Katahane

[edit] Releases

English Patch v1.1

There are no longer separate installers for the "Natural" and "Literal" versions of the patch. If you are installing the English patch for the first time, you will be asked during installation to make a choice between them; if you are upgrading from the v1.0 patch, the installer will detect the version you previously chose and install the appropriate set of script files automatically.

[edit] Instructions to install

We hope that the version 1.1 installer will be less problematic then previous versions. However, if you encounter difficulty applying the English patch, please try following the steps below.

Uninstall the game completely (including saves) if you had it previously installed for whatever reason.

If you're running Windows 7 or Vista and you previously installed Katahane into the Program Files folder, your saves will be in the C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files(x86)\Tarte folder; you might need to delete them manually.

Install the Japanese game.
Download and run the official update patch from one of the mirrors: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.
Run and follow the instructions of the installer. You may need to have administrator privileges on the computer.

If you get an installation error like "C:\users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\RarSFX0\Installer.exe Starting the application failed." then try installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 for it to work.

Run katahane.exe in the game folder (NOT カタハネ.exe and NOT the shortcut that the Japanese installer made), then click on "File" and "Font Config" in-game, and change the font to "S2GP月フォント" for the wordwrapping to function properly.
Correct result:

If you have trouble using the patch or notice any mistakes, please tell us about the issue on the page Katahane:Error Reports.

[edit] Walkthrough

English Walkthrough

[edit] Synopsis

The story takes place in a world with 3 kingdoms: the Red, White, and Blue Kingdom. In this world, they have highly-advanced dolls with some closely resembling humans. These dolls occasionally need maintenance which is done by a “tuner”.
A young playwright named Wakaba writes a controversial play about a traitor named Ein who killed a ruler of the White Kingdom, Christina. In Wakaba’s play, she presumes that Ein did not betray Christina, but was actually her loyal supporter.
When Wakaba’s friend Cero needs to make a trip to get Coco- an energetic doll that lives with him- maintenance, Wakaba and her brother Light travel with him. Wakaba travels in the hopes of finding some actors for her play. Along the way, they meet a beautiful doll with one wing named Belle and an aspiring actress named Angelina.

The story takes place in 2 parts:
1) Shirohane - the main story with Wakaba and gang
2) Kurohane - the historical events talking about the end of the reign of Christina
[Taken from Yuri Fan]

[edit] Progress

[edit] Updates

26 January, 2012: It's the fifth anniversary of Katahane's release and we on the patch team are celebrating it with the release of version 1.1 of our English translation patch, which fixes countless typos and other minor issues with the script. We hope that if you haven't yet played Katahane but intend to, this new version will make your reading experience even better. This is expected to be our final release.

Special thanks to Orophin and to our hacker for making this release possible. -I failed jp302 02:00, 26 January 2012 (CST)

30 August, 2011: Despite the best efforts of anime conventions, family vacations and schools to sabotage our promise of an August release, we're happy to present the complete English translation patch of Katahane! Thank you all for your patience, and I would also like to extend my personal thanks to everyone who helped us with the patch in any way, whether or not you are listed on the staff below. Please enjoy the game! -I failed jp302 14:57, 30 August 2011 (CDT)

20 July, 2010: Trial version patch released

1 December, 2009: Project started

[edit] Staff

Translation: yeah321
Editing: I failed jp302
Quality Checking: izmos, Orophin (Post-release)
Hacking: Presently anonymous others
Image Editing: Solarnis
Movie Subtitling: Ririko

Special thanks to: Aaeru, PureWhiteWings, the_paper, TinFoil and anyone I've forgotten

[edit] Scripts

Katahane OP

Katahane ED2

Katahane Style Guide

Katahane Trial Version Scripts

Katahane Scriptsizes

Italics	= Translated
Underlined	= Translation checked
Bold	= Edited
Bold + Italics	= QCed and ready to go

Shirohane				Kurohane			Shirohane
sr001 sr002 sr003 sr004 sr005 sr006 sr007 sr008	sr009 sr010 sr011 sr011b sr012 sr013 sr014 sr015	sr016 sr017 sr018 sr019 sr020 sr021 sr022 sr023	sr024 sr025 sr026 sr027 sr028	kr01 kr02 kr03 kr04 kr05 kr06 kr07 kr08	kr09 kr10 kr11a kr11b kr12a kr12b kr12c kr13	kr91 kr92 kr93	sr029 sr030 sr031 sr032 sr033 sr034 sr035 sr036	sr037 sr038 sr039 sr040 sr041 sr042a sr042b sr042c	sr043a sr043b sr044 sr045 sr046a sr046b sr047	sr048a sr048b sr048c sr049a sr049b sr049c sr050	sr051 sr052a sr052b sr053 sr054 sr055 sr301 sr302	sr303 sr600 sr701 sr702

Unused files

sr049

sr828

sr829

sr831

[edit] Other Files

fastdata.arc	scenario.arc	scenario1.arc	update.arc
kaisou.cfg	consolexx.utf menu.utf message_box.utf start.utf	console.utf	cgmode.cfg majiro.env

[edit] Tools

zOMG NONE!

Miscellaneous utilities:

File:Katahane scriptpuller tools.zip - Pulls scripts down and calculates progress automatically by using the appropriate .bat files
Katahane:kh_copylines.py - lines copier (now with nifty features like merging split lines and blanking empty ones)
Katahane:kh_linecount.py - line counter