When extracting the F/S N novel file earlier I noted that on about twenty occasions 7-zip encountered ".aac" files with identical names to files it had already extracted, which required me to decide which one to keep. In every instance the files were of different sizes, implying they were not truly identical save for their names.

Is there a reason why these other files were/are present? AAC files are only audio correct? So I shouldn't have to worry about any major issues during game play because of this aside from incorrect audio somewhere right?

Do NOT extract sound.zip, just put it in the folder with the rest of the files.

So VNDS should be capable of reading the files even though they're contained within a zipped volume?

If that is correct will I need to switch out the version of VNDS I'm using from version 1.4.9 to one of the 1.5 versions in order for it to read that?

I noted that versions 1.4.9 doesn't recognize the ".novel" file format. But works fine with said VN's if I extract them into the novel folder.