Planetarian
Planetarian is a G-rated, "kinetic novel" that tells the story of a young man on the run, salvaging parts from a postapocalyptic world. He meets a robot in the guise of a young girl working in the ruins of a planetarium, dutifully unaware of current events and attempting to help the few "customers" she comes across.
Finally, Key has heeded our calls, and Planetarian is now available on Steam for $10. Go grab it there, no more messing with encodings, no more crufty code to wrestle with. Since the game is not available in the international market in any shape or form, and only has a fan translation, we will have to resort to other methods.
This is a very simple Visual Novel script system originally built for NDS, also ported to Android. It provides a better, simpler, and longer lasting framework for visual novels. It's designed for simple novels; for bigger ones you'll need RenPy.
Download it from the Play Store. Note that the lite version cannot save.
Copy folder of VNDS game to /vnds/novels/ on the SD card. There really isn’t much more to it.
Final path to VN’s info.txt should look something like this: /vnds/novels/narcissu/info.txt
NoobieYao from the Kareha thread has made an updated version on 2012-10-28. He said that it is tested and it works, but to what extent, no one (else) knows. Perhaps it works all the way to the end...
- Eroge Download (this game is NOT an eroge, though) - Planetarian
- Insani.org - Planetarian English Patch
- Digital-Haze - VNDS Planetarian
- VNDS Planetarian Dev Thread
guide courtesy of Zack
First, set your locale to Japanese:
- Windows 7 - open your control panel, then select Clocks, Language and Region, the select Region and Language, Then open the administrative tab and the second selection will be your system locale, change that to Japanese and restart your computer.
As usual you will need to extract the planetarian.rar into a folder. But before you start using the PlanetarianEnglishPatchSetup, go to the extraction folder and run the PlanetarianRetail application.
You will follow the steps and make sure to send the information into your extraction folder. From here you now need to run the PlanetarianEnglishPatchSetup follow the steps, and naturally, add it to the extraction folder.
This is where the buy/get problem arises if you try to use the Start application, basically there’s no way to play the game at this point as you’ll just loop between loading screens. However, this problem is easily remedied!
In your extraction folder you will have a folder called Crack. Inside the Crack folder is a application called planetarian with a purple and yellow icon. You need to move this application out of the crack folder and directly into the extraction folder. Once there you need to run the application and press ok.
Now you have a item in your extraction folder called Kinetic.OLD! Congrats! You can now click the Start application, press play, (and after you close what appears to be an error box) the game will load!
First, take that file in the root called: PlanetarianRetail.exe and run it. Choose the directory and all that.
Then, run the english patch, using the same directory
Move the file under ROOT:\Planetarian\Crack: Planetarian.exe into the root of the main install (ie ROOT:\planetarian ).
Run it. You should see a yellow exclamation mark.
Then run Start.exe
Note: The Voice Patch does not sync well with the English Patch. And no fix is in sight.
Place the “KINETICDATA” folder inside Planetarian’s folder and overwrite.
Go to a terminal and type in "sudo nano (or your preferred text editor) /var/lib/locales/supported.d/ja". It should be a new file since there isn't a file called "ja" yet. Type in the following entries:
ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP
Please make sure to press the Enter key after typing this in to start a new line. Thanks to Jordan M. for pointing this out.
Save the file, and type in this command:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Go to your perferred terminal and login as root:
su - (enter your password when it tells you to)
Use your text editor to edit the following file:
nano (or your preferred text editor) /etc/locale.gen
Look for these two entries and uncomment them:
ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP
Save the text file, exit the editor, and then type in locale-gen in the terminal.
Try using the "LC_ALL=ja_JP wine" method. It should work this time. If it still doesn't work, you may not have the fonts that Wine needs to correctly display the Japanese characters.
Please note that this HOWTO is designed for Ubuntu, Ubuntu-based distributions, and Arch Linux. Other distribution may have slightly different methods.
