#;danganstuff

[jabbaimond]

Hey, guys! I'm trying to get through a huge back log of footage I have for making videos exploring a lot of glitches and oversights from the games. Here's the first of many! I hope you find it interesting. If you'd rather read than watch, you can visit the Danganbase website.

[jabbaimond]

0x08976c3c handles the student handbook names on their profiles. Only the a2 value appears to have any visual affect.

For example, Nanami's named is stored under the value 12D. We can change this value to 135, which is Komaeda's name, to get the following result:

狛枝 凪斗 = Komaeda Nagito.

If we set it to 000, nothing shows up.

Setting it to a non-existent pointer typically results in nothing displaying. But if we set it to lower numbers, we can get some fun effects.

001:

010:

）Alarm Clocks Ultimate Ga mi Chiaki Nanami Chiaki Nanami Chiaki Nanami

055:

00D:

0F3:

Morning

[jabbaimond]

ENGLISH / 日本語 OK

Heya! This is my general blog + Dangan research blog. I tackle mistranslations, beta sprites, and coding of the games, and basically any other facet of the series. Always feel free to send in a question if you have any!

日本語でメッセージを、いいですよ。

Check out the tags on this post to browse the work I do. Under the cut are projects of mine I'm going to shill (lol)

Danganbase is my website where I port over all my research from here into an organized, nicely-presented place. Many things get re-written before being posted on there, to amend any errors or add extra info I may have learned after making a post. Still a work in progress, but I'm constantly chipping away at it. I also plan for there to be many exclusive pages, too!

A remake of my 2016 game Chiaki Sim with a complete graphical overhaul and added content. You play as Hinata Hajime trying to win the heart of Nanami Chiaki. Of course, things rarely ever go as planned... The game was made in Ren'py and can be played on any desktop device. Download here!

[jabbaimond]

More Function Addresses

Last post I showcased a video of me preforming some memory editing. Been doing more, so here are some more findings.

Firstly, about 0x088ab648. This is the address I showcased in the video that is responsible for what Rooms are loaded. I still have some thing I need to figure out, like what controls what type of room you are loaded into (i.e. a 2d investigation room or a free-roam room). Still haven't been able to figure it out.

0x088ab674. Literally right below the function for loading rooms is the function for loading standing sprites. If set as a breakpoint, the game will pause for each space that is supposed to load a standing sprite. For example, say the room is supposed to have Pekoyama, Komaeda, and Nanami like in the prologue. It will stop 3 times for each character to get their ID. a1 controls the character ID, while a2 controls the sprite ID.

For example, since Komaeda is 01, we can see the game wants to load his sprite. As for the specific sprite, it's going to be 00 which is his default sprite. Despite no overworld part of the game ever using anything other than the default sprite, we can change this.

(I actually have a post going more into detail about the ID numbers)

Anyways, this can be used to mildly amusing effect.

(Yes, that is a beta Komaeda sprite still left in the files).

0x088a9700 is pretty similar, but for bust_ups.

0x0889a198 has some sort of function for the level up gauge. Still don't really know to what extent, other than the a3 variable is responsible for if the gauge is purple or grey.

0x0889a27c is another level gauge-related function, though the effects I've found are slightly more amusing. a2 is responsible for the horizontal length of the gauge, while a3 for the height.

The purple line is the gauge stretching across the whole screen. Unsure why you only see a sliver. I assume other elements are covering it.

Here's it extended way too high and also passing a very small number into it, so it's just a small line. Since the gauge never changes size vertically the default number it is always at is 3E8, or 1,000.

Finally I have 0x0889ffdc, which seems solely responsible for where the search icon (or any icon of any sort) is placed...literally. a1 stores the position.

For example, this is 1, 2, 3, 4 in order.

If you set it to anything higher or lower than these 4 numbers, (like "5" or "0") the icon just doesn't display.

What discoveries, lol.

[jabbaimond]

Stopping the game at 0x088ead08 and passing an argument through a1 lets us change the color of the capsule when using the MonoMono Yachine.

00 = Pink 01 = Light Blue 02 = Dark Blue 03 = Red 04 = Yellow

If you set the number to anything higher, it displays either nothing at all for the bottom half, or other random images (whatever it is closest to in memory). However, the number must be single-digit (including a, b, c, etc), anything higher will just make it by default display the pink capsule. I'm sure there's other quirks to be found, but yeah.

05

06

08

[jabbaimond]

Between translating, I need to figure out how to open up the Vita games.

I know I did it in the past, but of course, I never documented my method, so now I don't remember...

I will probably have to dump my own copies so I can make sure they're unencrypted, because I tried using quickBMS on the Taiwanese SDR2, and it did not recognize the .cpk - the header data was wrong. So, yeah.

Being able to compare the Vita ports of SDR2 between English and Taiwanese would be nice. They seem to be translated from the same base (before Shade Inc.'s fixes when the JP original was bundled with DR1) So they have similar to identical issues. Though, the Taiwanese version seems even MORE prone to glitches. No clue why.

I did notice a few odd things as I played through Trial 1 on that version (unlike the Eng version, you can switch between Japanese and Chinese on the Taiwan version, I decided to play the Chinese translation though for the added challenge of being able to only understand 0.1% of it). For one, the names of the music is different slightly. In Japanese, the songs are, well...in Japanese. Romanji specifically, but still. The English version translated all the song titles. The Taiwanese version seemed to keep the Japanese titles, but they are written slightly different. I assume Pinyin instead of Romanji?

Hilariously, they fixed the mispelling in the Beautiful Ruin song title, which reads SUMMER SOLT in Japanese. Both English and Taiwan versions corrected this to SUMMER SALT. I doubt this was coordinated, as it would have no reason to be. I just found it funny.

But yeah, would be nice to be able to get these unencrypted to A) scower the code like I'm doing on the PSP version and B) compare differences like this. Maybe I can even find out how long the hangman's gambit sections are lol.

[jabbaimond]

Sorry for being SO inactive, guys. I feel like I come back just to say that constantly.

As always, I do a lot behind the scenes. I'm always working on Dangan research one way or another.

I'm just the kind of person who's sort of a perfectionist. I don't like revealing things unless I am 100% sure of them or have all the data. But I think that should change.

It would be nice to have a place to document what I'm up to instead of keeping it all in my head!

I'll let you guys know what I'm up to right now...

I have several glitches and whatnot I'm trying to perform in SDR2. I like checking different versions of games (consoles, etc.) to see if said glitch happens on what versions.

For example, here is a current doc I have going:

Shoutout to the name "Blockuya Tollgami", named by my friend who discovered the glitch. This one in particular will be a pain to test natively on all the versions I own, because it is Island Mode. Hence why I only could test my Steam and PSVita versions.

These glitches/oversights are being recorded by me, and once I have the necessary data, I plan to upload videos on my Danganbase channel and secure the entries on my website.

BTW I own all Dangan games except for any on the Xbox line or any of the mobile games. But I have access to 1.2 Reload on PS5 through a friend and I own the rest personally. But this means I can't test every version unless I drop some cash on an Xbox Series X and an iphone...I guess I could buy DR1&SDR2 on my Android.

Knowing me, I probably will invest in this some day xD

Also! I have been learning how to reverse engineer these games!! Please stick around, I hope I can update more tonight about it.

And I'm still working on all my translation stuff of course. You guys know me; I bounce around constantly. But it's always something Dangan related.

I have some non-Dangan work I have to do, but I'll hopefully be back later to post more.