Mod Ren'Py Summertime Saga: SPH Mod [0.20.16 Beta59] [ImTransAndTiny]

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Aethereas

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Apr 29, 2020
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The game got kinda updated if anyone wanna try it out Version 21.0.0
 

ImTransAndTiny

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Okay, so the Tech Update is finally out!

I lost some enthusiasm for continuing to work on the mod when I knew that most of my work would have to be thrown out when the Tech Update came out. That has certainly turned out to be true.

The bad news for fans of the game is that there's very little content in v21 of the game. That's good news for me, though. It looks like there's only content for Jenny and Debbie. That works well for me. I'll be able to work on entire storylines for, I presume, one character at a time as DC releases updates, instead of the all-over-the-place approach that I used when the game had tons of content. I've completed modding the first day and put the scene where Yumi sees Anon naked back in. There's a bit of a learning curve for the new code style, and I'm stymied by the fact that there's not much art to work with in v21 to help me create images that aren't already in the game. I can't just use images from the mod for v20 because they're at the wrong resolution and look blurry as shit when I blow them up.

So, yes, as I expected, updating the mod for v21 is starting from scratch in terms of images. I'm able to copy over the dialog from the mod as it had been as of Beta59. I'm not sure how easy it will be to port over some of the extra features that I had added to the game.

Given how little content there is in v21, I can understand people wanting to continue to use v20 for the foreseeable future. Because v20 is a dead end, I'm probably not going to create a Beta60 for v20. I'll keep the link up, but all development on this mod will be for v21 from now on, and the next release will be Beta1.
 

Aethereas

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Apr 29, 2020
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Okay, so the Tech Update is finally out!

I lost some enthusiasm for continuing to work on the mod when I knew that most of my work would have to be thrown out when the Tech Update came out. That has certainly turned out to be true.

The bad news for fans of the game is that there's very little content in v21 of the game. That's good news for me, though. It looks like there's only content for Jenny and Debbie. That works well for me. I'll be able to work on entire storylines for, I presume, one character at a time as DC releases updates, instead of the all-over-the-place approach that I used when the game had tons of content. I've completed modding the first day and put the scene where Yumi sees Anon naked back in. There's a bit of a learning curve for the new code style, and I'm stymied by the fact that there's not much art to work with in v21 to help me create images that aren't already in the game. I can't just use images from the mod for v20 because they're at the wrong resolution and look blurry as shit when I blow them up.

So, yes, as I expected, updating the mod for v21 is starting from scratch in terms of images. I'm able to copy over the dialog from the mod as it had been as of Beta59. I'm not sure how easy it will be to port over some of the extra features that I had added to the game.

Given how little content there is in v21, I can understand people wanting to continue to use v20 for the foreseeable future. Because v20 is a dead end, I'm probably not going to create a Beta60 for v20. I'll keep the link up, but all development on this mod will be for v21 from now on, and the next release will be Beta1.
Glad to know u're back!
 
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mascrispy

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Okay, so the Tech Update is finally out!

I lost some enthusiasm for continuing to work on the mod when I knew that most of my work would have to be thrown out when the Tech Update came out. That has certainly turned out to be true.

The bad news for fans of the game is that there's very little content in v21 of the game. That's good news for me, though. It looks like there's only content for Jenny and Debbie. That works well for me. I'll be able to work on entire storylines for, I presume, one character at a time as DC releases updates, instead of the all-over-the-place approach that I used when the game had tons of content. I've completed modding the first day and put the scene where Yumi sees Anon naked back in. There's a bit of a learning curve for the new code style, and I'm stymied by the fact that there's not much art to work with in v21 to help me create images that aren't already in the game. I can't just use images from the mod for v20 because they're at the wrong resolution and look blurry as shit when I blow them up.

So, yes, as I expected, updating the mod for v21 is starting from scratch in terms of images. I'm able to copy over the dialog from the mod as it had been as of Beta59. I'm not sure how easy it will be to port over some of the extra features that I had added to the game.

Given how little content there is in v21, I can understand people wanting to continue to use v20 for the foreseeable future. Because v20 is a dead end, I'm probably not going to create a Beta60 for v20. I'll keep the link up, but all development on this mod will be for v21 from now on, and the next release will be Beta1.
Really exited to see you come back! You're work is really amazing! Can't wait to see what more you come up with ^.^
 

ryuhaduken37

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Thanks again for the news update. Your mod makes this game so much more refreshing and playable for our underserved community. Hehe, Your contribution matters...wherever DC takes this storyline.

BTW Fate of Choice is just another personal recommendation while you get to V21. It's not as great as summertimesaga but its a quick play. Have fun!!
 
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june2018

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Okay, so the Tech Update is finally out!

I lost some enthusiasm for continuing to work on the mod when I knew that most of my work would have to be thrown out when the Tech Update came out. That has certainly turned out to be true.

The bad news for fans of the game is that there's very little content in v21 of the game. That's good news for me, though. It looks like there's only content for Jenny and Debbie. That works well for me. I'll be able to work on entire storylines for, I presume, one character at a time as DC releases updates, instead of the all-over-the-place approach that I used when the game had tons of content. I've completed modding the first day and put the scene where Yumi sees Anon naked back in. There's a bit of a learning curve for the new code style, and I'm stymied by the fact that there's not much art to work with in v21 to help me create images that aren't already in the game. I can't just use images from the mod for v20 because they're at the wrong resolution and look blurry as shit when I blow them up.

So, yes, as I expected, updating the mod for v21 is starting from scratch in terms of images. I'm able to copy over the dialog from the mod as it had been as of Beta59. I'm not sure how easy it will be to port over some of the extra features that I had added to the game.

Given how little content there is in v21, I can understand people wanting to continue to use v20 for the foreseeable future. Because v20 is a dead end, I'm probably not going to create a Beta60 for v20. I'll keep the link up, but all development on this mod will be for v21 from now on, and the next release will be Beta1.
Appreciate your work. Thank you for the mod it has been amazing.
 
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Wonka_Willy

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Okay, so the Tech Update is finally out!

I lost some enthusiasm for continuing to work on the mod when I knew that most of my work would have to be thrown out when the Tech Update came out. That has certainly turned out to be true.

The bad news for fans of the game is that there's very little content in v21 of the game. That's good news for me, though. It looks like there's only content for Jenny and Debbie. That works well for me. I'll be able to work on entire storylines for, I presume, one character at a time as DC releases updates, instead of the all-over-the-place approach that I used when the game had tons of content. I've completed modding the first day and put the scene where Yumi sees Anon naked back in. There's a bit of a learning curve for the new code style, and I'm stymied by the fact that there's not much art to work with in v21 to help me create images that aren't already in the game. I can't just use images from the mod for v20 because they're at the wrong resolution and look blurry as shit when I blow them up.

So, yes, as I expected, updating the mod for v21 is starting from scratch in terms of images. I'm able to copy over the dialog from the mod as it had been as of Beta59. I'm not sure how easy it will be to port over some of the extra features that I had added to the game.

Given how little content there is in v21, I can understand people wanting to continue to use v20 for the foreseeable future. Because v20 is a dead end, I'm probably not going to create a Beta60 for v20. I'll keep the link up, but all development on this mod will be for v21 from now on, and the next release will be Beta1.
Can't wait to see your work on the new version of the game!
 
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adredge2014

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That is unfortunate that they changed most of the code system but as said before we do really appreciate your work. I would like to play the new higher definition version and I will wait till I can but when it suits you keep up the great work. Thanks so much
 
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ImTransAndTiny

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Hi folks. Thanks for your patience.

IRL has been ridiculously busy for a couple of months. I've been buried at work since April, and I'm in the process of selling my home and moving. I haven't touched the mod since my last post.

I've gotten back to work today and made progress on the generic images. I still love this scene!
 
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snoogybunny

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Hi folks. Thanks for your patience.

IRL has been ridiculously busy for a couple of months. I've been buried at work since April, and I'm in the process of selling my home and moving. I haven't touched the mod since my last post.

I've gotten back to work today and made progress on the generic images. I still love this scene!
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does not load the attachment for some reason hmm
 

ImTransAndTiny

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I've gotten far enough into the game that I've had to do a deep dive into how the new code works. DC has made it a lot harder to mod his game.

The story is in src.rpa, which contains standard compiled .rpyc files, so modding dialog is still a simple matter of extracting the files from the RPA and then running the latest version of un.rpyc to get .rpy files. Yay!

Some of the stuff that used to be in JSON files is now in compiled .rpymc files in the res folder, which can also be decompiled into .rypm by un.rpyc. Yay!

Text messages, Jenny's diary entries, story progression code, telescope stuff, and all kinds of important variables are in lib.rpa, which is full of compiled .pyc files, which are not decompiled by un.rpyc. There's a program called uncompyle6 which can decompile Python bytecode up to Python 3.8, and decompyle3 can do Python 3.7 and 3.8... so, naturally, the files are compiled with Python 3.9.0. That fucks me good.

It looks like .pyc files don't include a checksum, so you can hex edit anything human-readable that you find inside them, such as text (but not code). Whatever you change will have to be exactly the same length so that the game continues to jump to the right point in the file. That means that I can change Jenny's diary to say that Anon is hung like a MOUSE instead of MOOSE, and say that his dick is TINY instead of HUGE, but I can't do the more significant changes that I did previously unless I can keep the length exactly the same. (I can probably do shorter by padding with trailing spaces, but I can't do longer.)

I don't know if it will be possible to do things like add new women for Anon to think about while masturbating, or allow him to masturbate in the shower, the school washroom, the mall washroom, and the church confessional. It's still possible to mod Summertime Saga for dialog and images, but I don't know how much it's possible to add features and properly mod the game. I suspect that's why there isn't a new version of the Naughty Tribute Mod yet.

Not having access to Anon's variables, I may not be able to do things like keep track of how long it's been since he had an orgasm and then give him a wet dream when he abstains for too long, for instance.

Stay tuned while I figure out what's possible and what's not.
 
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