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You actually don't need to remove RPYC files at all. The RPYCs are the files Ren'Py actually uses to run a VN. It's why sometimes you can find a game that has RPYs removed and it still runs with RPYCs. (The RPYCs being obfuscated makes it slightly more work to modify a game's code, although obviously with tools like UnRen or similar, this almost makes this Ren'Py feature moot.)
When you start any Ren'Py game, the engine looks for RPY files and compiles each of those into RPYCs so the game will run more efficiently. If there is no existing RPYC with a name matching an RPY it finds, that gets created; if an RPYC is found that has the same name and content as an RPY file, it moves on as there's no need to create a new RPYC; if an RPYC is found that shares the same name as an RPY but does not match its contents, the RPYC is overwritten with the updated content of the RPY file.
Of course, all of the above is with the understanding still that RPYCs are compiled, so "matching" is the content as it would exist in an RPYC's uncompiled format. You can read more about this
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. So, nobody needs to delete the RPYCs, since they will be either created, ignored, or overwritten anyway. Having the RPYs is sufficient for things like patches.You do need to remove them, since otherwise the game will not use the patched files. They will be re-created on the first launch with the altered content.
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And why would the game ignore the patched files? Since you only quote a single statement from my post above, did you just ignore the rest of it entirely? Your patched files are replacing the existing ones, so RPYCs will be overwritten based on those. RPY files won't get ignored if RPYCs exist: those literally get overwritten at runtime. It's in the documentation by Ren'Py folks themselves: on game run, what I said above will happen. I'm not going to continue to argue with you when you even contradict their own documentation. Deleting those doesn't hurt, either way, so whatever.
In that case, I invite you to try it for yourself.
In this specific game, just replacing the files without also deleting the precomiled files WILL NOT WORK.
In this specific game, just replacing the files without also deleting the precomiled files WILL NOT WORK.
Sometimes, depends on the coding, RenPy needs a second game start so it recognizes the changed RPYC files.
Best would be, as most modders do, to put in such cases the RPY and the changed RPYC files into the mod download.
It was a good game. But the game has a point system. And I couldn't see some scenes, so I didn't really like it. You choose the option and it says you don't have enough points for this scene. I didn't pay much attention to it, but I think I would have liked to see a couple of scenes. I didn't see the two pregnant women because I went to Irene's family. Or Norah doesn't get pregnant in my route. But I didn't use a condom.