Visual Novel translation status
Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "1637/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (74.8%)"
>AstralAir - prologue patch released, 55117/64880 (84.95%) lines translated
Ayakashi Gohan - 49% complete
Clover Day's - Common + 3 routes done, other routes + 348/711 KB and 74/722 KB translated
Haruka Na Sora - Sora 11.29% translated, Kozue 23.73% translated
Harumade Kururu - 100% of the initial harem route + 25% common route translated
Hoka no Onna - 84.88% translated
>Irotoridori no Sekai - 6523/50663 (13%) lines translated
Junketsu Megami-Sama - prologue patch released
Kiminozo - Common route translation complete, Haruka route 1st pass complete
Koiken Otome - 100% translated and edited, 90.20% QC, prologue patch released
>Koiseyo Imouto Banchou - 9% (3796/42627) lines translated
Kurukuru Fanatic - 100% translated, UI + Wordwrapping done
Lovely Cation- 31.6% of lines completed
>Majikoi A-1 - 91.9%
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - Commie project actively in editing
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 2nd project with 2.2 scripts translated
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3rd project released ch 1-5
Monster girl quest paradox - Being translated, new partial patch released
Muv Luv Total Eclipse - 25% translated
Oreimo Tsuzuku - All scripts translated, 212/268 through TLC+Editing, 154/268 scripts finalized
SakuSaku - 100% through TLC
Sanarara - Project resuming
>Sukimazakura to Uso no Machi - 10,082 / 30,513 Lines (33.0%) translated, partial patch released
>Taimanin Yukikaze - Released
Tokyo Necro - 1010/39657 lines translated
>Tsui Yuri - 36% (2098/5872) lines translated
>Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou - 9708/31248 (31%) translated
Witch's Garden - 47555/67201 (70.77%) lines translated, 3,426/67,201 (5.10%) edited, prologue patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 100%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited
Official work
MangaGamer
Higurashi Hou -Tatarigoroshi: 6/24 release
Umineko - Ch 1-4 July 8th release
>Bokuten - 100% translated, 89% edited
>Da Capo 3 - 97% translated, 95% edited
Myth - in scripting
>Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, CH1 78% TL 18.13% edited
Supipara - Ch 1 in testing
Himawari - TL and editing finished, in scripting
>Negai no Kakera - 100% translated, 8% edited
Princess Evangile W Happiness - 50% translated, 22.2% edited
Imouto Paradise 2 - 46% translated, 14.4% edited
Kyonyuu Fantasy - 100% TL+Edited, in scripting
>Fata morgana fan disc - 12% translated
JAST
Sumeragi Ryoko - Beta, in preorder, script edit 20%
Django - Waiting on translation.
Flowers - Re-write/editing 40%, Beta 10%
Sonicomi - debugging, testing, tweaking
Sweet Home - 100% translated, debugging script
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- Translation 86%
Sekai/Denpa
>Karakara - 6/27 release
>2236 A.D. - 57.73% translated
>Maitetsu - 12.9% translated
Nenokami - 99.79% translated, Indiegogo started
>Koi to, Guitar to, Aoi Sora. - 64.42% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
>WEE 3 - 95.67% translated
>Chrono Clock - 17.49%
Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
>Narcissu 0 - 89.23% translated
Mayoi Hitsuji no Kajuen - 100% translated
>Tenshin Ranman - 25.38%
>Darekoi - 79.21% translated
>Wagamama High Spec -Demo is 100% translated, 2016 release
>Hoshizora no Memoria - 12.32% translated
>Memory's Dogma - 54.48% translated
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title 100% translated, 3rd 35% translated
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Ley Line - picked up
Frontwing
Corona Blossom - IGG project started
Sharin no Kuni - Kickstarter planned
Visual Arts
Tomoyo After - Through Steam GL
Little Busters - Picked up
Harmonia - Through Steam GL
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated
Degica
>Hakuisei Aijou Izonshou - 6/16 release
Muv Luv Trilogy - Extra+Unlimited this Summer
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Other
Zero Time Dilemma - Jun 28th release
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness - 9/13 release
SubaHibi - Official release planned
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
>Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - 100% translated + edited, in QC
>Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Common + 50% of Mari route translated
Sora wo Aogite Kumo Takaku - Through Greenlight
Steins;Gate 0 - 2016 release
Taisho Alice - Picked up
Love Sweets - Picked up
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread
I wonder if Sakura Dungeon's release has inadvertently led to some DMC sales? I've seen it shilled in the threads on /v/ that were discussing Sakura Dungeon and lo and behold, it's back in the charts this week. That's just some speculation that's more baseless than usual, though.
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What a piece of shit.
>>15385696
they are pretty similar games but DMC is an actual rpg whereas SD is just gay girls doing gay things. Really a shame the artist only knows how to do one body type, his art is pretty solid.
>>15385989
SD is pretty much the updated DMC. If you even call SD a sequel to DMC then many ppl won't every realize that is made by different company
>>15386035
Winged Cloud made Sakura Clicker, there's no standards or morals that would prevent them from wholesale ripping off another game.
>>15386119
its the same artist so im sure it was his idea to begin with anyway
>>15386035
I thought Demon Master Chris was the same artist?
I mean the art style is fucking identical, doesn't really matter what company he's a part of.
>>15385447
>>Irotoridori no Sekai - 6523/50663 (13%) lines translated
How many weeks until it's dead?
>>15386280
Why should it? They finished SakuSaku which is the same length (but it's stuck on QC)
>>15386292
Yes, it is stuck. That means it is not released, yet they took up another project. Not to mention that they are also in the middle of doing AstralAir.
They are hungry for doing new things without finishing the old ones.
>>15386295
So the main translator shoud be doing nothing now since the QC is done by another ppl? It makes sense to start a new project
>>15386295
Irotoridori no Sekai and AstralAir are both by Favorite though, so it's likely they'll get approached by Sekai for official releases considering Sekai is already working with Favorite.
>>15386331
Even worse.
>>15385696
I've also seen it shilled on the Steam forums, so yes, that is definitely it.
Someone should start shilling Dungeon Travelers 2 there instead.
Moogy gave an update on what the current status of Subahibi looks like, basically saying don't expect anything anytime soon.
>>15386425
>Someone should start shilling Dungeon Travelers 2 there instead.
Who the fuck cares about a game with no porn?
>>15386426
I see upboats. That's a plebbit post. Shoo.
>>15386426
So can we see this as a confirmation that it's JAST that got the license?
>>15386430
A lot of people apparently, as Sakura Dungeon is selling well on Steam.
>>15386559
The top review is literally just a link to the uncensor patch.
>>15385448
>>Da Capo 3 - 97% translated, 95% edited
Almost there Kouryuu!
Please invite me to the party and have some cafe au loli ready.
>Think damn, I've translated enough shitty manga for a lifetime, let's do a VN for the pitiful EOPs
>Maybe one of my favourites like Yami no Koe or something
>Read up on patching shit
>Basically impossible unless you know how to reverse engineer shit, as only the fucking kirikiri engine and some assorted freeware shit is easy to patch
>One more for the pile of dead dreams
I always wondered why so few good VNs get fan patches and now I know, shit's fucking impossible.
Fata Morgana got a highly positive review on Hardcore gamer:
http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2016/06/11/review-the-house-in-fata-morgana/211053/
>>15386739
Yeah, no. It's easy enough to get a hacker if you're capable of translating an entire VN. The real problem is that all translators lose motivation after the first couple hundred lines.
>>15386786
It can be the best game ever but the general VN crowd will never get it because of the artwork.
Which is why Himawari will be interesting to see if people can keep up with the hard sci-fi just for the artwork.
>>15386811
>The real problem is that all translators lose motivation after the first couple hundred lines
Probably because they're working on something they hate. I've done volumes and volumes of mango but if it was shit I despised doubt I could've.
>easy enough to get a hacker
Skilled programmers would be in about as much supply as translators I'd say.
Though the info I was reading said JAST planned to licence some of Cyc's stuff but gave up because their engine is extra shit or something. But seems a script patcher was made for gore screaming show which uses the same engine, doesn't work with Yami no Koe though sadly.
>>15386739
>Maybe one of my favourites like Yami no Koe or something
Please find a hacker.
YnK is one of my most wanted "dark nukige" and fapping to machinetl wasn't a good experience.
>>15386871
Honestly though YnK 2 is a step above in quality too, half the reason for doing YnK 1 would be so I could start it.
YnK 3 is blandness that can stay untl'ed forever however.
>>15386851
>Probably because they're working on something they hate.
Most fan-translators that start translation projects have no idea of the time and effort needed for it. Not to mention that many of them don't even realize they're not qualified to translate for several reasons. A fairly common reason is not having a strong grasp of japanese.
>>15386898
Well I've seen enough of that on the mango scene, would've thought anyone going in to a VN would understand the length involved though given 'novel' is in the title and all. But I guess weak faggots can be found in any community.
>>15386811
>Yeah, no. It's easy enough to get a hacker if you're capable of translating an entire VN.
Yet Aroduc keeps complaining he can't get any help and has dropped projects because of it.
>>15386871
>reading anything machinetl
>ever
Why do people do this? Ruins the experience forever.
>>15386948
That's because they don't want to work with him.
>>15386948
That's because Aroduc translates gameplay eroge, which are an order of magnitude more complicated to hack than plain VNs. For normal VNs, generally hacking only consists of extracting the text and writing a tool to insert the text back into the game.
>>15386831
Himawari has several factors working against it. One of the major ones is that people looking up the game on Steam will think there's an 18+ version, not realizing the remake never had an 18+ version. And they can't really patch them in because the art styles don't match, but I'm sure Steam uses will still consider the remake "censored".
>>15387040
But it is censored. It could have had the 18+ content, but the developers cut/censored it to "sell more". Which in the end will cause them to sell less, because people don't put up with that shit behavior.
I for one will be pirating such things instead of buying it because if it is the best thing I'll get, I'll get it. But I won't pay for censorship.
>>15387087
It's a remake, so it's a different product than the original, plus I've read that it has new content that the original didn't have, so it's the definitive version of the game.
>>15387110
A censored product is also a new product different than the original. So what is your point?
>>15387122
It only had like 3 short, shitty H scenes in the first place with bad art, why is that a selling point for a story game?
>>15386811
>It's easy enough to get a hacker
From where? Please direct me to the hacker store..
>>15387087
I'm always against censorship too anon but Himawari isn't a nukige and the art is pretty bad so the sex isn't really important this time.
It's not the main focus.
>>15386323
Google is already working on dozens of Fuwanovel projects at the same time.
>>15385448
>Da Capo 3 - 97% translated, 95% edited
Only 2 more years to go.
>>15386991
That wasn't the case for Prism Ark or anything using that engine (eg Natsu no Owari no Nirvana)
>>15387131
It is not a selling point. I couldn't care less if a VN contain porn. It is the censorship that is the problem.
It is the cancer of adult games. You have to fight it, or you'll be left with all-ages only titles.
>>15386280
It's possible that they are just stalling near finished projects in the hopes of being picked up.
>>15386982
That is technically true. All the VN hackers are now deep up MG or SP's ass and aren't willing to help anybody who's not.
>>15387221
It's a remake, so it's meant to be different than the original game, even the story script has changes from the original. A remake is just a reimagining of the work. It's not like they took the same game and just cut content out of it.
>>15387224
SakuSaku by SP or MG isn't that unlikely.
>>15387247
And there is absolutely no argument to not have remade the 18+ version as well. They chose to save pocket change money by skipping the adult scenes, and I intend to make that decision cost them.
>>15387367
I doubt your personal boycott will make any difference. If it fails it will be because it's a story title that most of the western audience hasn't heard of.
>>15387367
It won't cost them shit. Get over yourself.
>>15387367
18+ or not you will pirate it so i don't think MG and the dev give a fuck about what you think.
>>15387383
That's the dovac mentality, isn't it?
>>15387367
They remade it specifically to release it on the Playstation Vita, which only allows all-ages releases. If not for that, it wouldn't have been remade at all and MG wouldn't have ever licensed the original either.
>>15386851
>Probably because they're working on something they hate. I've done volumes and volumes of mango but if it was shit I despised doubt I could've.
No, even the most passionate fans get burned out. While they're not likely to quit early on, they will slow down their pace after the first month or so and possibly drop a project, not because they hate it but because the work is dull. You need to really like both translating and writing to stick with longer projects. I say this from experience.
Many people who go from manga or anime to VNs don't realize how much more text there is. There is a huge jump from translating a manga (even the wordiest monthly series) to a VN.
>>15386295
>>akerou said: Because of the link? I only put the link there ages ago because originalren also linked our page. Should probably remove it now. We aren’t affiliated with them in any way.
Not the same group
>>15387367
>And there is absolutely no argument to not have remade the 18+ version as well.
The original PC and Vita versions have different art and content. MG simply can't mix these two in a single release. If the art were the same, that could probably be possible, although I hear that the characters ages are directly mentioned in the game which would put MG in a pretty difficult position given that they're underage.
It's true that the Vita version is was back-ported to PC in japan, however, that decision came on a latter date.
>>15385448
>>Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, CH1 78% TL 18.13% edited
I have a question. Will they release some kind of complete all 3 chapters edition/bundle when all 3 chapters are done?
And how hard will they judge the sales from the first chapter alone? Because even if I have to buy them individually I'd likely not even touch them until I can buy all of them in one go. For the same reasons I don't touch partial fan translations.
I don't like the idea of getting invested and then having to wait a year to be able to continue.
>>15387877
>I have a question. Will they release some kind of complete all 3 chapters edition/bundle when all 3 chapters are done?
I doubt they would answer that with anything more than "we'll see", as they aren't going to say something that would weaken sales of the first chapter.
>>15387877
It's a different kind of episodic. Chapter 1 is the complete route for the dark elf faction. The other chapters will be the complete routes of the other factions. Chapter 1 is a complete story.
>>15387829
>The original PC and Vita versions have different art and content.
Apparently the all-ages too. So it is 3 different art versions. None of them were really bad though.
They should just do the 18+ PC version too.
>>15388208
That one has super outdated art and likely wouldn't sell well. There's also the possibility that they couldn't get the rights to it, or Frontwing don't want competition from the original version.
>>15388208
They can't, since it's explicitly stated in-game that the characters are children.
>>15388242
Sounds like the oldest trick in the book to write text to claim the characters are 18 or older.
>>15387149
#tlwiki used to be the place to get hackers, but I'm sure that nowadays it's changed enough to make it useless for actual translation-related stuff. You'll have to swallow your pride and ask on Fuwanovel, they seem to have enough hackers. Alternatively, just say you need a hacker on a VN-related place and chances are one will suddenly pop up out of nowhere.
>>15386851
I doubt your project will go anywhere, but I've extracted the scripts anyways so you can at least get started: http://vdzserver.org/misc/yaminokoescripts.rar
Source code for the extractor is at http://pastebin.com/1uB8686Y in case you ever need to hand it to a hacker or want to modify it yourself.
I make no promises of further supporting the project should it head anywhere (because I have no personal interest in this project, the game itself is old and buggy, and because I'm a novice hacker in the first place), but it should be easy enough to get a hacker to insert the scripts again if you manage to translate a decent chunk of it.
(Hacker notes: XOR with 0xFF. First 16 bytes are always the same, as are 0x30 - 0x40. All values are 4-byte integers. Pointer values must be multiplied by 4 (i.e. 0x05C4 refers to location 0x1710 in the file). Number of lines is at 0x10, pointer to line pointer table is at 0x14, line pointer table simply consists of pointers to the start of lines (null-terminated strings, no length indicator). 0x1C and 0x24 also seem to be pointers to data blocks preceded by length indicators, but I haven't really checked what they are for, nor have I checked what the stuff in-between the lines is.)
>Probably because they're working on something they hate. I've done volumes and volumes of mango but if it was shit I despised doubt I could've.
I hear this every time. "Not me, of course I'm motivated enough! How bad can it be?" And every time I hear it, the project is dropped before it even hits the 10% mark. At least you're choosing a shorter VN, but even then you're almost certainly underestimating the amount of work.
>Skilled programmers would be in about as much supply as translators I'd say.
No, there is a serious shortage of (dedicated) translators, while there are far more hackers than really needed, particularly for simple projects like this one. Hacking requires some knowledge of reverse engineering and a bit of your time, while translation requires not only knowledge of both languages (and arguably writing skill) but also a HUGE time investment, and the dedication to keep up the motivation despite the long duration of the project and low payoff (although it's really grown recently, the VN community is still a lot smaller than the anime or manga community; you'll get a lot less e-penis for a lot more work (and hell, with the current state of the community, chances are you'll get more complaints than gratitude)).
>>15388323
Well thanks. Once TLwiki comes back online hopefully can download that gore screaming show patcher too, (was only able to find the first revision of it from google cache), since it's the same enginer maybe it only needs a little modification too.
I'll try not to disappoint your lack of hope too much. What % should I get TL'ed before begging somewhere for someone to code a patcher, 10? 20? And should I beg here or on tlwiki somewhere?
Also with those text files with the dialogue, should I just be replacing the moon with English in notepad or any text editor and saving them to make patching easy?
>>15388395
Doesn't matter. They don't give a shit.
>>15388402
What, about the eng script format? Surely there's some format it should be kept in to make auto-patching easy right? Seems to be line breaks and numbers in the ripped scripts too keeping it all in order.
>>15388395
>Also with those text files with the dialogue, should I just be replacing the moon with English in notepad or any text editor and saving them to make patching easy?
From a technical viewpoint, the only requirement is that it is somehow possible to discern the order of the lines. The inserter will need to re-insert them in the right order; everything else is convenience.
Standard practice for VN translation is to keep the Japanese line in the script and write the translation below it. This will allow you to easily compare the two, which is helpful when you want to revisit a line, if someone wants to TLC a line, and so on.
In my exported scripts, I've prefixed every Japanese line with [ja][<line number>], and added a line [en][<line number>] after every line. The idea behind this is that you can write your translation after the [en][<line number>] prefix so you still have the Japanese line for comparison and so it's easy to detect which line it is for the inserter. (This also allows you to put notes (for example, to the editor) and remarks in the script file by just placing them on a line without those prefixes.)
>>15388395
>What % should I get TL'ed before begging somewhere for someone to code a patcher, 10? 20? And should I beg here or on tlwiki somewhere?
Fuwanovel is probably your best bet. There is no set percentage to ask for an inserter; you just need to convince someone you have a decent chance of completing your project (i.e. that you are not just wasting their time), and the best way of doing so is to actually complete a significant chunk of it.
>>15388459
Okay, but what about those \r\n breakline or whatever characters, should I be putting them in at the same location they're in the Japanese text too? E.g. should:
>[ja][0013]萌\r\n「どう？\r\n 私と遊ぶ気にはなった？」\r\n
be done by me as:
>[en][0013]Moe\r\n"Well?\r\n Don't you want to have some fun with me?"
are visual novels really that hard to translate? it's pretty common for high school students to translate 10k lines of vergil in a 36 week school year. you would think something like a nukige would be easy to blast out, even only spending an hour a day on it.
>>15388605
A full length visual novel is 30k-50k lines though. Even short nukige are 5-10k lines.
>>15388512
Possibly. They're line breaks, so it's your choice as the translator to retain them, move them, or omit them (though the line breaks following the speaker tags seem to be intended to separate speaker tag from normal text, best to always keep those). Judging from my little experiment manually inserting some text, the game doesn't seem to support automatic line breaking at all (so if a line is too long it just flows out of the text box), unless I missed something, so you might have to put line breaks in to keep it all in the text box (a process best done automatically using a tool) and watch out you don't use too many line breaks so the text goes past the bottom of the text box. Unless you can get a hacker to modify the font/text rendering.
>>15388705
>the game doesn't seem to support automatic line breaking at all (so if a line is too long it just flows out of the text box), unless I missed something, so you might have to put line breaks in to keep it all in the text box (a process best done automatically using a tool) and watch out you don't use too many line breaks so the text goes past the bottom of the text box
Are you able to tell me how many ASCII characters fit on one line then, and how many ASCII lines in one text box? I assume I'll have to be maxing out each line since the English will always take up more space basically.
If I run out of room for one line within those constraints though what do I do? I assume I'd need two [en] lines for the one [ja] line then somehow? Should I just do it as:
>[ja][0001](KANJI KANJI KANJI)
>[en][0001](ENG LINE PART ONE MAXED OUT)
>[en][0001](ENG LINE PART TWO)
>[ja][0002]...
>[en][0002]...
Or something else?
>>15388705
>>15388735
Or, actually, if I just put a break after the character name which seems required, couldn't the rest somehow be automated via string insertion after a certain amount of characters when importing for patching and reading each line? Counting every character for each line when translating sounds imfuckingpossible.
>>15388688
so 10k lines where half of them are "the pleasure of cumming inside" compared to 10k lines of poetry in a dead language.
Sekai's E3 steam is about to start. They say they have announcements, but with AX in a couple weeks, not expecting much.
>>15388884
Announcements "today, tomorrow, Tuesday, and AX"
Looks like their backlog going to grow some more
>>15388884
I expect SakuSaku.
Sekai Project getting its titles announced by Sony? Dovac making it big.
>>15388884
Meh
>using VLC
>>15388949
So probably either Clannad or Grisaia.
Years of waiting were worth it after all. Seinarukana is pretty damn great.
And is Aselia remake going to come out with english and chinese subs just like Nekopara does? Because it's site has translations.
Holy shit, Sekai Project's stream is a trainwreck. Couldn't they just record and edit it beforehand?
>>15389026
That requires planning and organization.
>>15389026
It's actually pretty fun. They're not announcing anything notable, but it's still interesting to watch. I prefer this over an overly serious presentation that will only disappoint.
>>15389019
>it's site
>it's
>>15388605
I bet Tokimemo would take 2 weeks.
>>15389053
>but it's still interesting to watch
How can you enjoy watching this shit?
Guys, guys. At least say that it was at twitch under sekaiproject.
>>15389053
Yeah, interesting to see how bad they can fuck up. Deafening all of their viewers will be hard to top.
>>15389087
No thanks, we know how to use google.
Which ones of these gaijins is the "translator"?
>>15388275
That only works if you can argue that there aren't signifiers that the character is underage. Himawari wouldn't pass that test.
>>15389269
Do not fucking remind me of Danny Choo.
So Steam Seinarukana will have all the extra chapters? Including the latest one where Myuugi awakes? I kind of hope they would also translate all those guide books and add them as a special edition or something.
how can people make it through watching this garbage without killing themselves
>>15389348
I can't so what did they announce ?
I was watching it to see dovac dilapidated condition. He's becoming an Asian hobo. I can easily imagine him panhandling outside of Walmart.
Kakyuusei 2 will never get translated. Elf is gone forever...
>>15385447
who plays these NTR games anyway
>>15389451
i wish there were real ntr games being translated and not shitty nukige with forced ntr.
>>15389389
Sekai Project X Limited Run Games Partnership Officially Announced at E3 2016
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1232268
>>15389462
>real ntr games
Like?
>>15389019
I found seikarukana pretty awful. It was stuffed to the gills with about every tired vn trope there is
>>15389499
Clearly he's referring to games where you purchase the game, but instead someone else gets to play it and you're left without a game.
i think school days is the only "real" ntr game that is translated. Most of the stuff from manga gamer is just rape and netori.
>>15389499
Triangle Blue, Biniku no Kaori ~Netori Netorare Yari Yarare~, Sore de mo Tsuma o Aishiteru
Apparently Aroduc's translating Planet Dragon.
>>15390277
I wish Elf games would get translated but now that they are dead I doubt we will get anything.
>>15389538
Isn't that just a charity?
>>15388605
Average VN is longer than War and Peace.
>>15387238
>All the VN hackers are now deep up MG or SP's ass
Not true. Most of VN hackers never worked with any of official companies.
We just got burnt out on every single project failing apart long before reaching even 30% mark. Retards with zero skills and work discipline beg for tools, and then disappear into nowhere month later.
Doesn't help that current official industry is licensing everything worthy and fan tl lost its purpose.
>>15389530
Nozomu is shit and sometimes writing was pretty weak, but overall idea and setting are great.
PQube's announcement was they'll be the publisher for Root Letter.
>>15391128
What is special about Root Letter? I never heard of the writer in the VN scene.
>>15391202
It's from a notable company (Kadokawa Games) and shares staff with Love Plus.
>>15391260
>notable company (Kadokawa Games)
>>15391267
Notable company (Kadokawa Games). Kimikiss, Amagami and Photokano are all well-known titles.
http://blog.mangagamer.org/2016/06/13/white-album-2-closing-chapter-announcement/
>>15391688
You could try a little harder. MG's announcement graphics are easy to copy.
Amagami and Love Plus would be fun to have translated.
>>15391688
Don't even need to check the link to know it's fake. You'd probably get some anons if you posted that during MG pannel.
>>15392330
That's not even the format they do announcement post titles in anyway
https://twitter.com/TheQuQu/status/742374318370349057
>>15388705
If you're still here could I get an answer to these please fampai? >>15388735
>>15388749
Just want to make sure I'm typing it all in a format that will be usable before starting that's all.
Eww Sekai got their filthy hands even on this http://store.steampowered.com/app/459540/
![hqdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/oVxDrKF.jpg "hqdefault[1].jpg")
>>15392628
Card-based fighting game? Guaranteed success, dbz was a masterpiece
>>15392640
I once made a card math battle game. Those were the days.
Maybe a kanji card battle game would be more useful these days.
>>15388735
>>15388749
As I said in >>15388705, it is
>a process best done automatically using a tool
That, or the game needs to be modified to do this internally (and thus accept any kinds of lines).
For using multiple lines where the original has a single line, you'll have to ask the hacker who will do the insertion. It should be possible if the hacker wants to put in the effort for it. The input format to support this will depend on what the hacker finds convenient.
Just write the translation for now, worry about in-game formatting later.
>>15392856
Ok, well will just TL and probably start whoring for a hack-kun around 10-20% then, hopefully I find one who has better luck than JAST supposedly did with the engine. Thanks for the ripping help allowing me to actually start.
Who lets their daughter walk around in an outfit like this? You can clearly see her panties.
>>15393105
That looks like her tucked in shirt... she might not even be wearing panties.
>>15393105
Not much difference to skirts.
>>15393168
Great, now I'll always imagine it.
>>15390458
No, that's any digital purchase where the company keeps ownership of the game and only gives you right to play it, provided you don't get blacklisted by them. In that case, they take it away from you.
>>15388949
Sekai's initial 2 titles for Sony platform are Fault Milestone One and Rabi-Ribi.
>>15395523
They did a really good job recreating the scenes but it just still feels wrong.
>>15395523
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Takuya looks generic as fuck.
>>15395523
They got rid of the Ayumi's glorious braid and made Kanna look sort of dumb. There also seems to be less arse and I dislike the look of Takuya.
It could look much worse though.
>>15395562
And Mio's big sexy thighs have disappeared.
>>15386739
I've done at least 3 projects and they all got abandoned by the translators. They always came to me saying the same things, just like your post, and then gone within first 2/3 weeks. Come back months later only to be gone again.
I'm also to blame though. Next time i won't accept anything unless they have at least half of the script done.
>>15395573
Th- thanks for the expressions of faith anon. ;_;
>>15395573
Name them.
>>15395523
Everything is blurry and all the scenes are less detailed. Look at the hair, textures of clothes, the props in the background...
Even the body parts are less defined. Tits are less curved and show no hint of nips, panties shots no longer have the hint of labia
This is a slap in the face to Elf
>>15395523
Old art is still fine. I'd buy 256 color games still.
Hi guys, I heard on /a/ that Dies Irae is getting translated. Is that true?
>>15396557
No, or at least it hasn't been announced yet. It's pure speculation based on the anime coming out.
>>15396557
Yes, my dad is Aroduc and he said he's translating it.
>>15396660
I wanted to post this
>>15396700
Sorry, bro.
Sonicomi is Golden Master status
Jast moves much faster when steam dollars are up for grab.
>>15395523
All it needed was a recolor by a respectable artist who could help remove the 256 color look without destroying the art.
>>15396557
I want to see the day when Dies Irae is translated and see hundreds of EOPs crying and saying they're highly disappointed with it. Such days would be glorious.
>>15396426
>This is a slap in the face to Elf
They probably are going to go for a CERO D and need to change/tone down a bunch of plot elements too (they probably need to change some stuff even for CERO Z, but it'd probably work out better)
>>15396756
Agreed, these EOPs are getting uppity lately and somebody needs to put them back in their place.
>>15395573
While I agree with you in being more selective with projects, how do you expect people to TL half a script without having it extracted?
>>15396854
And then the additional overhead of importing their work into the new format.
>>15396761
Problem is that they won't change what needs to be changed, the shitty epilogue
If they toned down the NTR incest I would be ok with it if they fixed the story
>>15396854
Generally extraction is the easy part, its the reinsertion that is the problem
>>15393105
Somebody who dresses like this.
>>15396874
How do I learn how to extract scripts?
>tfw western people take years to translate something but it's done almost instantly in korean or chinese
>>15396957
>>15397704
If you can't tell right away which VN engine is used by a given game and having a close look at its files in a hex editor doesn't enlighten you either*, fire up a debugger/decompiler and see for yourself how exactly that game extracts its scripts when it needs them**, then plagia- write your own program which replicates the process***, I mean.
________
* http://mfi.re/?ftqoewqzfzt2739
** http://proger.i-forge.net/Hacking/Stage%20Once/
*** http://asmodean.reverse.net/
>>15396957
>>15398137
I can understand Aselia, but you would think that Yuuto would tell her that it's pretty lewd.
Whatever became of that counterdown Conjurer and co. were doing?
>>15395523
I can't wait to rage at Toyotomi all over again.
Fuck, all that NTR in Yu-no literally drove me insane.
>>15398182
Maybe he enjoys the eyecandy?
Who says he's only having sex with Aselia? Maybe he has and always have had an incest fetish?
>>15398352
Pussied out like the pussies that they are.
>>15398375
You should feel bad for even suggesting this. Euphoria is for Myuugi.
>>15398410
Euphoria is getting pounded by literally everyone.
>>15398550
I guess that's why she has 0 canon sex.
There's a new VN on steam about mental illness, sounds perfect for /jp/ lol http://store.steampowered.com/app/476410
>>15398909
Return to reddit and take your OELVN shit with you please.
I 100% BBH after pre-ordering and buying it.
Where is my Rance?
>>15399648
Get ready for MG to announce Evenicle at Otakon.
>>15398567
>>15398550
>>15398410
Since you're talking about Seinarukana, could you tell me if I can jump two difficulties after previously clearing?
As in Normal->Hard->Normal->Normal->Superhard
Sekai posted that all ages Grisaia no Meikyuu is planned for next week "if everything checks out fine". Sure it's a decent wait for the uncut release again though.
>>15399671
I hope so. When /haniho/ was still alive i was hyped for the others titles of the series but now i don't give a shit about Rance anymore.
>>15399877
>all-ages
Not this shit again. Is it so difficult to release both version at the same time ? Fucking dovac.
>>15399698
You can select any unlocked difficulty mode every time you load a game clear save.
>>15399698
You don't want to do that. You will get destroyed.
Why is Asagi 3 so fucking long?
And when will TLwiki be back up already?
>>15398550
New game being all ages kills the potential of Temuorin tentacle raping her. What a shame.
>>15400159
Are the numbers for 1-2 correspond to their Complete versions?
>>15400266
Don't think so.
>>15399991
Due to being underleveled? I just started 2nd on hard and the start is way easier to SS than normal, but I had all the starting characters on max (30)
>>15400781
Wait, I just realised that thought is stupid. SH is made to be played after hard, so having 2 more games between the hard and SH playthrough should make SH actually easier, unless there's some scaling based on how many clears I have.
>>15400242
>New game being all ages
I didn't need to know that. My hopes and dreams are dead.
>>15399893
Forget releasing it at the same time. I'm so angry that the all-ages always get a 25-50% discount after a few months and the adult versions never.
And then there is usually the fake stats that all-ages is a good market because it sold so much. Yea, discounts do that!
>>15400159
Most certainly error in counting, no visual novel is 130k lines long.
>>15400983
>And then there is usually the fake stats that all-ages is a good market because it sold so much. Yea, discounts do that!
Unless they're MangaGamer discounts (as they frequently hold sales as well, but their Steam sales still beat their site sales by a good margin), but they don't count, right?
>>15401106
I wouldn't know, they have so few all-ages games of their adult titles. Most are from the period of free steam keys, so also difficult to count.
I'm worried about their sales however. It is almost always same games, and I've bought most.
>>15399671
why do people think Evenicle is a chance?
MG are even less likely to be allowed to touch that then Rance.
>>15399671
Why would they let Evenicle overseas when it's barely been out for over a year?
>>15400795
SH final bosses have around 200k HP.
MiKandi Japan (Libra Kickstarter) is setting up some kind of store front and looks to be setting up a newsletter which includes for new and "future plans". Though it does seem questionable to use every email address they got through the kickstarter process as the initial pool for such a newsletter. Regardless, this means they are likely to be around as a localization company for a while.
>>15400936
But thanks to that we will maybe get Euphoria as MC instead of some boring dude.
And recent CD's they are releasing are yuri as fuck.
>>15401476
>>15401512
It depends on what Alicesoft's objection about Rance is. If it's just nothing recent, then yeah, Evenicle is a non-starter. If it's concern that doing poorly with Rance (quality or sales) can cause problems for future releases of the full franchise, but they are good with any one shot title, then Evenicle looks much better.
>>15401980
>but they are good with any one shot title, then Evenicle looks much better.
I can assure you, Evenicle is not going to be a one shot title with that massive cliffhanger
>>15401980
It's going to be Escalayer anyway.
The tears and hate will be delicious to see while I howl in pleasure fapping to it.
I hope the next Alicesoft will be Oyako Rankan. I really want to see the tears of all the NTR haters and Rancefag.
>>15402152
If they are going for that series they might as well try get Tsuma 3 even if it's a relatively new game
>>15401082
Yes they are you fool.
>>15401958
Nah, Euphoria's waaaaay to strong to be the protagonist. It'll probably be yet another schmuck who gets a middle-level eternity sword and gets sucked into another world.
>>15402373
I doubt they will be going with the standard "guy gets summoned to a magical world" this time.
They are releasing way too much stuff about Euphoria and loli Myuugi traveling together.
And going straight into Eternals territory from the beginning would be great.
Think JAST will do the Aselia remake?
>>15402483
Naofumi wants it to have chinese and english options from the start. And with being all ages it could go straight to Steam.
>>15402409
Yeah, but then how will things be escalated? When you're already endgame level, there's not much left for a gradual increase in power level.
>>15402512
Neat.
>>15402524
None of that stopped Euphoria from being playable in the middle of Seinarukana.
They could just be thrown into a new Time Tree where their powers are weakened or something.
huh someone on 4chan translated https://vndb.org/v15167
Hakuisei Aijou Izonshou was delayed until July 7th for extra editing.
>>15403482
So basically 'the translation was shit and we didn't have enough time to fix it. We only scheduled things out so that we'd have time to edit an already presentable product, rather than rewrite the entire text into readable English, so we're delaying it to buy time to possibly turn it into a vaguely presentable product by yolo editing, ignoring the dubious quality of the initial translation'.
Incoming trainwreck. Now, how bad will it be?
>>15403545
I'd expect something on par with the Flowers demo. That said, they probably can get it into a shape that it doesn't meaningfully hurt steam sales even if the translation quality is a trainwreck, as unfortunately most people don't give a shit unless they personally can notice a lot of English errors.
I take it their initial response about the problems with the screen shots was a bit of an exaggeration though.
>That was a very early translation used for the screenshots. We have done a lot of editing since then.
People paid 46,000 for this crap. http://store.steampowered.com/app/487430/ ugly and ui looks stolen from nekopara
>>15404179
Could be worse. He even increased the number of VNs he's making in a year.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dharkerstudio/the-bounce-visual-novel-series/
>>15404179
Kio Nachi is listed as the scenerio writer, so it might not be shit. I doubt it has much length to it though.
>>15396660
Why does he have such shit taste in anime?
>>15404236
It costs $10 and has no routes.
>>15404718
What's he calling shit that's got your panties in a bunch this time?
>>15403190
another NTR game? who plays this stuff
>>15406211
I do, though it's not high priority for me.
Suppose the 4th MG announcement is Supipara chapter 2. I wouldn't even be surprised.
>>15406293
But they are still $44k short of the Supipara chapter 2 goal,. I do think it's a minori or Clock Up title though, considering the guests. I do wonder if they will add any more before AX, they have gone from 3 to 4 thus far.
>>15405339
He wrote the game because of clam chowder. Also the translation sucks, they didn't bother with a editor it looks like.
>>15406432
>a editor
Corona Blossom seem to be getting the full JP treatment with DRM based on codes with limited activations. I wonder when they will understand it just makes people crack the games.
>>15406611
DRM on the physical release seems particularly short sighted, not like it is going to stay offline until the physicals are sent out anyways.
When will sekai learn that censoring games will just have more people boycott them. https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4o651r/grisaia_monthly_update_9_the_labyrinth_of_grisaia/d4c21c1
>>15406810
H-scenes aside, how much in the way of unneeded edits were included this time around coming from the fact that the all ages version was based on the Vita release?
>>15406810
I don't care what they do with all-ages as long as they give us uncensored adult versions.
>>15406990
The issue with Grisaia is the uncut version took 3 months last time after the all ages version.
>>15396728
I like how the prominent link at the top of their home page showing off their new forums is currently a dead link. Though I suppose that is what you can expect from Jast.
Fata Morgana is on sale again.
7/14 release for Muv Luv. Also their kickstarter update announcing the release date says that Yoshimune will be at AX " with huge announcements that’s not only meant for Muv-Luv. " I suppose that means a Kiminozo announcement is probably coming.
>>15407618
>KimiNozo announcement is probably coming
YES. Now that I was learning japanese just to read it.
>>15407618
Boy, I sure hope they're using the machine translation!
>>15407632
It's been obvious for a while they were going to pick up Kiminozo, just has always been a matter of when.
>>15407618
Or a Schwarzesmarken Kickstarter.
J-List added the new MG hard copies. Surprisingly, they even added Euphoria, despite the edits they felt they needed to do to sell the hard copy of Starless.
>>15406428
>>15406293
I haven't put all the slots up yet. There's still two weeks to the con after all.
>>15407851
Has AX said anything about when they are going to finally release the event schedule?
>>15407851
Just put up WA2 up there already.
>>15407866
Nope! Not that I know of at least.
>>15407632
why? its terrible
>>15406810
You can try whatever you want, I will never ever let you post reddit links on the site I love without repercussions. Fuck off.
>>15407755
I have been saying this the entire time, the edits to Starless were for better commercial appeal, not for any real fear of violating any laws (you could not possibly hold JAST responsible for someone importing games where they're illegal). Peter Payne is an expert at exploiting gullible weebs.
MG decided to release Higurashi ch3 early because it was done testing.
Steam pages are up for Labyrinth of Grisaia, as well as Frontwing's ripoff of Huniepop. For the latter, Frontwing set up an uncut patch download page on their site, which I assume will be what they'll do for Corona Blossom and other titles going forward.
If Mangagamer is moving release dates around, Umineko really should be an early surprise release immediately after their AX panel ends, as opposed to July 8th.
>>15409724
No one cares about Umineko.
