/vn/ - Visual Novel General #937
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>Having trouble with your VN? Try the following before you ask for tech support:
1. If you downloaded your VN from Fuwanovel/Mofu, you're on your own.
2. Be in Japanese locale
3. Read the Readme
4. Read the wiki below
5. Google it
>FAQs, Recommendations, and Other Useful Things:
http://visual-novels-general.wikia.com/wiki/
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http://vndb.org/g
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>Visual Novel Translation Status
https://warosu.org/jp/?task=search2&search_tripcode=%21%21UcDDlzwANFs&search_op=op
>Download Links:
http://pastebin.com/U7HUj0fk
Previous threads:
>>125386349
http://pastebin.com/zeiYgLrs
This general is for the sole discussion of English translated Japanese visual novels and any kind of untranslated discussion is looked down upon. If you want to talk about untranslated games please seek the specific thread on /jp/.
Kindly use spoiler tags appropriately when discussing plot spoilers to facilitate smooth discussion.
1st for Umi
1st
>>125486236
lol
Asuho is best HoshiMemo
>>125486236
rekt
>>125486105
>This general is for the sole discussion of English translated Japanese visual novels and any kind of untranslated discussion is looked down upon. If you want to talk about untranslated games please seek the specific thread on /jp/.
you bakabaka faggots won't quit.
>>125486292
Great taste senpai.
>>125486252
Why is Reiji so based? The only reason I didn't like the village stuff in the beginning is because it lacked Reiji.
>>125486236
>>125486487
because shojo arms maybe
>>125486583
Wrong board.
>>125486352
Who cares about the OP, just post whatever you want. At most some jani is going to delete your picture and even that is rather rare. I wasn't banned for posting untranslated things even once.
>>125486583
Why are you posting a VN only you can read?
>>125486684
it's the principle.
Who is your favorite girl from Koisuru natsu no last resort?
I fell in love with Riho the moment I saw her. I got seriously scared when MC suddenly announced that they broke up. I was legitimately mad. I´m glad that in the end they god married, because that´s how I actually imagined the ending. But I guess the canon route is umi´s?
>>125486220
>Umi and Nagisa are best girls
>no 3p scene with the both of them
This is fucking criminal
>>125487070
Hard question. To be honest I like them all. But I would choose Umi orYuuhiprobably at the end.
>>125487070
There is no canon route. It's just a moege with cute girls.
>>125486583
She reminds me of a girl me and my friends used to bully in highschool.
>get e-reader for the nice paper quality screen to read manga and books with
>or get tablet, do the above in addition to being able to play VNs, but with a worse screen
decisions..
>>125487070
Definitely Umi for me. After they finally confessed to each other every scene after that with her made my heart go doki doki. Especially the scenes where they're lying in bed with each other.
>>125488068
>don't get either
>stop paying for virtual 1s and 0s when you get get actual books that have value behind them
>spend remaining money on things you enjoy
>>125488286
Manga and shit is super fucking expensive though, you lose the advantage of being able to pirate
https://twitter.com/herkz2/status/676806698393165824
>get blown the fuck out
>u le mad bro?
>>125488106
Yeah she and Nagisa had really cute routes.
>>125488493
this is most herkz think I've seen
>>125488756
thing*
>>125488493
To be real though, whoever posted that is obnoxious as fuck. Fan translators can move at whatever speed they please, don't get upset about people working for free in their spare not moving fast enough to suit you.
>>125488493
>you will never be a meme master like herkz
How are you guys coping with this?
What VN's or kind of VN's you won't read no matter how good other people say they are?
I'm curious, do you have anything like that? What VN's you will never read and why?
For me, VN's like Euphoria and Saya no Uta are VN's that I will never read. Maybe their story is really something else, but their level of "messed up" is a big no-no for me
>>125488493
Which VNs have been completed to date where herkz was in charge of editing?
>>125486252
Why are you posting a VN only you can read?
>when the ending of the route perfectly transitions into an ending song
holy fuck I was not prepared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Cy9Y3mqcc
>>125489064
I'm never going to limit myself.
>>125488493
Who is it? No memes please.
>>125489060
by remembering that at least I'm not a filthy JOP
>>125488493
Annoys me when translators pretend the only alternatives are to devote every waking moment to a project or to just let it rot for years with no progress whatsoever. If you're really so busy with real life shit that you can't devote even an hour or two each week to working on this shit, then just have the decency to drop it and stop trying to pretend it's still going.
Worst ones are the translators with blogs full of "we're still alive guys, really!" posts every 6 months or so and nothing else.
>>125488493
What VNs does herkz like?
>>125489174
Yeah her route was nice. She's one of my favorites, she's so cute. Can't wait for the after story in the sequel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgp2MgD1ayk
This song playing duringthe sendoffwas out of this world good. Pretty good example of the strengths of the VN medium, something like this can't quite be recreated in a book.
>>125489492
https://vndb.org/u103513
>>125489439
Note that I'm saying this more in response to Herkz'z later post
>@dat_kyhz yeah, how dare you not devote every waking moment to editing mahoyo?
than to the Mahoyo situation. Not even really complaining about translators going slow, I just don't like it when translators go slow and then come up with bullshit like this to try to justify it. Just admit that you're not motivated to work on this shit anymore, jeez.
>>125489439
>Thinks devoting an hour or two a week will result in noticeable progress
Lol
>>125489019
>Fan translators can move at whatever speed they please
No they can't.
>>125489712
It will still be slow, but some of these guys act like they don't have time for even this much, in which case I seriously wonder why they are trying to translate something at all. Look at all those projects out there that just flat out don't move for months at a time.
>>125489639
well damn I was looking forward to subahibi but if herkz thinks its trash I won't bother
>>125489574
she's the only route i really liked from start to finish. It felt perfect in every way it could. great pacing, perfect h scenes, great ending.
The other routes either had really out of place sex scenes or terrible endings to me.
>>125489857
It would be barely moving. Let's say a translator works at a pretty fast rate. 1,000 words an hour is pretty quick for a fiction translator. Translating a 500,000 word VN, that's 500 weeks worth of activity. Or ten years worth of work. Then there's the TLC and editing process.
It takes a LOT of time.
To put it in perspective, if you translate a thousand words a week, you'll LOOK like you aren't moving for months.
>>125489620it was fascinating because of how different it was from other songs we heard until that moment
nice trick desu. tons of VN use it though
>>125489846
Don't be pedantic
>>125489060
I dream of being herkz.
who is the best composer mostly worked in VN tracks?after Alicesoft's one I mean
>>125488068
I'm on the same dilemma.
Anyone here have a tablet and can tell me if reading on it for longer periods is straining to the eyes? That's really the only thing that could bother me.
>>125490182
Seeing how herkz spends most of his time bein an autist on twitter I would dare say he has more than 1 hour daily to spend on translating. And if he comes with the I DO IT FOR FREE bullshit he can sell his translation to SP or MG.
>>125491234nicol armarfi
>>125491808
Honestly I think he's barely even translating it anymore and is just having fun with all the attention he's getting.
>>125491610
Not really. I have an old 1st gen Nexus 7 and I use that for reading. Of course it's not e-ink, but by turning down the brightness it's pretty good for reading for hours.
>>125488068
I actually prefer a traditional LCD tablet over an e-reader for manga. Though I still use my e-reader for books.
>>125491808
>>125492315
herkz isn't the one translating it is he?
>>125492713
Yeah I thought he was just an editor.
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>>125494347
Is that a fact?
>>125494347
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>>125494347
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>>125494347
It can't be helped
>>125496197
Eh? Nandatte?
>>125495906
Why are you posting a VN only you can read?
Anyone have a complete Ever17 save file they could upload?
>>125496429
How do you know it's a Japanese vn?
>>125496562
http://www.gamefaqs.com/dreamcast/563076-ever17-the-out-of-infinity/saves
>>125496601
squares like that appear when your system doesn't have moon rune fonts installed.
>>125492713
He doesn't even know Japanese, he's just an editor.
>>125496710
>go to gamefaqs
>see this http://www.gamefaqs.com/top10/2819-the-top-10-legally-available-pc-visual-novels
>>125496873
Nope, that was the cat statue making a groaning sound, not moon rune deficiencies.
>>125496710
>dreamcast
>>125496981
pretty good as newcomer recommendations desu
except edelweiss maybe
>>125497163
You didn't specify
>>125496981
>tons more text under clannad then the others
>>125496981
>JP imports are illegal
what the fuck am I reading
>>125496981
>SnU and YMK on a normie website and list
>Grisaia and G-Senjou
Shit list.
>>125496981
>no hoshimeme
>>125497513
everybody read SnU though
>>125497513
Saya no Uta is recommended all the time to general audiences. Somehow the loli is acceptable there. And plenty of people started with YMK as their first so they'll recommend it too.
>>125497394
You got me anon. Yeah if anyone has the PC ver still sitting completed, and could upload it if possible. All the links are dead.
>>125496981
>#2: The Fruit of Grisaia (PC)
>"One character isn't very smart[...]"
>>125497632
Why would you recommend the best moege to a beginner? Everything else after that would be only a disappointment.
I know I'm about to kick a hornet's nest, but I think VNs like Euphoria are a threat to the western VN community.
Japan's a very different country from the west, and IMO it's easier for some lunatic in the US to forcibly reenact some of the sadistic acts that they've developed a taste for (gun laws, etc.). Imagine what'll happen to the VN community when one lunatic does so and the media discovers Euphoria on his hard drive. It wouldn't matter if he had that taste before reading any VN-- the media would go insane. The VN community would be demonized, and believe me, it wouldn't be hard at all, considering some of the stuff out there.
I think VN localizers need to draw a line somewhere, considering the differences between western and Japanese countries and cultures, otherwise, one lunatic can make it so that everyone's afraid of having MangaGamer/JAST/etc. appear on their credit card/PayPal statements.
They might be earning some money from Euphoria, but it might come back and bite them in the ass, hard.
>>125498537
That... might actually be a somewhat valid concern,welp.
>>125497750
>>125496562
Woops nevermind fuck me I found it on some Russian site. http://squarefaction.ru/game/ever17-the-out-of-infinity/archive
http://b.1339.cf/pmgkxns.dat#save_sys
>>125498537
Thanks for your input San_Sevieria.
>>125498537
Nah
>>125498537
I think the people who actually buy things like Euphoria genuinely don't give a fuck what other people think so I disagree with you.
>>125498537
I hope we some day get Maggot Baits.
>>125498537
dude these stuff are nothing compared to legal erotica and porn
euphoria isn't more hardcore than your average german scat video + saw hostel etc
>>125498537
Then so be it. Taking such precautions just because things can happen is a slippery slope. Triggers for sick people can be found in literally everything, and I don't see why we would punish ourselves for something that hasn't even happened yet, and even then, it'd be unfortunate, but it shouldn't decide which games we do and don't get.
I don't even like Euphoria.
>>125498537
I don't know, Doom was partially blamed after Columbine and people aren't exactly buying their Call of Duties in secret shame.
Psychos will be psychos, videogames or not. There would maybe be a brief media outcry that will be quickly forgotten once the next big news story hits. Fuck the normies.
>>125498537
If anything I'd say such an event would actually lead to more sales from curious people to see what it's about. Not to mention the people bitching would never have been customers in the first place so MG would just give them the middle finger and ignore them.
Seriously though, what am I reading?
>>125500392
A pretty fun nukige. Kotone best girl by a mile.
>>125500392
There should be a name associated with the files you downloaded, check the game directory
>>125500392
If you want a good laugh go read the VNDB Boob Wars 2 GD thread.
>>125501101
>complaining about constant boob talk in a game called Boob Wars
those are the same people who complain about all the monsters in MGQ
>>125501713
Some of the art is pretty shit 2bh
>>125501713
To be fair, MGQ is about a lot more than monster girls.But yes that is a stupid complaint.
>>125499113
>>125486105
Asuho a cute.
>>125501932
Maybe so, but there's still monster girls in every scene and everything ultimately revolves about things that are connected to them.
Same with boobies in that game.
>>125502161
>>125502161
>tfw no hearing impaired gf to lean in close every time we talk
>>125487070
Umi hands down. She was so adorable from start to finish. Also helped that the starting scenario of how the two met is one of my fantasy scenarios.
>>125502570
Umi meme is still alive? Damn. I thought Ikkikoi meme would die after still.
>>125497632
>legally available
>>125502570
>>125503019
I don't understand this meme. Koirizo and Umi aren't even ironically good.
>>125503019
I loved her before the meme so fuck you budday
>>125503193
>>125503019
how it's a meme? she's cute, that's all.
>>125503193
Koirizo is sub-par even for moege standards. Umi was just a literal shit only masochists would enjoy.
>>125503345
>looks nice = good person
/vng/ logic
>>125502161
post more asuho.
I have a folder full of pictures of my favorite girls from each vn I have played, but haven't gotten around to saving any hoshimeme ones.
>>125503471
Go play the game then, or replay it.
>>125504083
>dem file names
but why
>>125504130
why not? I know exactly whats in each folder.
i already uninstalled it
>>125504130
What's wrong with that? I got thousands and still more or less recognize them easily.
>>125504578
It looks like he just spams numbers instead of making any degree of organization like "asuho1 asuho2 asuho3", I mean obviously either way works but c'mon
>>125504287
>uninstalling VNs you enjoyed
>>125504850
I download images from tumblr and rename them with random 4chan filenames
>>125504850
True, I divide mine in hundreds of folders such as character name.
>>125505334cheeky fucker
Is FSN the greatest VN of all time?
>>125505139
>uninstall VN
>months later get the urge to fap to one of the h scenes
>reinstall game and skip through everything to unlock it
>still takes over an hour
>>125503385
>Umi was just a literal shit only masochists would enjoy.
Nigga u wot?
she was maximum cute
>>125505579
Yes, always and forever. Even before it was written it was already the best VN of all time, we just didn't know it yet.
>>125505746
You've discovered that you're a masochist, anon. Congratulations.
>>125505835
How was Umi masochistic or related to it?
Do you hate cute and adorable things?
141st for Eika is best Ikikoi.
>>125505981
I do
>>125503193
>>125503385
>retards with bad opinions
>>125504130
how do you name your shit, especially reaction folder material?
>>125506152
I have reaction images in good, neutral, and bad folders. As for screenshots, I organize them by date taken.
>>125506119
No need to fling names. Koirizo was average at everything but Umi made that title worth every moment for me. Cake was nice too.
>>125506370
Yeah, it was average, I don't like people treating average like it's some damning criticism though. If you like moege, then an average moege is a pleasant experience that you should be happy you were able to enjoy.
>>125505981
>Tsuntsun is cute
Sorry anon I don't have shit taste.
>>125506297
yeah i just use ShareX and then go trough the whole folder of the taken material renaming images by mashing my numpad at random. Been doing this for years now.
>>125506547
>umi
>tsundere
>>125506547
>not liking TsunUmi is still boring though. Probably.
>>125506769
Okay, I was being nice. She's just an asshole, then. How's that. No ambiguity.
Which one of you faggots is this
>>125506526
This guy gets it. I play Moege for cute girls doing cute things, and Koirizo certainly has that, and then some.
>>125506547
>Umi is a tsuntsun
I don't think you understand Tsun anon.
>>125506945
Umi is a common Japanese name dude
>>125506945
A faggot playing a dead game that has been ruined and not improving at all.
>>125506956
>>125506921
>people not knowing what tsun and tsuntsun is
>>125506940
WAT? Its clear she loves the protag from 5 min into the title. How is she an asshole?
Are we talking about the same character here?
>>125507134
>If you like someone you can't possibly be rude/mean/distasteful to them
Umifag logic. Are you also Yanderefags?
>>125507109
as tsun who stays a tsun instead of becoming a dere?
Has anyone in the entire history of VNs ever used auto mode?
Posting best Umi.
>>125507329
That guy on reddit who watches VNs on his treadmill. What a waste of time. Inefficient reading and exercise.
>>125507292
Where was she rude/mean/distasteful?
>>125507329
I did for Majikoi because that game was XBOXHUEG and I was reading it from my bed.
>>125507329
I use it all the time.
Especially when eating and/or for H-Scenes
>>125507458
Why the fuck do you know this?
>>125507581
It was posted in here at least two times. You been living under a rock, anon?
>>125507403
Shes cute too so ill allow it.
>>125507581
Was posted here as a meme. Stay focused, memester.
>>125507458
why not just watch anime while exercising like normal people?
Anyone know the best place to download Maji de Watashi ni Koishinasai? Tried getting it from nicoblog but daemontools can't mount that for some reason
>>125507329
Yeah, I use them in H-scenes when I want to hear the full voices, or when I'm eating.
>>125507458
Funny, that's actually me who posted that image. And I use a wireless mouse in my hand.
>>125507329
when eating
>>125507864
Anyone can post the image. Or are you implying you're that person? Doesn't surprise me at this point. This place is reddit now.
>>125507809
Ignore me, found it.
fucking LOVED that series
>>125507458
What's so inefficient about it anyway? I'm too lazy to do full exercising, so I spend an hour or two on the treadmill walking while reading something. Better than nothing.
>>125507985
Nah, I posted the pic here and then someone posted it on Reddit while pretending to be the person who took the photo, for whatever reason.
Hello Reddit
There are JOP and redditors in here RIGHT NOW.
>>125508270
Absolutely disgusting
>>125508336
Post more VNs only you can read
>>125508421
No thanks, don't want to derail the the current visual novel discussion. Quality of posts is important
>>125508421
uhh why is there no download link on this page?
http://sukebei.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=68139
The Download button just downloads some tiny file
>>125509340
Works for me, try renaming it to .torrent or adding the URL directly in your client
>>125509340
If you are too retarded to work a torrent file kill yourself now
>>125509340
>>125509437
...Oh.
Yeah I'mma have to youtube that
>>125509340
>>125509561
Omg, step 1 download torrent client and install step 2 double click your torrent step 3 download the fucking game.
>>125509561
>>125509561
>>125509696
>protagonist's dick size keeps changing between CGs
why is this allowed?
>>125509340
>>125509696
Oh i thought a torrent was a fancy name for an illegal game download. Didn't know so much was involved, thanks.
>>125509561
How did you even get here?
>>125509561
>I'mma have to youtube that
>>125509835
.....
>>125509835
>>125509797
Some heroines aren't that hot maybe
>>125509835
>>125509835
>>125509849
You have to start somewhere like, there's a first time for everything
>>125509835
>>125509561
>>125509561
>>125509835
What a stud
Okay got utorrent and it seems to be working now, thanks guys.
Can't wait, Samurai Girls was a brilliant series.
>>125509561
>>125510547
>utorrent
>>125510547
don't forget to click the ads if you want to support the devs :^)
>>125510547
>watching ads to pirate software
>>125510547
utorrent is trash get qbittorrent or something
Stop replying to this bait.
This game is funnier than it has any right to be
good translation, too
>>125510918
>no fun allowed
>all EOPs, /jp/-rejects and redditors united against a bait
epic
>>125510994
>Pretending to be a retard is fun
Don't know what's worse
>>125510967
is that some squirtle charizard ripoff?
>>125510918
Funnier than anything posted in many threads
>>125511092
Being a grump
Fuck this, after all this work the info link that supposedly had the english patch
http://sukebei.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=68139
is broken. All this was a waste of time, can't speak jap
>>125510918
When's the last time we settled something once and for all?
>>125511039
We did it Reddit!
>>125511710
i think it was a few days ago when we proved 2/3 of /vn/'s first visual novel was katawa shoujo
>>125511710
>late at night
>ass vs tits poll
>all ass
also pic related
>>125511827
That's about what I'd expect, seeing asit was my first vn too
>>125511827
Was mine anyways, didn't need a fucking dumb torrent or have to change system locale for it
>>125511827
I'm sure it was 1/3
>>125512004
That's amazing. It proves for once and for all that /vn/ has great taste
>>125511827
We also all agreed KS can be posted here
>>125511827
>>125512072
I remember it being 1/3 also. Even that is still a pretty big group considering the amount of vns that a person could start with.
>>125512072
maybe so.
i just remember two entire threads were full of shitposting because one autist went SSJ when someone mentioned katawa shoujo being a popular gateway vn.
>>125511827
Is that a surprise? I would think the only other competitor is Clannad or maybe something like Huniepop.
>>125511827
>>125512072
>>125512195
It looks like there's some dispute.
Let's settle this once and for all
http://strawpoll.me/6279739
>>125512240
>when someone mentioned katawa shoujo being a popular gateway vn.that was me.I'm so sorry, I didn't ask for that.
>>125509340
Is this b8? If so consider it a good one.
>>125512397
we aren't nearly as active right now as then. Those couple of threads had 90+ unique posters
I don't even know what my first VN was
I've been playing h games since forever and at some point made the transition with some hybrid games, don't really know when
>>125509340
>>125509561
>>125509835
This has to be fucking bait
>>125511391
It's not very hard to find another copy of the English patch. There's even prepatched versions on mofumoe
>>125512797
I remember playing True Love as a young teenager, dunno if that was my first one though.
there were some shitty oelvns with lifted art in newgrounds
mine was one of them
I didn't even know visual novels existed before this entire website exploded with the release of KS.
KS was released almost 4 years ago
I don't think people should get mad at people who got started from it
how do you guys balance your VN life with your /vn/ life?
>>125513116
That's because they didn't.
>>125513367
Dual monitors
>>125513367
vn on one screen, /vn/ on the other. Shitpost /vn/ between scenes
>>125513367
I'm shitposting here to recuperate between h scenes 2bh
>>125513367
I get way too distracted and end up not reading anything all day. Maybe I should just close these tabs and concentrate on the VN
>>125509561
This is what we get (redditors) when we are spineless. Welcoming all and "le ironic meme-posting" 24/7.
>>125513703
This happens to me constantly. I get started/continue with a VN and I quickly get distracted and dont make any progress for a couple hours.
What makes Clannad so good?
Even the nips kind of like KS. Kind of a slightly below average compared to the other hundreds of average moege released a year. 78 median, 23 ratings
>>125510819
Older uTorrents are fine.
>>125513973
Tomoyo
