Author Topic: The Official Viper Animations Thread (Read 259529 times)

Hyperguy · « **on:** March 18, 2005, 06:06:38 am »

I was messing around with Graphaholic last night and found out how to rip individual animation frames from the Viper games.

O_o

Pretty neat, huh?

I'm not sure if anyone's noticed, but finding animated gifs of Viper GTB is near impossible these days. I think at one point there was a full set of Viper GTB gifs floating around the net, but it's all but lost now, though you occaissionally see gifs of Viper GTB floating around on 4chan.

Anyhow, what I'm getting at is that if I could extract all of the individual frames of animation in Viper GTB, then afterwards I could reanimate them into gifs, and after much hard work, we'd have a full Viper GTB gif set.

Of course, such a project would take hours, as Viper GTB is one of the longest Viper games, not to mention all of the time that would be needed to extract each file individually, and then the time it would take to reanimate, quality check, and so forth each file.

In anycase, I think the possibility of being able to extract any animation from any Viper game is pretty amazing in itself. So far I've only tested it with Viper V16 and Viper GTB, but if happens to work with Viper RSR, or some of the newer games like M3 and M5, then we may be in for a treat after all.

And, to show that I'm not joking, here are some animations I made myself after extracting the necessary files:

http://65.98.68.194/~hyperguy/images/viper_gtb_gifs/R2(021).gif
http://65.98.68.194/~hyperguy/images/viper_gtb_gifs/R2(025).gif
http://65.98.68.194/~hyperguy/images/viper_gtb_gifs/akira_talk.gif
http://65.98.68.194/~hyperguy/images/viper_gtb_gifs/akira_slave.gif

This one's pretty awesome. It took 40 minutes to animate:
http://65.98.68.194/~hyperguy/images/viper_gtb_gifs/narsha_hit.gif

Cole Tyger · « **Reply #1 on:** March 18, 2005, 04:07:31 pm »

awsome work HG

really makes me wish i had the games and programs to assist

(or just do it for myself

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ROMate · « **Reply #2 on:** March 19, 2005, 10:13:13 am »

I'll come back for these after midnight, when the wireless network isn't dying from random phone calls.

levi2000a · « **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2005, 02:25:52 am »

Ok. I have most of the GTB gifs but no real place to post them. If you would want to create a group in Yahoo or Microsoft to we could all post what we have or download what we need let me know. Emails are sometimes retrictive.

Hyperguy · « **Reply #4 on:** April 02, 2005, 03:39:04 pm »

Update: I found an English version of Graphaholic.

Download it here: English Version of Graphaholic

Until I write up a more formal guide:

1. Start up Graphaholic.

2. Find the file that contains a game's CG. In this case, it's SGS.DAT, the file that contains the animations in 90% of the Viper games.

3. Right click on SGS.DAT, and click on "Change Graphic Type" on the menu that pops up.

4. A menu will pop up that says "Select Graphic Type". From the menu, choose 'sognadat'.

5. Now we're ready to roll, son. Right click on SGS.DAT and choose Slideshow. After it processes the files, you'll now be able to view all of the game's individual animation frames and graphics. Use the VCR controls to move on to the next set of images.

Mr. Optional Step 6. Right click on SGS.DAT and choose 'Conversion' from the menu. Then, choose a directory on your computer to save the files to, and click on 'Start'. Bitmap files of all of the animation frames will now appear in the directory you chose. You can now reanimate them into gifs, or just print them out on like Hallmark cards 'n stuff. "Honey, I'm sorry you broke your leg. Carrera wishes you a Happy Rapeday! XD"

Cole Tyger · « **Reply #5 on:** April 02, 2005, 04:05:28 pm »

*rubs hands together*

here's hopeing it will work on viper paradice as well

thanks for the tips and basic instructions (not to mention the program!)

Hyperguy · « **Reply #6 on:** April 02, 2005, 07:30:23 pm »

You're welcome.

>_>

<_<

Viper Paradice is another matter altogether.

There's a way to extract all of the movies from the Viper Paradice games, but you can't do it with Graphaholic. For that you need EAV2AVI and some basic knowledge of dos commands.

Here's EAV2AVI: EAV2AVI.rar

From here, it gets a little complicated.

Viper Paradice's movies are in .eav format and are located in the 'Movies' folder of the game. Using EAV2AVI you can convert them into .avi format, which will allow you to play them normally.

1. First, you need to take EAV2AVI and the movies you'd like to convert and put them in the same folder.

2. Navigate to the folder in Command Prompt and then

Holy crap, JG found a better way to extract them eav's. O_o

JG · « **Reply #7 on:** April 02, 2005, 07:45:44 pm »

For the Movies, EVAtoAVI. (Use google) The rest of the graphics are png format, which any modern image viewer will handle.

Snorlax.RAYZR · « **Reply #8 on:** April 03, 2005, 09:50:15 pm »

Hi, I'm having a few EAV2AVI problems. (Google doesn't give me much) I try to open the application up but I only momentarily see a black DOS prompt window show up. This is in a split second. Then it just closes.

...What's up with that?

Hyperguy · « **Reply #9 on:** April 04, 2005, 07:15:38 am »

That's because it needs to be run in DOS in order to work. To use it you need to be in the directory of both EAV2AVI and the file you want to convert, and have to enter in the command

Code: [Select]

EAV2AVI nameoffile.eav nameofoutputfile.avi

But wait!

You don't need to use any of that crap at all! JG has introduced me to a program that both runs on EAV2AVI and can be run using Windows.

Here it is: Viper Paradice Movie Converter.rar

To use it, simply place eav files 1-5 into the same directory as mvconv.exe and run mvconv.exe.

Wallah! It should convert all five movies into avi files.

Now, does anyone here know how to combine all five movie files into one movie file, without a loss of quality?

Snorlax.RAYZR · « **Reply #10 on:** April 04, 2005, 03:20:20 pm »

Forgive the slowness, but where are the EAV files located? I was searching all night until midnight....

And I seem to get an error with that program. I don't know why, I've been having a few DOS programs lately, if anyone could help that would be great, thanks.

Error: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.

EDIT: KHAN! I found it! It's only in the CD, liek wtf. Okay, now I just need to focus on getting this to work.

Hyperguy · « **Reply #11 on:** April 04, 2005, 03:40:17 pm »

That's right. It's in the movies folder on the CD. I have no idea what's the deal with the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT error you've been getting.

Snorlax.RAYZR · « **Reply #12 on:** April 04, 2005, 04:35:44 pm »

Eureka! It works!!!

I googled it. I had to repair a few files by using my Windows XP CD.

For those with the problem, for future reference, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767#kb3

Got all those clips. They seem short, lol... The Compilations IMO are better, but... in the Paradice clips there are two "rows" (in the game) of Akira and Carrera clips I haven't seen before. Are these exclusive to Paradice or are they in another game?

Hyperguy · « **Reply #13 on:** April 04, 2005, 10:59:30 pm »

They're scenes made exclusively for Viper Paradice. The U.S. version of Viper Paradice includes scenes from Viper Lanjerie Red and Black, but not all, and at a lower video resolution.

Then there's also Viper Lanjerie Purple, which has a few more scenes from the Viper games, though last I checked it didn't have any exclusive movies.

JG · « **Reply #14 on:** April 06, 2005, 06:51:53 pm »

Try mvconv instead. It does all five movies in a folder at once. http://www.jonathandgriffith.com/files/forum/mvconv.zip

HG, shame on you. The English Paradice is exactly like the Japanese Paradice in movie content. Both Japanese and International Paradices have 320x200 movies; the ones from Red, Black, and Violet (not Purple!) are 640x400.

You have English Paradice? The one I have is Japanese. Trade?

Hyperguy · « **Reply #15 on:** April 07, 2005, 01:43:55 am »

The link provided is for mvconv.exe.

Whoops! My bad. I forgot about the Japanese release of Paradice.

There's a Japanese version of Viper Paradice? O_o

How I understood it was that the International version has a combination of movies from Red and Black, and at 320 x 200 resolution. By that logic there wouldn't have needed to be a Japanese release, since in Japan it would have been a rerelease with less content than what was already available. Yet, there was. I checked back and saw that Viper Paradice was also released in Japan.

There are some missing movies in the International version. The lesbian scene featuring Akira, Saki, and Karin, and a scene with Carrera and Ogawa aren't in the International version at all.

JG · « **Reply #16 on:** April 07, 2005, 06:15:52 pm »

Those are both black exclusives I think. TO my knowledge, the Int'l version is probably has the exact same movies as the Japanese one.

Hyperguy · « **Reply #17 on:** April 08, 2005, 12:01:48 am »

So, how about that trade? =D

Ellendesu · « **Reply #18 on:** April 10, 2005, 01:31:41 pm »

I've only got GTS

...but thats good enough for now.

Hyperguy · « **Reply #19 on:** April 10, 2005, 01:41:41 pm »

GTS has got to be the best example of what a hentai game should be.
Instead of going through a thousand lines of dialog to win over a girl, the first thing it gives you is sex, sex, and more sex. It's amazing they were able to implement a story at all with the amount of sex scenes. Even though it's short, GTS cuts to the chase-I'd imagine it would have been a longer game if they had included all of the bullshit prerequisites to fucking that are found in your run of the mill hentai game.

Sure, I mean, there's nothing wrong with dating sims, but as far as porn is concerned from a Westerner's point of view I'm going to see some action before considering investing my time in yet another relationship with an imaginary anime girl. Carrera delivers in GTS.

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