Tsurezure's New Project - Gin'iro Haruka

[littleshogun]

It's been a while since the update, and this time the update (The source) is kind of big.

The first update is we have the update for Mizuha's patch was released, so in case you've been waiting for the fix because a number of typo you can get the update in their website (The link to the MEGA page for the update).

The second update is in regard of Yuzuki's QA which will start in a week, or if we base it from the posting date it'll be on 11th later. With the QA time announced, it can be seen as Irru already finished his editing work. That said, as for the chance to get Yuzuki's patch as Christmas gift, I don't really know seeing that there's still much work left with one of those is applying the subbed ending song for Mizuha's route.

That's all for the most recent update in regard of Ginharu.

Edited September 7, 2023 by littleshogun

[littleshogun]

We have the latest progress, and said progressive currently Yuzuki's route in under QA (And already finished second pass) which apparently mean that it enter the final phase before the release, so perhaps we may have Yuzuki's patch before 2024, although once again the situation can be changed seeing the number of the unfinished works and real life matters. That's all for the update here.

Edited September 19, 2023 by littleshogun

[littleshogun]

It's been a while since I post the update, although I'm very late to post it on this thread because it already available for few days. Anyway, as for the current progress Yuzuki's route has been finished it's QA work, which mean all of Ginharu has been done with QA work. It's still not done yet though, because there's remaining progress that Daybreak currently working on, namely preparing for the final build which involving fixing the remaining bugs (Line breaks and date system) before finally release Yuzuki's patch.

That's all for the update, and I hope the next update is in regard of Yuzuki's patch release even though it's still up in the air because the circumstance can be change.

Edited December 9, 2023 by littleshogun

[glupak]

On 12/5/2023 at 6:32 AM, littleshogun said:

It's been a while since I post the update, although I'm very late to post it on this thread because it already available for few days. Anyway, as for the current progress Yuzuki's route has been finished it's QA work, which mean all of Ginharu has been done with QA work. It's still not done yet though, because there's remaining progress that Daybreak currently working on, namely preparing for the final build which involving fixing the remaining bugs (Line breaks and date system) before finally release Yuzuki's patch.

That's all for the update, and I hope the next update is in regard of Yuzuki's patch release even though it's still up in the air because the circumstance can be change.

What does that mean in terms of the final full patch? I haven't been following this project but it seems Yuzuki's route patch is the final one? Will get a big patch that includes all the routes after that?

Edited December 17, 2023 by glupak

[littleshogun]

6 hours ago, glupak said:

What does that mean in terms of the final full patch? I haven't been following this project but it seems Yuzuki's route patch is the final one? Will get a big patch that includes all the routes after that?

Yuzuki's patch is exactly what you say as final full patch, and if you remember Trip he always release the patch route by route with the last route patch contain all previously translated routes. So yeah, Yuzuki's patch includes all of the translated route beforehand.

PS - For trivia initially the final patch would be called as Mizuha's patch, but because Trip quit the project and the new translator work on Mizuha's route first before decided to work on Yuzuki's route, the final patch is now called as Yuzuki's patch.

Edited December 18, 2023 by littleshogun

[littleshogun]

First update in 2024, and turned out it's still not in regard of Yuzuki's patch release. Oh well. Anyway, may as well copy paste the info from the blogpost below.

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The team is currently working on Yuzuki’s route in QA and we’re also trying to get subbed EDs and images translated. Cornrope has also been hard at work ironing out any kinks in both routes, so this should be a much smoother (and hopefully final) release.

No idea on why they still working on QA again, although perhaps it's because Ginharu is indeed has a lot of issues, especially in regard of line breaks and also probably want to make sure there's no error left in the route. There's also the matter of adding subbed ending and translating the image, which even Tsurezure is not be able to do so (Insert the subbed ending), so at least there's quite a dedication there.

That's all for the first update in 2024. 

Edited January 6 by littleshogun

[littleshogun]

Time for another update, and the translator stated this is the last update before Yuzuki's patch release. As for the updates, it's simply that the translator will pushing the release on either March or at the very latest April 1st (To honor Bishoujo Mangekyou 2.5 full translation patch release at last year), so yeah it's almost time for Ginharu full translation patch release. For a bit of elaboration, actually the translator tried to push Yuzuki's patch release on February, although he thought it can't be done because the hacker just got through surgery with said hacker bedridden from it. Oh yes, it also has status update, and it simply says 'Finishing QA'.

That's all for (Hopefully) the last update before Yuzuki's patch release.

Edited February 9 by littleshogun

[littleshogun]

Turned out the last update is not really the last update before Yuzuki's patch release. Anyway, there's a bunch of word from the updates, so I'll quote it below.

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I have made a recovery and am now pushing for this project to be released soon. Mint & Cornrope have just finished their QA passes of Yuzuki and Mizuha respectively.
Cornrope wants to take a quick look at Yuzuki’s scripts and Bee will also now be making some final changes to Mizuha.

A lot of lines have been changed, so I will personally be doing an alpha test of the final patch before release to ensure everything runs smoothly and that there are no overflowing lines.

I estimate that we should be able to release sometime in April, but no matter what I WILL NOT rush or release the patch until it is ready. Sorry.

Finally, I also want to thank our friend Looper for editing 10 or so images that we had missed. Our previous image editor has retired so thank you Looper for finishing these last few images for us.

Working on Ginharu has been a little annoying so now that I have a much better understanding of the siglus engine I’ll probably get around to writing some proper tools for it. It’s not something I’m going to commit to or make promises on though. It will probably be just something I work on once in a while when I feel like it.

Personally speaking it's a bit too bad that the release was pushed back again with the estimated earliest release time is at April, although then again it's definitely far more annoying to get a hundreds of notification in Discord informing grammar errors in Ginharu (Nitpicking or not) so the staffs understandably tried their best to fix the translation as much as they could, and obviously it took long time with the staffs only finished the QA passes for both Mizuha and Yuzuki's routes just recently. Also the writer of the post is the hacker which the last time it was mentioned is still bedridden because of the operation, and apparently it took longer time to recover so only now he can find the time to start the finalization work on it. Anyway, the current progress is listed as 'Playtesting Gin’Iro’s patch' (ie beta testing the patch) with additional notes they made the final changes to the scripts in both routes.

Lastly, with on how turbulent the finalization work turned out, I'm not quite sure if it's really the last update before Yuzuki's patch release or not. Regardless, I'll write the update in the next month if the staffs still has some bit to say in regard of the updates. Of course, it'll be better if the next update is Yuzuki's patch, but we'll see about it later.

That's all for March 2024 update of Ginharu here.

Edited March 10 by littleshogun

[glupak]

Cool, hopefully it's finished next month.

[littleshogun]

Well looks like we'll going to have it finished in this April, because the translator announced the exact release date for Yuzuki's patch (On 26th later), so let's see if that date is indeed the real one. For the progress, all of the work for Yuzuki's patch is pretty much already done save for some very minor work, or in the translator's word 'to upload literally like what… 2 images to it(?)'.

That's all for (Possibly) the last update before Yuzuki's patch release.

Edited April 10 by littleshogun

[littleshogun]

This should be the very last update for Ginharu, and yes we finally have Yuzuki's patch release. Admittedly there's still some QA work who currently done by the member, but generally speaking the current patch should be enough to enjoy all of Ginharu. Go get the patch from here, and have fun. Also note the patch are only tested for physical edition, so we don't know if it could work for download version as well (Feel free to test the patch if you get the download version).

Edited April 27 by littleshogun

[glupak]

On 4/27/2024 at 3:49 AM, littleshogun said:

This should be the very last update for Ginharu, and yes we finally have Yuzuki's patch release. Admittedly there's still some QA work who currently done by the member, but generally speaking the current patch should be enough to enjoy all of Ginharu. Go get the patch from here, and have fun. Also note the patch are only tested for physical edition, so we don't know if it could work for download version as well (Feel free to test the patch if you get the download version).

Was this patch confirmed to work with the download edition or any of the digital releases? Also just to confirm is this still the final version of the patch or did the the final v2 patch get released somewhere else (it was mentioned that there would be one here)?

Edited June 13 by glupak

[LostPomegranate]

On first launch the patched VN still requires a CD - past first launch it does not. I believe at this moment that is still the latest version of the patch.

[Shaun]

It works with the download version.

Edited June 14 by Shaun

[glupak]

39 minutes ago, Shaun said:

It works with the download version.

The patched VN never requires the CD/DVD.  Most users don't even have CD/DVD drives anymore.

Great, thanks. Do you happen to know if the translation patch is for version 1.0 of the game or for 1.01(which seems  to be the newest one)?

Edited June 13 by glupak

[LostPomegranate]

5 hours ago, Shaun said:

It works with the download version.

The patched VN never requires the CD/DVD.  Most users don't even have CD/DVD drives anymore.

The download version of the game - from DLSite and DMM at least - after being patched DOES require the disc to be loaded once. I can't say it with 100% accuracy because I haven't talked to every single person who bought GinHaru legally, but there have been quite a few people with this issue, it's mentioned on the VNDB forums and in multiple discord channels and I also experienced it myself. I even just did a complete fresh install to test it, and ran into the same issue again. It's a known issue that both translation teams that worked on GinHaru admit to. If you got it working without the disc, I'm happy for you. But many people have had this issue - if you could share where you obtained your copy from with the people looking to pick it up so they can avoid these issues, I'm sure the new people would appreciate it.

 

Edit: I ran some more tests, it's the global.sav file for some reason, located in "D:\銀色、遥か_DL版ver1.04\StartData\GameData\data\savedata\global.sav". If you delete it with the English patch installed it requires the disc to be loaded in order to correctly write the global.sav file. The game WILL create a global.sav on first launch, but something inside the file seems to require the disc to be written properly in the English patched version. I tried again with another fresh install with my DLSite version but could not get the JP game to run even in JP locale (on Windows 11), but there's a possibility if you can get the download version of the game in JP to run BEFORE installing the English patch, that the global.sav file should be written properly and there might not be an issue. If someone could manage to test that theory I'd appreciate it. Or you could just ask for someone else's global.sav file.

 

If you do run into this issue, I'd recommend hopping into Tsurezure Scans discord and someone can help you.

 

5 hours ago, glupak said:

Great, thanks. Do you happen to know if the translation patch is for version 1.0 of the game or for 1.01(which seems  to be the newest one)?

1.04 is the newest version of GinHaru, but the English patch will overwrite the tonework's patch, so it shouldn't matter which version of the VN you're running and there's no need to update it prior to installing the English patch.

Edited June 14 by LostPomegranate

[glupak]

4 hours ago, LostPomegranate said:

Edit: I ran some more tests, it's the global.sav file for some reason, located in "D:\銀色、遥か_DL版ver1.04\StartData\GameData\data\savedata\global.sav". If you delete it with the English patch installed it requires the disc to be loaded in order to correctly write the global.sav file. The game WILL create a global.sav on first launch, but something inside the file seems to require the disc to be written properly in the English patched version. I tried again with another fresh install with my DLSite version but could not get the JP game to run even in JP locale (on Windows 11), but there's a possibility if you can get the download version of the game in JP to run BEFORE installing the English patch, that the global.sav file should be written properly and there might not be an issue. If someone could manage to test that theory I'd appreciate it. Or you could just ask for someone else's global.sav file.

 

If you do run into this issue, I'd recommend hopping into Tsurezure Scans discord and someone can help you.

 

1.04 is the newest version of GinHaru, but the English patch will overwrite the tonework's patch, so it shouldn't matter which version of the VN you're running and there's no need to update it prior to installing the English patch.

I got it to run by first running the non-patched japanese version of the game with a loaded disc, closed it and then applied the english patch. On re-opening it, it did not require the disc. So it seems you need to load a disc at least once anyway, doesn't matter if you've applied the translation patch or not.

Edited June 14 by glupak

[littleshogun]

On 6/14/2024 at 3:44 AM, glupak said:

Also just to confirm is this still the final version of the patch or did the the final v2 patch get released somewhere else (it was mentioned that there would be one here)?

For the patch update, if I recall Daybreak did write they updated Mizuha's patch and also Tsurezure announced they updated Hoshiori patch, so I think they'll announce the updated patch had they managed to finished it, which I'll write it in this thread if the update is really happen later. And no, they would never release the patch somewhere besides at their site, so of course they'll upload the patch at their Download page.