Minty's Moon Drops

@mintymoondrops / mintymoondrops.tumblr.com

Assets from the mobile Sailor Moon Drops game! You can use anything for your own personal use (keeping in mind this IS a copyrighted game). A link back would be appreciated if you repost, so others can find the resources as well. Everything is extracted and converted by me (Minty), straight from the app's files. Sometimes I'm not 100% sure what the context for a file is, so I'll guess or mark it with the ID/filename - if you notice any errors, please let me know so I can fix it!

LINKS BROKEN

My MEGA account was hacked and all files deleted. The full asset dump is actually under another account, so that’s fine, but all of the character puppet and BGM/Audio links have been broken. Images should still all be working.

None of you are in any danger from the hack - it was related to my Mega recovery key and only affected my account. All that would’ve happened to someone clicking one of the links would be getting a ‘file not found’ page.

It’s going to be an arduous process to re-upload and change the links for everything, please bear with me. :( In the meantime, all of those assets can be found in the full dump (found in this post) if you need them.

I’ll amend this post once it’s fixed, so if you don’t see an update here, assume that the links are currently still broken.

Sorry!!

#update #sailor moon drops #sm drops

Anonymous asked:

You've probably been asked this, but concerning the shutdown of SM Drops, when March 28th comes around, will we still be able to access the app/play levels that we haven't gotten to/cleared yet, or everything will become inaccesible?

The official statements have been somewhat ambiguous, but my impression is that the game will not be playable at all after closing. :/

Full Asset Dump

It’s finally done! @_@ I expected it would be a quick rip-extract-convert, but it turns out...both versions up and deleted a whole bunch of files in the last update. For some reason? I managed to get most of it restored from my backups, so this is probably as complete as it’ll get.

This is presented pretty close to how it comes out of the game, so it’s not as nicely organized as the site, but it’s everything (more or less). These are BIG files, so make sure you have a stable connection before you start downloading!

PLEASE READ THE READ ME FIRST.TXT!! It explains what’s in which folder and what the abbreviations mean; again, this is only one step more organized than how it comes out of game (which is to say, by file type). It might be confusing if you’re not sure what you’re looking for!

Full Dump (3.80 GB) - [ MEGA ]

Separated - [ MEGA ]

There is ONE file that I know for certain is missing - I doubt anyone still has any of the now-deleted files, but on the off-chance, it would be atlas_eventappeal059.unity3d. It’s Prince Dimande’s event announcement, which I believe is literally the same as one of his figures, but it rankles me that it’s missing from my backup. >:(

#update #sailor moon drops #sm drops

The End

I think most of you are aware of this news by now, but in case you missed it (and were wondering what that last post was about), it boils down to this: Sailor Moon Drops is shutting down.

According to the official site, both games will stop service on 3/28. The English announcement refers to closing the servers, while the Japanese version says the more ambiguously-worded “operation not guaranteed after service ends”; my impression is that the game will no longer be playable after that date. No server = nothing for it to connect to.

The Japanese version is also going to disable purchasing of gems on 2/28, while the English version already has (not sure why the discrepancy, could perhaps be a legal thing). Already-purchased gems and items will be usable up until the end of service in March.

Though this announcement came completely out of left field, it does make the last few months’ weird event scheduling make more sense. The English version forewent the Christmas characters in favor of the anniversary events - since it looks like the game won’t live to see April - and the Japanese game had very little prepared past December. It sounds like they’d stopped producing new content a while ago, and the last few months have been mostly implementing what they had left. As sudden as this may seem, in retrospect it looks like the game might’ve been spiralling downwards for a while.

Without any special insight to the goings-on of the dev team, I can’t offer an explanation for why; the most likely reason is that it simply wasn’t making enough money to meet quota. Though it celebrated over 3 million downloads, the amount of players willing to spend money on it may have dropped off sharply after a certain point. Or it may be something related to the Sailor Moon license, as Drops is made by a third-party studio (Beeline Interactive). Maybe the license got pulled, or a contract didn’t get renewed, or something along those lines.

Whatever the reason, it’s certainly hugely disappointing, especially considering that they were starting to get into some new interesting things: more playable villains, extra side story maps, all the potential for pair characters... There was clearly a lot of stuff that they’d planned on including that never got implemented. We never got Mistress 9, or the five missing Space/Time Door events, not to mention the sheer amount of reruns. And the English version never did end up getting the Game Center, or a fair chunk of characters. :(

A change.org petition has been created to try to save the game, though honestly my hopes aren’t very high at this point. It can’t hurt to sign it, though - if nothing else it might show Bandai/Namco that there’s still a lot of support for super-cute Sailor Moon games!

As for what’s going to happen to this tumblr...

I highly doubt that there’s going to be another update to either version now. I’ll keep my eyes open just in case, but 1.29.0 is most likely the final version of the app. I’m probably going to go through and just do a full rip of it at some point, and put up a huge dump of all the assets so it’ll be nice and complete.

Without any new content, I won’t have any more updates to give, but the tumblr itself will stay up. With the game gone, there’s more reason than ever to have an archive of all the adorable characters and images! Everything’s backed up in a couple places, so it’s not going to disappear anytime soon. :)

I also want to say thanks to everyone who’s enjoyed this blog for the past couple of years! I started datamining the app just for fun (I wanted those puppets!!) and it...somehow turned into a whole thing? It’s been a lot of fun looking behind the scenes at how the game is made, and speculating wildly about what was coming next. I hope you all got something out of it too, even if it was just some really cute Sailor Moon puppets. :>

#update #sailor moon drops #sm drops

Quick update - I've seen the news, in class all day today so expect a full post either tonight or tomorrow. In the meantime, it is indeed for both versions, and my impression is that the game will not be playable afterwards (shutting down the servers = nothing for it to connect to). At the moment that's all I know.

Anonymous asked:

But furisode Usagi rerun ends on 22, so if what you’re saying is true we won’t have any events for a week, and that’s not very usual. Months that run just two events usually held long events that last two weeks or more, like Cosmos and NQ Serenity did on last september, but this rerun has lasted just 10 days, and Chibimoon&Saturn wasn’t a very long event neither, so...

Oh dang! I either missaw or misremembered the day Usagi ended, could’ve sworn it was also the 28th. I had a little reminder set up for it and everything... O_o In that case the next update should be sometime this week, probably - if nothing else they usually put up the ‘coming soon’ banners a day or two after the last event ends, so we should get an idea of what’s coming within the next few days! Thanks for the tip!

Anonymous asked:

Isn't it taking too long for the next update to be released?

The website says there will be server maintenance on the 28th, so presumably the next update will be around then (probably same-day). They don’t do maintenance often so I’m curious to see if this is a routine check, or if they might be making bigger changes?

Anonymous asked:

Okay, NOW the schedule is getting weird... why would they run both anniversary charas on Christmas?? I'm not sure where this is going anymore...

I honestly have no idea what’s going on in either version at this point, considering we never got an update for December like I was expecting. To review what’s happened (or maybe more accurately, not happened):

- Last year, the Japanese version released the Santa Inners as the December events. Based on what they’d done in previous years, we were expecting the English version to release them this month, and the Japanese version to rerun them this year in addition to a new character.

- Instead, the English version ran the two characters who had been released as part of the third anniversary (Cosmos + Manga NQ Serenity), even though the English anniversary is in April.

- The Japanese version did release a new Christmas character (Setsuna), but did not rerun the Santa Inners. They also don’t appear to have a New Years’ character set up; instead, the Sailor Saturn & Sailor Chibimoon event will be ringing in the new year.

I’m slightly less concerned about the Japanese game, as not rerunning all the holiday characters isn’t totally unprecedented (Santa Mamoru never got one either), and it’s possible that there may be a mid-month update to add in a New Year’s character for 2019. (If not...we can cross that bridge later.) I’m more worried about what this means for the English version ever getting the Santa Inners...most of the non-Christmas and Halloween holiday characters were implemented in such a way that they could, and sometimes have been, run at any time as generic non-holiday versions - Shrine Maiden Rei and Hakama Haruka were originally New Years’ characters, for instance, and Apron Makoto was for Valentine’s - but that’s not exactly doable with the Santa outfits. And saving them for next year is an extremely odd choice, especially since they’ll still be behind by at least Setsuna.

My big question, though, is what is the English game going to do in April?? Since they’ve just burned through their anniversary characters, I figure there’s probably three ways it could go:

- There are no special anniversary characters, game continues as normal.

- A different character is touted as being for the anniversary - probably not the Santa Inners, though it wouldn’t be the first time they did something so nonsensical.

- Some other special thing that’s completely unexpected (if they actually do implement the Game Center after all this time, I’ll buy a hat and eat it).

As speculation, I will say that the devs probably don’t expect players of the English game to be keeping tabs on the Japanese version. Whatever reason they have for doing this, they’d figure most players wouldn’t know that there were other Christmas characters, and that Cosmos and NQ Serenity were meant for the anniversary. So...it still seems ultra-weird to me that they did it all, but I can sooooort of see a thread of logic there; they are special characters, even if they’re not holiday-themed. (I still wanna know what the heck they’re planning on doing in April though.)

TL;DR no real answers, I’m just as confused as everyone else. :/ I REALLY expected an update this month and the lack of one is throwing me as much as the rest of these bizarro decisions!

#answers #spoilers #the english game continues to make decisions by throwing darts at a board

Anonymous asked:

I was wondering how accessible the sound effects in the game are. It would be nice to have a dump, even an unorganized zip of the raw files for people to convert on their own.

Oh my goodness anon, thank you for this!! I had previously given up on the sound effects, because there wasn’t a good or quick way to convert them - one of the programs I use could read them, but couldn’t export them in a playable format. But I had noticed a while ago that it had changed how it exported image files, and when I saw your message it occurred to me...maybe they’d changed it for audio files too? Long story short, yes they did! :D

Here’s the Mega folder for all the sound effects in WAV format! I’m probably not going to upload them to Chirbit or Youtube, because there’s literally hundreds of them and it doesn’t seem worth it...but like the puppets, you can download them all at once by clicking ‘Download as ZIP’ in the upper right-hand corner.

By cross-referencing the ResourceDict, you can map which sound is for what, although it’s not always clear what it’s for. The entire file is too big for Pastebin or TextUploader; here’s just the part for audio (yes, the ResourceDict is an absolute mess to read). They’re all sort of scattered in there so doing a text search may be your best bet if you’re looking for a specific skill noise or something!

#answers #update #sort of

Anonymous asked:

The English ver. has updated to 1.29, so technically both games are now at the same point of contents (1.29). It seems to be like that because the rest of the Japanese exclusive characters have been implemented in the character section, including the latest ones (Manga Sailor Moon, Super Saturn, Fisheye, Chibiusa&Helios, Chibimoon&Saturn, and the anniversary chara, all except Motoki), could you please share the language file, to confirm that? :D Thanks for your hard work!

FINALLY had a chance to go through it! @_@ You’re correct; it seems to now be completely up to date with the Japanese version (in terms of implementation at least, it could still be a bit before they decide to unlock things). And some good news: the game decided to redownload most of my files, including the banners! So I should now have the missing banners that I was never able to find!

Here’s the Language file - I took a quick look through, didn’t see anything that we didn’t already know about but let me know if I missed something! The only unexpected thing is that they seem to have gone with “Fish’s Eye” for Fish-Eye, for some reason (his name is in English already though...?). Also, Furisode Usagi looks like she’s been made non-holiday-specific, like they’ve done for the other New Year’s characters.

Here’s the asset dump for all the English banners/appeal screens past the Neo-Queen Serenity rerun (I’ve pulled the previous ones too, but I think the bulk of the missing ones are in there).

Next priority is getting up Santa Setsuna, and then adding things into the main pages!

#answers #spoilers #update

Anonymous asked:

Which characters do you expect to get on the upcoming "Dark Kingdom: Another Story" arc? I can only think about Queen Serenity, and maybe.. Human Artemis?? Not sure at all about that last one..

There are no story characters for the Dark Kingdom side story, unfortunately! I would have loved a Queen Serenity. :( Maybe as an event...?

Anonymous asked:

the weirdest thing is there -is- an english santa pluto banner on the server, but they want to run cosmos?? it's the middle of december, how are they gonna fit four more events there?

At this point, I’m assuming the English version will not be getting the Santa Inners this year...unless they dump them all at the end of December and into January, but that would be even odder.

I really don’t understand why they’re doing this! I mean, the Santa Inners aren’t amazing play-wise (they take too many hearts to be useful), but they’re super cute and seasonal! What do they have against them? D:

#answers #spoilers

Anonymous asked:

It would appear the English version isn’t getting the Sang Inners this year. Manga Venus wraps on 12/17 and will be followed by Cosmos.

What on earth? O_o That is VERY weird, I have no idea why they’ve decided to run events so out of season. I mean, they’re usually a bit random with them, but…these are the only characters who actually have a specific time to be run in!

The Santa Inners ARE in the English game (with the 1.29.0 update, all the recent characters are, including the Saturn & Chibimoon pair) so it makes literally no sense to me why they’ve chosen to do this. I suppose it means Manga NQ Serenity will be the only anniversary character next year…? Although now I don’t even know about that, what is happening. ;-;

~~just watch, we’re going to get the 2019 Halloween character for New Year’s now~~

#answers #spoilers #i emerge from finals to find out they got even weirder somehow #the english version continues to be an inscrutable mystery

Anonymous asked:

So, is it safe to assume that the next English events will be that 2x2 batch of Santa Inners? It's almost December, and both of the current events end on the same day so they probably will launch a new one immediately after.

That’d be my assumption! There’s also a Hotaru (Santa) rerun, but they seem to like sandwiching reruns between new events so I think the Ami + Rei one is likely to come first. :B

#answers #spoilers

Anonymous asked:

Would you include the OST for "Dark Kingdom: Another Story"? I would like to hear that.

I only have it as a WAV at the moment, here it is! :>

Update 12/02

Unreleased and Upcoming - It’s the tiniest update ever!

That aside, given that I’m probably not going to be not super busy for a loooong time, I’ve decided to start linking to asset dumps on the Unreleased page while they wait to be properly organized and sectioned. Which should hopefully help alleviate some of the frustration of lack of updates!

(This includes the Language file, for those of you looking for it! For the record there’s almost no changes, this is such an itty-bitty little update.)

#update #sailor moon drops #sm drops #those banner files are cursed #cuuuuuursed

Anonymous asked:

New update is out!! If you have time, could you please share with us the language file as well?

Ooh, thanks for the heads up! This was a weirdly small update...I’ll be putting up the info for it soon!

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