Christmas is near, and I've got a present for you. And by a present I mean a
translation patch for Katsugeki Kidan Online. Spend your christmas with your friend, beating up other Touhou girls! Or play it alone, like I will.
(As a note, I'm not a Kaguya fan, even though I have her as my avatar and I just translated a game with her as one of the main characters.)
Get the patch here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/f24ftuh8zqtercb/patch.zipHacking and image editing by DennouNeko, translation by Arknarok.
How to patch the game:
Step 1. Install the official 1.30 patch first. Get it here:
http://gatling-cat.sakura.ne.jp/files/kon130_patch.zip. To install that patch, open the archive, and find this folder:
http://i.imgur.com/ReMZmJF.png. Drop all the files from that folder into the game folder (that's the folder that has the kon.exe file). Confirm all file replacements.
Step 2. Backup the 'data' folder. There's no way to uninstall the translation patch except for restoring the old data folder, and you want a way to do that in case something went wrong.
Step 3. Copy the 'data' folder from the patch archive into the game folder. Confirm replacements.
Step 4. Launch the game, confirm that the window title says "Katsugeki Kidan ONLINE ver1.30" and that the main menu appears properly. You're done!
Now, there might be some non-obvious things about this game, so I'll do a QA with things you should probably know.
Technical stuff:
Q. What are the controls?A. Player 1: Z - attack, X - skills, C - jump, A - grazing dash, D - pause. Move with arrow keys.
Player 2: . - attack, / - skills, \ - jump, ; - grazing dash, ] - pause. Move with numpad arrow keys.
Or just get some gamepads, you can even remap the buttons if you use them!
ESC instantly quits the game.
Pause button only works if you're not playing over internet. It also does not work during boss battles.
Quote from the manual: if you're playing using the same keyboard, you'll have to cross your arms, which is really gay, so be careful.
Q. I was going to remap the buttons, but turns out there are two "key config" buttons, one in the main menu, and one in the intermission screen! What's the difference?A. The one in the main menu is for player 2, and the one in the intermission screen is for player 1. Yeah, I don't get it either.
Q. Can I change the game resolution? Can I go fullscreen?A. No, you're stuck with 800x450. For the fullscreen, use the config.exe file and check the upper box. The lower box is supposed to try and fix the aspect issues, but I don't see it do anything useful. Also, fullscreen mode sucks.
Q. I can't play over internet.A. Did you forward the port? Also, try using a VPN. If you get random errors when inputting the IP address, close the game and delete sys.dat file from the game folder, then try again.
Gameplay:
Q. Are there any penalties for playing on Easy?A. Yep. You won't be able to play the Extra stages and you won't be able to replay stages in harder modes.
Q. What's the point of training stages?A. They're supposed to be more efficient at experience, money and magic fragments. You don't have to play them, though.
Q. What the hell is "shield/fur" and why would I want to upgrade that?A.
For best mofumofu, obviously. Upgrading shield/fur reduces the damage you take from enemy danmaku. Upgrading armor reduces physical damage, upgrading weapon improves your damage.
Q. What are growth types?A. Growth types determine which of your stats improve when you level up. From that perspective, their names should be obvious enough. They also give you passive skills. A word of warning: characters with "offensive" type do not gain any SP from leveling. Other types get +1, and Intellect type ones get +2.
Q. What do the character stats do?A. There are some obvious stats:
HP - health.
SP - energy for skills.
ATK - affects damage from melee attacks.
DEF - reduces damage from enemy melee attacks.
MDF - reduces damage from enemy danmaku.
And some not so obvious:
STR - improves your non-magic damage.
DEX - reduces damage swings, making your attacks more reliable.
VIT - affects how much health and DEF you get when leveling up.
INT - does not do much for Momiji. Affects Udonge's and Tewi's performance for Kaguya.
LUK - increases your critical strike chance.
Q. You missed "Hourai" there.A. It's not a stat, it's how much Hourai elixirs you have left. Hourai elixirs automatically bring your character back to life, should she die. You revive with half HP and full SP. If you run out of them, then death will make you lose all your stage progress. You can find more elixirs during stages.
Q. What's an attack level? And why Kaguya has several of them?A. It's another thing that affects your damage. The higher it is, the more damage you deal. The difference is that attack level improves from actually attacking.
For Kaguya, you also have Udonge and Tewi levels, which improve the damage of skills that utilize Udonge and Tewi. The more you use them, the higher their level becomes.
Q. What's a stage difficulty?A. During the stage select screen, you can press left and right to select the difficulty of the stage. The default one is "normal", and there are 3 higher difficulties. You need 3 things before you can select these difficulties:
- You must not play on Easy.
- You need to clear the game.
- You need to be the required level for the difficulty.
Q. What do I need the money for?A. Only for equipment upgrades. Same thing for magic fragments.
Q. I get the HP and SP gauges for my character, what's the "graze" one?A. That's the energy you need for grazing dashes. One dash consumes half of that gauge.
Q. I got to the boss, what are all these gauges?A. The boss health gauge is the top one, and it's pretty self-explanatory. Note that bosses change attack patterns every 25% of their health.
The spell gauge is the middle one. Once it fills, the boss uses a spell.
The hate gauge is the bottom one. If it fills, the boss unleashes more powerful attacks.
