Kureha One

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni takes place during June 1983, at a fictional rural village called Hinamizawa, which has a population of approximately 2000. The main character, Keiichi Maebara, moves to Hinamizawa and befriends his new classmates Rena Ryugu, Mion Sonozaki, Rika Furude, and Satoko Hojo. Keiichi joins their after-school club activities, which consist mostly of card and board games (and punishment games for the loser, usually him.) Hinamizawa appears to be a normal, peaceful, rural village to Keiichi. However, the tranquility abruptly ends after the annual Watanagashi Festival, a celebration to commemorate and give thanks to the local god, Oyashiro-sama. Keiichi learns that every year for the past four years, one person has been murdered and another has gone missing on the day of the Watanagashi Festival. Keiichi himself soon becomes drawn into the strange events surrounding the Watanagashi Festival and Oyashiro-sama. In each story arc, he or one of his friends become paranoid, and a crime is committed. Usually, the crime involves the murder of one of their own friends. While it seems impossible to tell their delusions apart from the mystery of Hinamizawa, slowly the truth is revealed.

/jp/ delivered a MU link, that or it's more deskpets with the same file size: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VDRP3C94 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VDRP3C94)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ansuzz (http://www.sendspace.com/file/ansuzz)

it seems this crack works.. i don't really tested it yet.

I'm actually downloading it (no way i will buy it with testing it before).
Does it's me or the crack do 666 ko
::)

Okay, let's have a thread for the exclusive purpose of tweaking Mangagamer's release. Please don't scatter efforts on several threads.

[X] Hide ugly UI (COMPLETE)
- http://www.mediafire.com/?g50yyddlwz1 (http://www.mediafire.com/?g50yyddlwz1)
First, a patch to hide the UI, made by Anon. "I just made a patch. Extract these files to your higurashiwhentheycry folder. Be sure to set the right-click function to show menu instead of hide frame."

[X] Replace ugly font (COMPLETE)
- http://www.mediafire.com//?jvzjzhyjwwm (http://www.mediafire.com//?jvzjzhyjwwm)
From the same Anon (I think), a patch to replace the font with Consolas.ttf. "What the hell, I might as well knock out the font hack while I'm at it."

[X] Music patch (COMPLETED, BUT MORE CAN BE DONE, READ FURTHER)
- http://www.mediafire.com/?dhuunoxtinz (http://www.mediafire.com/?dhuunoxtinz) (Himatsubushi-hen version, full 4 chapters)
- http://www.mediafire.com/?nmyimymm4vy (http://www.mediafire.com/?nmyimymm4vy) (Demo version, music from 1st chapter only)
QUESTION:"Why would I use this? the music from MG is better!". ANSWER: Better is subjective , but more importantly, MG release has fewer tracks. They were too lazy or didn't have enough music, so they went and replaced VARIOUS tracks with the SAME track, in multiple occasions, which is just butchering the game. For example Rena and Mion don't have their own music themes in MG release. This adds variety again to the soundtrack.
Made by another Anon (me, to be more precise). There's two patches, one that replaces the music with the Himatsubushi-hen soundtrack (the repack of chapters 1-4) and another that uses the music from the demo (so this version it's only up to chapter 1). If someone has the soundtrack that matches the demo (which I prefer), please post it so we can complete patch two.
This is a test version and is not tested throughly. If you note anything weird, please let me know.

Anon delivered some delicious fixes on /jp/ which I will just copy-paste here along with his original post:


Thanks to the kind Anon who did this and, let's hope that someone delivers the character sprites hack.

Here you go:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zgqqonmmevt/Higurashi%20PS2%20Sprites%20BGs%20Patch.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/file/zgqqonmmevt/Higurashi%20PS2%20Sprites%20BGs%20Patch.rar)

No love for sausage hands?