There's a huge community project going on that ports full voice acting (same voice actors as the anime), 1440p widescreen backgrounds and lip synced character sprites over from the console compilation of the game (Higurashi Sui). MangaGamer couldn't include this content because they don't have the rights to these assets, but here's where the fans come in.

Apart from the voice and graphics patches the fans are busy translating and adapting additional console only story arcs. You can already play 3 of those.

You can start improving your Higurashi experience by going to this link:
https://github.com/07th-mod/guide/wiki/Higurashi-Getting-started

Is it wrong to ask for a sticky when this is the only thread in the subforum?

Wait graphic patches?
I can understand the voice one, but does higurashi chapter 1 not have extra cg for some scenes at all in the unmodded release with updated graphics already ingame.Like Renas known scene usoda
I actually like the new sprites that are in the pc version that are already in the pc version.

So just used the patches works but like i said i would like to keep the updated version of sprites for the pc is it possible?
At least in ch1
Ok i did it i now have the updated sprites ingame, seems like i had to download the steam graphic patch for it.

Edit: all these patches compatible with the gog version? Since game is only saying version 1.0 in library?

Actually i believe it's all in unity 5 and the patches are compatible, already read through ch1 and am now at ch2 wataganashi.
In chapter 1 it was rather strange since the voice was missing implying something moustache that part wasn't voiced when i first met mion in the VN, then there were most of the parts voiced but i remember when reading ooishi part somehow rika suddenly said something even though it was only ooishi talking.
Anyway thanks for the patches, they truly increase the overall enjoyment of the vn.

Wait does ch 5 really need the UI mod? Even when manually patching, i need to play ch4 next but i noticed this when downloading the new patches.
I remember once using an ui mod and it didn't work, without the ui mod it did work, so i wonder if it will be the same. I really don't know if i was using the ui mode in ch2 or 1 and it didn't work.