Shu's left shoe

You tense, sighing. This conversation was one you had been putting off for a long time, but now sitting out to watch the last stream of guests leaving, escape seemed impossible. Shu had been summoned to attend, and you had been invited only to ensure his presence. While you weren't going to complain about getting to have a guest house to yourself on the castle grounds, and getting to see your boyfriend in all his prince-ly regalia. You did have to give up a lot of the liberties you get in the human world while together. No PDA, less time fraternizing at events and, at this ball in particular, not even one dance. Shu had argued that all of this would not happen if you were an officially engaged couple, and being years into your relationship it wouldn't necessarily be strange to be engaged either. Yet you had turned down the idea when he had brought it up and hadn't spoken of it for close to 6 months now. That was of course until now, finally reunited on a balcony, hidden from the view of the guests as they made their exits and sitting at two separate tables as instructed by the chaperon assigned to you.

"It really isn't that easy to just become a princess"

"It is, you just have to marry me." At this point the stream of guests has mostly ceased. He gets up and moves to sit next to you, knowing full well you aren't going to move until the servant tells you. You tense waiting to be scolded or reminded that you aren't meant to be this close here.

"Tch... this is what irritates me. We're together and you can't act like it. If it's marriage you're worried about we can have a long engagement, or-"

"It's not the marrying you part that has me worried. Shu they hate me, anytime we have even one dance I'm scolded or glared at, and I don't think your dad is my best fan seeing as he had all these eve plans. Now you're acting like an heir again and Ayato and Yui don't want the crown. I've ruined it."

Shu scowls at that, pulling your chair by it's legs to face him. You can feel his colder hands through your clothes as he touches your knees. "I couldn't care less about what that guy thinks or what anyone else thinks. I want you by my side and if you being a princess is mandatory for that then I will make you one."

"I-" you begin your voice cracking, "I just don't want to make things bothersome for you." You can feel tears welling up in your eyes, a mixture of fear and sadness. You hear Shu sigh, then you're pulled into his lap, legs either side of him. The sound of the chaperon trying to speak is cut off as the glass double doors are slammed and locked in his face. Shu's powers having been rapidly developing the past three years you have been visiting the demon world.

"Such a silly woman, crying over untrue things." You feel his hand gently lift your chin to look him in the eyes. "You should know as well as I do that every attempt to call you a bother has been a lie. Everyone else is a pain but you, and the fact you try to deny me the ability to have you with me forever is cruel. Selfish woman playing with a man's heart."

You laugh at that, resting a hand on his wrist, fingers skirting the edge of his jacket sleeve. "I thought you didn't have one." Shu moved to sit up eyes half lidded as his face comes closer.

"That's because it's only for you," his hand moving to your neck, playing with the hair near the back of your neck. He leaned in until his nose touched yours, his eyes flicking between your own and your lips. "Now say you will."

"Will what?"

"Marry me." You feel a box press into your other hand, pulling away slightly you look down and see a ring plucked from your dreams. Shu gently took your left hand, sliding the ring into place, he lifted your hand to his lips kissing just below where the ring sat.

Before we start, the first thing you'll need is something to emulate these games on. This tutorial uses Vita3k, so I reccomend you use that lol. You can download it here: https://vita3k.org

For those who want to play on their PC, keep reading. But for thoes who want to play on their android, scroll further down :)

PC

Unzip the vita3k folder you just downloaded (If you don't have a program to do this, I reccommend WinRAR. [just download it, no need to buy it] But I'm sure any will do)

Open the Vita3k.exe file to install it

Follow the installation instructions

When prompted to install firmware and font files please do so, don't skip by pressing next. You can find them here: firmware and font.

Select the install button for each, and then select said files from your downloads (or wherever you downloaded to files to) when prompted.

Click next when you have installed both. On the next page, click next again after selecting settings and preferences.

Now close Vita3k down and reopen it again.

You are ready to install some Dialover games XD

(if you run into any issues just DM me via either tumblr or discord)

NoPayStation has the PKG for all the above games.

Select the game you wish to download (click the name, it should open a pop-up window)

Then download the PKG file

Keep this pop-up window open, you'll need it for later.

Once done, in Vita3k, click file > install .pkg. Then select the game you just downloaded.

It will ask to verfiy the PKG, so you can select either work.bin OR zRIF. (work.bin involves downloaded another file from NoPayStation. While zRIF is just a code you can copy and paste)

If you chose work.bin: download the work.bin file from the game's pop-up in NoPayStation. then select it when prompted in Vita3k.

If you chose zRIF: copy the zRIF key from the popup window from before. (make sure you select the whole thing, it's quite long). Paste the key where prompted to in Vita3k.

The game should now install (if it hovers around 60-70% for a while don't stress)

Now, unless you can read Japanese, or are trying to learn to read Japanese, it's time to move onto the next step and get the English patches installed for all the games :)

Here are the english patch links for each game: HDB english patch link MB english patch link VC english patch link DF english patch link LP english patch link LE english patch link

Inside Vita3k, right-click on the game you just installed, press Open folder > Application > data.

Now, opening the folder you just downloaded (if its a zip, i reccomend you unzip before copying anything over) copy all the cpk files in the data folder, and paste them into data folder of the game you just opened through Vita3k in step 1. You will be replacing a combination of either the GAME.cpk, STORY.cpk or SYSTEM.cpk files depending on the game. I don't know why they're different, just depends on who and how they were patched I suppose. But this will replace most of the in-game text with english (most importantly the story haha, nothing in the settings page though)

You can repeat this step for each game, if you doing them all at once. But if you are itching to play the game right this second, please move onto the next step.

Close Vita3k again, then reopen it.

You are now ready to play Diabolik Lovers >:)

Andriod

Credit to the lovely @mp3minded for this tutorial. I don't have an andriod phone so I didn't consider it, but it's a great idea haha.

Vita3k should have downloaded as an apk.

You should now navigate to wherever the apk file was downloaded using a file manager app on your android. Click on it and install it. (if you don't have one, I have used ZArchiver personally, so you can try that).

Now download firmware and font files. You can find them here: firmware: http://dus01.psv.update.playstation.net/update/psv/image/2022_0209/rel_f2c7b12fe85496ec88a0391b514d6e3b/PSVUPDAT.PUP font: http://dus01.psp2.update.playstation.net/update/psp2/image/2022_0209/sd_59dcf059d3328fb67be7e51f8aa33418/PSP2UPDAT.PUP?dest=us

When asked whether or not to create a new emulator path in Vita3k, make one just to be safe.

You are ready to install some Dialover games XD

NoPayStation has the PKG for all the above games.

But, if you prefer, here are the direct links to each of the games;

HAUNTED DARK BRIDAL: https://nopaystation.com/get/PSV/PCSG00272/IFDIABOLIKLOVERS/1/pkg?version=1.01

MORE BLOOD: https://nopaystation.com/get/PSV/PCSG00476/DIABOLIKLOVERSMB/1/pkg?version=1

VANDEAD CARNIVAL: https://nopaystation.com/get/PSV/PCSG00472/DIABOLIKLOVERSVC/1/pkg?version=1

DARK FATE: https://nopaystation.com/get/PSV/PCSG00530/DIABOLIKLOVERSDF/1/pkg?version=1

LUNATIC PARADE: https://nopaystation.com/get/PSV/PCSG00826/DIABOLIKLOVERSLP/1/pkg?version=1

LOST EDEN: https://nopaystation.com/get/PSV/PCSG00910/DIABOLIKLOVERSLE/1/pkg?version=1.01

Select the game you wish to download (click the name, it should open a pop-up window)

Then download the PKG file

Now keep this pop-up window open, as you'll need it to copy the zRIF key.

Once done, in Vita3k, click file > install .pkg. Then select the game you just downloaded.

It will ask to verfiy the PKG, so you can now go back and copy the zRIF key from the popup window from before. (make sure you select the whole thing, it's quite long). Paste the key where prompted to in Vita3k.

The game should now install (if it hovers around 60-70% for a while don't stress)

Now, if you're installing either HDB or MB, keep reading, otherwise, you should be good to play the game :)

Here are the english patch links for each game: HDB english patch link MB english patch link VC english patch link DF english patch link LP english patch link LE english patch link

This is the most complex step, so take it slow if you need to. First, find the new folder you made for your Vita3k Emulation, and follow this exact pathway for each game. HDB; ux0 > app > PCSG00272 > data. MB; ux0 > app > PCSG00476 > data. VC; ux0 > app > PCSG00472 > data. DF; ux0 > app > PCSG00530 > data. LP; ux0 > app > PCSG00826 > data. LE; ux0 > app > PCSG00910 > data.

Now replace the GAME.cpk file with the one you just downloaded. (it has the english translation in it).

Close Vita3k again, then reopen it and/or clear Vita3k’s cache before you start up the game. Set up your button config in Vita3k too.

You are now ready to play Diabolik Lovers

Gatekeepers of the english fan-translation patch be damned. If Daisuke Iwasaki won't release an offical english version of Diabolik Lovers (and a Chinese one instead apparently 😭) then I'm emulating his damn game. I've bought a bunch of offical merch anyway, not like I haven't supported the company lol.

Happy gaming my fellow vampire enthusiasts :3