TheDevian

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Yes, by "fan service" I meant something that the original dev does to improove the look of the characters, but that has no consequences on the story.

In Harem Hotel some outfit are "fan service", meaning their sole purpose is giving the player a better lewd experience in repeatable scenes, but if one decides not to buy them they can continue the story progression nonetheless.

Others are not only for looks, but are needed to progress the story (e.g. Maria's bartender outfit).

I think that the only ones that can break the game are those tied to the story progression... (also, I'm far for being a Ren'Py expert, so I could be wrong).

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Instead, if an outfit is "fan-made", yes: if you save with a character having an unofficial outfit, then remove the mod, that save won't work with the unmodded game.

But, if I've understood correctly, Lain's mod only contains fan-made scenes, not fan-made outfits.
If I remember correctly, most of those are unlocked by having a stat at a certain level, so there could be issues either now, or once scenes are added for it, for the new ones. Hard to say what might happen. lol
 
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Incredible, coming back after a year I am so impressed by the writing here. The city exploration scenes are fantastic, the world building is top-notch. This game should be the highest rated on the site, it is by far the best.
 
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torresm

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I tried going to the hot springs a dozen times, nothing triggers the next level :cry:
If you share a save at the point where you're stuck, I can try to see if I see the issue.
Without a save, I'm blind.
One thing to note is that patch 0.17 combined Android's level 19 and 20 events into a single new event for level 19, but it left a hole where event 20 used to be. The new event 19 will level you up straight to 21, but if you were at 20 before the 0.17 patch you're stuck and will require some save editing before you can progress again, or wait until this issue is patched.
 

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how does the split download work? i downloaded all 3 parts and extracted the first rar so i have a zip. but when i want to extract the second one it gives me a error halfway and just stops. if i try to extract the resulting zips so they land in the same folder 7zip just wants to overwrite. did i get 2 bad downloads for part 2 and 3 or is it something else i am doing wrong?
 

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how does the split download work? i downloaded all 3 parts and extracted the first rar so i have a zip. but when i want to extract the second one it gives me a error halfway and just stops. if i try to extract the resulting zips so they land in the same folder 7zip just wants to overwrite. did i get 2 bad downloads for part 2 and 3 or is it something else i am doing wrong?
Having never used the Harem Hotel split downloads, but having experience with others, I will say what my experience was.

With Winrar split downloads: You start the extraction with the first file, and it would automatically go to the second file and then third and so on until all of the files were extracted and placed in one single folder.
As long as all of the parts were in the same folder, it would find the pieces and extract them into the one folder.

Also, something to remember, some file compression software programs do not like multipart files that were created by other programs.

That zip file may be the combination of all of the file parts, now in one file.
Try extracting that zip file into a folder.
You might just find Harem Hotel inside of it.
 

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With Winrar split downloads: You start the extraction with the first file, and it would automatically go to the second file and then third and so on until all of the files were extracted and placed in one single folder.
As long as all of the parts were in the same folder, it would find the pieces and extract them into the one folder.

That zip file may be the combination of all of the file parts, now in one file.
Try extracting that zip file into a folder.
You might just find Harem Hotel inside of it.
my problem is that the rar files part 2 and part 3 while in the same folder dont extract after i start part 1 and the right click context menu option of join files doesnt recognise them as being part of the same group. if i try to extract them after part 1 finished they want to overwrite the extracted portion of part 1 since that one isnt named with a number in either of the 3 parts.
part 2 and 3 if i try to extract them solo just fail at around 60 percent without a clearly defined error. selecting all 3 and pressing the extract files option in the right click menu only extracts the first. i always only end with a 12 gb file which is the content of the first part and fails to extract as a zip giving a error of being incomplete or something.
 
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my problem is that the rar files part 2 and part 3 while in the same folder dont extract after i start part 1 and the right click context menu option of join files doesnt recognise them as being part of the same group. if i try to extract them after part 1 finished they want to overwrite the extracted portion of part 1 since that one isnt named with a number in either of the 3 parts.
part 2 and 3 if i try to extract them solo just fail at around 60 percent without a clearly defined error. selecting all 3 and pressing the extract files option in the right click menu only extracts the first. i always only end with a 12 gb file which is the content of the first part and fails to extract as a zip giving a error of being incomplete or something.
Try another file compression program like Winrar.
As I said before, some programs do not like multipart compressed files that were created by other programs.
Winrar is pretty compatible with others.
 

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Having never used the Harem Hotel split downloads, but having experience with others, I will say what my experience was.

With Winrar split downloads: You start the extraction with the first file, and it would automatically go to the second file and then third and so on until all of the files were extracted and placed in one single folder.
As long as all of the parts were in the same folder, it would find the pieces and extract them into the one folder.
This was my experience as well. Using winrar - extract the first and it would automatically include the remaining parts on it's own, you never had to touch the files yourself.
 

HaseoOfDeath

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Is Maria bugged for anyone else? I have her at level 30 and the Mod is telling me to go to my room at Noon but nothing happens. Someone else mentioned handing Nia's supplies to her but I did that and nothing has changed.
 

TheDevian

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Yeah that's very odd because I have all of that but Maria isn't popping up when I got to the room at Noon. Even tried passing through the Weekend but no dice
I think there might be a bug with that event IIRC, but I can't find the switch, not my strong point, but maybe one of the others can fix it for you.
 
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shadowtempered

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Yeah that's very odd because I have all of that but Maria isn't popping up when I got to the room at Noon. Even tried passing through the Weekend but no dice
Double check the garden? Some of her events now take place there if Nia is involved - not sure if it's the same, but with no mod, I encountered no issues with her storyline on a fresh save.
 

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my problem is that the rar files part 2 and part 3 while in the same folder dont extract after i start part 1 and the right click context menu option of join files doesnt recognise them as being part of the same group. if i try to extract them after part 1 finished they want to overwrite the extracted portion of part 1 since that one isnt named with a number in either of the 3 parts.
part 2 and 3 if i try to extract them solo just fail at around 60 percent without a clearly defined error. selecting all 3 and pressing the extract files option in the right click menu only extracts the first. i always only end with a 12 gb file which is the content of the first part and fails to extract as a zip giving a error of being incomplete or something.
Multipart rar (or zip or 7zip, etc...) files are NOT independent files. They were NOT manually created one by one. They are just ONE big rar file broken into parts.

None of them, on its own, actually respects the rar file format, so none of them is individually uncompressable.

WinRAR needs to have them in the same folder, and when you give the "extract" command it silently treats them as if they were a single file and then extracts the contents of ALL.

That's why when you try to extract "the second" it prompts you if you want to overwrite what you have already extracted: because you're trying to extract the same thing, even if the first time you gave the command from file 1 and the second time from file 2.

Another hint is: you are telling that after extracting rar file 1 you got one 12 GB zip "which is the content of par 1"... WRONG! 12 GB is the size of the original official Harem Hotel zip file created by Runey, and that someone else split in three 5 GB + 5GB + 2 GB rar PARTIAL files.

(There's NO WAY you can compress down to 5 GB a 12 GB file that WAS ALREADY COMPRESSED!!! So there's NO WAY that that 12 GB zip file was contained all in the first rar file: it was contained in all the three RAR files combined together.)


By giving the command "extract" on the first rar PART file, you have correctly reconstructed the original 12GB zip file (yes, also the parts that your physically downloaded by downloading part 2 and part 3!) and you have nothing more to do on the rar side of the story.

Just unzip that 12 GB zip, because it is the full release.
 
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(There's NO WAY you can compress down to 5 GB a 12 GB file that WAS ALREADY COMPRESSED!!! So there's NO WAY that that 12 GB zip file was contained all in the first rar file: it was contained in all the three RAR files combined together.)
First the problem was already solved, see The Halo's latest post. Second although mostly technically true, this statement isn't true in general.

All depend on the used compression algorithm and the data itself. Most time you won't end with that and only get sightly better compression, but I wouldn't general write that you can't compress a already compressed file to 41% of it size.
 

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First the problem was already solved, see The Halo's latest post. Second although mostly technically true, this statement isn't true in general.

All depend on the used compression algorithm and the data itself. Most time you won't end with that and only get sightly better compression, but I wouldn't general write that you can't compress a already compressed file to 41% of it size.
True, some files are able to be compressed more than others, but as we all know, extreme compression can be bad.
A funny example, mixed with a warning.
A long time ago, in an internet world that is slowly fading away, (warez forums) you could find super compressed downloads that contained the installer iso image of Windows XP that were only 14.5 mb's in size.
The actual pre compression size was about 4gb's.
The program used was KGB Archiver. <<<< EVIL PROGRAM, DO NOT USE!!!!!!!!!!!
After compression, you, the one compressing it could extract the file to test it and it would work fine, and you could install windows with the ISO you had compressed and then extracted, after burning it to disc.
Hint: The data for the compressed file was stored in your system when you compressed it, and that data was used during the test extraction.
BUT!!!!
Anyone who downloaded that compressed file got nothing but an ISO file that was full of dummy files that had file names, but contained no code at all when you examined the files with notepad ++.
The code was compressed right out of the files.
Needless to say, a lot of people got really pissed, especially when people kept sharing those crappy downloads on other sites.
 
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