_________________________________________________________________ Tsukihime English version 1.2 (c) 2001 TYPE-MOON translation (c) 2008 mirror moon _________________________________________________________________ 1. Introduction _____________________________ This readme file contains important information about the English translation of Tsukihime. Please read it before you start playing. Tsukihime is a visual novel, released in December 2001 by TYPE-MOON. It tells the story of Tohno Shiki, who since a life-threatening accident in his youth is cursed with the ability to see "lines" on everything around him. Lines along which objects can easily be cut. Having lived with foster parents for seven years, Shiki is recalled to the household of his family. He had lost all contact with his family over this entire period, making it difficult for him to get used to the new situation. As he gradually learns more about his past, the situation becomes more and more unfamiliar and dangerous. 2. Disclaimer _____________________________ This English translation is released in good faith that it will not be abused. By installing this software you agree to NOT distribute any part of this translation together with an illegal copy of Tsukihime, or any part thereof. You also agree to NOT use any part of this translation to help stimulate, promote or encourage the distribution of illegal copies of Tsukihime, or any parts thereof. Please buy the game when you can. By installing this software you also agree to NOT modify or redistribute any part of this software without previous written consent from mirror moon. This software is to be distributed by mirror moon's official distributors only. This software contains scenes not suitable for minors. By installing this software, you agree that you are of legal age to view adult content according to laws in your country and that you are not offended by reading and watching scenes containing verbal, physical and sexual violence and, if you install the Standard version, detailed erotic acts. This software is provided "as is". By installing this software you agree not to hold TYPE-MOON or mirror moon liable for any ill effects or damages that could occur through the installation or use of this software. This translation is a fan-product. It is in no way approved or endorsed by TYPE-MOON or any person, company or organization who owns the rights to Tsukihime or any part thereof. No guarantees or warranties of any kind are provided in relation to this translation or any part thereof. 3. System Requirements _____________________________ Tsukihime makes use of the ONScripter engine, which is designed to run on most modern computers today. The following is an indicative minimum: OS Windows 98/Me/2000/XP CPU Pentium 2 500MHz RAM 128MB Video 640x480x16bits DirectX 8.1 or higher HDD 150MB of free space CD-ROM Any drive capable of playing CD-Digital Audio Certain effects used in the game require a faster CPU to be displayed correctly, in the range of 1GHz or higher. This game has not been thoroughly tested on Windows Vista. 4. Installation _____________________________ To install Tsukihime English on Windows, start the installation program and follow the instructions on screen. You will require the Japanese Tsukihime CD during the installation procedure. Please install Tsukihime English to its own directory, do not install Tsukihime English to a directory already containing the Japanese game. Please read chapter 7 of this readme for information about installing the game music. Playing the game without music is NOT recommended. 5. Playing the game _____________________________ Tsukihime English makes use of the ONScripter engine. Due to its cross-platform design, the menubar at the top of the window as found in the Japanese version of Tsukihime, will not be available in the English version. Many of the options and settings can still be accessed by using the keyboard. Here follows a list of keyboard shortcuts and their functions: Key | Function ------+------------------------------------------------- 0 | Switch between slow, normal and fast text speed 1 | Set text speed to slow 2 | Set text speed to normal 3 | Set text speed to fast | h/left| Move the cursor up one option l/rght| Move the cursor down one option k/up | Go back one page (log mode) j/down| Go forward one page (log mode) | f | Switch between window mode and fullscreen mode o | Display each page of text instantly s | Fast-forward through the game until the key is | pressed again CTRL | Fast-forward through the game until the key is | released, also skipping all transitions ------+------------------------------------------------- You can advance the game text by pressing Enter, Space, Keypad Enter or the left mouse button. Pressing Escape or the right mouse button will display the in-game menu. From here you can save and load games, access extra in-game features or quit to the main menu. There are five main routes in Tsukihime, being the Arcueid, Ciel, Akiha, Hisui and Kohaku routes. To play a certain route, simply focus specifically on that character. TYPE-MOON recommends playing the game in the above order, which is probably the best in most cases. Note that it is not recommended to play Kohaku's route before Akiha's. For people who have seen the Shingetsutan Tsukihime anime it is also not a good idea to save the Arcueid route for last, as the anime will have spoiled a lot of the story and there will be very little new material left to read after the other storylines. A walkthrough is supplied in the Tsukihime English installer, but it is NOT RECOMMENDED to use it. The game will provide you with sufficient hints and tips to complete each route without much trouble. The game is, in fact, quite easy. Just make sure to save regularly, and if you don't want to read through old scenes again enable the 'skip parts previously read' setting in the options menu. 6. Known Issues _____________________________ The savegames from the Standard version are not compatible with the savegames from the Non-Ero version and vice-versa. This is not the fault of Tsukihime, it is caused by the horrendous way NScripter and ONScripter create their save files. Windows Vista does not allow any application to store or change files in their own Program Files directory, unless they are run with Administrator privileges. Instead, Vista will save all changes in the directory 'virtualstore' in your user directory (typically c:\users\USERNAME). Because each user is given its own virtualstore directory, all users will have their own save games and settings. If you do not want this behaviour, it is recommended to install Tsukihime in an unprotected directory instead. Note that Windows Vista is the only operating system showing this behaviour, normally all users share their savegames and game settings. Because the current version of NSIS does not have proper Windows Vista support, some features of the installer will not function properly on systems with this OS. Most specifically the uninstallation will not be able to remove all installed components, especially if you installed in the Program Files directory. It is recommended to uninstall Tsukihime manually on Windows Vista. If you want to keep your savegames, do not remove save??.dat, gloval.sav, envdata and NScrflog.dat. Using mp3 for background music (see chapter 7 below) may cause ONScripter to freeze at random locations. We recommend using ogg-encoded files instead. If you ripped your CD-DA music to a sample rate other than 44.1kHz, your music may play too fast or too slow. If this occurs recreate your music at a sample rate of 44.1kHz. 7. The In-Game Music _____________________________ Tsukihime uses CD-DA for its music, meaning that the music is plainly stored on the CD and playable on your stereo CD player. In the English version, we set up ONScripter to use mp3 or ogg music instead of CD-DA, for two reasons. First of all, the current builds of ONScripter don't handle playing CD-DA very well. Second, there are alternative musical arrangements for Tsukihime that greatly improve the playing experience. The effect is that you will have to rip your CD-DA music to mp3 or ogg before you start playing. Because of many problems with ONScripter freezing because of badly encoded mp3 files, we recommend using ogg files instead. For ripping CD-DA to ogg files, we recommend using CDex: http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ After you download and install it, click Options / Settings and under the tab 'Filenames' select an output directory for your music files. Then select the drive where your CD is located under the 'CD Drive' tab. Next, go to the Encoder tab and choose the Ogg Vorbis DLL Encoder as your encoder. Click OK, select all audio tracks and click Convert / Extract CD Track(s) to a Compressed Audio File. Once you have converted your CD-DA music to ogg, rename the files to 'track01.ogg' through 'track10.ogg' and move them to the subdirectory called 'CD' in your game directory. Remember to delete your mp3 files if you used mp3 music in a prior version of Tsukihime English. Note that if your windows is hiding known file extensions (this is the case if the files you ripped from the CD are shown without an ogg extension in explorer), you should not rename the files to track01.ogg through track10.ogg but simply to track01 through track10 . The original Tsukihime music is not of very high quality, and will get extremely boring if you listen to it for a longer period of time. Because Tsukihime is quite long, we recommend using one of the following rearrangements of the Tsukihime game music: EVER AFTER - music from "Tsukihime" REPRODUCTION Catalog Number: TMC-1003 or 1004 (Limited Edition) The first nine tracks of this CD are revamped versions of the first nine music tracks of Tsukihime. The tenth track of Tsukihime is not available on this disc. The CD can be bought at Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product /B0001927TM?language=en%5FJP Be sure to copy both parts of the URL into your browser's address bar. TsukiBako version of Tsukihime TsukiBako was a compilation release containing Tsukihime, Tsukihime PLUS+DISC and Kagetsu Tohya. Whereas the music on EVER AFTER could be considered a remix, the music tracks on this CD are the same as in the original game, only with improved sample quality. Note that it will probably be much more difficult to find TsukiBako than it will be to obtain EVER AFTER. Both CDs offer equally good music, it depends on personal preference which one could be considered the best choice. To use these arrangements, simply encode them to ogg and install them as described above. 8. Contact Information _____________________________ If you are experiencing problems with this release, or if you find any errors or bugs, please report it to us and we will see if we can solve it. You can contact us in either the forums or the IRC channel. Please do not contact TYPE-MOON about our translation. Direct your questions and/or comments at us directly. mirror moon http://mirrormoon.org mirror moon forums http://forums.mirrormoon.org mirror moon IRC channel #mirrormoon @ irc.irchighway.net irc://irc.irchighway.net/#mirrormoon TYPE-MOON http://www.typemoon.org http://www.typemoon.com 9. Version History _____________________________ 1.2 A slow quick update + Added a new easter egg (three mini-stories) + Added note about encoding music at 44kHz to the readme + Added 'hide known extensions' issue to the readme - The Extras subdir is no longer used * Put in the real v5 flowchart, was forgotten in v1.1 * Uninstaller now correctly removes ogg and mp3 music * Fixed more typos and grammar mistakes in the game Win32: Tsukihime_English_v1.2_update_[mirror_moon].exe (update release only, v1.1 installation required) Release date: 2008-05-10 1.1 Ogg music and flying pans + Added a no-distro clause to the EULA + Added cursor bitmaps to arc.nsa + Added some liner notes + Added update functionality to the installer - Removed cdfadeout and jpeg.dll commands - Removed a flock of flying pans terrorizing the kitchen - Removed some unused variables from the flowchart - Removed redundant linux instructions from the readme * Switched to using ogg music to solve freezing issues * Fixed missing CG ed_17.png in credits roll * Fixed wrong mirror moon title CG at startup * Fixed a bug causing sfx to not stop after endofplay * Fixed a bunch of typos and grammar mistakes. * Installing over the Japanese version is now prevented Win32: tsukihime_english_v1.1[mirror_moon].exe Release date: 2006-12-03 1.0 Initial public release Win32: tsukihime_english_v1.0[mirror_moon].exe Release date: 2006-11-05