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Thread seems pretty dead, but dumb renpy question:
Main menu music won't play. No error message, just no sound.
config.main_menu_music = "menusong.mp3"

Things that aren't the problem:
>I didn't mute anything
>The filename is typed properly
>it's in the main game directory folder (though maybe it needs to be somewhere else? no idea)
>nothing regarding music or sound is hashtagged out when it shouldn't be
>I tried adding "init python:
config.debug_sound = True" didn't do shit.

I can't find any solution to this.

Are you sure you didn't mute the audio inside the game? Is your default volume level set to 0? Is your file correctly formatted to be mp3? Does your mp3 have any uppercase letters?

No. I actually just tried, and music inside the game plays absolutely fine. I just played the menu song in the game, worked fine. No uppercase letters, the file seems to play fine, the volume isn't set strangely. I have no idea what the problem is.

Dunno man, are you on an old version that might have had a bug? Best bet would be to ask on the lem forums.

I'm on the latest version.

Maybe that specific .mp3 file's encoding is fucked in a way so ren'py can't play it? Try using one of the files that already works as gameplay music for the main menu.

>Why the fuck y'all so lazy edition
Because we are actually working, for once.

Did you do anything else weird to configure the main menu that might cause it to not look at that particular config note?

Did you uncomment it? (stupid but hey)

Try altering other codes nearby to be sure that section is being called and not overridden by something.

Well I figured it out. It was literally just the options script being fucking retarded and somehow not understanding that I had made changes to it. I've had problems with that before so I guess that explains it.

Something like that happened to me while using the reload script command. Apparantly changed something while loading and renpy got stuck with the older version. Had to modify the file and save it again for the program to recognize the change.

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Cute.

Coming from a Russian imageboard.
What do you guys think about Everlasting Summer? It's like Katawa Shoujo, but for Russian imageboards.

I liked it. The backgrounds were particularly gorgeous. The English version has lots of typos and bad grammar, though.

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her boobs look like a weird man chest.

i'm torn between eyerolling at how people call absolutely anything they dislike 'manly' even if it involves giant naked H-cup tits, and critiquing the parts of the chest that do look a bit weird.

like the combination of the way the boobs are shaded and the emphasis lines with the compression caused by that top, seems physically a little weird somehow? that top is designed to press in, and she's clearly nowhere near flat, but the boobs don't seem to be reacting to it? I don't know. Clothes are hard.

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Looks hilarious

it's like I'm back in 2004

That's awfully specific. Was 2004 the international year of angst or something?

Seeing how UAB and VA-11 are better than anything /evn/ has managed to produce in years, should the general be renamed to /wvn/ Western Visual Novel General so it stops being semi-dead?

>UAB
kek

>VA-11
>not an evn
???

Sure, why not. Let's admit it, our real common denominator here is not being JVN.

The title has never really stopped us from talking about any non-english vn. It wouldn't make much of a difference.

Wouldn't that rule out the Malaysians, you racist? That's half of LSF right there.

We're basically just "non japanese" but that sounds lame in a title.

Malaysia is slightly west of Japan. Ain't that enough?

hi

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Will you be my friend?

No

;_;

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If this is the best we can do maybe we shouldn't bother making a thread

fuck u

From now on, i am drawing at least 3 hours a day!
I will be consistent!
Mark my words!

Please

In renpy, how to you make the song repeat faster? In the game there's always a short but noticeable pause after the track ends but before it repeats. It's not the music itself, if I make it replay in other software it's instant.

Looks like the people bitching about Tao not finishing Dizzy Hearts yet has gotten a reaction. He's decided to put Toko on hold until next year to complete Dizzy Hearts first, since Toko would've slowed down Dizzy Heart's completion. That's good news for kickstarter backers, but I bet Steam users will be pissed.

I think nobody here gives a fuck any more a this point.

It was literally just a few days ago on this thread that people where complaining about Dizzy Hearts not being released while they worked on other games. He also made a comment about people thinking they're not working as hard as they could, so it sounds like people bitching here caused him to change his development plans.

>caused him to change his development plans.
i wouldn't flatter yourself so much.

i think it's a bad decision either way. why spend time on an art revamp and VA for toko chapter one, just to say the sequel is another 2 years in the works?

Are you trying to say UAB isn't hands down the best EVN in existence?

There are definitely people sulking abotu Dizzy Hearts not coming out. Is anyone actually invested in updates for Toko anymore?

Anybody know?

It's just a lolifucking game with a rather unentertaining story. The lolis aren't even hot.

Why do you hate our freedom?

There isn't a 'repeat faster' command because there is no intentional delay. I've looped tracks without noticeable problems.

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He had plans to release Toko chapter 1 in fall, evn complains about his lack of focus and that his kickstarter project which is the oldest still isn't done, suddenly and days later decides to make oldest game top priority and delay other game. It's an odd coincidence if evn didn't influence him at all.

The thousands of people who bought it on Steam care.

Hideous.

>my opinion is fact

Having thousands of owners doesn't mean thousands of people are eagerly waiting for it to be updated. How many hour-long games you bought and played a year ago would you replay now if they suddenly released an art upgrade?

Your opinion IS fact when it's your opinion about your own opinion. Someone else saying hairy backs are hot isn't going to make them hot to you.

You can say what you want about the premise and art style, that's your opinion, but there's no denying it's extremely impressive. Especially considering the fact that it was made almost entirely by one guy in only 2 years.

Meant for
Also props for that the fact that it's free and the guy didn't jew out with a kickstarter and patreon.

I think a loli game is one of those things you don't really want to have traced back to your bank account, especially in sjw europe.

I can't imagine a kickstarter for a game like UAB would go over very well.

Good point. I'm surprised with how lenient Patreon seems to be with that content though.

On any other music playing program the loop is perfect but on renpy there's always a pause. I really don't know why.

>Patreon
They're probably already collectiong addresses for various alphabet soup agencies waiting for the government to change porn or rape laws.

I sincerely hope not for my own sake

damn the EU, trying to run our lives!

They're desperate for news that distract from the stagnant economy and rapefugee invasion.

A trial for kiddy fiddlers is always a welcome cover to push some shit through parliament.

D:

Steam sale is almost over. What evns are worth picking up?

wut

None. It's either shit VNs or shit rebates.

rebates?

Rebates.

Sunrider Academy is on a really big discount. It's shit, but if you're into it, good time to pick it up.

The Way We All GO and Asphyxia are both really cheap and the author's works are usually okayish, certainly okay enough for $1.50.

Science Girls isn't a VN but it's a buck so if you want to see someone abuse RenPy to make an RPG, there it is.

Impulse is 60% off which isn't bad but it's TyranoBuilder so honestly I'm still waiting for a higher discount

That's about it for the best discounts (not necessarily the best games) although honestly if you don't own it already, screw the EVNs and buy The House in Fata Morgana instead.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Are you suggesting something having to do with getting a game's cost back through selling cards?

Is the SJW assumption that PyTom is a dudebro true?

He's male and republican. For certain sects that means he's automatically the enemy. Worse, he's a white cis het male. But don't expect all SJWs to agree with each other on anything, they hate themselves as much as they hate anything else.

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Should I buy Starlight Vega or Highway Blossoms?

Yes.
Also, A Little Lily Princess.
Maybe even that Rising Angels game if you're up for it.

>omakase.itch.io/cats-cradle
>* Disclaimer: Lacies are a closed fictional species owned by niaro. Please do not create your own Lacie characters.

ORIGINAL LACIES DO NOT STEAL

I will make my own VN. It will be called Kats Cradle and it will feature a MC living with its Racies

this made me laugh so hard

I meant that I only have enough money for one and which one is better.

I have never understood the deviantart concept of 'adoptable' characters
bidding for 'ownership' of ... what, exactly?

you sound poor. save your money

If you only have enough money for one yuri game buy the Rising Angels one and pirate the rest. It's not the best one, but think of the starving pets.

niaro.deviantart.com/art/Lacie-Flat-Rate-150-CLOSED-598349835
>150 for a lacie
what

i've wondered this myself. can i put this OC in my game? can i get additional art of the OC? do i keep a folder of... images that the creator has on display anyways?

I can see why people would pass on RA: Hope. Reborn was more of a sci-fi investigation/mystery, while Hope was a high school comedy in space. They felt pretty disconnected to me. Fates should be better, because it's a direct sequel to Reborn.

Or not pirate any of them and buy them slowly but surely.

I think it was better for the series that Reborn took it away from the school stuff.

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Fucking jews.

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RIP EVN

I'm writing yaoi.

There's my update to you all.

Gross.

do westerners care abutt yaoi