/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>4897006

Vuy it...

>>4897375
>buy

>>4897399

The girls look kinda weird.

>>4897447
>Uboa

omg,lets just fucken crack it already, i mean it cant be that hard too find it somewhere on the internets, check somewhere else besides 4chan. maybe somebody uploaded it on a different site. fuck man

>>4898532
I could probably crack it, but I don't care about VNs, so... sorry.

>>4898535
its alright its not your fault, its the moralfags

I'm not buying anything from them until they make a package with 5-8 that isn't 80 fucking euros.

>>4898551
i don't even know how much fucken 80 euros is

>>4898557
It's 80 times 1 euro.

>>4898557
About 120 dollah

>>4898563
holy shit, 120 dollars for a visual novel? Is that normal in japan?

>>4898574
nope, the full kai is about 20€ untranslated

>>4898574
no

>>4898574
120 dollars is around the average Japanese kid's weekly allowance.

>>4898557

About 108 dollars. That's why people are pissed about buying the answer arcs individually.

>>4898532
It's nowhere to be found.

>>4898579
well fuck that, i wasn't gonna buy it but now im really not gonna buy it because i don't like getting ripped off. ill wait forever if i have too for the crack game

I wonder why Ryu didn't draw original covers for Umineko.

>>4898623
No you don't.

We all know why.

>>4898574
Actually, yes. Stuff like Kira Kira sells in Japan for 9,240 yen (about 108 dollars). The reason Higurashi and Umineko are so cheap is that Ryukishi doesn't actually have to pay anything for the production, aside from his own living, as opposed to other companies that have to pay writer, artists, musicians, programmers and voice actors.
Similary, MangaGamer has to pay licensing fees to the musicians(Ryukishi didn't have to pay anything for those, the artists basically donated the music), and pay for translation, editing and coding.

Higurashi Kai is a huge game, more than 3MB of text complete, Question arcs are about 2MB.

bump for continuation
last thread >>4884636

DL link: http://rapidshare.com/files/376721545/higurashi_kai_tsumihoroboshi.zip.html

>>4900085
Thank you sir.

>>4900085
I'm just wondering why filesizes don't match.
143,129,045 on RS vs. 173,231,231 on mangagamer
If it turns out to be legit after all, I'll upload it to Mediafire. So far 10 min left to DL it from RS.

im uploading it as well but its ridiculously slow

>>4900159
yeah, don't worry.

>>4900159
so is rapidshare so I don't really care all that much. I'm willing to wait if the RS link isn't legit.

>>4900207
I have 4 min left of dl, the other guy should have finished by now though.

legit, just not cracked

>>4900217
then let's wait for Cudder.

What's with the troll face in the zip?

>>4900229

has a"look.bmp" in it...and its a trollface. i lol'ed

>>4900242

...So, does that mean it's not legit.

>>4900258


its just not cracked.

>>4900085
>>4900159
Thanks, you two.

see you tomorrow, well today, keep the thread alive!

MU mirror:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G956O4WF

It's just Meakashi with trollface bmp image added.

Wasn't there a Kaibrid patch last time to get the .exe crack to work for meakashi? Are we going to make a patch like that for tsumihoroboshi too?

>>4900355
try reading the thread

>>4900332
Yeah, troll confirmed. File dates are around january-february.

>>4900366
*rolls eyes* I have. We've been talking about uploading it. And I guess it was fake. I'm asking about the Kaibrid patch since we got one last time.

>>4900332

Hey, sweet, Meakashi, I've been looking for that.

Anyone have the crack + various patches for it?

Well, the 14 mb trollface bmp was a nice touch.

Sigh, back to waiting...

>>4900387
read harder

>>4900367
why would somebody waste there fucken time like that, what an asshole

>>4900402
There should be torrent somewhere on Nyaa and patches somewhere on http://higurashifix.wikia.com/wiki/Tweaking_Higurashi_Wiki

>>4900355
>>4895034

>>4900402
All the patches for Higurashi Kai Meakashi are here.

http://archive.easymodo.net/cgi-board.pl/jp/thread/4501218#p4501218

Be sure to use the Kaibrid patch to crack it.

>>4900417
Just to look at your reaction. Ignore trolls, that's what they hate the most.

>>4900433

Found the torrent, but the Wikia doesn't have the BGM patch.

Ah, also, will the sound effects patch work in Kai?

Not even any deskpets this time?

Tch. 0/10.

>>4900304

Legit?

>>4900618
Pretty sure it's just the Meakashi troll thing again.

>>4900618

No.

I'm uploading mine, 13 minutes left-

>>4900618
It's a mirror of the fake rapidshare link

>>4900647
if not a troll, thank you

Sorry, my connection crashed.
Had to start the upload again, 1 hour 10 minutes remaining.

>>4900159 here as well
just hit 50%. 1 hour 40 mins remaining

Thanks guys that are actually trying to upload it. Your efforts are not wasted....I hope.

>>4900678
>>4900707
If your upstream isn't saturated, you can upload to several hostings simultaneously, you know. Also, make sure filesizes match MG's one and file dates in zip header pass sanity check, otherwise this troll won't be fun.

>>4900750
yeah same, i thought there were no bros left in /jp/, thank you

>>4900760
I don't have the time to go this far.

>>4900771
Oh come on, you aren't going to try and really troll us this time? How disappointing.

>I went over my download quota for the month already and got throttled to 4KB/s so you're going to have to wait for another 22 hours if you want to get it from me.

>>4900816
alright

>>4900816
Thanks for the update. Much appreciated.

>>4900771
See? We've got lots of time to have fun. Surprise me.

while we wait, here are Higurasi desktop pets, I already uploaded them in Sakurahana and Mcanime some time ago. here are the links:

Satoko:
http://www.mediafire.com/?gynenmm2m4y

Hanyuu:
http://www.mediafire.com/?t5knjtwj5nv

Rika, Rena, Mion-Shion:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dmyttnytk4m

done.
http://www.mediafire.com/?liogoene0jy
love ya /jp/

>>4901076
Is there no Keichii?

Is this the arc where Hanyuu shows up?

>>4901203


dont think so.

I bet theres a keichii pet, but I dont have it, sorry.

he's not a cute girl, so no, there's no keichi

>>490117
many thanks, you have done something that many would not have done and i thank you for it

I think were gonna get info about Hanyuu, but she wont appear til the next one. yet I dont really konw.

>>4901245
>>4901225
Hrm, thanks anyway. I was seriously hoping for Hanyuu already.

>>4901175
This seems to be legit.

confirmation on 4901175???

Im in the middle of dling something so I havent been able to dl it.

>>4901175
yo guys this is the real deal i think , just downloaded it, no troll face

waiting for Cudder to deliver the kaibrid crack/patch

>>4901175
cool virus.

>>4901340

Seriously? God, I hate you guys.

>>4901340
are you trolling because i didnt pick up anything

>>4901374
yes.

>>4901374
he probably is

this amuses me.

so is it really a virus or not? that dumb tripfag talking to himself doesn't help to understand things.

>>4901500
Suigin#ANQHd'7n

>>4901500
It's not a virus. But even if it's legit we have to wait for cudder to deliver the crack.

>>4901500

Seems legit, my virus scanner picked up nothing.

>>4901175
Cudder check this out, it seems legit

>>4901591


look at the dates on files tho.

Well, I'll be damned if it ain't the same old version check again!

>?ef
>push 1318310282
>push -1
>mul
>?31
>pusha @128
>jumpif (0)
>; _tsum_op.bss:5
>?f4
>; _tsum_op.bss:5
>pusha @128
>jump
>@128

Give me an hour to stop laughing and make Kaibrid2.

>>4901600

this has been said for the past 2 releases, the date is when MG finalized the files or something to that effect.

>>4901608
lolMangagamer.

http://rapidshare.com/files/376789069/Kaibrid2-r0.7z

would you please explain us about what version check is? so I can laugh as well.

>>4901751

Well, that was quick. Thanks Cudder.

Now we just need a music + interface patch and everything will be awesome.

so
>>4901175 is legit?

>>4901767

legit, and thanks Cudder

can somone upload the crack in .rar or .zip pls?
its just 375kb.

thanks to the uploader of the game and thanks to Cudder.

graphics patch Im waiting for you.

>>4901772
http://www.7-zip.org/

>>4901751
thank you for the crack brother in arms

>>4901751

You're a hero. Thanks.

>>4901751
You're the best.

>>4901772
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GT161MG4

-4901804

thanks.

Released on 2010-04-15 00:00 (est)
Uploaded on 2010-04-16 22:06
Crack done 2010-04-16 23:59

Two days. You're getting slow, /jp/.

>>4901830
lurn2link posts, you fuckhead.

>>4901853
well, /jp/ has changed since the name change, so far from what i see there is more moral fags then ever

I'm holding off this time until I get a proper music patch for this. I want to fully enjoy it this time.

i wont be uploading the next one either. i took money out of my NEET living funds. as long as it saves some people from buying it im glad though. dont support manga gamers half assed and expensive translation

>>4901910
im sorry you had too buy it for us, thank you good sir

Does Tsumihoroboshi have any music that wasn't in Meakashi? I'd think the old Meakashi music patch would still work for this.

>>4901956

Yes it does.

Also, again, Meakashi's music patch isn't even complete. All it does is replace the ones from 1-4 that got changed, but there's some new music in 5 that isn't in there still.

It still needs fixed.

Music plus PS2 sprites, and I'll be a happy man.

The music patch for meakashi still seems to work with Tsumihoroboshi even though some songs haven't been replaced yet. At least with the patch it doesn't have that GOD AWFUL 5 second cicada sound.

>>4902128
>>4901956
>>4901981

Why did mangagamers even change the music and sound effects? They should just leave that shit in and let us enjoy the fucking game

>>4902135

The sound effects, because they're faggots.

The music is due to licensing issues.

>>4902135
copyright issues

>>4901981

The guy who made the music patch said that MangaGamer didn't replace any of the tracks in Meakashi, so...

>>4902135

Legal issues. The tracks are all by different doujin artists, so they'd have to buy every single song.

>>4902160
They got Dai's cooperation for Kai (he's even thanked in the credits), and he did the majority of Kai's music, but it's still missing tracks.

>>4902160
>The guy who made the music patch said that MangaGamer didn't replace any of the tracks in Meakashi, so...

He's wrong.

That simple. People were under the IMPRESSION at the time that no Kai music would be changed, and AoS even admitted he didn't really check the Kai tracks.

Someone on another message board, however, about a week later noticed that several tracks were missing and/or changed. For instance, during Shion's escape from the school in the first chapter, there is a completely different, Kai-only track playing there in the original.

Several of the artists that are missing from Meakashi do some very pivotal tracks in Tsumihoroboshi and Minagoroshi, and if they're missing, this is more than a small thing.

/jp/ is so greedy, demanding the sprite and music patches so soon. be thankful you even got the stuff damnit, that said I thank you guys for hte upload, I should get around to Meakashi sometime soon though.

>>4902471
I don't see anyone demanding for the music or sprite patch.

>>4901076
oh my god these are adorable , are there anymore like these?

>>4902254

Ah, okay then.

In that case, we need someone to make another music patch for Kai. I understand it's not exactly that difficult...

I hope Anonymous of Spain will come and just fix the music problem, no one else seems up to the task

>>4902604
I'm thinking about attempting to do it myself, but I'd just be following the same method Anonymous from Spain did.

If anyone wants to upload the Japanese version of Tsumihoroboshi that'd be awesome, given I'm having trouble finding it outside of a slow torrent.

>>4902714

If you can do it, that'd be fucking awesome.

Thanks for the effort, dude.

>>4901175
>>4901751
Thank you guys, you made my ronery life a bit brighter.

Torrent:
http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=124973

>>4901076

thanks man these are awesome,

Now all we need is a music patch and PS2 graphics patch and everything is fine.

Does anyone have a download link for the question arc? I accidentally removed it and I need data01000.arc and system.arc for this one.

>>4903320
disregard that i suck cocks

>>4903320
google higurashi kureha

>>4903320
>>4903326

Can't someone just re-upload it?

I don't want to download again the question arcs for a single file

>>4903438
Patch file in the torrent (modified Kaibrid2) is standalone, it doesn't require question arc, hence the larger size. Just pick it out of the torrent.

>>4903442

Yeah, but i can't find it

>>4903438
okay, wait a min since it's small

>>4903466
okay here
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q1CHDREV

>>4903320
Every single Editorashi thread has had the DDL link in the OP. Search the archive.

>>4903472
oops, that's just data
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TTGPH4XA
system here

>>4902714

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Japanese Version

http://rapidshare.com/files/376921526/Higurashi_Kai.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/376951044/Higurashi_Kai.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/376934144/Higurashi_Kai.part3.rar

Mirror

http://www.mediafire.com/?ym32zomtzzm
http://www.mediafire.com/?bdegujmdtgz
http://www.mediafire.com/?iz2dmwmvlvm

This thread is what the old /jp/ used to be. Thanks, guys.

>>4904486
OP here, you're welcome

>>4902714
you still doing the music patch anon?

Removed BGMs, apparently, list from another board:

"Amber (Akatsuki Fuemaru)
Bellflower (Akatsuki Fuemaru)
Frozen Memories (Suebashi)
Utsu (Ebi Supa)
Sheep Counts (propan-mode)
Pros (propan-mode)

Luckily, Rengoku Teien's songs seem to still be there, though."


Also asked what BGMs are missing from Meakashi, so we can get a list so someone can finally fix that, too.

>>4906218

Need to finish my posts before I, well, post.

But he hasn't answered yet.

>>4906218
>Amber
Oh wow. I am NOT reading through the rest of the arcs until a good patch comes out. This goes for the next few. I know MG had to do it because of licensing issues or whatever but still this makes me frustrated.

so how long of a wait for the sprite pacth?

>>4906598
Be a man, use the originals.

>>4906598
If someone uploaded the ps2 folder, I'd do it myself.

Here's the Kai tracks missing from Meakashi:

"Mienu Mirai (DJ-NETA RAW)
Depressive Paranoia (tack)
Kyouki e no Kairou (DJ-NETA RAW)
Shukusai (Karegyuu)
Solitude (Suebashi)

Kyouki (Moroku) might have been removed as well, but I don't remember very well."

anyone have the ps2 originals? , cant find them

Best I could find is backgrounds and event CGs.

http://rapidshare.com/files/51947446/Higurashi_no_Naku_Koro_ni_Matsuri.zip

No idea where to get the sprites.

>>4906813
Here. It's seeded, don't mind torrent stats.
http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=36180

>>4906954
Sorry, those aren't.
Tsumihoroboshi is in the kakera asobi extension.
I could do it with the older patches, but some sprites are left

Is the song that plays during Shion's escape in Meakashi the original or altered?

I actually like it but I'd like to know.

>>4906990
Have you heard it before? no? then it's original

>>4904163
Thanks man.

>>4905986
Yeah. I went to sleep because the torrent I was using was taking too long.

>>4906218
>>4906625
Thanks for this. All of these, except for Depressive Paranoia, it looks like, are in the Higurashi Kai VN OST, in addition to the (obviously) Japanese version's music/sound files.

Anonymous from Spain just seems to have replaced some tracks (especially the SE), with others. I doubt I'll be able to do a full patch (just as he wasn't able to), given this, but I'll try my best. I'll probably just use the replaced sound effects that Anonymous from Spain used in his patch, so it's possible I could end up missing something SE-wise.

Right now I'm going to go through the Japanese version of Tsumihoroboshi to find the missing tracks and to match those up with the English version.

>>4906973
http://www.mediafire.com/?jznmyzoxwmc

I uploaded this when we first worked on sprites way back and made this for the answer arcs. Can't remember if it has everything but the PS2 sprites are there.

>>4907372
sweet, now lets wait , hopefully it wont take long

>>4907372
are the images in that retarded format or just in .bmp?

>>4907209
>Anonymous from Spain just seems to have replaced some tracks (especially the SE), with others. I doubt I'll be able to do a full patch (just as he wasn't able to), given this, but I'll try my best. I'll probably just use the replaced sound effects that Anonymous from Spain used in his patch, so it's possible I could end up missing something SE-wise.

So wait, they replaced some tracks with others and used it for multiple tracks, right?

So you can't actually get it back to the way it was originally?

What the FUCK, MangaGamer?

>>4907488
Yep, that's what it seems like. It might be possible to add the tracks, but you'd probably need some sort of hack for that, which I am incapable of doing.

>>4907488
I should note that I'm not very far into the Japanese Tsumihoroboshi yet, so I can't say with certainty that that's the case. So far I've only come across tracks that were replaced as early as the question arcs.

why there in options "text speed" doesn't work? is it crack's fault?

>>4907532
Nope, be sure it's the correct text speed and not the auto one.

Anyone knows how the hell I can create an .arc file?

Does anyone have a list of which artists contributed to which song from the japanese Kai?

>>4907562
I'm pretty sure that's what you want:
http://sl.criminalrussia.ru/dsp2003/animed.php?p=docu

>>4907589
This probably isn't a full list, but it's close.

>>4907613
Thank you, What is the name of that CD, if it is indeed a CD?

>>4907621
It's the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai Game Original Soundtrack. You can grab it here:
https://nipponsei.minglong.org/

Did we ever end up finding a way to get CGs and Voice Patches?

>>4907632
Many thanks anon

>>4907498
>>4907519
Just found the first completely omitted track. Just as Anon said, they replaced "Amber" with "Feel" in one of the tips.

so who is working on what right now ?

I give up on creating the arc file.
if I don't have to modify any image, I can do all the name change and upload a zip tomorrow

For those waiting for a clean proper single executable crack, here it is:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9fk5tt - higurashi_kai_tsumihoroboshi.exe

Starting with Higurashi Kai, they started using some integirty checks, and I believe the arc's are checked too, but the check should be trivial to disable with a few patches if it is present. The executable integrity checks were bypassed using a code injection.

Here are some older cracks that some people missed:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/frb0f4 - soullink.exe - While the Higurashi exe is known to work fine with this game, there's no harm in making a proper crack for it too.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/okeqw0 - edelweiss_v2.exe - The second fixed Edelweiss release, with a proper crack (without hybrid scripts and old exe). This is probably useless now as they plan on releasing a third version with redone translation.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/nycxhi - higurashi_kai_meakashi.exe - In case anyone missed it.

All these cracks don't require changing any archives or adding additional scripts and you can delete BGI.exe as it won't be needed.

This would maybe work for adding the music that wasn't included in MangaGamer's release, but it would require a degree of hacking and editing to get it to work. Cudder or the guy that does the sprite patch would probably be able to confirm this.

Create a new data05000.arc (where the .ogg music files are stored) with the missing Tsumihoroboshi music. Then, override the code that pulls up the tracks (not sure where this would be located, but it's probably in the script, which I think is in data01000.arc) to replace/add the new tracks. Sound effects probably wouldn't be able to be done this way, since it seems like they removed a fair bit of them and didn't use a replacement file.

>>4908184
When we combine all the Higurashi arcs together, which is planned for after the last of the answer ones gets released, we'll definitely need to edit the scripts to remove the versionchecks. But keep unpacking, I'm too old for that stuff now.

>>4908223
Putting the new sound files back into the .arc is not necessary. The engine looks for the file in the current directory, then the appropriate .arc (this is how Kaibrid/2 works). Inserting new sounds, modifying old ones, etc. are trivial since we practically know how to disassemble/edit/reassemble scripts. That was the whole premise on which Editorashi was based (speaking of which, SP1 will probably not be released until later, once the whole series is done.)

>>4908326
Ah, all right. Then it would just be a matter of editing the script to add the missing music. I'm thinking about doing it for Tsumihoroboshi so we can get a proper music patch, but I'm not exactly sure where it's located/how to properly edit and reassemble it.

For anyone interested in Higurashi Kakeba Asobi PS2

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IDZMJFL9
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DUIJAM56
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q8CN20RR
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LJB7ULCJ
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YENO3TP0
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LJWWKASG
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5SHMI9KS
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5T88PSVU
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HBL2DTY0

or

http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=89982

so can you do the sprite patch now or are we waiting for the ps2 sprites, im thinking about starting it but if its gonna come out soon ill wait

>>4908560
I don't think anyone's working on a sprite patch at the moment.

thanks for the clean proper single executable crack.

>>4908530
Good luck trying to extract anything from that. There's no working tools that I am aware of for the that version. The already available working tools is for Matsuri, not the enhanced version: Matsuri Kakera Asobi.

There's already a link in this thread for the sprites that are Nscript compatible. You just have to match/rename/convert to BGM and put them back into the arc file.

That said, I'm pretty sure Gogeta is doing it so if you don't know how to do it just wait.

We're going to need Kaibrid2 for the old UI-hide hack right? No one's done anything since that would work with the single .exe crack? Not even sure what is and isn't possible in that case.

Also, on a slightly different note, I remember there being some interest in ripping MG's translations to create an English patch for the original Japanese versions of Higurashi. Did anyone ever follow up on that?

>>4908818
Anything's possible if there's a will to do it.

>>4908818
>some interest in ripping MG's translations to create an English patch for the original Japanese versions of Higurashi
Well it's already been extract since there was the edit for it. But I can't remember the reason why no one wanted to backport it onto ONscripter. That way, someone with a little bit of Japanese knowledge could manually insert the voices using that one niconico video as an example.

I think it was too much work and not enough interest so no one cared enough, I suppose.

Guy doing the music replacement here.

Cudder made a program for extracting the script in a manageable format, right? I.E. the way the question arcs are formatted on the Editorashi site. I've been searching through the archive for it, but I can't find anything about it. If someone wants to upload the Tsumihoroboshi script in the Editorashi-type format, or whatever, I'd gladly go through it and edit the music it's supposed to pull up so it'd be the same as the Japanese version.

But, as I said earlier, this wouldn't work for the sound effects.

>>4908890
why not? The music patch for meakashi handled the cicada sound affects alright. It replaced the 5 second cicada sound with the less annoying orginal 5 minute sound.

I think you explained earlier that it's a programming thing, but maybe you and AoS are doing something different with the patch. Should I link you to his patch for reference?

>>4908818
Yes, Kaibrid/2 builds on the original engine for arcs 1-4.

>>4908890
http://rapidshare.com/files/324632612/bgidump.7z

>>4909278
Thanks, but I honestly have no idea what to do with this. ;_;

I might have thought that it would've been easier to do than it looked based on the Editorashi site. I saw the music filenames in the script over on Editorashi (they show up as "msysXX"), so I thought it would be as easy as just changing the script to reflect the correct bgi filename. An example from Tsumihoroboshi would be switching "b10_giwaku2" with "Depressive Paranoia" or "Sheep Counts" at the appropriate part in the script. That would be after converting them to ogg and then bgi files, of course.

>>4909278

Yeah, I knew that was why it worked, I was just asking if it was still necessary for that effect or if something new had ever been made to work with the single .exe patch for Meakashi that would work with this.

>>4909427
We'd have to make separate fixes for each version otherwise. That's why we chose to stay with the original EXE and base everything else on that.

Can I get a link to any of the /jp/ patches for the original Higurashi series?

>>4908811

Hm? There are tools for sprite and voice file extraction for that specific version on the tweaking wiki.

http://higurashifix.wikia.com/wiki/Voice_Patch

Nothing for the music or script, however.

>>4909853
I saw that a few minutes ago already so I wasn't aware there was one, like I said. I was just going off of what I remember from what I helped out on for the very first sprite extraction.

>>4909853
Thank you. PS2 Kakera Asobi CG's/Sprites (reposted):
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4ELXUVJ4

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Tsumihoroboshi partial music patch. A couple things to note:
- Only four tracks have been added/replaced since the Meakashi patch.
- This is NOT a complete patch, unfortunately, but should be enough to enjoy the game with some of the superior replaced tracks.
- This hasn't been tested.

The tracks that have been added since the Meakashi patch are as follows:
b10_giwaku2 - depressive paranoia
b_dive - PROS
Cradle song - Bellflower
Feel - HGRS_03

Included is the Meakashi installation readme and some additional info regarding the missing tracks.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mkru4tmvedz

Tsumihoroboshi partial music patch version 2. I missed the replacement track for b03_dame, somehow. I think this only shows up once or twice, so it's somewhat trivial.

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

I'll proceed to try Mion graphic patch to see if I can do a graphic patch.

>>4901076
anybody have a new link for satoko?

>>4911607
Reuploaded Satoko
http://www.mediafire.com/?ddxjgeefizd

>>4911607
http://www.mediafire.com/?xbbzmjdg3hy
Save it to your MF account. Looks like if one link gets taken down, file itself doesn't.

Here's some stuff that was shared in this thread as well:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8ee0d19615d42e5cab1eab3e9fa335ca0dd22b23bea21f30

>>4909690
Seconding this.

>>4910890
Thanks.
Waiting for a complete patch.

Any news on the sprites and BG's?

>>4912469
I just don't know how to use the stupid BGI tools to create an arc file for BGI.
Apart from that, renaming things is tedious but easy.

>>4912483
You don't need to create an arc file, you know. The free files on the directory override the arc ones. Just take a look at what Cudder did.

>>4912483

arccreate.exe - Creates a BGI .arc file
syntax: arccreate.exe (inputFolder) (outputArc)
example: arccreate.exe patch patch.arc

Copy arccreate.exe to the same directory that contains your patch's directory. E.g. your files are in C:\Project\Patch, you copy .exe C:\Project
Open console (Start - Run - cmd)
Change directory to where .exe and stuff are (type "cd C:\Project" withot quotes)
Run the .exe (type "arccreate.exe patch patch.arc")

>>4910890
sweet, how is it going?

OKay, I give up creating the file since arccreator doesn't even try to do something
http://www.mediafire.com/?mqmiowjnd2b
This are all the sprites needed for the game, renamed and all, in .bmp format.
what possibly need:
turn them into 32 bit bmp if necessary
would be either take out the backgrounds from the 02000 datya and mix them to create a new one or just override these files in the original, which I can't do.

>>4913149
who was the person , who did it the first time?

>>4913149
Wow, can't believe I'm *that* >>4912567
illiterate. For some reason (I suspect special characters in filenames) arccreate.exe crashes on this folder. So I got AnimED, chose its "Game Archive Tool", set output archive format as "[ARC] Ethornell Buriko General Interpreter", chose "sprites" directory I got from your archive for "Create Archive" - "Create from directory" and here it is:
http://www.mediafire.com/?imn3d3ymqm5
I don't know whether it works though since I just repacked the source files.

pic related

>>4913593
What the fuck?

>>4913622
"What the fuck?" The very normal fuck. As if I can't fail...
Here you are.

OK, making an arc didn't work and the carck didn't recognise its OWN unchanged files, so anyone who wants to do the patch is welcome

>>4913992
It's because they added checksums for the archives themselves from within the script. It's less of a matter of the exe and more of a matter of the initial _bp script checking the archive. In this case, in system.arc, you have ipl._bp, which checks the hashes of the data archives (hashing function is at 401000, trace from there). If someone is willing to make a disassembler/reassembler, this problem could be overcome. It can also be overcome by manually patching in the hashes, but that's probably too much of a pain for most people.
(Function at 0045B6D0 in the new exe is the one doing the hashing). With a few clever hardware breakpoints, it's possible to find the location of the hashes, but I think a _bp disassembler/reassembler would solve these problems once and for all.

ipl._bp:
00000001B0: B8 FF FF FF
00000001D0: F5 FF FF FF
Checksum location is there.
Maybe if nobody has done it by tommorow, I may look into making a patched executable or patched ipl._bp which would load arbitrary arc's and maybe external files as well. Until then, good luck!

>>4914243
I'm no programming expert, but wouldn't it be easier to just remove the call to the checksum function entirely?

>>4914410
Well, I'm not a hacker myself (not even a programmer), but you can't just remove the function output of which (hash) you're supposed to use for comparison with the hash you already have. I'd go after the comparison routine and made it follow the same route it does when hashes match when they don't match. We'll lose data files' error checking though.

Is there a patch to remove mangagamers ui yet?

>>4914836
Old patch works. You can find it from Tweaking Higurashi Wiki

http://higurashifix.wikia.com/wiki/System_Patches
The font patch works too

Is anyone doing the sprite patch or complete music patch?

>>4914926
Read the thread next time, will ya?

>>4913149
>>4910890

>>4914970

He said complete music patch, too.

Question: What needs to be done for a complete music patch? Is it just going into the script and changing the music trigger commands?

Is anyone doing that?

>>4914970

It's the sprites patch completed?

I need mai waifu /jp/ ;_;

I do have a Matsuri Asobi tool for extraction for voices and sprites which I uploaded. Anyway...hows the music and sprite patch coming along?

GOD DAMN use the old sprites you pussies. They're not that bad.

>>4915567

Yes they are.

I love Umineko sprites and i played all Rei with the ugly sprites, and they still bad.

is not that the old sprites are bad, at least for me, but with the matsuri feels much better to play.

bump

so anyone willing too do the sprite patch?

bump

Looks like nobody wants to debug our dear .exe to find a certain CMP followed by JZ/JNZ and point both jumps to the same address.
...or it's not that simple as seems to this hacker wannabe.

>>4915994
I'm willing if anyone gives me the tool to make them work, the last one mentioned in this thread, since the game doesn't like extracted and repacked files.

Let's hope Cudder or other smart head comes to our aid. Having all the needed files in one .arc looks much neater than the whole bunch of them dumped in one directory if you ask me.

>bunch of them dumped in one directory
>>4912535

Anyone willing to give it a try? Sprites are there: >>4913149

If this doesn't work in first place, there's no point in waiting for yet another patched executable.

>>4919689
can you explain it in more detail, the process and all

>>4919706
Frankly, I have no idea myself. It looks like one should copy all the files from
http://www.mediafire.com/?mqmiowjnd2b
to the game's directory, run the game using
http://rapidshare.com/files/376789069/Kaibrid2-r0.7z
or
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9fk5tt
and check whether sprites and backgrounds are replaced or not.
I didn't see/play any Higurashi game actually, so I'm not of much use for all of this.

bumpa

Graphics patch when?

so im guessing no body can figure out how too do the sprite patch

Up you go, for whatever reason.

What happened to all the zealous dudes that worked on the original release?

>>4921991
>>4922755
get out of here

>>4922757
I guess a fucking Monday happened. Still, the demand didn't go anywhere.

Curse you mondaaaaaaaaaaay *shakes fist* ;)

>>4918775
The check is done by code interpreted by the first-level VM, but we currently only know the instruction set of the 2nd level (that which the scripts are written in.)

>>4919156
We know the archive format but need to write a compressor first.

>>4923281
Stop posting in these threads.

>>4924115
> The check is done by code interpreted by the first-level VM, but we currently only know the instruction set of the 2nd level (that which the scripts are written in.)
You need to make a modified exe which bypasses the data01000.arc integrity check. It's not terribly hard to make one.

Look at 045B6D0, that's the VM instruction handler which hashes a given archive number (0-1,...). Set a breakpoint on it and see how it works. 0401060 is the function that does the hash (401000 is the effective hashing function).

You would have to modify the code at 45B6D0 to first check what the parameter is, if it's 1, just give it the expected hash, otherwise just run the original function. Plain old hooking via code injection. I bet you could do it if you tried.

> We know the archive format but need to write a compressor first.
Isn't there a compressor for it already? >>4907605
I don't know if it works properly or if it's for the same format.

So.. Anyone's capable of doing rather than talking?

I'm obviously not.

Is it the same guy always whining and begging after each Higurashi release?
First for the upload, then for the crack and then for all the patches and fixes.

>>4927807

Yes, of course. He's all over the boards. I know him, his name's Anonymous.

Seriously though, the more offtopic we go the sooner thread autosages.

>>4927991
>autosage
Did you mean bump limit?

>>4928046
When I say autosage I mean autosage. You know, the state of the thread after its bump limit has been reached.

TL;DR: bump

>>4915574

They're bad, but I personally think the PS2 sprites go way too far in "correcting" the original designs and lose the feel of the original designs.

The anime designs are the best, IMO- they keep the feel of the original designs while "correcting" them enough to lose the "Jesus FUCK can this guy find a friend who can fucking draw please" feeling of the originals.

>>4928782
The manga sprites are the best ones.
Also the HMG ones are great.

>>4928831
They are not even SPRITES anymore.
>>4928782
Too STICK FIGURE quality, excluding Mr. Delicious.

Is there any updated site about all different patches?

>>4928782
>The anime designs are the best, IMO- they keep the feel of the original designs while "correcting" them enough to lose the "Jesus FUCK can this guy find a friend who can fucking draw please" feeling of the originals.

I like the designs, but the way they animated them is retarded (the chibi look and overly retarded anime reactions and faces on EVERYTHING)

Since you want a CG patch so badly, let's examine what steps YOU need to take to make one:

1) Find the game with the new sprites/CGs
Is this it >>4908530 ? (*)
2) Find or make a tool to extract the sprites/CGs and convert them to BMP or PNG
3) Convert the sprites to the game's own internal format using some BGI tools (*)
4) Extract and convert the original sprites to PNG using some BGI tools (*)
5) Match up the original sprites to the new sprites and replace the original sprites accordingly
6) Pack up the sprites into an arc (optional) (*)
7a) Test the sprites in the Kaibrid2 backport.
7b) If needed, patch the new game exe to take the cg arc that you made in 7a, otherwise this works on both games.

* - Requirements for this are fullfilled and you can probably do it now.

Is there a show stopper? Tools for PS2 sprite extraction/conversion are lacking? Or just nobody cares about making one, if that's the case, then just don't ask for it, or if you want it, go make it!

I love the original sprites. Just need the music/SE patch and I'm good.

>>Find or make a tool to extract the sprites/CGs and convert them to BMP or PNG

See >>4909853 or >>4910181

>>4930221
So that pretty much means anyone could do the CG patch if they wanted to.

>>4928963
>5) Match up the original sprites to the new sprites and replace the original sprites accordingly

Do i have to start from scratch?
Why can't use the old patch as a start?

>>4928963
1) Find the game with the new sprites/CGs >>4908530
2)-5) Find or make a tool to extract the sprites/CGs and convert them to BMP or PNG >>4913149
6) Pack up the sprites into an arc (optional) >>4913480

7a) and 7b) are left up to volunteers.

>>4930339
You can try and see if it helps, or get in contact with whoever did the first patch and have him do this one too.

>>4930363
☂ »→ Gogeta.SSJ5™ The Great-One-and-Only ! ←« ☂ did the question arcs and Meakashi patches, but he doesn't seem to be around.

Anyone's making any progress?

up we go

Rena is a good girl.

>>4939962
She loevs her father. ;_;

I might be retarded but i got confused by the readme for the music patch. Does it completely fix the music?

>>4939962
Working at those places uses you up. It becomes hard to love someone when you constantly play the game with your guard up all the time. It's a very lonely life.

>>4925801
Bookmarked for later inspection. Currently working on Hatsukoi project.

>>4941977
Hanging around 4chan uses you up. It becomes hard to love someone when you constantly play the game with your guard up all the time. It's a very lonely life.

So, we ARE getting BGM&CG patches after all. I knew that good people in this world have to exist..

some progress here
should have sprites done by tomorrow hopefully

>>4946405
I love you, anon.

ok, so what patch in the "tweaking Higurashi wiki" will change my Japanese font to English

>>4941927
No, it's only a partial music patch. It's impossible to completely fix the music without editing the actual script.

Can i get the DL link for Tsumihoroboshi i would appreciate it all the links here for it seem dead.

So will we be getting this sprite patch in the usual Sprite-only and Sprite+Background flavors? Or just one of the two?

Also, we're coming close to needing another thread, I believe. 300's the limit before auto-sage, right? Might end up having to start another before the patch is done.

Just go buy the damn game. If you want the PS2 graphics, go learn Japanese and buy the fucker.

>>4951390
>buy
wwwwww

>>4951123
Be a real man. Use the original art.

>>4951398
What's wrong with doing what's right?

If you don't buy it, you might never get the end.

>>4950821
The links are not dead.

>>4901175
>>4901804

>>4951419
Thanks guys, just wait and when this company goes under, you'll only have yourselves to blame.

>>4951123
I'm just doing the sprites at present, I'll probably upload those when I'm done and then look at the backgrounds

>>4953182
Okay, thanks. Was just curious.

>>4951390
Be a d-bag more.