VNDS

I don't know if anyone has pointed this out yet. But on fat DS, the toggle backlight option doesn't work for turning the light back on.

So could there be a config option to disable it? Since its annoying whenever I accidentally hit the select button (I do this like once a week, I'm pretty bad at this video gaming thing).

That's correct, you can't enable the light on the phat, have this problem too

>>55
Crashes due to the image being wider than 256 pixels, I've fixed it for the next version.

>>56
I'll fix it.

>>56,57
Changed the backlight button behavior:
DS Lite: Changes backlight level (between 0 and 3)
Old DS: Toggles backlight on/off

>>58
GMRUA.png PORRY.png oSOAu.png JWdlR.png rsSNI.png AAFIA.png aksZK.png Tzrco.png UyKJp.png agHfR.png esHEh.png GWcWJ.png

I found 12 images wider than 256px

>>60
Being wider than 256 pixels should not cause problems. There was just a bug that made the program crash on those images.

i noticed in tsukihime that if there's a sound effect repeating in the background (like at the very beginning where a clock is ticking) and you go into a save or the other menu, then back to the game, the sound will now be gone.

>>53
JPG

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PNG

74,9 kB (76.741 bytes)
76,0 kB (77.824 bytes)

One result of comparing the same quality image, so indeed converting to JPG is good.

Strange thing... 'playing' FSN for first time..

FSN seems to go back to the title screen in the middle of the game.

When?
On the second day that Saber and Rin are training Emiya, after Saber trains in sword fighting and Emiya grab pours water from the kettle.

any1 else experiencing this problem?

>>64
Due to a bug, tapping the touchscreen advances the script even while a choice is displayed on screen. That can cause the program to read past the end of the script, which makes it return to the title screen.

I'm working on the fix.

I am currently porting the sidestories (ten nights of dream)
to VNDS.

I know it's not that much, but hey:
It's my first time trying to work with VNDS :P :P

>>5
Flowers of Thanatos, fuck yeah! And how is working with VNDS? If its easy enough, I'll try porting over Resonance or something else Insani did.

Yes it's pretty easy, just need to get the hang of it and have all the right tools.
I am using:

Geany text editor for scripting
Tsukihime & Kagetsu Tohya libs for images and bg's
Batch Image Resizer for resizing to NDS format
And a batch script to cut images in half, since images straight from the Kagetsu Tohya lib have a black shadow next to them.

Also: Supercard MiniSD (2gb) is the card I use

>>since images straight from the Kagetsu Tohya lib have a black shadow next to them.

yeah, that black shadow is their alpha channel info. you're supposed to apply it to the sprite on the left to make it have a transparent background and the antialiased pixels on the edges.

Hm does it matter that much??
Since then I would have to go through alot more trouble then just cutting them in half and making the bg transparent with PS.

well they look better with alpha channels. you could probably replace some of them with the already existing ones from tsukihime and just fill in the blanks like len.

it also takes less time to just apply it than try to clean it up by hand, removing all the stray white pixels and outlines you get when you try to fix them by hand.

not to mention the originals are jpg, so there are all those artifacts and stuff on the blurry edges.

Sprites with alpha channel applied and resized for the DS:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/kfddynjqzmz/kagetsu-tohya-sprites.7z

Good luck with translating KT!

Faults are dangerous on 'A Day' part, since they're like repetitions.

>>12
kt's already fully translated though.

I'm not translating, I'm porting.
And not proting full KT, just the sidestories, since this is my first time trying to create something for VNDS and I don't want to start on something as complicated as KT.

Btw sidestories are going fine!!

Old threat but it runs in ideas, though sound is mostly distorted.

old thread but don't you know that these are just ports of pc games? why not just play the original instead of using a ds emulator on your computer to play the ds ports of games that were originally meant to be played on your computer?

Well I can think of a reason because I am currently trying to code a story and to test it, I now change like a little bit of the script, place it on miniSD, take it out, insert it into DS, run VNDS, run novel, checks if it works.

It would be very helpfull if it could be loaded into an emulator, but It's not that necessary.

Haha it works like a charm now!!

Thank you very much!!

oops wrong topic....

iDeaS 1.0.2.7 fails:

Invalid Installation: Please make sure the game data is stored in /vnds/

Hi! 1.4.0 with the fades and all looks very good, thank you. But could someone please tell me what emulator they've used with vnds and what where the settings?

>>11

no$gba 2.6 & iDeaS w/o DLDI -- Only if you specially compile for it and the resulting .nds file is smaller than 32MB.

iDeaS -- 1.0.2.7 doesn't work for some reason, older versions should work if you apply the R4 DLDI patch and activate DLDI in iDeaS.

1.0.2.6 just shows a blank screen.. :/
Are you considering improving compatibility with emulators?

>>13

>1.0.2.6 just shows a blank screen.. :/

But 1.0.2.5 works :)

>Are you considering improving compatibility with emulators?

Only if those emulators support DLDI

Problem solved. Suspecting that some of the files maybe corrupt, I redownloaded the program again. And extracted it again. Solved the problem. I can now see the program as seen in the above post.

Ace Program btw. Cheers for the help. And keep up the good work.

I am also using a TTDS and cannot get novels to load, where did 1 download his visual novel files?

I can't start VNDS from my DSTT (8GB SD card formated with FAT32).
Help?

try using a different loader, like moonshell or dsorganize, always works for me if a rom wont load!!

How exactly do you use a different loader on a DSTT to run roms? Moonshell only plays music/videos the way it is on my flashcart.

Hm??

My moonshell also runs .nds files, but on the other hand, I don't own a DSTT, I have a supercard, but my sister has a DSTT, so I'll test it soon.

Hey,

I tested it today, and my sister's DSTT worked fine with VNDS 1.4.0, w/o any third party programs, so just booted from the DSTT.

You tested it with a Fat32 formated (every 4GB+) sd card right? I'll try with another version then.

Well it works now, sorry for the trouble....

Went through Arc's route and it only notices that I went through it directly after going through the route, if I restart It doesn't "load" that I completed the route.

I'm having a similar problem as the person above me. I got through Arcueid's route just fine, but unless I load my save from right before I finished the game then IMMEDIATELY start a new game I can't get the game to recognize that I'm on my second playthrough and get Hisui's route. After looking at the .sav files I've noticed that my nearly completed Arc save is full of variables marking flags, showing character interest points and marking what endings I've gotten... but any save I make now does not have those variables. While trying to play Ciel's route the game plays find and keeps up with points and flags just fine, but once I save and load again it forgets everything and progresses ignoring all the past choices I've made. After opening up my save files I've noticed are fairly barren and just list where I was when I saved not any previous records so I can load my save and keep going, but the next time the game needs to check and see if I've hit a flag, it wont and I'll be stuck without a choice or I'll get a game over for "not paying attention to one character or the other." So it seems that the only thing the system is saving as of now is the info on what script I was on, where I was in it, what bgm & char portrait, and a date/time stamp.

http://rafb.net your saves. (and global.sav)

the only flags that really matter between paths are the cleared_X ones in global.

>>80
I said fuck it and went through, found, and pasted all the routes completion variable modifiers at the beginning of "main.scr" so I won't be bothered by it for now.

When I open global.sav I see the same 5 variables and a space repeated within the <global></global>(this is with my cheating of making it pretend I completed all routes opening the game, before it was just a single copy). Because it's a repeat I think it's not writing down the names to associate completion with on the save.

>>79
thought I would mention I'm running Tsukihime 0.1.9. and vnds version 1.3.6. here is an example of a "gimped" save file taken soon after having tea with Ciel which should leave me with ciel regard points and set off at least 1 flag...<save>

<script>
	<file>script/s36.scr</file>
	<position>0</position>
</script>
<state>
	<music>01.mp3</music>
	<background>BG_22B.png</background>
	<sprites/>
</state>
<variables>
	<var name="selected" type="int" value="2"/>

>>82
Same here, all my saves has no variables. And it freezes quite often so I can't pass ANY route, since all saves lead to the only possible thing - dying in the hotel corridor.

>>82

I think I've fixed the problem

Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?31c4vixwdkd
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/125895154/vndsX-1.3.6x.rar

>>84
Awesome, thanks.

to 50
Don't put .mp3 in zip file

The download for FSN on the VNDS site is different to the >>39 rapidshare download, the rapidshare one has the files pre-zipped and music. You might want to put the rapidshare link there.

Guide on how to get Fate/Stay Night working with sound and background music.
I'm assuming you know how to get files out of .7z and .tar.gz files, WinRAR should do it fine if you have it already.

1: Download http://rapidshare.com/files/160619893/FateDS-1.0-unvoiced.7z

2: Download http://digital-haze.net/files/vnds/novels/fate/fate-sound.tar.gz

3: Make a folder called "Fate" and then open FateDS-1.0-unvoiced.7z, inside will be a folder called "base_install", go into it.

4: Get the files called "background.zip, foreground.zip, script.zip, default.ttf, icon.png, info.txt, thumbnail.png" and the folders called "save" and "sound" and put them into the "Fate" folder you made earlier.

5: Extract everything out of the file "fate-sound.tar.gz", it get tricky here so read carefully.
About 20 files in this .tar.gz have the same names as others but different casing.

>>53

Disregard that, he has the voices and sound on the main page now.

>>51
Instructions did mention that. In my case I can't find any .mp3 file in fate-sound.tar.gz. Only .aac and .wav files exists. I repacked to zip after finding some duplicates under windows.

>>52
I am using fate-1.0.tar.gz. I will try out the 7z. Didn't realize that unvoiced.7z may have mean only voice removed. ^___^

>>53
(6)-(8): Thanks. Is this a workaround for adding files with the same name but different cases under Windows? Using WinRAR 3.71, I test created a zip and then append it again using the folder structure (using dummy file with different content) as below. WinRAR still updates the content though. o__o?

1) fate/sound/ <== In fate/ folder, right click sound/ folder, "Add to sound.zip". Zip the original sound files?

2) fate/fix/sound/ <== Move sound.zip (created above) into fix/, right click sound/, "Add to sound.zip". Zip the duplicate sound files?

>>55
It works! ^_______^
There's a different instruction, setup based on route, etc. Nice stuff!

Porting effort is very greatly appreciated, anoNL (look >> source << code *__* a lot of work)

Quick question. I haven't been following vnds's progress. The last version I downloaded was the one right before vndsX. Fate/Stay Night froze a lot on that version, and it freezes very often on vndsX as well (Every 15-20 minutes).

I have to save every few lines to get past this. So my question is, is this a result of the program still being in beta, or is there something wrong at my end?

>>57
It's a problem with the program itself. You could try using a beta version from the "vndsx 1.4.0 beta" thread.

I love you.

I would have never played F/S Night on my PC because I don't have time and it#s not that comfortable.

Because of you I can finally play this masterpiece.

Thank you, and sorry if this is in the wrong section.

Thanks, anoNL. I'll give that a try. :)