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Otome game CGs, art books and other misc. images

Install Keybase

Go to keybase://public/cadavaberry

If it asks you to join the team, then request to join. I’m not sure how it works, but I did make the folder public

You can download files on PC or macOS using the web client, or on Android or iOS. Do note that Keybase isn’t being developed as much, so the app may not work well on Android or iOS

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I’m only sharing the images I’ve amassed over the years (art books, probably up until 2015? CGs until 2018 to 2019? Magazines until 2013)

No game downloads are part of this dump. Only images.

I have to use Keybase because it’s the only platform that gives you 250GB of free storage, and this dump is 50GB.

I do own physical copies of some of the art books (not scanned by me), and here’s my justification for uploading them:

The games are old & on discontinued consoles

The original uploads are hard to find or are down, and weibo is a pain to access these days (pan.baidu is even worse)

Yes, you can import a lot of these for 500 JPY from Surugaya or Amazon.co.jp but the shipping will kneecap you...

Just wanted to give back to the community that kept me entertained all these years

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I found Keybase for free storage over 50GB. Hope it works out, but anyone who wants the files will have to join Keybase. lol @ the app freezing on me while I try to upload 50 gigs worth of files.

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I also have some other non-otome fanbooks/artbooks that I should upload, but that’s another 12 gigs. It’s a bunch of Metal Gear & Atelier ones, and some other misc. ones. They’re from 2009 to 2013, I wonder if they’re still up on the sites I originally got them from.

It’s been freaking 10 years since this stuff was first released so... yeah.

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Y’all I am going to be ambitious & attempt to upload 50 gigs worth of old otome game-related shit I’ve hoarded. To MEGA. I don’t think my free account has the space necessary for it, but I might as well try.

A lot of this stuff is from super old games and may become lost media or just plain locked behind otomedream paywalls or disappear from weibo for all I know. You know how the CCP is nowadays.

Most of the fanbooks in the dump are probably like 500 to 2,000 JPY on Amazon at this point since much of it is from 2014 or is older than that.

I freaking love the old B’s Log spreads from 2010 and older, ha ha. Makes me so nostalgic.

It will have scans, CGs and other miscellaneous images collected around the Internet. Obviously all credit goes to the fine & kind folks who put in the effort to scan everything for us plebs. We are nothing without them.

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Thank god the classic Tumblr colours are still here. My eyes were burning from the all-black theme

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WTF, reddit

Well fuck me... I'm back. I never thought I'd come back to Tumblr, but thanks to reddit's idiotic new changes, god knows what's going to happen to the site I joined via recommendation from my university's FB page, and actively participated in since 2011.

11 years on reddit and now they're destroying the site the same way Tumblr got fucked in 2013. Is it still like that? I miss old Tumblr, even if I didn't spend as much time here as I did on reddit.

Good riddance to the site that disgraced Aaron Swartz's spirit by removing him from the list of co-founders (Why though? Just to be assholes? Spez strikes again).

I privated my sub & received an automated mod mail telling me to open it or else. Take it from me then. It's all meaningless now.

Worst part is, the APIs they're charging money for are the same APIs that allow people with disabilities to use reddit in the first place. Because reddit's accessibility tools are allegedly so ass that blind folks have to rely on third-party APIs to make it usable. Apparently reddit doesn't even comply with ADA guidelines completely? Please let me be wrong.

Where is everyone going now? I heard it's Lemmy.world, while others are on Discord or kbin or other such platforms. This sucks. I wish there was one centralized site everyone could migrate to. I'm sure reddit will eventually rebuild itself with shitty new rules once it goes public.

I suppose this rule change is a purge for them to get rid of their old userbase to welcome in a new base of people who are easier to control? The kind of people that don't care about tweaking their reddit experience, and are happy to roll with the changes reddit decides are best for the site and/or advertisers.

Speaking of changes, I've never had the need to use reddit mobile apps or Apollo and such, just the old reddit basic ass vanilla theme from when I first joined the site. Once they get rid of that and force the redesign on everyone, I'll probably end up finding the site frustrating and unenjoyable to use and use it less, hopefully.

Anyway, remember spez faked a lot of posts early in reddit's history to make the site look active? Yeah. Expect the same thing to return. The botfarm issue will only intensify. Expect low-effort ChatGPT-generated comments across reddit.

reddit's death will be a slow one, like Digg's. There will be no mass exodus of users. I don't know when a true competitor to reddit will arrive, but it eventually will.

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First off, thanks so much for all the information you've got here - not to mention all the gorgeous pictures! Using your help and that of others, I managed to get my images of interest out to the AR2 format, and managed to get localizationTools... and that's where I'm stuck, because even when I go into the Art2Converter section and load one of the images, all I get is a thousand errors. I'd be grateful for any help you can give me on the GUI!

That’s good to know. At least someone’s been partially successful.

Those errors are common and it’s probably an issue with the image format. Which game are you referring to? Is it a new game or an old one? In any case, PSP devs often mix and match formats as they please. It could be that the AR2 files you’re trying to convert are a newer version of AR2 that the tool doesn’t support.

On top of that, many PSP tools were only created for a specific game in mind, usually by translation teams (bless them). So if there’s even a slight variation in headers, the file won’t get converted. Art2Converter is a general use tool but it hasn’t been updated since 2014.

Really, your best bet is to look for English translation teams and ask them if they can help you reverse engineer and/or convert the files (or if you really feel like it, you can try to do so yourself if you have some programming knowledge). Now that the PSV’s been cracked and dumps are coming out, the scene is starting up again, albeit slowly.

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hello! i hope i'm not being a nuisance by asking but in your post for ozmafia cgs/sprites/bgm (for pc) in the dl some of the bgm files are missing. i know thats a very old post and you might not even remember it, but i was curious on whether or not it was just not possible to get those missing bgms or something? i'm not complaining or anything! i was just wondering if that even when you fully extract a game there are some things you cant get? i dnt mind going through the process to get those bgm

You can probably extract them yourself. Just put the big data files through AnimeED. One of them is bound to have the BGM. Don’t have the file anymore so I can’t help you, sorry.

http://wks.arai-kibou.ru/ae.php

The problem is I don’t use Tumblr much these days so I only get to these questions very late. No need to apologize for anything.

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Do you have the sprites of wand of fortune?

I have some WOF II “sprites” but they have solid backgrounds. 

https://mega.nz/#!0RMzGCiI!BJuskLEiZ07eYp0RSfRBmMopKCNAYTEoKphUt1fgnwY

You’re better off grabbing the sprites from the website itself if they exist.

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Hello I would like to know how I can extract the sprites as Zettai Meikyuu Himitsu no Oyayubi-Hime

It’s a PSV game. Only some PSV games have ROMs/game files have been dumped on the Internet right now. If you own the game you can try dumping the files and going through them with PSP extraction tools. It may work because sometimes devs use the same architecture for PSP games. However formats are changing all the time so you’ll have to look around for PSV homebrew/translation teams and ask around. They should be able to help you extract some files.

I don’t know if wololo.net allows discussion on PSV formats, but you could try there if you have access to the game’s assets. Or reddit (look for the PSV subs).

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Thank you for uploading the sprites for Princess Nightmare! I know you probably won't see this for a while, but I was wondering if you would be able to reupload them as the google drive link is down? Thank you very much!

Check my MEGA link. When I have time I’ll upload the files separately but right now everything’s in one big file.

https://mega.nz/#!hRNwTZ6B!KSK8lZCJZqc7KJd0Bk_iR6LPwx1Abt7XyMbyzcPPjm8

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By any chance do you know where to download joubachi no oubou menou hen in English? I saw this post where you helped out with the English trial but I am hoping to find it in English to play through. I hope I don't seem like a bother but the help would be great full. Have a nice day!

An English version of the game does not exist. You could use a text hooker in conjunction with the .exe file to output the Japanese text and then translate it to English (either at the same time, or manually copy-pasting it into Google Translate or whatever). See here. And here. Do a search for “visual novel text hooker” for more results. 

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if you have a macbook how do you extract sprites and cg's? Thank you

For what kinds of games? PC? Console (PSP/PS Vita)? Mobile (iOS/Android)? The last time I used a Macbook was back in 2010. I don’t know, Google “osx game asset ripping” or something like that? I dunno, maybe you can use your Macbook to decompile .ipa files. If I were you, I’d run a Windows VM or dual boot Windows.

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When I extract some background images, the header says its in 'GXT'. Do you have any idea how to handle this? The game is Yahari Game demo Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru.

If you’re talking about a PSP/PS Vita game… don’t ask me about it. I’m no engineer. You should be going to forums like XentaX or asking around GitHub. Hell, even ask on reddit or StackOverflow. reddit should be especially receptive because they love the series. Good luck.  

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Hi can you extract sprite from voltage games, like the recent Liar! Uncover the truth?

Gonna assume you’re talking about the Android version, assuming that there is one. If you’re using iOS, know that it’s incredibly difficult to extract assets from an .ipa (to my knowledge).

Android’s gotten a lot better about how apps handle files, and so have devs. I don’t have any good Android devices on me at the moment, so I’m not going to bother. I’m guessing the files are stored in the Android data folder as an .obb. Usually you’re able to convert that to a .zip (just by renaming it), and you should be able to extract the assets that way. But this method doesn’t always work. But you’ll oftentimes get an error doing that (in my experience).

You need to decode the APK somehow, either using APKtool or some other method. Do a preliminary search. All you have to do is Google “how to extract android sprites” or “how to extract android game assets”.

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sorry for bothering you but do you have icchibanketsu sprites ?

Surely there should be a way to rip the files using Chrome or Firefox’s Developer Tools bar or something. Refer to Kancolle ripping guides like this one: http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Crazy_teitoku/Guide_to_netgame_assets_ripping_via_Kancolle

Ichibanketsu probably works the same way since it’s a DMM flash game, I’m guessing. Never played it.

Alternatively you could try searching Weibo or Baidu or something. Do a bunch of searches 一血卍傑 全立 for sprites or 一血卍傑 CG. Doubt you’ll find anything though. 

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Happy Trump Inauguration Day! I was hoping the anon from the last post would send me a compelling argument that refutes my own (in regards to what constitutes piracy and what doesn’t), but sadly, that hasn’t materialized.

I had to remove everything from my Google Drive to MEGA because I need that Google Drive space for other stuff. I uploaded everything as one .zip file because my Internet connection is bad.

Here it is: https://mega.nz/#!hRNwTZ6B!KSK8lZCJZqc7KJd0Bk_iR6LPwx1Abt7XyMbyzcPPjm8