Could not read LiveMaker archive

[MichaelVerdegaal]

• pylivemaker version: 0.3.2
• Python version: 3.8.1
• Operating System: Windows 10
• LiveMaker game: VNDB

Description

I've been wanting to try out a small bit of hobby translating for this visual novel, and stumbled upon your repository which seems very promising. I read through the usage example but i'm pretty much stuck at the first step.

What I Did

I tried both the extract and the list command (results of the latter down below). I tried it on both the exe and the dat files since the readme mentioned those were supported.

Attempting to read the .exe lmar l 4H23.exe Results in this Could not read LiveMaker archive 4H23.exe: EXE does not contain a LiveMaker archive.

And attempting to read the .dat file lmar l game.dat Results in this Could not read LiveMaker archive game.dat: Failed to parse VF directory: Error in path (parsing) -> signature parsing expected b'vf' but parsed b'u\x00'

Further thoughts

This seems to suggest that it's not a LiveMaker game as it's throwing a BadLiveMakerArchive exception, but i know it's not the case here since the game directory contains a live.dll file. I looked around and this seems to be a thing for LiveMaker games. Furthermore, in the readme file of the game, the developer even explicitly states it was made in LiveMaker.

本作品はlivemakerを使用して制作されました

I would like some help with figuring out why this game is failing, and how to circumvent it.

[pmrowla]

Does your game folder have a file that ends in .ext (like game.ext)? If so you need to use that file w/lmar, not game.dat.

Otherwise I can't really tell what the problem is without looking at the actual game, but it could be a bug in pylivemaker. If you can host it on mega or something and email me the link at peter@pmrowla.com I can take a look.

[MichaelVerdegaal]

It did indeed have a game.ext file. I guess this also explains why the demo needed to be extracted differently. It works now, thank you!