Visual Novel translation status >Aiyoku No Eustia - 19.82%

Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
SakuSaku - August 25th release
>Nenokami - Part 2 August 31st 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"
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
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 - voiced 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
Subahibi - Late August release, Kickstarter Ongoing
Sharin no Kuni - December release
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 - Targeting a Summer release
Muv-Luv Photonflowers - Translation started
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - To follow Photonflowers
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
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
SeaBed - December 26th release
Seven Days - Late 2017 release
Chuusotsu! 1st graduation - Kickstarter finished, demo released, late 2017 release


Other
Dies irae - Released, uncut patch upcoming
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 started
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 related to astronomy
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

Sakura Sakura isn't off to a great start, but if it gets a modest average of 600 per day starting from the 30 mark, it will succeed.

As for Subahibi, the 120k stretch wil probably be made with even a lower than average final rush. 180k is pretty unlikely on the other hand.

>>17507590
>Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL

Maybe one day...

>>17507663
I'm glad that if they don't hit the 180k stretch goal, they'll at least be translating the manga the game would have been based on.

Have they still not given a date for SubaHibi? The end of August is like 11 days from now

>>17508526
They won't release it until the Kickstarter is finished and they have time to allow people to lock down their pledges in Backerkit. They decided to make it a 25 day Kickstarter (instead of the normal 30 days) so it would end with a handful of days left in August, and thus they are probably aiming for a release at the very end of the month.

Eat shit, Doddler and Dovac.

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Chapter 5 when?

>>17508941
I will give them $500,000 if they remake it as 18+.

>>17508941
>MG still not admitting that shittipara was a mistake
Literally auticstiс obsession.

>>17508941
Never.
They really should just give it up, but if they are going to keep pretending that it might happen they would be better off just launching a proper Kickstarter over the current funding method. With that then the people who really do care could get some nice merch out of it and if it fails then they can finally throw in the towel without dragging it out for the next 5+ years.

>>17508959
Might be Minori that is the one that keeps pushing it and MG is complying since they probably aren't losing much with following along.

>>17508973
>they would be better off just launching a proper Kickstarter
They're still 450k away from the goal for chapter 5. I don't see Supipara raising that much on kickstarter given it's not a popular title. Add on kickstarter and reward production fees and it makes the goal even higher.

>>17508959
MG really has nothing to lose here though. If minori wants to continue with it, they just put it up and continue onward.

>>17508991
If they fund it chapter by chapter there might be a slim chance. Adding in physical rewards (maybe include some some other Minori stuff) helps bump up the amount people will put towards things.
Is far more likely to go somewhere than relying on more sales of Minori titles. We are only where we are now because eden* ended up a surprise success and it has still taken years.

>>17508526
They're doing an AMA on r/visualnovels tonight so they might say something then.

>>17509015
Now that chapter 2's fully translated we won't hear much until the $350k goal is reached. minori isn't supposed to even start development on chapter 3 until then. So we've got a few years with no Supipara.

>>17509015
>MG really has nothing to lose here though
They still wasting translator time on this shit no one cares about instead of something more popular. Fuck Minori and their obsession with Supipara.

>>17509089
Like >>17509060 said, after chapter 2, there wouldn't be anyone wasted on Supipara for years so it doesn't really matter.

Chapter 2 was always going to be a thing anyway, so the faster they get it out of the way the better.

>>17509089
>wasting translator time
Chapter 2 was originally part of chapter 1 in the Jap release from what I remember reading so it wouldn't surprise me if it was done at the same time just locked behind the goal.

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Went to the sol press' discord and saw this. Can we confirm their translation to be MTL tier?

>>17508941
They should really make the later chapters of Supipara 18+.

>>17509221
Just make the scenes as lewd as modern minori and it should sell pretty well.

>>17509293
even with lewd it would still be a shit game.

>>17509311
Doesn't stop the dozen other shit games with lewd from selling well though.

>>17509165
>This was before even the 1st editing check.
An editor isn't going to catch incorrect translation. Their job is to make text flow well in English, not make sure the text is accurate. This sounds like a fuwanovel project.

>>17509344
>fuwanovel
Too soon.

>>17509344
However, as editors make things flow better it will be unnoticable for readers and perfect localization.

At least publishers seem to think this way.

I finished the rest of Higurashi since chapter 5 came out and the new version of 6 still isn't fucking out. Fuck MG.

SukiSuki never ever

>>17509017
A Supipara KS just isn't going to make 150k on KS. In any case, since 150k is what minori's gross profit needs to be, a KS project would need to have a goal bigger than that to reach it. Relying on other minori games is a better strategy, even if it relies on those minori games being surprise hits.

>>17509089
The translator is a minorifag. It's not like MG is forcing him.

So I just finished Kara no Shoujo and want another VN. All I ever hear about G-senjou no Maou is praise but I tried playing it a few years back and was bored out of my mind playing through the character routes. Should I just redownload it and just speed through to the true route or should I just go try Sharin no Kuni?

>>17510525
>Kara no Shoujo
If you liked this edgy trash you have shit taste.

>>17510551
Never said I liked it so thanks. Granted based on the half of it I played, G-senjou was edgy trash even moreso which is why I'm asking if it's even worth it to play.

>>17510577
I like Sharin no Kuni more, though I might just be more tolerant of pretentiousness than edginess.

>>17510634
>Sharin no Kuni
I like it because of onee-sama.

>>17508941
8 years. I'll still live

>>17510525
Read Kara no Shoujo 2 baka

How badly censored will the Denpa release of Maitetsu be?

>>17510909
They're undoubtedly going to remove the H-scenes with the lolis.

>>17510909
Amusingly enough, they never said it wasn't going to be altered in any way, just 18+. If they don't remove at least Reina's h-scenes, I'll be amazed.

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>>17510948
Order Number - 282383
Order Date - 2017-08-21

>>17510918
>>17510941
I have no doubt in my mind that any removed scenes will be swiftly re-added, albeit untranslated.

>>17510909
According to Sekai's biggest shill (seriously, what the fuck is wrong with that guy) they're fully in-tact.

Whether or not you believe that is another thing altogether.

>>17511052
Yeah...I'll believe that when I see it, not when some shill assures me it's gonna happen. Like they'd actually tell him if they were gonna cut content anyway.
Lolis in general are a touchy subject, but then you have Reina, who looks like a goddamn 6-year-old. I doubt the whole "b-b-b-but they're really trains, guyz" excuse will work if the shit hits the fan, and I can't imagine any sane company would open themselves up to that risk.

>>17511195
The deep weeb crowd doesn't give a shit, the shallow weeb crowd is dumb trendseekers who might buy "that edgy pedo game", and if it blows up into Rapelay 2 then they'll get sales off that.
There's no downside for them.

>>17511214
>if it blows up into Rapelay 2 then they'll get sales off that.
No, if it blows up into Rapelay 2, I doubt Valve would allow them to keep even the all-ages version up for sale. Depending on how bad it got, it could damage their relationship with Valve, which could potentially be a deathblow to SP, seeing how little they've invested in their own distribution platform.

I doubt that any of that will happen, but that's why I think that they'll cut content. Even the mere risk of that happening is too much.

>>17511297
Valve does not particularly seem to give a shit, since they've hosted explicit porn on-site before.
And again, Valve benefits if it becomes Rapelay 2 since they'll be getting sales.

>>17511304
Gaben doesn't really seem like the type to factor in political correctness, so I agree with this. Some chaos will inevitably occur though, since a some people under Gaben do factor in political correctness, such as with the Hatred incident.

I can't help but worry somewhat about Steam after Gaben is gone now that the topic is brought up though.

>>17511304
No, they host patchable porn. House Party was already taken down, which I think is the only one with explicit porn without any modifications to the steam files.

In their AMA on Reddit, Front Wing said Subahibi is supposed to release on August 30.

>>17511856
As long as SakuSaku gets uploaded within 24 hours of release, that should not pose any problems for the timelines.

>>17511856
It also might hint that Frontwing might go after Sakura no Uta.

>>17512239
I wouldn't call that a hint.

>>17511856
>reddit

>>17512318
It's also mostly the PR guy answering the questions, so they can't really answer anything most people here would want to know.

>>17512239
>>17512287
Supreme Candy and H2O when

>>17512336
successfully baited

>>17512336
That was honestly the worst AMA I've ever seen. Why even take questions for SCA-Ji and KeroQ if they can't be answered live during the actual AMA? I loved how there was no guarantee that any of them would even be answered at all. Absolutely ridiculous.

>>17509344
>This sounds like a fuwanovel project
Because Xeviax and co are fuwatards.

>>17512796
Sol Press is such a disappointment. Any hype they had around them seems to have dried up. They don't sound like they know what they're doing business-wise and them not understanding how proper translation works is even worse.

Literally an amateur fan TL group that one day decided they'd become a localization company.

>>17513578
>Literally an amateur fan TL group that one day decided they'd become a localization company.
That also describes Sekai Project. They did start out fan translating School Days afterall.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100208202055/http://www.sekaiproject.net/

>>17513988
They admitted to almost sinking from the start, but they lucked into a meeting with the people behind Clannad and Planetarian and convinced them to give localization a try. Honestly, it was a miracle that saved them.

>>17514020
Thank God for Sekai Project.

>>17514040
Thank God for dovac's smart tablet or whatever it was that got their attention in the first place.

>>17514040
I don't know, in an alternate universe where Sekai failed and Nekopara went over to MG instead, the Steam market might not have crashed and burned from being flooded with crappy OELVNs that devalue everything and the added income might result in more lucrative licenses, or at least the same licenses as SP but not as bad.

Baldr Sky might have already been released and Aroduc might not have to hang himself at least.

>>17514078
The Steam market would've flooded with OELVNs anyway, since there were plenty of garbage ones that released that Sekai never published.

Kickstarter has resulted in some things being translated either for the first time or retranslated to be better than before, like Muv Luv. Sekai started that trend by kickstarting Clannad and Grisaia.

>>17514096
And a trend of endless delays and broken promises.

>>17514078
It's hard to say. I abhor Sekai, but the successful Clannad and Grisaia were a factor in making the VN industry more willing to go to the West in the first place. Well, the Steam boom probably would have happened anyways, and that would have helped convince some companies to start going into the West (like Alicesoft), but without using Kickstarter, big names like Muv Luv and Dies Irae would probably still have eluded companies like MG and JAST.

Also, while MG probably wouldn't have thrown as much money onto the OELVN industry as Sekai has and there would be less such titles around, its standards in OELVN's aren't much higher than Sekai's. They are willing to sell Sakura games so long as they do the QC after all, and they were perfectly willing to be a third party seller for Dharker Studio titles.

>>17514078
As soon as Steam opened the floodgates and began allowing everything, a flood of low quality OELVNs was inevitable because they were selling and they require relatively low resources to develop, something that would have been true with or without Sekai.. Additionally, the flood of indie titles with relatively low budgets was hardly limited to VN, the effects were just somewhat more pronounced with VNs thanks to them being easier to create than other genres.

>>17514078
Have you taken a look at DMM or dlsite?

True that some localization companies have an image/brand problem because of mixing good titles with shovelware EOVN. But that doesn't excuse the distribution platforms (like Steam) from accepting any kind of kusoge.

>>17514127 Well, what he said.
In Steam the effect is doubled, since you have people who just collect games for the hell of it, without care for its quality.

>>17514145
While it's true that Steam's own policies were probably the biggest reason for the rise in OELVN shovelware, I feel like SP helped too like you mentioned from mixing in good titles with OELVNs. The added press and publicity they had combined with their mixing might have spread the idea of making OELVNs further than it would normally do. The idea of "if this guy can make it, so can I" attitude that comes from being featured.

MG was also very open with the OELVN titles, being the former hosts of the Sakura games and Dharker Studio titles, but there wasn't an impact with them either. I admit, it is probably because it was pre-Steam boom and if they continued hosting them until the Steam boom arrived, the same thing probably would have occurred too.

>>17509165
That is so weird. I would have written the first as "so by the way, could that be you?"

The other one is confusing at the end and I can understand the mistakes. But this is bad though.

so uh. what's going on with dies irae? 18+ when?

>>17515076
lol

>>17515115
Fuck

>>17515115
We literally don't know anything, can we? Other than it was supposed to be released by the end of July, that is.

Up to $8.5k on Sakura Sakura. It still has quite a ways to go to get to $24k, but importantly for it, its momentum has not fallen off to nothing.

>My port of 'Trample on Schatten!!' for @jastusa is now feature complete. Hopefully not much left to go~

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/899761977165135873

>>17518179

Q3 2018 hype

>>17518248
Nah, it'll take 2 years to beta test and 3 years to apply the bug reports.

>>17507590
>Little Busters
>late August release

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR Y E A R S NIGGA

>>17518786
Should've just watched anime instead.

>>17518786
Waiting for what? A translation? Ehem...

>>17518818
Did the anime do Refrain well? Cause from what I saw, it didn't do the rest justice.

>>17518786
At least you are getting it soon. I've waited an eternity for Angel Beats.

>>17518896
>Did the anime do Refrain well?
Better than vn except jokes with Sasami in you first playthrough.

SakuSaku was delayed until August 31st.

>>17520226
Have they actually released any medium-large project on time?

>>17515076
>>17508941
>>17511052

It was a lie. It's never going to happen. You must accept the truth.

https://youtu.be/qdrs3gr_GAs

>>17520252
Haven't heard that song in a long time. It's hard to think that game is a decade old.

>Hi everyone, It's finally here, the visual novel everyone has been waiting for! Muv-Luv Alternative page will be up soon on Steam, and released in September, 2017!

>However... for every amazing backers who have been wondering “Alternative When?”, we're glad to announce that you can now play the game by grabbing your Steam codes from BackerKit!

>>17521026
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muvluv/muv-luv-a-pretty-sweet-visual-novel-series/posts/1966224

>Sweet Home - 100% translated, debugging script

JAST, please.

>>17521026
Speaking of MLA, does anyone know how the tentacle rape is handled in the all ages version?

>>17521065
From what I remember it's the same as the original, but the CGs are less explicit. I think all the dialog is the same, but I don't remember exactly

>>17521095
Thanks. Honestly the whole heroine gets sexually tortured in some absurdly impossible way thing is a real turn-off for me. It ruined F/SN for me and it didn't even show it there. Kind of makes me not want to bother playing MLA after getting spoiled about that part.

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>>17521186
Psh why would this be a turn-off for anyone?

>>17521186
>heroine gets sexually tortured in some absurdly impossible way thing is a real turn-off for me.
i think you're in the wrong genre

>>17521192
I was referring to Sakura, obviously. I liked that Rin scene.

>>17521206
I don't know. The shit with Kohaku in Tsukihime was fine with me. I think it depends how the issue is treated.

>>17521026
When they say every backer does that count the $1 tier? I'd buy the game instantly if I could.

>>17521218
Kohaku indirectly kills Makihisa, Akiha,
SHIKI, a bunch of random people, and herself, and you are fine with that?

So what are the chances of Subahibi hitting it's artbook stretch goal? Needs about $27k in 4 days.

>>17521470
Of course not because the $1 tier doesn't give you the games. The minimum for both was like 50-60 dollarydoos.

>>17521477
Why would I feel bad for Makihisa the child rapist? But I wasn't referring to any of that, but rather Kohaku's backstory of being sexually abused, similar to Sakura's. The two games present similar material in a different way. Tsukhime is actually kind of tasteful about it, keeping it within the bounds of reality, not giving you too much detail about it, and mainly dealing with the psychological aspects of it; on the other hand I felt like F/SN was just trying as hard as it could to make me disgusted until I eventually just stopped giving a fuck about Sakura at all. From what I know of MLA it looks like it's more like the latter situation, but of course I'd like to be wrong about that.

>>17521505
They seemed to imply all backers would get it, like the ones who didn't get a key would have a chance to buy one early for backing the project.

>>17521563
>we're hard at work
What did they mean by this?

>>17521485
zero

>>17521661
Come on, this was funny.

>>17520226
>SakuSaku was delayed until August 31st
it's unfortunate for them
noone is going care about it after subahibi release

is it the end of july yet

>>17521512
Maybe the all-ages version of Fate might be more your thing.

>>17522458
You'd be wrong there. SakuSaku is a moege and not everyone wants to play the mindscrew that is Subahibi, especially of some people still passing on Subahibi due to its removed dog fucking scene.

I want to know exactly when it September Muv Luv Alternative comes out, because I don't want to start reading anything else if Alternative will come out before I can finish the other vn.

>>17522458
Different audience for moege.

>>17522506
>especially of some people still passing on Subahibi due to its removed dog fucking scene.
Pffffftb
I bet you actually believe this too.

>>17522514
Some people are completely obsessive about censorship. And then you have the issue of Herkz shittalking the editing and programming of the game, which many casuals believing what he says.

>>17522506
They only removed the CG. The text is still there.

>>17522522
Still censored.

>Will there be a Director's Patch for MLA too?

>The content is too minimal to have a patch, since gore/violent scenes will be left untouched. If the developers decided to make one, it still won't be top priority since we still have a lot of pending items to finish.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muvluv/muv-luv-a-pretty-sweet-visual-novel-series/posts/1950557

>>17522506
There is going to be overlap between the SakuSaku and Subahibi markets, even if some would play only one or the other. As a lesser draw, you also have Ne No Kami part 2 also coming out the 31st. Although if Little Busters is released on time, that would overshadow all the end of month releases.

I suppose that companies trying to get a title out in a given month may lead to the end of the month often having a relatively crowded release schedule. The same thing happened last month with MG and Sekai releasing relatively big moege a couple days apart.

>>17522543
I can't blame them. It's not their fault that there are legal problems. I do understand what you're saying about people being obsessive about the issue, though.

>>17522555
W Happiness obviously had way more hype behind it than Wagamama. I wonder if the crowded end of August release schedule is why they opted not to do a late August release this time.

>>17522567
I can imagine that there will be a fan patch to restore it within the first day if it hasn't been ported to something like Unity.

>>17521512
The tentacle rape isn't really important to the plot though. After the short flashback scene it's never mentioned again

>>17522620
How is it not important to the plot? The entire point of it is increasing her ability as a magus.

>>17522574
They are releasing Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome on September 8th which wouldn't really conflict with the other titles at the the end of August, but seems to be more a result of them wanting to have a large enough preorder window on their website while having preorders go up as Otakon started.

>>17522631
I meant the one in MLA. Fate had worms not tentacles

Been putting off Muv-Luv until Alternative was released. Is it worth getting the 18+ patch or should I not bother?

>>17522674
There might not even be an 18+ patch for alternative.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muvluv/muv-luv-a-pretty-sweet-visual-novel-series/posts/1950557?cursor=17562563#comment-17562562
>The content is too minimal to have a patch, since gore/violent scenes will be left untouched. If the developers decided to make one, it still won't be top priority since we still have a lot of pending items to finish.

>>17522489
Maybe. I've considered replaying the game with that version.

>>17522620
All right, thanks. I suppose I'll read it then.

>>17522678
What about for the first game, though? I don't really want to spend $10 extra if the h-scenes aren't worth reading through.

>>17522695
For $10 it is kinda a rip off (like most 18+ patches seem to be). Just pirate the patch and it should work fine with the game installed from steam.
https://mega.nz/#!YoRQwBZS!q6NJH_wOZO9BUDCJAyqFLziHOjyyXybyToE7dfat3Ds
If you end up liking the scenes that much you can just give them the money afterwards.

>>17522695
They're standard moege fair.

I'm surprised more people haven't reacted over Alternative's possible lack of 18+ patch. Then again, it's possible that many people haven't noticed the comment in that kickstarter update yet.

>>17522739
Probably only affects one CG's small change and nipples on the suit. The gore stuff is still in there

Apparently they redubbed the Engrish American soliders in MLA with real American voice actors

>>17522739
Well it is true that there is probably very little cut content but it is also true that people do usually go on a rage about any kind of cut content. So yea I am also kinda surprised no one has made a fuss yet.

>>17522746
It is probably the full twizzlers CGs and the fixing a supercomputer CGs.

>>17522739
I don't believe it was widely seen, as it was only messaged in Kickstarter comments when someone asked.

>>17522771
That was the plan since the Kickstarter.

>>17522728
>>17522731
Thanks

>>17522521
>It's unfortunate that Herkz feels sour about losing control over the ultimate form that Subahibi's script would take, but I think that his displeasure over losing control just shows how much he cared about the game after putting so much work into it for all those years when we were just working on the game as a fan translation project.
vvav, the main translator for Subahibi, said outright that Herkz is just salty about being dropped by Frontwing on their AMA.

>>17523024
And it's his tantrum that will make him exactly what localization companies want to avoid

>>17523029
I've heard he shittalked Frontwing before when he worked on Grisaia. What was that about?

>>17523044
He basically called them incompetent and said that all the delays it experienced were Frontwing's fault.

https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/60975-help-out-the-subahibi-ks

Thunderclap is happening for subahibi.

>>17523113
>August 27 at 12:00PM JST.
Aren't they putting the thunderclap a little too close to the end of the campaign?

>>17523029
If I am any translation company I would avoid Herkz and a few others and put them on a blacklist. It's one thing to criticize it's another to basically take down another company due to being salty that things did not go your way.

>>17523044
He was shit talking them on IRC (I think it was IRC anyways) about how shit of a company they were and then some anon sent an email with screenshots/logs of the conversation and it got him into some hot water.

>>17523050
Not only that but he legitimately believes he was better and that they will make worse changes to it.

>>17521582

That they're busy jacking off

>>17522620
It's pretty important because it establishes characterization to the BETA as well as Sumika's state. Of course, there are other scenes that do this as well and I personally wasn't really a fan of the twizzler scene, but it's not like it doesn't provide anything at all.
Both ero scenes in Alternative are straight garbage.

>>17522783
Obviously the reason is that there is too few changes to charge 10 dollars for it.

Personally I'm just going to counter that with paying less for their game as they seem to not mind losing out on "a little".

So, what exactly rocket science tip from MG referred to?

>>17523953
I suspect it's something they have, but for some reason chose not to announce yet.

>>17522546
I just skipped through the new release. They didn't change the dialogue AT ALL. Even in the vanilla sex scene. Only thing they changed were CGs

>>17523964
and people are still going to bitch about this shit

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This is what the censored tentacle scene looks like

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>>17524141
And this

>>17523964
Couldn't they just release a free (or super cheap) patch if it is that small of a change? Not like they have to do extra translating and is just swapping out some images if the text is the same.
Would cut off the people who would complain about censorship.

>>17524180
They probably think fans will do it anyway, so they might not feel the need to bother. Plus, like they said, they're busy fulfilling other rewards from the kickstarter.

>>17524000
Of course. It is the worst kind of censorship. When the reader will feel like "So why was this changed?".

Usually it also means most prudes ask themselves why it wasn't censored because it is too extreme. And suddenly you realize you just went and upset everyone, instead of limiting yourself to one group.

Only with censorship you can actually succeed in pissing everyone off. The opposite of making everyone happy.

>>17524141
>>17524142
I prefer this to the 18+ original, probably because I was never a big fan of tentacle porn shit anyway. It righteously removes most of the "this is porn" feel from the scene and leaves Sumika's descriptions more up to your imagination, making it much more terrifying.

>>17524180
They could do that really easy as you just swap the CG in their project and rebuild. Then just use patching tools to create a patch.

>>17524207
Instead of really pissing off one group or the other they only kind of piss off both. Balance is the key to life, young grasshopper.

>>17523964
It should be easy to mod in then. I'm satisfied personally speaking, assuming Age doesn't go out of the way to condemn the mods.

>>17524280
Are there any working tools to extract and reinsert CGs for the rUGP engine (.rio file type)? I know RioX use to be able to extract stuff from the older titles but it can have some problems with modern revisions of the engine and I don't think it has a reinsert function.

>>17524331
If I remember correctly, changing images for MLA was done through hooks, like translation itself.
Engine and archive are fucking nightmare to work with. I tried to reverse-engineer it for Chronicles translation, and while it turned out to be possible, its just too much effort and too annoying to do. Hooks work well enough, so I gave up.

i have to get brain surgery tomorrow to get a tumor removed that could very well kill me. i hope i survive and the dies irae patch comes out

>>17524655
Death is not a valid reason for blogfagging.

>>17524655
The 18+ content isn't even that worthwhile
Subahibi is worth living for though

>>17524819
>Subahibi is worth living for though
Subahibi is extremely overrated. 7/10 at best.

>>17524238
>It righteously removes most of the "this is porn" feel from the scene
You should stop playing eroge then.

>>17524819
Not him but I mainly want the 18+ patch because it will convert the game back to 4:3 aspect ratio.

>>17524655
Stop larping about brain cancer.

https://kururutl.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/almost-done/
Hmm...

Kouryuu did another one of those podcasts.

Here's the the highlights:
Space Live "Soon"
Supipara 2 "In the next few months, some editing and then insertion by minori left"
There was was an a bit of a further story-summary regarding Koropokkur. Apparently the main sprite girl's quest to become human involves ending up working for a maid cafe in akihabara and the main male protagonist is the owner of said maid cafe.

and literally nothing else new

>>17524959
the radio silence on SukiSuki since news of the company going under concerns me greatly

>>17524959
Space Live could be the next game to be released. I wonder if they will wait for Fashioning to be released before announcing preorders. The two of them seem aimed for different demographics even if they are both going to be on steam. Kuroinu is also likely, but Kouryuu probably would have mentioned it if they were releasing it soon.

Supipara Ch 2 could be the next VN after those two since it's pretty short and easier to script than some of the other titles currently in scripting or about to be in such. Damekoi and Sorcery Jokers are longer, Bokuten is Bokuten, and Retarnia is a gameplay title. Sono Hana might finish before Supipara Ch 2 though, if only because it has a dedicated programmer.

>>17524975
It's probably stuck in some sort of copyright hell at the moment.

>Doddler
>Even if Aroduc's out, I'm going to finish work on Prism Ark

>Dumps unfinished tools and immediately quits

Sasuga

>>17524928
Eh, seems kind of suspicious, but I don't care about Nursery Rhyme, beyond it being an ancient VN some people want translated for some reason. At least Pure Pure has a niche.

>>17523050
He turned around and leaked all the shit that Dovac told him for why there were problems and delays. Big problem is that most of it was made up. Dovac was pinning the blame on Frontwing. So naturally, this pissed off Dovac, and fucked things up with Frontwing too since it also got back to them.

>>17525032
Only found it by chance because I was downloading the game's OP and figured I'd check if it was ever translated. Funny to see that blog was updated today after almost 2 years.

If he's still giving periodical updates like this, I don't doubt he has something.

>>17525031
The tools are finished, but I guess you're not very good at reading.

>>17525031
He most likely thought him starting work on that again would get Aroduc to come back and it didn't. Not to mention Doddler's really behind on alot of projects at the moment, so it's not surprising.

>>17525261
They're not.

>>17525264
Doddler say he started working on something, but not follow through? That has never happened dozens of times before.

>>17525264
>>17525031
>>17525431
There were a number of technical hurdles with Prism Ark, almost all of them have been solved. Writing a decompiler for the binary script format (not easy work by the way) allowed altering of game scripts, which as a result allowed fine control of text and font metrics, which solved the existing text display issues. He did a number of exe changes in order to correct text display issues at choices, which were written up in a blog post. Tools were written to convert to and from the game's own custom image file format, as well as tools to both pack and unpack both of the game's archive types. This all works. It's done. Literally the only outstanding issues is automatic word wrapping and character spacing in the backlog.

The last time they interacted, Aroduc gave his team a deadline of one week to get shit done, or he'd give up the project. Yeah the project was not moving, no one was doing any work, that's a valid complaint, but you could say that about the translation too. At the time, it was almost a full year since Aroduc last touched a translation. Still, he said things were going, so they did the work. From the point of his ultimatum, it took two weeks from that point to finish the script tool working on it full time over that period. Aroduc fucked off after his week was up and never came back, even though he was being updated on the work being done. Doddler made a clear effort on twitter to communicate the work that was done when it was finished, but to no avail. He continued working on the game past that point to fix other text issues, but never got a reply.

You can call that abandoning Aroduc if you really want, but that's not how it looks to me. Several hundred hours of work were sunk into technical work on the project as well as the time that DxS and Tolrin spent editing and debugging. The game is in a position where translation is the majority of the remaining work. You can have your opinions on baldr sky if you want, but in the case of Prism Ark, Aroduc was the one who abandoned his team.

>>17524833
I really hope it adds a option for that though and not just forces it as long as it's installed. An options is what they should have put in from the beginning.

>>17525603
> Hey, we betrayed, completely screwed, abused and publicly shamed you over one project, but you are fucking asshole to drop us all on other project like this! These projects aren't related, you are the bad guy!
Holy fuck, do you have even shred of decency?

>>17525031
>immediately quits
But he made an extra commit, after the initial commits, that fixed up some stuff. He also talked to some guy who posted an issue that got closed.

>>17525603
>You can have your opinions on baldr sky if you want, but in the case of Prism Ark, Aroduc was the one who abandoned his team.
Doddler did first. Aroduc had no choice.

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Looks like there will be a patch after all, but it will take some time

>>17526690
>amount of time it may possibly take
But isn't it just literally just a few CG swaps? At least in the original game they had the extra H-scene text to work on which could take a small bit of time, but here there is little to do other than swapping and a bit of testing.

>>17526690
Are they overreacting here or did they get a ton of emails about people complaining about no director's cut patch?

>>17525603
This is almost completely bullshit, but in particular the middle paragraph, which is complete fiction.

>>17526718
It should be. But I can imagine DRM and other anti piracy measures might conflict with the basic patch concept.

>>17527126
Nevermind, the backers started freaking out in the comments about it.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muvluv/muv-luv-a-pretty-sweet-visual-novel-series/posts/1966224

>>17507589
Muv Luv Alternative out September 18th.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/449840/MuvLuv_Alternative/

>>17527137
>DRM
Only thing that is really some kind of DRM/anti piracy is the steam API. I can't imagine they are putting anything more than that on it(they didn't for the original steam release) and it shouldn't really conflict with changing the .rio files as the API stuff is mostly embedded within the exe file.
Give me some working tools and I could probably do it myself fairly quickly if it is just a simple CG swap, but it seems there aren't any readily available for image re-insertion.

>>17527126
DxS is super salty because he thinks Aroduc screwed him on Baldr Sky by pushing his paycheck off at least a year because of Sekai Project's fucked up pay scheduling and making him re-edit everything from another translator.

>>17527217
This is not CG related but anon I will pay you if you can insert a track from original version of the game that they removed for Extra/Unlimited. This track specifically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e1VzG_qWRE (this is not the original but the only thing i can find online, i can send you the original tack if you need it)

>>17527253
That's ridiculous. It was a free fan project originally anyways.

>>17527273
The problem is there are no (publicly available) tools that really work with insertion/repacking. You can do hooking for things like text, but the engine is such a pain to work with that it is hard to really do much else.
Even Ixrec and his team didn't even have a fully working set of tools (and I can't seem them released anywhere either).
http://amaterasu.tindabox.net/forums/index.php?topic=1906.msg26938#msg26938

>>17527315
A free fan project that he was being kicked off of.

>>17527273
What did they replace it with?

>>17527434
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbu2oFW5o2Y

>>17527273
Here's the original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Nx17V_k6A
It really does sound like Livin' la Vida Loca so I understand why they replaced it

>>17526111
>>17526375
I don't understand this narrative at all. Sekai got baldr sky, and Aroduc turned down working on it, irrespective of anyone else. How is this anyone elses fault?

>>17527609
It's Dovac's fault for never offering fair or reasonable terms, but DxS is deep up Dovac's asshole, so instead, he blames Aroduc for making him lose face with Sekai Project and costing him time and money.

>>17527609
Dovac's offer basically was like "you will work for free on two releases, and if you don't meet deadline for any of them, you will owe us compensation money. You will not get any assistance with all-ages release. You will not get schedule extension despite your detailed explanation why current schedule is impossible. You may not work with any other company while under contract with us."
This is nothing else but scam, and Aroduc had no other choice than rejecting it.

>>17527661
Absolutely, the contract was so bad it was bordering on insulting. Rejecting the offer as it was given was the right thing to do. What I don't understand is how the narrative somehow became that dxs and doddler are to blame.

>>17527273
Aren't they removing this track as well? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEXATrKzt9M

>>17527661
The funny part is that while this stuff is more or less accurate (for example, it was doing the all ages for free, but regular payment for full version, and it wasn't compensation, Sekai would withhold payment), it still doesn't cover the biggest problems.

>>17527681
I don't think anybody's said that, but that they sided with Sekai Project anyway, and we have some guy above blaming Aroduc for it.

So who is going to buy the eustia translation?

>>17527687
I fucking hope not, holy shit that is 3rd most memorable track and homage to ST

>>17527724
I don't think August is looking to the West anytime soon.

>>17527729
It's because of Star Troopers that it had to be taken out IIRC.

>>17527749
???
Yes I know thats why I said homage to ST

are the japs still making dating sims?
like true love game design with stats and time management gameplay?

>>17527831
Plenty
https://vndb.org/v19339

>>17527687
No, that track is still there

>>17527839
That kind of shit has the best NTR.

>>17507590
>Ley-Line Summer release
What went wrong?

>>17528282
Wasn't it Spring first, then Summer? So it's been double delayed.

>>17528347
Hey, it's still summer.

>still no SakuSaku
what went wrong?

>>17528395
Delayed until 31st too. Don't remember why, but releasing it on the same day as their other product seems like a stupid thing to do.

>>17527936
Guess there was misinformation floating around about that. Glad it's there as it's one of my favorite tracks.

Aselia 3 when?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1986219362/dies-irae-english-localization-project-commences/posts/1971602
>Concerning the 18+ patch, the translation is now complete and we are now in the programming stage. The patch is now scheduled to be available at the end of September.

>>17529930
>end of September
Guess I won't be reading it until December at the least.

>>17529930
2 months late isn't bad as far as 18+ patches go. Whether it'll meet that deadline is a different story.

>>17529977
I think the biggest problem is that they didn't make an update until now. Delaying the patch is fine, but they should have at least said something about it when they couldn't meet the previous deadline

>>17529930
Shame that mikandi can't do their editing, so far it has been the only campaign without major trouble I remember.

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>>17530355
>the only campaign without major trouble
Except selling MTLed game.

Anyone know where I can torrent Muv Luv Total Eclipse VN? My google-fu is not cutting it

worth waiting for the official muv-luv release? I thought unofficial translations have been available forever

>>17531242
The original translations were passable, but it has a lot of the usual Ixrec problems.
Alternative will be out in less than a month so if you can wait then you might as well wait. In the mean time you can play Extra/Unlimited, since it is already out, or something else to pass the time.

>>17531242
On vndb someone from Degica stated that the fan translation was so full of errors that virtually every single line of text had to be revised.

>>17531257
>Ixrec problems.

say no more. that's kept me from vns until i started hearing about all the translations coming out soon. i'll probably check back in a few months to see what vns to start off with when it all gets translated.

ixrec is one of the greatest translators to ever grace the scene

>>17531233
I will not allow you to read all-ages crap.

>>17531422
>I will not allow you to read all-ages crap.
the fuck are you on about? TE is not 18+

>>17531257
>>17531279
Didn't Ixrec do Cross+Channel as well? Will that ever get a good translation?

>>17529930
>end of September.
Guess I will have to finish the VN without the patch. I want to finish it before the anime.
Although when I have finished it, I probably won't care about the patch anymore, so it's rather sad.
How can programming a patch take this long anyway?

>>17529930
I'm annoyed it's taking this long, but at least I won't have to decide between Subahibi or DI, I should be done with Subahibi by the time this patch comes out, if ever.

>>17531822
Probably because the patch itself is low priority.

>>17532072
They shouldn't give low priority to something people have already paid for.

>>17532490
It's low priority to them because you were stupid enough to give them your money already.

>>17532490
Most people don't care that much about the 18+ patch

>>17532532
Get out, Sekai Project.

>>17507589
Danganronpa V3 demo was just released in English.

>>17531801
no

Russian translation of Fata Morgana is interesting. With that and the Chinese TL of Remembering How We Met, that confirms that MG is getting non-English translations.

Said Russian translation probably won't sell well though since they are so known for piracy. I doubt MG went out of its way to commision it. Chinese tl is useful since the Chinese make up a huge bulk of Steam sales as can be seen with Sekai's sales. I'm a bit curious if Chinese tl for non-Steam nukige is worth it.

https://twitter.com/CafeDX/status/901253209905405952

I don't know what is more surprising: a hyper niche VN getting localized or Sakura Game giving any amount of care to one of their translations

>>17534877
I'm dying

>>17534877

dreams really can become steam memes

>>17534877
>SakuraGame chinks using their steambux for good instead of more evil

I don't habeeb it

So when is https://vndb.org/v14556 getting announced then?

>>17507589
https://vndb.org/v21385 was released this week by SakuraGame.

>>17534952
Is it MTL garbage like the rest of their catalogue?

>>17534954
Yes. Mixed reviews.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/689650/Les_Fleursword/#app_reviews_hash

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>>17534936

i wonder if sekai or mg have had talks with orcsoft before, they have a number of titles that could do well

Sayooshi never.

>>17534877
Look at the cartel acting like fags because one of "them" dared to translate a silly nukige.

>>17535501
They're joking.

>>17512627
They've posted the translated AMA answers from SCA-DI on the Kickstarter page.

>>17535501
But anon, cafe is the cartel.

If SakuraGame is here, then please license https://vndb.org/v10112.

>>17536534
The lez looks relatively normal but the girlfriend has full retard eyes

>>17535149
Why does it look like it was drawn by tumblr?

>>17536629
Not sure where you're seeing that, it doesn't even have the standard tumblr nose

>>17536534
Converting lesbians sounds like my kind of fetish.

>>17536534
Luckily they're not actually here, I bet HemoImo is just some meme passion project by Cafe.

>>17535501
I think they're more shocked by SakuraGame than it getting an official release. SakuraGame is known for dumping dlsite nukige on steam at an incredible rate for a few dollars, intact with full sex (but covering genitals with emoji + uncensor patch available), with translation from japanese to chinese and then machine translated from chinese to english, making it barely comprehensible and completely unreadable. Very likely the whole thing is a strategy to legally sell porn games to users in china. The strategy is working too, some of their titles sell in excess of 100k sales. Their existence is a slap in the face of anyone who actually cares about the games and translations. The only reason this particular game is getting a real translation at all is because cafe was already working on it and was in contact with the devs.

It's a pretty sketchy business, if anyone convinces valve to pull porn games off steam, it'll be them. They also propose to businesses over twitter: https://twitter.com/SakuraGame2017/status/892208709580931072
They're cold tweeting to random companies and individuals and offering them ~30k to give them their game. Check out their message history, it's crazy.

>>17535149
This looks awful.

>>17537465
Ah, good old chinese business.
Their whole country works like that.

>>17537465
On the bright side they are setting the standard of charging 2 dollars for machine translation games. So others need to put effort into translations if they want to ask for more than 2 dollars.

>>17534851
Russian translation was done for free by fata morgana fan. It was made official because said translator really respects Novectacle and contacted them on his own. Therefore it wasn't comissioned and wasn't some business decision. Also one week discount was made specifically with poor economical situation in russia in mind.

>>17537635
Why bother with good translation if selling mt-ed games nets you more profit? I mean for the time you spent to translate one game - you can sell 10 MT-ed nukiges to chinese.

>>17538767
at some point nukige market will be saturated

>>17539243
I don't believe that solely because chronic fappers never can get enough.

Subahibi probably won't make its stretch goal.

>>17539243
Theoretically, yes, but you need to release an inhuman amount of nukige to do that. Japan releases dozens a month.

>>17539811
>Subahibi probably won't make its stretch goal.
Can't they get extra funding through backerkit?

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SCA-DI's AMA answers were posted. He's interested in localizing Sakura no Uta and Toki

>>17539981
>Q: With Subahibi having some of the extreme content it does, was there anything the localization team or KeroQ was nervous in regards to bringing it over to the west?
>SCA-DI: Nervousness is all I felt. In fact, I'm still a little worried about whether everything will be alright.

>>17539981
It's kind of weird that they didn't get the Subahibi translator to start working on Sakura no Uta already.

>>17540244
The Subahibi translator was a fan translator Frontwing bought the translation from, so they can't really order him around or anything.

If SukiSuki isn't mentioned next month I'm going to end it.

>>17542335
They went bankrupt, bro. It ain't coming out