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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Translating Doki Doki Literature Club and Similar Ren'Py Games [WIP]

Translating Doki Doki Literature Club and Similar Ren'Py Games

Details

Doki Doki Literature Club is a visual novel, made using a free open-source game engine called Ren'Py. Ren'Py is very easy to use and beginner-friendly, thus translating will also be as easy as pie. Also, let me make it clear that this will not violate any copyright laws or whatever "intellectual property rigmaroles" you might think of. We will be making our OWN content and the end user will NEVER have to touch or overwrite a single original file to install our translation. That said, let's get started!

Requirements

DDLC is currently not compatible with the latest revision. I can't do anything about that.

This is mostly for compatibility and handling of python files.

Fresh, raw, unmodified, official.

Any text editor will do, but this is what I recommend.

This is to extract .rpa files, a common container file type for Ren'Py games.

A decompiler for .rpyc files, which typically is compressed source code.

Or other similar image editing software. Photoshop, GIMP, whatever.

Procedure

Download and install all the required programs above.