v82.7.2

This is it. After so many long, painful years, full of tears, regret, anger and conflict, it is done.

When I started my work on this project, I set out to build the perfect, best version of Umineko that could exist. Now, this goal has been achieved. We are our own harshest critics, and yet I sincerely believe that there has never been a better way to experience this incredible story than what I have managed to create here. Now, there may still be small issues left here and there. Incredibly minor stuff, like typos or missing punctuation. Beyond that, however... this is the perfect version of a perfect story. Nothing better than this has ever existed, and I had a hand in making it happen.

Of course, I stand on the shoulders of giants. It would be entirely inappropriate to dismiss the work that others have done to help me get to where I did. I would like to thank everyone who supported me throughout the years. Of course, huge thanks go out to Witch Hunt, 07th-Mod and Umineko Project, the incredible teams without which Umineko wouldn't ever see the light of day outside of Japan. And, quite naturally, without the massive work done on this project by 07th-Expansion, Alchemist and ENTERGRAM, it would never exist at all. So thank you all for making this happen. The Atmosphère project, as well as the incredible emulators, have then allowed this mod to actually be playable.

Thank you to everyone who contributed directly as well. The incredible reversing tools have made it possible to mod this game in the first place. Some of the thorough testing done by people in the early stages of the project has helped me identify and fix some severe issues with my tooling without having to bang my head against the wall for years. Of course, thank you to everyone who contributed code and assets as well.

I'd also like to extend thanks to everyone who took my creation and ran ahead to make something even more amazing with it. Right now, there are multiple forks of my patch that translate the game to languages other than English. Some of these translations already existed in other Umineko versions, and some others are happening for the first time ever. There are efforts being made to create a full PC port of this version of the game as well. Ironically, that was the original design. I wanted to use Umineko Project's engine and port the new content over into it. However, that turned out to be beyond me, as a lot of things have changed internally between the old PS3 release they based their port on and the current version that this patch targets. Now someone else can bring the game back to the incredible open platform which started it all, and for that I am incredibly grateful.

At last, my biggest thanks go out to my four incredible friends who have supported me through all of this from the very beginning and until the very end. You know who you are. Without you, I wouldn't have ever reached this finish line. Thank you four, most of all.

Now, I am done.
I will fix any of the minor issues players may uncover in the patch, of course. However, as far as any serious work is concerned, I bid the When They Cry world my final adieu. The series itself may continue at some point, but I'll have no part in it anymore.
This project took around five years to complete in total, through all of its different attempts and iterations. There is too much left on the cutting room floor that you've never seen. This project has been the work of my life, and it is now complete.
Nothing else I create -- if I choose to do so -- will ever surpass it.

Once again, Tara... this is for you. I hope there's a computer in heaven for you to read this on. If not... I'll bring one with me, when the time comes.

In the meantime, everyone else. Enjoy.

v10.5.0

This release includes translation- and text-related bugfixes for Saku02.

However, I've only gotten about halfway through the chapter, so some of the later parts may still have issues. Please do not report these, I will get to them eventually.

I am so tired now... After so many years, this will take... just a short while more. Please have patience. The next release, or, at worst, the one after that, should finally take care of everything.

v10.4.1

This release translates the game and opening song titles in the "Movie Box".

v10.4.0

This releases finalizes the UI updates that have been worked on over the course of the last few months.

All the menus have been overhauled to have better readability, design, and font consistency with the original game.
Special thanks to @DerJaybe for this undertaking, as my graphic editing "skills" would never allow for creating something like this.

v10.3.4

This release fixes some minor issues with the ending scroll in Episode 8, such as text being cut off in a few areas.

v10.3.3

This release updates the text in the Music Box section of the game to match fonts of the original game better.

v10.3.2

This release introduces further improvements to the UI.

In particular, the size of the hints for new TIPS/Characters has been increased so they can now actually be read on smaller screens, and the TIPS menu has also been improved, rendering the titles of the TIPS more visible and better-aligned.

There have also been some minor improvements to other menus.

v10.3.1

This release improves the visuals and translation of the Config menu.

v10.3.0

This release improves the text in the main menu and the episode selection screen, and brings back the shadowy sprites in the episode select that were there in the original Japanese version.

v10.2.0

This release translates the remaining non-vital images with text on them, such as the cast scrolls at the end of episodes, into English.

It also magically reduces the filesize of the download, ever-so-slightly. Hooray!