Tutorial:Getting Started

Spiral being a command-line only program may seem confusing and difficult to truly grasp, but by taking it slowly we'll be able to, hopefully, guide you through being able to understand the basic concepts of how to use Spiral, so you can begin working with the game files yourself.

Workspace Setup

There are a few things we'll need before we can even begin to think about modding the game.

The first is a copy of either Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc or Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

WARNING: If either game is installed in a Steam Library outside of the default, SPIRAL will be unable to find it by default. See Manual Registration

WARNING: If you have obtained WAD files from anything but the latest Steam release, there is no guarantee that anything here will work. Regardless of how the files were obtained, SPIRAL only guarantees compatibility with the latest WAD files fresh from Steam.

The second thing you'll need is access to a command prompt or terminal of some kind (Referred to as a terminal throughout these guides). For Windows, this will be the Command Prompt. For macOS and Mac OSX, this will be the Terminal, and on Linux it'll be some variant of a terminal (You should know how to find this).

Finally on our list of requirements is a copy of Java 8. To test this, open your terminal and type java -version