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TiffanyMonroe

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Xianne only appears on that menu after she visits you on your house, so maybe you are on an earlier part of the game? Yes, even after the massage she's still not in there. But Sophia should be there I think, I dont remember when shes added to the menu but it was somewhere early.
It's ok I just restarted and now it works. (y)
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Les_Riggs

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I found this update to be transitional by-and-large. It did move the story forward, but there was nothing significant added. Look at the last update, Melody finally has sex, Sophia and Xianne had the option to start a lesbian relationship, Bethany decides to ruin the protagonists lives, and Melody gets her big break.
I really thought there would be more on Sophia and Xianne developing their relationship such as like Melody and the MC catching the girls having sex in the dorm room. Melody and the MC becoming a couple and having to tell her aunt and step-father, or at least the sabotage plan would have worked and set Melody's singing career back a little.
The photo shoot seemed pointless, OK you got promo photos taken. The outfits were basically the same.
I am not saying Melody is not a good VN, but this update just seemed a little lack-luster for me.

On a side note when I think of Spike I think of the vampire from Buffy.
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Now that would be a character to have take care of the Bethany and Melody's ex-boyfriend problem.

I think you've pretty much listed what could happen in the next update that they couldn't find the time to fit into this one.
I mean, they had to spend time adding three updates worth of the friendship path, as well as make five paths run at once.
No easy feat. And as we've seen already, some mistakes were made with the coding, which is forgivable given the circumstances.

The fact that Sophia only comes into it at the back end of this update suggests she could feature more in the next update, which is thankfully the next one on MrDots agenda.
The start of the next update will start in the girls dorm room, so you may get your wish where one or both girls will find Melody and the MC in bed together.

It also felt like a necessary update to setup the pathways for the five main girls in certain directions, preparing to close a couple of them, and adding the friendship path now rather than later is further evidence of the kind of update this was.

There's so many alternative scenes or ideas we could suggest that should happen in every update.
That's easy to do when there's thousands of people playing games like this one and only a handful of people creating them.
But we really should be grateful that we get a release from this dev on time, once a month, without delay or any excuses.

But maybe it's just me that sees it that way.
 

TiffanyMonroe

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Why? Can you please make this mc even more of a damn beta? Maybe I'm just too kind hearted but if if what happened to him happened to me, the last thing I would do is let this bitch in my house. I always knew he would probably take her back seeing how he won't shut up about her/always thinking about her. Plus he don't seem that upset this lying cheating cunt kicked him out of his house and took all his shit lol
Why is there no option to tell her to fuck off and never come back?o_O
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TiffanyMonroe

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On second thought they probably deserve each other. I hope for the sequel he really does take her back, get married and have kids, find out the father is his neighbor Tyrone. They can argue and she can kick his dumb ass out again and sue him for alimony and child support. All while Melody becomes a world famous pop star. (y)
 
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Spiderfox

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On second thought they probably deserve each other. I hope for the sequel he really does take her back, get married and have kids, find out the father is his neighbor Tyrone. They can argue and she can kick his dumb ass out again and sue him for alimony and child support. All while Melody becomes a world famous pop star. (y)
This in not a Slonique developed game. :D No Tyrone to be found.
 
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If the dev did it, some people would complain about how he/she organized it. So.....

Make Your Own Galleries

(NOTE: Everything below is how I do it for my Windows 10 computer. If you have a different OS, you may have to use different methods).

1. Download one of the .RPA file extractor utility programs, like RPAExtractor or UnRen. Then you can easily extract ALL the Pictures (normally JPG's) and Videos (webm files) to a new folder somewhere. Just follow the directions included for whichever utility program you use to extract the files. It's REALLY EASY to do.

2. Create your own separate "graphics" storage folder(s) somewhere for the game's Pictures ("renders") and Videos ("scenes"). How you organize this is up to you. You can see how I did it in the screencap from my computer below. I have separate main folders for each game I play, then sub-folders for the Pics and Vids by character name. Note that in my "Vids by Character" folders I have also used the "Take a Snapshot" using VLC Media Player (see #3 below) of each webm scene and named it the same as the webm video filename. When you list the files then by "Name" you have a "snapshot" of what the actual "scene" is right in front of the scene file (NOTE: Where there is only ONE "screencap" in front of TWO or more webm "scenes", it is because BOTH scenes are the same...they are just different SPEEDS of the scene the Dev included). And because the Dev names the webm "scene" files by the Character Name and the WEEK they are in the game, everything stays in a nice order if your file list is sorted "By Name" (in some games where the dev doesn't do that, I'll just rename the saved files myself so I know "where they happened in the game", etc).

3. Use a free video player that will play webm files to play the "scenes" anytime you want without ever having to start the game itself. I use VLC Media Player (free open source player). You can even speed up/slow down the webm files when they are playing, plus tons of other "effects" for them too with VLC Media Player. Wanna spend 30 minutes watching the MC do Melody in the same scene? Have VLC "Loop" play the scene. In slow motion? Adjust the speed playback in VLC (Note this ability also solves the problem if you think previous version "scenes" play too fast or slow or whatever...you can now play any scene at any speed you want to watch it). With various "effects" you can make VLC apply to the playback? Black and White? Mirrored? Tons of others? Knock your rocks off. :love:

As you'll see in the attached picture below of my hard drive list where I do this for ALL the games I have, I also save many (but not all) of the game's Pictures in separate "Pics by Character" folders too. I can then use a "photo gallery" program (I use the ACDSee payware one, but there are plenty of free ones too, even in Windows itself) that can run a slideshow of the entire photo collection (or selected parts of it, like just my Melody character pics, etc) if/when I want to just "Look at the pretty renders!" without having to run the game and "hunt" for them.

SPOILER CAUTION: If you enlarge the below thumbnail, you will see Screencaps of ALL of the Melody Week 10 videos (webm files) I added to the folder containing all the previous week's (1 - 9) scenes. If you looked in the other Character folders in the list on the left side, I have ALL the scenes for those characters in those folders too. When the Dev releases a new version of the game, I just add the NEW pictures and videos to my existing folders after extracting them from the NEW version. In each "Vids by Character" folder, I have ALL of that character's video "scenes" from the entire game. So I have created my own "scene gallery" exactly the way I want it, without putting that responsibility on the Developer. If all you wanted was PICTURES of what was in the scenes, you could even delete the actual webm files and just keep the "snapshots" of them. ;)

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Mytez

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Why? Can you please make this mc even more of a damn beta? Maybe I'm just too kind hearted but if if what happened to him happened to me, the last thing I would do is let this bitch in my house. I always knew he would probably take her back seeing how he won't shut up about her/always thinking about her. Plus he don't seem that upset this lying cheating cunt kicked him out of his house and took all his shit lol
Why is there no option to tell her to fuck off and never come back?o_O
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I don't really understand what the end game of her is. Right now she's doing the childish thing of trying to ruin Melody's career and stealing her guitar. What's the point of all of that? To piss him off? To get him back? She's the one who kicked him and ended the realtionship. So why the hell is she trying to "get revenge", get revenge on what?

At least Rachel from DMD makes a little bit of sense, not much tho.
 

ZagorTeNay

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Why? Can you please make this mc even more of a damn beta? Maybe I'm just too kind hearted but if if what happened to him happened to me, the last thing I would do is let this bitch in my house. I always knew he would probably take her back seeing how he won't shut up about her/always thinking about her. Plus he don't seem that upset this lying cheating cunt kicked him out of his house and took all his shit lol
Why is there no option to tell her to fuck off and never come back?o_O
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I typically detest any violence against women, but this really needs a "Punch her" option.
 

Irgendwie Irgendwo

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I don't really understand what the end game of her is. Right now she's doing the childish thing of trying to ruin Melody's career and stealing her guitar. What's the point of all of that? To piss him off? To get him back? She's the one who kicked him and ended the realtionship. So why the hell is she trying to "get revenge", get revenge on what?

At least Rachel from DMD makes a little bit of sense, not much tho.
As far as I understood she wanted him back and he refused, then Melody threw her out. The endgame is probably that one of her childish pranks will go too far and she'll end up in jail.
 
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RustyV

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I don't really understand what the end game of her is. Right now she's doing the childish thing of trying to ruin Melody's career and stealing her guitar. What's the point of all of that? To piss him off? To get him back? She's the one who kicked him and ended the realtionship. So why the hell is she trying to "get revenge", get revenge on what?

At least Rachel from DMD makes a little bit of sense, not much tho.
Apparently you've never had a crazy ex. lol
I do however agree with you. Was Bethany's big plan at the festival to make equipment go wonky? Oh No! The amp went bad when Melody was on stage! And that hurts Melody's career how exactly?
Has there ever been a big concert event where equipment hasn't broken?
I feel either the Mr.Dots staff doesn't want at this point in the VN to put too much of an impediment in Melody's career, or they are just not a very creative dirty tricks squad.
If Bethany does want to fuck her and obviously breaking the law is not a problem for her than break into her place, copy one of Melody's new songs. Have the ex preform the song in front of an audience (witnesses) before Melody releases the song. Wait for her to release the song and sue her and the recording company for intellectual property infringement. The ex-boyfriend could claim her wrote the song when they were together and that would damage her career.
 

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[QUOTE="RustyV, post: 1858636, member: 352546"
Apparently you've never had a crazy ex. lol
I do however agree with you. Was Bethany's big plan at the festival to make equipment go wonky? Oh No! The amp went bad when Melody was on stage! And that hurts Melody's career how exactly?
Has there ever been a big concert event where equipment hasn't broken?
I feel either the Mr.Dots staff doesn't want at this point in the VN to put too much of an impediment in Melody's career, or they are just not a very creative dirty tricks squad.
If Bethany does want to fuck her and obviously breaking the law is not a problem for her than break into her place, copy one of Melody's new songs. Have the ex preform the song in front of an audience (witnesses) before Melody releases the song. Wait for her to release the song and sue her and the recording company for intellectual property infringement. The ex-boyfriend could claim her wrote the song when they were together and that would damage her career.
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They both just seem too stupid to think of anything that even makes sense. I think Mel and MC should find out about this revenge pact and have security at the next concert grab em' before they maybe decide loosen up Mel's mikestand so it keeps falling down on her and put bee's in her guitar. Have the nude beach woman as head of security and have a 3 some as punishment. Sounds good to me!!!
 
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TiffanyMonroe

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[QUOTE="RustyV, post: 1858636, member: 352546"
Apparently you've never had a crazy ex. lol
I do however agree with you. Was Bethany's big plan at the festival to make equipment go wonky? Oh No! The amp went bad when Melody was on stage! And that hurts Melody's career how exactly?
Has there ever been a big concert event where equipment hasn't broken?
I feel either the Mr.Dots staff doesn't want at this point in the VN to put too much of an impediment in Melody's career, or they are just not a very creative dirty tricks squad.
If Bethany does want to fuck her and obviously breaking the law is not a problem for her than break into her place, copy one of Melody's new songs. Have the ex preform the song in front of an audience (witnesses) before Melody releases the song. Wait for her to release the song and sue her and the recording company for intellectual property infringement. The ex-boyfriend could claim her wrote the song when they were together and that would damage her career.
They both just seem too stupid to think of anything that even makes sense. I think Mel and MC should find out about this revenge pact and have security at the next concert grab em' before they maybe decide loosen up Mel's mikestand so it keeps falling down on her and put bee's in her guitar. Have the nude beach woman as head of security and have a 3 some as punishment. Sounds good to me!!!
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I just hope Bethany don't pull a Selena on Melody. Sad true story.
 

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What else you got on your SSD?Care to Share?:sneaky:
Nope

First of all, all my graphics "adult games" are on a 6TB USB external hard drive...not an SSD. There is absolutely no reason to waste the speed or cost of an SSD for running these adult graphics games, or viewing saved pics and videos galleries from them.

Second, whatever I create for my OWN personal use using the Developer's work is NOT for "sharing" with anyone else. If the Dev wanted the webm files and JPG renders to already be extracted when the game is downloaded, the Dev would have uploaded them that way. All my post did was show someone how THEY could create their OWN "scene gallery" (and picture galleries) from a RENPY game instead of asking the dev to do it for them. Let the dev keep doing what they do the way RENPY works for them...create the GAME and it's components in the non-gallery format used by RENPY.
 
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