r/Kairosoft • • 12d ago

Mod OpenGDS2 – Early Access

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Hi all, here is a follow-up about my previous post. Everyone in discord is already aware, but Early Access (EA.) will be available by Friday/Saturday depending on timezone.

I CAN'T EMPHASIZE THIS ENOUGH, BUT THE DISCORD IS THE PLACE TO BE.

A lot has been done since the start of the project, full game flows have been retraced by Codex and windows have been repainted to be more faithfull to the original.

It's an EA. release, which will be accompanied by a release party on the Discord hosted by yours-truly where I will show off the gameplay and answer questions.

But since it's EA. i must do some expectation management, yes the game will be working, the gameplay will be as close as the original and the vibe of the game would be better than original (I have made some music to accompany the game as the original didn't have it) but don't expect a crash-free experience (I haven't gotten any though) and don't expect a complete version. A lot has been done as said before, but it may be that I have missed some things, as my Japanese is non-existent and have been clicking though the menu's in the original game to just see what pops up and feed that information to Codex. I also cannot guarantee that your saves will be safe with each update, but I try to limit the impact long term. This project is something I do on the side, I still have other things going on in my life and work prohibits me from working on this 24/7.

Again, more info and updates on the Discord! Be there, and make sure you join me Friday, 7PM (European)!


r/Kairosoft • • 22d ago

Mod OpenGDS2 (Game Dev Countries II DX)

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Hi Everyone,

It has been a while.. I know, BUT! I came bearing news... We all know "GDS2", that one game that Kairosoft made for PC back in 2001, but never got it's English translation nor got updated to the post recent systems.. IT'S ON!

Last week, there was a chat on the Kairosoft Community Discord about this game, how it was never managed to be translated to English whatsoever, and I wanted to have a run with today's day and age technology (A.I.) to see what could be done to finally slay this dragon that has been haunting the community for over 12 years!

More info on the Discord, that's where the updates will be posted together with some gameplay footage when available! Stay posted!

-- Above is TLDR, below is more in-depth --

The Goal

A complete, playable reimplementation that preserves the original’s simulation and recognizable desktop-style presentation. Where possible, that means reproducing the original behavior—including quirks—while keeping modern conveniences separate.

OpenGDS2 requires users to import their own legally obtained GameDev2DX.lzh locally. Original Kairosoft executables, graphics, audio and game data are not bundled with the public project.

The project code is MIT-licensed. That license does not cover the original game’s content, and this project is not affiliated with Kairosoft.

I attempt my best to stay within the boundaries of the law with this "open adaptation", as this is not my IP.


r/Kairosoft • • 4h ago

Discussion One Piece Grand Gourmet Tips & Tricks

40 Upvotes

I just beat the game and have some tips and tricks. I’ve never played a Kairosoft game before so might be missing some of the intricacies of some mechanics. Post your own tips or advice in the comments.

Maximising comfort

- Monuments are 2x2, have a 9x9 area of effect, and give +40 comfort

- Banners and special lights give +15; some special decorations also give +15

- Normal lights give +5

- You can place tables in the overlap between monuments to gain the effect of each one

- However, I think there may be diminishing returns to placing lots of tables within a monuments’ area of effect (haven’t rigorously tested but I noticed diminishing returns after place lots of tables around monuments)

- I ended up creating 9x9 themed areas with 3x3 areas of lights / banners and then lots of dividers shoved in

- You could probably maximise further by placing monuments in parallel rows and tables in between although it may look not as nice

Coins, hearts, and money

- The major end game bottleneck is coins and hearts

- Many major end game purchases require either one and trips to Whole Cake and Elbaph require them

- I didn’t realise till later in the game that coins and hearts can be farmed by procs from the meal decorations - select heart or coin maximisation on the auto meal set to farm either one

- Money is the least important resource end game - you will end up making 15-20 million a day, which can purchase most things outright

Customers

- Once you get the Cloud Island Resort, you can pack guests in to get up to 5 affinity per guest at the start of each day

- Some guests need an entire room to themselves - the giants, some important government officials, maybe a few more

- I didn’t finish off all customer wishes - had something like 50 customers who hadn’t sampled their favorite dishes for some reason and didn’t know how to proc it

Gifts

- I didn’t realise until way late but gifts are an affective way to increase guests’ speed and/or appetite

- “Mounts” give the highest speed up, then autographs, then the speed up item, then the random items you get from exploration

- Nami’s shop stocks 3 speed up a day and you should buy it out each day as they don’t accumulate

- Most mounts can’t be used by giants except Cerberus and Komachiyo

- I focused on giving guests with S appetite but low speed the power ups

- Each guest can only be given one of each item

- I have no idea if the speed stat effects when you make a customer an employee (as I could only see the affinity stat on the employee page)

Special events
- You should hold off on using hikes and tastings until you absolutely need to use them as to maximise the money or affinity/training points gained from them

- The maximisation works because the longer you hold off, the more customers you’ll have, the tastier your dishes will be, the higher your customer affinity be will be, etc, etc

Crew

- Nami’s discount is super useful and should be used for major coin and heart purchases (and money purchases when necessary)

- In Zoro’s minigame, he has a double jump which I didn’t figure out for way too long

- I sent Robin with Luffy on most explorations to maximise ingredients gain

- I only focused on Chopper on banquet days at end game (not sure if it even makes a difference)

- If you want Luffy/Zoro/Jinbei to discover stuff don’t send them on missions

- Make sure you use Jinbei to pick up non-fans from old regions

End game

- The end game is about getting rank 1 sales which is around 19/20 million I think

- I focused on maximising tastiness and price by getting ingredients upgrades

- I focused on ingredients upgrades from places with $ exploration costs and not hearts or coins

- For other ingredients, I bought out Nami’s shop

- In the end game you’ll be able to constantly buy out everything that costs money without issues though. Explorations lose importance at that point.

- At the very end I was still quite tight on hearts and coins after buying out the Nami shop heart/coin monuments and the final customer requests

- I think getting rank 1 requires you to do it on a banquet day (which I did, so not sure how long it would take on a non-banquet day)

- If you want, you could hold off ingredients upgrades until your very last banquet as to upgrade the most amounts of dishes


r/Kairosoft • • 18h ago

Discussion Just finished my first run on OPGG (One Piece: Grand Gourmet)! 🥳

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I'm a fan of Kairosoft and One Piece, so when I heard about the game, I pre-installed it (and bought it after the free trial).

Opinion: of all Kairosoft games, this is the hardest game to do re-arrangements. 😭

Spent a lot of time figuring out where to put what.

I think it's best to put the deck part on left and right when starting out, so when you expand, you can re-arrange easier.

So far, I have only unlocked 9 themes (not in order):

1) Deck (Including Giant's Table)

2) Pirate (Luxurious Table)

3) Marine

4) Alabasta Kingdom

5) Drum Kingdom

6) Thriller Bark

7) Sabaody Archipelago

8) Fish-Man Island

9) Sky Island

I haven't unlocked all areas to explore yet.

There's too much happening all at once. I love it.

I'll do a second run after dinner or maybe tomorrow.

Idk if there are carry overs on this one yet.


r/Kairosoft • • 8h ago

Question [OPGG] What does a high comfort room / table look like?

11 Upvotes

I've been really enjoying the game, but one thing I really don't understand is how to make my room comfort level as high as the characters are expecting it when I invite them. What would a high level table look like? Spacing, certain kinds of items, etc.?


r/Kairosoft • • 5h ago

Question Labor Costs in OPGG

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Hi all, I've never actually played a Kairosoft game and there isn't much information I can really find on this at the moment, so I figure here's a good place to ask. I've noticed some characters have a ludicrous labor cost/day and I'm wondering if there's actually a benefit to using the expensive characters?
The only stats I see anywhere in the game are speed and orders, and neither of those seem to impact the insane costs on some of these characters. Koby, for instance, costs 508k per day at the moment. I can't fathom the idea of spending that much daily on a character, so can anyone elaborate for me? Thanks in advance.


r/Kairosoft • • 2h ago

Question can’t remove things

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there are a few things i can’t remove and it’s messing up my design what do i do? (the marine room in the left and the empty room on the right)


r/Kairosoft • • 7m ago

Question Games worth full price?

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Hi! I recently got into Kairosoft games with Demon Castle Story. I've made a wishlist but according to dekudeals most of them haven't been part of the black friday eshop deals in the past. Which of these might be worth it full price according to you? I al looking for long games with good content and replayability. I'd also be interested in a ranking if you've played multiple games.

The games I'm interested in:

Heian Story
Dungeon Village 2
Convenience Stories
Dream town island
High seas dx
Beasties dx
Pocket academy 3
Dream park

Thank you! <3


r/Kairosoft • • 12h ago

English iOS Discussion One Piece Grand Gourmet - Moving Shop Bug

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Sometimes when I move a shop around, it will leave a permanent shadow of the building in its original spot. Is anyone else having this issues on IOS? Is it a bug or can I do something to get rid of it?


r/Kairosoft • • 2h ago

Question [BonBon Cakery] HoF Help?

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I only just got access to the Hall of Fame so I’m trying to stick to only 1- or 2- star challenges, but consistently I’m getting “impossible” prompts in about 50% of challenges I enter. By impossible I mean 1 of the judges (usually the last one) will start me off with only 1 or 2 revealed prompts, 4 or less ingredients to work with, and a higher Satisfaction bar than all the previous judges had. Most of the time the number of ingredients given isn’t even enough to make them reveal their remaining prompts, so I never even find out what they were while I fail.

I get that the Hall of Fame will get easier as I level up more ingredients (I’m currently only on the Future Farm supplier, and most of my ingredients are levels 6-10) but what’s the point of rating the challenges 1-5 stars if the 1-star challenges include rounds where it’s impossible to reveal all your prompts?

I guess I’m hoping that there’s just a really obvious strategy that I’m missing. I blew through 100 tickets today to retain items, and each time the items were then revealed and none of them were really worth the cost of the 10 spent tickets. Am I just setting myself up for failure by even attempting the HoF this early in the game?


r/Kairosoft • • 8h ago

Question [OPGG] - Getting Nami

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Hey,

I'm trying to get my 5th strawhat member. When i travel it tells me Always at the Nami Event "You need Help from your Crew", is there anything Special i need to do? I'm allready at day 8. And i dont know if i missed something :/


r/Kairosoft • • 4h ago

Question [OPGG]Am I the only one?

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So im done with the story of OPGG but I'm trying to 100% and for some reason sea events such as Buchi and Megalo don't seem to trigger, is this happening to others as well, or am I just unlucky?


r/Kairosoft • • 6h ago

Question One piece game

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When or it actually unlocks more crew members to go in expeditions? Like a place that needs two members different from Luffy and NAMI for example ( like Luffy is locked)


r/Kairosoft • • 10h ago

Question [OPGG] Big Mom...

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Can't figure out who's required in hunger pang to make a dish for big mom.... It's a second step. Silhouette looks like Cavendish or Alvida? Not sure, I have them both on my ship, but in hunger pang it still says no staff available for cooking.

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r/Kairosoft • • 13h ago

Question Really overwhelmed by OPGG... Can I play it like an idle game? Any tips?

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It isn't my first Kairosoft game but my god am I overwhelmed by everything happening. Can I play it more like an idle game? Does it have a score ending at the end of a certain number of days (it was 10/15 years in the Kairosoft games I've played).


r/Kairosoft • • 19h ago

Question [OPGG] In the endgame, where to find the table for this final fan?

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A bunch of characters want to visit it too


r/Kairosoft • • 1d ago

Discussion Dual games on Duo

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24 Upvotes

I’m definitely loving my duo.


r/Kairosoft • • 14h ago

Question OPGG - Thriller Bark placement?

2 Upvotes

This is probably really dumb, and I'm probably missing something really obvious, but I can't place Thriller Bark down anywhere and I don't understand why.

It says, "can be placed near the bow" but no matter where I try to place it, I get the red 'can't go here squares.

Does anyone know *specifically* where near the bow it goes?

Thank you in advance.


r/Kairosoft • • 19h ago

Question How do you increase shop affinity on Shamrock and Gunko?

3 Upvotes

I don't have food to give them nor I can put them in the hotel.. do I just have to stay AFK until they hit 100?


r/Kairosoft • • 1d ago

English Android Discussion Are you supposed to tap the pink bird in One Piece Grand Gourmet?

5 Upvotes

I am playing One Piece Grand Gourmet and occasionally a big pink bird crosses the screen. one time I tapped him and a newspaper with stuff arrived. But not sure if it was a coincidence because whenever I tap him other times, nothing happens.


r/Kairosoft • • 15h ago

Discussion [OPGG] one piece: grand gourmet help

1 Upvotes

i just started playing grand gourmet and love it! i just can't figure out how to move my furniture once i place it, any help?


r/Kairosoft • • 15h ago

FRIEND ID POST [SFU] FriendIDs

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Post here your FriendID for Skyforce Unite!

This post is in Contest Mode to give you random top comments and give everyone a fair chance of being added.

This post will recur every 5th of the month to ensure you add active players.


r/Kairosoft • • 1d ago

Question Quick question: how does Sanji's special seasoning work (One Piece)

11 Upvotes

The option popped up and I don't know how+why, it doesn't seem to be a daily function like the purchase discount. After I use this, does anyone know how I get more later?


r/Kairosoft • • 1d ago

Question Just a quick building question for One Piece Grand Gourmet.

5 Upvotes

I was just wondering if it was possible to move the flags and ceiling lights around. i could just be a moron, and not know how, or it could just not be a thing. thank you!


r/Kairosoft • • 1d ago

Media [OPGG] Starting Over

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My first playthrough left a lot to be desired with so here we go again. I'm trying to organise it more often and plan for the future now instead of just mindlessly dumping things.

My tip: Make space for at least 2 monuments for each theme (they have big buff and big range). Think of it as the sun, the table surrounding it as planets and the small decorations as it's satellites. Top it off with the ceiling lamp and flags.

Anyone got more deco tips?