dawn/updater

Game installation and updating

Pick an application from the list below that suits your preferences. Each of them is capable of installing and updating the game. Additional features such as automated patching might or might not be included.

• The official launcher (recommended)
  • Note: Wine 8.7 or newer should be used to avoid a memory leak in winedevice.exe
  • See INSTALLATION.md for further instructions.
• An Anime Game Launcher
• Yet another anime game launcher (macOS)
• updater.py (CLI only, described below)

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Update script (sophon chunk/diff)

Setup

1. Python requirements

Python 3.8 or newer is required (zstandard library)

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Generate manifest_pb2.py

1. Required system package
   • Ubuntu/Debian: protobuf-compiler
2. Generate
   • $ protoc --python_out=. manifest.proto
   • $ protoc --python_out=. manifest_ldiff.proto

Usage

Show command-line options / help dialogue

python updater.py -h

Game update (example)

python updater.py --update /install/destination/path

New game install (example)

python updater.py --install RELTYPE --select-languages "en,ja,ko,zh" /install/destination/path

Game repair (example)

python updater.py --repair reliable /install/destination/path

For development purposes:

python updater.py <install/update> --dry-run --disallow-download

Developer notes

See sophon_api.py heading