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.
"Free systems" sometimes includes systems that are not x86. For example, most Android devices are on ARM and there are ONScripter ports for Android. You can't run it through WINE.
This is why things like ONScripter exist in the first place.
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ONScripter was made so that the Japanese could run NScripter games on every toaster ever made, mostly for novelty, usually at the cost of a downgraded experience (smaller screen res, slower, fewer colors, and so on). ONScripter-EN exists so that NScripter games can be played in English, with the primary focus always having been on Windows and at one point Mac.
If you come to this English ONS-EN enthusiast board I'm going to assume your primary focus is playing NScripter games in English, not being contrarian enough that you have to do it on an ARM Chromebook. When people talk of "freedom" OS's they are talking about x86 most of the time and usually are using their "freedom" OS just because they like the ideals behind it. In which case I'm going to say run it in Wine, run it in a Windows XP VM, pull an XP laptop out of a dumpster. Otherwise you're going to have to become the dev who does the work to get everything functional on your freedom OS running on your freedom gaming rig with no games.
I honestly don't mean to be a dick about this but when I hear "what about people who are running Raspberry Pi and PowerPC desktops???" I say, what about them? They chose that lifestyle, they knew the support limitations going into it!