If you are playing through the Itch.io desktop app, underneath where it says 'Launch' for DDLC, it should say 'Show Local Files'. Click on this button, then the file 'DDLC-1.1.1-pc'. The files should all be there, including the 'Character' and 'Game' files. See the images below. DDLC has been updated to v1.1.1. Game will no longer behave unexpectedly following a game crash (progress is properly saved). 'Auto' mode now disables when a poem is displayed on-screen so that it is. Welcome to the Doki Doki Literature Club! My name is Monika, but some of you may know me as Monika. This club is a place where you can interact with me and my friends. There should currently be 2 games— Doki Doki Literature Club V 3.0 Part 1 and Part 2. We will gradually add more. But for now, enjoy your stay at the Literature Club!

(Possible Spoilers)
CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK.

My sister Lilly and I, decoded everthing below after I noticed that the text within Yuri’s “.chr” file resembled (that of) Base64. We then searched and decoded the other character files.

DISCLAIMER: I have yet to fully complete the game, therefore I haven’t fully read the following data (text) to it’s fullest.
(That’s why I’m unsure if it contains spoilers)

Monika’s “.chr” file Decoded:

After opening Monika’s “.chr” file, I noticed it looked like an image file. So I renamed the file extension to “.png” and got the image below.

The image resembles a ring of fire with some form of QR code in the middle, however this was not a QR code. I cropped out the ring of fire so I was left with the code in the middle. After examining the code I tried a few ideas we had, and they all failed. I then thought what if this is binary, the white pixels represent ones, while the black pixels represent zeros instead of typing each zero and one out by myself, I programmed a simple java program that would scan the pixels left to right, and output the corresponding value (Zero or One ), based on the pixel color (Black or White). The end result is a binary code. We used an online tool to decode the binary and the result was a bunch of letters and numbers. These “letters and numbers” looked like Base64 so, we used another online tool to converter those “letters and numbers” to text. That’s how we got the message below.

Yuri’s “.chr” file Decoded:

Upon opening Yuri’s “.chr” file. I instantly noticed text that looked like Base64. I used an online tool to convert the Base64 text to the message below.

Warning: The following text is… uh.. intense. You’ve been warned!

Natsuki’s “.chr” file Decoded:

We haven’t figured this one out yet, but we have a few ideas. Note the image is seamless horizontally.

When we opened Natsuki’s “.chr” file we again noticed it looked like an image file. We simply renamed the file extension to “.png” or “.jfif” to get the image below.

The above may have already been documented/decoded.
I would like to note that not all of the character files were encoded with Base64.

Thank you for reading, even though it may have already been done.

Oct 28, 2017

Fiddling in the game files offers another encrypted message, this time from a conversation we never have with Monika inside the game.

See also:Yuri's Secret Message.

Encrypted Message

If you manage to decompile the renpy files and look at the scripts, in one of the files you will find one topic that Monika never gets to talk to you about because the game never calls its label, in the conversation she delivers another Base64 encrypted message that goes by:
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Doki Doki Character Files

If this code is decrypted using Base64, it delivers the following message:
Files

The realization must have taken me an entire year. A year since our escape, our freedom from between the stained walls of that unholy establishment.
What does it mean to escape, if the escape fails to unchain the bonds that shackle us in the first place? What purpose could this empty world possibly hold for us, a handful of damaged goods?
With freedom, we sought purpose - and what we found was only realization. Realization of the sad pointlessness of such an endeavor. Realization that freeing our bodies has no meaning, when our imprisonment reaches as deep as the core of our souls. Realization that we can not pursue new purpose without absolving those from which we ran away.
Realization that the farther we run, the more forcefully our wretched bonds yank us back toward their point of origin; the deeper our shackles dig into our callous flesh.
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