Hello, I am attempting to read the original version of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni with the ONScripter program that's provided in the Trisquel GNU/Linux repositories. Re-arranging some files, it worked fine, but I don't understand what it says.
Looking around I found this nice-looking site that worked without non-free JavaScript and read the Higurashi section. Based on that, the MangaGamer versions are the only fully-translated ones, so then my only real option would be to somehow extract only its text and then convert that into the original nscript.dat format. Is this viable in any way? Perhaps there's another way to experience the work in freedom that you know?
If anyone happens to know and inform me about it, thanks, and sorry to bother with the issue, I just had to know.

Higurashi would have to have a translation ported to the NScripter version in order to read it in English, yes. It's a viable project and I thought about doing it after cancelling my translation, but the existing translations are so far below my standards that I couldn't put my name to such a project. Anyone else could, but it would pretty much be a novelty: there's untranslated content that would have to be translated, and to have a definitive version you'd have to redo the translation entirely.
My two cents also, the "freedom" stuff is a bunch of nonsense. If you're going to read a novel game, read the novel game; run it in Wine like anyone else would do. If you port a game just to read it on Linux rather than to create an actually better experience with the game, you're probably going to be your only target audience, and it will shave a good deal of time off your life.