leycec
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4 years ago Yup. Thanks for publicly noting this, @tanah. Your dedication to the crème-de-la-crème of the visual novel world is commendable.
It's suspiciously concerning that the Ultimate Edition installer failed to properly fetch any patches for you. That's Critical Badness™ right there. In my case, the installer behaved less bad but still bad. Thus, the FAQ entry that you astutely noted. Specifically, the installer:
- Behaved as expected the first time I ran it (i.e., it properly fetched all patches).
- Behaved erratically the second time I ran it (i.e., it properly fetched only about ¾ of the patches, with the remainder exactly 0-byte).
誰も知らない! ("Nobody knows why!") Something weird is definitely going on – but I'm unsure whether we can minimize that weirdness from our end. A Lutris script can only do so much and that's usually much less than anyone would like. My grim suspicion is that either:
- [option 1] The installer is calling some low-level (C|C++|C#) networking primitive that is currently poorly emulated under WINE and/or Mono.
- [option 2] The online service hosting these patches (whatever that may be – I'm afraid I haven't delved into the source for the installer yet) is fundamentally unreliable.
Option 1 seems likelier. In any case, a working alternative to both options would be for:
- Someone who is not me to upload these patches to a more reliable service than GoogleDrive. For reasons,blame google GoogleDrive links are not usable from automated scripts. The patches are too large to reasonably host at this repository. Moreover, attempting to do so given the content of several of the patches (ahem H ahem) would be a fantastic way to get this repository flagged and flogged by Microsoft. Let's please avoid that BAD END.
- Refactor our Lutris installer to:
- Automatically fetch all of these patches from that reliable service. Yes, this is silly. The Ultimate Installer already fetches all of these patches and I don't recall there being any way to automatically disable that behaviour at the command-line. ...or is there?
- Automatically overwrite all of the patches fetched and installed by the Ultimate Installer with the patches fetched by our Lutris script. Yes, it would be cleverer to attempt to detect for faulty patches with arcane and curmudgeonly Bash commands (e.g., some variant on
find . -type f -size -4096c), but that would then require writing a full-blown Bash script that would then need to somehow conditionally invokecurlorwgeton as as-needed basis, and I'm unsure that Lutris even allows that sort of dangerous shenanigans. For security, it probably shouldn't. In short, ain't nobody got that kinda time or sanity. ...or do they? I don't, but maybe you or someone else does! Please write me this script, somebody.
This is starting to look ugly and risky and I'm all out of bubblegum. Rather than actually doing anything, let's leave this issue open and see if anyone has any brighter ideas than my shameless rambling above.
kaasknak
First of all, thanks for making this possible, I already played the game but I wanted to test this version in case I could help with debugging.
I followed the instructions stated in the README for linux using the one clicker installer. Everything when just totally fine but all the patch files that were downloaded weighted between 0B and 3KiB.
The issue is easily solved by downloading the patches from the google drive links in the Beast's Liar forum as stated in the instructions. However, I feel like this is not the intended behaviour and I should report it in case something weird is going on, as it happened with all the patches (I installed them all except the OP one).