Project Diva PC Download

I mentioned in my earlier post about playing Project Diva PC fan-port based from Hatsune Miku Project Diva from the PSP, so I guess this might be a good time to introduce it.

This here is Project Z-1 a rhythm game heavily based from the Hatsune Miku: Project Diva for the PSP by Sega, it is made by the Chinese game programmer group called GameMaster, the most they did is hack off the important files like wav sounds, sprites, images, etc. from the UMD of the original game and built the base GUI of the game from it. That’s text book definition of China Quality for you!

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The game works as if it was the real PSP game; you play by pressing buttons as the flying shapes approach the corresponding symbol while the Miku music on the background is playing, It’s a rhythm game after all… The main difference is that the PSP version has real time 3D rendering of Hatsune Miku and the other Vocaloids. With 3D rendering, you can change costumes, accessories and the likes. While on the Fan Port, the visuals on the background while playing are just recorded or downloaded Miku Videos from NicoNicoDouga, it makes sense since it would really be difficult to port every detail of the 3D aspect of the real game, recorded videos would do the trick but the main disadvantage is that you wouldn’t be able to edit in real time, not to mention change costumes and accessories.

You can readily add, edit, delete the songs and visuals of the game; even to edit the timing of the button sequences is possible. The Project Z-1 also comes with the “Map Editor” so that you can build or edit the symbol timings for a certain song or music, and it’s also Open Source!

Since basically you can add almost any song you like, the fan port seems to have every song from the original game and also some unofficial music out of the game. I even replaced some of the videos in there because it was really Low Quality (too blurry and pixilated).

The game is quite fun and dead-on based on the gameplay, if you don’t have a PSP and you’ve been dying to play Hatsune Miku: Project Diva, you can practice or even let this be an alternative for the time being. Some songs have almost the same button sequences from the original game, so when you switch to the real deal, you would already be familiar with what buttons to smash.

Here are some screenshots, there isn’t much anything to see other than the gameplay, the menu are just a few levels deep and are quite direct. In the menu, the only thing that seems to work is the Play and CGPics. The Play menu basically directs you to the song list and after that you can play your choice, the CGPics menu is basically just a straight forward CG viewer… To think of it, it’s almost even unecessary to have a CG menu… And the way I see it, I think most of the pictures came from Pixiv and Piapro.

As we see here, there’s a Story Mode and Network Mode, they say both are in development currently.

The games have some bugs here and there but I managed to find some simple workarounds for it, so it’s no problem. Also, it’s best to play the game in Chinese Language Locale so that some fonts would load up correctly; this game was developed by the Chinese after all…

Project Diva PC DOWNLOAD.

While here are for the songs. If you want just to test out a few, you can download here instead so that you can play already while downloading all the music.

Check out also the official Project Z-1 page here.

Details:

【游戏名称】Project DIVA PC
【游戏类型】音乐节奏游戏
【游戏性质】二次创作同人游戏
【制作组】GameMaster
【项目编号】GameMaster. “Project Z1″
【原作公司】SEGA
【游戏容量】807M
【语言】简体中文/日文(简体中文汉化信息来自浜咲学园)

【推荐配置】
[显卡]ATI x800/NVIDA 5200（以上）
[内存]512MB（以上）
[CPU]主频1.5GHz（以上）
[硬盘空间]1GB（以后会有更新，请预留空间）
[DirectX版本]9.0c以上
[操作系统]Windows2000及以上
[系统视频解码器]请保证系统中的视频解码器不会互相冲突
即系统中只安装一个视频解码包
Windows7用户推荐安装Win7Codecs
Vista/XP用户推按安装VistaCodecs
2000用户推荐安装ffdshow
【曲目列表】
000、新手教学
001、荒野と森と魔法の歌
002、Star Story (Game edit)
003、The secret garden (OP Ver.)
004、ワールドイズマイン (Game Edit)
005、恋スルVOC@LOID (Game Edit)
006、こっち向いて Baby (OP Ver.)
007、Dear cocoa girls
008、Ievan Polkka (Game Edit)
009、メルト (Game Edit)
010、金の圣夜霜雪
011、ワールズエンド・ダンスホール
012、ねこみみスイッチ
013、ONE NIGHT GIRL
014、ARiA
015、Atoms
016、ロミオとシンデレラ
017、初音ミクの戸惑
018、magnet
019、Last Night, Good Night
020、初音ミクの消失 (Game Edit)
021、白い雪のプリンセスは
022、恋爱サーキュレーション
023、LIFE SIZE
024、ローリンガール
025、流星 -Across the starlight-
026、弱虫モンブラン
027、炉心融解
028、三日月ライダー
029、piano
030、愛言葉
031、裏表ラバーズ
032、pai_10000

【下载地址】

Details in English:

【Name】 Project DIVA PC Game
【Genre】 Music Rhythm Game
【Properties】 Doujin Game Software
【Production Team】 GameMaster
【Item No.】 GameMaster. “Project Z1″
【Company】 SEGA original
【Game File Size】 807Mb (Includes Default Songs)
【Language】 Chinese / Japanese (Simplified Chinese localization information from Hamamatsu Saki)

【Recommended Specs】
【Graphics】 ATI x800/NVIDA 5200 (more)
【Memory】 512MB (or more)
【CPU】 frequency of 1.5GHz (or more)
【Disk space】 1GB (that I will have updates, please reserve space)
【DirectX Version】 9.0c or above
【Operating System】 Windows2000 and above
【Video decoder system】 Please ensure that the system does not conflict with each other video decoder. The system only to install a video codec pack
Windows7 users are recommended to install Win7Codecs
Vista / XP users to install VistaCodecs Push
2000 users recommend installing ffdshow

Anime-goers and Japanese enthusiasts that are learning Japanese should not miss this great extension for Google Chrome. Rikaikun, a dictionary extension for Google Chrome which is a conversion/counterpart from the popular FireFox extension Rikaichan. Similar to Rikaichan’s functions, when enabled hovering the mouse on Japanese text would pop out a tooltip which has the translation and hiragana pronunciation of the text. By hitting the shift/enter button, more information of the Kanji will be presented.

More details about Rikaikun on the developer’s website, and you can read more about Rikaichan here.

Have you ever wanted to make those videos you see on Youtube and NicoNicoDouga about dancing 3D Vocaloids, Touhou, Utau, Idolm@sters and many more? I introduce to you MikuMikuDance, it is a software that enables you to import 3D model files in PMD format and lets you control movements and and camera sequences easy and simple. You can also lip-sync the characters to any song that you use for your video manually or by using the VSQ file from the Vocaloid software.

For those who would like to test out this great software, you need to download the software first. Links are provided on the end of the article.

Using the software is easy, but of course at first everything looks very confusing, but after an hour or more of fiddling with the program, you would be able to familiarize all the tools in the program.

A comprehensive video tutorial on the usage of this Hatsune Miku Dance Software.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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How to get Miku Miku Dance Software? Click Here!

Official Link (Japanese).

Miku Miku Dance English Website

How to find MikuMikuDance VSQ Motion Files, Models and Accessories? click here!

Other resource links:

Anomaro
Azu’s MMD Warehouse
Atwiki
Meijesbeeld
Hankyou

The model I used in my First MMD Hakurei Reimu Test can be obtained from here, the mp3 is here, and the motion file here.

More stuff at the Downloads Section

My first test of MikuMikuDance with Hakurei Reimu model and static JPEG Background. No dynamic camera angles, no lighting effects, just plain model and motion test for future productions. The background of the video is only a picture I took from my desk, I just estimated the angle for the 3d video.

It seems that it’s not that hard to use MikuMikuDance, the only problem is that it takes a lot of time to do a single pose for every second. But thanks to tweening, most of the frames have calculated measurements of the position of the pose. So for example you raise the arm up from frame 1, and you raise down the arm in frame 10, what would happen is that the program would calculate a movement between frame 1 to 10 so that you would not manually set every pose on every frame.

One of my first few issues with this is that there are no other codecs and compressors installed for saving the Video, when I first saved the AVI file, the two minutes of the video is worth 768 megabytes! So I had to compress it first before uploading to Youtube since my upload speed is slow. Before that, I had to mux the mp3 file with Virtual Dub so that it would have music.

But anyway, just watch the test video below and enjoy…

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