If you can try andd use Hyper-V as it is windows native (if you have home edition then it's not something you can use because M$).
If you want a simple hypervisor VirtualBox will do just fine and I've had a generally better experience with that over VMWare (that said both will do the trick).
Lastly I should mention that you can use Qemu on windows; but I've never tried that myself and it might require some tinkering to get to work but it is the fastest virtualization framework I know of.
the most useful things in life are not learned in school
for you nothing will happen; Fedora is seen as upstream from RHEL and for desktop use that isn't something that should concern you.
for most people it is going to be a good desktop distro built on next generation technologies (wayland and pipewire for example), anything that happens under the hood should not affect your desktop.
I personally find beehaw's moderation weird, I get that you're trying to create a safe and regulated space, but you simple can't do that with 4 mods on the entire instance. I do think that their decision to jump to defederation is a result of these 4 people being overworked and simply not having the time to rationally evaluate the situation.
if they want to continue like this they'll have to evaluate on whether to appoint proper mods to their communities or just decide to change their stance on "safe" content.
I do want to play Tsukihime one day.
really good VN, I loved it (especially the far side routes which isn't an unpopular opinion) it has it's rough edges, but if you can manage to look past those you get something truly amazing. I don't know if I mentioned it earlier but I do have this thread which goes over where you can start reading, a big thing to keep in mind though is that the translation for the original VN is very much one by fans for fans (even though it's been cleaned up quite a bit on the readtsukihi.me version) and that some things may not make a lot of sense due to how well the translation works and some things in the original VN (damn you SHIKI).
How do you even get SHIFT_JIS working in Vim/Neovim? Did you use an alternative editor? Or did you just install the SHIFT_JIS locale from Broken Dragon and run vim with LC_ALL=ja_JP.sjis?
at the time I had emacs installed which would open the file; but that wasn't really a good option as I wanted to split the script into individual blocks using a rust program and decided the easiest route was convert from SHIFT_JIS to UTF-8 and replace ¥ with \ (it made sense to use the same byte)
I initially delayed responding to you so I could get around to trying this out, but I haven’t gotten around to it. It’s got files like VOICE, MGD, MSD, BGM, DATA, and SE. No file extensions. VNDB hasn’t recorded the engine, so it doesn’t seem like anyone knows. Maybe I’ll find out.
Hmm, at this point I'd look at the file headers using a hex editor to see if there are any magic bytes (readable as ascii text) and see if that gives me anything.
maybe also see if there are any additional resources packed into the .exe file (you can open those with any archive manager or the unzip cli tool) and see if there are any files that can help trace what engine it is or who made it.
another thing you can try is to run the binary through strings to see if there is any text inside it (although I don't know how well this works on windows binaries)
and finally (although this will be quite a bit harder) is to use something like Ghidra to look at the assembly and decompiled C code; but that'd be something you best keep as a last resort.
Thanks for all this. This is a pretty interesting conversation, so I’ve recorded the relevant bits into a document somewhere in case I have need of them later.
No problem, it's refreshing to be able to talk about this with someone after spending hours of my time acquiring knowledge trying to extract sexy vampire sprites.
another fellow Mushoku Tensei fan I see.
been looking for a plugin just like this for ages, although I'm not sure it will replace bacon for larger projects, it might be really good for just checking if it works and how it does so
The real question
I made a similar post on my home instance.
The big ones from that are CoQ (fast as fuck autocompletion using neovim's builtin lsp) it's artifacts for commonly snippets and ChadTree (nerdtree replacement made by the same person) I rely on both way more than I'd like to admit and they take neovim from a nice text editor to something that can rival any IDE for me.
I’ve been seeing a lot of Ren’Py games lately.
Ren'Py has been consistently good and open so it just became the standard now (much like KiriKiri and NScripter before it), we might very well see it be replaced eventually; but I don't think we're going to get a competitor real soon doubly so when considering it has made western visual novels viable thanks to it's great english documentation.
Are you a developer? You’ve got quite the encyclopedic knowledge on VN engines.
not professionally; but I do have quite a bit of knowledge and experience of poking at systems and hacking things together using whatever tools at my disposal, and when I started getting into visual novels (very much thanks to Fate) I wanted to know how it worked behind the scenes, I also had some technical knowledge at the time poking at Ren'Py a little; but that was of no help as Fate/Stay Night uses kirikiri and it's archives were unextractable with the tools I had (which is how I stumbled across AETools)
It’s a crazy amount of effort, I imagine. These games are pretty short, though (~4 hours?).
4 hours is really short from what I've come to realize and I can't imagine there are too many flags and branching paths to keep track of so it would be trivial compared to something like the original Tsukihime which has a script file of 4.5MiB (encoded in SHIFT_JIS so vim didn't even know how to display half the characters) which has 5 routes, a whole bunch of branching paths and flags it keeps track of, and way to many dead ends you'll run into without a guide because of a wrong choice you made half an hour ago and vndb lists it as 42 hours (those are some real fast readers).
The SonoHana games have MGD and MSD files. I don’t know if this page or any others on this site would be interesting to you at all.
I'd give it a shot with AETools first, unless it's on a custom engine for those games specifically or something used for like 5 games in total it should work.
I don’t know if this is something I can even approach right now. I wouldn’t know where to start. If I extract the .xp3 files with ae—then what? I admit this is all interesting at the very least.
The .xp3 files are just archives, they contain various files and what those are and where they are depends on the game, Fate/Stay Night: Réalta Nua Ultimate Edition (A community version of the game patched with all sorts of goodies from various releases) has files to load assets from the PSVita release which are stored in their own archive. You'll have to explore the extracted files yourself (I recommend doing so in whatever file manager you have as the AETools file preview sucks ass) you'll quickly find the file structure though as it is made to make sense. The big thing I learned is that this is a process of trial and error (largely the latter for me) and when your approach doesn't work out try a different angle and throw more stones at the window until you find the brick that breaks it.
That’s pretty cool. I know next to nothing about engines (Ren’Py seems nice), so this was enlightening. I know a group rewrote several of the Sonohana games in Ren’Py while working on their translation so it would work cross-platform.
Ren'Py is a really interesting beast as it aims to make things easier to develop for and is a really good cross-platform solution. It also is trivial to extract and modify and we can use the tools already on our system to do so, the downside to Ren'Py is that it is not nearly as flexible as kirikiri due to it's nature (and it doesn't need to be; most things are already baked in).
I do like the fact that they ported the game to Ren'Py and I appreciate their effort to rewrite the game's script, there's very few groups that will ever go through that effort just because of the amount of work involved.
Is this what you’re referring to? It’s written in Pascal…!
yes, it's a bit unsettling; but newer VN engines tend to use more common filetypes and AETools is written to deal with the older engines that just don't have a lot of easily available tooling for them, especially on the extraction side. I haven't seen any other extraction tools that work this well in wine and a lot of these older formats are archaic and tend to have very little in the way of documentation and even less in english (ONScripter only has this because of the VN translation community and KiriKiri has no good resources at all)
I haven't read the KnK novels so I can't speak for them, but in Fate/Stay Night there's an awful lot of inner monologue that got cut because it doesn't really fit the anime format, Shirou's actions make sense when it's there; but when it isn't it feels like he's downright stupid rather than chase an ideal he's hold so high thanks to Kiritsugu.
Not a lot of people like it, it has quite a tonal shift from what the rest of the series it but it fits closer to what Nasu does in other works like Mahoutsukai no Yoru. The VNs tend to highlight the slice of life aspects of the series more than the anime and coupled with their writing style it seems to work best in Tsukihime where all these aspects flow together to form one coherent whole.
I don't think they ever will, Type Moon has tried to distance themselves from some aspects of their earlier works and those shine very brightly in the original. I haven't read the remake yet so I can't say how things hold up there; but I've heard people say that it's a thing on it's own because of the changes made.
When you do, make sure to look for all the extra stuff along with the Plus Disc, it might be hard to find but there's a lot of stuff that's interesting but untranslated and never shared with the english audience (I have yet to check it out myself actually).
Glad to see someone agrees