Author Topic: Tsukihime VNDS Ero-Replacement Project (Read 19438 times)

WarpRattler · « **on:** January 30, 2010, 01:31:00 AM »

In the same vein as what I described here...

Like Fate/stay night, Tsukihime is an eroge by TYPE-MOON. The two stories, while being largely separate, take place in the same universe, and at least one character is an important figure in both games...but I digress.

As with Fate/stay night, Tsukihime has been translated to English, and this translation has been converted for use with the homebrew visual novel interpreter VNDS. With the erotic scenes intact. And as with Fate/stay night, that puts a damper on me setting up the game so that Kalee can play it.

So, just like with Fate/stay night, I'm asking for help from my favorite community of video game-playing, art-making Internet people to clean up Tsukihime, only this time I'm formally extending the request to the forums as well. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create images that could be used to replace hentai scenes in Tsukihime.

The only real requirements are that the images be 256x192 (because, you know, that's native resolution) and that the images not be porn themselves.

Some suggested topics for images:

-Make fun of porn. One such image:

-References to either Tsukihime or Fate/stay night. Another completed image:

-Vampires. Tsukihime is about vampires, so images parodying other pop-culture vampires would fit great. Make fun of Twilight. Make jokes about Castlevania. Just...vampires.

Some other suggestions:

-Due to how the interpreter is set up, if I want to use any image format other than JPEG, I would have to search through script files until I found the filename of the image being replaced, then change the extension used. And that's not happening. You don't have to submit images as JPEGs, but do know that they'll be resaved in that format via the GIMP (at 100% image quality, so incredibly minimal quality loss there).

-At least try to be funny. There were some hilarious images submitted for the Fate/stay night ero-replacement project, and I'd like the images here to be good and funny as well.

Tsukihime has eighty (80) images to be replaced, and I've received three images so far. I'd like to have a minimum of twenty replacement images total; this would mean each image being used four times. Really, though, as long as they're good, I'll take any images that come in up to eighty.

Approach your target and attack! Your mission starts now! Are you ready?!

Toad · « **Reply #1 on:** January 30, 2010, 01:47:59 AM »

My skills drawing with a mouse are a bit lacking, but would something like this work?

WarpRattler · « **Reply #2 on:** January 30, 2010, 01:58:02 AM »

No, because you used Comic Sans.

More importantly, it's rather dull.

Here's another guideline: If you're going to make bad MS Paint art, make something you'd not be ashamed to post in the MS Paint story thread. I'm not saying you have to be as good with a mouse as TEM, Kuromatsu, or El Gato, but do something stronger than Toad's image there, and absolutely do not do something like this:

Kuromatsu · « **Reply #3 on:** January 30, 2010, 02:05:33 AM »

How on Earth did you get that file from my hard drive

Toad · « **Reply #4 on:** January 30, 2010, 02:39:18 AM »

I'll try to come up with something better soon.

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 30, 2010, 07:26:43 AM »

These aren't JPEGs, because Paint makes a mockery of any files saved as JPEGs.

Black Mage · « **Reply #6 on:** January 30, 2010, 05:08:21 PM »

Two questions here.

1) Who is Kalee and why are you trying to subject him/her to a hentai "visual novel"?
2) Correct me if I'm wrong, but being a "visual novel" I have to assume there's text that goes along with the images. What good is censoring the images if he/she is just going to be reading about awkward anime characters having sex?

Also, a quick google search informs me that there is already censored versions of your hentai games.

Fate/Stay Night: http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:46VhBpnQB7MJ:forums.mirrormoon.org/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D19%26t%3D960%26view%3Dunread+Fate/Stay+Night+english+patch+non-ero&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Tsukihime: http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:0gQk8kCWIoIJ:mirrormoon.org/projects/tsukihime+tsukihime+english+translation+non-ero&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Had to google cache them both, since that site's temporarily down or something, but it might save you some effort.

WarpRattler · « **Reply #7 on:** January 30, 2010, 05:39:57 PM »

1. Kalee is my girlfriend and has been for over three years. I've spoken of her here on several occasions. She's also visited #tmk, and on one occasion Lizard Dude spoke to her on the phone.
2. Yes, there's still the text that goes along with it. But, as I mentioned in the HOPEFUL thread post, it's really no worse than what you'd find in a standard romance novel, which you could easily find on the shelf of a high school's library. It's more the fact that US laws prohibit minors from viewing porn (not necessarily reading about sex), and since she's seventeen...

Yes, I'm aware that there are already censored versions of both of these games (Fate/stay night by way of the official PS2 port, and Tsukihime by way of mirror moon's translation patch [and yes, mirror moon is down right now]). However, I've had no luck using the converter for Fate/stay night, and there is no such converter for Tsukihime, so I would have to manually convert the censored versions of the games myself. Using the preconverted versions from the VNDS wiki and replacing certain images is at least fifty times easier.

Weegee · « **Reply #8 on:** January 30, 2010, 05:42:28 PM »

Wait, if half of the game revolves around conversing with girls in hopes of getting the main character laid, what's the point of censoring it anyway?

WarpRattler · « **Reply #9 on:** January 30, 2010, 05:57:40 PM »

Because Tsukihime isn't really a dating sim. It utilizes the route- and flag-based structure of your typical dating sim, but the route-based structure is more so that it can tell five different stories.

To put it more simply: if Tsukihime was a dating sim, do you think it'd have a fighting game as a sequel?

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #10 on:** January 30, 2010, 06:00:05 PM »

You're censoring the games because it's illegal for a minor to view porn, eh?

So where'd you buy the games?

WarpRattler · « **Reply #11 on:** January 30, 2010, 06:06:37 PM »

Does $105 for a copy of a PC game from 2004 sound reasonable to you?

And it's pretty much impossible to buy a copy of Tsukihime, which was a doujin release back in 2000.

And furthermore, I pretty much fully agree with Chupperson's logic:

Quote from: Chupperson Weird on August 20, 2009, 10:06:15 PM

I feel no remorse over downloading and patching something to English if it was never released here. They obviously didn't want to make money from Americans from the game.

Weegee · « **Reply #12 on:** January 30, 2010, 06:14:21 PM »

Quote from: WarpRattler on January 30, 2010, 05:57:40 PM

Because Tsukihime isn't really a dating sim.

Oh, okay. Its description as an R-rated eroge visual novel made me assume otherwise.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #13 on:** January 30, 2010, 06:28:17 PM »

I understand why you pirated the games. But don't turn around and use the law as your excuse for the censorship project.

WarpRattler · « **Reply #14 on:** January 30, 2010, 11:34:05 PM »

Would you believe I'd rather not get my girlfriend in trouble/get in trouble with her parents for her possessing/me giving her really bad porn, then?

Turtlekid, both of those images will work, but why don't you have a proper image editor instead of MS Paint? GIMP and Paint.NET are both free.