Visual Novel translation status >Aiyoku No Eustia - 9.21%

Sekai/Denpa
Nekopara Vol 3 - May 26th release
Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk - In QA, Kickstarter finished, Spring release
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - 72% translated, Kickstarter finished, Summer release
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Picked up, Kickstarter finished, Winter 2018 release
Grisaia no Rakuen - Steam version released, uncut release upcoming
KaraKara 2 - 60% translated, late 2017 release
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
2236 A.D. - 100% translated, Engine/QA work ongoing
Maitetsu - 100% translated, engine work ongoing
Nenokami - Part 2 2017 release
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
Tenshin Ranman - 99.25% translated
Darekoi - 100% translated Engine/QA work ongoing
Wagamama High Spec - 100% translated, early 2017 release. Editing/Engine work ongoing
>Koikuma - 67.83% translated, 2017 release
Hoshizora no Memoria - 100% translated
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
SakuSaku - Engine/QA work ongoing, Spring 2017 release
Baldr Sky - Picked up both 1 and 2
Fatal Twelve - 52% translated, Kickstarter finished, demo released
Her and Her and My 7 Days - 70% translated
Girls in Glasses - Picked up
The Bell Chimes For Gold - Picked up
Unannounced Project 1 - 68% translated
Unannounced Project 2 - 100% translated, editing/engine work ongoing
CyberRebeat - Picked up


Frontwing
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger - Volumes 1+2 released, Volume 3 Summer release
Sharin no Kuni - 2nd Kickstarter finished, goal reached, August 2017 release
Island - Roughly 50% translated, 2017 release
Subahibi - 2017 release
English release planned for "upcoming adult title"


Visual Arts
Little Busters - On Steam Greenlight, 2017 release
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Degica
Muv Luv Alternative - 2017 release
Muv-Luv Photonflowers - Translation started
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - To follow Photonflowers
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
Collar x Malice - 2017 release
Bad Apple Wars - 2017 release
Code: Realize fandisc - Picked up


Fruitbat
Seven Days - Late 2017 release
SeaBed - Late 2017 release
Chuusotsu! 1st graduation - Kickstarter started, late 2017 release


Other
>Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Physical version shipped, May 16th for full release
Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen - 5/23 release
Dies irae - Steam release 5/31, uncut patch to follow
>Taisho Alice - To be released "with in the next couple of weeks"
LoveKami Useless Goddess - Early Summer release
Tayutama 2 - Summer release
Danganronpa V3 - 9/26 release
Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro - 11/30 release
Magical Charming - Fall release planned
Gakuen Club - 2017 release
428: Shibuya Scramble - 2018 release
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
Harumade, Kururu - Seems to have an English release planned
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

Looking forward to more licenses disappearing from sekai: https://twitter.com/MonsieurSushi/status/860957761961590784

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Whilst taking down the listing this week, I noticed something curious. It would appear that Tsumairo Shoujo/Sweet Young Wife, whilst having a product page and being linked on the front page, doesn't actually exist in mangagamer's catalog proper. For example, it's not listed in the catalog popularity ranking, checking ammolite's titles doesn't list it, and even searching for "sweet" doesn't bring it up. It's possible that mangagamer may have changed how preorder titles work recently, or this could be a special consideration for the content of the title itself, or it could be a simple error. It is an interesting curiosity though.

Top 5 Ranking: https://pastebin.com/bH0H7cdb
Popularity Sort: https://pastebin.com/ePRzJ9ZQ
Full Data Point List: https://pastebin.com/4Az6eYY7

As always, this tracker is powered by anonymous like you, so post order numbers if you've got em'.

>>16980106
Eh, it could be simply that PQube is publishing it for them in Europe (like they do with Marvelous Titles). It would mean more if the Steam page changed.

>Project announced
>Translator dropped out
>No other updates for 10 months

If Baldr Sky was a fan project, it would've been deleted by now for no updates and no progress.

>>16980114
Order Number - 272239
Order Date - 2017-04-28 13:45:49

>>16980287
Honestly I think it's because PQCube has a proven track record of translating games and bringing them to PS store. Which makes sense why Japanese would trust PQCube over Sekai right now.

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9 more days mang

>>16980114
>It's possible that mangagamer may have changed how preorder titles work recently
That can't be true because Funbag Fantasy hardcopy shows up like it's supposed to in those cases you mentioned.

>or this could be a special consideration for the content of the title itself
Highly unlikely, since Sweet Sweat is a similar title and still shows up.

>or it could be a simple error.
This most likely.

>>16980626
The difference is that official companies are pretty much guaranteed to release it eventually. And if you go by no updates for a long time, then just about all of JAST's list would be deleted too.

>>16982020
Are people even hyped for this? It was originally a remake of a much older VN by the company. Libra isn't a very well-regarded moege at all.

>>16982284
There isn't much hype about it because the Kickstarter for it was like a year ago and it's not being put out by any of the main localization companies.

That said, I'm interested in it, if only because I haven't read a >50 hour VN in a while. Also will get me in the chuuni mood for DI

>>16982316
>mfw I'm so glad I finished DI before you EOPs got your hands on it

>>16982316
From what I've read it isn't very good as a chunni title. It's just very repetitive with its action scenes.

Its moege aspect isn't very good either. It can't decide if it's a true love story or a harem. Basically, MC picks one girl as his lover and tells the other heroines that they cant' be his lovers, but he still fucks them and cheats on the heroine he chooses anyway.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=919376331
What the hell.
Also, that fucking last screenshot. SCAJI went to steam w/out any research whatsoever?

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>>16982020
No vampire loli route

>>16982856
She's getting an episode set before Libra. Buy yeah, no route.

>>16982773
Wow. They didn't show a translated title or description in order to make it easier for English readers to find and vote for.

This is Subahibi for crying out loud. It's such a stealth thing that even OP didn't catch it.

>>16982773
Does he plan to unload the uncensored VN onto Steam?

That's not going to fly. H-patches are a thing, but you can't put the H content itself on Steam.

>>16982773
Oh, wow....

>>16983079
It's always possible that Steam has gotten so lax that Japanese mosaic is enough.

>>16982896
It's probably a fake listing.

>>16983131
Very unlikely. They likely didn't check Steam's guidelines. Plus, it's not even behind an age gate, which would be required even if it somehow was allowed.

They didn't even have the common sense to translate the page despite advertising an English version.

>>16983131
there's a porn section now

>>16983139
this. there's no references to it on keromakura twitter. for now it looks like an expensive troll.

>>16982773
Clearly not genuine. If it were, Sca-ji would tweet about it.

>>16983139
Poster is KeroQ.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198385456754

It even links back to their official website.

>>16983159
That's weird. I wonder how Frontwing is involved.

>>16983079
This will get you banned on /jp/, but not on steam. What a time to be alive.

>>16983159
Sounds really hard to make an account like that.

>>16983171
I doubt that I can be banned making pics from Steam and less with that half censored sausage.

>>16983193
Let's test it then. You know what to do.

>>16983171
Steam just hasn't caught wind of it yet.

>>16983159
This is not evidence against it being a fake listing. Anyone could do this.

The Subahibi listing didn't originally have a video, only screenshots. They added one when someone in the comments told them they needed one.

It sounds more like incompetence than a troll.

>>16983159
It may be incompetence as opposed to a fake entry, but the same was mostly true for the fake White Album entry on Steam Greenlight last year, posted by the user "Leaf" that linked to a video by a new Youtube account made to look like a legitimate Leaf Youtube channel.

Does the teacher in Hatsukoi 1/1 have any scenes?

>>16984068
Best teacher I've met so far was in Sakura Season. She sees you being in love with the classmates and decides to help you learn how to have sex properly.

If only most teachers were that kind.

So Quof, who I understand to be "your guy" ended up writing his extrapay shill article for tsumairo shoujo, and in it he said
>"I translated Sweet Young Bride which we at MangaGamer are treating as a kind of “sequel” to Sweet Sweat in Summer, a beginning of perhaps a long and fruitful series of Sweet localizations from Ammolite."

So the next loli title from ammolite would be https://vndb.org/v19092 which seems to be far more pedo judging from it's story summary at http://www.ammolite-game.com/amml_012/amml_012_story.html

Now https://vndb.org/v19092 already has an english title, so what'll they do to it? Just append it Sweet Little Twins? That almost sounds even more pedoy than just leaving it Little Twins.

Given that I dunno if MG's got the balls to get that pedo yet, there's an alternative that they might be talking about https://vndb.org/v16874 which looks... kinda boring. Judging from the story summary it seems like it's about a protagonist who's got the usual "scary anime eyes" which gets him labelled a delinquent but which also happens to make his two classmates wet. Almost so boring as to be unlikely.

What do you think /jp/?

>>16984830
>https://vndb.org/v19092
Damn, I like those preview CGs.

>>16984830
Doesn't matter, it's not Monobeno or Tanuki soft games.

>>16984830
>there's an alternative that they might be talking about https://vndb.org/v16874
No because that VN doesn't have lolis.

>>16984938

Well no shit, but like I said, little twins might still be too hardcore for mangagamer.

If that's the case, all quof said was
>perhaps a long and fruitful series of Sweet localizations from Ammolite

>>16984830
Probably just call it Sweet Twins. It's not like the other two games had sweet in the title either. There's nothing really wrong with dropping the naming convention entirely if they want to though.

I don't think it looks that much more pedo than the other two games. MG will probably only get the (arguably only borderline) lolige unless there is obvious demand for the other titles. After the lolis are gotten, they'll nab more NTR games from the company's one of other brands (Appetite) or something that's fethistic in nature.

As for loli titles, there's this https://vndb.org/v18576 and https://vndb.org/v20430 as well, and I think there might be enough of a niche for shota titles for MG to try https://vndb.org/v19607.

>>16984830
Ichikawa Noa games will sell, whatever they are.

>>16985149
>I don't think it looks that much more pedo than the other two games

Did you read the story summary? It's about a guy who's entrusted with his nieces and they're calling him papa and talking about his "white pee"

>https://vndb.org/v18576 and https://vndb.org/v20430

Those aren't loli titles.

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>The Bishoujo Mangekyou translation is finished now all that's left is making the patch and bugtesting.
>Expect the release in 1.5 to 3 months.

>>16982856
Really well shit. Guess I'll just download a save and fap to her scenes then.

>>16985435
Longer it takes the better, trash done by someone who doesn't know Japanese and barely knows English should be buried

>>16982773
Presumably in response to that Greenlight page, Frontwing put out a response saying that anything official would go through their Steam account, so I imagine Steam will remove that shortly.

https://twitter.com/FrontwingInt/status/861410846538256385

>>16985457
If I understood it correctly, there's no route for her in the original at all, not that they decided to not translate her route.
I see 1-2 scenes of her in the panda gallery. Now, I don't know if this happens in the common route or if it's a bonus story, but I'm hoping these will be in the EOP release as well.

>>16982773
Lol that last screenshot I think that is Dovac's dream route.

>>16986523
The gallery on the official Japanese site has a CG of her taking a dick.

>>16986523
Having sex with her is canon and part of many routes.
There's no route for her because she already gets huge chunk of screentime in the game.

>>16984830
Quof works for MG?

I considered his just a fedora-tipping Redditor?

>>16983148
>There's a porn Section

On Steam?

>>16986868
No, he just sold his TL. I really hope they put a competent editor in charge of that one, though.

>>16987342
Why need an editor? Quof translation reads completely fine.

>>16987490
>t.quof

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oh god what did i do

>>16988116
I know what you did, but I will not answer you. This is not the place to ask.

>>16988116
"Save data is from old version of game. Please delete save data and restart the game"

Looks like Steam finally took down the fake Subahibi greenlight listing.

>>16984875
This. Ammolite titles are bland. Call me when MG translate a big lolige like Monobeno.

Chuusotsu is up to about $12.5k with 22 days left, so it seems to be on pace to reach its goal, especially when factoring in the final push it should get.

>>16988995
I doubt they'd do a big title, because they'd be on their own trying to promote it. Even lewdgamer showed they won't do articles about lolige when Sweet Young Bride was announced. They eventually mentioned it in passing, but didn't talk about any lolige elements and wouldn't show any questionable images of it.

>>16989320
They need to keep updating and being active to keep attention on it.

I think in the beginning they were too overconfident and assumed that 20k would be an easy target.

>>16984875
>>16988995
Why the fuck are people so fixated on Monobeno? The "always half-closed eyes" look that the heroines have is horrible.

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>>16989572

You're a funny guy, anon.

>>16989595
They look high. That's something you can't deny.

https://exhentai.org/s/4fabfcd703/488249-517
https://exhentai.org/s/0bd158d583/488249-518
https://exhentai.org/s/7a636f366b/488249-795
https://exhentai.org/s/5f87291243/488249-867
https://exhentai.org/s/ccaffcb6e9/488249-876
https://exhentai.org/s/b4f71ead57/488249-932
https://exhentai.org/s/9b8995b2ab/488249-962

>>16989331

I don't think they were expecting to quickly sail pass $20k. They made sure the project wasn't dependent on the Kickstarter in the event that the Kickstarter fails, and the first couple Stretch goals were $22k and $24k, not much above the initial goal. It might be a bit below their expectations, but it seems to be mostly on track and on a pace to reach its goal.

They also have been adding tiers to it, but with Fruitbat's limited abilities to actually reach anyone and choosing a completely unknown niche doujin title, it's not a surprise that it hasn't taken off. Not that the latter is unique to this Kickstarter, they made a fortune with some gameplay titles on Steam a few years ago and Eiyuu*Senki probably did well on console, but none of their niche doujin VNs from the last year are above 2k on Steamspy.

>>16989320
Meanwhile "What!? My Neighbors Are Demons!!?" is at $7.5k. So I guess it is still true all-ages is the big money, but skipping the adult content is still not a good idea.

>>16989785
Why would you even compare the two? The latter is western trash. Not to mention that google told me the goal for that was 7k.

>>16989321
They did an article on it when it went up for preorder with lewd images.

Maybe they already moved the hosting to a different state.

>>16982020
>Loli vampire gothic
>1 or 2 sexual scenes
What the fuck

>>16990453
Don't ask me why the title heroine isn't the main heroine.

>>16990469
Or rather, not a heroine at all.

>>16979941
>Maggot Baits - 31% translated
Oh baby... can't wait for this to get finished

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Dunno if it matters for this list, but.

GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class Slapstick Wonderland, the PSP spin-off, has been translated.

https://nodamiki.github.io/

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KnS was so good. I really loved the music and atmosphere...tempted to play it again

>>16991102
I saw people trying to do this two years ago and thought about volunteering but was overwhelmed by ennui and never came back. I'm glad they finally got it finished.

>>16988136
Not him but you're a self righteous asshole

Assuming that it isn't from a new partner, there aren't a lot of choices of companies for Mangagamer to license a gameplay title from.

As far as I know, there's Alicesoft, Baseson (or some other brand under Nexton), and Liarsoft. All of these seem unlikely, but assuming Softhouse Seal hasn't come back to Mangagamer, there aren't any other companies I can think of.

>>16992380
Circus has a few games to pick from though that's unlikely as well.

I feel basing the level of the game on the con is a bad idea. It's much more likely they are announcing it simply because it fits the release slot(and is guaranteed to be done unlike Del Sagno) and not because it belongs at some other convention. So it could very well be Evenicle or Rance.

>>16992380
Softhouse Seal at least seems to be looking Westward still, or at least they licensed out a nukige not to long ago for that mobile platform. Of course that doesn't mean they'll work with MG again.

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>>16992380
There's also the slim possibility that it's that monster girl/futa gameplay evn done by the group behind Stargazers. MG did announce their previous title at one of last year's cons, so maybe they're counting it as an official announcement this time.

>>16992523
Possible, but that VN was funded by Nutaku based on what I've read on the maker's twitter feed. I doubt MG is releasing that.

>>16992537
The dev's ask.fm revealed it's Nutaku first, so timed exclusive. It'll still most likely end up at MG soon after.

https://ask.fm/Irraere/answers/140645595862

>>16992541
The gameplay eroge is supposed to release next after Sweet Wife. Since Mutiny doesn't have a release date even on Nutaku, there's no telling when it'll release on MG. Since the date of it is so uncertain, it's unlikely Kouryuu would have mentioned as that being the next title.

>>16992559
I think MG's next release after Sweet Bride will be Dies irae if they carry it at launch. The gameplay title likely won't launch until sometime next month, so it could be anything.

>>16992564
That doesn't exactly count as a MG release though, they're just a distributor in that case.

It's probably some budget nukige with gameplay.

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You EOPs better fund Chuusotsu. Hiruou does 70% of the work himself while working a full time job and pays out of pocket for voice acting, music etc. He's also one of the best vn writers in recent years.

>>16992146
My nigger, i still have yet to finish some endings, the true ending (in KnS2) truly fucked me up.

>>16993266
No porn no buy.

>>16992146
Still waiting for MG to translate Caucasus.

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Mangagamer is meme king

>>16989572
>The "always half-closed eyes" look that the heroines have is horrible.
You can adjust the eyes from open to smug to shut.

I know I was shocked too. "You mean, it's not actually full of smug lolis? I've been lied to!"

>>16994386
Nice surprise box, but thanks for that.
Okay, you can translate Monobeno now.

Are there any set dates when Mangagamer announce new project or anything like that?

>>16994480
Yes, conventions.

>>16994480
http://mangagamer.org/announcements/#
Anime Central panel, AX panel, and Otakon panel

>>16993812
Is it Caucasus or Pianissimo that goes full retard with space nazi's?

>>16994526
I'm pretty sure that's Pianissimo.

Did the announcement at the beginning of Hatsukoi not get translated?

>>16993266
Maybe he should have included and promoted nude scenes then.

>>16994338
Not sure if he's still with Sekai, but the translator for that got fired because of the TL quality and ended up being one of the founding members of Sekai Project.

E2 released Taisho Alice volume 1.

Shockingly it looks like no Steam release, they are just selling it through their website for $30. Additionally it isn't dual audio, they just dubbed it, gave it English and Spanish text, and got rid of the Japanese voices.

>>16995205
The localization is also a trainwreck.

Looks like the fujos are losing their shit over it

https://twitter.com/BishieCraft/status/862002491105398785

also lots of complaints on E2Gaming's facebook

>>16995205
>Taisho Alice; only fucking dubs and released by an unknown website.
Wow, another sugoi release.

>>16995205
>dubbed it

wait what

>>16995260
Dubbed with the owner of the company voicing several of the male characters.

>>16995284
Damn, now that is how you keep voice costs down. Sekai should take notes.

>>16995305
> baldr sky voiced by dovac
Please no.
Altho Gilbert will be fitting role for him.

>>16995284
The owner should have dubbed it in Spanish too for extra laughs.

>>16995205
They actually got money out of the Cool Japan initiative to partially fund the localization.

I wonder where they go from here though, they might be able to get some people to unsuspectingly buy it, especially if they decide to put it on Steam, but this is just the first of a four part release, and I can't imagine that volume 2 would be a success even if they somehow don't do poorly with volume 1. Honestly if voice costs were out of reach they would have fared much better leaving it unvoiced like some of the older MG titles.

>>16995727
At least it seems like it's good streamer bait like Nekopara was.

It would be incredibly hilarious and sad if it actually picked up sales due to the "so bad it's good" quality of the game being aired via streamers.

>>16994989
That's interesting. I haven't noticed any lack of quality in the manuscript, but I don't know Japanese very well so I can't really tell

>>16994989
>Fired because he can't even translate a nukige decently
>Said translator becomes one of the founding members of Sekai Project
Everytime

>>16984830
I think they should just do Little Bitch Girls in Hog Farm.

>>16994989
He's their current CEO actually. The TL isn't an unmitigated disaster, but it certainly leaves a lot to be desired, both in terms of accuracy, and quality of the english text.

>Witch's Garden - 23% (12588/53677) lines translated
Those guys are still going, huh?

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Can anybody be so kind and tell me if this VN has a furigana option?

>>16996059
>18+ game
100% zero chance

>>16995284
>Dubbed with the owner of the company voicing several of the male characters.

You're joking, I assume.

>>16996191
No. Check the twitter comments.
https://twitter.com/BishieCraft/status/862002491105398785

>>16996191
Likely not, based on what the fujoshi dug up.

>>16996248
Haro's calling it a legit scam on Twitter. Like there was never any real attempt to put out a decent product.

>>16996059
You don't sound like you could read it even if it did.

Holy crap, they didn't secure the download so if you have the link to Taisho Alice you can download it.

Not sure if they fixed it by now.

>>16996393
I've just tried it and I can still download it

Really put's the Persona 5 localization literally killing their families into perspective.

>>16996378
To be honest, I hesitate to call it a scam, if only because they took the effort to actually make a dub, as god awful as it is.

>>16996415
I've seen twitter posters that were aghast at Persona 5 use Taisho Alice of why you shouldn't translate literally, which is a silly strawman if I've ever heard one.

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Translation when?

>>16979941
>Hemoimo
Anyone know what happened to this?

>>16995284

I'm glad I'm not a fujo so I don't have to be disappointed and can instead just find this utterly hilarious.

>>16995941
>>16995987
He's also an incredibly anti-ero and anti-lolicon person. iirc he used to bitch and moan about the horrors of translating nukige on IRC and said that lolicons belong in prison, or something.

>>16996697
They have a bad track record.

https://twitter.com/ManaMiz3r/status/861672141862785026

And here's the current brand's mess ups.

https://figurativelyspeaking.me/2016/05/31/taisho-x-alice-to-be-localized/

>>16993266
Alright go ahead and fund it for us here. It's nearly 8k left you can do it.

>>16996059
Furigana is something you would read in things like One Piece or Shounen manga. Beyond that is when just basic kanji is used. I would recommend slice of Life or to love ru as those are usually just basic vocab and grammar to read.

>>16996697
The thing about literal translation is sometimes justification for the Japanese subs to exist. Usually you just call try to go for sentence equivalent of the translation than try to translate literally.

>>16996059

Well, there's none on that screen and I don't think I've ever seen a VN with one either, so.

Also as everyone says, if you still need furigana you're probably too early to be reading VNs. You should go play pokemon or something.

>>16998611
Too bad. I thought that a nukige was supposed to be pretty easy to read according to DJT

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>>16998728
If you want furigana then you should read Shinju no Yakata.

>>16998728

They're easier to read than something more hardcore but you still need like a 10k word vocabulary(to get any enjoyment out of it and not have it be a chore)+the first few are slow going as you learn all the sexual vocab.

If you're still on furigana then it's highly unlikely you've got a vocabulary that large.

>>16998755
That's true. I started the Core2k a couple of months ago and I understand what they say as a whole in english nukige sex scenes so i thought i was ready for a japanese one

Why do i have to run a game with System Locale Emulator for it to work even tough I've set my system locale to Japanese?

>>16995313
More like Nanoha because she cries all the time.
Gilbert is too imposing for dovac.

Hi, I asked /g/ and they said to come here. Sorry for the crosspost if you're browsing other threads I was linked to. I want to do fantranslations for VNs. The translating part I have a handle on, but I have 0 idea of the technical know how required. Can someone point me in the right direction?

>>16999520
Tlwiki, hongfire, ulmf might know what you need.

>>16999520
You need an unpacker and repacker. Tlwiki, has a list of outdated tools that might work with the VN you are thinking of doing, but for some engines you will probably have to look further afield or make it yourself.
What was you thinking of translating?

>>16999553
>>16999664
Alright. I'll make sure to snoop around TLwiki, hongfire and ULMF. I might have to ask around there how to make an unpacker/repacker it seems.

I didn't have a definite project yet. Just getting my feet wet to see if it's doable for one person, or if I should just jump on an existing team.

>>16999698
List off your favourite untranslated VNs. Someone passing by with tech knowledge may volunteer to work on one of them or at least point you in the right direction for some of them.

>>16999698
>Just getting my feet wet to see if it's doable for one person
At minimum, you might want to consider getting an editor. A one person project is doable for short-medium titles, but is prone to typos/errors that you may miss out on and an editor will help clear those up.
There is also Fuwanovel if you are desperate as you might get lucky and someone might jump in to help with the hacking/engine work. Expect some people to ask for sample scripts to prove you aren't a lost cause though.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/629650/Symphonic_Rain/

Updated CGs and sprites look nice.

>>16999833
I wonder if they got Phar's translation or if they did something new.

>>16999833
I wonder how it will do for them. Symphonic Rain obviously has been very well received by people who played the fan translation, but despite being a 2010 fan translation it never managed to find all that broad of an audience here, especially compared to some other titles released at the time.

Where is SukiSuki

>>17000686
Possibly stuck in engine hell?

https://twitter.com/Deoto/status/862115351219372032

>Little busters was announed one month ago and is getting his steam release
>Even Planetarian have something new
And there is me waiting for rewrite+ since one year and getting nothing.

>>17001157
I am waiting for Angel Beats.

Ugh Dovac is a creep https://twitter.com/dobacco/status/862400923913510912

He should be fired for saying stuff like that.

>>17001237
> dovac posting on twitter again
Huh, didn't he quit for real last time, when posted retarded shit about baldr sky fiasco?

>>17001258
I think he just moved on to discord. No better place to say stupid things than a place you can moderate.

>>17001258
He didn't exactly quit. He got his account seized by the company since he was a PR disaster and they allowed him to use it again back in April as long as he is supervised.

Chuusotsu update. Two side characters named Froit and Yung. I have a hard time accepting these as actual names as they sound like just something a localization team makes up because they didn't like the original. But maybe the writer just is really bad at naming.

It'll probably rise back up after the preorder period is done, but I find it funny that Rance is beating Sweet Wife right now.

http://www.dualshockers.com/fruitbat-factory-interview-talks-localizing-chuusotsu-1st-graduation-bringing-games-west/

>Sadly, it’s pretty hard to get visibility with the number of new releases coming through, and PC sales through traditional outlets have been slow – perhaps even diminishing. Based on what we hear from other publishers. this seems to be the norm rather than the exception at the moment.

>>17002066
Guess nobody wants lolige.Maybe MG will get the message and not license any more of it.

>>17002066
It's quite typical for MG titles to initially surge when they go up for preorder, fade for the middle, then jump back up again at release.

>>17002072
>Maybe MG will get the message and not license any more of it.

That'd be terrible. Hopefully they'll instead get the message that following up mikan with an even less loli title is pretty lame.

>>17002080
Given how some lolige fans have brushed off Sweet Young Pride as a boring ammolite title, it's possible that it just won't sell that well. It's low budget anyway, so it'll still likely turn a profiit.

>>17002092
Following up a flop with an expensive title wouldn't be likely. If Young Bride doesn't sell well they wouldn't have confidence in how a bigger lolige would perform.

>>17002072
Sweet Wife being censored probably hurts sales.

To be fair, short of a hyped Alicesoft title, I don't think any title would dislodge Rance VI from first place for long. It being cheaper than the long nukige while being about as long and having solid gameplay by eroge standards helps a lot.

>>17001237
I find it really hard to believe somebody as anti-loli as that shitter has a thing for randoseru.

>>16993266
Lol "JOP" reading "EOP" kuso

>>16999833
Damn, that's a pretty nice title.
Hope more people read it, because it's without a doubt a serious kamige contender.

>>17002068
>hard to get visibility with the number of new releases coming through
Thanks Irru & Trip, you are single-handedly making shit companies like Fruitbat and SP go bankrupt.

>>17001290
Aren't those blatant references to Freud and Jung?

>>17002068

This is very much in line with Steamspy numbers on many recent titles. It has been a rough time for (not already big or otome) VNs on Steam since last Summer (compared with 2014-early 2016), and while larger VNs have stabilized somewhat, more unknown niche/doujin stuff has continued to fall off (aside from Nekonin)

>>17002396
Fan translations are hardly the issue they are dealing with, but rather the flood of garbage onto Steam that has made it difficult to get exposure (and for actually good titles to stand out), as well as helped kill off much of the impulse buying that drove both VNs and other niche games to thrive a couple years ago.

>>17002943
Do you mean the sakura games and evns?
To be honest the shit Fruitbat has been pulling isn't any better.
I mean any Sakura game wipes the floor with MG'S Himawari.

>>16999833
Been meaning to give this a reread for awhile now. Might as well just wait for this, gonna get it day 1. Can only wonder if they updated the translation or just took the current fan one. I remember thinking it was a good one but it's been almost 5 years since I read it.

More proof that E2 Gaming is ran by a con artist.

https://twitter.com/i/moments/862501282099191808

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128KB, 625x446px

Does this mean that Primula is upset with E2?

>>17002068
For half the companies it is because they suck though. You can't expect to be ignoring your customers and then go "I wonder why they don't buy my product."

When I feel a company actually bothered to care about their customers, I'm faster with buying their products.

>>17003056
>>17003090

I'm just hoping they didn't get the rights to any other titles, and in particular the Moonstone titles initially listed were only there when E2 was negotiating and Moonstone eventually turned them down. I'm sure they figured out that there was going to be a disaster well before the release (even Primula removing the E2 label happened well before the release), and if they were trying to get any other projects in motion they would have wanted to do so before they lost any chance to license anything else after releasing this.

>>17003269
It's not that simple, because these companies that had such success during the Steam craze didn't get fans of their company, but fans of particular games (and there was no way to capture most of the audience from the craze, since they were just going from meme game to meme game). Fruitbat Factory for example has sold more than 300k copies of Orange Juice 100% on Steam, and has 5 other titles between 30k and 80k from 2012 through late 2015. While all of their VNs on Steam have landed flat with less than 2k type sales, even their non-VN titles from 2016 in line with their early successes haven't done nearly as well as their older titles, with the best being an early 2016 release just shy of 10k.

Their main problem isn't with the type of person who would see Chuusotsu and decide if they want to buy it or not based on what they think of Fruitbat Factory as a company, but rather losing the opportunity of getting tens of thousands of sales for a title like Chuusotsu purely on being a cheap VN on Steam suitable for impulse buying (and having the chance to get popular streamers to play it). Even without Steam keeping the floodgates open the original market wouldn't have been sustainable in the long term regardless, but the flood of crap helped kill it off much more quickly. The current situation puts a strain on plans for all the VN localization companies going forward, especially for projects that were put in the pipeline back during the end of the craze and were planned with much higher expectations.

>>17002396
>t.Mangagamer shill

>>17002954
It's far more than just the Sakura games, there is an absolutely huge amount of (often low quality) OELVNs and indie/doujin games that have been put on Steam the last few years. Sekai Project alone has put roughly 40 titles on Steam (not counting several Sakura titles before they lost the rights) since the beginning of 2016 (not all VNs), but that is only a small drop in the bucket. Not that the tagging is perfect, but a quick look and Steam looks to have had 93 releases with the "visual novel" tag from the start of 2017, after nearly 250 releases in 2016, before getting into non-VN indie/doujin games also targeting a similar market.

>>16994531
>>16994526
Yes that's Pianissimo, even reviews from Japan said it was shit. I think it's the first fail from InnoGrey.
But Caucasus looks great, not only the chara-design but the soundtrack is god-tier and the plot seems similar as Kara no Shoujo, a detective story.

>>17003377
>Moonstone titles initially listed were only there when E2 was negotiating and Moonstone eventually turned them down.
Source on this.

Dammit MG partner up with Lune already.

>>17003462
>didn't get fans of their company, but fans of particular games
Makes sense, since many Steam users couldn't even tell you who a specific VN's developer or publisher even are. Pretty much only the core VN community care about such things.

>>17004277
Caucasus still has supernatural elements, like many of Innocent Grey's early works.

>JLOP funded the localization for Taisho x Alice. Taxpayer money was spent on this translation.

I've put up some stuff that otome peeps have been investigating so far.

--There was a speculation that the owner of E2 was the one who did the dub as the game sounded like it is only dubbed by one person. You can compare his voice on this tweet here. This company could be a one-man team. https://twitter.com/ManaMiz3r/status/862003546455130113 https://twitter.com/ManaMiz3r/status/862143000767483905

But someone found the other voice actors as well. I'm not sure if they end up being in the game, but they're all friends of the owner. https://twitter.com/ManaMiz3r/status/862368508490809344

They're also known for their other failed projects as well https://twitter.com/ManaMiz3r/status/861672913803464705 https://twitter.com/ManaMiz3r/status/861672913803464705

Also this project was funded by JLOP (government Funded) https://twitter.com/MysticDistance/status/862172973012267008 https://twitter.com/flowermiko/status/862036356352094209

More about the JLOP project http://www.arc-japanese-translation.com/blog/20150810/index.html

E2 also boasts about their English PhD here https://twitter.com/eriazuru/status/862210017012744193

Primula (The company that owns TxA) removed E2 from their site https://twitter.com/NoelNachte/status/862224708237840385

Aside from the untranslated menu, terrible translation, the game is also broken! https://twitter.com/_riebakkari/status/862312690785542144

It's not a surprised that they block Japanese IP https://twitter.com/breadmasterlee/status/862072184889626624

>>17004453
Is that so? I thought it was a down to earth detective story. I don't remember any supernatural in Cartagra though.

>>17004655
Caucasus has vampires.

>>17004655
>I don't remember any supernatural in Cartagra though
Yura can read minds.

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>>17004694
Cool. Now i can only see Arcueid in the cover.

>>17004701
Did she? I really need to read it again. Even if she was on a lot of poster Yura had like 10 minutes of screentime in the whole VN. What a waste.

>>17004437
I worded that poorly, I was saying I hope that is the case that Moonstone turned them down, not that they clearly did, which is why it came after "I'm just hoping they didn't get the rights to any other titles,"

>>16979941
Gakuen Club was released on May 9th.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/505080/Gakuen_Club/

There are too many variables involved to get an exact idea about how Phantom Trigger did solely on Steam, but with it being out for a couple weeks it is clear that at least that it wasn't some kind of huge hit. That said, it doesn't look like it did nothing on Steam either, but if I had to guess Frontwing isn't going to be thrilled with the Steam performance of this higher profile title designed from the ground up for Steam (and obviously, it is well below their expectations from when they greenlit it, which according to that one interview was back in May 2015, right in the middle of the Steam craze).

On the other hand though, they actually have managed to pull in another $102k from the Backerkit, putting the crowdfunding total up to $285k. Granted most of that new funding would have been from selling Grisaia boxes rather than Phantom Trigger.

>>17005044
Phantom Trigger is overpriced. $15 for 3 hours of reading each. The story and characters are really meh too.

>>17004832
The Cartagra bit with the supernatural stuff was really dumb, because it's revealed in an info dump literally minutes from the end of the game in the true route, after the majority of the game is resolved, and isn't even really relevant to most of the games mysteries. They could easily have not included it and it would have been better off for it.

>>17005044
Phantom trigger was the first KS with good rewards in it, so they probably got 300% more money than they would have if they had run it like any previous campaign.

>>17005314
Obviously the Grisaia box was well liked, considering the $100k they got from backerkit, but that wasn't available until backerkit. But even the main campaign did benefit from people going after the higher priced goods, they averaged $107 per backer and managed to roughly match what Sharin did despite having 1700 backers compared to Sharin's 2400.

E2 Gaming deleted or hid their facebook page.

Also, a concerned fan contacted Primula and got a response.

https://twitter.com/Matsuri_Kuu/status/862800920064573441

>>17007507

About the best the fujos can hope for is that somehow this all amounts to a breach of contract. Even if that's the case, I'm pretty sure they'll just revoke the rights and be even more hesitant to hand them out to anyone else.

Sucks to be them.

>>17007948
I'm guessing the Japanese grant money (which presumably includes funding for works on the latter 3 parts) is another complicating factor. Especially if E2 pulled the same type of overpromising with them that they pulled with the Western community. Either way it will be interesting to see what happens going forward, although even if E2 somehow manages to keep the rights I can't imagine parts 2-4 doing anything sales wise.

It's always the risk of going with the new startup or working with unverified talent. Even if this is by far the worse localization to come out of the surge of interest in VNs, it's hardly the only disappointing release by either a new startup, or to come from untested translators who end up doing a poor job for a self publishing efforts.

>>17008220
This was borderline scamming though.
Can't they sue the fucker to oblivion?

Why the hell is the Dies Irae 18+ patch being released in August? Shouldn't it be a day one thing?

>>17005044
I would wait until the summer sale. That will help push it above the usual.

>>17008386
18+ customers are second class citizens

third class. know your place, peasant

Hatsukoi is actually pretty good

>>17008522
Would have been better if the teacher got some love too.

>>17008530
Yeah I love cakes. RIP

>>17008550
Feels weird since I just finished Trails of Cold Steel 2 where you can actually romance the cake teacher.

>>17008584
play persona 5 next

>>17008584
play ochiru hitozuma next

>>17008605
FInished it before CSII
>>17008608
I will after Hatsukoi probably.
Shota protagonist, Netorare and group male 1 female tags kinda turn me off though.

>>17008630
you can opt out of the gangbang garbage senpai

>>17008638
Aren't those scenes usually unavoidable? Especially if combined with other route rape etc.

>>17008649
Fuck you asshole I give you a rec and reassure you and this is how you repay me? With more questions? Eat my tender anus dude

>>17008654
Relax anon, I already said It will probably be my next VN after Hatsukoi. How tender?

>>17008664
As tender as my outlook on existence itself

Speaking of tender assholes, what are the odds that MG will license a trap nukige?
They have published yaoi stuff before.

>>17008700
>school idol QT cool

pleb

>>17008716
Trap as in ONLY traps.

>>17008700
>>17008716
.. that's gay

>>17008735
Isn't the trap/futa target audience straight males?

>>17001157
>Even Planetarian have something new

Yeah the HD edition in Chinese. Hopefully they'll release it in English too.

>And there is me waiting for rewrite+ since one year and getting nothing.

Isn't it being translated from scratch? I imagine that's why it's taking longer.

>>17008744
There are many words for men who like dicks but "straight" is not one of them.

>>17008755
>Hopefully they'll release it in English too
Is it possible someone could just port the script over if they decide not to?

>>17008755
>>17008807
I looked it up and it appears it will be released in English at some point.

https://twitter.com/VisualArtsUSA/status/852429887734296576

>>17008823
Does that mean that is another partnership Sekai has been cut out of?

>>17005237
Agree it would have been better without it. They didn't touch on yura at all in KnS or KnS 2 as well did they? Wonder if they have anything planned there for 3

>>17008522
Akino Subaru's character designs feel kinda off.
Runa and Kyou are easily the ugliest girls.
They just don't fit with the rest of the game.
Too weird/angular faces with eyes a continent apart. Rant over.

>>17008925
Spoilers nigger spoilers

>>17008939
My bad anon, i deleted it.

>>17008920
>my two favourite girls are ugly
nah

Does anyone have a link for https://vndb.org/v19918 CG's ?Only found a 25MB rar that can't be extracted.

>>17008522
I heard the 3 append discs contain alternate routes is that true?

>>17008386
No need to delay the entire thing just because the 18+ patch isn't ready yet. And they ran into an issue, so even the Steam version is barely making the May deadline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl3NLTjoDpw&feature=youtu.be

50 min of Dies Irae footage

>>17009121
>the entire thing
That's the problem.
It isn't the entire thing.

>>17008716
They didn't license it, it's a third party title.

How to change keybindings on Hatsukoi?
Need Alt+Enter for Fullscreen/Windowed toggle but Alt also skips text and it's annoying.

>>17009128
The H scenes being 4:3 while the rest of the VN is in HD just makes me want to skip them.

>>17009138
But the original resolution was 4:3. Playing it in upscaled cropped "HD" is worse.

>>17009221
Just like KF. Sure 16:9 fills the screen but you actually see less. No point in choosing 16:9 instead of 4:3. You can switch between the two modes and see for yourself (in KF).
I'm assuming Dies Irae will give you that choice as well.

Is MakiFes fixed yet? Where's that brave anon?

Apparently before they nuked their facebook page, E2 deleted all posts about Volume 1 of Taisho Alice in an effort to hide fan criticism. They then said volume 2 is coming this summer.

And then the guy in charge sent his friends to try and convince people that the translation was good. The fans did not respond well.

What a mess.

https://twitter.com/MysticDistance/status/862777639337152512

Sharin no Kuni resolution downgrade.

>Lastly, we have a slight correction to make about some information in the previous update. Originally, we announced that the resolution of the game would be 1280x720 for PC and 1024x768 for the PS Vita. Unfortunately, this was slightly out-of-date information. The correct resolutions are 800x600 (4:3) for PC and 960x544 (16:9 equivalent) for Vita. Sorry for the mix up!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tokyootakumode/re-sharin-no-kuni-project/posts/1852952

>>17009234
Only decent 16:9 games is the ones that fill out with black bars. But you won't find any customers smart enough to appreciate it.

>>17009819
Fuck you and fuck black bars. Stretch it.

>>17009136
Only right ALT skips text. Use the left one.

>>17009873
>Stretch it.
And have it look like ass by fucking up the aspect ratio on everything? I don't want wide faces.

>>17009873
Stretch, crop, may as well add JPEG artifacts if you don't care about quality loss.

>>17010324
They should at least add a border design so it doesn't have black bars. Doddler programmed something like this into Cartagra.

>>17008849
As far as I understand, there are no supernatural elements at all in either kara no shojo games. KnS2 caries over a bunch of elements from Cartagra, but the whole Yura thing is never brought up. Thankfully.

>>17009659

I imagine they just opted to use the existing PC version as a base and cut out the H-scenes for Steam, rather than going through with their original plan to backport the console version to PC and deal with the mess of putting it back together and add the H-scenes from the main game and fan disk. It is an easy way to reduce costs and programming headaches, but it is the sort of thing that really shouldn't have been announced only after the Kickstarter's conclusion (as while they say they are just updating the previous update, during the Kickstarter itself they listed the resolution as either 1280x720 or 1024x728 and the purpose of the first update was saying they choose 1280x720).

Separate from that though, judging by that team listed in the update Frontwing seems to be giving it the Muv Luv treatment rather than a quick edit to the fan translation.

>>17010537
Even though I personally don't care, I expected some people to be mad.

Rather than Muv-Luv, which was officially an edit of the original translation, this seems to be a full blown retranslation.

>>17007507
I hope this makes more companies wary to let their games get localized. EOPs need to stop ruining things.

>>17009909
Thanks anon. Now I feel retarded.

damn Sukisuki, Dai Segno and Princess Evangile: W Happiness all in beta

Since Bocchi Musume is planned for summer and is only in scripting, and Dal Segno, SukiSuki, and the PE fan disk will likely release by or around the end of summer since they are all currently in beta. If https://vndb.org/v15077 really is one of the planned announcements, then whether that VN announcement is planned for AX or Otakon may influence the release date of Suki Suki. PE might be pushed out as early as possible because a Moonstone game will probably be announced at AX, but we'll see. Dal Segno is probably the lowest priority of the three and may be released after Bocchi Musume since Da Capo 3 came out relatively recently.

MG updates confirmed SukiSuki, the Princess Evangile fandisc, and Dai Sengo are in Beta, along with confirming Higurashi Kai as a whole is through TLC and editing. Sorcery Jokers is also up to 93% translated.

Separately, Sekai's is doing a 2nd stream for the week tonight since they won't do one next week because of Anime Central. The noteworthy thing though is they look to be focusing the stream on Wagamama High Spec, so there is a chance we'll get some information on that tonight. Of course, they might just show it off and not say anything else with Anime Central in a week.

And MG is testing out Golden Fantasia"s online multiplayer

>>17011110
Only x days until Suki Suki (patched) is out.

>>17011110
They also got some big streamer to come on so Sekai might actually expect to have some audience tonight, which would make any announcement on Wagahigh more likely, or at least give them a reason to give an Anime Central preview. Their usual weekly streams have stagnated to just 20-30 viewers on average, probably because they have been generally showing OELVN titles no one cares about.

>>17011110
PE, Dal Sengo, and Sukisuki will all probably come out by the time august end. Assuming the betas take one month, I could see MG releasing them in 3 week intervals so they don't cannibalize each other sales.

>>17011367
It really depends on who is doing the beta. Hopefully SuckiSucki won't take too long, though.

>>17011367

sukisuki aint happening till christmas

>>17010537
The first update had several people complaining about cropping, so they may have stuck with 800x600 to appease them.

>>17010858
Devs will just be more wary of startups, it likely won't effect established companies.

>>17011626
>effect
I mean affect.

>>17011497
I would say September at the latest.

>>17008837
Most likely otherwise Sekai would have tweeted something by now. Also i do think Japanese companies are getting comfortable and getting use to paying someone in house to do it for them. Also it does not help really Sekai has been getting a bad name overall especially with Chrono Clock and a few other bad things on their end.

>>17012071
Good. I hope they end up with only their shitty OELVN and then fuck off to oblivion.
When I first heard about SP I was happy that another company would publish new VN's.
I never imagined it would devolve to this.
At first I was disappointed and then I was angry when they licensed Baldr.
Fuck them.

For what it is worth, there wasn't any news on the Sekai stream for Wagahigh or anything else, but they skipped their normal announcements section because the stream started late after someone got stuck in traffic. The Wagahigh demo they were playing in the stream couldn't display CGs for some reason, so they seem to still be having some technical issues.

>>17012071
>Also i do think Japanese companies are getting comfortable and getting use to paying someone in house to do it for them.

That is surely true of Visual Arts and Frontwing, but smaller eroge companies aren't as likely to follow, especially now that the Steam craze has dropped off, and those that do without knowing what they are getting into aren't likely to find good results. There aren't exactly a ton of huge titles out there still to be picked up, but none of the established VN companies are going to find a shortage of HD moege to license.

>>16979941
gib recommendations for while I'm waiting pls

>>17012419
https://vndb.org/
There you go friend.

>>17012429
I already know of hvdb, everyone does.

The problem is that I've gone through 10 pages or more and all of them seem bad or mediocre from the sales pitch, even searching by tag still makes them all look like shit. I just want a qt soft and fluffy game.

>>17012429
my reply was rude, sorry, that wasn't warranted.

>>17012419
Please Bang My Wife

>>17012439
VNDB has everything you need. I don't know what you're looking for, what you consider as shit and frankly I don't care.
This isn't the place for recommendations.
Ask here >>>/vg/176612660 or go to reddit or wherever.

>>17012504
thank you, I didn't realize there was a /vg/ thread about vns as I only go the to the dwarf fortress general on /vg/ and don't bother with the rest of the board, and there isn't a visual novel general on /jp/ so I didn't know where to ask. I apologize for being a faggot and asking in the wrong place.

Chuusotsu is inching towards its goal. At 14k with 17 days left to go, it's in a pretty comfortable spot, assuming that it gets a typical final surge about 1/5th of its final amount (or about 4k).

Dammit MG release KF Gaiden already so you can start the 2 if and 3.
Can't wait.

>>17012569
No need to update us about all ages.

>>17013234
If it's as crap as KF was, they should prioritize other titles

>>17013331
What didn't you like? Haven't seen many that didn't like it so it's kinda surprising.
It was what it said : big breasts vanilla fantasy.
Story was pretty interesting for a nukige as well.

>>17013379
If he's anything like me, then probably the big breasts part.

>>17013379
story is dull, characters are dull, setting is generic and not expanded. spending so much time on areas that are dreadfully flawed instead of focusing on the game's strong points (few as they are) is what makes this game a snooze fest.

>>17013430
I guess we have different tastes then. I liked the story and the characters (again, for a nukige).
I didn't feel bored either. I felt the game had a really good h-scene/story ratio.
>>17013414
That goes without saying anon. If a game is centered around a fetish you don't like you're obviously not going to like it.

Is there a way to skip openings on linux if they don't work or am I fucked?

>>17013683
Delete the video file.

>>17013331
I agree. Waffle has a huge library of amazing games and seeing some of the other titles would be nice.

https://vndb.org/v1105
https://vndb.org/v7388
https://vndb.org/v10085
https://vndb.org/v7001
https://vndb.org/v7980
https://vndb.org/v11065
https://vndb.org/v14161
https://vndb.org/v14650
https://vndb.org/v17884
https://vndb.org/v18008
https://vndb.org/v19009

>>17013683
When I've had this problem I've just gotten an error message and things worked afterwards.

>>17013693
You could just move it to a different folder instead of deleting it.

>>17013714
>You could just move it to a different folder instead of deleting it.
Same shit. You can always recover them after deletion.

>>17013696
The old ones look like shit.
The now series and the time-stop ones are god tier though.

>>17013683
If you are using Wine you could try using Winetricks to install ffmpeg with it as well.
It has had mixed success for some people just you may have to shuffle around Wine versions.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9127#c36

>>17013751
>ffmpeg
Meant ffdshow.

>>17013747
>the old ones look like shit
If you think the first one looks worse than the last one, then we're going to have a problem.

File: no nameshit here.jpg (420KB, 1928x1080px) Image search: [Google]

420KB, 1928x1080px

What is this, random scanlationfags have a better romanization and naming sense than people who get paid to TL?

>>17013799
The games I liked art-wise were the now games, time stop and mankitsu.
DIdn't like the rest. I just don't like wideface and/or bugeyes.

>>17013892
>bugeyes
Especially stuff from Key. It's like I'm playing a Terra Formars bugge where you romance the JOHJ.
Can't describe it otherwise.

>>17013234
Gaiden hasn't even been announced by MG yet.

This is why the Japanese devs shouldn't just the gun. minori did something similar last year when they announced that they'd have MG translate Trinoline when MG knew nothing about the announcement either.

>>17013844
Learn to tell the difference between translation and localization. Localization is always about rewriting everything so someone who never wanted to play the game can understand it.

Scanlators do in general just translate what is written without changing it.

>>17013379
Some of the individual routes were decent, but I thought the harem route was dull and that's considered the true ending, which the sequel picks up from.

>>17014234
Must be nice being new in this thread.

>>17014308
You tell me.

>>17014367
I wish I could. I don't see how your post is any relevant. Do you know what I am pointing out in the screenshot and what I am referencing? Please, do tell me.

>>17014231
At the very least, I doubt Waffle would have announced it if the negotiations weren't completed at least. Do the Japanese generally care? Waffle probably just wanted to brag to its fans.

If the contract was just completed when they announced it, MG might not release the game itself until sometime next year though. I think they'll announce it this year at least. It shouldn't suffer the same fate as Baldr Sky if nothing else where the project is stuck in eternal limbo for years after the announcement.

>>17014372
Don't worry Yuuki anon I got the reference, it seemed to go over the other guys head.

>>17014387
Just take the time period from when they announced Kyonyuu Fantasy to the time they released it and approximate it from there. Should be around that time.

I'm with the opinion that they will announce Gaiden at Anime Central too, it fits with the first game being announced there one year ago too.

>>17014449
>Yuuki anon

Ahem, It's Yuuki autist. If you don't say his name exactly right he'll sick his fangs into you too.

>>17014542
I don't think it works like that. The translation for Kyonyuu Fantasy was basically done when it was announced, but that might not be the case if they don't have a translator free to work on it at the time.

>>17014669
The KF translator was done with Dal Segno for quite a while now, wasn't he? I don't see it to be inconceivable that he might have went on to translate Gaiden

>>17014703
We'll find out in a week or 2 when they post Gaiden's translation progress.

>>17014736
Is there a chance it could be one of the "secret projects" which lists a percentage?

>>17014753
Possibly, but as with Anime Boston not all the announcements were secret projects.

>>17014372
Everyone knows it is the Yuuki part. I just expanded on it as we have also complained about Kyonyuu title translation, honorifics and plenty of other things where some official person thinks it is better to just make things "easy" for beginners instead of aim the translation towards the actual customers that buy VNs often.

>>17013844
if you're complaining that "paid translators" change Yuuki to Yuki, then you're an idiot

>>17016161
None of that sentence before the "then" was necessary.

>>17016161
Yuuki and Yuki are two different names. Do you also think Danny and Dani are the same?

>>17016170
Hi Aru. Fuck you.

>>17016198
If you're localizing something into english and don't want to change stuff because "it'll be different", then I want you to quit now and burn all the stuff you've worked on so far.

for humanity.

>>17016256
Replacing an obscure 2ch reference with something an English reader might be closer to, while keeping in mind the characters and still preserving the general meaning of what was said, is something completely different from irrationally changing someone's name.

>>17016256
Changing names in localizations is almost universally agreed to be cancerous behavior.

>>17016272
there is no reason to keep "Yuuki" as the name of the character other than irrational fidelity to a language that makes no sense in english. there is no set rule in english for 2u's other than loan words from latin. the only rule for 2 u's in english was the rule that the "w" sound be written as "uu" in the past.

because there is no reason to keep "Yuuki", changing the name to the similar "Yuki", an act which doesn't change the meaning of the name in western eyes, cannot be described as "irrational". If "Yuuki" was a name for men and "Yuki" a name only transexuals use and therefore completely changes the nuance of the script, then you would have a point.

a name is only a word used to identify a character. Yuki is easier on the eyes for western audiences, and is close enough to Yuuki that it retains that Japanese feel without being alien enough to get western audiences going "what the fuck is that?"

>>17016274
>universally agreed
by weebs

>>17016305
Obviously, the problem is that there's no line above the u, if it was there, it would be perfectly alright and totally not look awkward at all in an English game.

>>17016305
>geting this triggered by a name

and they call weebs autists

>>17016383
weebs ARE autists.

i'm not "triggered" by the name. i wasn't the person who originally cried about paid translators changing the name in their translations. i'm merely giving the reasons why only weebs would get upset by Yuuki being changed to Yuki. i really have no issue with either being used.

>>17016305
I don't even know why I'm replying to this pile of shit, but sure.
>there is no reason to keep "Yuuki" as the name of the character other than irrational fidelity to a language that makes no sense in english. there is no set rule in english for 2u's other than loan words from latin. the only rule for 2 u's in english was the rule that the "w" sound be written as "uu" in the past.
The names are pronounced in Japanese, not English. The romanization works as a guide for correct pronunciation. English rules matter little to none at this point.
>changing the name to the similar "Yuki"
This baffles me. How can you think that names can be used interchangable only because they look similar while romanized? They don't look similar in Japanese at all. You can use completely different kanji, even just one kanji for Yuki. Not only that, but Yuki can also be a short-form of longer combined names such as Yukihime.
>a name is only a word used to identify a character
Now this sentence is truly euphoric. I find no retorts to that one. You should apply to NISA (who, by the way, have changed the names of characters before)
You also tried to use weebs as an insult. Who do you think is going to read that VN? Normalfags? Keep dreaming, but preferably not here.
Lastly, please stop samefagging so brazenly. It's terribly obvious with your lack of capitalization, language and terrible paragraph formatting.

>>17016396
>weebs ARE autists.
>calling your target audience names in order to sell your product to them
I see. So this is a famous MG PR department in work.

>>17016305
I happen to have a name no English person could ever read, but I would appreciate if they could put in the effort to spell it correctly. I'm sure the poor cartoons feel the same. Maybe we need a law about this together with all their sex laws.

>>17016418
I don't even know why I'm replying to this shit, but sure
>The names are pronounced in Japanese, not English. The romanization works as a guide for correct pronunciation. English rules matter little to none at this point.
english readers will be reading the english text as a guide to how to pronounce those words in their heads. in the instance where you're localizing for the english audience, english rules are the ONLY ones that matter
> How can you think that names can be used interchangable only because they look similar while romanized?
they have no meaning. they are arbitrary words for identification.
>They don't look similar in Japanese at all.
english audiences don't know japanese so this point is lost on them.
>You can use completely different kanji, even just one kanji for Yuki. Not only that, but Yuki can also be a short-form of longer combined names such as Yukihime.
all the stuff you just mentioned is useless to english audiences not familiar with FRICKEN KANJI.
>You also tried to use weebs as an insult. Who do you think is going to read that VN? Normalfags?
this type of localization can be applied to both anime and manga, both considerably more mainstream and less ... weebish. i have nothing against translators translating a name to Yuuki, i have problems when people start to say it's the only way to do things.
>Lastly, please stop samefagging so brazenly. It's terribly obvious with your lack of capitalization, language and terrible paragraph formatting.
i'm making it obvious who i am by deliberately not capitalizing words. you're welcome

>>17016467
Please write how you read and pronounce the name "Aoi" below.

>>17016467
>they have no meaning. they are arbitrary words for identification.
So you would be fine with them changing every heroine's name to "Girl A", "Girl B", "Girl C" etc.?

>>17016491
people get annoyed when the japanese flavor of the text is lost and the names made more western.

otherwise western fans wouldn't be able to tell the difference if the localizers used the japanese words for 'girl ay' 'girl bee' and etc.

but english names often don't have a meaning. surnames used to, but first names not really. changing them into categories that do have meaning like 'girl a' or 'dickhead b' is very ... unusual

>>17016511
Alright, let me change the question.
Would you be fine with them switching up the heroines' names?
Ayame would be called Yuuki.
Yuuki would be called Mahiru.
Mahiru would be called Chiho.
Chiho would be called Rinka
Rinka would be called Ayame.

That "preserves" the flavor, so there's no problem with that according to you, right?

>>17016538
i haven't read the vn these names come from. however, if there's no meaning added to these names in game that's explained to the english audience, then why would the english audience care which one is named Chiho? Chiho means nothing in english, it's just a foreign word.

if the name becomes important, and that importance is conveyed to the english audience, then it becomes harder.

in other words, if you want a name to be important then you need to give the english audience a reason to consider it important. in most vns this isn't the case (this is why it's bad to make sweeping statements, there are always exceptions where it is important.)

>>17016575
basically it means if you really care about accuracy, you just gotta read it in japanese and people need to stop bitching when localizations change things, because changing things is what localizations do

>>17016665
or you know just translate it instead of westernizing it, after all its a bunch of weebs reading it and not chad normalfag

>>17016699
well, vns that translate and not localize always end up sounding terrible and making the original author sound incompetent. it's always a trade off with localizations.

also please use capitals to begin a sentence, because now it just looks like i'm a crazy person talking with myself ...

>>17016711
are you new to 4chan?

>>17016198
Stephen and Steven are the same name, though.

Dovac is a piece of shit.

>>17017014
No shit.

Every time I see a "u" dropped in Japanese I rage. Every time I see Toukyou written "Tokyo", whatever that means (how do people even know what city this refers to if it isn't spelled correctly?), I punch another hole through my wall. There's only one wall left now. The winter was harsh.

If anyone want go deep on name localization, I recommend Kingdoms anime. It has the Japanese voices using one reading of kanji, and English text using another one. I suspect it is Japanese reading in voice and Chinese in English.

This gives you the beauty of spelled names in text being completely different to what is said. But this is alright because only weebs would use Japanese voices and suffer, while all true westerners would use English voices and think it is proper.

Of course the base issue here is that Japan localized the names because they don't have X's and other letters. So the English is more correct, it just isn't made to be used with Japanese voices (which is the only moment you would use the subtitle option).

This would have been a non-issue if americans could focus on the task of translating instead of think they have a job in rewriting things to what it should have been to look better for a history freak who happened to choose an anime in English with subtitles in English.

>>17017570
The worst is when someone spells Konnichiwa as Konichiwa.

>>17018686
Kingdom anime names always confuse the hell out of me just bc they wanted to be consistent with the manga...

The real reason that distinguishing between "u" and "uu" in an English transliteration of a Japanese name is pointless is that English cannot make the distinction between IPA [u] and [u:], long and short "u", as it only contains [u:]. So "Fuuko" and "Fuko" would be pronounced exactly the same in English. The same principle applies to the other vowels as well, so "Tokyo" and "Toukyou" would be pronounced exactly the same. The spelling distinction has no purpose. If it bothers you, just pretend there's simply an omitted macron above the vowel, which would signal its length.

>>17016478
Not him but Ah-oy. How far off am I

>>17019101
That is a correct approximation in English.