SuperSakura

SuperSakura 0.96.1 Released

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Just in time to play some old Japanese adventure games over the holidays, a new release of SuperSakura is ready. That's two and a half years of development since the previous release, which means this is the biggest changelog any SuperSakura release has yet had! Here's a rousing tour of the new stuff!

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The Game-ranking Metagame

Man in comfort wear caught playing a visual novel

It's really satisfying to put things in the right boxes, in the right order, isn't it? Let's put some visual novels and related old games where they belong – on a ranking list! Maybe it's possible to find the quantifiably best visual novel ever. Of course, that'll require meaningful evaluation criteria...

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Researching Fairy Dust SGV graphics

Two guys peering through foliage at something intriguing on Uki Uki Island

To get a game running on SuperSakura, I need to understand and convert an original game's resources into a modern format. This can range from trivially easy to distressingly difficult, depending on how clever the original programmers were.

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