KanColle Standalone Viewer 0.1

KanColle Standalone Viewer 0.1 (beta)
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This Chrome extension partnered with a Chrome app shortcut will run KC in its own standalone viewer. It's essentially like playing the game in Chrome (no API link and you still need to use the cookie exploit or VPN to play) but without all of the extra browser interface.


Instructions for Installing
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1) Make sure you can access KanColle in regular Google Chrome (i.e. you’ve already setup the cookie exploit or a VPN)

2) Load up the KC website in Chrome and make an application shortcut for the game by selecting “Create application shortcuts..." from the “More tools” menu. Save your shortcut wherever you want.

3) Download the following two files and save them to the same folder:
	resize.js: http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=ng2u5vLQ
	manifest.json: http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=v3BhaB7N

4) Bring up the extensions menu in Chrome and enable “Developer mode” by clicking on the checkbox. Click the “Load unpacked extension..." button, select the folder where you saved the previous step’s files, and click “Ok”. The extension should now be installed. Be sure to close any open windows of KC before the next step.

5) Start the game with the shortcut you created earlier. You may get a warning that running Developer mode is unsafe or something, which you can just cancel. Use this shortcut whenever you want to launch the game in its own standalone viewer.

I’ve only tested this on Windows 8, but it should work on any version. Also, if you need to expand the window to access the DMM points purchasing pop-up, you can simply maximize or manually resize the window at any time. To get the window back to it’s default size and alignment, you’ll have to close it and start the game again via the shortcut.


Problems and Issues
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• Chrome will tell you that it’s not safe to run the extension every time you start the game. To get around this, try using the developer release of Chrome or Chromium.

• Ideally, reloading the page at any time (which you can access by right clicking on the window's title bar and selecting the reload page option) should reset the window's size and alignment; however, there's a weird bug that'll sometimes cause the game's window to be skewed off horizontally if this is done.

I'm not sure how to fix it, and I've tried a bunch of different things with no luck so far. The only way presently to consistently get the window back to it's default size and alignment is to close the game and relaunch it using the shortcut.

• If Kadokawa or DMM change the positioning of anything on the KanColle site, it may throw off the alignment of the game within the viewer. To fix this, you can manually adjust the values of the "window.scrollTo" command in the resize.js file to accommodate.

After you make any changes, you'll have to reload the KanColle Standalone extension in Chrome. You can do this by simply clicking the "Reload" link under the description of the extension in the extension menu instead of having to load the extension from scratch again.