hi!
i figured that runs of this game would probably be faster in the original Japanese, given how much text there is, but i realised that the download link for the original Japanese game on DSP's site has been replaced with a link for the reboot. after some digging on the wayback machine i was able to find the link for the last update to the original version (v.1.04) on an old archive of the website, and it still works!
https://www.mediafire.com/file/9gn62w5b329307h/wadanohara_ver1.04.zip/file
this'll be more and more helpful the lower the speed at which you're playing the game is, so i suspect (though i've done no testing) that if you were playing at e.g. 1x speed you could save a decent chunk of time in Japanese compared to English - i found an old run of this game at the original speed and it was about 3h40m long, so getting it any shorter could be very helpful to some. theoretically there's also a Simplified Chinese version that could have even fewer characters of text in it and thus be even faster, but i haven't found a link of v.1.04 in that language yet - that might have only gone up to 1.03. not sure yet.
i hope this helps anyone thinking of running this game! i might run it myself at some point, but i'm not sure yet. i do at least have this bit of detective work for you though lol.
Very smart, ty for this! I was just as confused as to why the original isn't on DSP's site so this is rly helpful. At the end of the say EasyRPG will probably be more accessible to most (especially for anyone on IOS), and I am under the presumption there is only an English version for that site.
I also just updated the board a bit now that i understand SRC more to separate the EasyRPG version, original, and reboot into separate sub categories so that records wont overlap. The only unfortunate part is that I've only found 2 other runs of the game on YouTube and I'm afraid no one will check here to submit. Hopefully we get a bit of activity soon :)
i thought i'd be notified about a reply but i never was. my bad 😅
cool! atm it doesn't seem like the boards are separated by version? there are filters active but not subcategories. idk if you changed it back or something else happened but it still looks like that to me
different topic - did you have any thoughts about turbo when running this game (esp. at 1x speed)? there's a lot of text to mash through in wadanohara, and i personally wouldn't want to fuck up my wrists, so i'd probably use a turbo macro of some kind. would that be something you'd take on the leaderboard, or would you disallow that?
thanks! ^^
I don’t think macros of any kind should be available for any game on SRC. This is pretty much because button mashing is part of the run. (Especially in RPG maker games.)
I will also check some of the game settings to see if I can figure out how to make the categories more distinct.
