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We have transcripts for pretty much all of the ingame SU Unity dialogues already.
Image declarations are a bit more tricky though. The sprites extracted from SU Unity are usually rather bloated on the kb sizes, so we usually end up resaving these anyways to reduces the kb size a bit, while upsizing the dimensions a bit to take advantage of a larger screen size. Setting up the layeredimage declarations for character sprites is a bit more tricky, but not overly difficult.
Nonetheless, there are a few people that haven't been able to successfully play SU Unity for whatever, including at least one 'fellow developer' that Smokeshank recently interviewed on his twitch channel. So I suspect that a number of people will be very interested in a PC version of the Ren'Py Android port that's much less buggy.
Of course, there's also the modding angle, Ren'Py is a bit easier for modders to work with, so I'll be interested to see if that goes anywhere. The unofficial efforts are mod friendly too of course, but are their own things...
A quick note: SU ReImagined has been going in a new direction already, so while a few things in the official SU Android might be useful for research purposes, my own personal focus has been on setting up new content, leaving the transcription of existing content mostly to others. People have been replaying SU Unity for years, and SU Rebuilt 2 is focused on a more 'faithful' port for people that still want that, but neither are 'official' efforts to begin with so we are sort of doing our own thing.
On a related note, we do have an entire fanart thread with multiple contributors to draw from, with new artwork that we can tell new stories with. Being a volunteer effort, it's slow going for sure, but steady progress is being made. I was piddling around with Faora and Priscilla Rich sprites again today, and there's already a fairly long list of other characters that are planned to be introduced soon, that SR7 hasn't got around to yet, and may never get around to...
Still no plans to monetize our efforts, and since Smokeshank again has a paid Ren'Py developer on tap now to release 'official' SU versions, we might as well change things up a bit. That being said, I'm genuinely curious to see what Henshinvolt did with the original design elements.
A quick side note. A new contributor has been writing short stories to go along with his sprite re-mixes, if you haven't checked out the SU Sprite Re-Mix/Fanart thread lately, might be worth another looksee!
Here's a link to a short Kasnia related SU fan story...
https://f95zone.to/threads/something-unlimited-sprite-re-mix-and-fanart-thread.118041/post-11293045
