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I could upload them for you OP but you will have to wait a bit.

>>10650396
I can wait.

I would be very grateful if you can upload them.

>>10650384
There isn't a translation patch, though. Mangagamer's translation sucks.

>>10650387
Fuck you.

>>10650384
Does Satoko have those days? I don't think so.

She isn't as flat as Rika, but that doesn't mean anything.

>>10650459
>There isn't a translation patch, though.

That sucks.
Well I can read french, so there's that solution for me.

Can anyone confirm if the french version is decently translated?

I could always buy those.

>>10650465
Satoko is an early bloomer.

>>10650500
As far as I know, the french version is pretty good and lots of love were put into it. The translator took some liberties to make it sound more natural, though. If your french is flawless, you should try that version and see if it's as good as they say.

The Mangagamer version is passable.

About the patches... I think the voices are annoying. They make everything even slower than it was originally. Some scenes are meant to be read quickly, which is impossible if you are using the voice patch.

Also, you should look for the SOUND patch too. It replaces Mangagamer's repetitive sounds, annoying cicadas, etc (I'm not sure if this happens in the french version) with the original ones.

>>10650500
>Satoko is an early bloomer
She doesn't grow breasts until 1983. And even then, they are only buds.

>>10650581
How old Satoko again?

My sister is 10 and I can already see the buds.

>>10650576
Thanks a lot.

I think I'll go order it from France.
Do you know if the Sound patch would work on the french version or if the French has the same annoying repetitive sound.

And do you know what the Music patch changes?

Is that suppose to be Tanako?

I fucking hate you guys by the way for what you did by the way.

>>10650666
>How old is Satoko again
She is around 11 years old.

>My sister is 10 and I can already see the buds
Your sister isn't a Japanese girl born in the 70's who lives in a village. Children were different back then, especially in Asia.

If Ryukishi's sprites mean anything, Satoko is an early bloomer. If they don't mean shit, Satoko is as flat as a board.

>>10650666
>Do you know if the Sound patch would work on the french version
Probably not. It was made for the Mangagamer version, I guess.

>or if the French has the same annoying repetitive sound
I compared this video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9EDpvgvSYA

with this one:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcPhS7SjL4U

The cicada sounds are different (the french version has the good one), but I'm not sure about the other sounds.

I'm not sure about the music either. You should find videos of the beggining of Onikakushi-hen in French (while Keiichi meets Rena and Mion in his way to school, for example) and compare it with the same scene in the English version.

If the music is the same horrible shit in both of them, that would be bad. I'm not sure if music and sound patches for the French version exist. I haven't really looked for them, though.

Good luck.

Rika and Satoko are 11.

Shmion is 17.

K1 is 16 and Rena is almost 16.

Irie is "young for a doctor" and Takano is... 34?

>>10650822
>Rika and Satoko are 11.
Mentally, yes. Physically, Rika is just like a 9 years old western girl and Satoko is just like a 10-11 years old western girl. Rika isn't underdeveloped, Satoko is the weird one.

>Takano is 34
I see what you did there. She is probably younger, though.

>>10650747
>>10650884
Why do western children hit puberty so early?

>>10650747
There was the implication of Satoko already having her period oon some episode, so she's an early bloomer.

>>10650931
It wasn't an implication, it was a just a joke.

>>10650788
Okay, I see.

Yeah the smashing sound is clearly better and so are the sound of the higurashi.

Getting the french version is obviously the best option.

Thanks a lot.

>>10651276
Fuck.

It seems that I cannot import the french version of Higurashi to Canada.

Does anyone know another place other than amazon.fr that sells ''les sanglots des cygales''?

I would be eternally grateful.
I'm trying to find an alternative website that sells it but I'm coming up empty handed.

>>10650788
Why did they even change the original sounds? It's not like they were gonna have copyright problems for using a generic smashing sound.

>>10650886
Because of chemicals and shit.

>>10651305
>It seems that I cannot import the french version of Higurashi to Canada.
There's no middlemen services in France?

>>10651331
That is American kids for you.

>>10651305
Can anyone help me out?

>>10651331
>>10650886
No, it's protein and vitamins. Basically, your body needs nutrients to enter puberty, and if you have access to enough, it will go into it earlier.

As with most things, you body doesn't ask for permission first.

>>10651444
I heard meat is the worst thing you can eat if you don't want to hit puberty.

Japanese kids don't eat meat too often, that's why they last 1-2 more years.

I guess Satoko loved meat. I'd give her my meaty cock.

There was a full voice patch? I thought that was just for the demo

>>10650384
http://ryukishi07.tumblr.com/post/11756273408/download-higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni-vn-arcs-1-4-fully
http://setosnicegirl.tumblr.com/post/15115256424/download-higurashi-kai-sound-novel-arcs-5-8-fully
http://ryukishi07.tumblr.com/post/14782824499/download-higurashi-sound-novel-minigames

As far as I know there is no full patch for voices nor a partial one for the full releases

A bit off-topic, but did you know Higurashi Outbreak is getting an anime adaption?

http://youtu.be/mtF03gcgFyk

I'm really excited about this!

>>10652942
>Outbreak
What?

>>10654412
Keiichi and Rena being the best couple and fending off a hinamizawa syndrome outbreak for a movie.

>>10650500
>Can anyone confirm if the french version is decently translated?

Pretty much, yeah. Very well translated. It was done by a French Japanese teacher who loved the series and wanted to do something about it.

>>10654510
>a French Japanese teacher who loved the series
Really? I'm so happy right now.

>>10654424
>>10652942
Fanfiction by Takano. It can't possibly happen in canon. Also, DEEN.

>>10655029
>It can't possibly happen in canon.
Wrong, it IS a part of original canon, written by Ryukishi07.

>>10659096
You are wrong. The Hinamizawa Syndrome doesn't work like that in the original canon.

It's written by Ryukishi, but it can't actually happen in the Higurashi universe.

>>10659634
Oh, you know the canon better than the writer himself. Sorry to bother you, then.

There could be something going on behind the scenes, something the viewers aren't even supposed to know. I don't hold high hopes for the anime elaborating anything, but at least I want less of a cliffhanger ending.

>>10650884
More like, Rika is mentally over a century old.

>>10659657
>Oh, you know the canon better than the writer himself
No, I'm just saying that this movie doesn't fit at all in the original canon. The fucking author said it.

>Higurashi
>viewers

>>10659676
That's not Rika.

I though /jp/ loved the original Rika, not some old multidimensional traveler freak.

>>10661911
How could people love a character that never appears? The only Rika that ever appears in Higurashi is the 100 year-old self-proclaimed witch that names herself Bernkastel.

>>10661992
We know enough about Rika to consider her a lovable little girl. Plus, the multidimensional freak plays Rika's role pretty well.

>>10662190
Don't call her a freak. She's a good girl.

Here's Hanyuu's description of the original Rika by the way: "Other than having a poor relationship with her mother, Rika was a pretty normal young girl back then. Her personality was just like Satoko's; an energetic young girl who loved running about the wild mountains and pulling pranks."

So her original personality presumably was different from the moe persona she adopts in front of others if it was like that of Satoko.

>>10652923
>Split Archive Blocked
Jews at Mediafire. Is there any other place to download those *.part1.rar files (strangely enough, all other parts are downloadable)?
Nyaa has a seemingly suitable torrent, but it's sooooooooo sloooooooow...

>>10655029
>Really? I'm so happy right now.

Pbsaffran. I met him once or twice. Pretty cool guy, and one of us. He gave me the vibes of /jp/, but in a good way: integrated in society but doing what he loves, and what he loves is Japanese stuff.

Some students gave him a copy of the first Higurashi when it came out, and he fell in love with the series. He did the translation afterwards, something that took him several years, and that's only at the end that he thought about selling it.

He did it for the beauty of it, and did it so masterfully it was licensed. He's kind of a hero. I wish there was more selfless competent translators out there.

>>10667749
>vibes of /jp/, but in a good way
>integrated in society

fuck you

>>10651305
Ask the guy. He said he does worldwide privately, but not through Amazon.

>>10650822
Tecnhically, Satoko is 10 and turns 11 a few days after the festival.
Rika is already 11 and would turn 12 in August 1983. She's underdevelopped because of stuffs that would spoil the storyline.
Mion and Keiichi are both 14, Rena is 13. (yeah, I know...)

>>10654510
Isn't he a professional translator? Some people were asking him to sign their copies of some Pokémon game when Ryûkishi07 came for the last release.

>>10673486
>She's underdevelopped because of stuffs that would spoil the storyline.
I read the first 8 novels and somehow I don't recall it saying she was underdeveloped or giving a reason why she might be...

>Mion and Keiichi are both 14, Rena is 13.
Pretty sure this is wrong.

>>10674423
>>10674423
1st game, chapter 1: Mion has to prepare for exams but doesn't want to get into any good highschool anyway -> she's in 3rd grade of junior high. By japanese law, that means she's either 14 or 15.
Hints at the end of that chapter:
_Keiichi is one class below Mion -> 2nd year of junior high (either 13 or 14)
_Keiichi and Rena are in the same grade
_Keiichi already got his birthday in April and is older than Rena
_Keiichi has the same age as Mion but she will be ahead of him soon enough.
Keiichi and Mion have to be 14 to meet these conditions, which means Rena must be 13.
If we assume Ryûkishi07 got it somehow wrong, then these 3 characters are all 3 years older.
It's highly unlikely, though - classes seem relatively easygoing, they're only complaining about the english vocabulary list which are kind of a novelty in junior high but quite laughable compared to classical japanese or maths in high school.

As for Rika being underdeveloped, her mother says something to that extent in the last game, during the puzzle chapter. There's also a scene where the girls talk about "days marked in red on the calendar" (I think Satoko too?) and Rika mentions that her calenders don't sport these kind of days yet.

>>10675719
>1st game, chapter 1: Mion has to prepare for exams but doesn't want to get into any good highschool anyway
But she says in the very last episode she has to start preparing for university and leaving K1/Rena on their own, which hints she's about 17.

>>10667749
>vibes of /jp/, but in a good way
hahaha oh wow

I actually had a question about this myself.

Is there an easy way to make sure I've applied the music patch correctly? Like a song early on in the game that wouldn't be there without it or something like that?

What about with the sound effects patch and the translation fix patch?

>>10675810
I mean, I just need to extract all the files into the root directory and it should work right?

>>10675918
Actually nevermind, I just played the first couple minutes without and with the patch one after the other and it's immediately noticeable goddamn.

Good job, Mangagamer.

>>10675736
Wiki jp says born on feb 11 1966 in the PS2 version, but also mentions that in Taraimawashi (which is precisely on PS2) Keiichi clearly says he's in junior high.
I guess they aged the characters on PS2 to make it a tiny bit more realistic, or to avoid problems with the general audience.

i love the OST. so good

>>10667749
Thank you for sharing these curious details. It is especially interesting since France generally does not seem to have a strong "otaku" following.

>>10679377
>France generally does not seem to have a strong "otaku" following.

Really? I thought France had the greatest anime and otaku market in Europe.

Where is the music stored in Higurashi? I can't find any files to replace with the new ones.

>>10679414
This is only my personal experience, but I've seen much more people from UK, Germany or Norway/Sweden posting on /jp/ and other relevant sites. The only topic where I've seen numerous French-speaking posters was rap. I apologize if you find this post offensive or clueless, I did not mean it to be this way.

>>10650384

>>10679492
what about finland? they have a strong weeaboo reputation, with their japanese embassy tweeting about strike witches etc

>>10679492

>but I've seen much more people from UK, Germany or Norway/Sweden posting on /jp/ and other relevant sites.

You don't misure the otaku culture following with stuff like this.

French people in general don't use english forums, they prefer French forums.

>>10682046
Did the Finnish translate Higurashi? How is your post related to the thread? Also, giving comments on a somehow controversial popular art piece through the official channel is a sign of ineptitude and nothing more.

>>10682046
Did the Finnish translate Higurashi? How is your post related to the thread? Also, giving comments on a somehow controversial popular art piece through the official channel is a sign of ineptitude and nothing more.
I love the Finnish as much as everyone else, but your post is downright inappropriate in this thread.

>>10682046
Did the Finnish translate Higurashi? How is your post related to the thread? Also, giving comments on a somehow controversial popular art piece through the official channel is a sign of ineptitude and nothing more.
I love the Finnish "otaku" as much as any other country's "otaku", but your post is downright inappropriate in this thread.

>>10682079
>>10682090
>>10682091
Yes, they have translated Higurashi to finnish.
Relax, few offtopic posts won't kill the thread.

(I hope you are done reformatting your post with 3 tries, sorry if not.)

>>10682071
What would be the French-speaking analogue of /jp/, then?

>>10682097
>a sign of ineptitude
And that's exactly why I said strong WEEABOO reputation.

>>10682097
I did not see it being mentioned on the VNDB. But since your post did not mention Higurashi, it is still offtopic.
> (I hope you are done reformatting your post with 3 tries, sorry if not.)
I'm finished, I was adding the disclamer so you dummy would not be offended, and this is what I get in return.

>>10682109
Considering the strong weeaboo aspect, I think the higurashi translation I've heard about is probably for anime rather than VN.

Why are you so offensive? Take it easy.
I was being polite, I wasn't sure if you were done editing your post or not.

>>10682129
> Why are you so offensive? Take it easy. I was being polite.
Then I apologize, because I thought you mentioned that as an insult. ♡

>>10682141
I was just trying to be considerate. ♥