

>>1497718
lel this is harder than I thought !

There are no common audio files in the directory, so I guess all sound stuff is in these 2 files, which are respectively 18 and 26 MB large (sound is always heavier than most things).

From my research, macromedia director can open these files...so I'm downloading that

>>1498461
ok it's happening

GARAGE OST

http://www.mediafire.com/download/8tell54c5nklaul/GARAGE+OST+1.0.zip

these are just the music files, the other files are just special effects and stuff, I'll rip those tomorrow

>>1498852
Neat stuff. Arent there other songs that werent added to the OST yet?

>>1498852
nice, thanks

Hey, since the ost has been ripped, why hasnt anyone attempted to rip music from chu-teng?

So, who's going to do a cross-platform open source clone of Macromedia Director called OpenDirector?

>>1500127
Wasn't Sato's album Equal actually the soundtrack of Chu-Teng?

>>1498461
>>1498669
Does it have to be Macromedia Director or will Adobe Director work too?

>>1500734
I used adobe director 11

>>1500462
It was kind of remix CD of LSD and Chu-Teng.

>>1498852
>>1499196

There was a trailer of garage. It had music not included here.

>>1503080
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0lyUaaSM5E
that one

>>1503080
>>1503225
oh you're right! that's my favorite...

maybe it was made just for the trailer so it's not present in the game files...but I'll keep searching anyway and update the OST when I find something

>>1498852
GARAGE OST 1.5

http://www.mediafire.com/download/o2ri1c417auz65k/GARAGE+OST+1.5.zip

this is everything I could rip, 74 files including SFXs and music.

>>1503080
>>1503225
said track is now included (title is 087) it was "hidden" inside credit.dir

>>1498852
>>1504157

anon, where did you learn to rip stuff from games? where can I learn that too?

english translation when?

>>1504157
Thanks for that sound track, I really enjoyed it.

The use of everyday noises, such as a the dialling tone on a phone, to create an unsettling atmosphere is one of the things that help make this game stand out.

>>1504829
lel when I started ripping garage I had no idea on how to do it...I guess it's just a process of trial and error, every game is different

Does anyone know what part of the game Tracks 91, 93 and 94 play. Their little tune is catchy.

>>1505997
somewhere in here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHc_z6DjAxE

Can anybody who has played or just had it explained to them give me some basic info on the story? I'm sure it's some off the wall surreal shit but a little summary would be nice

>>1506246
You are the test subject of a machine called "Garage". This machine probes the depths of your mind and plunges you into a dream world. The world you find yourself in is a world of wooden scaffolding and rusty machinery built over a sea of sewage. It's populated by strange half machine, half living beings, and you yourself have become one of them. You learn that you are an outsider in this world and that you should find a way to escape. So you set off on a journey, and along the way you meet and trade with the other inhabitants of this strange world, and eventually learn about its history and secrets.

Any news on the translation project?

>>1508637
Start learning moon, you'll probably play it sooner if you do that.

Woah, I haven't been on /vr/ for a while, and this time you guys found Garage? Goddamn, that's awesome as hell. Thanks!

Thanks to whoever uploaded Chuteng btw, that was a very neat experience though I couldn't understand anything that was going on.

>>1508637
There was a thread where we translated the opening and decided doing it screenshot by screenshot was inefficient but the thread disappeared and I don't know what happened next. That was about a week ago.

You can always copy the text out of the files and run it through google translate if you want an approximate translation. Honestly I don't think it would be that much different than what's been done so far by non-native speakers.

bump

>>1504157
Nice work anon

Can anyone translate this for me? Trying to get the best VirtualBox settings.

Patcher for the game engine to Macromedia Director

http://www.old-games.ru/utils/soft/


Looks like this might help people having problems running the game on newer systems.
The file looks to be clean, so I'm going to extract the iso and see if it works.

>>1517052
It's pretty self explanatory.

166hmz Pentium, recommended Pentium II
48mb graphics, 64mb recommended
display with 32k colours and capable of 640 x 480
4x CD-ROM drive
Soundblastan

>>1487995
thankyou so much for releasing this game for everyone!

>>1487995
Thanks. It was nice.