THIS IS A RAW DUMP! IT REQUIRES PATCHING OR A LOADER TO OPERATE ON A HOME PC! IT MAY NOT WORK WITH AMD GPU! THIS IS NOT THE GAME STILL COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE IN ARCADES! PLEASE SEE THE README FILE!
I’m seeding this arcade PC dump because it’s just been released into the wild and Google hasn’t indexed it yet. This does not work out of the box; it’s a “raw” dump of a Windows-based coin-op game. This is “Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Arcade” (“PDA”), the older arcade game that runs on SEGA Ringedge and has four main buttons, not “Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Arcade Future Tone” (“AFT”), the SEGA Nu game. As of early 2019, there is no public dump of AFT.
Two Discord servers have solutions to (possibly) get the game running. Neither of them can provide you with this dump, neither are associated with me or the person who made the dump, and neither want to get hosed by SEGA. The first is a Project Diva modding community that works on mods for the whole range of Project Diva games. Try looking at all the pinned messages in their channels for the system requirements and tools to start and control the game. The tools are still WIP. The biggest challenge is that the game requires a dedicated NVIDIA GPU.
The other possibility is the arcade PC loader, Teknoparrot. As of this writing, you have to make a Patreon donation of at least USD 5 and maintain it every month to play PDA. There are free and open solutions elsewhere, but hey, it’s your money. Again, these guys are all doing good work, but they wash their hands of the actual dump.
As I said, work continues on patches and loaders. At the time I write this, the game is playable but not all functions work. Most of the GUI and song titles are in Japanese, though translators are already making a lot of headway. DIVA.NET doesn’t function, IC cards/emulators are not supported, and you can’t log in or save high scores. If you want it, go code it. Please feel free to take this raw dump and patch in functionality, songs, translations, boobies, whatever, and share the love.
Thanks and enjoy!
Comments - 28
rakisaionji
There is an open source loader for this game, it can be downloaded at https://github.com/samyuu/EvenMoreLegitArcadeController
For the batch file to run both of the game and the loader properly, the content should be like this:
SPL0T
Or You can just use teknoparrot https://teknoparrot.com/
Nekonyan45
“Changes in TeknoParrot 1.91 Release: Project Diva no longer requires Patreon.” Extracting now to test if it works.
cvand
How to play this game?
rakisaionji
This is my brief comparison between Teknoparrot and ELAC. It’s your own choice so use them at your own risk lol.
Nekonyan45
I got it to run using elac and that .bat file. Had to set diva.exe to run on Nvidia instead of integrated graphics. I can’t get past the title screen though. I’m not sure how the controls work.
rakisaionji
You can set your keyboard mapping in
keyconfig.ini
file. Default configuration is as below.To use with your DualShock 4 or any controller, you have to bind the face buttons with your keyboard keys using third party softwares like InputMapper or Steam.
cvand
How to use this elac?
cvand
Hell me please so that I don’t waste my time just downloading but I can’t play it
rakisaionji
One time only per ELAC version, drag
diva.exe
on top ofprepatch.exe
inside your file explorer.Every time you’d like to play diva, first start
diva.exe
and afterwards runelac.exe
.To run in windowed mode, start diva with the
-w
parameter. To run in 1080p, start using-hdtv1080
.To change your key bindings, edit
keyconfig.ini
. Currently only keyboard input is supported.cvand
Ok now working, thanks, and how to change resolution?
Nekonyan45
I got it to fully work on teknoparrot. The “Insert Coin” button gets me past the title screen and play. The “start” button doesn’t do anything on teknoparrot. On ELAC, still stuck at title screen, the “Enter” / “Start” button doesn’t work. I noticed that when I run the .bat, it says “AddComponents(): Unable to parse components.ini” in the separate diva.exe black window and not sure how to fix it.
Nekonyan45
I finally got it to work! I can’t believe how easy the solution was. I just have to remove the japanese characters from the folder. Renamed the folder from “初音ミク Project DIVA Arcade” to “Hatsune Miku Project DIVA Arcade” and I can play now. Deleted teknoparrot now.
namkien04
Somehow when i play 1 song, the entire screen (background with miku dancing or singing stuff) got black but the button still working, that’s for ELAC
In Teknoparrot, it always say the jvs keyboard is not plug into the main
can anybody help? this is the first time i got my hand on arcade game emulation stuff
namkien04
the song i got black screen is Senbonzakura, other songs i play seem to have no problem atm
Nekonyan45
I get a playable black screen on Senbonzakura too. If I remember correctly, I’ve read some comments somewhere that 2d videos don’t work. Senbonzakura doesn’t have a 3d module dance video and uses a 2d video instead. That’s why it’s just a black screen.
cvand
How to make hdtv1080
rakisaionji
To get the videos work, you must have Windows Media Player codec installed correctly on your Windows system. There are 3 solutions of patching this:
wmvdecod.dll
(in yourC:\Windows\SysWOW64\
folder).pv_db.txt
accordingly.namkien04
For the teknoparrot jvs keyboard error, do you guys know how to fix it? Thanks a lot if you guys can help me with it :>
rakisaionji
Hello everyone, I am Raki and this is my gift for you. This modpack is my first mod release out of the Project Diva series.
https://github.com/rakisaionji/FrankenToneArcade
Every releases will be logged at: https://github.com/rakisaionji/FrankenToneArcade/releases
And bug issues is at: https://github.com/rakisaionji/FrankenToneArcade/issues
Nekonyan45
Thanks for the hard work! :3
BINiPad2017
I launch the game with teknoparrot v1.10.0.118 but got the black screen in the intro movie, title screen and song selection too. Can anyone know how to fix this problem ?
TripleDiamond
@rakisaionji * slow clap * Wooooww. Imagine being this much of a stuck-up pussy and deleting the whole mod all because someone on Youtube didn’t give you enough credit for it.
rakisaionji
So what? You ungrateful degenerates are not appreciate it so it must be gone for good that’s all. You ain’t have shit from me ever again suckers.
TripleDiamond
@rakisaionji Good. It worked like hot shit anyway. I’m sure other modders can do way better than your bitch ass ever will.
TheDragonOppai
I don’t understand how to play with ELAC … I downloaded the game from the torrent I extracted it and downloaded the zip that was on github now to play what should I do?
TheDragonOppai
audio of the game is not even heard
trytoactcool
I got problem with teknoparrot,in other side i don’t know how to use the ELAC.Please, can someone make the tutorial to use the ELAC ? thank you