Chapters & routes

Many VNs put the current chapter or route in their window title. The app reads it and turns it into a clean label.

How it works

Every few seconds the app reads the title of the game's window. It removes the game's own name and noise like version numbers (ver1.02), resolutions (1280x720), "R18", "- Steam" or edition tags ([English HD Edition], (Steam Edition)). What's left is matched against a list of rules, in English, French and Japanese. The first rule that matches gives the label.

The name can be any of the VN's titles on VNDB (Japanese, romaji, English, aliases) or its Steam name. So an English release whose window says HimaNatsu: Of Churches, Sunflowers, and Long Summers - Our Secret Base shows Our Secret Base, even if the VN is listed under its Japanese title.

If the window title never changes (many VNs just show their name), there's simply no section line on Discord. Nothing to set up.

Examples

Real outputs of the built-in rules:

Words it understands include:

• Start and end: prologue, opening, intro, epilogue, ending, good / bad / true / normal end, プロローグ, 序章, エピローグ, エンディング…
• Chapters: chapter, chapitre, ch., episode, épisode, act, acte, scene, part, partie, volume, 第N章 / 話 / 幕; with numbers, Roman numerals or kanji numbers.
• Routes: "X Route", route / arc / path X, common route, true route, ルート, 共通, X編.
• Days: day N, jour N, N日目.

If nothing matches but the title still has some extra text, that text is shown as it is, but only when one of the VN's names was found in the title. A window title that doesn't look like the VN at all only gives a section if a rule matches (like Chapter 2).

Set it by hand

When nothing is read from the title, the Now reading page shows a + Route / chapter button. Type where you are (e.g. Yoshino Route) and click Save: it's shown on Discord like any other section. Click the pill again to change it, or Clear it. As soon as the window title says where you are, that takes over.

Your own rules

For a VN with an unusual title format, add a rule in Settings → Advanced → Title rules. Your rules run before the built-in ones. Write one JSON object per line:

{"name": "part", "pattern": "part\\s*(?P<n>\\d+)", "label": "Part {n}", "section_type": "chapter"}

With this rule, Some VN - Part 3 shows as Part 3 instead of "Chapter 3".

Another example, for a game whose title ends with [Scenario: Hanabi]; it shows Hanabi Scenario:

{"name": "scenario", "pattern": "scenario:\\s*(?P<label>[^\\]]+)", "label": "{label} Scenario", "section_type": "route"}