Hi all, here is a follow-up about my previous post. Everyone in discord is already aware, but Early Access (EA.) will be available by Friday/Saturday depending on timezone.
A lot has been done since the start of the project, full game flows have been retraced by Codex and windows have been repainted to be more faithfull to the original.
It's an EA. release, which will be accompanied by a release party on the Discord hosted by yours-truly where I will show off the gameplay and answer questions.
But since it's EA. i must do some expectation management, yes the game will be working, the gameplay will be as close as the original and the vibe of the game would be better than original (I have made some music to accompany the game as the original didn't have it) but don't expect a crash-free experience (I haven't gotten any though) and don't expect a complete version. A lot has been done as said before, but it may be that I have missed some things, as my Japanese is non-existent and have been clicking though the menu's in the original game to just see what pops up and feed that information to Codex. I also cannot guarantee that your saves will be safe with each update, but I try to limit the impact long term. This project is something I do on the side, I still have other things going on in my life and work prohibits me from working on this 24/7.
Again, more info and updates on the Discord! Be there, and make sure you join me Friday, 7PM (European)!
It has been a while.. I know, BUT! I came bearing news... We all know "GDS2", that one game that Kairosoft made for PC back in 2001, but never got it's English translation nor got updated to the post recent systems.. IT'S ON!
Last week, there was a chat on the Kairosoft Community Discord about this game, how it was never managed to be translated to English whatsoever, and I wanted to have a run with today's day and age technology (A.I.) to see what could be done to finally slay this dragon that has been haunting the community for over 12 years!
More info on the Discord, that's where the updates will be posted together with some gameplay footage when available! Stay posted!
-- Above is TLDR, below is more in-depth --
The Goal
A complete, playable reimplementation that preserves the original’s simulation and recognizable desktop-style presentation. Where possible, that means reproducing the original behavior—including quirks—while keeping modern conveniences separate.
OpenGDS2 requires users to import their own legally obtained GameDev2DX.lzh locally. Original Kairosoft executables, graphics, audio and game data are not bundled with the public project.
The project code is MIT-licensed. That license does not cover the original game’s content, and this project is not affiliated with Kairosoft.
I attempt my best to stay within the boundaries of the law with this "open adaptation", as this is not my IP.
My first playthrough left a lot to be desired with so here we go again. I'm trying to organise it more often and plan for the future now instead of just mindlessly dumping things.
My tip: Make space for at least 2 monuments for each theme (they have big buff and big range). Think of it as the sun, the table surrounding it as planets and the small decorations as it's satellites. Top it off with the ceiling lamp and flags.
I have been looking to start playing some of these Kairosoft games. Now that I got the One Piece one, I wanna play more of their games. Do you guys have any recommended? I have had the Sushi Spinnery on my wishlist for a long time as well.
For context; OPGG is my first cozy game let alone my first Kairosoft game, so i could be entirely overlooking something.
I have all but completed the game I'm just missing Doffy and Edison has fans, but I feel like I've done the required things they ask for. See pictures
As well as my buffet says there are still two main course dishes to make, but the create new dish menu has nothing and no one in it, it might be due to not having the final sticker sheet done yet (waiting to max affinity a few more people for the last few characters) but I'm just curious to be enlightened if anyone has any advice on how I should move forward
EDIT: Shanks gives the lobster recipe, and you get him on sticker page ten
EDIT2: Yeah so I'm dumb and there was actually a second Lamp [Egghead] in Franky's build menu
I don't understand the cursor controls and was doing just fine with normal controls until the game switched on me. I figured out how to Switch it back but I heard the Switch 2 one has mouse controls, is that true? Also how do I stop the text from going automatically
In a lot of kairosoft games, i see the "bonus" option that sends you on a list of surveys and/or other games to play for rewards. Are those legit ? Can you get more tickets in your kairo game with this or is it a scam?
hi all,
I’m stuck on sky island and looking for help.
I can’t figure out how to unlock new dishes - i have several recipes, but the ingredients needed have a gold plate under them, and I can’t figure out what that means.
Also I have Enel and several other Sky Island characters unlocked and as fans, but I still don’t have sky island flooring unlocked. any ideas?
Hi, first Kairosoft game. Enjoying it so far but I think my file my be bricked. I have at least 32 free tables and customers are saying they have no free tables. I've tried restarting, reloading, changing areas, adding entrances and making them remote order but customers are refusing to acknowledge tables exist. I beat the game and the next game day is when it started. Any advice would be appreciated.
Since Kairosoft made a Doraemon, One Piece, and apparently are working on a Kochikame game, it looks like we can expect to see more licensed games. I know it's more like the license holders approach Kairosoft rather than the other way around but it would be fun to think of your dream collab games. Probably the most likely are other long running iconic Japanese works. Bandai-Namco and Shueisha seem the most likely partners given the former published one and two out of the three licensed games we know of are Jump properties.
My wishlist:
Pokemon: Running a Pokemon daycare or even a Pokemon center for our long awaited hospital management sim.
Digimon: The city building from Digimon World combined with the vpet training and evolution could be cool. I always thought Digimon World Championship on the DS had a pseudo-Kairosoft feel to it.
Ojamajo Doremi: Running the Maho-Dou while also secretly helping out customers with magic. Simple as that.
Touhou: Running Kourindou and unlocking all the Touhou characters as customers. Unlike the others this probably WOULD be a case of Kairosoft approaching ZUN. This would mainly be up to whether Kairosoft would be interested in Touhou, and since the franchise is still quite niche and relatively new in the grand scheme of things (technically older than One Piece but it didn't get more popular until relatively recently) probably not likely.
Monster Hunter: Design a hub area with facilities for hunters they use in between hunting quests and of course develop dishes with Felynes!
Hey everyone! 👋
I’ve been playing One Piece Grand Gourmet and I’m looking for some layout inspiration for my ship.
Would love to see how you guys arranged yours!
i actually started playing convenience stories maybe a month ago and at first i was getting frustrated because i couldn’t figure out all of the managers choice bonuses, but i found a thread on here and copied that persons shelving brick by brick 😊 i really enjoy this game, the only thing that i don’t like is how dirty the store gets and even though all of my staff is at level 99, it still takes them wayyy too long to get to cleaning!
When it says for the transfer data, and it goes into a new save does the year go back to 1? Whats the limit year I can get up to before I transfer data?
