/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>I/O - 183/249 scripts and 140/256 tips translated. Route A/A'/C/D/D' translation complete
>Ikikoi - 24452/31028 (78.80%) lines translated 17678/31028 (56.97%) lines edited.
Irotoridori no Sekai - 43,365/51,100 (84.86%) lines translated, full common route, Kana, Tsukasa, and Kyou route translated, prologue patch released
Kamikaze Explorer - Common route 100% translated, 50% edited
Killer Queen: New translation started from scratch, 18/72 scripts translated and 18/72 scripts edited
Koichoco- 71/404 files translated
Kono Mama ja, Ane to SEX Shite Shimau - 14.4%
Kourin no Machi - translation started
Kud Wafter - 9299/33132 (28.07%) lines translated
Kurukuru Fanatic - 19.04% translated
Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content, now a joint project with Doki. Sasami/Kanata routes fully translated
Majikoi- Yukie + Chris + Momoyo + Wanko + teacher route patch released, Miyako route 85% translated
Majikoi A- Sayaka patch released, Azumi 5% translated
Majikoi S- Monshiro, Margit, Kokoro, and Tsubame routes patch out, Momoyo 44% translated, 44% edited
>Mahoutsukai no Yoru - 444.54/1221.30 (36.40%) kb translated
Maman Kyoushitsu - Saera Kanzaki and Honoka Mizushima routes patch released
Mashiro Iro Symphony - Common route 15.71% Translated
Mirai no Uta to Tsunagaru Hitomi - 50% partial patch released. 75% done, estimated release in May
Muv-Luv Altered Fable - partial patch released
Natsuyume Nagisa - 2584/38142 (6.77%) lines translated. 2584/38142 (6.77%) lines edited
Nursery Rhyme - 12348/34410 (35.88%) translated
>Oreimo PSP - Youtube based project, part 106 out. Kuroneko Route Patch released
>PersonA - 29% translated
>Princess Maker 5- 82% translated

>Pure Pure- 96.45% translated, 77.26% edited
Rance 4 - 18% translated
Rance 6 - 51% Complete
Real Imouto - 7234/16108 (44.90%) translated
>Romanesque - With the C&D, stalled until atleast after Seinarukana
Rose Guns Days 2 - 25% translated
>Sayonara wo Oshiete - 1959/14309 (13.7%) lines translated
Se-kirara - Being translated
>Seifuku no Ojisama - 3/720 scripts translated
Shinigami no Kiss wa Wakare no Aji - Fully translated, 2 routes of editing and technical problems remain
Shuukaku no Juunigatsu winter - ~40% translated
>SubaHibi - Down the Rabbit Hole I patch released, 39042/53562 (72.9%) lines translated and 38734/53562 (72.3%) lines edited
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 9- 10/18 scripts translated
Sumaga Special - KBs done: [1363.93kb/8131.54kb] (16.77%)
Tenshin Ranman - Prologue patch released, 1007.4/4560 (22.09%) translated
To Heart2- 65% translated- "The final product is still years away unless I get more help. ", new alpha patch released
White Album 2 - Overall: 5087/70253 (7.24%) lines translated, Introductory Chapter: 5087/10769 (47.23%) lines translated
Yandere - Partial patch of Maika’s route and the common route released
Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 54% edited
>Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 19.76%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 45.71%, Motoka 22.87%
Your Diary- Prologue patch released, common route ~70% translated, 11/19 scripts translated for Yua's route

Rance Translations secret project - 82% complete

Official work

MangaGamer
Orion Heart - May 24th release
Harukoi Otome - Applying fixes, waiting on programmer from Nexton
Eroge - In Beta
Chou Dengeki Stryker - Summer release planned
Ef: The Latter Tale - First beta build back from Minori
Bukkake Ranch: In scripting
Todoroke Seiki no Daihatsumei - In Beta
Softhouse Seal Title 1 - In scripting
Softhouse Seal Title 2 - 10% translated
>Secret title - 40% translated
>Secret all ages title - Translation finished, in scripting
Secret title 3 - 2% translated
Touma Kojirou no Tantei File - matches year end hint
Kougyaku no Kishi Miles - matches year end hint
Imouto Paradise - matches year end hint
Innocent Grey titles talks on hold through Feb.
Talking with new company for story based stuff

JAST
>Saya no Uta - released
Yumina the Ethereal - Polishing and debugging. Expected this summer.
Hanachirasu - 99% complete
Django - Couple more months of translation
Sumaga- 87.03% complete, going through retranslation
Seinarukana- Being translated by Aroduc
Starless - In translation
Trample on Schatten- In translation
Muramasa - Common route complete, 2 of 5 chapters towards true end translated, uncertain what will come from the project
Steins;Gate - "Super Secret, special summer announcement soon" Jast may pick up the project

Other
Liar Soft would like to bring Steampunk titles over
The Night of Kamaitachi - release planned
World End Economica - Chapter 1 release planned at Fancy Frontier
Sweet Fuse - Being translated by Aksys
>Konosora - All ages released planned for June by Moenovel
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread
A tracker for these threads put together by Tinfoil: http://vntls.tindabox.net/

Thanks as always, VNTS-fellow.

>Sayonara wo Oshiete - 1959/14309 (13.7%) lines translated

Now there's a surprise. Who's doing it?

Enjoy your mustard.

>>10873946
Kirby just can't have enough projects.

>>10873960

Don't worry, he's not translating all of it himself. The other translator has done the majority of the work so far.

>>10873902
>>12Riven- 15.5/72 scripts translated
oh shit this is gonna fly now that summer is coming, I/0 too.

>>10873968
do note that the other translator is the one who is supposed to be translating Motoka's route in YnS and aoiro rinne

There's a dedicated thread for Konosora and Moenovel, in case people are interested: >>10866372
(Ignore the first couple posts, it's just /jp/ being /jp/.)

>>10874083
It must be noted that the translator working on 12Riven already did his part of I/O, and 12Riven's progress will eventually stall until I/O is finished at the rate this is going. Makes me wonder why they don't just reassign some I/O scripts to the other translator, but eh, how they decide to translate isn't really my business.

Please get out if you do not know Japanese.

>>10874116

Like I give a shit about those games.

>>10874137
fuck you ;_;

Anyone know anything about the supposed Bishoujo Mangekyou translation? There was talk about it on /a/, but I haven't heard much since then.

Assuming that the supposed project was just a empty talk, how hard would it be to extract the scripts from the game?

>>10874183
Yeah if someone were to extract the scripts, it doesn't exactly seem that hard to translate.

>>10874137
But Infinity is too cute for you not to care...

What about VNDS ports? Any news on those?

>>10873908
>Sayonara wo Oshiete - 1959/14309 (13.7%) lines translated

My dream has come true.

>>10874195
I cant wait for this game (Aoiro Rinne),12 riven and I/0. this summer will be amazing if all these games with actual story come out. Aoiro Rinne looks really interesting though and the mc sounds cool, whats she saying?

>>10874116
he should be focusing all on Aoiro Rinne, fuck that other shit.

>>10874195
Is that the mcs room? looks like a /jp/ers room. doesn't he try to kill himself?

>>10874201
Delusion springs eternal.

>/jp/

>>10874201
The mc really isn't very cool, but it's still pretty good.

And she's saying something along the lines of "Well then, can you at least stop thinking lewd things..."

>>10874211
it is his room and it starts out with him about to jump off a building

>Seifuku no Ojisama
Can't find any info on this. Does anyone has anything?

>>10874238

It's on TLWiki, if that's what you mean.

>>10874218
I think mcs like taku from chaos head are amazing and rare, i might really like him if hes depressed and has depressing views on life.hes sounds pretty realistic, someone i can relate too.

>>10874269
go bother cafe to make him translate more and find a person to hack it and you can find out

>>10874218
So what is she anyway? or would that give away the plot?

>>10874266
edgemeister kitaaaaa

>>10874238
Oh it's just some shitty android game. No wonder I couldn't find it on VNDB

>>10874201
Go hack it so the translator will be motivated to do something

>>10874305
They are having problems hacking it or something, why?

>>Saya no Uta - released

waiting warmly for the CG pack.

>>10874320
It's the kara no shoujo engine. Back when that game was being translated, they never were able to completely reverse engineer it and ended up using some sort of work around. Supposedly dfg was able to insert text for it, but he's been too busy with real life stuff to actually work on it.

Of course, I could be completely wrong about this except for the fact that the people who worked with that engine before don't want want to work on it again.

>Romanesque stalled
Fuck this gay earth

>>10874201
Those are more likely to come out by next summer at their rate.

>>10874875
If then. Don't forget that their last project, Never7, went through 11 months of checking after the translation was 'finished.'

Pure Pure green yet again? Wow, they might actually finish it at this rate.

>>10875180
Don't jinx it, anon. Remembered what happened last time?

Are there people who only play translated VNs? How do you survive waiting for translations, and what do you do while waiting?

>>10875257
it helps that reading VNs is a side hobby.

something fairly low on the to-do list.

it also helps to only visit the VNTS threads every other month, that way releases are more of a pleasant surprise than a slow chugg.

>>10875257
It's not so bad when you aren't a NEET. There wouldn't be enough hours in the day now for me to even catch up with the translated releases.

>>10875257
you eventually just read all the interesting ones and then do something else

>>10875257
You need other hobbies.

>>10875257
I do. Before, I learned Japanese for 4 years and was actually reading untranslated ones, or well, trying, because slow as fuck. But it's too much work for my-now-busy-self.

Nowadays I browse /jp/ from times to times, just to see how it goes. And actually, as I'm only reading VNs during holidays, I feel like there are way too many things to read.
The sad thing is that Muramasa, Baldr Sky etc are still not out.
Whereas Baldr Sky can be read, slowly, in Japanese (but not enough time to enjoy it). I wouldn't even bother with Muramasa and the like. Way too hard.

Still waiting on Sumaga, five years strong...

>>10875408
In half the time I've gotten to the point where reading simpler untranslated VNs is bearably slow.

Who's the hero translating Sayonara.
Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for Irotoridori, which is lost in action I guess (is the reason of this stop known at least?)

>>10875671
according to his tweet in the past month, he want to revise the old script (or whatever it was) before continuing the rest of the route

>>10874323

I don't suppose anyone's translating Robotics;Notes or the new spin-off Steins;Gate game?

>>10875680
So many translators are doing that these days. Maybe they should make sure they actually know Japanese before they start translating something.

>>10875680
Well okay, but isn't it stalled for, like, 6 months at least?

>>10875763
isn't that the same case as baldr sky? but his (supposed) friends said at vndb that he's still translating, just not updating the status or whatsoever.

>>10874266
9edgy12me.

Takumi was a retarded MC. Typical Nitro+ shit.

>>10875817
1) Chaos Head isn't Nitro+
2) Takumi isn't a typical Nitro+ MC either

>>10876010

C;H and Chaos;Head Love Chu Chu! are 5pb./Nitro+ games.

>>10876022
Not him, but they're developed by 5pb.. Nitro+ only published them. The 'typical Nitro+ MC' is complete nonsense; Takumi is pretty much the opposite of the over-the-top badass protagonists Nitro+ usually has.

>>10876022
In the same sense that Tomb Raider is a Square-Enix game, yeah

>>10876022
We've done this for god knows how many years already. Nitroplus' involvement in the SciAdv series is minimal.

>>10875750
How many PS3/360 games get translations, or even hacking tools for that matter?

>>10874130
Judging by which routes have been translated, it looks like they split up the scripts by protagonist.

They probably want to keep a consistent "this protagonist is translated by this translator" setup.

Actually a smart move to have multiple translators for multiple perspectives, I think.

>>10874206
No kidding. That's awesome news.

>>10874345
I can't believe he was retarded enough to put it on Kickstarter. That's just asking for a takedown, and to be honest, with this amount of blatant hubris on display I feel like he deserved it.

>>10876258
It was a test to see how the world would react.

>>Saya no Uta - released

lol finally

when was tinfoil's announcement here, like 2009?

>>10876227

Well, as one of the hackers for Amagami, a PSP and PS2 game, let me give you and some others an on insight on what I think. Sorry if it seems like blogpost but might as well put some insightful stuff in this thread instead of the usual shitposting here.

Console game hackers are far and few in comparison to PC game hackers. But even then, there are reasons why it won't be done for a while.
Each of the reasons listed will be in the order of biggest barrier of translation to a game to least.

The biggest problem isn't ever really whether you can hack the game or not. For one, the biggest for console games is if whether you can play the hacked game once translated on its platform to see if it even merits hacking it at all. To my knowledge, you can now at this point for PS3 and 360 games.

For Amagami, the amount of testing we need to do each time to make sure stuff happened the way we wanted it to, like adjusting the text position because text doesn't fit, or changing the graphical interface requires immense retesting and trial and error to get right.Without an emulator, you can not save time on testing and it becomes a pain each time to test only a tiny change.

(cont.)

>>10876290

The last really "big" additional barrier to console games getting translations is the lack of debugging available in the respective game or being able to stop and change certain aspects of the game's running memory to know where to edit the game to translate it. I was able to overcome this somewhat due to the nature of my game, although there is one problem that can't be solved easily at the moment, but for most console games, this isn't easy and an emulator needs to have this kind of debugging built in. For the PS1 era, there is/was an emulator for the PS1 that could do that, which is why there are occasional PS1 games translated.

For the PS2, per say, PCSX2 had a debugger that was basic that almost did nothing, and they removed it shortly after implementing it in. This is why in comparison to the PS1, there have been only around 7 PS2 games to my knowledge that have received translations. It becomes immensely more difficult to try and figure out how the game works without a good debugger and most programmers don't have the time or skill to read through several megabytes of assembly to figure out what a game does.

If a hacker can overcome these basic 3 barriers, then it really becomes like any other game waiting to be translated on PC as on the console. Whether it can or can't be translated then depends on the hacker then.

>>10876272
A "test" with a completely foregone conclusion.

We're all aware of the dubious legality of this whole business, but an open move to make a profit from it is like spitting in the creators' faces.

>>10873904
>Majikoi- Yukie + Chris + Momoyo + Wanko + teacher route patch released, Miyako route 85% translated

This is really convenient because by the time Miyako's route is done, the other games in the series will be translated, which means I'll be able to marathon them! Even better, I heard they were getting someone named Message to make the new installer for the patch, and they say he has years of experience.

>>10876300
>>10876300
It's not like he was going to make people pay for the patch itself, or he hadn't contacted anyone before doing that shit, or, like, that TL patches directly imply piracy on the high seas; in fact it's not like glorious nippon companies ever considering selling their shit overseas in the first place. But, well, whatever.

>>10876342
(*consider)

>>10876342
>in fact it's not like glorious nippon companies ever considering selling their shit overseas in the first place.
>>10873913

>>Romanesque - With the C&D, stalled until atleast after Seinarukana
Aroduc you fucking dumbass. What were you expecting when you told the company you were translating their game?

>>10876342
I'd call you a moron, but plenty of piracy services do make money through premium accounts and donations and whatever, because they're for the "service" and not the "content" (which is what everyone really wants).

Hell, Danbooru is raking in dough from hundreds of gigabytes of content taken from artists without their permission or any remuneration. I don't see why the companies aren't going after them instead of one hobbyist.

>>10876367
>Aroduc you fucking dumbass. What were you expecting when you told the company you were translating their game?
He was being open with them, I admire openness in people. If they don't want a free translation, then there shouldn't be one.

>>10876321
>the other games in the series will be translated

So cute.

>Liar Soft would like to bring Steampunk titles over

Jesus Christ, what's the hold up, and who do I have to bitch to so get things going?

>>10876382
Yeah, I can't wait. Sacchin's route for the Tsukihime remake should be finished and translated by then as well.

It's gonna be great.

>>10876408

Don't forget the English release of Otome Function by JAST.

>>10876418
Jesus, I read this post out of context and almost had a heart attack.

Don't scare me like that, Anon!

>>10876397
I thought Ixrec snapping and releasing his patch for Sharnoth together with Alternative basically threw a big wrench into the whole thing? And he's gonna release the whole series in the future so goodbye to any japanese company trying to do shit

>>10874118
Moenovel dev please leave. We don't want your censored shit.

>>10876436

It isn't even that unrealistic. Think about it: It's 2015, Otome Function gets finally released. One year later, someone starts a translation project. After the project reaches 98%, JAST picks it up.

According to my calculations, the game will be released in English by 2025.

>>10876418
And the translation of Baldr Sky and Muramasa

Anyone know if there's a place online where I can check if there's any translation statuses on NDS games?

>>10876060

Ok.

>Nitro+ only published them

N+ published C;H and S,G on PC, 5pb. published C:H, C;H Love Chu Chu! and the various S;G on consoles.

>>10876382
>>10876408

Don't be mean, anons.

Didn't vvav recently announced he would drop Subahibi?
If so, why is he translating even Sayonara right now?
I'm happy because I wanted to read the latter, but I don't understand his behaviour.

Only 20% more for PM5.

>>10876526
Is gbatemp still around?

>>10876692
He's just being ironic. It keeps moving, albeit slow.

>>10876692
>Didn't vvav recently announced he would drop Subahibi?

Subahibi made TL progress this week, so dunno where you would get the idea that he dropped it

>>10876849
It's not something I made up, he did say it.

>>10876937
He say that every so often because he thinks its funny. You shouldn't really take anything he say seriously.

>>10876450
That was way before Liarsoft's "announcement". Myself, I'm more frustrated at the complete lack of news about Kamaitachi no Yoru, which was confirmed to have a release planned (while Liarsoft just said they'd like to bring them over at some point), but there's been no news since.

>>10876469
>It's 2015, Otome Function gets finally released.
Definitely unrealistic.

>>10876342
>in fact it's not like glorious nippon companies ever considering selling their shit overseas in the first place.
Will (Moenovel) is currently trying do so, but you guys are shitting all over it.

>>10877067

>Can't differentiate between 'shitting all over' and 'trying to make it successful'.

People who release shit get shit in return. The people who bothered to critique them and try to help them understand what they're doing wrong aren't trying to shut the project down.

I mean, why not just use straight machine translations? It's not like the English readers care about the text or anything, we're obviously fine mentally correcting the mistakes anyways.

>>10877067
>Will (Moenovel) is currently trying do so, but you guys are shitting all over it.
the people doing this are for the most part people who have already read it in Japanese and really don't care about reading a translation of it. From what I've seen, the people who are actually the intended audience seem happy with it.

>>10877118

>Will (Moenovel) is currently trying do so, but you guys are shitting all over it.

Hey guyz, the devs translated it, so it's supery-de-duper okkkkk!!!1


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqiKvZJnl0w&t=70

>>10876953
Got it, still I don't understand why starting translating another novel with another project still underway.

>>10877093
>I mean, why not just use straight machine translations?
Because it's inaccurate, creates problems in the story (due to being random fitting lines rather than the actual story), and has A LOT more mistakes than Konosora's translation.

>>10877118
>the people doing this are for the most part people who have already read it in Japanese and really don't care about reading a translation of it. From what I've seen, the people who are actually the intended audience seem happy with it.
Actually, to me it looks like those people don't really care much. It's the 'THEY'RE CUTTING OUT OVER HALF OF THIS NUKIGE, IT'D BE TERRIBLE IF THIS WERE A SUCCESS' people I'm talking about. The ones repeating bullshit hearsay that would be obvious from just looking up a tiny bit of information and/or just playing the demo. I've heard some negative responses about the translation from people who actually play Japanese VNs (specifically, the ones who bitch about every translation being bad), but that's it.

>>10877161
Well it sounds like you've definitively proven that nobody could ever know anything about the game but you then and everyone with a differing opinion is a closed-minded asshole who hates everything.

>>10877129
Have you READ the demo? It only has a couple of grammar errors and stiff lines. It's nothing like incomprehensible garbage like that. Hating on stuff is fine, but at least be correct in your arguments. That's what bothers me about the response this is getting, most people are just repeating what they've heard regardless of whether it's actually correct.

>>10877170
This nigga is BUTTBLASTED WHOA.

You gonna cry because you're edgy bullshit didn't catch on this time?

Moenovel is taking a big risk now so let's all give them support, right?

>>10877183
Please keep this kind of thing out of the VNTS.

>>10877181
Is posting a screenshot with an error in it supposed to prove how high quality it is?

>>10877181
>Look. I'm just saying that if you weren't ignorant, you'd agree with me. And if you did read it and still don't agree, then you hate everything.

The rebels will never crack the code on this one.

>>10877193
No. We should not be considered a second-class market. We should not support their shitty endeavor, either with sales or piracy (the latter bringing visibility to the project).

>>10877213
>We should not be considered a second-class market
Umm

>>10877193
>big risk
>farm translation out to shitty company that does a shitty job
>remove everything remotely objectionable
>try to make sure nobody notices the game

Well, I guess it's a risk. Like sticking your hand into a bucket of broken glass because you saw something shiny at the bottom.

>>10877161
Yes, that was my point. Their translation is inaccurate (they lose the meaning they were trying to preserve by doing such a literal translation), and it's cumbersome English at best.

Machine translation is like elephant shit, while Konosora is like horse shit. It's less shit, but we're still talking about shit here.

>>10877181
Yes, yes I have. Do we need to go over 'being good matches' again? Or, how about all the grammatical errors plastered on their site?

You may be use to reading bad translations, but the people they're supposedly marketing too (people new to VNs and non-nukige fans) aren't.

If they're expecting to release games with this poor of a translation and be successful, they're in for a rather rude awakening. I would rather not see that happen, so I tried to give them feedback, as did several others.

If you want to defend low-quality work as good, have fun I guess. Just don't expect it do well.

retards gonna hate

>>10877224
>>10877213
>>>mangagamer.com
>>>jastusa.com

>>10877161
Censorship has always been the key line which the existing fan base refuses to support. While there certainty is a broader audience available for an all ages market (a combination of ignorance of the original source and the ability to advertise it far more broadly), thus far they haven't done much to try to take advantage of that, limiting themselves to the existing market. The existing fanbase though isn't suddenly going to support censorship though, and it would be foolish to believe that they would.


Honestly, TL quality doesn't seem to matter much for those who buy as long as it isn't first release Edelweiss quality. There are certainly some who will complain about the translation quality, but it seems most buyers in the West don't care as long at resembles English.

>>10877200
Yes. This is the kind of errors it has. No worse than this. There's a single additional comma in an otherwise completely fine line. It's perfectly readable. Similarly, at some other places, there is a mild grammar error or the line is a bit stilted. But it never goes beyond this. If this is really impossible to read for people, I question their literacy.

>>10877224
>You may be use to reading bad translations, but the people they're supposedly marketing too (people new to VNs and non-nukige fans) aren't.
Aren't we in a thread for people who read VN translations (of which the official ones (and some fan translations) are often worse than this)? This level of translation is what we accept for other VNs; why is it suddenly a problem now?

>>10877181
Just ignore the haters, they're just making excuses for not buying the game, but I bet they'll download and play it anyway.
As for the novel itself I agree their choice to remove the ero is quite dull, but a new translated title is better than nothing.
The quality is okay, but they do need an English editor at least.
That mistake is easily because of their language, since for them it's natural to have a comma in that line.
Let's just hope the final product will be improved.

First projects always have more or less errors, but if chance is given and supported, developers have chance to learn from the given feedback and increase quality of their works in future.

>>10877304

moreover, the translation is still a work in progress.

THERE IS TIME TO FIX IT. or, that's the hope anyway.

>>10877272
>While there certainty is a broader audience available for an all ages market (a combination of ignorance of the original source and the ability to advertise it far more broadly), thus far they haven't done much to try to take advantage of that, limiting themselves to the existing market.
It's on Play-Asia, where it's the second most viewed PC game and third best selling PC game. It's appeared on the front page and two different news posts there. That wouldn't have happened if it were 18+.

>>10877285

You mean besides the fact that a guy is referring to himself as a "dorm mother"? Anyway, it's a pretty bad translation, but no one is saying it's unreadable. It's just really unenjoyable to read and basically ruins any reason one would want to play the game at this point.

>>10877304

Uh, AGM has translated a bunch of high profile console games. It's clearly not their first time. They were just cheap (or maybe they didn't get paid much by Pulltop) and hired a native Japanese speaker then didn't have anyone edit it. There's really nothing more to it.

>>10877285
You should find a screenshot without any errors if you're going to be preaching its quality.

Did the /vg/ apologist squad flood this thread?

Such desire to be served shit can only exist over there.

>>10877285

1) Translations like those of Flyable Heart, Cross Channel, Edelweiss, are not 'accepted' they're loathed but there's little that can be done about them.

2) They want to charge money for this.

As I said, if you want to defend low quality as good, have fun. If they're making to look money off of shit like this, they need to pay more attention to the lack of sales on mangagamer and JAST.

>>10877311
Their first project on VN field. (Target audience is smaller than video games in general so the risk is greater and budget is smaller)

>>10877330
You're confused as fuck about how contracting work goes.

>>10877323

Maybe he doesn't realize it's wrong. Or maybe he thinks it's acceptable to make basic grammatical errors every other line.

>>10877330

I don't see how there's any difference. Not like the other games they've translated didn't have a decent amount of text.

>>10877333
Didn't you read the part
>budget is smaller

>>10877345

Yes. In fact, I said that.

>>10877328
Still interested to see how it looks after their final pass. Maybe they'll release a second trial. Maybe they're actually carefully reading all the feedback and earnestly considering it.

It'd be nice.

>>10877359

They said the literal/stiff translation was intentional, so unlikely.

>>10877359

That is exactly what I'm hoping for. I want them to sell a good story, not a hasty translation full of errors and bad grammar.

>>10877311
>You mean besides the fact that a guy is referring to himself as a "dorm mother"?
(The person speaking is the girl pointing at him, but that's besides the point.)

Yes, that's the entire point of the sentence, and that entire bit of plot. The protagonist's name, Minase Aoi, is often mistaken for a girl's name, and due to trickery on his mother's part, he was assigned as temporary 'dorm mother' of an all-girls dorm (the residents of which were of course expecting a female dorm mother). The screenshot features wheelchair girl objecting to the fact they're getting a male "dorm mother".

>>10877375

I'm glad the translation explains that so well.

Oh wait.

It still seems likely though that an 18+ DLC release will eventually come anyways, as the registry entry strongly hints at it. What else would you think a "sweet love patch" would mean if they are working on that. Although if they are planning that, they should announce it close to launch to avoid being beaten by the fan translation effort.

Paid DLC for 18+ content is probably the best approach a company could take, as they get the benefits of selling an all ages title, they open a secondary source of revenue for paid DLC, and they avoid being boycotted by the strongly anti-censorship crowd.

>>10877328
>1) Translations like those of Flyable Heart, Cross Channel, Edelweiss, are not 'accepted' they're loathed but there's little that can be done about them.
Curiously, Cross Channel was widely accepted until relatively recently, despite being a worse translation than this. Flyable Heart and Edelweiss are not even remotely comparable to this. People do accept MangaGamer's post-Edelweiss translations, though, even though they were often worse than KonoSora's (take a look at, for example, Kira Kira and Higurashi).

>>10877357
So then you should understand what is the difference.

I don't know are people nowadays more picky or what, but games in general have always had more or less translating errors. Example first translation of Final Fantasy Tactics had a lot of Engrish and sometimes context was just translated wrong. Still at least I am happy that it was translated.

>>10877378
it does, maybe you should read it?

>>10877378
Are you retarded? Context explains it. Like, in the entire story leading up to that point. The name thing is even explicitly mentioned earlier.

>>10877393
just idiots throwing tantrums.

>>10877395
And we used to not bathe because stink keeps away goblins.

What's your point? That we should be happy because nearly twenty years go, translations were bad?

>>10877393

>Posts like they know what they're talking about.

>>10877140
Because translating the same game for years on end starts to grind on you. Same reason I did work on Sumaga, Drakoi, and YnS. It's just nice to change it up every once in a while.

Also I'm a gigantic spaz.

>>10877368
I think it's going to in the end work out. I hope these guys decided to do this for the right reasons.

I STILL haven't played the trial but from some screen shots is it about people with disabilities doing gliding or something? It's sort of funny because I know some people involved in a foundation to let people do that.

>>10877421
I suggest you read the previous posts because I don't like repeating myself >>10877304

>>10877444

>>10877311
>Uh, AGM has translated a bunch of high profile console games. It's clearly not their first time
>>10877332

>>10877451
Again I suggest you to read the previous posts.

>>10877457

It has nothing to do with experience, though. They either intentionally hired someone who was bad or didn't have enough money.

>>10877457

>It's fine as long as it's at least shit.

Oh boy, we got ourselves a winner here.

>>10877457
>I don't understand how contracting works.
>I don't understand that this company has translated many things in the past
>I'm completely ignorant, but I have opinions

Yeah, we got that.

>>10877470
You can't come up with anything? So you complaining just for sake of complaining?

>>10877488
Why don't you just stop arguing if you can't make decent argument instead of fallacious statements?

>>10877502
You're making factually incorrect claims, muffin. When this is pointed out to you, you tell people to read your posts again. The argument is that you are living in a fantasy world where nothing you claim is true. Go ahead. Look out the window. If the leprechauns are prancing through the gumdrop falls, then your made-up reality has nothing to do with ours.

>>10877470
You can't come up with anything? So you are complaining just for the sake of complaining?

>>10875500
SUPPORT NITRO+ USA LOCALIZATION my ass

>>10877519

You cant use your brain? You like rolling around in shit and somehow thinking that's good?

You can't properly refute anything posted here?

>>10877510
Then show me which of my statements are incorrect instead of bullshitting.

>>10877525
Again?

http://www.atanet.org/careers/translation_agreements.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Gaming_Media

>>10877437
The demo is too short to tell, it doesn't go further than his first day at school. But it seems the main characters will be doing something with gliders, yes. There only seems to be one disabled heroine, though.

>>10877537
I don't think I've said AGM hasn't translated anything before.

Your point being?

>>10877537
I don't think I've said AGM hasn't localized anything before.

Your point being?

>>10877566
Maybe you should stop linking to that post that says its their first project then.

>>10877574
Not him, but do you know how MangaGamer improved their translations? No, they didn't just spend their acquired experience for more ranks in Knowledge (Translation). They hired better translators.

AGM may not be new, but MoeNovel is. And if they're not content with AGM's results, they'll hire a better translator next time.

>>10877574
And I even said multiple times "read the previous posts"
>Their first project on VN field.
>VN field
What part you didn't understand?

Different context is applied on visual novel field for multiple reasons. Unless some of their previous games is a visual novel, then I am wrong.

>>10877605

And, you know what, Pulltop has released stuff in the west before (heard of Princess Waltz?)

They're not new to this, and they have no excuse for putting out bad translations. Period.

>>10877605
>MoeNovel is
No, you retard. They're not.

>>10877620
No they haven't. They just gave the okay to JAST who then proceeded to do everything for them. Now they're doing it on their own.

>>10877611
And, again you do not understand how contracting works. They hired a translator, which takes text in one language and converts it to another.

Remarkably, languages doesn't magically change when it includes pictures or sound effect, much like in a video game.

>>10877635
Actually, it does. Something like

>Attack
>Magic
>Defend
>Item
>Run

>Healing potion. Heals 25 HP.
>Bread. It looks delicious!

>The zombie hits! You take 25 damage.

is a lot different translation-wise than something like

>As the sun mercilessly shone upon our sweating backs, we continued to work in silence. Only the sounds of our tools were heard, and nobody said a word.

>>10877611

You mirhgt want to read this page from their site:
http://www.activegamingmedia.com/en/localization/comics_manga/

Pay close attention to this line:

>Cultural Adaptation Our localizers carefully adapt original content to fit the target audience's culture.

Now, set's see how we 'matches' with that in Konosora.

No, really, anyone has any news on Takajun and Majikoi? He abandoned the project?

>>10877666

You must've missed these lovely titles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_King%27s_Story
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla_Knights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_Moon:_Tree_of_Tranquility
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune_Factory_2:_A_Fantasy_Harvest_Moon

All of which are nice, dialogue-heavy games.

>>10877691
But they're not visual nobels!

VNs are speeeeeeeeeeeecial!

Their text is speeeeeeeeeeecial!

>>10877381
So force people to pay more money for something they should've gotten anyways?

>>10877635
What this has anything to do with anything? I don't have I said anything which disagrees with that?

But if you want

>>10877635
What this has anything to do with anything? I don't think I have said anything which disagrees with that?

>>10877773
Here you go!

>>10877330

>>10877691
While I haven't played any of those titles, I have played Rune Factory 3 (they did #2), and the dialogue is at such a low level that I might even be able to read it in Japanese. VN dialogue and especially VN narration is much more complex than conventional game dialogue.

>>10877797
>But they're not visual nobels!

>VNs are speeeeeeeeeeeecial!

>Their text is speeeeeeeeeeecial!

>>10877797

Oh boy, let's not forget the manga they've translated too:

http://www.activegamingmedia.com/en/works/salaryman_kintaro/
http://www.activegamingmedia.com/en/works/cobra/
>Indeed a good manga translation is about fully understanding the characters.
>For every line of dialogue, there are several possible translations, but ... our team ensured that all dialogue was not simply grammatically correct but crucially fitted the character and situation perfectly.

Oh, and some other games while we're at it:

http://www.activegamingmedia.com/en/works/tartaros/
>Five freelance translators were hired, working simultaneously to translate roughly half a million Korean characters.

And, wait for it....... wait for iiiiiiiit:

http://www.activegamingmedia.com/en/works/dear_esther/

AGM pretty obviously is a bunch of japanese speakers who hire freelance translators for all of their stuff. The translation of this game sucks dick, period.

I love the way even people defending it end up posting screens full of confusing lines with poor grammar that frequently take serious head-scratching to decipher. That sort of shit gets REALLY tiring and unpleasant over the course of a 50,000 line visual novel

>>10877793
So where exactly did I say anything which disagrees with that? Seems I have to explain it for the peasant.

If you don't understand there is part of CUSTOMER in contracting too who accepts the the job. When I say "their" I mean all the participants who have major role in the project, which includes the customer, the contractors and the sub-contractors etc.

If some participant hasn't done his job well, he'll get his feedback (by the words or offers will be ignored in the future or something else) which gives the participant a chance to improve his work in future.

>>10877877

I like to think the people posting those screenshots aren't very good at English themselves which is why they think it's not that bad.

>>10877880

Unfortunately, I don't think experience is the problem. The style of the translation seems to be intentional.

>>10877880
>Their first project on VN field.
in response to:
>and increase quality of their works in future.

This is neither their first project nor their first feedback. There is no reason to be lenient with them if they claim successes such as dear esther.

Which, to go alllll the way back to the top, is to say that the translation company has no excuse for putting out such a bad translation.

I'll reiterate the point which seems to have started all of this:
>I mean, why not just use straight machine translations? It's not like the English readers care about the text or anything, we're obviously fine mentally correcting the mistakes anyways.

>>10877921
Did you even read the post? Sigh.

>Which, to go alllll the way back to the top, is to say that the translation company has no excuse for putting out such a bad translation.
Customer has freedom to accept the quality as they like. Then they will get their feedback from the top end customers (ones who buy the game) for accepting such quality. They can take it as feedback and check the quality more carefully next time.

If you really want to autism about THE FIRST, then let's change it one of the firsts and your autism nerves can rest. Usually reasons for such quality lies on lack of experience or/and resources, so I expect, at some level there is lack of experience or resources.

And to my original point; I am willing to give a chance and a support for the work which has more or less errors, if the content they are doing interests me, because it has chance to lead to more widespread phenomenon if projects like this, get supported. (and eventually the better quality)

>>10878020
Ahh, the old moving window.

As long as you feel happy about yourself, I don't really care. The thread already speaks for itself.

>>10877758
They are a business, and this is a viable business strategy which also gets around the problem of needing all ages marketing and some people who want the original 18+ version.

>>10878053
Okay. Arguing with the peasant who only used logical fallacies all the time was pretty annoying anyway.

>>10877515
that whole affair went so wrong even moogy quit.

>>10877393
Agreed.

If you want a really bad translation, look at Period.

>>10876692
Maybe he just likes to multitask? Sayonara wo Oshiete is a relatively short game.

And SubaHibi has been progressing every week. Please stop this shit.

>>10879487

Take your own advice and stop responding to trolls.

>>10879487
He already responded >>10877433

>Pure Pure finally making something resembling progress
>Sayonara wo Oshiete picked up

A-Am I dreaming, /jp/?

Also, figured I should report that this is a thing: http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/f16/t171396-sukisho-series-translation-project.html

Another BL game, so I'm not sure how many people will care, but it's a translation project nonetheless.

>>10877395
Speaking of FFT, remember the stink when the remake no longer used the special attack one liners? People just really Hate having anything removed.

Still prefer the just bad translation too the new flowery one.

>>10880013
>Sukisho

This is literally one of the worst titles they could have picked.

>Sayonara wo Oshiete - 1959/14309 (13.7%) lines translated
>SubaHibi - Down the Rabbit Hole I patch released, 39042/53562 (72.9%) lines translated and 38734/53562 (72.3%) lines edited

Is this the real life?

>>10880903

No, it's denpa life

>>10880874
This.
Where the fuck are Sweet Pool, Lamento, Shingakkou and Omerta?

>>10873902
>Saya no Uta.

Never again.

>>10881447
you don't like slice of life?

>>10880903
>Sayonara wo Oshiete
>The protagonist is a trainee teacher who commutes to a certain girls' school.
Safely finishing the daily practice period, and becoming a regular teacher is his goal.
However, his mind begins to tire.

Uneasiness and nightmares come in sudden attacks, causing a strain, a social phobia, begins to grow more and more every day.
Slowly a fear of the girls he meets with after school begins to emerge, yet at the same time, a desire and passion.
Disgust, a kind of taboo, such a feeling is directed to the adult women who are his colleagues.

"Am I really fit to be a teacher?"

Day by day, the pressure builds.

Even when the lessons are over, the lights are off, and the school is closed for another night.
He cannot help but wander.
>Disgust, a kind of taboo, such a feeling is directed to the adult women who are his colleagues.
So he hates adult women or something? I think ill hate this protag. Just more loli pandering shit.

>>10881667
Also are any of the heroines not students? is there a teacher route? I read there is 5 heroines.

>>10881667
looks fun

>>10881667
None of the girls are really loli. Calling Sayonara loli-pandering is kind of hilarious, to be honest.

>>10881717
A couple adult women have H-scenes but no routes.

>>10881850
are the tentacles cute?

>>10881424
Sweet Pool and Lamento should be out this year. Sweet Pool's translation has been completed, and I believe there's one route left to go for the Lamento team. Shingakkou's scripts are a bitch to extract. Haven't seen much of anything for Omerta, but it wouldn't surprise me if that ended up getting a project since it's weirdly popular.

>>10881850
pls don't reply to milf autist

>>10881850
Dude, I just wanted to kiss your ass a little bit about SubaHibi.

I loped my way through this game when it dropped using Atlas + agth and I know I missed so much but the story really touched me. Thank you for translating it and godspeed.

Is there any plan on rewrite's fan disc, harvest festa ?

>>10882986
No.

>>10883006
This man speaks truth.

It doesn't seems so bad, though... no plans yet, or has the idea been completely shot down ?

>>10883170
Yes.

>>10883182
>is it *** or ***
>yes
This always gives me headaches.

>>10882986
Ixrec was planning on translating it after Comyu, but he's going to have a job by then and it'll either not happen anymore or just move very slowly. Either way, you have a lot of waiting ahead of you.

>>10883369
It is possible to translate even when you have a job, you know. Depends on the job.

>>10883441
I'm just going off what Ixrec said onetime, someplace.
He doesn't know how time consuming his new work will be yet.

>>10882986
that would be a waste of time and a waste of ixerc , we only have so much ixrec points left, we need to use them wisely.
>>10881850
Alright but does he hate on the adult women and are all the heroines students? what was the meaning of
>Disgust, a kind of taboo, such a feeling is directed to the adult women who are his colleagues.?
Also how much longer do you think for SubaHibi? do you think you can finish it this summer?

So is aroduc basically not translating the two secret projects? (unless one of those was that one game that got leaked)
too bad aroduc is a pretty fast translator, right under ixrec.

So you guys think the translation scene will explode this summer? I/0,12RIVEN,stein gate (maybe?,Grisaia no Kajitsu (I hope this is any good),plus a lot might get finished because of the free time.

Someone tell Ixrec to open up a donation box so we can fund translations that will be substitute for getting a job. Then he open up polls for us to rig again

>>10883757
I hope you realize that three out of the four games you listed are all being worked on by the same person. The person who when they 'finished' the translation of their last game, spent 11 months editing it. And they're currently still 3-4 months off from 'finishing' the first pass right now.

The fourth game is already about 96% done.

>>10883757
Realistically, anything started this summer that is a decent length will be dropped or partial.

>>10883757
When Steins;Gate gets released, I'm pirating that shit. I waited all this time to get a perfect translation the first time but Blink jewed out on us.

>>10883733
The VNDB description sucks. Don't worry about it so much. There are two older women in the story and both are central characters, though they don't have routes. That's all you need to know.

I dunno when Subahibi will be done. I'd like to make promises but I know I'm terrible at keeping them.

>>10884001
Kirby, stop engaging the MILF autist.

>>10884001
Alright thanks, thank you for translating and such.

I don't think Aiyoku no Eustia has progressed at all for over half a year =(

>>10884498
That's sad, because I actually liked that game. Also, for some reason I can't load any of my saves anymore, so I guess I'm going to have to read through it again.

>>10884498
This is one I really wanted to play too. Fuck.

>>10884645
You should play it. It's pretty good.

>>10883739
Aroduc is still translating, it's just not a secret anymore. One got C%Ded, and is probably dead. The other is official , and is listed in that section of the update.

>>10883718
Take heart. He'll be fired for being a smug jerkoff even though he knows nothing and be unemployed again in half a year.

/jp/'s Japanese learning status

Japanese - 0%

>>10885396
なめってんのか御前ｗｗｗｗ

Greetings /jp/

I was wondering if you could help me with something, I have a novel I would like to have translated and I would like to know how to request for a translation or where to do it.

It is the first time I have been searching for a Japanese-English translator since I have been able to find most other novels translated online.

Thank you in advance and keep up the great work!

How can you be so retarded?

>>10885530
how much are you paying?

>>10885558
>offering money on 4chan

>>10885530
haven't you found anyone who's interested in the same novel as you? maybe if you find someone with common intrerests you may get the translation sooner than expected

btw... which novel is it?

>>10885530
I'll do it for you.
100 words for $25.

>>10885571
Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi

I'm curious about what happens. I don't know how far the anime covered the light novel in terms of volumes so I'm kinda looking into translating them all.

>>10885572
If only I had enough... I think I can't even cover one chapter, even less a volume.

Guess I have to learn japanese then

>>10885530
Wrong thread and more or less wrong board (I don't think there's any better board for it, but /jp/ hardly posts about LNs other than some anime shitposters). This thread is about visual novels, which is an entirely different thing.

I don't know how common light novel translators are (probably more common than VN translators), but except for some scanlators, translators generally don't just translate something on a whim because someone requested it. The odds of someone translating what you want translated decreases as there are less translators in the scene.

>>10885550
Proof that huge tits ruin everything.

>>10885662
shit taste.

>>10885662
But they aren't huge...

>>10885648
I see, I am aware I came a bit late in asking for a translator (since the anime release is about 2 years old and the potential hype for this series might be dead by now) and I'm aware this is not the best place to ask, but I decided to try my luck since the thread was about translations.

Thank you very much for the info though, I appreciate it.

>>10885550
That really sounds quite silly. But I must say, that their adult mascot is looking rather quite while distressed.

>>10885550
That really sounds quite silly. But I must say, that their adult mascot is looking rather cute while distressed.

I'm late to the party, but from what I gather, someone is trying to sell a censored nukige with a translation like this >>10877285

Fuck that shit. I don't even mind censorship that much, but that translation is really lacking. Someone mentioned MG's Higurashi, but even with all the typos, that read better than this.

Here's my ~3 min revision, with no context or looking at the original Japanese: http://pastebin.com/AQuC6ihT

I like the idea though, specially if 18+ DLC is real, but they are in severe need of an editor.

>>10877758
You're an faggot. You'd still be paying a lot less than the Japanese paid at launch, so I don't see why you should be complaining about that.

>>10887518
>nukige
Check again.
And check >>10884952
If you know you're late do your research first. There's even a thread on VNDB with 400 replies regarding this release that was finally locked.

>>10887518
It's not a nukige. It's actually very light on the ero for the most part to be honest with I think around 17 individual scenes (most of which pretty short) spread over 4 5 if you count the separate twin ones pretty long routes.

>>10887548
>>10887548
My bad, but I remembered somebody mentioning it. It's not the bulk of my post, though.

>>10887518
>Kissing CG will be altered to hide facial contact /sexual suggestiveness (http://vndb.org/t4084))

Not only the sex scenes will be cut, but also the bath scenes, kisses and probably any references with fisic contact.

>>10887518
>She's looking at me, and pointing at me with her cell-phone.
This version implies she's already doing it when the protagonist notices, but the line actually indicates she notices the protagonist has arrived ('looks towards me') and she signals with her cell phone that she was trying to call him.

>"Ahh, I left my phone at the dorm."
He didn't forget it, he responds like that because he just didn't care. (Hence her shocked response about the purpose of cell phones.)

>>10887589

Why bother cut it? Because the future of teen? Don't make me laugh

>>10887638
>This version implies she's already doing it when the protagonist notices
This line was ambiguous in the translated text because of the change in tense, so I went with what felt natural. I don't know how the Japanese version goes, but this is easily fixed.

>He didn't forget it, he responds like that because he just didn't care.
This might be wrong on my part, but I'm not implying he forgot it, he is nonchalantly saying that he left it.

>>10887653

I think this just shows how editing it won't really fix the problem (and my create other problems.) It needs to be TLCed or rentranslated before anyone edits it, but that will never happen.

>>10887659
But that makes no sense. All of these lines were translated and just phrased awkwardly, and those mistakes wouldn't have been made if had the context. (He was behind the school the previous scene and was walking back in the lines before; the lines after discuss about how cell phones are not allowed by school regulations and how he just doesn't really care about it.)

>>10887659
But that makes no sense. All of these lines were translated correctly and just phrased awkwardly, and those mistakes wouldn't have been made if had the context. (He was behind the school the previous scene and was walking back in the lines before; the lines after discuss about how cell phones are not allowed by school regulations and how he just doesn't really care about it.)

>>10887675

But some of them aren't, and some of them are wrong in ways that aren't obvious unless the editor knows Japanese. So yeah, editing might not make it worse, but it could be a lot better if the base translation wasn't so awful. You can only polish shit so much.

>>10887659
This is obviously the best choice, but even just editing can make a huge difference.

I mean, I don't think the order of events on a signle line, that can apparently (>>10887675) even be corrected without TLC, would make such a huge difference.

Then again, it's just my two cents. I was just demonstrating that the translation was, in fact, shit.

>>10887679
>huge difference
Disregard me, it seems I can't write for shit.

>>10881667
>Just more loli pandering shit.
WHERE IS THIS LOLI PANDERING YOU SPEAK OF?

>>10887518
The fact that they should've added it in the first place? Like >>10887589 said, EVERY physical contact is removed.

>>10888134
Yes, that is indeed too stupid. If it was just the sex scenes, I would understand, but removing everything as if you're going to screen in on a Catholic elementary school is going too far.

Still, if an decensoring DLC is actually true, I don't see a problem with paying those extra bucks. No matter how they price it, it'll still be less than Japanese launch price.

That's just what I think, though. I have no intentions of ever buying official VNs in English.

>>10888233
>an
a*

I notice Touka Gettan and Yami to Boushi have been removed recently... What's the deal?

So I decided to find out what's up with Konosora (not) being on Steam and checked several Steam databases. No signs of Konosora since April 1, but there are some unnamed apps which may or may not happen to be it.
However, I found something else which gave me a pretty strong WTF:
http://steamdb.info/app/200090/
I have absolutely no idea what this means, don't even ask.

>>10888418
when will I get my untranslated eroge on steam? I want the people I used to know in high school to know what kind of porn games I like playing.

Yumiko route for Grisaia jumped to 92.7%

>>10888909
Translation will probably finish within two threads, then. If the editor doesn't stall, we may see a release in mid-to-late June.

Which would be pretty awesome timing, for me at least.

>>10889006

Yah Im praying that it does come around there. Ive been waiting a long time for this one

http://tenka.seiha.org/2013/05/a-not-so-short-short-list-of-non-projects/

When is the anime expo, i want to see if they are releasing steins gate on that day or will it be more bullshit waiting.

>>10890844
Why would you think they'd release a game prior to announcing it?

>>10890867
They have been saying about SG being at anime expo all this time, so has blick.

>>10890963
No.

They haven't.

Learn to fucking read.

>>10890963
They have been hinting they will announce it at AX, not that they will release it at AX.

>>10890844

It's JAST, it will most likely take another 3 years.

>>10891012
Calm the fuck down faggot.

>>10889006

>If the editor doesn't stall

That's a big if, his editor has been slacking off lately.

>>10893151

B-But I've been working on it all day!

>>10893151
He just hasn't updated progress in a while. In truth editing is predicted to conclude a week or two after translation is finished, and they're already working on it day and night.

>>10893162
It's okay man, I believe in you.

But only a little.

>>10893168

No, that's clearly false and impossible. That would be hard to do no matter what.

>>10893169

Thanks?

>>10893178
One of the editors has stated that editing an entire route only takes around a week, and keep in mind that they're working hard right up into the moment translation completes. That 68% number is not accurate, it's simply not been updated in a while.

>>10893206
Oh, you're re-editing all the other routes again?

>>10893195

That was me and that would work if there was only one route left to edit.

>>10893209

No? I just have more than one to do...

>>10893221
Oh, I thought it was just one or two left.

>>10893224

That's for the other editor.

>>10893227
Oh... Damn, this translation stuff is more confusing than I thought.

>>10893233

Well, he's had more time to work on it since he hasn't been editing Subahibi and I have... In any case, I don't think it will be that long.

>>10893227
Okay now I'm confused. What's left to edit?

>>10893326
The game.

>>10893247
Less than a year at least?

>>10893535

Probably early September.

Konosora has been confirmed to have sex jokes removed, kissing scenes altered (but not removed), and that it's not on Steam. See the Konosora thread for details.

>>10893890
It has also been confirmed to be a complete and total flop sales wise.

>>10893890
Look (vndb.org/t4084) the reply from MoeNovel to VDZ questions, lol:

>The kissing scenes will be altered so that it will not show any tongues or lips touching, but will show the back or side view of a couple kissing
>No, there are no plans to re-add sexual content. (DRM)
>No, we do not have plans to sell the game on Steam.
>The wording has been changed so that there are no sexual jokes.
>There are no plans to revise the translation for the full game at the moment.

>>10893951
>>10893827

>>10893691
So long for editing Grisaia?

Is anybody going to translate Taimanin Asagi 3?

>>10881424
Sweet Pool is 100% translated and having the early scripts checked before editing begins.

Lamento is proceeding along slowly (2/3 routes translated)

Omerta has a text translation in progress since no one has been able to hack the engine.

Lucky Dog 01 text translation is in progress, 1/4 routes done with the 2nd route over 90% completed. This also got the blessing of the Japanese company.

Sukisho was apparently chosen because it has an anime. They're planning on doing all 5 titles since the anime barely covered the 1st. The 1st game is apparently 15% completed.

I wonder if these are worth wanting a hack and a translation for.
Anyone here familiar enough with them to comment?

>>10878574
>>10877515
What happened anyway?

All I rember is that TLwiki guys translated it and it was almost done, and then Jast bought the license and tlwiki wanted to work together with Jast, so both sides got a bit of profit out of it. What went wrong?

>>10894398
JAST is retarded and never bothered to actually check the guy's translation until like 2 years later, where it turned out he wasn't actually that close to being done and his work was bad.

I don't know if they were paying him or not, but they were, that's even stupider of them

>>10894530

No one gets paid until the game is released, so needless to say he will not be getting any money.

>>10893951
>>No, there are no plans to re-add sexual content. (DRM)
>>No, we do not have plans to sell the game on Steam.
What's even the point, then?

>>There are no plans to revise the translation for the full game at the moment.
This is it, they completely deserve to flop. I hope even the parent company goes bankrupt for this shit. Fuck those faggots.

>>10893691
How could it possibly take that long?

>>10895004
editing. then counter editing. then counter counter editing. then qc. then qc editing. then

>>10895021
We're talking about 4 months here.

>>10895078
People don't edit every two or three days, what's your point?

Man when are the vns gonna start coming, its been months. its already Friday maybe well get Danganronpa this weekend? I really dont see what taking them so long..

>>10896357
But if they release it then we miss out on the fun of asking "Danganronpa out yet" every day.

>>10896374
you been doing that too. he hasn't been answering me when i text him on twitter.

>>10895000
You know... That is so much bullshit I actually might boycott this one.

That's straight FUCKED UP.

Probably will be getting some announcements from MG tomorrow (though likely just stuff we already know from the year end hint)

From MangaGamer's twitter account
>Also we have a panel at 8 PM tomorrow in the DaVinci room, A and B!

If they have any big announcements, it's unlikely they would come before AX.

>>10896374
Please do not respond to the milf autist.

>>10894244
>Omerta has a text translation in progress since no one has been able to hack the engine.

Have they even made a genuine effort to hack it? Last thing I saw was that they wanted to try doing it through Visual Novel Reader.

Surely they could go on irc and ask for some help with it.