Rerelease of Akuji

I re-released my old Akuji the Demon patch with a few improvements.

Basically, it’s the same thing v1.02 was, except now it has a nice title screen. God forbid a game be in English without a pretty new title screen. There is also a matching English backdrop for the options screen, and I touched up a few lines here and there that I wasn’t happy with.

No, I’m really not trying to compete with Do-jin Nyuu. They received BUSTER’s endorsement and I really never cared for it. The main reason for the re-release is so that I can have it.

When the Home of the Underdogs stopped distributing my patch in their zip, it was pretty much lost. I had no backup. By putting it on my page, I can always come back here and download it whenever I want to play again.

And if anyone else likes it, that’s nice too.

Oh yes, I also released my qdatools, which are for working with Akuji’s QDA file. One script yanks out the files, and the other crams them into a new QDA.

This could be handy for anyone who wants Akuji sprite rips, maps, art or more, or anyone who wants to hack the game or make a map editor.

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Published:: Friday, October 24th, 2003 at 2:30 am

Author:: Derrick Sobodash

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Grapes

August 4th, 2006
7:22 EDT

Ahoy, loving the qdatools, although this is a bit of a late comment, I really can’t get the qdabuild.php to work correctly, everything just ends up scrambled when starting the game with the new qda, even though I just repacked what I just unpacked.

And the unpacker errors out when trying to unpack anything I’ve repacked. So if you see this, would be nice if you could send me a reply

Derrick Sobodash

August 4th, 2006
13:04 EDT

Hi Grapes, I’ll try to take a look at it some time this weekend if I can find a few free minutes. I’m really surprised to hear this since I used QDATools to make my last release.

Can I ask what version of PHP you are using? I used 5.0 when developing, so maybe there is a behavior issue between versions. I remember a lot of my old code for deinterleaving that worked in 4.0 was busted in 5.0, which led to a few complete rewrites in NINJA.