Oresama 10 Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Greeting all! Looooooooong time eroge fan here. I remember playing True Love and Paradise Heights back when they first hit the US. They got me hooked and I never looked back. I work in IT for a Japanese company, primarily fixing things for the English-challenged Japanese guys when the need arises. I speak Japanese and read at about the 4th grade level, but my IT background isn't in hacking compiled code, creating a patch and everything that goes into translating an eroge outside of the actual translation. Are there resources online I can use to learn what the hell I'm doing in this area to see if translating and creating patches is something I'd want to do? I dabbed a little bit in messing around with a completed game a couple years ago. I fixed up a lot of the bullshit that was wrong with Phantasy Star 2 1/2 Fallen Planet, gave it a bitching soundtrack and uploaded it on the PS Cave forum in the fangames section. I'm assuming fixing a game made in RPG Maker will be easier than this, but at least it's a completed project, right? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ivan 148 Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 Most popular VNs are based on either open source engines or have tools for extracting/re-inserting script files easily available. http://tlwiki.org/index.php?title=Tools is very good place to get you started. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
killerinsidee 14 Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 (edited) My suggestion is to download the KiriKiri2 tools from Ivan's link and look for VNs that use that engine. Quite a lot of VNs use it (especially the shorter/low budget ones) so it's not really hard to find something you'd like to pick up. If the VN has some .xp3 files, it's using KiriKiri2. I'm suggesting this because you don't need to know anything about hacking or whatever. All you need to do is (roughly) 1. Extract the scripts from the .xp3 file, 2. Translate the stuff, 3. pack the files you translated into patch.xp3 and copy into the game folder. There are some more in-depth guides out there, but this engine is really easy to work with. Edited December 19, 2014 by killerinsidee Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oresama 10 Posted December 19, 2014 Author Share Posted December 19, 2014 Thanks for the advice. That gets me looking in the right direction. I was actually thinking of taking a stab at X-Change R. Judging from the original X-Change it shouldn't be too long and I'm already familiar with the story so it should go a lot faster than going into a game cold. Plus I've been curious about what was added/changed, so that will serve as an incentive to get it done. I don't suppose anyone knows of a working download link or seeded torrent? It's for a good cause. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
killerinsidee 14 Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 You could try looking on animesharing for links or maybe pornolab has a working torrent of it. Or try your luck on google . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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