Sekai/Denpa
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title Steam released, uncut still to come, 3rd 35% translated
2236 A.D. - 89.14% translated
>Maitetsu - 15.28% translated
Nenokami - 99.79% translated, Indiegogo finished
Koi to, Guitar to, Aoi Sora. - 100% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
WEE 3 - 100% translated
>Chrono Clock - 25.11% translated
Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
Narcissu 0 - 89.23% translated
>Tenshin Ranman - 30.02%
Darekoi - 100% translated
Wagamama High Spec -Demo is 100% translated, 2016 release
Hoshizora no Memoria - 18.38% translated
>Memory's Dogma - 73.03% translated
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Ley Line - picked up
Baldr Sky - Picked up both 1 and 2
SakuSaku - Picked up
Koikuma - Picked up


Frontwing
Corona Blossom - IGG project finished, Vol 1 7/29 release
Sharin no Kuni - Kickstarter started
Island - Picked up
Grisaia no Zankou - Picked up
Grisaia no Senritsu - Picked up


Visual Arts
Little Busters - Picked up
Harmonia - Through Steam GL
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Degica
>Hakuisei Aijou Izonshou - Released
Muv Luv - 7/14 release
Muv Luv Alternative - Winter release
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
Collar x Malice - Picked up
Period Cube - Picked up
Code: Realize fandisc - Picked up
Bad Apple Wars - Picked up


Other
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness - 9/13 release
Steins;Gate 0 - 2016 release
Root Letter - 2016 release
>ChuSingura46+1 - Trial released ch 2+3 end of July
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - 100% translated + edited, in QC
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Common + 50% of Mari route translated
Taisho Alice - Picked up
Love Sweets - Picked up
>Noratoto - Picked up
SubaHibi - Official release planned
Sora wo Aogite Kumo Takaku - Through Greenlight
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

What the shit's going on with Baldr, Doddler?

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Although supipara was rank 2 on the sales ranking a mere eight hours ago, it has now unceremoniously disappeared. Whether general strangeness within the algorithm, or the possibility that most of the people who preordered supipara did it immediately after it was announced and are now just ever so slightly outside of the algorithm's window, it's something to note if you're attempting to ascertain supipara order numbers(although at present, the number wouldn't be particularly significant).

Also someone bought a deardrops hardcopy. 46 remain. To be sold out sometime next year.

Top 5 Ranking: http://pastebin.com/fZ7QqKrj
Popularity Sort: http://pastebin.com/k5xc7vK5
Full Data Point List: http://pastebin.com/bYWGjzHn

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

in b4 lol jk baldr kickstarter

I heard Aroduc is translating Baldr Sky.

What's the point of Maitstsu if you can't fuck the lolis?

>>15516207
There isn't one. Not like Monobeno which is actually good.

>>15516344
But Monobeno never ever.

Could someone spoonfeed me the Umineko re-release torrent? Can't find it anywhere.

>>15516587
Buy it.

>>15516596
I'm a third-world shitter and wanted to pirate if it was available.
Oh well, looks like I won't have a choice if it doesn't appear soon.

>>15516587
Here you go, friend.
http://sukebei.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=1779100

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How do you think Sonicomi is doing? It has high ratings on Steam but there was a torrent for it within the day. Personally I'm finding it okay.

>>15518466
>all ages
No.

>>15518466
It is doing well both on Steam and J-list

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The Sharin no Kuni kickstarter guys are going all out

>>15518818
Is this even going to get funded

>>15518839
It's unlikely

>>15518818
Who?

>>15518839
No.

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>>15518839
LOL!
Also:
7/9 Avg/backer: $195
Overall Avg/backer: $77
Hmmm. It might actually succeed if they find rich people to pour money into it.

>>15518839
I hope so

>>15515878
(Not Doddler)
A "discussion" with Dovac went something like this:
Mind your own business and stop causing trouble for me if you want to see this game in English.
(but far less direct and much more whiny)

>>15519196
Is that supposed to be Dovac saying it to Aroduc, or Aroduc saying it to Dovac?

>>15519220
Aroduc has nothing to do with it.

>>15519239
I'm 100% certain he does.

>>15519240
The discussion referenced did not involve translation staff.

>>15519366
If true that would make it seem that it is more a problem with the license its self. Something like Dovac fucked himself over by rushing to sign the contract for the Anime Expo announcement reveal. Can't really think of what else would fuck up things so much other than some kind of funding crisis.

>>15519409
>funding crisis

Please. You know that he's going to run a kickstarter. If he can't even translate a 5,000 line doujin piece of shit without a kickstarter, he's not going to fund a 100,000 full game.

>>15519409
https://twitter.com/web_giga/status/750913584025071616

https://twitter.com/moogy0/status/750784504810369024

>2025
>people finally stop hating SP

>>15519448
I'll stop hating them when dovac is rotting in the ground

>>15519482
He kills himself in 2021.

>>15519448
Why is moogy so delusional? The release they are doing isn't even guaranteed to be good. Even if it is, one good game doesn't make every other problem with them magically disappear or the other shit they are releasing good.

Overdrive has around a week to respond to the counter DMCA or Valve will put the Go Go Nippon clone back up.

>>15519629
Tell them, not us.

>>15519490
Even if the release is good and it manages to capture the Steam audience somehow, it's not like that'll alleviate the rage of the general VN audience. Baldr is not the type of title SP could release regularly, even if such titles existed they would never be able to release them in a timely fashion. They'd still need to release stuff to cater to the audience they seem to despise, and one title is not going to suddenly make everyone stop hating them.

>>15519629
What DMCA?

>>15519825
If they were to get uncut versions of most of their upcoming titles, they would be fine with the VN market. They have a solid line up upcoming, and the only real shadows over it is the lack of 18+ announcements and Dovac's attitude, but if they fix the former, I don't care if they fix the latter.

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>>15519490
Pretty much. Dovac burned his reputation to the ground over these last few years. I mean, their inhouse translation quality is only slightly better than Mangagamer's was in it's infancy. Despite that, the only probably Mangagamer had back then were low-quality translations.

If Dovac wanted to fix his companies' image at this point, it'd take half a decade at least of dedicated 18+ releases, good PR, and well-done translations to do so. The company would probably be bankrupt by then, anyway, especially with their current unsustainable, expensive 'big-name' VN licenses they keep acquiring.

I think that after AX he finally realized that people hate his company to such an extent that not only did he miss out on a ChuableSoft deal, but there was very little positivity about them licensing Baldr Sky, despite the notoriety. Dunno if it'll change anything, doubt it though.

>>15519850
Don't forget in-house translation quality.

>>15519850
Yeah, but that relies on them doing more than a single title justice. What Moogy was saying and what I was talking about was just Baldr, which isn't nearly enough to make people like SP. Hell, I think even if Maitetsu got released uncut, that alone wouldn't be enough.
If they can release the majority of their titles 18+ and with solid translations, then people will probably stop hating on SP. But that isn't even their priority, which they've made clear. A single title (no matter what title it is) won't do anything to make people like them. They need to make a consistent effort.
And it really is a shame, because SP has some decent licenses right now, even ignoring Baldr. But most of those titles are things I won't touch with 18+, and a lot of people feel the same way.
Personally, Maitetsu is a big deal breaker for me. When I see that title get castrated I don't think I'll ever purchase an SP game.

Someone mentioned AX to me the other day and I remembered how back in '12 I went. The only thing I remember was Django, since the American film of the same name came out that year, and now 4 years later it's

>Django - Waiting on translation

I just don't understand how official translations work and why they take so long. Are these companies run by 1 or 2 people each?

>>15519976
J-ast is in fact run by 1-2 people most of the time.

>>15519976
There's one translator for all the Nitro+ games. He had to do SoniComi instead.

>>15519996
Good choice.

>>15519989
>>15519996
I wonder where all their money goes if they can only afford 1 translator.

>>15519996
Bad_End did Sonicomi and then for whatever reason Makoto translation checked it. Which might be the biggest issue with Nitro+ games, no matter who works on them Makoto has to go in and check them which takes way to long.

Dovac approached me about my Baldr Sky coverage. He's completely tactless. I gave Sekai Project the benefit of the doubt in the article and did my best to make the interaction productive, but he doesn't seem to give a damn what fans think. He's his own company's worst enemy. Contrast that with Nutaku's response to my very unflattering coverage of them: a private request to correct factual errors and an advertisement offer.

I suspect that Sekai Project has no plans at all to do an 18+ release, and that their current ambivalence ("we have no details to share at this time") is simply a delaying tactic to defuse backlash until the deal is finalized and fans will no longer have any leverage (i.e., what happened with G-senjou no Maou).

>>15520025

no one cares about your blog sana

>>15520025
Are you Sanahtlig?

>>15520025
The delay to 18+ is either 1. Hold if off until release hoping the backlash won't be bad(which is stupid, saying it now would lead to a lot of the bad press dying off by release) or 2. He is trying to get the 18+ but can't say anything.

I can't honestly believe two is the correct option with how they are acting though.

>>15520049
I'm positive that if there is an 18+ release it's only because they're trying to do damage control after all the backlash. I doubt SP expected 90% of the Baldr discussion to involve people whining about it being all-ages, rather than people lauding SP as the saviors of VNs.
That said, I also don't believe there'll be an 18+ release. If there is, it'll be like Grisaia's, super delayed and unpatchable on Steam to the point where nobody even cares anymore.

>>15520064
People who say that the H in Baldr Sky can easily be cut are full of shit. In Rain's route, there's an entire set of scenes where she's being molested tied to the gameplay and which ending you get. Same thing happens again in Nanoha's route with her and Noi being gangraped. You can't just skip over that and I'd be surprised if it was easy to disentangle both the gameplay and ending triggers from it, if it's even doable at all.

>>15520091
The other concern is ignoring the H-scenes, Giga seems like they are quite controlling about their titles, so what reason is there to think Giga doesn't find a bunch of other content to cut to fit what a Japanese company thinks of as all ages?

>>15520064
I disagree that he wouldn't try at all for an uncut license at all, after all their other two titles at AX they announced a Denpa version from the start, and one of those was a nukige. It probably was low priority though and the moment Giga said yes to a Steam release, he didn't care until Sekai started getting asked about it after the announcement.

>>15520127
Giga has likely already decided that they don't want their brand associated with ero in the West. Sekai Project doesn't care because it's not their policy to care. At this point they just want to muffle the backlash and take advantage of the notoriety of the license.

>>15519435
So, dovac blames GIGA and SP shills say "go tell GIGA that you want 18+", GIGA blames SP and tells to direct all complains to SP instead.
Looks like one of sides is lying, I wonder which one is it.

>>15520237
I don't think dovac has ever blamed GIGA. In fact, he's very careful never to deflect blame to partners.

Likewise, GIGA never blamed SP. They say "English users should direct complaints to the English publisher". That's simply standard business protocol. It doesn't say anything about their corporate stance regarding censorship in general or with regards to this title.

>dovac taking a break from twitter due to "stress from AX"

Look what you guys did.

>>15520257
If he kills himself I'll consider AX a success.

>>15520257
Good. He's a terrible person who tries to cope with being a terrible person by being an alcoholic.

It's like using poison ivy as a makeshift bandaid. You're a fucking retard if you do it.

>>15520256
>he's very careful never to deflect blame to partners.

Er, what? Everytime there is a problem, that's exactly what he does.

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Did they get their $36k?

>Koiken otome translators deleted their recent update post about the translation being finished and only a few things remain before the final release

What does it mean friends?

>>15520445
Google translate ate their translation. Yet another fan translation ruined by Google.

>>15520445
Google drive failure or SP license.

>>15520445
Dovac.

>>15520389
>Er, what? Everytime there is a problem, that's exactly what he does.
He's always as dodgy as possible from what I've seen. If you have sources showing otherwise, I'll listen.

>>15520470
>>15520464
Dovac really is the Daiz of VNs, he won't stop until everything good is dead

>>15520445
I thought they said they hate SP and MG.
Well, enjoy your all-ages release, /jp/.

>>15520493
"Hating SP" is just codeword for "offer us more monies!".

>>15520256
>In fact, he's very careful never to deflect blame to partners.

He has made it quite clear that the lack of an 18+ version for G-Senjou, as well as how Grisaia is being handled. He also will say when asked questions about an uncut release that it depends on the Japanese developers.

All of that is also likely true, but it's far from "not deflecting blame"

>>15520445
Preemptive damage control

again why is tokyo necro gone??

ps Katahane is so boring

>>15520478
Are you shitting me? Look through every single update on the WAS Kickstarter until he canceled it having delivered literally nothing, but it was all the Japanese company's fault for no voices, and the Japanese company's fault for stema, and the Japanese company's fault for physical goods delays. He even fucking blamed the rain.

Or you can look at Grisaia too. Every problem is Frontwing's fault. Shit's delayed? Frontwing made it delayed. Shit is released with a shitty translation? Frontwing made them use a shitty translation. OST's fucked? Frontwing made them have a fucked OST. How about those ports? It's all Sony's fault it took a year to get started even though the promised Unity ports to platforms besides Vita need nothing from Sony at all. And it's still not delivered because it's Sony's fault. Never his.

Dovac can't take responsibility for anything and the best scapegoat he's found to demonize are the Japanese companies. MG and Jast never have any issues with their partners suddenly changing the terms of agreements or flaking out on their deals. Only Dovac does. It's because Dovac lies and promises what he doesn't have for the 5 seconds of fame or to get as much money thrown at his KSes as possible, then blames other people when things blow up in his face.

I wish JAST would release at a quicker pace. MG and SP put them to shame.

>>15515750
Can someone explain why those three VN's are related?

>>15520749
They're not.

>>15520749
They were recently released

>>15520749
I'm having trouble believing you're actually that stupid. Even if you don't know shit about VN's just reading the fucking list answers your question.

>>15520749
They all just released.

>>15520749

They're all shit.

>>15520628
Your post made me look at the list again. Sad that ToHeart2 is gone.

>>15520445
They deleted their recent post which was mainly about not selling the translation to MG or SP, you tell me what it means.

>>15520650
>MG and Jast never have any issues with their partners suddenly changing the terms of agreements or flaking out on their deals.

That's because Sekai launches kickstarters when the terms of the license haven't all been worked out yet.

>>15519873
>but there was very little positivity about them licensing Baldr Sky, despite the notoriety. Dunno if it'll change anything, doubt it though.

>tfw I saw more positivity about that Otome game MG is bringing over
>tfw it has almost as many likes/retweets as one of the biggest meme games in the English community

>>15520775
Is it that bad?

>>15520882
Twitter is dominated by females so that's not extremely surprising. Retweets =/= popularity.

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How many translators does he hate?

>>15520889

Are you trying to imply that Ixrec's translations are good?

>>15520889
Ixwreck is not translator.

>>15520889
What did Ixrec do to make Mooky eternally butthurt?

>>15520889
Pot. Kettle.

>>15520650
Huh.

But consider this perspective: all these problems become public knowledge because Kickstarter forces them into the public domain. JAST and MangaGamer likely also have similar problems, but what you actually see is the final result rather than the fumbling leading to that final result. Think of it like a draft in progress. Normally, you only see the polished final draft. But with Kickstarter, you see the first draft and all the drafts inbetween. Licensing is messy, and you get to see all the messiness because of Kickstarter.

If JAST and MangaGamer used Kickstarter, perhaps they'd have the same problems. Perhaps that's why they don't use it.

Also, Peter Payne doesn't speak very highly of Japanese companies either. It's not like Dovac is an isolated data point.

>>15520873
>Final update: Due to the amount of hate comments that have came in (and been deleted) surrounding our delay of OUR patch I have decided to not only disable comments but to also stop giving out updates. The amount of conceited people that think our project revolves around them is disgusting. Apparently no updates are better than updates. Apologies for wasting my own time trying to keep you all in the loop while we do what we think is best for OUR patch. We’re the ones who have wasted 3 years of our lives on such a shit community.

>>15520908
Let me know when MG or Jast cancel releases or are caught lying about releases and blame that on the Japanese companies and maybe you'll have a point.

>>15520909
>Wtf we hate the visual novel playerbase more than SP now!
Great excuse to sell out, Dovac always finds a way.

>>15520908
>If JAST and MangaGamer used Kickstarter, perhaps they'd have the same problems
No, they would not, because they sign papers first and only then say something to public.
Kickstarter doesn't force you to launch it before signing detailed contract with devs.

>>15520909
Surely Dovac isn't dumb enough to buy their machine translation

>>15520909
This isn't real right? Most of the comments were people being very excited.

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>>15520908
let's not forget pic related

"le deal with it backers xd"
[anger ensues]
"ughhh the visual novel communtiy is so TOXIC and entitled"

>>15520927
Is it actually machine translated? I haven't been keeping up with it.

>>15520933
>>15520909
Yeah, they're definitely making it up. They've been like, what? Posting progress updating for 1-2 years or so? Delayed their patch several times? And now in the final stretch the hateful comments are suddenly, out of the blue, streaming in. But of course they're immediately being deleted so unfortunately we don't have any evidence and neither do you.

It's clear they're either fishing for donations, or just making excuses for an announcement to come.

>>15520922
JAST has in fact canceled releases. They've also lied to the community. No one really pays attention because, well, JAST.

Sekai Project really isn't that unique. It's just that their growing pains are more recent and therefore they're fresher in everyone's minds.

>>15520939
>Is it actually machine translated?
They were caught red-hand on unedited MTL several times, each time claiming to have purged "rotten apple" and his contributions.

>>15520933
This is real, but it is weird when the comments seemed more excited/anxious than demanding.

>>15520945
You're full of shit.

>>15520909
Hah I'm sure all these "hate comments" will be the reason that they decided to sell it.

>>15520946
The first time, they denied it, but internet archive showed the 'translator' outright saying he used machine translation. Then they said that he was only allowed to translate the unimportant parts. Then they said that all his things were being checked by the dozen definitely qualified translators they were able to recruit all by posting in that one thread. All those translators were also supposedly translating starting from different parts of the game without knowing anything about it.

>>15520882
The otome game looks genuinely interesting, I am looking forward to it more than Sekai Sky

>>15520998
I am looking forward to Maggot Baits more than Baldr Sky. Given CLOCKUP's previous western releases it will surely be uncensored. And I'm sure half of it isn't slice of life school scenes.

MangaGamer didn't answer my question for some reason, so I'm stepping into hell to ask:

Does Umineko have the OP? It's an awesome OP so I'm going to be unhappy if it was cut. Not because I'd be missing out (I can just mod it back in) but because other people would and I feel bad for anyone who doesn't get the full Umineko experience, as it is one of my favorite games.
For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f184GruHq9o

>>15520889
Inganock and Sharnoth were both translated by Ixrec. I don't get what you're going for because he's only expressing hate for one (awful) translator.

It would be nice if MG went back and retranslated those two games but I think Ixrec killed that possibility by putting out a shitty fan translation.

>>15520888
Retweets are one of the clearest possible measures of popularity.

>>15520888

Twitter is actually the most gender balanced of the normie social networks. Men are just, for some reason, less likely to retweet things than women. (I'd argue it's probably even worse in the case of animu porn games, as displaying an interest such as that is lot more socially damaging for men that it is for women)

>>15521017
>Given CLOCKUP's previous western releases it will surely be uncensored

Yeah, Maggot baits will be uncensored. The samples on the teaser site have mosaics just because we haven't gotten the uncensored assets in yet (ClockUp does that in-house so it can take a while sometimes).

>>15521377

I don't think the sharing thing holds true for everything but that does seem to be the trend with MG's feed at least. Games that more heavily target women or both demographics tend to get shared more (although both euphoria and Maggot baits seem unusually popular both on Twitter and Tumblr). I think part of it with VNs is that a lot of women feel more compelled to support and spread the word about the few games that do target or interest them, while men tend to be a bit more apathetic.

>>15520775
>>15520885
...ToHeart2 is gone because it's done.

>>15521400
>it's done
Certified Fuwalated?

Apparently aroduc is shitting on anime instead of working on his translation.

>>15521605

This is different from normal how?

>>15521605
I'm sure that robot can do both at the same time

>>15521605
>implying he can't do both at the same time

>>15521639
He has a keyboard for shitposting, and a keyboard for translating. Truly sugoi

>>15521605
Well his last real update on the thing was him saying it was nearly all done other than the porn, the interface and redoing a few things in the early chapters. As we now know the porn is not happening, that should cut a chunk off what he needs to do.

http://tenka.seiha.org/2016/06/not-black-corpse-10-just-pixels/
>Which means that the next major translation work in it is a mountain of unpleasantness, pornography, and particularly unpleasant pornography
>I certainly could release something, in an ugly, piecemeal fashion because the interface is still largely incomplete, some (English) editing style and presentation stuff in the early chapters needs to be redone to be made consistent with later work, and its in-game manual is comically terrible.

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Well tried asking this in the last thread but it was 404'ing so will try here, not sure where else to go anyway. Attempting to TL a quite short but favorite nukige of mine: https://vndb.org/v5160

Thing is it uses some less than common engine. Crass is able to extract the scripts, (with its 'AGSD.cui' I think as that's supposedly what it uses for games with '.gsp' files like this). However the .spt files containing the scripts have lots of special character padding I'm guessing the engine uses, and editing it in that state is basically impossible, so guessing eng script insertion into the files will have to be automated somehow instead.

The other (bigger) problem is that as crass only extracts there doesn't seem to be any way to turn it back into a .gsp archive with any of the general-use tools, as no others support that format in the first place.

If anyone with experience is willing and able to help with writing some short CMD script or something able to manage either or both of these problems would suck yo dick. Here's the raw .gsp file which contains the scripts if anyone is interested: https://mega.nz/#!RBkDSYqa!Cr6g_KiqrKUJPotc2uUiNNkxykie5LiVJ646x0rwxpA

So the Fuwalators at Flyin' Pantsu have edited their original comment from
>We’re not being licenced by MangaGamer or SekaiProject so shut it. I hate these two companies with a passion.
to
>We’re not being licenced by MangaGamer, JAST or SekaiProject. I hate these companies with a passion.

Does this mean Frontwing has possibly picked up the translation in Eufonie's stead like with SnK? Or perhaps Eufonie is finally making an effort to reach out to the west?

>>15521750
Not many people will be willing to help until you have translated a significant percentage of the game to show you may actually finish it. You will be better off going to Fuwanovel to find someone willing to put in some time to script.

>>15521750
Try to ask the Doddler oni-chan~

>>15521767
Ok, they're going with Degica then.

>>15521820

Well as mentioned can't really edit the script files at present as the formatting is totally fucked, no real place to start unless I just type it out line by line in a text file or something, not sure if that'd be the right way to go about things.

And never really looked into the fuwanovel community, but guess I'll try them next if nothing here then, thanks.

>>15521831

Who?

>>15521873

He is a rather well known visual novel engine hacker.
Google him.

>>15521873
> not sure if that'd be the right way to go about things
About a month ago someone else was asking about getting some hacker. Just follow though the chain of what VDZ said in the thread as it is kinda relevant here.
https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S15385447#p15392856

>>15521873
>no real place to start
Use text hooker to extract original lines. Its fast enough method to do at least 100 kb of tl as PoC.

>>15521891
>He is a rather well known lolicon
FTFY

>>15521905
>>15521913
Okay, guess it'll be off to fuwanovel then after doing the intro act or something. Just don't want to do the whole damn thing if no one can edit it in.

>>15521949
Since your translations will be Fuwatier as well, it's only fitting.

>>15521954
I assume fuwatier means shit. Pls no bully anon.

>>15521398
>The samples on the teaser site have mosaics just because we haven't gotten the uncensored assets in yet

I hope there's a disclaimer next to the screenshots that says this, otherwise people might get the wrong idea.

>>15520927
It wouldn't be the first time.

>>15521949
I'll do it for you if nobody else does, anon. But I don't really want to be attached to any projects so that's only if you find nobody else after finishing the TL.

Wasn't officially translated VNs supposed to be great? Instead we get a bunch of garbage or already fan translated works, cut content, and/or incredibly long release windows.

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>>15521750

ayy i remember this Bakemonogatari ntr troll

>>15522435
>a bunch of garbage
It's not like all fantranslators have good taste either.

>already fan translated works
I'll give you that one, but it's most common with Sekai Project.

>cut content
Again, mostly Sekai Project.

>incredibly long release windows
Depends on the game's length.Many fan TLs have been known to take years as well, or even be dropped.

>>15522440
why is he just sitting on the floor crying, like wouldn't you either confront them or leave

>>15522360
Well not going to do the whole damn thing before finding someone, would need at least a little proof of concept to see if patching the engine is possible even. Guess I'll just see how it goes after posting the first act or thereabouts on fuwanovel. It's a pretty short game so if I do even that much hopefully the people there would have faith that I wouldn't run away from it either.

>>15522447
My problem is with licensing is fans no longer touch the VN in fear of C&D and other things. You just sit and pray for a release date. Or better yet just go learn Japanese yourself.

>>15522440
It really is top-shelf NTR too though as she falls for the delinquent, and that sawft art just did wonders for my dick.

>>15522477
>You just sit and pray for a release date.
It's the same as with fan TLs considering how many burn out, drop the project altogether, or take years to make any progress. If an unreliable fan TL group picks up a project then other groups likely won't touch it either, like what happened with Aokana.

>>15522470
Because cuckolds get off on that. I mean, the guy gets off on the fact that his gf is being fucked by a stranger.

Maybe I just grew up in the fan age and can't help but be disappointed at how little progress it feels like official companies are making. The stories in a VN can be timeless so reading them a decade later isn't unimaginable but it's hard to be patient.

>>15522505
wouldn't he masturbate or something then, and not cry? I don't know why I'm thinking so much about a nukige

>>15522570
They actually have generally faster release cycles than fan translations, the exceptions being SP's longer works and anything JAST does. I think the bigger problem for fans is just that fan TLs get delayed once they get picked up; patches that could have been released months ago may take years to come out now due to licensing. Plus there's the cases like Root Double where more than a few people are upset at the editing job, even if the translators have done quality work in the past.
There is certainly more volume of VNs now, and many of them get released faster than fan TLs would, but there's also the risk that any fan TL will get picked up officially, which either means a translator wasted their time, or the TL will be delayed due to licensing.

>>15522570
I thought growing up in the fan age would make you numb to disappointment, slow speeds, people quitting, disappearing or restarting from scratch.

>>15522570
There's simply not enough money in the industry for it to go much faster. If anything we're current experiencing a bit of a peak as JP companies try to cash in on markets that have already soured (Kickstarter, Steam, whatever).

If you need a positive to look at though, just be glad you have options other than JAST otherwise you'd be dead before you got to read more than a handful of VNs.

>>15522586
>5starpost.jpg

I had expectations but they've been continually dwindling for a while now. The future does look a little better with a few recent announcements but who knows when they'll come out.

>>15522617
In the next year or 2 most likely.

>>15520025
>a private request to correct factual errors and an advertisement offer.
This has the ring of buying off negative reviews to it.

>>15520025
That's pretty interesting for sure. Though their priorities in regards to their fanbase has always been clear. They just don't care until it is convenient for them to do so.

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>>15522255

It would be nice if you guys looked at things before complaining.

>>15522874
What's going on with Baldr, Haro?

>>15522889
Are you stupid?

>>15522889
top secret

>>15522889
She's Sekai's enemy, she wouldn't know

>>15522747
>>15521741
If Aroduc says he's translating porn then he's translating porn. He wouldn't be doing that for nothing. There will be an adult release. The remaining question is what form it will take and Sekai Project's involvement. An official release on Denpasoft? An unofficial release tacitly permitted by Sekai Project and GIGA? Or Aroduc just doing whatever the fuck he wants regardless of what the license holders say?

Whether fans support the official release will depend on the answer to that question.

>>15522874
Hi. Check this out.
https://vndb.org/c/all?q=yuki&fil=
https://vndb.org/c/all?q=yuuki&fil=

>>15522907
Last week, she was saying that she had contracts with Sekai, so which is it?

>>15522907
>enemy
Oh come on. They just belong to different companies.

>>15522909
You forgot the possibility that SP wasn't talking to Aroduc and made a deal for a cut content version without his knowledge or agreement, and they'll happily C&D him, if they haven't already.

>>15522909
SP has continually been saying that they just signed the deal and "haven't worked out all the details." It is pretty obvious that, even if Aroduc had agreed to sell his TL before things were finalized, while working on it he didn't know that there might not be an 18+ release. Just because he was working on it doesn't necessarily mean that it'll be included in the official release.

>An unofficial release tacitly permitted by Sekai Project and GIGA?
This will never happen. If they were willing to do this then there would be no speculation about Maitetsu being censored.

>Whether fans support the official release will depend on the answer to that question.
SP is trying to get the broader Steam audience so they don't really care what VN fans think. They've said as much themselves multiple times, and if Sana (>>15520025) is telling the truth, then Dovac is still dismissive about the core audience. He just doesn't care or see them as the key to gaining profits.

Twist. Aroduc was never working on it at all. He was just catfishing Sekai Project.

>>15522909
That blog post was before they actually got the license since they only got the go ahead just a few days before the con (going by the stuff put on twitter that is). So it is hard to really tell, but at minimum I wouldn't put it past Aroduc to just leak the 18+ content a few months later and no one would be able to prove it was him.

>>15522960
So another Sumaga? I wouldn't mind that, there would be some cheap entertainment there.

>The official twitter account for MangaGamer, an English Visual Novel localization company bringing popular titles like Da Capo, Shuffle!, and Koihime Musou.
Don't you guys think this should be updated? Those titles represent the companies who helped build MG but they're old and forgotten! I don't know which titles would be a better fit though...

>>15522988
Change it to Fate/stay night, Dies Irae, and Eustia

>>15522927
>Dovac is still dismissive about the core audience. He just doesn't care or see them as the key to gaining profits.
Well, for all we know, said ``core audience'' you mention just might be unprofitable. Just how many items does MG sell for their ``best'' titles? 10.000 a year (wild guess from the chart that is posted on top of the thread)? It seems that you can easily sell about the same amount of copies on Steam sale weekends. Granted, you won't make as much of a profit, but there are a lot of Steam sale weekends over the year...

>>15522988
Higurashi, euphoria, and maybe Princess Evangile or some Otomege. Basically anything people are talking about right now, or has (relatively) recently sold well.
Definitely euphoria though. That and Maggot baits are amongst the most talked about VNs lately, at least within EOP communities.

>>15522994
This

>>15522988
>Koihime Musou
They can eventually replace it with Shin Koihime Musou.

>>15523003
I would fully satisfied if at least August hopped aboard

>>15522988
Euphoria, NTY and Gay Butlers.

>>15522994
>Eustia
I get Fate, DI, and Muramasa, but why didn't anyone pick up Eustia yet? You would think that would be one of the go to VNs since core fans never shut up about it.

>>15522997
I don't think Dovac is as unpopular as people think, sure /VNTS/ shits on him all the time, but we're, what? Like 100 people at best? Add another 100 lurkers and that's an extremely small part of the potential fanbase.

You have Reddit, Tumblr et al circlejerking over every single translation even if it's SP quality.

>>15523025
August doesn't need gaijin money

>>15522927
>This will never happen. If they were willing to do this then there would be no speculation about Maitetsu being censored.

The speculations are about how retarded Dovac is. Will he call his bank and ask "Is it OK if I greedily sell a patch that adds CP to my game?" or if he makes a free inofficial patch at the side. Most people lean towards stupidly greedy.

>>15523037
Wasn't reddit pissing on him lately too?

>>15522997
I don't blame him for pursuing the Steam audience (there is no problem with a company trying to maximize its profits), but that is not an audience that is sustainable. They are already sick of VNs, and even SP's titles haven't been doing hot lately. Their most successful products, other than things that were Kickstarted, tend to be things that spread by word of mouth, not VNs the general VN audience give a shit about. I doubt any title SP has right now would break 10k even if it was on Steam except for Baldr. They are not the types of titles you can just sell at a loss on a Steam sale and expect huge numbers.
Steam Spy isn't particularly reliable, but the fact that many of SP's titles (even the successful ones) track less than the minimum required to be accurately tracked, even with Kickstarters, bundles, and sales to help push them, shows that the interest is quite low. If they want a sustainable market, SP needs to please the hardcore VN readers as well as the Steam users, otherwise they won't have anybody to fall back on for their average release.
Their best selling game a Sakura game, followed by Nekopara. Nothing else even comes close to those sales, and I doubt much else they release will ever come close.
Even an outright Nekopara clone that was Kickstarted seems to be doing less than stellar. The market is no longer willing to accept everything that's released, unless it's $10 or free.

>>15523037
>Reddit
Pretty sure even they have called him out on shit. I remember screen caps posted here a while ago where he did damage control over something in /r/visualnovels then deleted his post after getting backlash.

>>15523045
I don't know the inner workings of Reddit, many of the SP threads seem to get a lot of votes though. If they were truly pissed off they'd downvote it all.

>>15522997
Well, the titles that Dovac really cares about are things like Nekopara and other meme games like the Sakura series. Those go for dirt cheap. When you compond the loses from Steam and publisher cuts they are probably left with 40-30% of the profits in all likely hood. Granted, it doesn't matter much when you're moving as many units as Nekopara does.

However, in spite of all of this, they still are trying to appeal to that 'core' visual novel audience, albeit very poorly. It's the latter that is funding their Kickstarters, you know. The meme VN audience probably doesn't even keep up with Sekai, let alone know who they really are.

>>15523053
>>15523045
>>15523037
Yes, even Reddit is sick of his shit. I'm not sure how tumblr is, but Reddit and a few other sites (news sites, mostly) are more than willing to shit on SP and Dovac. The waning success of their crowdfunding campaigns is a good show of people being sick of their shit. Twitter also explodes about SP just as much as /jp/ does, there's a reason Doddler tweeted about it during AX and it wasn't just because we were butthurt about Baldr.
I don't think any place is nearly as negative as 4chan, but it's not like they're actually viewed in a good light. If anything, most fans rate VNs on the basis of the VNs' own release, rather than the company that published it. I'm sure most people who played Nekopara don't even know who SP is.

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>>15523074
>>15523053
>>15523045
Here you have it, 300 votes on the thread. Meanwhile everyone in VNTS was screaming bloody murder.

>>15523025
Dovacc was saying he was going to try to approach Augudt soon over Discord. So unless MG is already in negotiations with them, prepare for disappointment. Well, hopefully August turns them down if Sekai does in fact go after them.

>>15523074
Honestly I see Sekai hate wherever I go now.

>>15523081
Read the comments. There's a huge amount of arguing in that thread.
Just because people upvoted it doesn't mean they agree with it. There is a lot of hate being thrown, even on r/visualnovels.

>>15523081
Other places like fuwa and vndb were screaming bloody murder too. Lots of complaining on Twitter as well. What, you think that that our community here was enough that Dovac would make a Tweet about "trusting" in them? Like you say we aren't enough to make a difference, but just every place that Sekai is brought up I see a ton of negativity being thrown around.

>>15523081
And then they found out they were going for an All Ages release and that Dovac lied yet again and it erupted into anger.

>>15523096
Probably 4chan expats. I post on VNDB and I know others do too.

As for Fuwa, genuinely surprised. I don't frequent the place but I figured it'd be right up their alley.

>>15523081
I think people are only upvoting it because it is Baldr Sky. Are plenty of comments in the thread that seem to be people saying they are cautious about as well as people talking about the 18+ content being cut.
They also know Aroduc is the translator due to someone linking too twitter posts. If they didn't then I could see lots more people being worried about it.

>>15523101
Well I don't know about anyone else but even though I browse a lot of places I don't really post on anywhere but here.

>>15523047
>They are not the types of titles you can just sell at a loss on a Steam sale
>Selling digital content at a loss.

>>15523116
The licensing fees aren't free. Pretty sure Dovac's even admitted that G-senjou still hasn't earned back its costs.
You can sell 100k copies at 99 cents but that doesn't mean it'll be enough to pay for translators and licensing fees. Isn't Dovac always whining about SP being perpetually in the red?

>>15523120
Yes. Sekai still hasn't had a profitable year.

>>15523109
And that it's mostly already done. That's a completely different situation than Sekai doing it in house from scratch. It'd take them years to just get out Dive 1 in their usual shitty quality.

>>15523128
That doesn't mean anything. Is SP about to make money? Well, I'm the CEO, I'll just pay myself extra. Or I'm not counting KS profits as income. etc etc.

>>15523120
"Selling at a loss" is a retail concept referring to selling a unit at a lower price than it costs to produce. The concept is completely irrelevant when each unit is essentially free. At that point no matter how much you lower the price there's always the potential for near-term profit. Near-term profit is impossible when you're actually "selling at a loss".

>>15523120
Its not really selling at a loss, it's just bombing in sales because the market didn't care for it or those who would have bought didn't for different reasons.

>>15523138
Dovac cries on his Twitter a lot. Particularly one tweet claimed that his parents make fun of him because he's working constantly and yet makes no money. So he probably isn't paying himself extra.

Of course, being in the red doesn't necessarily mean anything. A business can operate at a loss for a pretty long time.

>>15523101
>As for Fuwa, genuinely surprised. I don't frequent the place but I figured it'd be right up their alley.
Fuwanovel like any other community has its factions. Most of the bigwigs are pro-industry, but a sizeable chunk of regular posters are anti-censorship and anti-SP.

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>>15523157
I don't really want to argue semantics. You know what I meant so getting anal about it is retarded. This is my last post on the matter. Get back to bitching about SP, it's /jp/'s only current skill.
Yuki

>>15523045
The initial Baldr Sky post on Reddit got ~300 upvotes (97% upvoted). Then the anti-censorship post got ~15 (57% upvoted). Then Dovac's response got ~35 (77% upvoted).

Clearly the community is divided.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tokyootakumode/sharin-no-kuni-a-visual-novel-localization-project/posts/1626687

>>15523258
I allways thought that voting on opening posts is something like validation of relevancy rather than (dis)liking the contents. Unlike reguilar comments I mean.

>>15523320
RIP

>>15523320
>By popular demand
3 people?

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>>15523320
>Pretty nice announcement. $10 is a fair price for a key to a game that's as long as Sharin no Kuni.
>$10 is a fair price for a key
Come the fuck on.

>>15523355
Like the dakimakura, right? only 3 people would buy it if funded.

>>15523320
I am sinking deeper and deeper

>>15523329
Sure, that's how it's *supposed* to work. But in the end users upvote what they want to get attention (what they like) and downvote what they don't want to get attention (what they don't like).

>>15523394
Yet we are speaking about "hot news" here.
Those things are usualy upvoted actively just for being announcements.

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>>15521750
TL;DR: port it to another engine yourself.
http://asmodean.reverse.net/pages/exaqugsp.html

>.spt files containing the scripts have lots of special character padding
It's a compiled bytecode where engine's OPeration CODEs are interspersed with their arguments, such as text strings or, in this case, single Shift-JIS characters. If you could program at least on the level of manipulating raw bytes in the files, you could (re-)write things like http://tlwiki.tsukuru.info/index.php?title=File:Bgi_script_tools.zip to suit your needs, but at this point I can only suggest getting all the assets out and importing them into something like Ren'Py or one of *NScripter family variants.
I wouldn't worry about repacking too much, because if the game doesn't support raw scripts (watch it access the file system with Process Monitor for example) or fake/store "compression", a hacker won't bother reimplementing whatever retarded shit the devs did and simply break the decompression routine to return whatever it was fed as is, effectively forcing the game to use uncompressed scripts.
If you can't translate because you have no text, you can start by opening .spt's in a hex editor and replacing "print this character" opcode 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 with nothing to recover text strings. 010 Editor can do mass replacement in all files in a given directory.

>>15523171
Funny how it used to be a haven for anti-censorship. Aaeru, even with all her ramblings, was truly the better person.

>>15523590
what even happened to her

>>15523636
Literally died. Terminal illness

>>15523648
I always thought those posts were just memes.

>>15523651
They are, nobody really knows what happened. Guess she just grew out of VNs.

>>15520628
it's vio. not hard to read even if youre not n1

>>15523651
She joined some project as a translator, did almost nothing and what she did do was unusable. At the same time, she also launched this huge visual novel translation interview nonsense and tried to become the new Moogy. Then she suddenly quit the internet and everything with a post saying she had a terminal disease and only a year or so to live.

A couple months later, she deleted that post but left everything up for a while, came back with no mention of it whatsoever, started Fuwanovel as the new be all end all center of visual novels for common people while posting really retarded treatises against copyright and capitalism, and started a translation project for Da Capo 3, a game monumentally long.

Eventually, she vanished again.

What happened to harvest festa?

>>15523671
They say if you look at a mirror in a dark room and say Aaeru three time she will appear. No one is brave enough to see if it's true though.

>>15523677
Ixrec sold it to Key.

>>15523677
It's part of Rewrite+, which Key is releasing officially.

>>15521750
what is up with you NTR enthusiasts

>>15523320
19 days for $100k. Will they make it? I'm thinking: >>15523353

I liked it enough but don't really care to see it officially released.

>>15523718
NTR fans gotta jerk off to something

B/rothers, english version of Nanatsuki no Nie is exist?

>>15523760
Sounds like you'll need a Chinese version, luckily it has been localized in China.

>>15523760
I need English version.

>>15523766
>>15523777

>>15523787
She died a martyr, we still honour her by fighting Dovac, Lord of Censorship & DRM.

I miss cudder more than Aeru. Quality days.

>>15523813
At the very least Cudder-chan was decent enough to crack games for us.

>>15523821
Aaeru never failed at cracking us up though.
And I'm still wondering whose cunt, er, which one of them was a bigger cunt.

>>15522874
I was too lazy to check, which is why I said "I hope" there was.

>>15522988
True, they aren't even selling Shuffle! anymore.

I vote for: Umineko, Princess Evangile, and euphoria.

>>15523671
I think her Da Capo 3 progress was either fake or garbage. The people who were upset when MG licensed it were idiots if they ever expected a complete, decent translation to come from Aaeru.

>>15523935
It was probably both fake and garbage.

How long is Da Capo 3 i heard many people say that is long but how big is it compare to MG other titles

>>15523935
Wasn't it fake and garbage enough for MG to slap her with a C&D though?

http://follow.jastusa.com/post/147217704336/game-progress-july-11th

jastusa updates

>>15523987
That was just a precaution and they pretty much had to with how blatant she was about it. They tried to work with her, but it didn't work out, I'm guessing the progress either didn't exist or was an edited machine TL.

>>15523997
Flowers when?

>>15524043
More like, Muramasa when? I'd love to just go learn Japanese and read it for myself but I'm afraid I wouldn't do it justice so I'd rather leave it for "professionals."

>>15524080
Muramasa would be a huge undertaking. I know they have Makoto there and so they would probably be able to do it, but it would still take forever.

>>15524096
For as great as a VN as people claim it to be I wonder why it's so low on their priority list. I guess the market isn't necessarily here and such a huge undertaking probably isn't worth it when they can cash in on stuff like Sonico. It's a bit disheartening.

>>15524110
I sure if you bought games like Hanachirasu and Tokyo Babel that Muramasa and Die Irae would go to the top of the priority list for Japanese devs to localize.

>>15524080
Lol, lazy EOP with his excuses.