A Kiss for the Petals: Sono Hanabira - English Patch

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Sono Hanabira - English Patch - Complete!

I never gave much thought to what I would say when this time finally came. Even more than you, I wasn't even sure that it would ever make it this far.

But here is it - the long-long-looooong awaited English translation patch for Sono Hanabira:

The patch is in two parts: a graphics patch, and a script patch. You'll need both.

You'll need the the original game as well of course. Unlike most Japanese games, a downloadable edition can be easily purchased for less than $20 US from DLsite.com's completely-English store - here's a direct link. (No, these are not affiliate links.)

I guess in the end, I really don't have anything to say. So I shall let my work speak for me.

Well, one thing I guess: Thanks everybody - seriously. Good night.

- CountPacula - rose-at-sonohanabira-dot-countpacula-dot-com

[edit: added info on where to buy the original game - please do!]

Labels: announcement, downloads, IT'S OUT, progress report, release

66 Comments:

At February 14, 2010 11:40 PM , Peter said...

Woo thank you so much
At February 14, 2010 11:51 PM , Kokopure said...

YES :D !

Wonderful wonderful <3 I'll get to playing it right away! Thank you so much <3
At February 14, 2010 11:56 PM , muteKi said...

<3 so much
At February 15, 2010 12:02 AM , Yi said...

Thank you soooooo much!!!!
At February 15, 2010 12:03 AM , Peter said...

It works perfectly fine :DDDDD Thank you once more !
At February 15, 2010 12:29 AM , Barry said...

if you have 7 run it with xp compatibility mode to get rid of the stuttering, awesome so far :D
At February 15, 2010 12:39 AM , Himie said...

Great I love you!!! I can finally play this game properly thx so much <33
At February 15, 2010 12:44 AM , muteKi said...

It's working for me without applocale, though there are a couple little graphical errors in the text box. Just thought people would like to know.

I have to wonder how many marriage proposals the translator will get at this point.
At February 15, 2010 12:47 AM , distortedinfinity said...

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At February 15, 2010 12:50 AM , distortedinfinity said...

I have to say I'm impressed with the way you handled the translation of this game. I've been enjoying it for about 35 mins, top notch stuff. I offer my congrats to you and your team, I'm sure it's been a hell of a ride.

If only the KimiNozo project could run this smoothly, it would truly be bliss. (If you ever want to take on the challenge of your life, feel free to join me on the project)
At February 15, 2010 1:25 AM , ManaYagami said...

It's we, who have to thank you for everything!
At February 15, 2010 1:39 AM , Maxal said...

Now you can start translation of the second game, right? Ahaha..
At February 15, 2010 2:55 AM , The_Internet said...

i cannot possibly thank you enough for your efforts, and im fairly sure that i speak for everyone in tasmania when i say 'thank you'.
At February 15, 2010 3:19 AM , Makenshi said...

Great series despite it being Nukige. If you guys like the comedy and moe overload of this game you should try the next 2 which features different pairs. It's one of the few games agthworks really well with. I've already played the game but great job on the translation!
At February 15, 2010 4:31 AM , iccanobif said...

Ah this is great... I'm going to put on hold all the other eroge I'm playing and finish this in a flash...
At February 15, 2010 4:31 AM , yurilovr said...

Thanks! I've been following you since last year. I heard you might be working with Tsundere Yuriko soon, which is awesome. Good luck in your future projects!
At February 15, 2010 6:36 AM , yori said...

Thank you very much but what is this sona hanabrina please? sono 1 or 2?
At February 15, 2010 6:43 AM , mike said...

Just me or does it crash every time I go to a different window on W7?

Also, is there anyway to fix the gibberish on the window/text boxes? I remember in xp, all I had to do was change locale to Japan and everything was golden.

Other than those 2 issues, awesome release man.
At February 15, 2010 7:05 AM , Barry said...

make - windows xp compatibility mode
At February 15, 2010 8:23 AM , victor said...

oh god.
this is happiness.
At February 15, 2010 8:26 AM , Chan said...

OK... how I got it to run in Win7 x64 Enteprise, without changing to Japanese locale or even installing Windows XP Mode:
Install Applocale
Set Applocale to run as administrator
Set the ENG Sono Hana .exe to run under compatibility mode, Win XP SP3
Run Sono Hana under Applocale (Japanese of course)

Also using the nag patch and context menu to make things a little easier.
At February 15, 2010 9:42 AM , Xalathal said...

Yaaay! *bows deeply* Thank you very much for this very good translation.

I played a small part and the translation was way better than some others i have seen. Again thanks. Good job, and good luck with your, whatever that is, next project.
At February 15, 2010 10:06 AM , Santtu said...

Thank you a thousand times :D
At February 15, 2010 3:18 PM , Sami said...

Thanks you for finishing this huge project!! Everything but fullscreen works 100% on Win7 64bit.
At February 15, 2010 4:41 PM , Nevah100 said...

Thank you so much :D Definitely gonna try it out right away!
At February 15, 2010 4:58 PM , Christian said...

I can't say that I know much about Japanese but the voice and text seem to be completely different. Also I get an errormessage when Girl A and Girl B talk. The respective voice files seem to be missing.
At February 15, 2010 5:01 PM , mike said...

@Barry, cool, that worked awesome. Some of the stuff is still in garbled text though, but I'll figure it out eventually.

@Chan, I know for sure applocale works, but I got so tired of using it that I just switched my locale to Japan and saved myself a lot of time down the line. (At least when I was still using xp)
At February 15, 2010 5:17 PM , Christian said...

Now this is embaressing. Seems I bought the wrong game, so forget about my last comment. It's amazing that the patch still worked...in a way.
At February 15, 2010 5:26 PM , CountPacula said...

Christian:

Does the sound work/sound right if you run hanabira.exe rather than hanabira-en.exe? I hadn't done -anything- with the sound files, so it's possible the audio archive file you have is corrupt somehow.

(BTW, this patch doesn't modify the original game files in the slightest - you can play the original game in Japanese right from the same directory.)
At February 15, 2010 5:32 PM , CountPacula said...

The main issue I noted with Vista and Windows 7 was that the game would often lock up when minimizing the game or switching to another program. My suggested solution: if it breaks when you do that, then DON'T DO THAT! :P

Why aren't you playing the game fullscreen anyway? :)
At February 15, 2010 5:45 PM , Xalathal said...

I think Christian meant that, what they did say and you had translated was totally of, but it seems it was his mistake, as he said.

I finished the game btw, and i can say that only in 1 or 2 phrases i was thinking of another translation. (From the ones that where spoken though, i didn't know what the Japanese were when she was narrating/thinking)

Overall, good job!
At February 15, 2010 6:13 PM , cereal said...

I'm quite speechless, never expected to actually be able to read this title.
I'm a big fan of fuguriya's releases so its even better then stumbling across a translation of a release that I've never heard of. I can't properly kiss your ass enough for this, thank you so much! ;)

btw, will this be your primary site from now on? Just want to make sure that if you tackle a different project by this artist I don't miss it.

Thanks again for your hard work.
At February 15, 2010 7:22 PM , James said...

What tools did you use to create this patch? I'm interested in continuing work with other titles.
At February 15, 2010 11:19 PM , Yuyuko said...

lol.
At February 15, 2010 11:49 PM , Konfig said...

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At February 15, 2010 11:51 PM , Konfig said...

Thank you so much for all your hard work. I feel bad, I just found out about this project a couple weeks ago so I was just around for the best part, and I never had the chance to give encouragement along the way.

I know translating all this must me VERY time consuming, so really, thank you. It's something you didn't have to do but you took time out of your life to do something for like-minded people like myself. And now we all get to enjoy this game the way it was meant to be enjoyed.

Thanks again! I know what I am doing tonight.
At February 16, 2010 12:00 AM , sawako-sensei said...

IT'S OUT?!
I LOVE YOU.
SO MUCH.
At February 16, 2010 12:40 AM , Nopleaseno said...

OH YEAH!!!
At February 16, 2010 1:49 AM , Chan said...

@mike
Yeah, it did nag me a bit, but having the nag patch installed (removes the nag window from shortcuts) and also the context menu option (right click -> run under Japanese locale) means running this game under Applocale is really fast to do. :)
At February 16, 2010 1:59 AM , Rikaishi said...

Booyah! Finally got to play SonoHana after all these years. Thank you Pac.

I'm impressed, with both the original game and the translation. Very professional.
At February 16, 2010 11:07 AM , ten-arashi said...

Oh my god, I am so excited! I just downloaded everything and tried it out and it's all in English I can finally UNDERSTAND what these wonderful girls are saying, thank you so much for all your time and effort I officially love you forever!!!
At February 16, 2010 12:08 PM , stvalkyrie said...

Amazing I been waiting for this

Thank you lord Capula.
At February 16, 2010 3:22 PM , Saberfang321 said...

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG SO AWESOME!!!!! I knew you could do it! I never gave up hope even once!
At February 16, 2010 10:33 PM , Mokou-tan said...

this one use for all the games from 1-6 right?
At February 17, 2010 4:27 AM , Rikaishi said...

Mokou-tan:
No, just No. 1

The others will be translated eventually, might just take a few years ^^
At February 17, 2010 8:44 AM , kuromatsu said...

THAAANK YOU!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS!
At February 17, 2010 9:27 AM , Xalathal said...

@Rikaishi

We can just hope it will take a few Years instead of a few Decades.. Translating a Visual Novel is indeed much hard work..
At February 17, 2010 3:07 PM , Saberfang321 said...

I tried it out, and your work is truly amazing! You did a spectacular job, and I look forward to any possible future endeavors.

@Mokou-tan:
lol, you do know there are two more games after the first six? #7 was released a couple months ago (it deals with an entireley new couple, a teacher and her student, and several amazing new songs), and #8 is still being developed...these ones actually require DirectX i think, because of the sound quality
At February 17, 2010 8:29 PM , James said...

The eighth was released last week.
At February 18, 2010 12:10 AM , REA said...

will you be doing the other games too?
At February 20, 2010 12:10 AM , nam said...

i need some help, when i downloaded these to patches and tried to open in a weird message appears and i can't open it. i'ce tried extracting the files to another folder but no luck please help me.
At February 20, 2010 12:17 AM , Saberfang321 said...

Wow really? I'm gonna get the eighth one then, thanx! ^^

I'm STILL amazed, the level of work you did continues to impress me!
At February 20, 2010 12:24 AM , Saberfang321 said...

@nam: You have to transfer all the files in each zip folder to the folder in which all the game files were put/installed, then you run Hanabira-en.exe. If you are still having trouble, email me at saberfangecchi@aol.com and I will personally walk you through, if you want.
At February 20, 2010 5:39 PM , Josh said...

I have no idea what this game is or anything about it at all, but I've always loved the two girls but I've never knew who they were.

I'm going to download this and try it out!
I appreciate your hard work CountPacula!

It's people like you who make the world a better place!
At February 21, 2010 12:32 PM , jognlenn said...

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At February 21, 2010 12:42 PM , Lauren said...

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At February 22, 2010 3:09 AM , Saberfang321 said...

Btw, there's a Sono Hanabira page on facebook, if you wanna become fans of it just to show your love of this series http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Sono-Hanabira-ni-Kuchizuke-wo/299735879120?ref=ts
At February 22, 2010 5:52 PM , Don Quigleone said...

Been waiting for almost year now, WOO!

Thanks.

you rock.
At February 26, 2010 1:39 AM , IronSlabHrothgar said...

Just bought my copy. Looooooooooooove you.
At February 26, 2010 7:06 PM , LOLHAHPOWFOO said...

It took you way too long, but in the end, good job. This was like the onl visual novel that i went WOW when i saw the two girls. I wish all the series was translated tho. But isnt 160mb for a vn kinda short? Usually they're like 1gb-4gb
At March 4, 2010 9:51 AM , NegativeZero said...

A couple of weeks ago I emailed you regarding an installer I put together for this patch. Haven't heard anything from you and I'm wondering if maybe it got filtered as spam or something since it had a few links in it.

The whole installer, which installs your patch, copying and updating files from the original game, weighs in at only about 2.5mb. When you run it it will ask you to locate the original game files, and does the necessary things such as writing an uninstaller and setting up a start menu entry etc. I was able to exploit the fact that your graphics patch is fairly large but the actual amount of changes are small, and create a patch file to complete the process. The patch is against the dlsite version of the game, so if the retail release had a different graphics file it probably won't work with that, though it wouldn't be that hard to compensate. This also has the benefit of ensuring that the patch gets installed against the correct game, since there's getting to be a fair few.

Anyway, you can grab the installer here (~2.5mb)

As I said in the email I sent originally, I don't want to steal your thunder or anything so if you want me to take it down again I'll do so. Also if you want to make any tweaks / changes I'm happy to throw you the scripts etc necessary to generate the installer. :) I hope this proves useful.
At March 14, 2010 5:37 AM , NegativeZero said...

Hm, it seems that that last comment of mine hasn't propagated to your main page in over a week. :\
At April 5, 2010 12:26 PM , sora-no-kokoro said...

Excellent news! I didn't even know a translation was being worked on, but I'm floored to have suddenly come across this by chance! There are far too few yuri games out there, let alone ones this appealing, so I'm really, really glad to see this!

Any chance after a break you may work on the other games in the series? :D?
At April 24, 2010 3:11 PM , Christina said...

does downloading this game cost money?
At May 3, 2010 7:39 AM , EATRICEDONTTHROWIT said...

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At May 3, 2010 1:41 PM , kono-setsu said...

Can't thank you enough for the English patch. It really help me a lot to enjoy the game.