/a/ Scanlation thread

where is the CITY

you said there would be CITY

>>160112114
It's licensed, give up.

>solo
>want to release shit fast
>tfw a perfectionist
kill me

>>160112465
what mango

>>160112465
unlesw you're doing sfx too, I don't see the problem

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Guys Haruka's been down for a couple days and even nips on 2ch are panicking, is it ded for good? Please don't die, I can't into chink secret clubs.

>>160112591
>>160112675
Shoujo manga where half the text bubbles are patterned and they change fonts like 120 times.

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>>160112210
I was told that there would be CITY

>>160110980

Waiting on the TL.

>>160113870
where is the TL
who is the TL
I will find them

>>160113870
Who is the TL?
I will murder them to spite >>160113984

Why does Akemi-rager haunt these threadS?

We got the BookWalker DRM removal yet?
I just hope they don't start exclusive manga releases.

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>>160113324
The spot healing brush is pretty fucking nifty.

>>160114409
Want to know what's really frightening? He constantly talks to himself in pruned threads on desuarchive. In some cases, for upwards of 500 posts.

But, this isn't a topic for a scanlation thread. This post and your post should be deleted.

>>160114517
you're better off cloning those examples

>>160115595
It's tedious because then you need to line up the cloned sample so it fits the part of the pattern around the text you're trying to erase.

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Bokutachi ga Yarimashita. Shit's good, man. Can't wait til I hit Volume 4 and the scans literally double in quality.

Since there is no paste in the OP...

My last system's PSU literally shorted and fried everything in it, including all my hard disks and only sparing my SSD. Fortunately, I am paranoid enough that I have all my scanning and PSDs backed up in two other locations, but ALL my fonts for Photoshop are lost. I can't even remember all the ones I used in my last project, but it was based upon some copypasta image.


Has anyone gone an made a pack of fonts?

>>160114517
Set it to "Replace".

>>160116240
Not him, but while "Content Aware" is usually best, "Proximity Match" can do wonders for cleaning where "Content Aware" will try to incorporate unwanted details.

When dealing with page sizes, do you bother keeping both width and height consistent between all pages, or do you just go with one of the two dimensions, having the other be whatever?

>>160116479
I'd rather have it be consistent desu

>>160116479
Only one of them needs to be, if you try for both you either have to be anal about cropping at the possible expense of quality or stretch the image in some way.

>>160116479
For my scans, I usually stick for standard height, with varying width. I also apply a downscale of 600dpi, so the difference is negligible at that level.

I dislike distorting the portions of the image if possible, and I already crop them to the pixel at 1200dpi as it is.

>>160113870
Had a shitload of manga to work on yesterday so I can do some stuff today.

>>160116479
Standard height is better.

>>160116154
please
At least post the font recommendation image again

>>160118029
Were they AnonBlack's font guides?
http://prettyanonymo.us/index.php/scanlation-resources/

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>>160118029
Was it something like this anon?

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Does this apply as a good scan?

>>160118288
it'd be fine after adjusting the levels and cropping/rotating a bit.

Anyone picking up Kaguya?
Will it be shitty or decent Viz? They seem hit and miss

>>160119398
There's interest for at least one group. Dunno about others. It's gonna be an /a/nonymous release though as agreed with both parties, if we decided to do it next week.

>>160119398
Viz's release delay is their most bothersome part.

>>160119398
I'd be on that shit, if Viz didn't DMCA up the ass.

>being bored
>Offers help to some groups
>Suddenly tons of pages to redraw, and 4 volumes behind the translation

>>160122506
What mangos you doing friendo

>>160122536
Spanish scanlation of Ballroom, Tsugumono, and barakamon

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>tfw finally good enough at japanese to translate
feels good

>>160122799
That's nice and all, Timmy, but make sure you're good at English too. I fucking hate having to make sense out of the translator's scripts, fixing their grammar, lack of punctuation or even typos.

>>160122799
>fuck a japanese girl
>learn jap via osmosis
>everyone thinks you're a faggot because you speak like a girl

>>160122965
This is a pretty common thing according to my Japanese professors.

You should start reading and watching more materials with manly dialogue.

>>160123215
I kind of speak like a faggot in English too so nothing new for me.

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Redrawing this

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Why are scanlation uploads such a clusterfuck?
None of them use the same method.
One group will do the first few chapters then drop it and someone else will pick it up. The first scanlator's webpage will disappear with the download links. So you have to rip them from the host that they uploaded to but none of them offer straight downloads so you have to write srcips to grab all the pages.

>>160123620
That manga got too absurd for me when the slut killed her grandson with a handjob.

>>160123620
It's so damn blurry.

>>160118158
>>160118167
Thanks

Since no one else has done it, here is a collection of all those fonts mentioned:
https://my.mixtape.moe/gbvzzl.7z

Please keep it alive.

>>160124730
>http://prettyanonymo.us/index.php/scanlation-resources/
Appreciate it. I could definitely stand to try and vary fonts a bit more myself.

>>160123675
>autism intensifies

>>160124908
whoops, not sure why that's there

What's the best way to make ePub and PDF files? I want to put together some LN translations to.

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Does anyone have anything good font-wise for those handwritten characters in smaller bubbles/to the sides of bubbles? I usually use augie or A Safe Place to Fall, but it never looks quite right.

>>160125503
Has anyone ever used a tablet/scanned their own hand writing to put into those types of bubbles. I feel like it could add some charm.

>>160125369
Do you know html/css? That's all epub is.

>>160125576
>expecting legible penmanship in 2017
I don't think I've handwritten anything in 5 years besides my name/address on applications and stuff.

What's worse? A translatorfag who needs constant proofreading on his lines because they sound too awkward or a translatorfag who gives you an incoherent script? Because I hate both.

Oh and I hate translatorfags who dont release the work after a month and doesn't give a reason why.

For anyone that runs as a one-man team, what's your workflow like? For translating I have text documents with an English script, Japanese script (important because I'm not fluent and need like 6 sites to piece together kanji and make the translations not retarded, etc), quick reference for names and places, and TL notes on hand. Then I have all the pages for the current chapter one in GIMP to work through.

>>160118288
>Lowercase font in official manga
So it wasn't a meme after all, companies do commit such atrocities.

>>160125616
Sounds easy enough, it's just text and inserting a few pictures.

>>160125686
>6 sites to piece together kanji
What? Just use kanjitomo.
I'm not so sure you should be translating if you suck that much at it.

>>160125681
The ones who get mad at you for trying to turn their illegible script into readable english and act like it's your fault that exclamatory yells are incorrect after typesetting.

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>>160125503
Just pick one and be consistent. There's a lot of KG fonts.
>>160125576
If I did that no one could read it.

>>160125576
Fakku does it all the time. Ideally, if anything is handwritten in the original manga, it should be handwritten in the translation as well. Unless you have lousy penmanship.

>>160125686
>important because I'm not fluent and need like 6 sites to piece together kanji and make the translations not retarded
Please don't translate.

>>160126048
Or just use manga where kanji always has hiragana besides it.

>>160125769
>>160126048
Poor exaggeration/explanation on my part. It's one for the kanji and others for sound fx reference, dictionary, and dialect reference.

>>160126171
It's called furigana, okay dude?

>>160125576
>>160125940
Fucking hate how people expect handwritten stuff now. Fuck you I don't want a tablet and I always had chicken scratch. I liked it back when we just had to manipulate the fonts. The game changed and I'm pissed

>>160126197
Are you able to read and understand the manga unaided?

>>160126214
I'm not a translator, other anon knows what I meant.

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>>160126226
>Fuck you I don't want a tablet
yfw paper is no longer a thing

>>160126226
>expect
Do they now? I don't really know that they care too much. But in hentai, handwriting really saves you a lot of time with all the moans and sfx, I think.

>>160116387
Ah, noted... I usualy ctrl+z and strike it a few times until it stops pulling those random bits from elsewhere, haha.

>>160125686
I usually write out a script because I occasionally get TS help. I'll go straight to English for maybe 85%, and transcribe the Japanese for the rest that I either am not confident on my rendering or think I'll change my mind on my initial English attempt. I find I rewrite a lot (still) because I tend to be more literal first pass.

I generally rotate and level, text clean and then typeset in batches because, again, if I get help I can offload a whole chapter at some complete stage of processing.

And you're making your life more difficult if you are typesetting in GIMP, it's text handling is even worse than PS, which really isn't great at it. I really wish there was something better for lettering.

>>160125769
Kanjitomo isn't a silver bullet, it is biased towards looking for jukugo using jouyou kanji and will stubbornly insist on an incorrect match 10%-20% of the time depending on the scan quailty and how complex the character is.

>>160126226
>people expect handwritten stuff now
Who are these people exactly? If anything the average standard of scanlation is going down daily, EOPs eat up any shit by faggots like niggerstream/jamini these days and still defend them.

>>160126559
>EOPs eat up any shit by faggots like niggerstream/jamini these days
Are we really going to pretend 00s scanlation had high qualitystandards?

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>>160126711

Standards were low, but then went up with groups like redhawk in the late 00's, now we're sliding back down the curve.

>>160126793
The graph really helps, thanks.

>>160126793
But Niggerstream were only, what, a year behind Redhawk? And they very quickly became the go-to for most people because they were faster, and that's all most people have ever cared about.

>>160126352
>but in hentai
That's what I mostly do.

>>160126559
>who are these people exactly?
Other editors who say "Oh just handwrite it" whenever I ask if my typeset is okay for certain moans or screams.

i was commissioned to translate some trashy manga from three years ago for approximately 300 USD

>>160126912
I just checked the latest releases on sadpanda and it's pretty clear that most of them don't have any handwriting at all. So you should only care about what works best for you.

Also just stumbled upon the latest CGrascal masterpiece, full of spotty bubbles and shitty redraws.
https://exhentai.org/g/1090016/2c257cc02f/

>>160127155
What manga was it?

Are Seven Seas and Vertical the only English Manga companies that don't DMCA and let the scanlation groups do their things since they license series based on series liked in this sphere of things?

>>160127690
>they license series based on series liked in this sphere
Don't they all do that?

>>160127690
RemoveYourMediaLLC does remove plenty of stuff allegedly on behalf of Seven Seas.

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>>160127217
I checked it out, holy shit you weren't cleaning.
>anime ace
>shitty cleaned bubbles
>shitty cloning

>>160127217
>>160128153
You'd think that after 10+ years of doing this shit he'd learn a thing or two.

>>160128153
Every single one of his releases is like that. It is sort of admirable in a weird way, that somebody can go on scanlating for so long without any hint of improvement.

Do you organize your typefaces for main text bubbles? Is there a decent way of doing it? I'm finding myself going through each one one-by-one, just to see if the type either matches the art, and it takes a while.

>>160128192
>>160128313
>old dogs
>new tricks
>ever
Might as well ask why Coalgirls/Chihiro never learned how to encode, or why the GTO guy still can't typeset properly.

>>160128192
>doing fansubbing/scanlating for 10+ years
>implying it doesn't require massive amounts of autism and a lack of logic

How long before OCR and language software with computer-learning makes all of us obsolete?

>>160128192
He did. He learned that he'd never have to expend any extra effort and could continue to get paid for shitting out terrible work.

>>160127217
Only few editors handwrite their stuff. iirc there're some in ATF, and Dame Ningen also.

>>160130795
Before it happens I want this in my photoshop.
http://hi.cs.waseda.ac.jp/~iizuka/projects/completion/en/

>>160116106
>gimp
I'm glad I stopped using that.

>>160129376
>main text bubbles
>matches the art
Pay attention to what font the author used. Usually there's like 5-10 main fonts, and there's at least 3-4 that you can replace with one, using with italic, bold and bold italic.

>>160112866
Damn, things gonna be bad unless there's another site that allows people to post raws instead being a dumb blog managed by a single person

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>>160118288
>jpg
I hope the original scan is not a jpg.
As for the scan itself. It's good. Leveling and a bit of cleaning will do the job. I only cleaned the visible imperfections.
Are digital versions of this not available, though?

>>160125746
>shitposting in the scanlation thread
Literally why?

>>160112866
>>160131613
So it looks like domains for haruka-yumenoato.net, hiyoko.to and lccomic.org got deleted the same day, ugcity still works
Either some DNS issue or the owner did the same thing as nyaa
You guys better prepare for a raw winter

>>160132080
It's ogre.

>>160132360
We'll see how many weekly mag raws will be missing this week, jump and other shounen shit will be unaffected for sure
This is a good opportunity for someone to make a raw forum for our japanese tomodachi but I guess this won't happen

>>160132407
Why are you such cancer? You've been objectively proven wrong multiple times about how capital fonts are less clear and concise.
You are also the one who starts fights every time. You're the bad scanlator here, and I'm more than sure you are intentionally saying things you know are wrong just to try and start fights.

>>160132401
Just make a sfw version of exhentai.

>>160132623
>proven wrong multiple times
Only in that crazy head of yours.

oh boy here we go
rev up your reports

>>160132741
Iirc MK is going to allow raws again eventually.

>>160133507
What's MK

>>160133542
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

>>160133507
Any news/estimates/guesses about when that will happen? Or this this a "maybe one day in a faraway future" thing?

>>160132863
You've never made an actual argument, you've just screamed that you're right never explaining why.

At the risk of inviting shitposters, what constitutes a "good group" in /a/'s opinion? Usually I hear
>no drama
>fast releases
>good quality

But quality is subjective and people often have standards for cleaning/redrawing that focus on microscopic detail. And given the vast number of groups out there, I would say the majority of them have no visible drama simply because they aren't heard of.

>>160133653
>While it's not going to happen right away, we're going allow raw manga
uploads again. People keep complaining about it, and (apparently) nobody else
wants to run a terrible server themselves. (if you do run a terrible raws
server yourself, let me know and I'll link to it). I think the initial
decision to disallow raws was right, but that was like a year ago, so rejoice
and stuff. I don't have a solid timeframe for when we'll actually do this,
but it'll be sometime before, around, or after when I finally merge HTTP
credentials with SFTP. Complain at me and it might get done Slightly Faster™

>>160133507
madokami

>>160133895
retard

>>160133886
A group with no name, no credits page and with no official site.
Just make an IRC room or Discord server and coordinate through there. Then release under the name /a/nonymous and that's it. That's how I do it and there's no drama. In one project it'es just me and a translator. That's it. In another one it's me, 4 other typesetters, 3 translators, 2 proofreaders and 2 redrawers. We still post under the name /a/nonymous and only have a discord server and a few emails (leftover from before we realized emails are shit) for communication.

>>160133976
I usually run things that way as well. But if the rest of the team wants to be labelled and stuff, I don't particularly care. But most of my groups are 2 man groups.

>>160133889
One day, then.

>>160133542
https://manga.madokami.al/

>>160134057
Oh my, a sekrit klub? Can I join?

>>160134166
Only if you can find the file named READ.txt

>>160133895
Them allowing raws will change nothing because it's a secret club and not a site aimed at the japanese uploaders

>>160110206
Please stop appropriating a culture,and spoonfeeding mouth breeders whom cannot take a few minutes of their day to learn moon.

>>160134688
It'll take more than a few minutes a day to learn moon.

Some's up to translate some cute vanilla extras?

>>160134057
>ai
Thank you, I still had .com saved and got security warnings.

Fuck manga traders and their 20 second download interval

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Which one do you use with pen tool when drawing something, shape or path? Have you noticed any difference, which one do you think is better?

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>>160136062
Anon...
Read the fucking OP.

>>160135524
>cute vanilla extras
For what?

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Who wants to typeset Leiji Matsumoto and other stories of his era for me if my scripts look like this for every page of manga?

I hate sitting on thousands of pages of translations just because I'm too lazy to format them correctly for others.

>>160136563
I don't use IRC

>>160136603
What's the difficulty level for redrawing? I know Chinese so I have no problem with formatting.

Where am I gonna find Jump now that haruka is dead

What does scanlators think about this?


http://kotaku.com/manga-pirates-are-having-trouble-going-legit-1796553894

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>>160114517
it's not perfect (still some noise) but the content aware fill helps a lot with patterns. use a lazo or the pen to select the area around the text (with some padding) and fill with content aware mode

>>160137700
>expecting to make any real money out of your hobby of translating mongolian cave drawings
Bwakas, but god damn those faggots who got into the 'industry' doing unofficial scanlations and now want to OY VEY SHUT IT DOWN SO I CAN MAKE MONEY are some turbo-faggots (special mention for Daiz/Jewcob).

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Can I get the name of the title font? I want to copy it.

>>160137700
>kotaku.com
Nice try.

>>160136724
It's going to be on all blogs because they steal from each other anyway

The question is what's going to be the initial source

>>160136452
No one uses pen tool or have any idea about it?

>>160137769
And all the editors that joined Jewcob after he bought them for money.

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>>160123620
how do you even redraw that lag
when you manage to do so share the result I'm curious

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What do you think about the fact that you're killing your hobby?

>>160138629
>heavily scanlated

What does that even mean?

>>160138629
>It's not popular, so we're not picking it up.

>>160138855
Maybe manga that are scanlated by more than one group, or are quickly up to date with the Japanese release, I don't know.

>>160138884
And funnily enough, it doesn't get popular in the west until it's scanlated...

>>160129376
I would seriously love some addon or anything like it that could let you group fonts in photoshop. I have way too many and I tend to forget the names, it's a pain in the ass to go checking between the hundreds of regular fonts and the different manga fonts.

>>160138629
They should give this data to other publishers

>>160136452
I've never used the pen with shapes before. I generally just stroke the path with the brush to redraw lines that are supposed to be "perfect", shit that was originally drawn with a ruler or is supposed to be very precise.

I tend to avoid using the pen nowadays because in many cases it can end up looking unnatural. I prefer to just redraw with the brush tool, adding some minimal imperfections that make it fit better with the original art.

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>>160139002
Photoshop CC has the Libraries panel but I think you need a legit copy because it works with the cloud or something. I get by with the recently used fonts from the drop down font menu anyway.

>>160139002
you can add fonts for typesetting as favorite and filter them by clicking on the star in the font menu

>>160139153
I was asking about pen tool since I remember an anon here suggesting shape over path because it blends better with mangaka's art or something but can't find right now in archives. How do you deal with curves if you're only using brush tool, by the way?

>>160139333
For curves, I generally lay down a very thin line with the pen tool and then go over it with the appropriate brush size. Again, depends on how it looks in the original drawing, sometimes I just use the pen.

>>160139171
Can this be done in CS6? I'm not finding the font menu.

>>160139534
dunno. it's been years since I last used CS6.
why are you using CS6 anyway?

>>160139534
I was using cs6 until fairly recently and I'm pretty sure you can't.

>>160139578
I got used to CS6 and didn't feel a need to change, since I suspected that most additions to newer versions wouldn't be really helpful with what I use photoshop for and I don't want bloat.

What should I be using?

>>160132080
But I'm not part of UGcity sekrit club.
Shit man, I was waiting for the nips to upload a couple tanks I had been looking forward too. What shitty timing.

>>160138629
Localizations can die for all I care, it would actually be great if they all went bankrupt. Just learn japanese nigger.

>>160139729
this is a comparison between CS6 and CC
I always use the latest version available because I'm a child and I always want to try the newest features
KB shortcuts are not always consistent in all the versions but 98% should remain the same
I just download the iso from adobe website and patch the amtlib, you don't even need a keygen

>>160140048
I fucked up, here's the link https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/versions.html

>>160139954
Jp publishers should just make it easier to directly import their titles desu.

>>160139954
So what are you doing in the scanlation thread then?

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>>160138408

>>160140139
To scanlate? Localizations only get in the way of scanlations.

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>>160140141
you wizard. how do you keep consistency with the textures? I mean without accidentally blurring everything

>>160140239
>Just learn japanese nigger.
Then what is this? If you want people to learn Japanese, then your "work" as scanlator becomes pointless.

>>160140318
And why is that a problem? This isn't a job, it's just a way to solve a problem. I only do it so I can share shit with all these idiots who can't speak japanese. If everybody knew nip then all the better, would solve everything.

>>160140247
The texture used in the leg panel is the same as the one on the girl's sleeve in the first panel. Just paste or clone it there then adjust levels.

>>160140419
Teach people Japanese by slowing changing words in the translation to romaji, then to romaji with characters in parenthesis, and then eventually to characters. I learned a lot of Japanese from playing eroge with text hooker and translation aggregation, it's the same principle.
Or just wait until they come out with language packs for the eventual digital receiver that we'll embed into our brains.

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>>160138629
Maybe these niggers should do their own research and pick up series before the scanlation is already 3 years in. When they shit all over the scanlators who created the fanbase in the first place, people tend to not look kindly upon them.

>>160138855
It means they only pick up series when there's already an existing fanbase because they don't want to take risks. "Heavily scanlated" is probably their way of saying "popular enough that if one group drops it another will quickly pick it up."

They wait for a series to become popular thanks to fan effort, buy the licenses, DMCA anyone who tries to scanlate it and take 2 years to catch up with worse quality and shitty localied puns. By then all hype is dead and fans have fucked off from the manga's rotting corpse, then they act all indignant for scanlators "stealing" their money.

>>160130795
There are those iphone apps that use OCR and the camera to translate chinese and then match the color of the surface the text was on, using augmented reality and anchoring.

Is there anything like that for a desktop pc?

>>160138955
>or are quickly up to date with the Japanese release
Yeah, if they didn't toss DMCA complaints at scanlations that keep up with the nip release, or didn't have their english releases be perpetually 8 volumes behind it'd be fine.

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>>160136654
Not difficult at all. I'd say next to no redrawing, as it's a 60s title. I just need a typesetter to send me .psds so I can proofread after before release.

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What font would you use for this? I can't make a decision.

>>160141623
I need context

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>>160141658
(somewhat sadistically) teasing a cute girl

Anyone needs a page to get cleaned? I want to get some experience with cleaning but don't get your hopes up too much, I'm just learning so result may not be decent.

>>160141986
Cleaning or redrawing?

>>160142200
Cleaning.

We need some kind of aggregate community where people can recruit translators, cleaners, and typesetters, who can in turn post the pages for group-sourced proofreading. That raffmanga site was promising until they got scared, lobotomized their platform, and closed it off to everyone but existing members.
Yet still, on the site now you have people translating entire chapters in a couple hours in dozens of languages every day.

>>160138629
Mm, yeah, that explains why almost every manga ever that's been picked up has had a semi to very strong "pirate" fanbase.

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>>160141805
Any of these tickle your fancy?

>>160142778
Nah, it needs something sorta blocky with a monotone vibe to it.

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>>160142778
Any of these tickle yours? Adam Warren Pro, SansSanity and Blambastic in that order.
Yes, I'm that bored.

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https://twitter.com/YonkouProd/status/888763596636737536

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>>160143395

>>160141805
what about this? http://www.dafont.com/avenged-for-yourself.font?text=Do+you+suck+dicks%3F

>>160143547
What?

>>160142292
Maybe recently, but a few years ago companies like Tokyo pop were constantly picking up random titles.

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>>160143762
I don't think it fits for this, but there's some other text that would look good in Neuropoli, so thanks anyways
>>160143957
Looks pretty good. I've got it narrowed down to avenged for yourself and world at war.

>>160143547

Quit posting Twitter shit, no one cares about what publishers and old men think about scanlation.

>>160144568
As basic courtesy you should respect your elders.

>>160141578
Ok, I'll do it as long as you're dedicated. Have a throwaway email I can use to contact you?

>>160144471
honestly I think the last one is too bold
it's hard to find something that is squared, rounded and that does not have weird shapes for special characters keeping a sans serif feeling
it's probably useless but I'll say it anyway, go on dafont and hava a look in the basic category http://www.dafont.com/mtheme.php?id=5&text=WHY+WON%2527T+YOU+LOOK+AT+ME%253F#null

Avoid Script and Techno categories, they have too weird fonts, you want something that is as much sans serif as possible here or you'll confuse the reader with weird letters and symbols

>>160143547
I don't get it, they killed online or physical distribution?
Has this affected anyone other than MS (chinks, koreans)?

I am about to post to Batoto for the first time. I see there's a restriction on uploading though.
How long am I going to have to wait for the chapter to be approved?

>>160145727
It just comes down to whenever a mod decides to work through the queue.
Expect anywhere from 1-12 hours normally. The longest I've had to wait was about 18.

>>160145727
12 hours

>>160114496
I can try to crack it. I've got some time to play hide and go seek in IDA.
Do you have a file I could work with?

>>160145727

Just ask for Contributor status in the forum after uploading a few things to show that you're not a shitposting leech.

>>160146314
Unless the admins suddenly got more active about approving contributors, you can expect to wait a year or so before they actually get around to it.

>>160146375

My wait was a day at most. You can always PM someone if no one replies soon.

>>160146471
Okay, looking at it now, I see that they seem to have a dedicated mod for approving contributors.
A few years ago, it was as I described.

>>160146375
>>160146545
That sounds horrible, but they seem to have their shit together now.
I applied for a contributor status back when I was uploading Keijo and I got mine the first Friday they reviewed it. At that time, they only reviewed contributors requests on weekends or something like that.

>>160145787
Chapter is available to view instantly for stuff I upload in recent months for some reason when it wasn't before.

>>160146283
Their reader is in .NET, it was packed with some dumb protector last time I checked. So you need to make a dump once it's unpacked in the memory. It also spawned several reader processes that debug each other so you need something like Process Hacker to suspend and detach from debugger if you want to attach for some reason. There seem to be some native x86 dlls that probably also perform some decryption but I didn't look too much into it due to lack of time.

I advise you to look at the old tool to get the general idea, it read decryption keys from the local database file and decrypted the books. In the latter versions it looks like they added another layer of encryption on top of the database entries or someshit. The tools that came later used dll hooking which they detected and banned offending users so be careful. Ideally you gotta make a standalone tool that doesn't interact with the reader at all.

https://my.mixtape.moe/irscrn.zip

About example files, they had free books you could "buy".

Good luck and be prepared to play a ban hide and seek with these faggots.

>>160146956
Good for you, I waited 5 months

>>160147277
So you quit?

Bato.to is an annoying community that ranges from tumblr to rapeman on any given day. I just found out the other day that I'm apparently somehow known as both an "angry misogynistic bigot" and a "faggot pc libtard" among those that frequent the comments..

>>160145787
How do I get into that yaoi express lane?

>>160147770
This is what I know from about 2 hours of analysis I did several months ago. I've got too many other things to do to continue that's why I shared what I know to save someone else the effort. This doesn't seem too hard in my opinion, unless they used some protector that virtualizes crucial functions (VMProtect, Themida, etc.) in which case the bar is raised significantly.

>>160148072
>engaging with the community
>reading comments other than those that point out mistakes you might have made with the translation, etc
Why?

>>160148807
>comments...that point out mistakes you might have made with the translation, etc

Those kinds of comments aren't allowed for some absurd reason.

What do you guys do with stuff that's not small enough to just immediately erase and replace, but not big enough to be subtitled like a big sfx.

>>160149106
Even if they might be banned under the tos, people still make them and I appreciate them.
We never would have guessed that "having a round face" means being well acquainted if it wasn't for one kind person telling us about it in the comments.

>>160149235
I don't bother with SFX at all.

>>160149235
What specifically are you talking about? A sign? SFX? Side-text?

>>160144260
And how'd that work out for them, again?

>>160143995
>>160144855
See >>160132080

>>160149730
Does this affect digital scan?

>>160149730
IIRC Jump raws on haruka were the digital version and they were posted the same day they came out so it was not an early leak.

Anyone got a good generic translation for 盛り上る for me?
I know what it means, but can't think of anything that sounds good.

>>160149959
Pumped up? JLPT -10 here.

>>160149959
"Heating up" is what I default to, but that works best in sports settings.

>>160150175
That sounds great, will use it. Thanks.
I always slow down with simple words like that because I can't think of anything that sounds good. Annoying!

>>160132080
He is making new haruka-yume.
http://shobonnexus.com/

>>160149475
side-text, basically reading "laugh laugh"

>>160149235
Post picture.

>>160150359
Buckle up and redraw it.

>>160139002
What is the tool preset menu?

>>160136600
https://exhentai.org/g/981386/140e59c54d/

There's only the extra chapters that came with the tank left untranslated.

>>160151149
>tool preset menu
Wow, that is great. I didn't know such a thing existed. Thanks, anon.

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Team Moe's looking for a cleaner for SS Special Stage. Volume 1's translated.

[email protected]
irc://irc.rizon.net/#teammoe

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/fj8eh58siam91/SS_Special_Stage

>Street racing, touge and wangan. Some rallying. It’s mainly about a middle aged guy who rediscovers an old Group B Starion belonging to his boss that he never got to race since Group B got canned before it could run. He fixes it up and takes it out on the streets. It’s bit of a twist on the usual coming of age story, this time it’s an older guy coming to terms with his own age.

>>160150305
That site is old and ran by someone else I think.

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Can anyone identify the fonts for patter, ka-ka-pow, and snap in this pic?

>>160132080
I just use those zip/rar sites.

>>160132080
Where do you get the digital raw for Monthly Shonen magazine??

>>160153674
>The scanlation group died? That's okay, I just use that kissmanga site.
This is you.

>>160153593
Seems similar to Deathrattle.

>>160153774
The "Snap" is definitely deathrattle, but the "Ka-ka-kapow" is something different.

>>160153739
>bato.to got wiped? That's okay, I just use that kissmanga site.
This is me. Also kissmanga is one of the only sites to preserve resolution, fucking dipshits getting it confused with kissanime. You can find older stuff scanned by senfgurke or kickthekitty too.

>>160153674
>>160153735
>>160153739
There is no other source than those sites anyway, if it ain't there it ain't nowhere

>>160153739

Not really a comparison, Kissmanga is lossless and hosts the original image files. Raw sites usually compress it (though manga-zip seems to retain the original files and uses the amazing Sakurafile).

>>160154166
Where do you get those digital raw outside those sites? Chinese?

>>160154131
>>160154217
I wasn't trying to make a point about the resolution to begin with.
See >>160154166
Those raws on the zip/rar sites don't come out of nowhere.

>>160154291
But I'm reducing filthy gaijin traffic to their origin if I use them.

>>160154284
>digital raw
Literaly everywhere, Once the magazine is available digitaly, it's very easy to rip and share it. The only problem here is for Magazine that don't have digital release aka Young jump etc

>>160147277
Thanks for the tips. I'll see what I can do.

>>160154284
From their stupid secret private Chink and Jap clubs that require invites to get into. And then they have the audacity to say that you are less than them for using an alternative.

To illustrate just how sekrit they like to keep their clubs: I've been scanlating for a year and a half and therefore coming to these specific threads for a similar amount of time, and this is the first time that I've ever seen them actually name a certain two of these sites.

>>160154704
It's to keep the fuzz from catching on.

>>160138629
Licensed manga sales have no effect on what gets made in Japan, and I don't care about "the English market" which is full of retards making consistently bad decisions.

>>160140932
What the fuck, this is real.

>>160154284
The main source was haruka. All uploads marked as gold were things originally posted there. I guess shobon is going to be the new site since it allows user uploads apparently.

>>160154704
>From their stupid secret private Chink and Jap clubs that require invites to get into.

No, not really. The only secret club I know of is ugcity and barely anything got leaked from there to haruka.

>>160154847

>caring about what happens with speedscan faggots
>wow how i was supposed to know that leaking scans early would get me in trouble

>>160154847
So they were physical raws like the 10th mystery ones or digital from hacked stores?

>>160155004
Greedy money-grubbing fuckers had it coming.

>>160154870
>The only secret club I know of is ugcity and barely anything got leaked from there to haruka.
I have never heard of Haruka before today, and the last time it appears to have been referenced in a scanlation thread was in early December 2016.

>>160155004From what i read in this thread, this affect also digital scans as well as others scan even after it releases in japan.

>>160155453
If you bought your own raws or just got them off nyaa/ddl blogs then you didn't really need to hear about them.

>>160153941
yandere and yankareshi are similar if you aren't trying to get the exact font.

Are we in the dark age of scanlation now??

>>160155698
Why is why I would argue that it's not fair to be mean to someone for not knowing about sites like it, as some above have done.

>>160155855
"no"

>>160155879
That haruka site was never really secret though? It was all over 2ch's download board, all download links were always public too. It was pretty much the biggest ddl manga site in japan.

>>160155935
There is no digital raw any more. I'm very dependent on that Weekly Shonen magazine digital

>>160156149

Suck it up and buy it yourself.

>>160156135
I'm not Japanese, and I can't read Japanese. It can't be that a translator and a translator alone is intended to be the one to acquire raws, whether for English scanlation efforts or for other endeavours.

>>160156149
>Weekly Shonen magazine
>Kodansha
Pretty sure it won't change.

Anyone used a stand and a camera instead of a scanner?
I haven't done any scanning and the scanner we have is really old. I have a decent DSLR though. I guess the problem then is lighting especially if the paper is glossy at all.

>>160157053

Just buy a good scanner.

>>160157103
The old scanner is an Acer 640U, 600x1200 dpi.
I ask about using a camera because I have a decent DSLR as I said and also a stand made for photographing documents.
If I had money to spare I would've just asked what scanner to get.

>>160155855
I guess since it's easier to pirate the english releases.

>>160146375
I waited about 4-5 days and that was about 4 months ago.

>>160158505
>>160146545

thanks for finally delivering with vanilla spider, love abe