Visual Novel translation status >Aiyoku No Eustia - 15.62%

Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk - In QA, Summer 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
Hoshizora no Memoria - 100% translated, Kickstarter ongoing, Fall 2017 release
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - Stretchgoal in ongoing Kickstarter
The Bell Chimes For Gold - 62% translated
KaraKara 2 - 100% translated, late 2017 release
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
2236 A.D. - 100% translated, Engine/QA work ongoing
Maitetsu - In QA
Nenokami - Part 2 2017 release
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
Tenshin Ranman - 99.01% translated
Darekoi - 100% translated Engine/QA work ongoing
Wagamama High Spec - 100% translated, Denpa version announced. Demo released
>Koikuma - 73.89% translated, 2017 release
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 - 72% translated, Kickstarter finished, demo released
Her and Her and My 7 Days - 70% translated
Girls in Glasses - Picked up
CyberRebeat - Picked up
G-senjou no Maou - Denpa version announced
Re;Lord ~Herford no Majo to Nuigurumi~ - 100% translated
Nekopara Vol 4 - Announced
Unannounced Project 1 - 68% translated
Unannounced Project 2 - 100% translated, editing/engine work ongoing


Frontwing
>Grisaia: Phantom Trigger - Vol 3 July 28th release, Indiegogo project ongoing
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
Symphonic Rain - 6/14 release
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 - 7/28 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 finished, demo released, late 2017 release


Other
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - June release, fixing technical issue
Dies irae - Released, uncut patch late July
Tayutama 2 - Summer release
Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro - Sept 5th release
Danganronpa V3 - 9/26 release
Chaos;Child - Q3 release
Magical Charming - Fall release planned
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
Taisho Alice - Volume 1 released
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
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>>17158202
Should list clover days under sekai cause we all know that's what is going to end up happening

>>17158210
This is nothing but bullshit.
Dies Irae has a good chunk of entry level dialogue you can find in moege like Magical Charming.
If anything the difficulty is about how much boring can a vn get and in that case I agree chuuni games tend to be more boring.

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>>17158248
Forgive him, he posted the wrong one by accident

>>17158296
>Hello Lady first
top kek

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>>17158303
It's a good beginner's title.

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>>17158202
>Daitoshokan - 100% translated and edited, images, engine work and QC remain


As of Oct 31st, 2016 it was 100% translated and edited. Half a year later and it's still not out. Are the initial translations and edits so bad that QC takes forever?

>>17158579
They're even worse

>>17158296
Add Kikokugai instead of Hello Lady

>>17158612
But I like Hello Lady. Also, it's there due to deception. It has a cute cover but its contents are, well, you know. I guess that makes it an in joke that most people seeing that image won't get but I like it.

>>17158579
They accidentally deleted all their work from Google Drive.
There were no other backups.

>>17158579
>There are still a load of images, some engine tweaking, and a long QC phase to go through, so don’t expect a release anytime soon - at the very least, not likely by this year.
>expect a long QC phrase
It's 70,000 lines long so even at a "professional" pace that's a minimum of like, 4 months for QC. Since it's a fan project, it would be no suprise if QCers go slower than expected. It's regrettable it's not out by now but the dude did say it would take away so this is no surprise.

>>17158202
The second chapter of Kuroinu is now in beta testing. And Hadaka Shitsuji is now 100% translated and 67% edited.

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>>17158210
>>17158248
I made a new one after vnscripts happened.

Is this Daitoshokan translation the same guy that was making basic mistakes in 2014?

>>17159910
Yeah he came back after a break.

Fuck you for killing Baldr Sky, Dovac.

And fuck everyone in the community who helped him do it.

>>17160743
It is 1 year already since BS was taken by SP and no info was given?

>>17160743
Anon just have some patience

dovac will have it out before 2020 after the Kickstarter. It will break all previous VN Kickstarter records and show that the industry is very healthy

>>17160784
They are playing this game where they are waiting until 1 con after nobody has asked them for it to teach people not to "harass them with questions".

>>17160784
https://twitter.com/sekaiproject/status/749809292635729926
They announced it in July so it will be a year soon

We're never going to get WA2 translated, will we?

>>17161000
Maybe SP will take it after BS!

>>17161000
Maybe if Aquaplus releases another PS4 remaster version, then Atlus can pick it up.

>>17161010
I severely doubt that Atlus is interested in a pure VN. Utawarerumono was already a small miracle.

>>17161002
Who was even the official translator for Dies Irae? That just kind of popped up out of nowhere.

I hope SP takes it, then I can read it in 2025!

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Uh, could anyone of you translate this for me pretty please?
That's all i need.

>>17161069
The pleasure of being cummed inside.

>>17161066
The translation was probably paid by Light themselves, though the steam page says that the publisher is views Co., Ltd.

>>17161111
Multiple publishers. MG will publish it too, iirc.

>>17161066
It was a freelance translation paid for by Light (or their PR company) directly.

>>17161215
MG selling it on their site doesn't count as publishing. It's a third party title.

Do you guys think one of Manga Gamer's secret projects is a Gaiden for Funbag Fantasy or a sequel? Funbag Fantasy is also a terrible name.

>>17161784

>Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden - 94% translated, 62% edited

>>17162017
Looks like I"m partially blind.

>>17161784
Gaiden's name is Sideboob Story.

KKK Kikestarter when?

I just hacked together a converter for krkr's tcw / TCWF audio format out of krkrz source code and msdn programming examples.

Early 2000s object oriented programming is the most terrible thing ever. I'm never going to touch this ever again. Fuck this. I got so mad I ended up hardcoding a wav encoder instead of doing something reasonable. Fuck.

https://pastebin.com/UFx1cf10

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Steamspy continues to show a sharp increase for all the titles they included in the bundle (which makes sense since the Bundle is up to 70k bundles sold). For example, here is Root Double's Steamspy performance, which has been jumping considerably each day.

Looking over the titles they included in their bundle, quite a number of them seem like they will benefit from having a large number of people play a given title. A fair number of them either have an upcoming sequel (such as Fault, KaraKara, Memory's Dogma) or upcoming Vita releases (such as Root Double, WEE, Narcissu, and Fault) both of which could stand to gain from a larger base on Steam.

>>17158579
Why do you care? Read it with VNR it'll be exactly the same as reading their "translation".

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Probably a way shitty question, but I'm sitting on some PSP scripts for To Heart, SG Renri no Darling and Corpse Party 2U.

I am currently translating on the common/Masashi route for To Heart. My friend wants to work on these all, as he is a very capable hacker, but I don't want to sit on all these vns and adv games and let them collect dust if there are other more capable and interested translators for them. I like sims and stuff, but I'm more of a JRPG-kinda kid and would rather work on those.

Also, I don't want to touch them because of zakobot's translations, as I certainly don't want to be accused of ripping off his YT work on each of those, regardless of how notoriously uninterested he is in assisting in translation patches.

>>17163176
>zakobot
He uses machine translations and doesn't speak a word of Japanese. Even an N4 will be able to point this out.

>>17163182

As for SG, if I'm gonna say it, I won't wholeheartedly care for his work either, but it was also from a couple years ago. I can look back on my own work from a couple years ago and cringe hard. I don't pay much attention to his channel, so I can't vouch for whether he's actually improved or not. That all said, it's part of why I'd rather find people who are actually more qualified to work on those games, both as translators and as fans, than I am. I like Mayuri and would tutu her rus for weeks, but I'm no Steins;Gate guru, so I'm hardly qualified to dive into the game.

I still don't want to go about this the wrong way. I'm also not an N1 or anything myself, just self-taught and actively trying to get better. So far I'm going through To Heart quite comfortably, if that says anything.

>>17163176
>if there are other more capable and interested translators for them.
Let me tell you: The answer is no. Very few translators.

>>17163377
I figure as much, but I figured with SG that as long as I do my part and this gets archived people will know where to find me, maybe. I just sincerely don't want to be that guy who fucked up an SG game patch.

>>17163059
I would look at the concurrent players for this week and the next. More than likely everyone will be playing Nekopara, Root Double. Then again they may not and it will fall flat. I highly doubt Sekai did that well on sales considering how mad everyone was about it and put more money towards charity and Humble Bundle.

>>17163878
Most people are too lazy to adjust the sliders. I honestly doubt that many people went out of their way to do so. Maybe more than usual, but that's not saying much.

Hey guys mind giving me feedback for my VN premise?

I will try to make a sci-fi fantasy visual novel that deals with future society and human imagination on a different timeline and in a whole different universe.

Adrian, a maintenance technician at Del Lab, an established company that creates service robots, finds out that something shady is going on at his workplace, sneaks into their development labs and finds weird devices that can transfer made-up data into anyones brain.

Suddenly he gets a vision of a burned and destroyed city, that he does not know about.
Then a red pool of blood enters his vision and he is about to lose it just as...

>>17164014
99% of people don't care or know. Sekai will do pretty well considering most of the audience would have never bought the games to begin with

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Dies Irae is better than I expected.
Do they still sell the physical version somewhere?

>>17164065
You are not Japanese. It's not a VN.
Back to >>>/vg/oelvn

>>17164325
The thread for OELVNs hasn't existed in months. They all went to a discord.

>>17164065
Here.
https://discord.gg/T9ygPkz

>>17164156
Unlikely. I wouldn't be surprised if the Kickstarter version was the only version. You might be able to grab it from a scalper on ebay once the KS physical editions are sent out.

>>17163878
>I would look at the concurrent players for this week and the next.

Every title on the list, aside from WEE 03 (a second sequel) and the Nekopara titles, have had their peak concurrent user numbers within the past week (exceeding their launches). Most of them have peaked well over 100 concurrent users with KaraKara peaking over 300 concurrent users. Interestingly, it seems you can't get many people to play Japanese School Life even when almost giving it away, it has by far the lowest concurrent user peak of the bunch at 29 (although that beats its launch peak of 11).

>More than likely everyone will be playing Nekopara, Root Double.

A quick look at achievement for their respective games and 44% of owners have started Root Double, while 57% of owners have started KaraKara, Although the percentages are going to be a bit lower when just looking at new buyers since they had higher rate when the bundle started, but not that much lower since the overwhelming majority of both titles were sold through the bundle. Of course a relatively small percentage is likely to finish a longer title like Root Double, but if you look at achievement percentages of other long VNs on Steam, that is usually true.

> I highly doubt Sekai did that well on sales considering how mad everyone was about it and put more money towards charity and Humble Bundle.

They have sold 72k bundles and counting, of that total a very small, negligible percent is going to know anything detailed about Sekai.

>>17164014
>Most people are too lazy

Any proof that they are and not a generalization? 4chan even complained as did most others. I highly doubt Sekai did well, as most that do donate a lot use it for charity than the companies themselves.

>>17163176
Unfortunately there is not many Translators out there. Japanese is advanced to where only a few can know it natively and do it with ease. But then again there might be someone out there that night contact and help you.

What exactly will be added to to Dies Irae with 18+ patch? CGs with gore and ero scenes? How many of the latter are there?

>>17158205
Order Number - 275470
Order Date - 2017-06-13

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>>17167159
why do we even have to wait on a patch if it's being sold by mg? is it industry standard now to half ass everything?

>>17167461
MG's just the supplier though. They can't do anything if Light isn't ready to release it.

It is the industry's Kickstarter standard to completely focus on the all-ages version first and release the 18+ patch months later though. So far, Chrono Clock and Libra were the only ones to not do that?

>>17167461
It's always been industry standard to half ass everything.

Dies Irae is utter garbage. Isn't there any VN that is remotely reasonable and down to earth? Can't we just have a kafka book with anime girls and porn scenes?

>>17167608
You're in the wrong medium for anything down to earth.

>>17167700
VN hardly deserves to be called a medium when it's incredibly lackluster in the spectrum it covers and the poor general variety it offers.

VN is a genre at best and not even a deeply explored one.

>>17167608
Wasn't that new VN from Fruitbat described as being really down to earth? And so boring that it actually captures daily life as described by moogy-honorifics-honorifics.

Who would win in a fight, a Phantom Trigger, a Calamity Trigger, or Studio Trigger?

>>17167714
>VN hardly deserves to be called a medium when it's incredibly lackluster in the spectrum it covers and the poor general variety it offers.
Says the EOP. Hilarious.

>>17167850
I literally baited this response because japanfags praised Dies Irae so much before it got translated. I have seen comparisons to high literature. And this happens every single time with every single "kamige". And don't even try to pretend that Dies Irae offers any value since the moment it got translated all japanfags backpedaled on their statements regarding the quality of the VN.

Ah, I remember it as clear as if it happened yesterday. I asked japanfags what kind of japan exclusive VN really defines this genre and raises it to heights comparable to masterpieces of other mediums. And the answer was Dies Irae. Not even a short answer, but an elaborate explanation.

>>17167159
They already reverted the gore. The only thing you'll get with the patch is a few ero scenes. Dies doesn't have much ero.

>>17167461
>why do we even have to wait on a patch if it's being sold by mg?
It's a third party title that they have no control over. They just agreed to sell it on their site.

>>17167880
The answer was SubaHibi though. You fucking liar.

>>17167922
>NTR

No.

>>17167962
You are not an intellectual, then.

>>17167967
If I'm going to read a VN where half the characters get gang-raped I might as well pick one with art I can fap to.
Also I seriously doubt all the raping stuff in Subahibi is used for anything more than cheap drama/shock value.

>>17167813
Seabed

>>17167984
It's to create darkness with which to contrast happiness with.
I have read many works that try to push a "be happy" agenda/theme which ultimately fails because the characters live in a sunny world where nothing bad happens.

>>17167880
Dies irae is fun, though.

>moebutas

>>17168179
It's just too chuuni for my tastes. Like it doesn't even have a whiff of sarcasm, the author seriously believes that this WW2 mumbo jumbo magic bullshit is cool. When I see all those themes like nihilism, religious chants, edgy shotas and shit like that and think about how the author seriously thinks this shit is super cool I lose all hope.

>>17168212
So all this bashing of the game is just based off the prologue?

>>17168220
I played for quite a while though, are you seriously saying the game is not chuuni as fuck? Maybe it's because I'm german and it's killing me every single time when they use some german word they think is cool but actually makes barely any sense in the context. But no, all those themes used are so fucking chuuni, I refuse to believe that there are people that are unaffected by this.

>>17168212
Who cares what the author thinks? It's fun.

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>>17168227
That's just the genre, if you don't like it then what can be done? The game doesn't have to appeal to every audience. If you want something mundane then play the moege that's translated.

Or just give up and read a novel

>>17168232
I started YU-NO and it seems to be promising. It all depends on how tastefully they handle the supernatural elements though.

>>17168250
As a fair warning, if you want down to earth, you'll be disappointed by the second half.

>>17168263
As long it is comprehensible and not forced I think I can deal with this.

>>17168212
So it's not bad then, you just happen to have shit taste.

>>17168583
It's more like you need to have literal shit taste to enjoy things like that. You need to deliberately accept a shitload of aspects so you can receive enjoyment. We could pick apart themes, writing and characters, you know perfectly well that all those things don't hold up well.

>Visual novels are actually really immature medium! All this philosophy and high literature quotes are just shallow window dressing, only included because "it's cool" and don't actually mean or explore anything!?

No shit nigger. Everyone can publish a book nowadays, just check amazon. If anyone imagines he's half good as Chuck Tingle, he'll never waste time on a fucking edgy anime porn game for minuscule manchild audience.

>>17168702
The difference is that a VN can get a pass trough tons of aspects that have nothing to do with writing. The writers are also pretty much always no skill faggots since in japan you don't need education for any job in the entertainment industry.

They grow up on their manga and anime and nowadays even shit like webnovels and just immediately go into writing. The game gets published and there is a good chance that it will sell for its art and setting alone, but even if it doesn't sell, as a writer in a VN you are never judged on your own merits so you can blame any other faggot in the company. And since the nips are not outspoken they won't blame anyone anyway. And everyone in the entire company is just there because they love anime and manga, maybe even low level shit exclusively, so chances are good that there is not even a single guy in the entire company that will give you a heads up.

Depending on your luck you may be directly involved as the writer for well selling games so you have a really good portfolio to get involved with many more games. At some point, no matter how shit you are you have enough years of experience that you will be hired on that merit alone.

I don't know how the japanese consumers criticize VNs. I doubt it's as harsh as in the west. Here the critiques will rip you a new asshole so you may unload your shit faster before it reaches your brain.

>>17168775
EGS is harsher than vndb

vndb doesn't even have text reviews

JP otaku are critical as fuck, have you seen how they review bomb on amazon.co.jp? The people on 2ch is worse than the worst of /v/ when it comes to hating things or shitposting

>>17168174
Please, there is forced drama in every moege ever.

>>17167556
>>17167916
I mean I thought the only reason 18+ patches even existed was because of steam. if it's being sold on mangagaymers there's no reason to remove the ero in the first place.

>>17168775
>Here the critiques will rip you a new asshole
Hmmm, so thats why every time I look up new releases on goodreads most popular shit is always a crap with half naked dudes on the cover. Good high standards you have here, westerners. Every entertaining media here on in Japan is full of crap. Vns, novels, games and whatnot.

>>17168900
They simply prioritize all-ages, and that is why the adult version is much later. And they always remove the ero first, and then put it back, because why think ahead when you can do things slow and expensive.

>>17168934
so it's just a scam now like how regular games remove content just so they can sell it as dlc later?

>>17168947
Dies irae had a complicated development. The final version of the game with complete content only released as all-ages. The 18+ content from a previous version of the game has to be inserted back into the game. They never planned on releasing ~Amantes amentes~ in Japan with the 18+ content until this English release.

>Sadly, the first release of the game we sold was incomplete, requiring 2 additional releases to bring the project to a finish. There was much drama involving angry users and their expectations, but we are just happy to be able to bring the story to an end with Amantes amentes.
This quote is also relevant to >>17168775
The first release of Dies irae was poorly received due to routes being missing.

>>17168947
I think they said the Dies 18+ patch will be free

Literally who likes gore sex scenes?

>>17169006
I can fap to some gore from time to time.

does anyone know if the ao no kiseki fan translation is fuwanovel tier? /v/ swears it's not but I don't think I believe them.

>>17169030
What fan TL?

There's a spreadsheet floating around which is literally the work of one person who wanted his GF to be able to play the game. I haven't heard any complaints about it on /r/falcom where it was posted, although I haven't bothered to read the /v/ threads

Zero no Kiseki's PSP fan patch was pretty bad but playable.

>>17169053
oh I guess it was zero. the comments on /v/ were the typical fuwatard defense force lines like "it just needs more editing" or saying that it was actually a chinese translation so I assumed it was shit.

>>17169079
Oh but it is shit. "It needs more editing" is a big understatement.

>>17169079
No the Zero TL is actually kinda bad but it's totally playable to get the gist of everything. The script was from 2015 or something so it was very rough. The fan TL project got taken over by some very competent people so you can just wait for them to release theirs. Although I dunno if they still plan on releasing at the end of the year.

>>17169086
>it's totally playable to get the gist of everything
this is the classic fuwatard argument. just because it's intelligible doesn't mean it's accurate. are the new people actually retranslating or just editing?

>>17167608
>kafka
>down to earth
wot

>>17169160
Retranslating I'd hope, and they know Japanese
omgfloofy and guan, at least

>>17169166
>and they know Japanese
>omgfloofy and guan
No they don't.

>>17169434
Why do you say that?

>>17169445
Everything either of them has translated is riddled with mistakes.

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>>17167922
Subahibi isn't better than thosse motivational books that are worth trash.
Only deluded neckbeards would believe it compares to actual literature.

>>17167880
T. Fedora tipper

>>17168227
Oh your German that explains why you are pretentious and act full of yourself. When the reality is your country is going to be diversified soon. Immigration can not happen soon enough.

>>17168227
Why are you making stuff up? Your complaints are clearly based on the prologue.

>>17169006
I can fap if the gore sex scene involves yandere. I don't like it otherwise though.

Anime Expo Schedule is up. Unless I missed something, these look to be the relevant panels.

Saturday July 1st
The Aksys Games Panel - 2:00pm
MangaGamer: The Now & Future of Visual Novels - 9:30pm

Sunday July 2nd
Visual Novels with Sekai Project & ALICE IN DISSONANCE - 2:00pm
MangaGamer: Itaru Hinoue - Q&A - 7:30pm
Nutaku's Expansion Into the Games! - 8:30pm
Denpasoft: Erecting a Market & the Rise of Adult Gaming - 9:00pm
JAST USA Visual Novel Panel - 9:30pm

Monday July 3rd
Frontwing TV LIVE 2017 - 9:00pm

Tuesday July 4th
MangaGamer: Yamakaze Ran - Q&A - 12:30pm


For what it is worth, both the MG and Sekai panels are 2 hours long.

>>17168263
Is the remake different or just the very same story?

Is Dies Irae selling well?
Couldn't find data online.

>>17171460
It's impossible to tell because of the common route being free. You have no way of knowing how many people are actually paying for the DLC routes. Steamspy currently estimates that 24,831 ± 4,629 downloaded the common route.

>>17171556
Together with kickstarter's funds it doesn't look so bad, no?

>>17171564
If the kickstarter did cover all of the development costs, then the company itself is fine. If Dies Irae doesn't sell well outside of that though, then Light will probably be reliant on crowdfunding like Sekai and Frontwing.

Frontwing is better about it at least, consistently using indiegogo for smaller projects like Corona Blossom and physicals for Phantom Trigger and reserving KS for big ones. This theoretically lessens the chance of backer burn out since it splits the large scale campaigns from the small scale campaigns and lets backers know which campaigns are more vital for the company.

Sekai did use indiegogo twice, but that was due to the 18+ nature of those projects. They seem content to use Kickstarter to fund their physical editions as well, probably so they can cover some of their development costs in a preorder-esque campaign. This does seem stable for now as these types of campaigns have been consistently been able to get more than 1k backers, though Light and Age possibly becoming reliant on Kickstarter means that there may be less backer money to go around.

>>17171053
I hope that Sunday's schedule gets shuffle around some before AX. As it stands the overlap, especially between the Denpa and Jast panels, is quite bad.

>>17172115
Aren't 18+ panels required to be later in the evening? They might not be able to move them around much if at all.

>>17172115
For streamers, it's not a huge issue since the most important stuff is in the latter half. One could watch Denpasoft completely then switch to JAST once the Denpasoft announcements are done and likely not miss anything too relevant. At least with JAST and Denpasoft, the number of people who attend and give out information in twitter will probably be roughly equal and if nothing else, the official twitter will reveal the announcements.

However, it's possible that Nutaku will reveal VN announcements of its own, which would lead to three near simultaneous relevant panels. That would be a bit of a bigger issue for anyone who wants to watch them all, and Itaru Hinoue's Q&A being one hour before Nutaku's panel and possibly overlapping with it doesn't help matters. Chances are, anyone attending will only be able to go to two of those panels at most, Itaru's and either Denpasoft or JAST. It's worth noting that most of the information of goes on in the Q&A will have to be revealed by third parties, and depending on who is being interviewed, there may not be a stream.

>>17172243
I don't think that many people even watch the panel streams. Previous ones have been 50 - 80 people at most.

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>>17172243
Why would anyone attend JAST's panel?
Yumina announcement 50 years ago was the last time when JAST announced something that is not a nukige or already translated.

>>17172301
For Muramasa, what else?

I know, but this is the only reason why I'm still alive, don't break my hope.

>>17172301
>>17172339
I would take them just announcing release dates for all the shit they've had in the backlog for years

>>17171053
It would seem that Sekai learned their lesson from last year, doing a two hour double panel with their guest instead of back to back panels and running into an issue with the mandatory room clearing between panels. Two hours seems like a while for MG, though they showed at Anime Central that they are quite capable at going over their older titles to fill time.

Frontwing having a panel is probably the big surprise on the schedule, since it wasn't clear that they were attending AX much less doing a panel. It should be noted that the panel is an 18+ rated panel, and I wouldn't be surprised if they have information on that R18 title that was mentioned in an interview when Phantom Trigger was released and their upcoming R18 storefront.

>>17172349
>announcing release dates for all the shit they've had in the backlog for years
Django - 2050
Sumaga - 2075
Muramasa - 2126

>>17172388
How will I fap with my robot body?

Always wondered, I guess I'll ask: why are they so slow?

>>17172455
JAST is just a side business. J-LIST is the main one that makes money without that much effort

>>17172455
Old mate Petey is too busy arguing over Nanking on twitter to care about JAST anymore

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>>17172526
>Nanking
Why would he arguing about something that never happened?

Doesn't the AA version of Dies have exclusive CG? Will those be in the 18+ edition?

>>17173437
I imagine the patch will just replace the all ages scenes where there was originally H and all the other content will be the same as the Steam version.

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>>17158202
Anyone know if there is a translation for Walküre Romanze?

There's that one fan project that got cancelled and I've seen on the references page of some private translators group that they translated it fully

But I can't find shit

>>17173678
If you have to ask, the answer is always "no."

>>17173678
If it's not listed on vndb then no. It doesn't exist.

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>>17173866
>he doesn't know about the super secret kamige TL projects

>>17173876
Who are you quoting?

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/875134783965102080

hey doddler's finally working on bokuten

>>17173962
I'm surprised Bamboo is letting a Canadian touch his game after everything they put him through.

>>17169870
It shows a pathway genre fiction can take, and it touches greatness because of structure. The strength comes from the arrangement of parts & the ironies involved.

Notice what SCA-Ji did in Insects for example? A lesser writer would have milked the melodramatic value of those scenes in the OST & emotions, but he merely shows it for what it is. The use of Satie in the ending is tons more tragic because of that.

Or the fact that despite hewing to genre, it uses those genres to represent certain core moods (Slice of Life as Paradiasical, Mystery as Chaos). The placement of these aspects are what makes the message more powerful than the content.

In Invention, he also gives Takuji everything he desires, but shows its smallness through Juxtaposition of what he could have become. This is a step up from things like Eva that is closer to the straightforward self-help with an existential slant.

The fact that you label it self-help tells me that you are basing your critiques on mere content without considering structure. If you cant even see those technical elements - how are you even going to deal with stuff like poetry which does structural changes per line?

>>17174038
>reddit spacing

>>17174045
Who are you quoting?

>>17173866
Not always true, the SubaHibi patch that's translated up to Jabberwocky 1 isn't listed there at least

>>17158205
Is Rance the most dominant release ever?

Hows the translation for the HD version of Symphonic Rain compare to the fan one?

>>17174121
I heard that Imouto Paradise might have that title; it was released before the guy started keeping track of weekly releases though. It was their 2nd long nukige after all, Ultimate Boobs War being the first.

Rance does seem more persistent than Haruka though. Haruka was prominent on the chart from March to August of its release year while Rance is pretty prominent from December up to now (with a weird 3 week gap between February 12 and March 12 where Rance dropped off the chart but rose back to 2nd after said gap).

>>17174149
>Haruka was prominent until Rance VI's localization was announced.

Does lead to a certain conclusion.

>>17174157
Eh, the wall scroll bundle did seem to sell at least and it did make the chart occasionally after that. A lot of people probably bought it for the sake of itself and maybe other Beat Series titles.

>>17174157
A good number of us only bought it for more Alicesoft titles, but I do know more than a few people who love Haruka.

Hopefully Evenicle isn't too for away..

>>17174179
Evenicle is not happening soon.

>>17174038
I don't get a lick of what you're memespouting behind all those purple buzzwords.

>>17174193
There's one hint that strongly implies Yaegashi Nan, the artist for Evenicle. It could mean Drapeko instead, but no one really wants that game much. I would buy it sure, but I'm an Alicesoftfag.

He has drawn for other eroge under that name, but I don't see Mangagamer partnering with Broom Handle or getting Eiyuu Senki Gold (where he was a guest artist).

>>17174193
Why do people hype this shit?
It isn't better than kamidori, let alone baldr in terms of gameplay and its plot fucking sucks and unlike Rance, Aster can't carry such a boring moeturd.

>>17172405
Direct electrical stimulation of the brain.

>>17174232
Mostly because SK-esque art or maybe for waifu faggotry. I've met one guy who's curious about it because Aster is so different from Rance though.

>>17174221
Okay. They will announce an Alicesoft game soon.

What is more likely - the highly hyped game from 2011 that has already nearly been completely translated?

Or a game from 2015 they have nothing on?

>>17174282
Neither. Sengoku Rance.

>>17174197
Dont worry m8, being stupid doesnt deny you happiness

>>17174348
Boy is 幸福に生きよ such a deep theme, wow!

>>17174247
That doesn't sound nearly as fun as the current way. Not to mention that without the current physical limitations (breathing, hand movement, leg cramps, dry dick skin), you might go crazy from the unlimited potential pleasure.

>>17172455
Terrible project management

>>17174333
>more ranceshit
No, thanks.

>>17175275
Oh but we will get more. And you'll take it.
No Dualshit or Nineshit for you.

>>17175275
I want my $40 worth, or whatever BBH cost.

>>17175275
Eushully is probably never happening since they've become reliant on mobage.

Softhouse Chara could happen, but who knows when that will be finalized even assuming negotiations are still going on.

>>17176050
I'd buy nukige if they got Softhouse Chara

>>17174123
I honestly can't remember much of the fan tl one, it's been way too long.

I've been playing for a while and I haven't seen a typo. I've played for about an hour, and there was one technical misuse of grammar (using a comma before and even though it wasn't connecting two complete clauses) and one word where the scripter fucked up (In Arietta's second letter), but other than that, the translation seems perfectly fine.

Were songs subbed in the fan tl? They are subbed here, which is a nice touch, though letters like y,p, and g are a bit cut off at the bottom (it's obvious which letter it is at least).

>>17176402
>Were songs subbed in the fan tl?
They were.

>>17171053
Hyped for Albatross Sky Butlers

Or Yabai! -Fukushuu Yami Site- from Waffle
https://vndb.org/v12130

Shit would be so cash. But then again, it's not on AX or Otakon MG makes these kind of announcements.

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>>17178128
>Rape
>Revenge
>Unavoidable Rape
>High Amounts of Rape
Too bad it might never be here.

>>17178128
Maybe after Funbag Fantasy 2,3, Sidestory 3, 2 Sidestory, and the new one about to be revealed.

Symphonic Rain has managed to hit 69 concurrent users during its first day, eclipsing the 67 concurrent users that Nurse Love Addiction peaked at. However, the concurrent users peaked about 9 hours ago (prime time in Asia) and has plummeted to between 10-15 concurrent users for the last few hours, so its sales are likely to be strongly Chinese based with a rather poor Western performance. That would be in line with 34 reviews thus far, 3 of which are in English, 2 in Japanese, 5 in Traditional Chinese, and 23 in Simplified Chinese.

Dies Irae has still been maintaining daily peaks around 150 concurrent users, so it is still has a relatively large number of people playing it. The Steamspy estimate has stabilized around 25k, though of course it is impossible to estimate how many people went through with purchasing the routes.

What was the rationale behind the Majikoi A games? Were they sold as episodic VNs, like what Norn did for a while?

>>17179079
>What was the rationale behind the Majikoi A games?
Selling out as hard as possible
They were released in separate parts, if that's what you mean by episodic.

>>17178195
If only it didn't have gangbanging and wasn't being broadcast to a bunch of anons over the Internet. I just can't into cuckoldry like that.

>>17179094
Yeah, I guess that's what I mean by episodic. It was pretty disappointing how they just kept throwing in new heroines and not going back to Umeko or Chika from the original Majikoi and giving them proper routes.

But after playing Majikoi and S, I feel like I understand how the same writer made up Akame ga Kill. I see a lot of similar character themes and tropes between the two now, though I still can't understand why Mine would win in AgK. She's nothing like Kokoro or Angel.

I couldve gotten a masters in Japanese by now

>>17179445
You could have gotten a masters, moved to Japan, reached native level fluency, married a Japanese woman, had a child together and seen that child graduate high school by now.

>>17179469
No normalfag dreams, please.

>>17179789
You could have failed out of the university you were attending, stowed away on a cargo plane to Japan, wandered around aimlessly in the streets confusing and scaring the natives with your kindergarten level linguistic ability, failed at an attempt to buy a prostitute, gotten your ass kicked by a yakuza, molested a child and gotten thrown into a Japanese prison by now.

>>17179842
You're still implying I would go after 3DPD. Stop fucking projecting.

>>17179883
You could have stayed home and shitposted on /jp/, never doing anything or interacting with anyone that wasn't on the other side of a monitor, masturbated and gone to sleep by now.

>>17179911
That's my day already; no need for it to be a dream.

>>17178128
>Or Yabai! -Fukushuu Yami Site- from Waffle
Would be great. Too bad they are going to keep milking that disgusting cowtits fantasy shit.

Just bought a 4K monitor. Is there going to be any problems playing VNs with it? I know they aren't optimized for it.

>>17180848
Yeah, get ready to set it to 1080p so you can actually see, unless you want to use full screen for everything

I still haven't found a working program that lets you resize windows arbitrarily

>>17180856
>I still haven't found a working program that lets you resize windows arbitrarily
I've been looking for something like that too. Especially for all the old VNs that only support low resolutions. Lately I've just been abusing OBS' preview mode for that.

>>17181790
>>17180856
Some VNs do let you drag a corner and resize them as you see fit. I wish all VNs did this. Heck, all Ren'py VNs have this feature.

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>White Album 2 Closing Chapter and Coda never
>5 fucking years
I should have started learning japanese.

>>17181973
Machine it yourself and get the same result without the wait for the """translation"""

>>17181790
>OBS' preview mode
Oh I think that would work. Yeah the program would need to screen capture and redisplay at higher resolution instead of trying to trick the program into displaying higher res (since that doesn't always work).

>>17181951
None of the 800x600 old VNs support that

>>17182102
Beat Blades Haruka let me custom size the window by dragging a corner.

>>17182124
SLC made an extension that let Daibanchou and Sengoku Rance do that; it's probably the same or maybe a modified version of that.

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>>17182100
esl-kun translation was cute

>>17182409
Just needs some editing and no one would be the wiser

MG put up an AX teaser showing 4 announcements, 1 of which is from a new partner.

They also seem to be bringing over the Fata Morgana writer as a guest (going along with the two other guests they already announced.)

>>17182735
The Mangagamer Panel also serving as a Q&A Panel for three people explains the extra hour at least.

Last AX, they added one new announcement spot a week. I wonder if it's the same this year. 6 announcements wouldn't be too unusual at least.

Mankograbbers should release SukuSuku already. And hire another hacker. Doodler is a lazy faggot.

>>17159119
There's almost no difference from 1 to 3. Hoshimemo itself is babby-tier Japanese.

>>17182944
I really think it is going to be only four announcements this time, they being the four secret projects on the status page.

But like you said Haro might add others on the next weeks.

>>17183096
They did, Doddler isn't working on SukiSuki, another programmer they hired is working on it.

>>17183142
>another programmer they hired is working on it.
He is also a lazy fagget then, hire more hackers.

Libra never.

>>17183221
Most people who can do it won't do it for as little as localization companies pay.

>>17173962
Sounds like the code for it is a complete mess if you use that as a hint of the unity project he is talking about here.
https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/875832760870461440
Probably explains why the project has stalled for so long and is an indication it might still take some time for it to be in a decent state.
Who did the original porting work for it?

>>17183358

Unless they had someone trying to port the game in the first place and they fucked it up and doddler ended up picking it up(which I don't think is the case since to my knowledge doddler was always supposed to be doing bokuten), that tweet's not about bokuten.

Bokuten is BGI so it's mostly just a matter of doddler reusing his old work from higurashi/d2b. There's really no reason that it took so long to get done other than doddler was invested in much more very important business such as https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/862852721799385089

>>17168232
why do they still put 'TV compatible' on vita boxes when it's been discontinued for years and almost every new game already works on it?

>>17183467
Why not? The hardware is still supported, it's just not in production anymore. And some occasional new games don't support it.

Did anyone ever try to translate Gachinko Bitch Club? Is there any interest in a translation patch?

>>17183282
The steam page is up so it might come out soon.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/604170/Libra_of_the_Vampire_Princess/
Though it is likely to clash with the steam summer sale at this rate which can hit early sales.

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>>17183282
According to their twitter it will be released on June 22nd. They gave some cryptic stardate system from Star Trek which converts into pic related.

https://twitter.com/MiKandiJapan/status/875739768478343169

>>17158202
>Maji Koi A-3 - Starting up
There hasn't been any advancement on this for a while

>>17158215
>Should list clover days under sekai cause we all know that's what is going to end up happening
Did I miss something? What happened?

>>17184885
Clover Day's translator works for sekai.

>>17182735
>They also seem to be bringing over the Fata Morgana writer as a guest
That's cool. Kinda wish I could go there and sperg out about D&D with him now.

>>17184984
Technically the guy who is translating it as-of-this-moment doesn't. Astro's just the guy heading the project and editing it. I don't think he's actually translated anything on it in quite awhile.

That being said, I still fully expect it to be picked up by Sekai or something. It'd be awfully shitty, though. I think that translation has been going on for 3 years now, and while I don't expect that to be pushed to 4, a Sekai license could very well delay a release by a year - or, hell, even two years. Waiting 5 years for a simple light-hearted moege is kind of funny.

>>17158303
i played flyable heart as my first

was pretty hard but doable, recommended

Where did the update for Majo Koi Nikki come from?

>>17183879
I need to start saving up (semen).

>>17174414
Thats like saying that Rilke's Archaic Torso of Apollo is self-help because it ends with 'you must change your life'

>>17183879
Update on this. Looks like the old tweet was deleted and a new one was made with a June 20th release date. Either somebody screwed up the previous release date or they realized they should probably get Libra out ASAP before the Steam Summer Sale.

>>17187948
Is likely the latter after they saw a few people mention how retarded it is to launch a game during the summer sale. It honestly should have been out weeks ago if it wanted to miss most of the effect of the upcoming sale though.

S'up EOP pals.

Recently I was really busy, so I could neither play my own eroge neither observe what's happening among you.

So I want to ask, what was the acceptance of Dies irae among EOPery?

>Flowers - Vol 1 released, Vol 2 onwards still to come

JAST tweeted that Vol 2 translation is about halfway done.

>>17188457
Ask again without the retarded spacing.

>>17187948
A bunch of release dates got moved around last year for the same reason.

Although I'm surprised Dal Segno was given a June 30 release date by MG.

>>17192903
>Although I'm surprised Dal Segno was given a June 30 release date by MG.
That could be down to Circus insisting it, though I would have though MG would at least try to press for waiting another week or two with the expected end date of the sale being around July 5th. Maybe Japs still don't get how Steam and the culture surrounding it works.

>>17158203
>Wagamama High Spec - 100% translated, Denpa version announced. Demo released
Wait hold on, this is finished? Did they give an idea of when it's coming out?

>>17193129
Nope, possibly due to technical issues. There's still stuff to do even after the script is finished.

Depending on the game and the company, technical issues can hold up the game for while. MG has the least issues related to this, but even they suffer from a programming bottleneck bad enough to stall a low priority game for a couple of years (Bokuten).

How do I set Dies Irae to 4:3 mode? I want to see the whole artwork.

>>17207787
lol

>>17207787
4:3 mode will come with the 18+ version

>Frontwing
>English release planned for "upcoming adult title"

Any chance we could get to see Makai Tenshi Dibril translated?

>>17208514
Which one?
Number 4?
Because the others look too old

>>17208514
hatsumira

>>17208514
Upcoming as in upcoming for Japan, too