VNDS -> Ren'Py Converter

[PyTom]

Here's a quick hack that converts VNDS games into Ren'Py games. To use it:

0) Get Ren'Py 6.10 or later.
1) Create a new Ren'Py project.
2) Delete the contents of the game directory.
3) Download a .novel file from http://digital-haze.net/vnds.php , rename it to .zip, and extract it into the game directory.
4) Place the two attached files (convert.py and _common.rpy) into the game directory.
5) Using Python, run convert.py.
6) Use Ren'Py to lint and run the game.

I've gotten this to work with:

- plain song

You need to change the

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jump story.scr Menu

at the end of script/main.scr to

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jump story.scr

, since the main label doesn't exist.

- saya no uta

Requires no changes.

- tsukihime

In s185.scr, change

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jump 186.scr

to

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jump s186.scr

In s297.scr, change

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jump 298.scr

to

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jump s298.scr

This is a total hack, and may or may not work with other games. Even if it does work, it will create a game with DS-quality graphics, just scaled up three times. And using ADV mode rather than NVL-mode. Don't redistribute games without the authors' permission. By "work", I mean the game runs without obvious errors. I haven't bothered testing for non obvious ones. And sound/voice doesn't work at all.

[delta]

...is there an actual reason for this? Because I can't think of one apart from "because it's possible".

[PyTom]

Nope!

[JinzouTamashii]

Holy shit! I've got a DS, I just don't how the homebrew flash thing whatever it's called. Oh... Damn... I thought this was the reverse.

Ren'py to VNDS? Will it be so?

...is there an actual reason for this?

荒らし。

[PyTom]

Ren'py to VNDS? Will it be so?

Probably not anytime soon. Ren'Py is a superset of VNDS, and so the problem was much easier.

[delta]

荒らし。

Yeah, fuck you too.

[JinzouTamashii]

Not even if you paid me.

[delta]

I don't think anyone cares about how you make a living and it's not the topic of this thread.

[lunasspecto]

Now I don't need Wine to play True Remembrance on Ubuntu, assuming this works for True Remembrance. But I should probably just use Wine anyway.

[delta]

It "works" for True Rememberance, but I would really really not recommend doing so. vnds is a very rudimentary standalone engine which does not run stock games at all - the games listed on the vnds site is all it runs. All games available were specifically ported to it (without permission as well), and the porting losses are tremendous. vnds has exactly one function - letting you read some castrated VNs on the DS. Until there are games specifically developed for vnds, going into the other direction makes no sense.

Not to mention that most of the vnds games are ports from NScripter games, for which several full-featured engine replacements are available anyway, on more platforms than Ren'Py itself supports. That leaves TR, F/sn (which are KiriKiri games) and Saya no Uta (which uses an old version of NSS), and those should run under Wine, and incidentally suffer the most from having compromised audio and no visual effects.