VN_RE

Visual novel reverse engineering

Documentation and scripts for working with visual novel archives.

For single binary with GUI see: https://github.com/Forlos/akaibu

Prerequisites

• Python3 with pip

Installation

Move into directory with setup.py file in it and run:

pip install -e . --user

Now you should be able to use tools in bin/ directory

Usage

python script_to_run.py <arguments>

Example

python extract_resources.py archive1.dat archive2.dat

Structure

• bin/ directory contains tools for end user such as extracting/packing archives
• docs/ direcotry contains documentation about archives
• ksy/ directory contains Kaitai struct description of file formats
• vn_re/ directory contains main logic for tools to work

Each format should have:

• Format description as an ORG file
• Kaitai struct description of format
• Python scripts to extract/create archive(creating may not be available)