Ren'Py The Headmaster [v0.17.2.2] [Altos and Herdone]

[CuteLilNori]

If we're talking about a sequel or spin-off, I think there's no better candidate than Debbie. I'd say it's almost poetic, the student following in the footsteps of her teacher and mentor. The Headmaster has often pointed out that she has a talent for discipline, and she is one of the most entertaining characters around. Imagine the crazy things she could do as the Headmistress of her own girls' school.

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Lucy: "Ow, Debbie, not so hard."
Debbie: "You get extra spanks, Lucy, for stealing as well as drinking."
Like it or not, I love how she totally shows Lucy no mercy when spanking her. And should Lucy's butt be more red than other 2 girls' for the extra spanks she got?

Also, never forgot this amazing scene!

 

[raven54]

And should Lucy's butt be more red than other 2 girls' for the extra spanks she got?

Logically yes, but I'm not sure the game will allow that distinction. After all the game is made for... well itself so if the game doesn't need that ability, why add it because somebody in the future will use the game to make screenshots and use those for a completely different game? In fact why should any game maker be concerned with an issue like that, which occurs after the developer has gone bankrupt?

As I recall, the game used for the screenshots is PlayHome, which was picked because it comes with spanking and adding red to spanked areas. For all other purposes it has turned out to be not a great pick, like Koikatsu mods would have offered so many other features, through to be fair, a bunch of the mods came out after the Headmaster started. However as always whenever the talk is on this specific topic, changing the tools for screenshot production now would mean redoing all the graphics and that's not really an option. It could be for a spinoff through, so if anybody ever does that, it should most certainly start with investigating whatever tools are available at that point.

 

[marque03]

can battle water gun quest can be repeated?

 

[TheDevian]

can battle water gun quest can be repeated?

Not in the game directly, but you can replay it in the gallery.

 

[c3p0]

Not in the game directly, but you can replay it in the gallery.

He can, all he need is one save slot. I know not the answer someone want to hear, but the answer is still correct.

 

[marque03]

Not in the game directly, but you can replay it in the gallery.

ah thank you, sadly i didnt clear this quest because i choose to shoot with melting clothe bullet firstly


This game is good, still waiting to next update...

 

[exazubi]

I've finally finished the current build, and I'm still thrilled with the game. Sure, some scenes are pretty tough. But various moments also gave me a few good laughs. I can hardly wait to find out what happens next. I'm especially excited about the problem student we took from Mr. Swallows. I hope she's actually someone who'll really cause trouble. Debby and Cassandra were relatively armless. It would be very refreshing to actually have a real opponent for once. Yes, someone of the caliber of Wednesday Adams wouldn't be bad

 

[d@rk_side]

Hey everyone, is there any news about next upd?

 

[Mak5025]

Hey everyone, is there any news about next upd?

Still scheduled to appear in early autumn...

 

[Sasugachan]

Hey everyone, is there any news about next upd?

We actually just got the second batch of previews, hopefully we can see them here eventually.

 

[telgalad]

Anyone have a post of the new images dropped as well as what the dev said in the update from tdoay?

 

[jrwizzard]

Sounds like it didn't download correctly. I would suggest getting a downloader, such as Jdownloader2, so that it can verify the file once it is done.

I downloaded it with mega, i downloaded it direct from gofile, mutliple times with mega... the default archive manager builtin to linux say all files are corrupt. 7zip says it is corrupt. Yet if I extract with jdownloader, it seems to be working. The problem is, jdownloader has had vulnerabilities in the past with corrupt archives, and cant be fully trusted. You should seriously reconsider however you are creating these archives, and perhaps provide a SHA in the future.

 

[TheDevian]

I downloaded it with mega, i downloaded it direct from gofile, mutliple times with mega... the default archive manager builtin to linux say all files are corrupt. 7zip says it is corrupt. Yet if I extract with jdownloader, it seems to be working. The problem is, jdownloader has had vulnerabilities in the past with corrupt archives, and cant be fully trusted. You should seriously reconsider however you are creating these archives, and perhaps provide a SHA in the future.

You might want to update your 7zip and winrar, that might be the issue. I can't remember now.

 

[c3p0]

I downloaded it with mega, i downloaded it direct from gofile, mutliple times with mega... the default archive manager builtin to linux say all files are corrupt. 7zip says it is corrupt. Yet if I extract with jdownloader, it seems to be working. The problem is, jdownloader has had vulnerabilities in the past with corrupt archives, and cant be fully trusted. You should seriously reconsider however you are creating these archives, and perhaps provide a SHA in the future.

Header errors? Yes, we had that. It is even stated in the OP:

 

[torpedogoat]

I downloaded it with mega, i downloaded it direct from gofile, mutliple times with mega... the default archive manager builtin to linux say all files are corrupt. 7zip says it is corrupt. Yet if I extract with jdownloader, it seems to be working. The problem is, jdownloader has had vulnerabilities in the past with corrupt archives, and cant be fully trusted. You should seriously reconsider however you are creating these archives, and perhaps provide a SHA in the future.

We previously had a long discussion about this. The end result seemed to be that under certain circumstances the Ren'Py development environment creates ZIP files that have a minor deviation from the ZIP standard which a few archive tools (most notably 7zip [edited:], though not for all users) choke on (with or without the ability to still proceed with a warning, depending on command line parameters) but most simply ignore. Almost every other other file archiving tool but 7zip probably does the job.

 

[TheDevian]

We previously had a long discussion about this. The end result seemed to be that under certain circumstances the Ren'Py development environment creates ZIP files that have a minor deviation from the ZIP standard which a few archive tools (most notably 7zip) choke on (with or without the ability to still proceed with a warning, depending on command line parameters) but most simply ignore. Almost every other other file archiving tool but 7zip probably does the job.

Odd thing being that I have both 7zip, and winrar, and have never gotten that error.

 

[LegendBear]

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[jrwizzard]

We previously had a long discussion about this. The end result seemed to be that under certain circumstances the Ren'Py development environment creates ZIP files that have a minor deviation from the ZIP standard which a few archive tools (most notably 7zip [edited:], though not for all users) choke on (with or without the ability to still proceed with a warning, depending on command line parameters) but most simply ignore. Almost every other other file archiving tool but 7zip probably does the job.

I hear what you are saying, and can believe it. Here is my problem with that though... I have played thousands of renpy games, all extracted from archives, this is the first time the builtin linux archive manager ever had an issue. The first time I went to the software store and had to install something different to decompress a file. I am not complaining the extra step, I am saying there might be a more obvious issue here. I like this game, I respect the work that went into creating it, maybe whoever should take an extra few minutes and triple check the archiving solution. Thats all, I wont mention it again.

 

[torpedogoat]

I hear what you are saying, and can believe it. Here is my problem with that though... I have played thousands of renpy games, all extracted from archives, this is the first time the builtin linux archive manager ever had an issue. The first time I went to the software store and had to install something different to decompress a file. I am not complaining the extra step, I am saying there might be a more obvious issue here. I like this game, I respect the work that went into creating it, maybe whoever should take an extra few minutes and triple check the archiving solution. Thats all, I wont mention it again.

I spent many hours on researching this:

• For me, 7zip (I am using Linux, but usually this problem is reported by Windows users; other users don't have this problem with 7zip at all) reported a header problem both for the PC build and for the MacOS build. It refuses to unpack. 7zip is known to be intentionally pedantic where most similar programs are lenient and just unpack archives that implement the standard incorrectly, so long as it's clear what is intended.
• I downloaded a special archive tool implemented in Ada that has exceptionally good diagnostics. It refuses to unpack these archives and specifies what the problem is: "ZIP.ARCHIVE_CORRUPTED : Bad (or no) end-of-central-directory". That means that the problem is something trivial and easy to ignore (and ignored by most programs), comparable to a missing period at the end of the last sentence of a chapter in a book.
• Someone contacted the developer or whoever is doing support for The Headmaster on Discord. It appears that the ZIP files in question were created directly by the Ren'Py development environment.
• While the problem is rare, apparently it has been reported for other games by other developers as well. (Though nobody has mentioned a specific game. Likely this happens only for specific versions, probably triggered by something like the exact number of files in the archive, or the length of the filename of the last file, being divisible by some number.)

There is a lot that isn't clear yet, but I am pretty confident about the following points:

• There is nothing nefarious going on. No infected downloads. No danger for anyone's computer.
• It's no use downloading the same files again from the same server or from another server.
• It's no use complaining to the developer or wherever you got your download from.
• The two practical solutions are 1) use a different archiving tool to extract the problematic ZIP file, or 2) just download and use the compressed version of the game instead.
• We are not going to get any further by discussing the problem further. This needs to be addressed by a very experienced software developer who happens to be able to reproduce the problem.
• Someone could theoretically fix the problem on a case-by-case basis by unpacking the problematic ZIP files with a tool that is not pedantic, then zipping them again and uploading the result. To retain full functionality this should be done on a Linux or MacOS computer (as the executable bits required by these two operating systems will get lost if you do this on Windows). But the whole situation is so murky that addressing developers about this is unlikely to be successful.

 

[CuteLilNori]

Are you able to post Batch 2?

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I have PMed him, he was no longer the membership