Remember the VNDS Visual Novel Reader for Nintendo DS? It was super. It still is, and now there's an Android version too.
It seems a bit no-strings at first, not much in the way of instructions from within the app itself, but it turns out when you get it going, it works really well!
Useful Links:
- The VNDS site, this is the main site for the DS version - it has some free novels there.
- Discussion boards, to see what's being developed at the moment.
- Weeaboo.nl is the main site for the person who developed the Android VNDS Interpreter app. There are loads of resources here, special Android high-res packs for tablets, and convertors for games you already own. I guess they can't just give away retail games, so there we are - convertors.
At the moment I'm running the convertor for Ever 17. It's taking a while so I'm blogging in the meantime. :)
The process is... install the retail game on PC (which I happen to have right here, all 4 discs...), run the convertor application - which is really friendly and detailed and lets you select whatever screen size and colour depth you think is best for your device, and it not only includes a separate tool to convert the voice data into .wav files but it pops up a dialog box to tell you how to use that tool as well!
There are over 14000 of these little wav files btw, so it's taking ages. I think it's actually converting the .wav files into .ogg files. Ho hum, I think I'll come back when it's done.
