All settings
Every option of the Settings page, with its default. Changes are saved as soon as you make them.
Settings has six tabs: General, Presence, Theme (see Themes), Never detect, Advanced and Beta. At the top, Join the Discord opens the app's Discord server. At the bottom: the app's version and a Check for updates button.
There's no Save button: a switch, a field or a path applies right away. Title rules are the only exception: they have their own Save rules button.
General
Language
The app's language: 7 are available, or the same as Windows. The app reloads when you change it.
Covers & matching
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Allow NSFW-flagged covers | Off | Off: flagged covers are blurred in the app and replaced by the fallback image on Discord. |
| Use Steam library names | On | Uses the Steam name of games installed through Steam, for better VNDB matches. |
VNDB list
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Personal token | Empty | Your VNDB token, for rating, sync and the wishlist. How to get one. |
| Sync reading status to my VNDB list | Off | Sends the statuses you set in the Library to your VNDB list. A VN you start reading leaves your wishlist. |
| Mark VNs as Playing on VNDB when I start them | On | Shown when the option above is on. Only when the VN has no status on your list yet. |
| Add my finished VNs from VNDB to the Library | Off | Shown once you have a token. Even VNs that aren't on this PC. Details. |
Screenshots
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Capture key | Print Screen | Works only while the game is in front. |
| Capture sound | 30 % | Shutter sound volume (Off at 0). ▶ plays it. |
| Folder | Pictures\Shiori RPC | Each VN gets its own subfolder. |
Japanese locale
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Locale Emulator (LEProc.exe) | Not set | Path to Locale Emulator. |
| NTLEA (ntleas.exe) | Not set | Path to NTLEA. |
See Japanese locale.
App
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Start minimized to the tray | Off | Starts without showing the window. |
| Launch when Windows starts | Off | Starts the app when you log in to Windows. Still works if you move the .exe. |
| Check for updates at launch | On | Offers new GitHub releases when the app starts. |
| What's new | — | Shows the notes of the last few releases. |
Desktop mascot
Since 2.1, the mascot settings are on their own Mascots page, in the sidebar: see Desktop mascot.
Your data
Export… and Import…: see Your data & backups.
Presence
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Language on Discord | Same as the app | The language of your status, whatever the app's language. |
| Title on Discord | Romanized | Romanized or Original. VNs with no original title on VNDB keep the romanized one. |
| Show where you are in the story | On | The “Reading・Chapter 1” line. |
| Show total time read | On | The “Total read: 3h 40m” line. |
| Show how far you are | Off | Adds “· 78%” to the time read, compared with the average length on VNDB. |
| Show elapsed time | On | The timer since you started this session. |
| Clear presence when the VN closes | On | Your status disappears when you quit the game. |
| Add a “View on VNDB” button | On | A button on your status linking to the VN. |
| Go idle when the VN isn't the active window | Off | Clears your status and stops the timers while the game is in the background. |
| Seconds in the background before going idle | 60 | How long before idle kicks in. Shown when the option above is on. |
Below these options, Your own layout (beta) lets you write your status yourself: see Discord status. While it's on, the options that set the lines of your status are greyed out.
Never detect
Programs that are never detected as a visual novel. Their games are also hidden from the Library. Type a program name (e.g. osu!.exe) and click Add; the × on an entry (Detect it again) removes it. Not a VN on the Now reading page adds to this list.
By default it contains osu!.exe, Medal.exe and Riot Client.exe. Browsers, Discord, Steam, OBS, code editors, terminals and everything Windows itself runs are always ignored, whatever the list says. So are the launchers, config tools and uninstallers that come with games.
Advanced
Only needed if something doesn't work as expected.
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Application ID | The app's own | The Discord application your status is shown through. Test checks it. Use your own. |
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Min. seconds between presence updates | 5 | The status is never sent to Discord more often than this. |
| Fallback Discord asset key | vn_cover | The image Discord shows when there's no cover to show: an NSFW cover, Private mode, or no cover found. |
Title rules
Extra rules to read chapters and routes from a window title: see Chapters & routes. They have their own Save rules button.
Beta
Features being tried out. They may change or go away.
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Description and characters on a VN's page | On | From VNDB. |
| Search with Ctrl+K | On | Find a VN or a page from anywhere. |
| Covers lift when hovered | On | A small animation in the Library. |
| Compact sidebar | Off | Icons only. The button at the bottom of the sidebar switches it too. |
| Keyboard shortcuts | On | 1 to 6 switch pages, Alt+← goes back. |
Settings are stored in %APPDATA%\moe.lenn.shiori\config.yaml. See Your data.