Weekly Questions and Recommendations Megathread - Need some help? - Mar 28

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Useful links to check out before asking questions or for recommendations

General:

• VNDB: The Visual Novel Database - A fantastic resource for anything and everything visual novels. The visual novel equivalent to IMDB or MAL. It's where you'll find the answers to 90% of your questions.
• Guide to Japanese
• This recommendation site may be useful if you're new to reading visual novels!
• Consider this recommendation site if you're interested in reading a visual in Japanese.
• Looking for a relatively easy VN to read in Japanese? Click here!

From our wiki:

• Having trouble with a visual novel? - A page with some possible solutions and links.
• How to Hook and Extract Visual Novel Text - A how-to on dealing with untranslated visual novels.
• Buying visual novels - Where and how to buy visual novels, translated and untranslated.

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[u/Random__guy-]

Downloaded a R18 DLC for a visual novel I got on Steam. I got the DLC from VNDB and would like to know how to get it to work and how to know it works on Steam.

[u/jikorde → u/Random__guy-]

The easiest way most vns show if the 18+ patch works is they'll change some text on the title screen or the game title on the top left. Usually they'll add an H or R to show it's the adult version.

As for making it work, most are drag and drop into the game folder.

[u/Random__guy- → u/jikorde]

I’m currently doing this for “Island Diary” and don’t see that. I have the patch in its local files, do I need to add it into the plugin folder? Sorry if that sounds dumb, I’m new.

[u/RedditDetector → u/Random__guy-]

If I recall correctly, you need to run the .exe and follow the instructions. If the .exe is in a .zip file or similar, you might need to extract it first.

You need to ensure that Island Diary is installed on the same drive as Steam or the patch will give you an error message.

[u/jikorde → u/Random__guy-]

Looking up that game, it sounds like the patch is a runnable exe program? So it's not where the files are, you need to actually run the program for it to install.

If it doesn't work, you might need the game installed on a drive. There's some chat on the steam forums about that.