Ren'Py VN viewers
A downloadable tool for Windows and Linux
Ren'Py Visual Novel Viewers
There are two tools for viewing Ren'Py games contents:
- Game viewer (Windows & Linux)
- Archive viewer (Windows only)
The first tool is for viewing the scripts of a Visual novel, useful for making a walkthrough or trying to figure out how to get to specific ending. It even support to view the script in one of the available translations. Useful when you don't master original language. This tool is for Windows and Linux available.
The second tool opens rpa files and you can view the content like images, audio, video and script files. It can also create rpa files. At the moment this tool is only available for Windows.
Tools are written in C# and the source code is available on Gitlab:
* Archive viewer and older version of Game Viewer is available here
* Game viewer is available here
Disclaimer: Please respect the copyright and ownership of the content of a visual novel. Don't use the tools to create illegal version of a visual novel or redistribute parts of it. The tool is meant for personal use only.
If you like the tool and want to give a small donation. You can buy me a coffee.
Download
Install instructions
Download, unpack and run one of the two executables.
You need to have '.Net 8' installed. All other needed libraries and files are included.
For more info about installing dotnet under Linux see Install .NET on Linux
Development log
- Incorrect version for Archive viewer52 days ago
- A new version of RenPy Game Viewer53 days ago
- Bug fix for crash on opening game selectorOct 31, 2024
Comments
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Thanks so much for this tool! I’m a baby coder and I wanted to look at some Ren’py games I’ve played and loved to see what’s going on under the surface and this worked great >:)
Thanks for your comment. This tool exist also because I got curious about Ren'Py. So it started with looking into if I could read RPA files, followed by writing them. This than slowing grew into these tools. It was fun working on it. It's nice to hear that it is useful to others too.
Best way to learn about things is by playing with/analyzing them. Trail and error is still a good way to get experience with stuff.
At the moment working on a Linux version of the game viewer, but it has all kind of weird issue so can't really make a proper release for it. (I guess .Net and Linux still don't mix well)