Shiroi Kizuna (German Localisation) [rv20260214 | KotatsuAkira]

German fan-translation patch for the first (of five) SampleGames that come bundled with japanese editions of RPG Maker XP.

Original Work Overview

"Shiroi Kizuna" (白い絆) is one of the originally five sample games (a lot more games were added in re-releases) that come bundled with any japanese edition of RPG Maker XP (all retail-discs and digital purchases of these editions, and the current version of the trial package available for free download from the publisher). This RPG was made by "AlphaNuts", primarily Hidenobu Hongou (HIDE), and was the first RGSS-engine game ever to add a full custom battle-system to the default mechanics.

Story Introduction

The story is about 13-year-old Clare, who studies holy magic at the Ideia Sanctuary of the Refilia Church in Elfeed. She constantly suffers from the pressure of being compared to her brother Faris, who is considered a great genius, even though she tries to hide this with her innate cheerful nature. Then, one day, after a heated argument with Faris, who now holds a position at the sanctuary, Clare decides to leave the church. She takes her best friends, Rain and Saffy, with her and embarks on a wild little adventure, a journey with the goal to find the white phoenix. How that comes to be, you may ask? You'll see very soon if you start playing the game.

What does the patch change exactly?

• All the text of the japanese original being rendered in realtime as dialog or part of system interfaces is replaced with german text. It can occur that, for technical, reading-flow or artistic reasons, that some sentences are heavily rewritten, but prevention of losing information in translation and preserving tonal stability got handled with high priority.
• Names of characters, locations and some other things are either mentioned somewhere in this or other works by AlphaNuts in a latin letters format already or I had to interpret them myself. In first case, even if I wouldn't agree, I kept the intented way, in second, my interpretation may differ from HIDE's original intention.
• The game contains graphics of several types with pre-rendered texts, which are replaced by new files created with their original styles in mind.
• If you need any help with how the game works, the game's digital HTML manual is also fully translated and always worth reading.
• Some technical additions this game puts on top of RPGXP's default systems are refined and some interface parts were re-adjusted to fit increased need of space for german language contents.
• To make realtime-rendered texts easier readable, a decent black outline is applied around them.
• This patch adds a japanese and german subtitles-display to the ending theme song vocals.

How can the patch be applied?

• This patch needs the original game coming from an RPGツクールXP retail disc, digital purchase or free trial edition of the program. Get "RPGXP_J.exe" (a self-extractor archive file you can open up with any packing program) from the publisher's official website for the product series, and extract either everything or only the game. For that, in its "Games" folder, look out for the file "White.exe" (16433560 bytes, CRC32: AD5B0A4B), which is a self-extractor archive, too.
• The patch itself is provided as a Ruby-script with a provisoric, custom-configured MKXP launcher. All files included must be extracted to the game's main directory and can be deleted after everything is done. To start patching, launch "SK-DE.exe", follow the steps and tell the author if errors are occuring. Don't modify the game in any way before applying the patch, it's aligned specifically to work with a fresh installation. Before the patch does it thing, you have to confirm you've read the big wall of text. Of course you did... am I riiight?
• Due to a lack of nerve to fix trivial trifles, the progress bars may sometimes look very strange during patching, but that shouldn't cause any further trouble, it's just cosmetic failure.
• The game, patched or unpatched, will need the official RPG Maker XP RuntimePackage (RTP). Don't forget to install it if you don't have it on your system yet. The very moment you try to run the game, you will notice if that's the case or not.
• If the game is confusedly asking for "RGSS104J.dll" because a version older than 2012 was used as the base, you can copy it from any other game using it, if you happen to have one.

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