MrPalloncini

Hi everyone, sorry for the fact that i was absent all those moths, but thing IRL became a bit hard for me since my mother passed away few month ago. I will now try to answer few things. AFAIK translator++ is mainly developed for RPG Maker games and doesn't natively support yu-ris. The best current method for translating is using YurisTool and repacking the files. I don't have a way to make a video rn, but if you just need to extract the text in readable format, you can use GarBro which decode automatically every text file or you can use YurisTool. Might me a bit hard but if you keep at it you will learn how to do this, i started from 0 too. As long as you don't want to edit the .ybn files you don't need a key to repack the .ypf, you just need to know the version of the SDK since the algorithm changes between each version. Regarding VNs that uses yuris there aren't that many, the most famous is ozmafia and all clockup games that uses the engine. Also cluckup uses a modified version of the engine since the developer works there. I'm sorry for my absence and i won't be present in this forum too much in those month too, i'll try to stick around as much as i can if anyone needs help or have questions. Thank you

Thank you very much for this powerful tool, i'm goung to try this when i have more free time This took me 4 years of reversing engineering starting from scratch, since i'm not a programmer it was difficilt for me to learn all of this stuff. Also, i don't think i can post more information since i have few problems in my personal life. I hope i can continue on this project. Thank you all so much for your support

Sorry for my very late response, but i had some personal troubles and i couldn't work on it too much. But i found something interesting. Looks like that the engine keep the order of the single script file in the name of the file itself, so when the engine looks for yst_list.ybn the 11th file inside that is es_font, which is the file you have found. The es_font is standard in the engine and is always loaded, therefore you might be able to mod the file itself and insert the custom font inside cgsys. I however do not know how to do that, since i couldn't work too much on it and i don't know ho to handle the NULL chars inside the file, since around i couln't find any tool for editing the script itself other than translation and missing any format that yuris ask, will trigger an error in the engine. I'll try my best to find out how to handle that, but i don't know if i will be able to.

Thank you so much for those software you suggested, for xor the file itself, i just use hex editor neo with the bitwise xor function and the hex keys. Are you trying to add the font in the game or those files were already there?

Sorry for the late response, i checked the script and i think the problem is the space character, which the engine this is a termination line. Writing the phrase with a comma or other symbols displays the text correctly. I'll do more research to find out how to bypass this issue but i don't know if i'll be able to. The problem is that without any script in the engine itself, this might not be an easy fix. And since i'm not a programmer i can't debug the engine to know exactly how to patch this issue. If you find a workaround, let me know. EDIT: With the help of my friend i've been able to find out that the engine support space and some special characters in the name field. The script however doesn't support characters that are not expected, like spaces and special chars. The workaround for now is to use the space that you can find in the script itself, which is a NULL character (00 in hex). For the special chars however you should still use the chars provided with the font the engine wants. I don't know if the engine use special fonts or defined scripts to prevent special chars. Yu-ris however support a gaiji mode (that was used in euphoria), which can replace special defined chars with a custom font, but I don't know how to insert that however.

Ok, the errors you are getting, are related to the version of the YPF file, the engine detects that the compression is different or the key is invalid and therefore refuse to load saying that the assets are duplicated or tampered. Now, i've been able to mod the YPF file. First i suggest you to extract the file using YPF Manager Tool, then you should get a folder with the name of the file, and a subfolder that will contain all the files (example, to should get: cgsys -> cgsys -> all the files), you then need to take note of the engine version (in this case looks like ver 500) an then repack the first folder with the engine version (example: YPFManager.exe -c cgsys -v 500). Keep in mind that this solution might be not perfect since the tool compress the data inside the file even when it shouldn't, so the engine might refuse to load assets.

You might get this error message because you are trying to repack the file in a folder that use SHIFT-JIS standard name, i suggest you to repack the folder in the desktop and without using a locale emulator (if you are using one). I've been able to repack the file, but the game refuse to work because the key of the compression is different. The game you are trying to repack uses a custom version of the engine (i think), which should be 500 (even if the exe says it's 555, idk). Because i'm not a programmer, i can't say that well how the repacking works for those versions and the official SDK for this version is not available. I recommend you to check YPF Manager Tool to try it for yourself, but i couldn't repack it even with that tool. The reason why i use the official SDK is because it's the only decent repacker out there, since ypf repackers aren't common. If you are able to find the exact version and the key, GARbro might be able to repack it too, but i already tried it. I'll try to work on this, but i can't guarantee you that i'll be able to repack it. However by using YPF Manager tool the game doesn't give any error, it just doesn't display the images. If you have more details, let me know. YPF Manager Tool precompiled: https://mega.nz/file/AN51FIbB#RBpPUPT4haxhTYAplxNPtt7SN7SKrDFGkdCZHcQaLBU

Introduction I wanted to make this guide since i couldn't find some complete guide to mod any VN on yuris engine. The main reason is that i played euphoria and i wanted to mod it. All the examples you are going to find are my years of reverse engineering and online documentation on euphoria (Mangagamer) version of yuris (v474). How Yu-Ris engine works Yuris is an interpreter that uses code C-like, is often used with ERIS, which is the VN interactive engine part of the interpreter. The engine use its own file format called "YPF" for archives and "YBN" for scripts. The contents of the YPF file are usually assets since the archive can contain all kind of media, except videos. The engine can be configured to use debug mode, as well as a log mode if activated. Usually is used with some assets protection, using the ypf format, the algorithm should change with major version of the SDK. It also offer a XOR encryption protection for the scripts files. The engine uses SHIFT-JIS text encoding, to be compatible with Windows versions since 98 to today. This of course causes some issues with the text since the OS will use ASCII standard to read it. Unpacking YPF files Unpacking YPF files is quite simple since is a standard Zlib compression, however tools may be incompatible depending on the engine version. You can easily unpack those files by using yu-ris text replacer, arc_conv or GARbro. GARbro has a really simple UI to use and can extract each archive by guessing the key or using a list of known keys for each game you want to unpack. arc_conv is quite simple to use too, just double click the exe and pick the file, it should extract the ypf file into a folder in the same directory. Yuris text replacer will extract the files automatically without any input from the user, this however might be incompatible with some later games, since the app is not developed anymore and the project is not opensource. Unpacking Video files in YPF format Video files aren't really compressed or encoded, so renaming the YPF file with an MPG extension will works. (Example: OP.ypf -> OP.mpg) The encoding of the video itself is very specific and while it can be opened with a standard player, creating a new one for the game can be a pain, so i suggest to use sdk tools for repacking. Unpacking YBN files This is the part where all gets tricky, the game tries to protect all of the scripts assets with an XOR encryption. To find the text you must before unpack it from the YPF, usually is bn.ypf. Then, you have to find the encryption key, which is only an XOR key, meaning that all the 0 in the file is a letter of the key. For This reason, you should pick up a file with most NULL chars in it, so you can find the key more easily. As you can see, the file patter use so often x.0s chars, when the dot is an escape character so you must save the key in HEX format, in this case the key for euphoria is: 0x30731b78. You can also use this site: https://wiremask.eu/tools/xor-cracker/ to crack the file with some analysis by uploading it. Now that we have the key, we must find a good file to start our unpacking. I suggest to use an hex editor with a bitwise xor functionality with in, the only tool i found is Hex Editor Neo, but is a pay program, however there is a trial version, so if you can find a free one, let me know! We can now import some files to start our cracking, i suggest to import some files in the middle that should contain text, in my case i used the file yst00140.ybn. As you can see, we have some text that is used in the game itself, be aware that some file just use the text to instruct the engine and those files will be not exportable (yet). Now that we just know the key and the file to unpack, we can use ExtYbn to extract the plain text on the file. extybn is a ybn extractor, that can guess op-codes and extract the text with the given key, the app however must be compiled from Golang in a standard executable: https://github.com/regomne/chinesize/tree/master/yuris/extYbn I will give you the precompiled application. Now we should start the executable with the command line and use this argument: extYbn -e -ybn yst00140.ybn -output-opcode -key 0x30731b78 This will give us the op-codes, which are useful to extract the text without issues that we may have. We now can unpack those files correctly using the following command: extYbn.exe -e -ybn yst00140.ybn -json unpacked.json -txt unpacked.txt -key 0x30731b78 -op-msg 95 op-call 29 the following commands are explained in the help file, but i will give you a summary. -e: puts the program in extract mode -ybn: choose the input ybn file -json: will create a json file with all the offsets (required for repacking) -txt: will create a txt file with all the text inside -key: will specify the key in hex format -op-msg/call: will specify the op codes to extract the text We now should have the txt file, remember to use a compatible encoding (default one should be good) and use the syntax the engine will expect. To repack the file, the command is almost identical with some key difference: extYbn.exe -p -ybn yst00140.ybn -txt unpacked.txt -new-ybn modded.ybn -key 0x30731b78 -op-msg 95 op-call 29 in this case we removed the json file, which will be imported automatically, the -p mode to pack the file and the -new-bin command with the new filename. You can also verify the file by manually decrypting in the hex editor like before. However yu-ris is quite sensitive with the text, so your new text may crash the game. Be sure to have repacked well with the right encoding and byte space. Repack YPF files To repack the archives, i suggest you to use the official sdk, you might need to get used to it, but i'ts quite simple and you can find the manuals in the official site, they are in japanese but you can use translate with that url. The sdk should match the game version, however the only important thing is that the sdk must use the same repacking algorithm of the game. I'll leave the sdk for euphoria, but is possible to get it from the official site with an http request. Inside the engine folder, you should find a subfolder called system, then the YsPac folder. Inside that folder, there is the YPF packer that we are going to use. First we must drop the extracted folder inside the application and select it. Then we must click the top left menu bar, then click the second parameter. This will export the file. That's it, the file should now be exported as a YPF file. Feel free to contribute and improve this guide, if you have any issues let me know. Yu-Ris SDK link: https://mega.nz/file/FQBgxJib#Yirgo01FPfDQu8Mte2b3dGMSxZx2UPyjIDDMhZZ2mU0 extYbn link: https://mega.nz/file/FQBgxJib#Yirgo01FPfDQu8Mte2b3dGMSxZx2UPyjIDDMhZZ2mU0