Visual Novel translation status >Aiyoku No Eustia - 18.03%

JAST
Eiyuu*Senki - In preorder, Summer release
Princess X - Fall release
Princess X fandisc - Picked up
Flowers - Volume 2 Winter release
Katahane - Fully translated, in editing + QC, Early 2018 release
Majikoi - 2018 release
Trample on Schatten- Translation 100%, in editing
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sweet Home - 100% translated, debugging script
Sumaga- Fully translated, 70% edited
Machine Child - Announced


Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
Wagamama High Spec - July 25th release
Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk - In QA, fixing Engine issues Summer release
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - 75% translated
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Picked up, Kickstarter finished, Winter 2018 release
Riajuu Plus - Release "within a couple months"
SakuSaku - Engine/QA work ongoing, Fall release
Grisaia no Rakuen - Roughly 1/3rd of the new work on the R18 version is finished
Hoshizora no Memoria - 100% translated, Kickstarter finished, Fall 2017 release
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - Kickstarter finished
KaraKara 2 - 100% translated, late 2017 release
Miko no Kanata - 2017 release
Nanairo Reincarnation - Early 2018 release
Baldr Sky - Combined release of Dive 1 + Dive 2 in mid 2018
The Bell Chimes For Gold - 62% translated
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
2236 A.D. - 100% translated, Engine/QA work ongoing
Maitetsu - In QA, Denpa version announced
Nenokami - Part 2 2017 release
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
Tenshin Ranman - 99.01% translated, Denpa version announced
Koikuma - 74.19% translated, 2017 release
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released, Q4 release
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
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
Rewrite+ - Picked up
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Dracu-Riot - Picked up
Senren * Banka - Picked up
Ninja Girl - Announced
Island Diary - Announced


Frontwing
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger - Vol 3 July 28th release, Indiegogo project finished
>Subahibi - Late August release, Kickstarter starting shortly
Sharin no Kuni - 20% translated
Island - 100% translated, 40-50% edited, 2018 release
Momoiro Closet - 2018 release
2 upcoming secret announcements


Visual Arts
Little Busters - Late August release
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 - 7/28 release
Bad Apple Wars - 9/29 release
Code: Realize fandisc - 2018 release
7'scarlet - 2018 release
Kokuchou no Psychedelica - 2018 release
Haitaka no Psychedelica - 2018 release


Fruitbat
Seven Days - Late 2017 release
SeaBed - 70% translated, Late 2017 release
Chuusotsu! 1st graduation - Kickstarter finished, demo released, late 2017 release

Other
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 - September release
Magical Charming - Fall release planned
>Song of Memories - Fall release planned
428: Shibuya Scramble - 2018 release
>Sakura Sakura - Kickstarter starting August 1st
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
Harumade, Kururu - Seems to have an English release planned
Moenovel is working on another new title
Monmusu - Announced
Taisho Alice - Volume 1 released
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

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Green ImoPara is just a bait. It's been stuck in scripting since forever.

>>17364135
It wasn't officially in scripting until this week though? It was still at 92% edited. The change is the 100% edited, mostly.

>>17364135
>It's been stuck in scripting since forever
>it's another doodler's project
Lmao. Guy is literally new Dovac.

>>17364162
Those can be done in parallel. We've seen it on Doddler's backlog, so it means nothing.

>>17364179
>Lmao. Guy is literally new Dovac.
You have no conception of what you are even saying.

So with shit like House Party now being on Steam, how long before we can buy uncensored VN on steam? Will it happen, or will double standards continue to reign supreme?

>>17364741
http://store.steampowered.com/app/635730/Dragonia/
>This is a flight shooting game with RPG growth factor.If you are not 18 years old, Do not download the game plz,Because there are R18 content in the game.

>>17364763
http://steamcommunity.com/app/635730/screenshots/
forget to include

>>17364763
Too bad that its machine translated and the publisher keeps doing that form more games as they seem to sell.

Dies Irae uncut isn't actually coming out this month, is it? I'm losing hope.

>>17364497
Yes you are new dovac.

>>17365000
They have 8 more days at least. I hope it does get released on time. I've been putting off buying it because of this.

>>17364763
Still needs a patch. House Party is totally uncensored from the get go and you can take out your cock and jizz on people.

>>17365517
In the menu on the left, click Visual Novels or Characters. Then in the middle of the screen, right under the list of letters, click Visual Novel Filters (or Filters if you went to the Characters page). Then just go through the options that you want, under the Tags or Traits headings, and click Apply. Note that some things won't show up unless you turn on spoilers in the Filters options.

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>>17365535
Thanks, man. It worked.

>>17364179
Both worked together to kill Baldr Sky.

It's late July, when will Dies Irae get the uncensored patch?

>>17366902
Not having downloads on their online store is a big deal. If you don't keep your download link from your purchase email, you're shit out of luck. What's worse is Dovac is basically arguing that people re-downloading their games is costing them money, so they won't make it easy to do so. While I can sympathize with the high cost of bandwidth from CDNs, this is probably the least consumer friendly move they've done, and sekai isn't exactly unfamiliar with anti-consumer moves.

>>17367708
I can understand if they swapped to be allowed to sell nekopara furry games and maitetsu loli games. But any other reason for this swap and it is just Sekai aiming to lose more customers on purpose.

>>17367708
After going though the relevant discussion, the issue seem to be that Shopify doesn't have the API required to have a page with all of the personalized download links, only a way to recover the download link that they can email out. The reasons for switching over seem to be that this greatly reduces the attention needed on their part, and that they'll be able to "sell physicals again", which probably means they got around some of their payment processing issues with this with the new associated payment processing Shopify offers. I wouldn't be shocked if the latter issue would have also been a problem for some of their upcoming releases as well had it not been addressed. One other thing they might gain judging by info on Shopify is that they'll likely be paying significantly less in transaction fees compared to what they had been using.

That said, regardless of the reasons it puts them in a bad spot to not have direct download links readily available on the website itself, as that is more or less a staple of sites distributing digital content. Even if there isn't much risk to losing downloads since you can just email them for a lost link, it shouldn't be on the customers to try and save download links.

>>17367861
I gotta ask, are the restrictions only for old purchases, or also new purchases? I was under the impression the email link limitation is for all purchases, old and new.

>>17367934
Unless I misunderstood something, that is correct and emailed out download links will be the main way they distribute the individual download links going forward, as they don't have a way to offer the unique download links on the website itself (because the API isn't there from Shopify).

>>17367934
Both, as it is an API thing. So imagine how many patches they will be selling now that it is 10 times as annoying as just pirating them.

>>17367972
See that doesn't even make sense. It's not like you can't write your own code for shopify... there's probably a dozen off the shelf apps/plugins for supporting digital downloads on the platform too. The whole thing is low effort... their old site was just an off the shelf wordpress+woocommerce template, and the new one isn't a whole lot better.

>>17367934
>>17367972
Looking at the Shopify digital download app itself https://apps.shopify.com/digital-downloads
>Your customers get a direct download after checkout, and an emailed link
So if seems like for new purchases you will initially get a link without needing to go through email, but aside from that everything old and new look like they'll be handled exclusively through email.

Unsurprisingly, the lack of the ability to handle it through the website was listed as a major drawback in the reviews. There are also some complaints about internal stuff having problems on occasion, so I wouldn't be surprised to see some future Denpasoft release have platform related problems.

>>17367634
When the anime is out.

>>17364497

He's gonna force this meme until you like it.

>>17368317
Doddler's no Dovac, but he's still a pretty huge asshole in his own right for trying to Both Sides the Baldr Sky fiasco because he's too much of a pussy to say that Sekai Project did anything wrong.

>>17368535
Do not be autustic Just B Yourself.

>>17368535
>You're an asshole if you don't endanger your job

>>17368834
Nobody forced him to post anything, anon.

>>17368840
And if he didn't you'd say the exact same thing.

>>17368535
Shame on him for not wanting everyones hard work to go to waste, no one should ever fight for that.

>>17368093
Sounds like you will get a generated page that is temporary. In no way does it sound like they picked a store front that handles digital goods through accounts.

>>17368535
Do you even know what real life is? Very pathethic thing to say.

>>17369560
They were quite clear when asked about the storefront that the links themselves do not expire after a given amount of time, so unless they were mistaken that shouldn't be an issue. It appears they are using >>17368093 , so Denpa is using a platform that was designed to handle digital downloads and generate individual download links that are tied to an account, just for some stupid unexplainable reason it doesn't support an API that could be used to generate a page of download links for an account on the fly.

Although considering the apparent issues with the platform and the quick changeover, I wouldn't be surprised to see various issues pop up after Wagamama High Spec goes on sale.

>>17369604
My point is that the purchase page after you buy the games will probably be a temporary one listing a permanent link.

So there is generation of pages with links, just not based on accounts but based on product in your cart.

>>17363604
Order Number - 279087
Order Date - 2017-07-24

>>17369033
You mean not wanting Dovac's not work to go to waste, and wanting to get paid.

He's been happy to throw the rest of the work under the bus and blame Aroduc for it.

>>17370372
>Making up your own version of reality to fit your narrative
You sure are dedicated to your grudge

>>17370397
Doddler said it himself. He's getting paid. He's working on it. Everything else is supposedly out. Whatever deal he cut for himself wasn't extended to others.

>>17370429
>Whatever deal he cut for himself wasn't extended to others.
Negotiations were apparently going up until May or June or something, it's not Doddler's fault if Aroduc or anyone else didn't like the terms they were offered by Sekai, that's just how jobs work. All Doddler has said is that both parties were not overly productive, and that fits with exactly how dovac and Aroduc have appeared over the years. Hardly throwing either party under the bus.

>>17370466
In fact, is anyone aside from Aroduc out? It seems like everyone but him was still keen on doing it, and he's the only one to step out, apparently because the contract for him was extremely harsh or something.

>>17370429
>Whatever deal he cut for himself wasn't extended to others.
>In fact, is anyone aside from Aroduc out?
Doddler seems to imply the rest of the team minus Aroduc took the deal.
https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S17232863#p17245606
No one else has come out of the woodwork to refute that point either so we are only stuck with his word.

>>17370622
Was also for
>>17370528

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>TSUJIDOU-SAN NO JUN’AI ROAD UPDATE #9
>Common Route Part 1: 100.0%
>Common Route Part 2: 100.0%
>Ai: 33.44%
>Renna: 0.0%
>Maki: 0.0%
>Saeko: 0.0%
>Total: 29.43%

>>17370622
I'm still amazed there can even be a deal when Sekai still haven't figured out what they licensed. Is it all-ages only? We need another 2 years to read the papers.

>>17370663
Not even a choice for "Your cute". How will the average American know what to pick?

>>17370466
>>17370528
>Negotiations were apparently going up until May or June or something
>It seems like everyone but him was still keen on doing it, and he's the only one to step out
>Doddler seems to imply the rest of the team minus Aroduc took the deal.
These are all false. Doddler and DxS are the only two working on it from Aroduc's team, and they were already working with Sekai Project. Furthermore, there were no negotiations, nor almost any communications at all, at any point past fall of 2016. Sekai Project gave their terms in very early 2017 which were immediately rejected because, among many reasons, they backslid on things they had previously agreed on, and imposed particularly harsh, if not impossible to fulfill, requirements, particularly on Aroduc. No further communication at all was had since that point.

Sayooshi never

Will Wagamama High Spec keep the nude filter? Or will we be able to apply the Japanese nude filter to the game?

>>17370853
To make it clear, the same requirements were given to everyone, and from my understanding, they are the usual ones from Sekai Project. From what I've seen of them, they are not at all reasonable. Doddler and co were already under them. Sekai Project doesn't enforce them, until someone (e.g. Herkz) does something to piss them off, so don't worry about them. That's the only thing I can think of when Doddler says there was "a lack of mutual trust."

That doesn't cover the other pretty major issues with the contract though. A few of which were things like hugely deferred payment (which is standard for Sekai Project), and wanting his team to deliver both a full translation of the original game, but also create a completely functioning U18 version without paying them anything extra for it, or providing them with dev support from Giga to do so. The latter was just one of the many backslides. I believe Sekai had eventually said that they would negotiate it later and payment/services would be for delivery of the full version only, but then when the actual contract came, they were on the hook for it again.

>>17371385
Hi Aroduc. What are you currently translating?

>>17371385
The entire Baldr Sky affair is suspect from the very start though.

They announce the title right after Giga said yes without anything worked out at all and meandered through it for the next half a year. They also didn't have a team or anything for it and apparently sold the idea based on a fan-translation that the team working on it has no idea about any negotiation taking place.

Afterwards, they hope that everything will fall into their laps despite no agreement being made with both the company or the fanTLers. This entire venture was doomed to fail from the start.

>>17371407
Tales of Destiny 2

>>17371417
Which is why it's complete bullshit to put any blame on the fan translators.

Which is why Doddler's an asshole.

Aroduc dindu nuffin wrong, he was a good boy

>>17371499
He quit translating.

>>17371385
The whole situation was pretty badly handled. Nothing against him, but Aroduc writes his emails like he writes his blog, blunt and full of cynicism, the only reason it didn't fall apart immediately is his team stepped in to try to properly communicate. On the other side though, Sekai couldn't properly explain the scope of project, since the U18/18+ situation was still very much in the air, and they frequently changed their stance on things in the weeks or even month long gaps between emails.

Following an episode where a frustrated Aroduc openly aired his complaints and criticized Sekai Project on his blog, Sekai shut down negotiations. Doddler and DxS tried to salvage the situation and bring Sekai back to the table by effectively signing on with them and having Aroduc withdraw the post. When they finally got a contract drafted for the project though (which didn't come until early 2017), the contract was unusually strict as they feared a 'going rogue' situation, with clauses that allowed Sekai to walk away with the translation if he broke contract. At that point it was dead, Aroduc felt Sekai was working in bad faith and was aiming to steal his work, so having no interest in negotiating the terms of the contract he walked away from the whole thing.

>>17371643
>Following an episode where a frustrated Aroduc openly aired his complaints and criticized Sekai Project on his blog, Sekai shut down negotiations.

Sekai shut down negotiations before that. It's what prompted the post IIRC.

>>17371643
If the contract was specially geared to squelch him personally, was impossible to fulfill, and they get everything in the event of any problem while he gets screwed, "bad faith" is an understatement.

Sekai tweeted that Maitetsu is planned for a Winter release.

>no bald sky because of doodler
>no higurashi because of doodler
>no imopara2 because of doodler
>no sukisuki because of doodler
>no bokuten because of doodler
Dovac was actually a great guy in a retrospective.

>>17371810
Your shitposting is actually starting to convince me

>>17371643
You skipped that DxS and Doddler said that Sekai Project wasn't interested in negotiating it, only making small tweaks.

And this >>17371385

>>17371643
Sekai handles everything badly. It is like they can't think 2 steps ahead and are stuck living in the present. (Kickstarter money? Well, it is enough this month. Maybe run a new one next month if we need more)

>>17371850
An ultimatum?

How saucy.

>>17371854
Their CEO used to regularly tweet about how he hated their entire audience, all fan translators, and that they shouldn't be working on VNs at all.

They can't think even one step ahead.

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>From the publishers of the Western version of Maitetsu.

>>17371643
I don't get this. Every time people carry water for Sekai Project here, they start from things being on equal ground, as though Aroduc didn't trust SP when he helped them get the license. As though he had no reason at all to be distrustful or suspicious of them even after they tried to cut him out and throw him off the project. But it seems to go without question that he made an effort to smooth things over. What was Sekai Project's effort? What was their show of trust in him? From this, a defense of Sekai Project, they still cut him out and instead of trying to deescalate the situation, did what they could to torpedo the deal every step of the way by becoming harsher and more untrustworthy.

If this is Sekai Project in its best light, and almost assuredly full of half truths, I shudder to know what really went on.

>>17371874
I disagree. 1 Step ahead is "We find everyone who doesn't play visual novels, and make them buy our games".

I wish MG stopped wasting their time on trash like shitkana and gakhtun.

>>17371917
Sekai Project's effort was talking to him at all after the grave injustice of saying anything bad about Sekai Project.

In Dovac's mind.

.>>17371917
The goal isn't to absolve them, it's the have it be accepted through repetition that both sides are to blame. Whataboutism, tu quoque, both sides, etc. Welcome to 2016 when it made a surging comeback as the argument of choice among trolls.

It seems that no matter what doodler's boyfriends never going to stop sucking his dick. Even though he ruined Baldr Sky and Higurashi.

how is this shit still going on? until aroduc talks about it, its all anon bullshit.

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>>17363604

Damn, someone already got a later number than mine.

I've been out for a few months though, did Rance actually do as well as that graph implies? I saw (and ordered) the hardcopy I a few days ago but wasn't sure if it really had made sales or was MG grandstanding. Are we actually winning over Alicesoft?

>>17372481
>Are we actually winning over Alicesoft?
Considering Evenicle was announced I would say so.

>>17372481
As far as I know, it's been in the weekly top 5 since it came out. I'd say it's doing pretty well.

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>>17372488
>Evenicle
yfw doodshit dont work on this and it would be out this year instead of being indefinitely stalled like his other works. Thanks goodness doodshit didnt fucked Alice Soft games.

>>17372547
Reminding me with that pic, how low are the chance to get Cross Days here?

>>17363572
VNs like musume shimai??

>>17372560
Hope zero. Go away gay

>>17372488
>>17372498

Well damn, guess I know how I'm celebrating.

>>17372481
>I've been out for a few months though, did Rance actually do as well as that graph implies?

There was a Humble Bundle shortly after Rance was released, which accounted for most of the that jump on the graph. That said, Haruka was the best selling title (excluding Steam and Humble Bundle) in 2016, and Rance, which was released in December, was the 4th best seller of 2016. Alicesoft commented that Haruka sold well for MG in one of their blogposts, but I am unaware of if they ever commented on Rance VI, but considering MG has gotten Evenicle Alicesoft isn't going to be disappointed with the sales.

>>17371643
>Aroduc is direct, and the same in private as he is in public

No wonder pathological twofaced liars like Dovac didn't want to work with him.

>>17371643
>the only reason it didn't fall apart immediately
What? It did fall apart immediately by every account we know.

Literally the very first thing they did was cut him out of the loop. The second thing was to try to kick him off his own project. Where are you getting this?

>>17372752
"Properly communicate" means kowtowing to Dovac's extremely fragile ego. Ask any of the cartel.

>>17371385
>Sekai Project doesn't enforce them, until someone (e.g. Herkz) does something to piss them off, so don't worry about them.
Anyone who wants you to sign a contract but verbally says they don't plan to enforce it is preparing to fuck you directly up the ass. It means that they get infinity leverage over you, in exchange for which you get, well, nothing.

I guess you can get away with that when the people you contract are apparently starving to death.

>>17372829
Acting like shitty wannabe loansharks is exactly how I imagine Sekai project to be run.

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>still no Higurashi

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>>17372969

>>17372969
All the chapters have been translated for years, you nob

>>17373309
Same shit every thread
The new versions are better in every way and it's impossible to go back and get the same enjoyment especially if you've been playing with the ps3 voice + graphics patches because the old versions didn't support modding voices or CGs in.

>>17373362
I played the game with the original sprites by Ryukishi07 and the original music by dai.
This is how it was originally released and meant to be played.

Original purity and doujin spirit is best way

>>17373389
Some music in the old mangagamer versions was changed.
PS3 music mods don't exist for any version. No matter what it's the OG kai tracks.

It's going to be another December without angels, isn't it /jp/?

>>17373389
The original sprites are uggu

>>17373434
I don't mind original sprites but that old font is horrible

>>17373440
Examples? Never seen it

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>>17373459

>>17373496
Yeah, it looks awful

>>17373412
>Some music in the old mangagamer versions was changed
Use the music and sound patch to get the original music and sound effects. That's what I did.

http://higurashifix.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Patch

>>17373434
They're EXPRESSIVE

>>17373516
The voice acting is so good though man. I'm loving the story this way.

If a VN doesn't open with an H scene I literally won't play it

Is twitter fucked for anyone else? Need to get my dose of translator drama.

Another day, another no Dies Irae 18+ patch

Lol Subahibi. It's been literally one million years.

>>17374394
I wish they would give some more status updates. The only thing they did in over a month was this incomplete OST.

>>17371152
You mean there’s a nude filter model option like in Libra? I loved that shit.

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Ok little update from the other day.
I managed to extract the files, and like
>>17363005
Suggested i got the Scripts from the Arc. Files Using the Extractor and simply opening with a .txt file, i was looking around understanding which were Events-Images and Scripts files , and even the Audio files, i didn't use Python or BGI tools since i'm just following the game and meanwhile looking every script is there.

Dunno if i'm doing this right (or at least right enough).
Anyway, i was checking the events/image files and all of them after Extracting them turns into Black .bmp files, is that an issue that can be fixed by using Python?

>>17372796
>Ask any of the cartel.
The entire translator community, but especially #tlwiki, should be ashamed of themselves for both dogpiling Aroduc on how he needs to do whatever Dovac says for the good of Baldr Sky, and then blacklisting him when Dovac continued to fuck him over. It's disgusting how he went from savior of the game to persona non grata overnight.

>>17372560
It's JAST son, you know how they work.

>>17375391
I don't lurk #tlwiki. Got any screenshots of this?

>>17375391
shameful. aroduc isnt tlwiki's bitch. if this bullshit ends up pushing him out of translation altogether we will end up poorer for it.

>>17375391
>>17375462
Wasn't it "the cartel" that leaked the Baldr Sky translation to Dovac for use in the negotiation with Giga? I remember when the localization was announced, everyone working on Baldr Sky was completely blindsided by it while Moogy was talking it up like it was obvious and something in discussion.

In fact, isn't Moogy working on it right now?

>>17374417
それが何千京年続く
それでもまだ終わらないの
無限だからここまででも一瞬なの
終わりは絶対来ないの

>>17375391
Completely objectively, Aroduc doesn't (or didn't) need to do anything. Working with Sekai was always optional. They got the rights though, so he can't release his translation without consequences. If Aroduc chose to work for Sekai, they'd shave a year off of development, and have a decent and reasonably well known translator on the project. Aroduc for his effort would get paid for his work, and his last year of translation wouldn't go to waste. On the surface that doesn't sound like a bad deal, pretty much everyone (the community and those involved) comes out ahead, which is clearly why those involved pushed to find a deal.

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>Wagamama High Spec - July 25th release

delayed to July 27th without any explanation

>>17375949
And what if the terms of the deal were that Aroduc has to take down all his patches and the fan translation part of his site, can no longer work as a fan translator, doesn't get paid until 2019, and has to create a completely functional brand new U18 version of the game for free in order to be paid for the translation?

Don't be reductive.

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>>17376143

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Aroduc deserves everything he got for not using honorifics.

>>17376147
is that what happened to lemnisca? ouch, no self-respect

>>17375348
If you use BGI tools it'll break the scripts up into an easier to read/TL format, and then those scripts can be reinserted later. I actually don't know how image decryption works but it's likely you won't need to do image editing anyway so I wouldn't worry about it.

https://pastebin.com/iT59c4xU

Here is what the common01_01 file looks like after running BGItools

>>17376147
>can no longer work as a fan translator,
This is part of all Sekai contracts. It's not just as a fan translator, but for anybody in the VN market under the guise of non-competition. They could enforce it on koestl, Doddler, or anybody who has done any work for them whenever they felt like it and completely fuck over MG and Jast.
>>17372829

Question about Dies Irae. I found that the emblem on the gloves of the members of the LDO is actually the logo of Forschungsgemeinschaft Deutsches Ahnenerbe, an actual nazi organization. Where does the emblem on their arms come from? Why don't they have a Swastika there like real nazi uniforms?

>>17376143
Sasuga Sekai Project

>>17375949
Why couldn't he release his patch? There are no laws against replacing text in games, it is just against the ToS for what you are allowed to do with the game after buying it.

But I do understand why he wouldn't continue with it, as there is no point in two groups translating the same game. He could do something more productive than "compete" with an official team.

>>17376245
Are you retarded? Translators that work with MG and Jast are not FAN translators anymore, Sekai enforcing the "can no longer fan translate" clause would not affect them at all.

So the dies irae patch got delayed?

>>17376245
Sounds like they just copied the standard phrases of contracts. I mean I understand you don't want your chief engineer to go to a competiting company and use the knowledge he got from your company for the competition. But it is a bit silly to worry that someone will go use their Japanese translation skills for the competition and "ruin" all your chances at selling Japanese games.

I think Sekai would benefit from thinking. First step to that would be to hire someone competent.

>>17376482
>There are no laws against replacing text in games
Written works fall under copyright law, even if the text is translated, the original copyright holder would still hold the rights.
Fair use could be an argument, but amount of the work used (in this case all) and effect on the market (in this case loss of sales for the official translation) are a factor so that probably wouldn't work.

>>17376504
A standard work for hire contract only says that whatever is produced as part of the contract belongs to the company, in this case the translation of the game, not that the freelancer must not work with other companies on the same industry.

And most VN translators in the community are freelancers.

>>17376489
Read the post again, nimrod. It specifically says that it's not only for fan translation, but all translation in Sekai Project's realm of interest, which obviously includes their direct competitors.

>>17376567
And proof of that is? A anonymous post on 4chan?
Are you retarded?

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Higurashi 6, 7 and 8 all together or just 6 and be forced to wait for the rest?

>>17376576
Hi Dovac. Please take your meds.

>>17376579
If they were going to bundle the latter Higurashi titles, they would have began with 5 and have done a bundle of 5-8. It is quite unlikely that they'll begin bundling the releases with 6.

>>17376587
So you are retarded.

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>>17376591
How many months in between? The waiting is taking a toll on me. And I'm afraid I'm forgetting about some stuff already (started to read it since Watanagashi got released)

>>17376503
>So the dies irae patch got delayed?
Well the end of July is literally next week so unless we hear something by the weekend, probably

Bets on Sekai project announcing Clover Days at Otakon?

>>17376644
They're going to announce Eustia.

>>17376600
Thus far, the releases for the Higurashi re-releases have been May 15, 2015, Nov 13, 2015, Jun 17, 2016, Oct 13, 2016, and Apr 28, 2017. Thus they have been between 4 and 7 months between releases, with 6 being the most common, and there is little reason to expect them to change that rate significantly going forward. Even if they were more brisk with the development process, MG likes to space out their releases and has enough in the pipeline that I'm guessing they wouldn't significantly accelerate the release schedule.

>>17376245
Non-competition clauses were ruled illegal in California. You can't enforce it and you can be sued for trying to enforce it.

>>17376644
>Clover Days
Alcot has a partnership with JUST, not SP.

>>17376511
Sekai hasn't even officially licensed the 18+ game so they can't really legally do anything.

So if nothing else, releasing the patch would actually make them do their jobs and hurry and license it.

>>17376504
>First step to that would be to hire someone competent.
You're asking the impossible here.

>>17376702

You can sue for every stupid thing in USA and still win so your point is useless

>>17376785
There are also ways around it, chiefly by making it impossible in any practical measure to work in the same field.

>>17376823
>>17376785
>>17376702
Sekai Project does it on multiple levels with multiple clauses in their contracts. The simplest one is the deferred payment that's already been mentioned as their SOP. It extends the length of the contract far past delivery of all work, but until that happens, they must still abide by ALL terms until then, and for a period afterward. Bans on non-competition aren't valid if you're "employed" by two different companies at the same time. By staying "employed" by Sekai Project, they can prevent you from whatever they feel like, going back to
>Anyone who wants you to sign a contract but verbally says they don't plan to enforce it is preparing to fuck you directly up the ass.

>>17376850
Sekai doesn't employ translators, thus it cannot demand non-competition even during contract.

>>17376860
Someone should tell them that then.

>>17376871
Considering the fact that many of their translators and Doddler are also contracted by their direct competitors, they are well aware about it.

>>17376877
No, that means they don't enforce it.

Until, of course, they want to.

>>17376218
That looks like a big improvement from what i'm actually doing, I will try to get that to work.
if i can't i'll just translate it like i'm doing it now until i managed to get through it somehow.
Also Images decryptions isn't that important , but by Savagely Editing one of the picture from Panda i managed to turn a Scene into a decent Uncensored , i don't know if i should post it here spoilered since this is a Work safe Board.

>>17376147
Now that's just factually incorrect. There was no requirement to take down all his patches (at most, he was asked to remove patches for sekai partner titles, such as duel savior), and there was never any restriction on fan translations. The U18 changes only were required of aroduc because he wouldn't accept anyone else doing it. You're also wrong about the terms of payment.

>>17376978
Please don't lie, DxS.

>>17376978
>>17377000
I'm actually convinced that what Aroduc thought the proposal was and what his team thought the proposal was is completely at odds with each other. There's clearly two sides arguing different sets of facts.

>>17376978
>>17377000
>>17377042
I doubt that's DxS because it's 100% fabricated, and not the half-truths that a lot of the other posts are.

>still no Higurashi updates
please give us some kind of progress

>>17377051
The U18 thing is pretty funny. Aroduc gave two options:
1.) We deliver an 18+ version only. You create a U18 version on your own with no help or responsibility in getting it to work from us.
2.) We'll create the U18 version, but you're going to pay us to do that because it's a lot of extra work, and we are responsible only for effort, not outcome because we don't know if it can be done and you can't even name solid requirements right now.

Sekai unofficially agreed to 1, saying they'd negotiate 2 later. Then the contract terms were:

You deliver an 18+ version, and also a fully functional, complete U18 version, for no added cost, on the previously discussed timeline for an 18+ version, as the translator.

>>17376897
https://mega.nz/#!EllggZ7L!4UAS4Vy6rRmePU29crAd3KFuFMdM5iGKqnCnqCMBrXs

Here, I dumped all the scripts for you. I've also included a file here with my e-mail, you can send me an e-mail if you run into a problem so the thread doesn't get polluted with this. These should be all the script files, the other .arcs have BGs, CGs, music, sound effects, and the voice lines.

>>17376245
>and completely fuck over MG and JAST
And MG or JAST could probably sue them for anti-competitive practices since they are not full time employees but just contractors.

Is the Magical Charming release going to have an 18+ patch of any sort?

>>17377184
Sekai Project does a lot of things they could and should be sued for, but this is a field where nobody's rich, so they can afford to act like the big bullies.

>>17377612
JAST could probably fund legal action with all their J-List money.

>>17377618
>>17377612
They do a lot of shit just with their customers that should get them sued.

>>17377100
I would have said pass too, fuck that. Let them find ESLs to handle it.

>>17378247
>>17377100
>We won't give you specifications, we don't know if it can be done, we will be providing no support, and payment depends on a finished product.

Any sane person would run screaming from a contract like that. Is this what Doddler thinks is a matter of trust?

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>>17373440
>I don't mind original sprites

Seriously? It's so ugly...

>>17378470
imagine if it cant be done, youve already invested your time and effort in figuring it out, and youre on the hook for breach of contract because you cant deliver.

The Steam page was put up for Subahibi
http://store.steampowered.com/app/658620/Wonderful_Everyday_Down_the_RabbitHole/

Interestingly, it still lists an August release date. Frontwing noted they would have the new date for the Kickstarter shortly, but they are running out of time to get the Kickstarter started while still being able to get the Key out to backers by the end of the month.

>>17378481
It's an acquired taste. I appreciate the effort put into them and like another anon said, they are expressive.
Yeah, objectively speaking, they're bad. But they have a certain charm to them.

kind of amazed maitetsu might be getting a release with h scenes intact. it doesn't make up for the baldr fiasco and all the other problems but on its own it's a pretty big deal to me.

maybe in a few years sekai project will be on mangagamer level.

Rance Quest Magnum getting announced in two weeks, feels amazing.

>>17379684
Anon...

>>17378559
Sekai would NEVER do that.

You can TRUST them.

>>17363572
Princess X is now in beta testing.

https://twitter.com/jastusa/status/890118070143942656

>>17380065
Someone make a memento "Don't trust his lies" image with sekai's logo

>>17380901
Choose a better font, please.

>>17381265
Tell that to JAST.

Sol Press put up a page for Sakura Sakura

http://solpress.co/projects/sakurasakura/

Separately, the Otakon schedule is out. MG's panel is Friday August 11th at 8:00pm, while Sekai has a panel at 11:30pm on Saturday. It was probably a late addition for Sekai, as Otakon was not initially on their panel schedule for the year.

>>17378592
The page doesn't say anything about the patch. They should probably mention it

>>17381368
Ideally Steam would allow them to mention the patch itself within the game itself, but hard to say if Steam would allow that.

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>>17381345
>while Sekai has a panel at 11:30pm on Saturday.
Oh boy, I just can't wait

>>17381345
>Sakura Sakura
>2 MCs
Interesting.

>>17381345
This looks pretty professionally done. Doesn't seem to have any pitfalls that first VN projects by new companies seem to have.

The only concern is that the translator apparently has a history of translating browser games and Nutaku is the only one I can think of. Hopefully he was one of the better ones and not the super bad ones.

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>>17374394
Reminder that you're unfit for this masterpiece (Leonhart, 2017).

>>17381402
>Tenshin Ranman isn't out yet
>Let's give them 2 more VNs despite them not proving that they can even deliver on one VN yet

Speaking of which, Wagamama still has the Japanese text in the translation right? Probably means that it won't have an uncensored version, for those that care about that sort of thing.

>>17381545
>Wagamama still has the Japanese text in the translation right?
Wait what?

>Probably means that it won't have an uncensored version
They're coming out on the same day

>>17381376
Word on the street was that you got to announce free patches, but not paid patches.

>>17381572
He was saying that because it is a bilingual text release, it is unlikely to have a mosaic-free version (as some of the Japanese companies are more picky about that sort of thing since it is less clear that it is exclusively an international product if it includes Japanese text).

>>17381593
Steam allows announcing free patches on the platform, but it is unknown if Steam would allow a "download the free patch to play the full game" screen within the game itself. Even if the patch were mentioned within the game description, it would still be overlooked by a considerable number of buyers.

>>17381594
>mosaic-free
No one cares.

>>17381594
Oh he meant no mosaics

Wait who gives a crap? They usually never look good

Princess maker 2 > Princess maker 3

>>17381545
It would make sense if Sekai originally went after Tenshin Ranman for having a console release and Senren * Banka for being Yuzusoft's newest thing, then got Dracu Riot by bringing the fan translation team on board and pointing out that there was already a full translation patch out there.

Although regardless of how they convinced Yuzusoft, going after a bunch of those titles makes a lot of sense for Sekai Project. Based on their licenses, it is clear they have been making a big bet on moege, and if they can't find success with Yuzusoft moege then they would have trouble with almost any moege.

>>17381345
That's not the worst page I've seen, actually pretty decent. I'm still a bit confused why most localizations don't go for english logos though... I think other than frontwing and mangagamer most of them don't bother. Sekai had English logos for the first two Nekopara but somehow just forgot to use it for volume 3, which is actually kind of impressive. It would be trivially easy with the Sakura Sakura logo even without sources.

>>17381638
really? I'm still waiting for the issues to get patched before playing 3.
2 is one of my favorite games. 3 doesn't live up?

>>17381536
>Calls Dies Irae masterpiece condemning others for waiting for a free patch to get the sex
>On a fucking shameless pirate site
Very credible argument

>>17381616
>>17381635
There is a group out there that does care about mosaics as it has gotten played with each crowdfunding project regardless of the company running the crowdfunding project, although I'm indifferent about it. At the very least there was enough noise about it that Corona Blossom opted to distribute a mosaic free patch, and Sekai has revisited Chrono Clock and been making mosaic free a part of their advertising for something like Nekonin. I would venture to guess that it is also probably easier to sell a mosaic-free title on Nutaku as well.

>>17382372
These companies went very fast from "how could you complain about censored releases" to "ei! check out our uncensored mosaic-free mushrooms redraw by doddler!".

Frontwing did a small update on the Subahibi patch page about the one scene.
>UPDATE 7/27: Our understanding of the removal of the scene in question was slightly incorrect. The CG depicting the scene has been removed, but no text from the game has been cut.

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>>17382851
>they're removing the CG where the loli gets raped by the dog

>>17383024
>>17382851
A fair compromise.

>>17382851
Should make it that much easier to patch a cg back in

Wagamama High Spec is up on Denpa and Steam. It has a $5 higher base cost off of Steam, though I don't see any 18+ patch for the Steam version (and with the different base costs I doubt there will be a free patch).

>>Original Japanese version with minimal mosaics

Looks like >17381545 was right.

>>17383522
It appears to be confirmed as no patch, because of some type of complication. I'm guessing the lack of a patch will hinder it at least a bit, and its pricing makes getting both versions as being quite unlivable for most.

In that regards, it is one of Sekai's more expensive titles, being $40/$45 depending on the version, with their only other titles at that price point being the first Grisaia at $40 and Clannad at $50. That could reflect the length of the work, licensing costs, making up for the lack of crowdfunding, or just trying out a higher price point. It is hardly an exceptional price though, being equal to MG's Da Capo 3. Although the higher price point does work out to make the initial launch sale of 20% look more impressive (as well as future sales down the road).

>>17383704
Time to jump into the discussion page on steam and start spamming “no porn no buy” on alt accounts.

>>17383811
Nobody cares about porn. It is censorship no buy.

>>17383898
Implying implications. Look at other releases. They are filled with threads asking about 18+. Last I checked was Libra. Even its all-ages fandisk is not spared.

>>17384419
>Libra
I want to forget it very existence.

>>17384434
While the characters were shallow, the MC stupid and selfish, there are gamebreaking bugs, the plot sometimes made no sense + pretty much all of the common route and about 3/4 of the heroine routes is about trying to catch Lycoris, I have to say that I liked it.
I would say it is a good nukige, with nice bittersweet route endings.

>>17384509
Accidental reply which I can’t delete for some reason. I forgot to mention that the translation is bad. Still, the route endings make up for it in my opinion. Especially the final fight in Calen’s route.

>>17384504
It kinda reminded me of one of those dumb light hearted battle harem type LNs just more focused on a certain girls since it has routes. Especially with the way the comedy was handled.

>>17384504
Spoil me on maido ending, please. The only character I cared about.

>>17384531
Loli baba makes it so MC gets overtaken by his ancestor because she loves him. Maid reads from MC’s chuuni diary to get him back. MC punishes Iris by spanking and fucking her. MC fully becomes the new head of his clan and starts slaving off to restore the family name with the maid by his side. Also, everyone else lives in his house with them, including Iris who is now in love with him. The only ending which is not sad in some way. Though you could call the end of a 2000 year long love sad.

>>17384572
>The only ending which is not sad in some way
Thanks, good to know she is happy. Dont care about others anyway.

>>17376143
They needed time to mosaic censor the HCG.

Why did Sekai Project have to enter the VN/Galge market in the first place? They've only made it worse.

>On the other hand, if you've got an in with Giga, and want to release the game in English somewhere Sekai Project doesn't have it licensed, I know a guy.
is it actually possible?

>>17383522
>>17383704
So does that mean you can only get the patch off of Denpa?

>>17384857
NekoPara money gave them too much incentive

>>17385091
How popular is Nekopara in Japan anyway?

>>17384835

>>17376163

>>17385094
Someone posted picture from Steam with ownership by countries here some time ago. Iirc most owners of Nekopara are chinks then burgers and only then nips.

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>did don

Dal Segno TL is using words and phrases that aren't used in any video games ever. And it's not the proper usage either.

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>>17385174
>hot LED

>>17384911
Asia region translations work like that. It's unlikely since Steam is worldwide though. Some Nigerian prince has to buy the rights from Giga or something crazy like that.

http://tenka.seiha.org/2017/07/some-long-overdue-remarks-on-translation-work/

i knew it was aroduc shitposting in these threads

>>17385236
No, it was me, Insem.

No it, was me, Ixrec

>>17385176
Hey, if I don't know that LEDs are not hot, then MC might not know it either.

>>17385201
RIP Aroduc. You were too good for this scene.

>>17383811
With Sekai there is no alts just a ton of people that have decided to avoid them and swear them off for an eternity.

>>17385201
http://archive.is/NYzO1

Archived.

>>17385201
> tfw "baseless rumors only retard would believe" (c) Moogy posted on 4chan are actually true

Well, Sekai is as terrible as it was when dovac was actively tweeting shit. Nothing changed, they are still cancer that must be exterminated entirely.

>>17385407
Keep in mind that's ultimately just Aroduc's perspective. He very well could be embellishing and fiddling with what he says, after all, he was pissed enough to shitpost anonymously on here in his favor for the past few months.

>>17385201
I've expected dovac to act like asshole and sabotage everything because of his ego, but its very sad to see Doddler, DxS and Moogy side with him. And its not like there's some significant money on the table, dovac is paying them pennies and only in some very far future.

>>17385259
How's it feel that Visual Arts is scrapping your work and having Sekai Project retranslate it?

Just drop Prism Ark work Doddler. Aroduc obviously doesn't want to work on it or with you anymore.

>>17385201
>I had to deliver a very profanity-laden diatribe to some people on the importance of actually reading contracts, and taking the words therein literally, not naively expecting that the obligations required, demands stated, and threats promised are mere suggestions that don't actually mean anything. Here's a couple bits of free advice that I wouldn't think need to be said. For God's sake, read and understand legal documents before signing them, and do not agree to anything you are not willing or able to do. And if you are ever asked to concede everything, and then you'll get a share of the Nigerian prince's riches a fair and equitable agreement can be discussed later, run like hell.

Wise words of wisdom definitely true in all forms of life. If you feel like something is suspicious or makes you feel uncomfortable do not take the offer, in fact its best to reject it and wait for better. Its also telling Sekai sees Translation as a commodity than something of a luxury item. Its like any form of detailed art or in this case translation. Someone's time went into this, someones hours were spent on this game,a lot of times people just see it as nothing more than something for consumption or something that is easily worth less than what is sold out in public, but that is how luxury items are, people slave over things and demand to be paid of the quality of their service. There is no exception to the rule. Especially when it is worth the time and effort put in.

> I will say that the attitudes of numerous prominent members of the translation community toward what happened with us, within my team and without, have been unpleasantly enlightening. I'm particularly disappointed in those who are happy to help Sekai Project, handing over perhaps not my core translation work, but using my knowledge about the game's inner workings, references, background, issues, translation and technical, and how to address them. Given Sekai's demonstrated lack of effort in so many their translations, they would never have had any idea many things existed, let alone what to do about them, and even less incentive to fix them, if they even have any now. It's not copying my essay, but it's certainly cribbing my notes, and it's inexplicable after being gaslighted for months. Not everyone I worked with, but enough.

Like I've said previously, it sucks for the game, a lot, but it's out of my hands. Sekai Project does not have permission to use my work, and I will not hesitate to take legal action if I need to in order to ensure that they do not in any form

Holy crap so you mean to tell me the posts about betrayal were true? I completely thought that was trolling the last 3 weeks to piss Doddler and Aroduc off. Its worse than i thought so its basically plagiarism or even worse just an exact copy of the transcript that changes a few words to make it look like that never happened. That is insane and really shady. It makes me wonder if this has happened to other translators at all with Sekai?

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Everything about this company sets my veins on fire with rage. The shitty business practices, the fact they still continue to use kickstarter after all this time, Dovac and the fact he only hires weebs from fuwanovel that are guaranteed to do a shit job.

I wish they'd go bankrupt soon. And given their inability to pay, I think that's an inevitability.
>>17385478
Why are moogy and DxS with them?

>>17385478
>>17385510
Doddler seems to be doing as an obligation to make the Baldr Sky release the best he can (which just means no bugs on his end I guess). DxS and Moogy only side with Sekai because they are in the cartel though.

In any case, there are plenty of other reasons, but I hope they go bankrupt too for somehow ruining one of the most hyped VNs ever.

lel house party got removed from steam, is the crackdown coming

http://games.eekllc.com/house-party-and-steam/

>>17385476
Hmmm. Who do I believe, a person who hates every anime and tells it like it is or a person that kickstarts every damn game and lies to his customers?

>>17385201
Well. Aroduc is a hero and did lots of great work and I will always respect him.
And Sekai Project are fucking cancer and I wish they'd go bankrupt. Everything would be better without them.

Poor Doddler, first he gets nailed by the Canadian Police, then he gets nailed by Sekai and now he's getting nailed by Aroduc

>>17385476
I do not know, there seems to be more to this than i thought there would be.

>>17385478
Not surprising after seeing this, i do not think Doddler is at fault, maybe in his mind he feels like he was doing what was right or what he felt like he had to do due to "signing his soul" away. I do not want to believe he is the culprit in this unless somehow its proven.

But i will say the rest they are as spineless as Dovac is. There is a saying that you are the company you keep, and the company you keep can make you or break you. The longer this goes and the worse it gets eventually they will have to make a decision more money now or their future.

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Aroduc may have insulted my favourite anime on more than one occasion and his tendency to translate only B-grade H-games instead of visual novels has never really put him on my radar much, but I'm surprised there's someone in this world that hates SP more than /jp/, so he's a friend of mine.

I've never bought anything from Sekai because they've never released anything that interested me, but I guess I'll be pirating Leyline if they ever release that even though I was gonna buy it, and Monobeno if Lose is stupid enough to give them the license.

>>17385504
>Its worse than i thought so its basically plagiarism or even worse just an exact copy of the transcript that changes a few words to make it look like that never happened
That's not what it says, and I doubt that they'd do that. He is correct that whatever editors or programmers have his work to use as the cliff's notes. Even if they don't do comparisons to find errors, they can't erase that knowledge from their heads. It's exactly the reason non-competition clauses exist, but he's a nobody with no binding agreement to them.

>>17385556
I think Doddler is just trying to make the best of the situation. It's a good VN in most people's mind so for him, I feel that he doesn't want it turn out shitty.

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>>17385476
Aroduc is the most recent and largest controversy for a company that has been inundated with scandals and contempt for it's audience since it's inception.

>>17385236
I totally thought it was just an anon trolling. Welp, if anyone's got a right to shit on Doddler for a month then he'd be the one.

>>17385538
I hope not. Stuff like Material Girl and Dragonia technically still need an H-patch to see the mosaic'd genitals though, so I think they are still safe if Gahkthun is still safe.

>Aroduc finally makes a blog, posts no proof

why do people do this? i realise you cant share contracts and shit but surely you have private messages with dovac being slimey or something

>>17385577
Why can't he share contracts if he hasn't agreed to anything?

>>17385577
>but surely you have private messages with dovac being slimey or something
I don't know. If it for whatever the reason, actually would go to court somehow over something. Then such a thing could probably end up working against him.
So being a bit restrained could be understandable. I think.

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> Sekai Project does not have permission to use my work, and I will not hesitate to take legal action if I need to in order to ensure that they do not in any form. On the other hand, if you've got an in with Giga, and want to release the game in English somewhere Sekai Project doesn't have it licensed, I know a guy. Real clever. Hard worker. Quick and cheap. Already mostly done. Probably even willing to hand it off and walk if you can demonstrate integrity and sufficient talent. Drop me a line.

Leak it cunt. Give it to me and I'll drop it on /jp/ one day behind a VPN. Plausible deniability.

>>17385610
Yeah but now they'll know it's you. So give it to me instead.

>>17385290
Some of the brighter higher powered LEDs can still get pretty hot. not as hot as a standard bulb though.

>>17385610
Man that would be a dream come true if it leaked

>>17385290
no, that just means you are stupid

>>17385541
It's not "who do you believe", it's "be critical of the information you are given and don't swallow everything you read from any source, particularly unsourced blog posts from an angry individual".

>>17385652
It's not finished though, just the first four routes which are all pretty bad. If all you had was Rain, Nanoha, and Chinatsu's route for a year, you would think people were fucking crazy for hyping it at all. Even Aki's is pretty average, it just trades every single character being completely retarded in Chinatsu's route for incest and info-dumping to set up Makoto and Sora.

>>17385674
Anon, that's too hard for some of them.

>>17385674
What were you expecting? Him to post a series of e-mails and the contract itself?

So if anons from /vn/ to believe SP changed BR imouto to NBR for Steam release. Sasuga.

>>17385726
For what reason? Incest isn't banned on Steam. I think.

Besides, incest has occurred in comic books.

>>17385741
>For what reason?
Sekai being Sekai?
probably because Japs vita port changed her to NBR and SP used it for Steam release? I am not sure but there were some examples when console ports in Japan changed BR to NBR

>>17385674
Not that guy. But Aroduc has a trustworthy track record, albeit a very blunt and direct track record but that doesn't exactly make his words any less trustworthy.

Now Sekai Project on the other hand have been caught outright lying on countless occasions. And have even been observed going as far as trying to sweep their tracks clean in attempts to rewrite history to strengthen their lies.

I'd say that if you are critical of the information you are given, you wouldn't have much reason to doubt Aroduc.

>>17385767
Listen, if you're going to parrot /vn/, make sure to read everything. This is her description from the VITA site. This is how it starts.
http://imel.co.jp/wagahigh/chara.php
>主人公の実妹で学園の一年生
>実妹
>>17385781
Fuck off, plebbitor.

Remember what he said a year ago.

>Maybe I'll come back to Baldr Sky in the future, but I honestly can't say when it'll be, or for certain that it'll happen. I've tried. We've tried. We really, really have, but at this point, getting that ball rolling is on Sekai Project to start communicating with us in ways that they haven't to date, and then we can start dealing with everything else. So long as we keep getting stonewalled, it's impossible for any conversation to even begin. I personally think they're woefully underestimating the amount of work the game needs, both in translation and on the technical side, and it's... disconcerting... for them to be this obstructive instead of trying to make any effort to work with a group that already has the tools, the knowhow, and the scripts/interface significantly more translated than not. Especially after what that group has already done for them.

>>17385708
No. I just said "keep in mind". It seems a lot of people are swallowing it wholesale which isn't the best thing to do when it comes to an angry blog post.
>>17385770
Aroduc has a good track record of releasing games, yes, but I don't believe he's ever really been in a situation like this so there is no track record to draw from. In any case I'm not saying don't trust Aroduc and that he's lying, I'm just saying, be considerate of the circumstances and weigh all information carefully without blindly assuming everything in that blog post is 100% rock solid unbiased information as many seem to be doing.

>>17385726
Wagamama has the actual Japanese lines in it right? Can't one just turn them on at the same time and see if/how SP screwed it up?

>>17385786
Oh well, then I dont know why SP bothered to rewrite script for Steam release. Pretty stupid desu.

I don't get how Doddler gets all the blame when DxS was the primary point of contact between Sekai and Aroduc, and the one pushing him over and over to sign with them.

>>17385824
I don't know about rock solid. But I see no real reason to doubt it unless anything credible that questions it would pop up.

>>17385839

Source?

>>17385858
My ass.

>>17385839
Doddler is more famous. I think that's the bulk of it.

Also. If I was to dig deeper. Discrediting Doddler is probably more beneficial to Sekai Project than discrediting DxS, and we all know that Sekai Project likes to shift the blame from themselves onto others.

Painting the narrative that Aroduc was screwed over by an individual, especially an individual who has done a lot of work with Sekai Project's competitors and people other than Sekai Project, makes him a scapegoat of sorts.
So that people end up mad at him, and not Sekai Project. Even though they're the source of all this bullshit no matter the faults of anyone else.

>>17385839
he gets blame for being a spineless faggot who lets Sekai give it to him in the ass

>>17385538
It was discussed a couple weeks here, but by any measure House Party seemed like it was either porn or very close to porn thanks to the explicit sexual content, and probably needed to be treated as such by Steam as any other porn sale on another site was, and Steam doesn't seem prepared to deal with such content. In contrast, most titles that need an R18 patch have been censored to the point where it no longer would be considered porn (Ladykiller in a Bind is the only other title that comes to mind which may run into such a problem with its current Steam form).

>>17385869
I doubt they'd scapegoat Doddler. They still work with him and rely on him. I wouldn't be surprised if they did though.

>>17385895
Ladykiller in a Bind is "progressive" (And western. An important combination.) so it's immune to criticism.

Conspiracy theory:
This is Aroduc providing cover for starting a Baldr Translation group, releasing Baldr Force, and then using his work to finish Baldr Sky before Sekai Project finishes.

It really wasn't that long ago that I was really impressed with the state of the fan translations again.
And Bunnt Black and Bunny Black 2 were handled really well too. Speaking of Aroduc.

But now everything has gone to shit. Fuck Sekai Project. They haven't done anything good.

>>17385895
Ladykiller in a Bind censored itself though, not because it was porn, but because it was rape. I don't think it has issues anymore.

>>17385911
Sad but true.

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>>17375185
Sorry for the late reply but yes. It came with early access purchases for the game last year.

http://www.wagahigh.com/tokuten.php

>>17385872
Doddler's probably generally unemployable due to the whole "sexual offender" thing so in the end he probably has to accept anything that comes his way just to put food on the table.

>And if you are ever asked to concede everything, and then a fair and equitable agreement can be discussed later, run like hell.
Hilarious.

12 hours after release, Wagamama High Spec has peaked at about 52 concurrent users thus far on Steam. This is a relatively strong start for a moege, especially because there is no Kickstarter boost this time around. By contrast, both of MG's Circus titles (DC3 and Dal Segno) peaked at 30 and 31 concurrent users on Steam, Romanesque peaked at 51 concurrent users, while Princess Evangile and Flowers both peaked at 66 concurrent users. That said, big hits from launch like Kindred Spirits and Ozmafia both managed to peak over 200 concurrent users during their launch week.

There isn't any indication about how the title has done on Denpasoft yet, but it is uncertain if the storefront is still summing titles with regards to the "best selling" sort with the new storefront. In particular, it is unlikely Shining Song Starnova would still be in the second to last spot (aside from the just released Wagahigh) if it were properly adding downloads from that. But as Wagahigh should have no problems exceeding the sales of the other lowest selling titles, if it doesn't move up on the chart that is likely an indication that the sort is no longer useful.

>>17385947

he already has a main job unless he got fired

>>17385947
His charges were dropped in exchange for voluntary counseling, so there's no legal "sex offender" background, and he didn't make it to news outside his little town.

>>17385968
>Wagamama High Spec has peaked at about 52 concurrent users thus far on Steam
SP haters BTFO!

>>17385600
Sometimes you have to sign an NDA even before you sign a contract.

>>17385201
Provided that what Aroduc says is accurate, I would hope that other translators (along with others) in the future are more critical about contracts before signing them going forward. That said though, this seems to be the only case to date of an individual running into this problem, and it surely isn't because of a lack of other fan translators working with Sekai Project considering how Sekai has after as many fan translated moege as they can get their hands on. There doesn't appear to be much of a turnover rate either, a fair number of people that have been freelancing with Sekai since their older titles still appear to be doing so now on newer titles. With that in mind, Sekai has probably mostly held up any verbal agreements as there has been little in the way of freelancers saying they wouldn't work with Sekai again, but Aroduc would be entirely in the right that such things shouldn't be included in the contract at all and it is only setting someone up to be screwed over in the future.

>>17386127
I wonder what do Leyline guys, Akerou, etc. think about delays and stuff

>>17385781
They really do not understand anything at all it's most likely Schills that are down voting. Here is one of the worst defenses for the SP Kickstarter that was a comment.

>this market has a proven history of never not putting their money where their mouth is on wanting games localized. kickstarter forces the fans to actually cough up cash if they want things. Mangagamer doesn't have nearly as high-profile titles as SP with exception of Rance, and subsidizes their less-porny projects that barely break even at best most of the time with nukige. JAST barely releases anything and isn't really even worth mentioning as a comparison since they're a JList pet project that can afford to operate on massive loss.

Wow almost sounds like Sekai Project they never match actions and words. Yet it's everyone's fault for not buying their awful releases. Nice shifting the blame Mangagamer supports itself through that but works out deals that are favorable and have built a good reputation. Sekai does not yet everyone buys the meme game hoping it will do well.

>so actually, yes, this is not a traditionally viable business. their kickstarter model turns it into one. You can cry about kickstarter but if you want to be getting titles like Baldr Sky and Rewrite officially localized there is actually no other option. if you want to blame someone blame the community that refuses to start paying without coercion for everything they want to play even if it is an affordable real option

Lol Kickstarter is the only way. You know I get the reasoning behind this, but it's still inexcusable to blame the fans for not buying when it's a awful product that they put out and then use a Ponzi scheme hoping they do not reach critical bankruptcy. I am sure Mangagamer could get 3 great huge games funded on Kickstarter or Indiegogo, have the TL done and make more money and know how to handle it better than Sekai does.

>>17386136
The issue with LeyLine at the moment appears to be an issue with getting the engine to work with an English locale. That likely would have been a headache for any official localization company to deal with if it is a non-trivial problem to fix.

>>17386159
But 1+ year?

>>17386159
leyline is easy enough to read in jp anyway, and you can do so right now all 3 games not wait for 2 years

>>17385790
I can confirm this was on his blog when he wrote this. It definitely is his wording.

>>17385947
Was this due to the lolliporn law?

>>17386164
Any fan translation that gets picked up will have some type of delay compared to a fan translation that can release it on their own terms regardless of who picks it up. The initial release date we got for Ley Line was the Spring, which is clearly not a goal that was met (presumably at least in part because of engine problems). In much the same way, Wagahigh was mostly finished last year, but it is only getting released now after being said to be in "development hell" during the Spring.

I feel bad for aroduc but I don't really think he's in the right to shit on doddler for months

>Circlejerking twitter e-celeb hour

>>17385938
Sekai could totally sell this for 10 dollars. GO CAPITALISM.

A much more productive usage of your time would be getting the 18+ Wagahigh torrent for me.

>>17386641
Damn, i thought it was already in the game.

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>>17385781
It's true that they assigned a new PR person, so their old twitter is deleted meaning that any tweet that hasn't been screenshotted or otherwise documented is gone.
I really wish that I had shots of any of the tweets where he claimed that fans of eroge weren't their audience, or the one where he outright called fans of eroge to all be pirates. Among other things.

In regards to the Grisaia campaign in particular though.
The kickstarter page as it is now
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/the-grisaia-trilogy-three-huge-visual-novels-for-p

The prefundia page as it is now
http://prefundia.com/projects/view/lets-bring-the-grisaia-trilogy-to-the-west/2814/

The prefudia page as it used to be
http://web.archive.org/web/20141012072719/http://prefundia.com/projects/view/lets-bring-the-grisaia-trilogy-to-the-west/2814/

Their PR lying his teeth out on vndb
https://vndb.org/t6693#15

FrontWing themselves calling Sekai Project out on the bullshit on it being them that had problems with 18+ releases (which is also backed up by the fact that FrontWing cut themselves off from Sekai Project and invested in an in-house localization branch, of which is localizing 18+ titles and doing everything Sekai Project claimed that FrontWing couldn't or wouldn't)
https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4wzu5t/japanese_vn_developer_frontwing_here_ask_us/
>We're not sure where that impression may have stemmed from, but we certainly don't have any issue with releasing 18+ content, or any desire to distance ourselves from it as a company.

I really could go on and on but I'd have to dig through several archives and quite deeply at that in order to find the definitive sources of everything.
And do make note of how most of their licences are mismanaged like this. Not just Grisaia.

Dies Irae patch when?

Is there any way to play the old higurashi kai versions with voices? Umineko had that

Between Wagamama High Spec and W Happiness both coming out this week, the Phantom Trigger Volume 3 release date of tomorrow seems to have ended up being a relatively poor choice in retrospect.

>>17386937
>We are expecting it to be released around the end of July. We will be posting exact release date once we know.

Well it's the end of July and they still haven't even posted a release date.

>>17387160
Just give it a few more days. In Conjurer I trust.

>>17387237
https://curiouscat.me/Conjueror/post/183373569
>Have you guys heard any news on the 18+ version of Dies? Somehow managed to avoid spoilers up until now, but not sure how long I can keep that up, lol.
>Not really. I'm pretty out of the loop myself at this point. As far as I know the translation part of things is long finished on that, so it completely depends on light when they want to release it (I think they said it'd be sometime in summer).

>>17387243
what about gare or steiner

>>17387243
>As far as I know the translation part of things is long finished on that
What are their reasons for withholding 18+ releases? It's been the same with Grisaia and other titles too.

>>17387243
Maybe Programming then?

>>17387323
>>17387349
One of the updates on the kickstarter page says this
>The development of the R-18 patch is taking longer than expected. The texts are already translated, but the texts has to be implemented and debugging is needed before the release.
That's from almost two months ago, though

>>17387370
Most likely they are hitting a problem still.

>>17387406
Yeah, that's the most likely reason. Regardless, if it isn't going to be out on time they should at least post an update about it.

>>17387515
are you a backer? you can send them a dm on kickstarter to ask whats up. if not you can tweet them at @diesirae_steam

>>17386853
I wish that fucking demeteloaf SP ass-licker would get the fuck out of these threads.

W Happiness was released, and MG put up Marina's Cuckolding Report for August 11th.

MG's Otakon panel is also on August 11th, so they will likely take advantage of the panel to announce their next release.

>>17387948
Can't wait for them to announce WA 2.

>>17387941
Yeah. His comment was the reason I posted that.
>Their high profile releases (Clannad, Grisaia, etc.) were all fine.
>I have a very hard time just assuming Sekai Project is the unreasonable one.
This is baffling. Really.

>>17387948
fucking seriously? cuck is our only release for august? Higurashi WHEN

>>17387941
>demeteloaf SP ass-licker
I don't know, I think he just a clueless idiot. I mean, he kept mentioning how Aroduc never worked on anything officially until someone pointed out Romanesque.
No one even mentioned Seinarukana which was, by Aroduc's own admittance, and absolute pain in the ass to work in thanks to JAST. Yet he still finished it. Probably because JAST didn't shit on him as much as Sekai.

>>17387983
The thing is, this fucker is in these threads every damn week since he has to copy and paste the OP in order to get some precious upvotes (and make some snarky ass comments about this thread). You would think he would know better than to defend SP knowing that /jp/ criticizes them for good reason.

>>17387972
Usually when they have a mid-month release they also release something at the end of the month. They'll most likely announce what that is at their panel.

>>17373309
>All the chapters have been google translated for years, you nob

ftfy

>>17387999
Nice

>>17387948
They probably will announce Little Miss Lonesome then, as that is through testing, and is sure to get a great reaction at a convention.

>>17387951
I'd shit myself in joy if that actually happened.

>>17387243
>sometime in summer
That doesn't sound very promising. I really hope they release it within the next three days.

>>17388281
Well, I hope they don't. I have to finish WagaHigh and W Happiness now.

>>17363604
Order Number - 279451
Order Date - 2017-07-28 05:34:54

>>17387951
That would be so nice

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>>17385938
>>17386797
I can't find the nude filter in the game. I even skipped through one route to open the gallery but I don't see a new button on the game menu.
However, there is a greyed out submenu in the gallery called "STAND Sprite Gallery". Considering I can't open it after one route, I guess it will open after all the routes. It will be useless to me then, though.

>>17388015
>Little Miss Lonesome
Damn, main girl is super cute. Not a gay but want to play it.

>>17388695
wanting to play a girl who gets fucked by two dudes sounds pretty gay to me

>>17388695
this is exactly the reaction i had when it was announced, why is such a cute girl wasted on otome

>>17388753
Because life is unfair. Same reason Shi ni Iku Kimi has such a stupidly cute girl in it.

>>17388810
Hey, nothing wrong with a bit of guro.

>>17388753
It's weird, in galges, the main is generic as shit, usually for self-insertion purposes, but in otomeges, especially the ero ones, the main is pretty hot.

Difference values? Or just a way to attract males to play it as well?

>>17388825
It's all about self-insert. Us shitty guys can self-insert into blank characters easier, and we don't have to compare ourselves to some superhero Mary Sue MC.
While women are inherently evil conceited cunts who think they are just like the perfect girl MC.

>>17388841
women love those shitty twilight books, bella is probably the best example of a character girls like to self-insert as. I read half of the first book at the insistence of a cousin.

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>>17388753

Did Shekel Project ever confirm a heavily censored 18+ version?