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I've decided that I'm not gonna make great progress on finding an alternate universe versions of characters, so I've decided that since tracking down someone who has specific fantasy rebirthed on their accounts is so hard, I'm gonna try to get as many characters on my two accounts rebirthed as possible. It's not gonna be easy, but this is what I'm gonna focus on as these are gonna be the portraits that will be lost when the game shut down someday. Locking them behind unlocking them for just these specific portraits is just so odd, as you can see the majority of these on the wiki (albeit, low quality with a watermark). I'm gonna be doing this sporadically too, as I will likely be doing this based on my character preferences, but I'm try to get every character I can.

Oh and SDT is finally open again. I see a bunch of the AX characters are in here too, wonder if the game will download them if I encounter them. The loading screens in this area are LONG making me wonder what is even being downloaded in the first place.

(03-11-2023, 12:01 AM)KanaKonpaku Wrote: [ -> ]I've decided that I'm not gonna make great progress on finding an alternate universe versions of characters, so I've decided that since tracking down someone who has specific fantasy rebirthed on their accounts is so hard, I'm gonna try to get as many characters on my two accounts rebirthed as possible. It's not gonna be easy, but this is what I'm gonna focus on as these are gonna be the portraits that will be lost when the game shut down someday. Locking them behind unlocking them for just these specific portraits is just so odd, as you can see the majority of these on the wiki (albeit, low quality with a watermark). I'm gonna be doing this sporadically too, as I will likely be doing this based on my character preferences, but I'm try to get every character I can.

Oh and SDT is finally open again. I see a bunch of the AX characters are in here too, wonder if the game will download them if I encounter them. The loading screens in this area are LONG making me wonder what is even being downloaded in the first place.

I think I'm almost ready to upload some sprites, should I have any new ones that I can upload within the 'no leaks' rule. I may wait until I can beat Chapter 4 Act 2 (I got to Dragon Marisa and then got stuck due to the sudden absurd difficulty spike/no guest units) before I do a filedump. Already completed the Secret Sealing Club stages, too. I don't think I'll be able to complete the challenge stages for a while, I'll just have to wait and see, and chances are I'll nuke this game from my PC once I'm done as I already play the global version on my phone. 

Currently checking the arena stages and every cutscene for the Ruins of Memory stages before I get ready to package everything, I want at least 5000 files. I also have voices off as I don't intend to upload anything to the Sounds Resource, since I won't be able to recognize every unit's voice and it'd take up some space if I did that. Figured I could scrounge around for some more stuff even if I can't really beat the challenge modes on a new save. May also wait for the SDT to come back in JP to get a few materials but I'm not sure how far that will get me. I don't think I'll be uploading Battle Sprites this time as I found out the ones from my previous dump were inconclusive, and probably still will be considering I think the Last Words of units are saved in separate files and I can't find them unless they're released and/or max limit broken- though I am attempting to complete a few stages first just for grins and giggles. Though I did manage to beat Sakuya's Relic Stage, so that's a W, I guess.

(03-12-2023, 12:32 AM)IVBOY Wrote: [ -> ]
I think I'm almost ready to upload some sprites, should I have any new ones that I can upload within the 'no leaks' rule. I may wait until I can beat Chapter 4 Act 2 (I got to Dragon Marisa and then got stuck due to the sudden absurd difficulty spike/no guest units) before I do a filedump. Already completed the Secret Sealing Club stages, too. I don't think I'll be able to complete the challenge stages for a while, I'll just have to wait and see, and chances are I'll nuke this game from my PC once I'm done as I already play the global version on my phone. 

Currently checking the arena stages and every cutscene for the Ruins of Memory stages before I get ready to package everything, I want at least 5000 files. I also have voices off as I don't intend to upload anything to the Sounds Resource, since I won't be able to recognize every unit's voice and it'd take up some space if I did that. Figured I could scrounge around for some more stuff even if I can't really beat the challenge modes on a new save. May also wait for the SDT to come back in JP to get a few materials but I'm not sure how far that will get me. I don't think I'll be uploading Battle Sprites this time as I found out the ones from my previous dump were inconclusive, and probably still will be considering I think the Last Words of units are saved in separate files and I can't find them unless they're released and/or max limit broken- though I am attempting to complete a few stages first just for grins and giggles. Though I did manage to beat Sakuya's Relic Stage, so that's a W, I guess.

That's good to hear! Must admit I have almost no clue what that stuff you said is in the Japan version is, but oh well. I've got like 11 character's I can fantasy rebirth which is gonna be a really fun time. At least ripping those shouldn't be too hard once I get that far. I don't know how far I'll even be able to get in SDT as I barely understand how prioritize units in this thing. That's why I switched to playing real Touhou. I'll see what I can do though. I might dive into battle sprites next, I might know what files to use, and I have most of my characters at max limit anyways as I usually do that when I get a character.

(03-12-2023, 12:32 AM)IVBOY Wrote: [ -> ]

(03-11-2023, 12:01 AM)KanaKonpaku Wrote: [ -> ]I've decided that I'm not gonna make great progress on finding an alternate universe versions of characters, so I've decided that since tracking down someone who has specific fantasy rebirthed on their accounts is so hard, I'm gonna try to get as many characters on my two accounts rebirthed as possible. It's not gonna be easy, but this is what I'm gonna focus on as these are gonna be the portraits that will be lost when the game shut down someday. Locking them behind unlocking them for just these specific portraits is just so odd, as you can see the majority of these on the wiki (albeit, low quality with a watermark). I'm gonna be doing this sporadically too, as I will likely be doing this based on my character preferences, but I'm try to get every character I can.

Oh and SDT is finally open again. I see a bunch of the AX characters are in here too, wonder if the game will download them if I encounter them. The loading screens in this area are LONG making me wonder what is even being downloaded in the first place.

I think I'm almost ready to upload some sprites, should I have any new ones that I can upload within the 'no leaks' rule. I may wait until I can beat Chapter 4 Act 2 (I got to Dragon Marisa and then got stuck due to the sudden absurd difficulty spike/no guest units) before I do a filedump. Already completed the Secret Sealing Club stages, too. I don't think I'll be able to complete the challenge stages for a while, I'll just have to wait and see, and chances are I'll nuke this game from my PC once I'm done as I already play the global version on my phone. 

Currently checking the arena stages and every cutscene for the Ruins of Memory stages before I get ready to package everything, I want at least 5000 files. I also have voices off as I don't intend to upload anything to the Sounds Resource, since I won't be able to recognize every unit's voice and it'd take up some space if I did that. Figured I could scrounge around for some more stuff even if I can't really beat the challenge modes on a new save. May also wait for the SDT to come back in JP to get a few materials but I'm not sure how far that will get me. I don't think I'll be uploading Battle Sprites this time as I found out the ones from my previous dump were inconclusive, and probably still will be considering I think the Last Words of units are saved in separate files and I can't find them unless they're released and/or max limit broken- though I am attempting to complete a few stages first just for grins and giggles. Though I did manage to beat Sakuya's Relic Stage, so that's a W, I guess.

progress update: I just got to 4903 files. I think that should be enough but I'll wait until I'm done cleaning and such tomorrow to do a few more rounds. I'm still not sure when SDT comes back, but I'd say I'm pretty close to ready. Will try to get A6 Yuuka and power through some more stages tomorrow, but I'll see how that goes then, and when I decide my options are truly exhausted, I'll start sharing the new files. Won't have any SDT exclusive stuff but should have some decent content.

So a quick update, I'll be starting my rip after the March 16th Maintenance. This will be after I'm not busy. Presumably, the new gachas will allow me to obtain more content, and otherwise I can just get more units and finish more stages with said units. Expect to see a bunch of JP Exclusive content in my dump, as I tried to make sure to get as far as I could throughout said version. 

Then, of course, comes the difficult part of ripping them all, but I'm going to see if I can get everything up to H5 Doremy, who's being added then.

(03-15-2023, 02:37 PM)IVBOY Wrote: [ -> ]So a quick update, I'll be starting my rip after the March 16th Maintenance. This will be after I'm not busy. Presumably, the new gachas will allow me to obtain more content, and otherwise I can just get more units and finish more stages with said units. Expect to see a bunch of JP Exclusive content in my dump, as I tried to make sure to get as far as I could throughout said version. 

Then, of course, comes the difficult part of ripping them all, but I'm going to see if I can get everything up to H5 Doremy, who's being added then.

I'm glad to hear that. I don't think I'll be making anymore progress than I've really already made as I don't feel like I'm doing great at ripping. I intend to upload music jackets when I feel like it again, as well as get a proper cache with L80 Satori. I was able to a get couple accounts from friends and family that have a few extra rings of fate so I'll be doing a few more fantasy rebirths than I thought, as well as I also have Ran A6 and Yukari A6 now. Other than that, I think it's just gonna be the long road to fantasy rebirth for the 15~ or so characters I can get fantasy rebirthed. Reimu and Yuyuko are already rebirthed but I'm waiting to get as many done before I go through the pain of ripping more files. I should have most done by Friday, but Satori, Koishi, Yukari, and Flan are very behind as I wasted all my books and Satori and Koishi need like 700 rebirth mirrors.

Good luck on your stuff! Hopefully we'll get some good stuff out of it.

It's time.  I think I've gotten everything I realistically can at the moment, so I think now's the time for me to actually sift through all of this. I'll see you all on the other side.

(03-16-2023, 09:59 PM)IVBOY Wrote: [ -> ]It's time.  I think I've gotten everything I realistically can at the moment, so I think now's the time for me to actually sift through all of this. I'll see you all on the other side.

Okay, so I split the 5000 files into 22 folders, each of which I can open at one time in Asset Studio Gui, outside of the first one which is just script material that I don't need. However, notably, I am now having computer complications, presumably because my PC is a few years old, most notably now acting as if the 1TB Solid State Drive I CURRENTLY have is the original (broken) Disc Drive that was part of this PC that is a fifth of the size. There's a chance I may lose my PC for a bit as a result as I might have to send it in, however, regardless, when the issues are fixed, I plan to fully upload anything that I find in the cache that could be added to the webpage.

I don't know why my PC is acting the way it is, but I hope it can be solved rather easily as it seems to have been done by a Windows Update. Either way, this should be ready soon.

(03-17-2023, 12:39 AM)IVBOY Wrote: [ -> ]It's time.  I think I've gotten everything I realistically can at the moment, so I think now's the time for me to actually sift t
Okay, so I split the 5000 files into 22 folders, each of which I can open at one time in Asset Studio Gui, outside of the first one which is just script material that I don't need. However, notably, I am now having computer complications, presumably because my PC is a few years old, most notably now acting as if the 1TB Solid State Drive I CURRENTLY have is the original (broken) Disc Drive that was part of this PC that is a fifth of the size. There's a chance I may lose my PC for a bit as a result as I might have to send it in, however, regardless, when the issues are fixed, I plan to fully upload anything that I find in the cache that could be added to the webpage.

I don't know why my PC is acting the way it is, but I hope it can be solved rather easily as it seems to have been done by a Windows Update. Either way, this should be ready soon.

Oof, that's terrible. I've come across a similar issue with one of my hard drives back in the day, I ended having to back everything up and wipe the hard drive (I don't have any solid state equipment save for the boot drive). I wish you luck with getting that fixed. I've made progress with my stuff, I finally unlocked the rebirth outfits for Reimu, Yuyuko, Mokou, and Sakuya. I'll be ripping those shortly, and uploading them, and maybe some backgrounds with that as someone keeps requesting them.

Hey, so unrelated thing. I'm trying to go through my files, but I found a sprite I don't recognize that's on the dump here... 


All I know is that it's NOT part of Chapter 2, so it's not the Forest of Magic. I vaguely remember this in one of the Hifuu Chapters, but if anyone knows where this is used, hit me with it.


Edit: Found another I don't recognize.

So a bit of an update, I just now realized that halfway through my rip, that Seiran's only sprites are her basic L1 interpretation. My mistake entirely, but I believe I've deleted some of them (amongst others) in an effort to keep space on my hard drive. Admittedly the rip was kind of a lot for my PC, so I've been trying to clean up, and I may or may not have accidentally deleted some of them by mistake, so we'll still be a few units off after my rip. I don't believe I intend to go back and find them again, but I'll post again if I try to. 

There's already a lot of stuff I have to upload, so I'll keep you all posted on when I finish. Thank you all.

(03-18-2023, 08:50 PM)IVBOY Wrote: [ -> ]So a bit of an update, I just now realized that halfway through my rip, that Seiran's only sprites are her basic L1 interpretation. My mistake entirely, but I believe I've deleted some of them (amongst others) in an effort to keep space on my hard drive. Admittedly the rip was kind of a lot for my PC, so I've been trying to clean up, and I may or may not have accidentally deleted some of them by mistake, so we'll still be a few units off after my rip. I don't believe I intend to go back and find them again, but I'll post again if I try to. 

There's already a lot of stuff I have to upload, so I'll keep you all posted on when I finish. Thank you all.

Ripping from Lost Word is an absolute pain, so I totally understand. I had to copy the cache four, yes FOUR, times for the rip I uploaded this morning... I'm reaching my limits as well. There's only so much I can pull from the game, and I'll admit I'm terrible at figuring what locations the backgrounds are supposed to be (thanks for uploading a few, it really helps). I know at least one of the music jackets is missing from my rip (MusicJacket_001.png I believe) which is ironically the jacket for Lost Word Chronicle. My cache is also so large that combing it is near impossible. It's at 6900 folders now. Thankfully I was able to pick up all the latest characters from global. In fact, I think almost every portrait from global is in here now, except for costumes from the last two events.

Thanks for all the work you've done already, it's been a great help as I don't even think I'd have started without info you posted, and I know if I'll be able to get much more done

I wish you best of luck with what you're doing, I need a few days off. I have a lot going on in my life already. I'll be watching this thread for updates, though.
-Kana

(03-19-2023, 03:20 AM)KanaKonpaku Wrote: [ -> ]Ripping from Lost Word is an absolute pain, so I totally understand. I had to copy the cache four, yes FOUR, times for the rip I uploaded this morning... I'm reaching my limits as well. There's only so much I can pull from the game, and I'll admit I'm terrible at figuring what locations the backgrounds are supposed to be (thanks for uploading a few, it really helps). I know at least one of the music jackets is missing from my rip (MusicJacket_001.png I believe) which is ironically the jacket for Lost Word Chronicle. My cache is also so large that combing it is near impossible. It's at 6900 folders now. Thankfully I was able to pick up all the latest characters from global. In fact, I think almost every portrait from global is in here now, except for costumes from the last two events.

Thanks for all the work you've done already, it's been a great help as I don't even think I'd have started without info you posted, and I know if I'll be able to get much more done

I wish you best of luck with what you're doing, I need a few days off. I have a lot going on in my life already. I'll be watching this thread for updates, though.
-Kana

Thanks for the support, here. I've got a few JP Exclusive units in this rip potentially, I believe the only ones I'm missing are A6 Meiling, A6 Koakuma and A6 Daiyousei as I don't believe I encountered them at all. I'll post an update once I'm done uploading everything, but as of current I've got 15 of the 200 files that I've actually pulled, with more on the way. 

Take as much time as you need!

(03-19-2023, 12:50 PM)IVBOY Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks for the support, here. I've got a few JP Exclusive units in this rip potentially, I believe the only ones I'm missing are A6 Meiling, A6 Koakuma and A6 Daiyousei as I don't believe I encountered them at all. I'll post an update once I'm done uploading everything, but as of current I've got 15 of the 200 files that I've actually pulled, with more on the way. 

Take as much time as you need!

I've noticed something weird. I have full assets for the two most recently announced characters on the Japanese Lost Word Youtube channel. Yet none of the scarlet characters that are exclusive to the Japanese version are in the US cache. Also out of curiosity does Miyoi even have a portrait in the Japanese version? Someone in the comments on the lost word page keeps asking for the stuff and I don't feel comfortable releasing what I have (I'm seriously getting tired of people requesting assets in the comments, I don't even think that's allowed on here?).

Regardless with those Japanese exclusive B3 characters announced now, I might make spritesheets in advance. They've been in the files since I started ripping the game, oddly. Also I keep having an odd issue where folders seem to be duplicates of each other (a certain group of 500 were literally identical). Oh well.

(03-20-2023, 08:39 PM)KanaKonpaku Wrote: [ -> ]I've noticed something weird. I have full assets for the two most recently announced characters on the Japanese Lost Word Youtube channel. Yet none of the scarlet characters that are exclusive to the Japanese version are in the US cache. Also out of curiosity does Miyoi even have a portrait in the Japanese version? Someone in the comments on the lost word page keeps asking for the stuff and I don't feel comfortable releasing what I have (I'm seriously getting tired of people requesting assets in the comments, I don't even think that's allowed on here?).

Regardless with those Japanese exclusive B3 characters announced now, I might make spritesheets in advance. They've been in the files since I started ripping the game, oddly. Also I keep having an odd issue where folders seem to be duplicates of each other (a certain group of 500 were literally identical). Oh well.

To start on the easier half of the comment, I believe C3 Miyoi has portrait art, while L1 Miyoi only has a cutscene design, though I may be wrong as I don't believe it is called, and there is no option to just download every asset (like in Pokémon GO), which is unfortunate. This is, however, the same for Rinnosuke, Renko, Merry, and the PC98 Characters, so the best the user is getting is a cutscene assembly sprite and nothing more, since as of now the devs don't appear to intend to add them as units, and thus they don't have a fancy background like units that are intended to be implemented soon do, nor any sprites for being selected in a menu or something. However, I can absolutely confirm that she may have an icon sprite, as not only have I ripped a few of those, but also, they were used in teasers before. 
(Notably, here, there's the multitude of Gen/Fes units that weren't even in JP at the time, and then there's... Rinnosuke, Miyoi, and Yukari's Baby Alt. I was able to find some for PC98 Reimu, PC98 Marisa, Renko and Merry too in my previous rip. There should be clean rips of all of these somewhere...! ...which also makes me realized I never checked the homescreen options to see if they'd be added to my game's cache. Thankfully, it only added 1 file, so thank lord.)
To add to this comment, the Eirin Alt that gets used in Sakuya's Relic Story and Hifuu EX is stored differently than every other silhouetted unit, actually being displayed in-game as it's stored in the files, so she's quite possibly the only exclusion to the "every unit gets an icon and some cutscene sprites" bare minimum rule.

As for the latter, well... I assume you mean H5 Keine and Doremy. This can be explained with one of two things:
-This happens consistently with any unit that's to be added within a short period without maintenance, though sometimes it doesn't. I found F1 Sanae Battle Sprites (the Red/Yellow One) and Beach Reimu (entirely) before the former appearing as a boss in C4A2, and the latter appearing in a banner (though I found her before her simultaneous JP/EN Release). It seems to have gotten worse as B3 Hecatia, A6 Yuuka and H5 Kiene were all leaked in full, playable form without placeholder sprites up to a week prior to their banners on billibilli, which is weird especially when F1 Sanae and Dragon Marisa only have placeholder sprites for their buttons if you make their enemy data playable. If you don't feel comfortable releasing any content that isn't yet available in global, though, that's alright, but the mods shouldn't yell at you for uploading JP Exclusive content, as I did that with the Nurse Tengu set a week prior to their inclusion in Global. The best rule of thumb is to think of it being available in-game directly on either version, especially since...
-The English Version has ALL of the JP Version's current files at the time of the update and then some, from what I can gather. I think the only thing you won't get yelled at for adding prior to release is the inclusion of their portraits IF they have one. 

Apologies for the long-winded rant, but as I said, it's your choice to upload the JP-Exclusive content, and if you decide to wait, that's cool! I did that for F1 Sanae's battle sprites, after all, so to tl;dr what I said:
-Miyoi only has Cutscene Sprites and an Icon, usually only characters who are to be playable in the near future (1-3 months?) have portraits and even closer units have battle sprites (1-4 weeks given maintenance doesn't occur before their inclusion). This is a more recent occurrence though, and sometimes units can be thrown in entirely at random moments.
-Global and Jp share the same or similar files, sometimes a few versions off from each other, but Global has more due to their own custom events (EXP quests, Elemental EX, etc). That or the two you mentioned are being released soon.
-The category is inclusive for both JP and GLB content.
-It's your choice to upload anything. Worst case scenario, I may end up uploading the characters you mentioned in my rip.

I hope this clears some stuff up, and I apologize that this is a really, REALLY long response.   As I said, do whatever you feel is right in the moment, and if you need more support on the decision, the Discord server for the Video Games Resource is available. Good luck, Kana!