Tsukihime
Developers | |
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Type-Moon | |
Engines | |
NScripter | |
Release dates | |
Windows | December 29, 2000 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Controls | Menu-based |
Genres | Visual novel |
Art styles | Anime |
Themes | Contemporary, Supernatural, Dark, Adult, Japan |
Series | Tsukihime, Nasuverse |
Tsukihime | |
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Subseries of Nasuverse | |
Tsukihime | 2000 |
Tsukihime Plus-Disc | 2001 |
Kagetsu Tohya | 2001 |
Melty Blood (series) |
Warnings
- This game is only playable in English with a fan translation (see Localizations for details and other supported languages).
Tsukihime [Note 1] is an adult visual novel written by Kinoko Nasu and developed by Type-Moon. It is the first title in the Tsukihime franchise.
Tsukihime was originally released independently at Winter Comiket in 2000. In April 2003, it was rereleased with a reworked soundtrack as part of the compilation Tsuki-Bako. Fan translation group Mirror Moon released a patch in 2006 which translates the game to English and optionally can remove the H-scenes.
A remake of the game, split into two parts (Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- and Tsukihime -The other side of red garden-) was announced in 2008, with the first part released on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in Japanese in 2021, with an English release scheduled for 2024. A Windows PC port was quietly mentioned in Type-Moon Ace Volume 15 in July 2023, with no release date provided.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | CD used for music; see ONScripter-EN. | |||
Retail | Tsuki-Bako; bundled with Tsukihime Plus-Disc and Kagetsu Tohya. CD used for music; see ONScripter-EN. |
Essential improvements
ONScripter-EN
- Improves the compatibility with modern systems (Windows and Linux), allows the soundtrack to play in-game without the CD inserted, and permits scaling the video to higher resolutions.
- After patching the game to English, patch the game to the latest version of ONScripter-EN (prebuilt binaries are 64-bit only).
- MacOS users should use WINE or ONScripter-insani instead (requires MacOS 11+). Compatibility may vary.
How to dump the soundtrack |
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- Some additional information about the various NScripter ports can be found at https://kaisernet.org/onscripter/.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>[Note 2] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | 640x480 only; use ONScripter-EN to scale to higher (4:3) resolutions. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Use ONScripter-EN. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Ray tracing (RT) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | Uses OS cursor settings. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | All dialog is text-based. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio | ||
Red Book CD audio | See ONScripter-EN. Unlike many mixed mode CDs, track 11 is the data track, not track 1. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | Fan Translation, comes with an optional patch to remove the h-scenes | |||
Simplified Chinese | Fan Translation | |||
Italian | Fan Translation | |||
Japanese | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | Fan Translation |
Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | ARM | Notes |
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Windows | Use ONScripter-EN for 64-bit support. | |||
macOS (OS X) | Use ONScripter-insani. | |||
Linux | Use ONScripter-EN. |
Middleware
- No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 200 MHz or higher | |
System memory (RAM) | 32MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 110MB or more free space |
Notes
- ↑ 月姫, lit. Moon Princess
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).