you only need the true endings for the three main cats the "true" ending is just the one for shu chi

Oh, yes, I know that.

Shu-chi's is what I meant by the "true" ending, since that's how the game defines it. It's the game where things work out the best for everyone. The thing is is that even in the other "happy" endings, the other cats are left in situations that wouldn't exactly be called happy. That's what doesn't sit well with me.

I got the ending where everything worked out for everyone, now I have to go back and break some hearts. It just doesn't sit right with me. That's the kind of person I am. I was hoping that after the Three Big Cats ending, the "true" ending, the DLC would unlock. Not so. I learned after buying it that I had to go after the "happy" endings of the other cats. Which... I really don't want to do.

That's why I was after a save game that has the DLC unlocked, or at least a means to unlock the DLC without meeting the requirements.

do you still need it? i sent you a friend request just in case

I ended up looking into it myself. I didn't know the game ran on RenPy. Having some familiarity with Python from bloody years ago, I decided to dig into it.

Some research later and armed with rpatool.py, I extracted data.rpa and extra.rpa (the DLC) and began my research. It looked like the variable for indicating things relating to the DLC was extra_enable, so that's where I started. I did a grep for that and found an instance of it in screens.py. I edited the relevant line to remove the variables that check for the endings and left only 'extra_enable:' there as the check.

I let the game run to compile it back into an rpyc and packed it back into the rpa. Lo and behold, it worked.

Thanks to everyone who tried to help, but as usual I ended up putting in the legwork and figuring out this one myself. My apologies to Frostbyte as I hadn't checked this thread in a while and I get a lot of odd friend requests so I usually just deny them all by default.

For anyone else who wants to do this, it's pretty simple. Just look up rpatool.

That said, I think the most annoying part was having to upload screens.rpy to Google Docs as I don't have a Chinese language pack installed and that was the only way for me to properly preserve the Chinese characters without faffing around with installing a Chinese language pack.

I bloody love Nekojishi but in my honest opinion it's a mistake to gate the DLC content (which people buy) behind variable checks. I think that if you buy DLC you should have access to it without having to jump through a bunch of hoops, you should let the customer decide how they want to digest your product.

I mean, like I said, I wanted to go into the DLC after only doing leopard cat's true ending because that's the only ending where all three cats are happy, and being a big old sap I didn't want to have to do the other content where I have to disappoint the other two cats.

Thanks to my hacking shenanigans I can now do that but for the sake of others I believe it should be that way by default. Just my two pennies.

Honestly you lock yourself out of a lot deeper collection on the overall piece. It somewhat has reason why you can only see the epiloge when you got know of them all. Leo Cats Ending 3 doesnt tell you all nor the background / deeper thoughts of the other characters.