Anonymous asked:

We need your help, Rattan. I'm not sure if you had anything to do with the TABA/RPGX viewer over on 4chan but we need your expertise. The English version of Beat Wars Escalation Heroines announced the shut down of the service by October 30.

There are tons of translated H-scenes and story in the game that resembles a lot of the taimanin-verse. We need help making a viewer so that we may archive the scenes and, if possible, the story/events. Its a very sad day. Please help us save our hentai!

I can't offer any technical expertise, but the most important thing you need to do is to work out how to rip the scripts and files. Try looking at the how-to instructions that come with both of the aforementioned viewers. They might give you an idea of what sort of things to try.

After that, you'll need to get as many people as you can to roll the gacha, and collect the most data possible. The actual viewer should be an afterthought, because if worst comes to worst, you can always just alter the scripts to be readable by one of the Taimanin viewers. It's easy, but tedious.

If you can't figure out the ripping procedure in time, then I would advise making video recordings of the scenes with the background music off, so that (theoretically) sound clips can be extracted, and the text retyped.

Also, keep in mind that if it's only the English version that's shutting down, that's not quite so bad: As long as you can find a way to rip scenes, anything in Japanese could simply be translated again. You have a time limit for the official localization, but all is not lost, as long as you can rip them from the JP version as well.

Anyway, that's about all the advice I can give. Anyone who would like to contribute their expertise can use the comment section here, in the hopes of coordinating some sort of preservation effort.