/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>Noble Works - 50,142 / 57,690 (86.9%) lines translated, partial patch released
Nursery Rhyme - 8543/32977 lines translated
Oreimo Tsuzuku - 246/268 scripts translated, 181/268 through TLC+Editing, 84/268 scripts finalized
PersonA - 44% translated
Rewrite Harvest Festa - 18647/30040 (62.07%) lines translated
SakuSaku - Common route + Konami route fully translated, 42598/49257 (87%) lines translated, 28289/49257 (57%) lines finalized, Konami + Mio route released
Starry Sky In Summer - 166/177 scripts translated
>Storm Lover Kai - Released
SubaHibi - 100% translated, 2nd editing pass and QC remain
Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen - 100% translated and edited, QC and technical work remains
Tsujidou-san no Jun'ai Road - 12/323 scripts translated
Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete - 4282/35056 (15.7%) lines translated
Witch's Garden - 35167/67201 (52.33%) lines translated, prologue patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 78.42%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited


Official work

JAST
Shiny Days - August 25th release
Seinarukana- Fall release
Django - 1st half of 2016
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- translation about half done
Sweet Home - In translation
Sumeragi Ryoko - Picked up
Flowers - Fall released planned
Sonicomi - Picked up

MangaGamer
>Natsuiro Mikan - Released
>Asuka Final Chapter - Aug 28th release
Euphoria - In scripting
Free Friends 2 - 100% translated and edited
Higurashi Hou -Onikakushi released, 35.8% of Watanagashi TL
>Kara no Shoujo 2 - 100% translated and edited, demo released
Bokuten - 66.5% translated, 30.05% edited
Da Capo 3 - 50.6% translated
>Gahkthun - 100% translated, 32% edited
>OZMAFIA - 46.65% translated
>House in Fata Morgana - 66.67% translated
Myth - 1.1% translated
My Boss Wife is My Ex - 42.47% translated, 30.9% edited
>Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, 18.13% TL 7.32% edited
>Supipara - Ch 1 59.62% translated, 44.49% edited
>Yurirei - 26.5% translated, 10% edited
Sonohana RHWM - Picked up
Himawari - TL finished, in editing
Umineko - Picked up
Beat Blades Haruka - Picked up
Tokyo Babel - Picked up
Negai no Kakera - Picked up
Princess Evangile W Happiness - Picked up

Sekai/Denpa
Grisaia trilogy - First game all ages version released, 18+ release in QA
World End Economica- Released
>Chiruchiru Michiru - Released
>Clannad - 100% translated, mostly edited, 4Q 2015 release
WAS - Kickstarter finished, delayed
Fault Milestone 2 - Demo released
Hitomebore - April release
Kokonoe Kokoro - April release
Shizuku no Oto - picked up
Sacrament Sheep - In Beta
Memory's Dogma - Kickstarter reached goal
G-Senjou - Summer release
Chrono Clock - Picked up
Double Root - Picked up
Tenshin Ranman - Picked up
Nekopara Vol0 - Picked up
Nenokami - Picked up
Witch Boy - Picked up


Other
Muv Luv Trilogy - Kickstarter planned
Eiyuu Senki - Summer release
Moenovel is working on another title
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - Kickstarter planned
Harvest December - 3DS ports being released
Amnesia - 8/25 release
Norn9 - November 11th release
Code Realize - November 24th release

Well, turns out I was actually awake after all, but you made it just as I was about to go looking for updates to put in the OP. It's good that we're both so reliable.

Does anyone actually think herkz is important enough that frontwing would care about his opinion of them?.

So, Sekai Project is dying. Or at least, they'll be relegated to doing OELVNs and indie RPGs.

I wonder, do you think it was the Grisaia Kickstarter incident that spooked Dovac into doing all-ages only? He actually seemed open to it before then.

>>13877563
Nice try, Herkz. You shouldn't have run your mouth if you didn't want to face the consequences.

>>13877567
From a business point of view, it is probably much simpler to make money in the west if you navigate safe waters only. That means Kickstarter, Steam, and other established channels for leeching money from unsuspecting EOPs. You probably don't want some soccer mom to hit you up because a character in your game possibly doesn't look completely legal and *gasp* you can have s-s-s-sex with her!!

>>13877563
He didn't just give his opinion. He leaked information he wasn't supposed to. Why would Frontwing want to partner with a company they can't even trust?

"Dear Lize T.

Thank you for your mail. This is serious problem. We have been investigating this issues and will take an appropriate action soon.

Frontwing
http://en.frontwing.jp/"

>>13877601
Post the email including headers and we can continue talking. Oh, you can't. I can understand wanting to take the spotlight once in your life, but you should at least try to sound credible when attempting to do so.

>>13877601
I request a printscreen of their answer.

>>13877563
>>13877601
Ok, I am out of the loop. What are you guys talking about?

ChuableSoft president tweeted that article from lewdgamer.
It certainly seems enthusiastic about the localization of the games produced by the company.

>>13877633
Herkz shit talked Frontwing on IRC and some of us sent it to Frontwing. While they obviously wouldn't know Herkz specifically, his association with Sekai Project seems to be getting Dovac in some pretty hot water.

http://pastebin.com/JSZFsJRM

>>13877647
Here's hoping he gets a deal going with one of the actual good companies. Their games look very nice, but also sexy.

Also, may I just say that LewdGamer is a fantastic website name.

To use a rare meme...DOVAC, Y U NO ADD TRADING CARDS FOR GRISAIA?

I am content knowing Sekai downfall.

>>13877687
Dobac probably feels relieved he protected his tweets right abuot now.

>>13877649
>http://pastebin.com/JSZFsJRM
Huh. I may be dulled to this sort of thing, but seems like reasonable criticism.

>>13877696
Oh, there's no denying it is, but Frontwing would be foolish to let it slide. You say something bad about the company you work for, you'll be quick to find yourself not working for them.

>>13877696
Reasonable or not, it was out of line.

I haven't been here in a while what happened to 12riven, also whats come out since I/0 thats worth reading.

>>13877707
Uh, wait for Root Double I guess.

>>13877707
Welcome back Gatchan. 12Riven's project is dead because Lemnisca is partnered with Sekai Project officially now. They'll release Root Double and that's it.

Nothing with milfs has come out. Sorry, there's no hope.

>>13877696
Very interesting. Also somewhat reassuring, cause it shows Japanese VN devs only see Western readers as an easy source of money, who'll be happy even with bad transrations... which they ultimately are, since people on Steam still have no standards and buy everything.

Hopefully future Japanese releases will stay unaffected since Japanese readers aren't as willing to take anything on the chin.

>>13877722
If that's milf autist, he should play Starless.

>>13877727
Yes, milf autist is Gatchan. He doesn't like eroge though.

>>13877727
Shiny Days also has milf, still waiting for it.

>>13877727
Ugh. Do you hate him or something?

>>13877722
I just checked when the fuck did this happen, also what the fuck they couldn't release a fucking patch for 12riven, I mean i waited all this fucking time.Why did they take down all thier games though, does Regista and Yeti own fucking all the infinity games? they were almost fucking down with 12riven , get that shit out first.

>>13877732
So he only plays all-ages games, what?

>>13877738
What makes you think that?

Starless is GOAT, especially in strong sexually dominant heroines.

>>13877739
Last month, at Anime Expo. They took all the existing patches off their website, too.

1 EOP thread is enough. Please del this thread mod.

>>13877757
>EOP

Nice meme!

>>13877757
>>13877760
The awful circle starts again.

>>13877732
Its because I read books now so im done with that shit, im getting too old to care. I haven't read a vn in like a year because the shit I care about is not getting translated. I'm reading the stromlight archives, and getting into the wheel of time, and otherland. I go to thrift stores and buy up books like savers.
>>13877745
Yeah but why the fuck did they take down never 7 did Regista and Yeti buy out all the infinity games I cant remember.

>>13877768
Sound sad but good luck with your new hobby.

>>13877768
Good selection of books. Though why you would get into fantasy of all things, which in my humble opinion - having read fantasy books all my life - is a very shitty genre, I wouldn't know.

>>13877768
Because they're stupid and they think they'll somehow be able to get it released officially when it's old as fuck. Doesn't really have anything to do with the companies involved.

Also good on you for reading actual books, they're awesome. I recommend the Culture series by Iain Banks if you like sci-fi.

>>13877782
No reason to generalize about an entire genre. You just need the right fantasy books. Like Discworld.

(replying to anon from previous thread)
>>13875109
I did engine localization on LWR, and honestly the engine required almost no work beyond removing the unsupported OS warning on windows 8 and localizing strings.Seinarukana on the other hand required a silly amount of work to convert the game to support unicode, as well as working in font support and such. Still, it only took a couple months to complete.

I think the biggest issue is that QC and testing takes much longer with a gameplay title. Seinarukana has been done from a technical and translation standpoint for almost a year and a half, but testing a game that's rated at 30-40 hours per playthrough that contains multiple routes takes a long time, especially if you go back and change things. Making a silly request like "Oh, we want to adjust how this kind of skill works" suddenly causes an incredible amount of pain when it affects main game, NG+, and NG++ type runs and everything needs to be re-tested. I think we rolled back on any balancing changes at least because it wasn't realistic to make sure it worked properly.

>>13877791
Butts butts butts butts butts butts butts butts.

Are translations for 11eyes and Daitoshokan dead ?

Wouldn't the best way to solve the situation be dovac profusely apologizing to Frontwing and then telling them herkz has been "let go" and isn't working for Sekai Project anymore? I mean, it's not uncommon for any company to unknowingly hire a loose cannon like herkz. Usually you just fire the offending employee and move on.

>>13877789
I have read around 250 fantasy books. I should be allowed to generalize based on such a large sample size.

>>13877799
Mostly for Daitoshokan, no idea about 11eyes but probably.

http://libraryshepherd.tumblr.com/

There's still hope he will return to it someday but not any time soon. VNTS man does arbitrarily remove translation projects from the list though, ToHeart 2 got a 100% translation patch and he didn't even mention it.

>>13877802
It's not like there is any better genre than fantasy so you are practically calling all literature shit.

>>13877774
well I have no income, I was a artist,didn't work, learned computer repair and build pcs, never went anywhere yet but its my hobby, now im a cobbler with my grandfather in his store. Yes im a american, not in a third world country so yeah, a cobbler in 2015.
>>13877782
I read a song of ice and fire even though now its the in thing the show is awful. went into the stromlight archives and loved it. Dalinar Kholin is what i want in a visual novel. hes what I wish anime or vns would someday go back to like in the 80s when main characters could be over 18. Navani is the best milf and waifu. and if you look them up on the wiki fuck that art they are not black, sanderson said so. the artist on that wiki used outdated art.

>>13877802
Were any of them Discworld books? If not then you may as well have read 0.

Anyone know who the translator for Chiru Chiru Michiru was?

>>13877811
Sci-fi is most definitely a better genre than fantasy.

>>13877812
I can understand the milf autist label now.

Oh well, they say great artist dies poor.

>>13877814
Actually, yes. Mirrormn from Fuwanovel.

>>13877819
Actually, they say great artist dies irae.

Actually, Diebuster is way better than Gunbuster.

>>13877830
I'm fairly sure that was never questioned.

So Doddler, when will euphoria and Kuroinu be out?

I want my dark nukige.

I still don't understand the choice between splitting Kuroinu into 3 games since I don't think it's that long of a game.

>>13877836
> I still don't understand the choice between splitting Kuroinu into 3 games since I don't think it's that long of a game.
Its only slightly shorter than MLA. Its longest nukige I have extracted scripts for (and I have hundreds of them).

>>13877816
well I bought otherlands at savers a thrift store, and its scifi, need to get into it. thankfully It seems like a very good series. I bought it on a whim because all the books are 1-2 bucks at savers. I also bought a vcr for all me and my dads old vhs tape. This with the cobbler stuff is like im living in a other world. Its a odd feeling. sorry for dabbling, really just wanted to know how the vn world has been going. /jp/ always gives me a feeling of the past. I was hear my the great meido fell and the flood gates opened and it was chaos. im gald its returned to normal, just doesn't have the family of old nameposters from the old days and memes like dawson crying.

>>13877843
Wow, holy shit.

I'm just going to wait for the batch version.

>>13877845
Well, like I said, the Culture series is amazing so if you want any sci-fi I highly encourage checking that out. Consider Phlebas is a little rough around the edges though, so if you can't get into it, don't feel bad about skipping to The Player of Games and coming back later. Hell, you could even start with The Player of Games if it interests you more. The protagonist is a 60 year old man with a beard.

>>13877845
shit sorry for my mistyping,I use one hand and no spell check. anyway im a little mad at 12riven but thanks for updating me. peace guys, its funny you guys remember me so much. Its a good thing, shows that /jp/ returned to being closed and away from the rest of the trash.

>>13877530
>SubaHibi - 100% translated, 2nd editing pass and QC remain
maybe someday.

>>13877857
Sounds really good, does he have a lover or is there romance with a milf like Dalinar Kholin and Navani?

>>13877864
He does have women, but he's away from them for most of the book so that's not a very huge focus. Consider Phlebas definitely has more of that kind of romantic aspect if that's what you're looking for. No kids in these books.

>>13877836
Euphoria will come out later this year, though I don't know exactly when. I hear we just got the beta build in from Clockup, so that gives you a good idea of the current pace.

>>13877843
I think there's been some communication issues regarding the split of Kuroinu content. Liquid did a digital re-release of the game in 2013 where it was released in 3 separate parts, so the split isn't actually unique to the English version of the game. It's listed as director's cut, but I don't know what if any of the content is any different from the original. At any rate, since translation is a time consuming process, it makes sense to release each of the three parts as we finish them rather than wait the full duration to finish the whole game.

>>13877903
Hmm, I'm rather satisfied with the kuroinu answer, I bet there would be remastered CGI or something to warrant a Director's cut.

Euphoria is slow though but I can wait.

Aside from their own qualities, I hope they sell well so we have more nukige from ClockUp and Liquid.

>>13877809
Thanks for answer

>>13877923
How did Eroge sell? If we're getting another Clockup title after that it seems like it must have been satisfactory.

>>13877930
I think eroge! is one of their hit, along with ImoPara.

Euphoria is an extremely requested game though.

>>13877938
Is there another big one by Clockup that's highly requested? Maybe that would give a good idea of what to look forward to.

>>13877949
Eh, this was discussed in the last thread so you better check the archive or check vndb/EGS yourself.

>>13877843
>Its only slightly shorter than MLA.
Bullshit.

>>13877953
Well, I know what's highly rated, but I haven't seen anyone actually mention what people have been asking for. Or perhaps demanding. I'm still kind of surprised that Euphoria is so popular, it's such a weird thing to think a bunch of people looked at and thought I MUST HAVE IT.

>>13877949
Eroge sold really well for MG and I'm sure euphoria will be a massive hit as well. It's still a mystery to me why they haven't announced the HD version.
The next game from Clock Up we'll see is one of these three:
- Sadobu - https://vndb.org/v11996
- Please rape me - https://vndb.org/v7805
- Ero Manga - https://vndb.org/v15874

http://www.mangagamer.com/detail.php?aflg=18over&product_code=148&af=d91a29c4263691f11a386c55fe349d89
Damn, the music on the OP is really nice.
Yeah, I know I'm a fag

>>13877802
The majority of fantasy books are indeed shit, but the genre also has Mervyn Peake and his Gormenghast.

>>13878133
Euphoria was already announced to be the HD version.

>>13877657
Send him Herkz comments too, then they might decide that JAST or MG are the better choices.

>>13877739
Removing their patches was part of their agreement to work on the game. Since they're legit now, I wouldn't expect to see any more free patches from them.

>>13877801
Japan sees failures as a team failures, so they may have just decided to cut Sekai loose. Dovac's response when people started questioning Frontwing's actions about the OST was that he couldn't comment on the issue.

>>13878133
Not sure about Sadobu, since a poll posted on the MG forums showed that many people didn't want to buy it.

>>13878542
>Euphoria was already announced to be the HD version.
I think he meant the HD version of Eroge

Just checked the kickstarter page for Clannad and it turns out that the physical copies are going to have DRM.

>>13879042
>CD-check mechanism
Is this 2001?

>>13877590
Anon, I have terrible news for you, everyone who sells something only wants your money.

Also,
>soccer moms

That's a thing of the 90s. The new moral crusader brigade is on the far left. Pretty ironic, if you think about it.

>>13879042
Who is translating Clannad?

>>13879456
Bunch of people.

>>13879456
A team (or a horde) of professionals edi... I mean translators contracted by our dear Dovac.

>>13878133
SadoBu is the most likely one, I think. Eromanga is a bit too new right now I think, though I could see it happening in a couple years. And Please rape me has quite a dangerous title, so I don't think they would risk it.

Akame ga Kill is a pretty terrible show.

Why is this a general thread now? Fuck off to /vg/ if you want translated discussion.

>>13879594
>>13879595
They've got to be working for peanuts then.I think they said something about the translation fee being $0.21 for each japanese character being translated. Hopefully it's a total re-translation and not.. an edit

>>13879767
They never said that. If they were paying that, they could hire pretty much any translator they wanted and wouldn't be stuck hiring from MG rejects and Fuwanovel.

>>13879767
>$0.21 for each japanese character being translated

I dunno where you heard that, because if it were true, they'd likely have way better people working for them.

Mangagamer pays a penny per character, and I have no reason to believe that dovac pays more.

>>13879779
>>13879767
Normal professional rate is about $.05/character. There is no way in hell SP is paying four times that.

>>13879779
>>13879778
>>13879785

My mistake. It's a vague memory of last year when I got hyped about the "re-translation" but then I found out it was getting picked up by SP.

Will it make september /jp/?

>>13877696
I wonder if FW is giving MG shit for Himawari as well. Let's summon the great Doddler to give us some insight on this.

>>13879842

Doddler's too smart to say anything.

>>13879099
>everyone who sells something only wants your money.
>only
Fuck you. I still believe that there are good people.

>>13879743

Who the hell cares about discussing translated titles? These threads have become 100% scene drama discussion

and that's just the way I like it

>>13877903
MG should try to release Euphoria on Halloween IMO.

>>13879985
It will be either Euphoria or KnS2, and Euphoria appears to be in the lead.

>>13880020
>Euphoria appears to be in the lead.

Euphoria just entered beta testing, kns2 already has it's demo out.

I think it's pretty obvious what'll happen.

>>13880034
kns2 isn't in beta yet though

>>13879848
Then how come he hasn't learned to keep his dumbass mouth shut?

>>13880038

It'll probably be in beta as soon as doddler finishes putting it together.

Meanwhile euphoria will have to be sent back to clockup to have any fixes inserted, and you saw how fast they got that done.

>>13879042
At least they're mentioning the refund option again. I'll probably refund my hardcopy next week after SP releases more info on the DRM.

>>13880079
If they ship it with a dongle, that would be the greatest thing ever.

>>13880092
I'm personally praying they tack on "always on internet connection" as part of the DRM.

I know I'm preaching to the choir, but this is a good reminder of what you get when you give Dovac money.

>>13880102

That's just mean-spirited anonymous.

>>13880069

I literally can't remember the last time doddler said something that didn't reflect well on mangagamer. He doesn't even bitch about their site anymore like he used to.

>>13880118
It hasn't even been a month.

>>13880134

source plz

>>13880144
Not your twitter.

>>13877863

There is a 80-85% translated partial patch that is out as I learned recently. Just finished the 4th chapter.

Kimika is amazing.

>>13880182
>"I don't have any examples actually, sorry"

Well yes anonymous, I already knew that

>>13878106
Just check the earlier thread, I made my demand there.

>>13878840
When was he questioned about FrontWings action about the OST?
Do you have link?

>>13879647
Please R*pe Me! would be OK if they changed the title. The actual content is more acting out the heroines own sexual fantasies, so it's alot less rapey than what the title implies.

>>13880070
He's not even halfway done porting it yet.

>>13879647
>And Please rape me has quite a dangerous title, so I don't think they would risk it.
>Please R*pe Me! would be OK if they changed the title

Doesn't mangagamer still have "Suck my dick or die!" up?

>>13880407
Sekai Project forums.

>It's more curious that the OST was put up under FrontWing's own steam account (and trying to get an OST greenlit?) and not by SP. Furthermore I wonder how it would effect people who backed the digital OST (I mean, would FW have to generate their own keys and then send them to SP to be released via backerkit? Seems kinda messy). Also, aren't OST's usually released as DLC for the game? Would Steam even allow an OST standalone since it's not even a game?
>Is FW just trying to make things as awkward as possible with the western market?


>I can't really comment on this but Steam doesn't allow direct OST sales from my knowledge, it must be DLC. I believe there's been some misunderstanding of the "music" category for software on Greenlight.

https://forums.sekaiproject.com/t/grisaia-no-kajitsu-kickstarter-discussion/62/1089

>>13880453
"Please Rape Me" is a contradiction after all.

Can't rape the willing.

Whatever happened to the possible jail time for... doddler, was it?

>>13880453
Because 犯 is closer to ravish than rape, but they seem to exchange these words irresponsibly.

A correct translation would be "Please ravish me". It sounds better, makes sense, and no one gets PTSD triggered about it.

>>13880504

The legal system moves slowly, probably doesn't even have a court date yet.

>>13880474
They don't want to use the word "rape" in any of their titles. Suck my dick or die!'s Japanese title in English would be Rape Guerilla Hunting. Also, that title was before MG had English staff, and I don't think the current staff would've picked something along those lines as a replacement title.

>>13880504

I can't remember exactly, but I want to say that the case is going well for him. Something something, lack of any real incriminating evidence.

I want to say there's a quote of "if they put him in jail they'll have to ban anime in all of Canada" but I don't know where that's coming from.

>>13880558
>Suck my dick or die!'s Japanese title in English would be Rape Guerilla Hunting.
I would have just called it Gorilla Hunt.

This has been on my mind since it was announced.. Will age pull the same stunt as FW with their ML series when they see the amount of cash there is to be made to the suckers of the west? I hope not.

>>13880637
Age has been leaking cash so that's a real possibility.

>>13880637
Isn't degica an affiliated company of age? If so, then they wouldn't need to go over their head.

>>13880637
Pretty much certain of it, the fact they're using Ixrec's translation shows it, they'll most likely release the machine/shit TL'd versions of TDA and AF after too.

>>13880663
>>13880662
>>13880649
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj6lriu3wQw

Did you see this?

>>13880671
No, why should I?

it's just PR talk for I need moar money, westerners cash is fine too.

>>13880649
Yeah, they've been milking ML for so long now. Not that it's that bad some of the side story stuff is pretty great but Schwarzesmarken has been split into two parts, personally I'd but a lot of stuff down to Ixtl instead of age but it doesn't really matter at this point. It's pretty sad knowing they'll be shipping out shoddy translations and that considering how much Kouki cares about his universe and that but whatever makes money at this point.

>>13880682
Age has been making but ML since MLA.

It's sad as fuck, it's even worse than Type Moon and their Fate milking.

>>13880558
Then they should call this "Please suck my d*ck!"

>>13880680
It goes to show that this guy took the time to make this video for us, the fans. This guy's valuable time, he cares about us. Did Frontwing do something like this? No, because they only care about $$. I have faith in age. at least that's what the true fanboys think

>>13880695
That's the opposite message though.

It's the heroines who want to be raped/ravished, of course the protag has a rape fetish too but the point is the heroines want it.

>>13880690
I remenber that Age released the KimiNozo remake in 2008.

>>13880714
That's not something new.

It's just KimiNozo in a new engine.

That's incomparable to say...Mahouyo where you have to adapt the LN into a VN for example.

>>13880701
age=/=ixtl
Besides we already know they're working with Amaterasu, at most the existing translation will be slightly polished instead of what it actually deserves.

>>13880734
I haven't seen Ixrec in a long time though, he's probably MIA for good, like Phar and TakaJun.

>>13880714
The KimiIta remake from 2011 was more work than the KimiNozo remake but at the end of the day they're still remakes even if they have a fandiscs worth of extra content or so.

>>13880707
Well, they can't exactly call it "Suck my d*ck or die", can they?

Clearly it will all be a big trick implying there's futa when there really isn't.

>>13880746
Please Ravish Me is an entirely acceptable title.

>>13880752
Only if they make it Please R*vish Me to keep that aspect of the original title intact.

>>13880762
That's acceptable too.

Please R*pe Me is technically acceptable too because it's r*pe and not rape, but I don't think MG wants to take that risk.

Aside from Himawari, I hope FW let MG localize some of their nukige like Makai Tenshi series.

NAGI a cute.

>>13880762
I'd prefer if they didn't, since * is just used by sites to bleep out words that they find offensive. And I think it just looks silly in the word ravish.

>>13880779

They seem to want to cut out middlemen, so enjoy your google translations.

>>13880794
If Himawari does well with MG, what's the reason for cutting them?

>>13880796
They don't want to have a publisher taking a cut. This way they also maintain complete control over the project.

>>13880807
Hmm, let's see how it goes I guess.

>Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing

How long has it been? What is JAST waiting on? I'll be old and gray by the time it gets released.

>>13877530
>Seinarukana- Fall release
I hope so.

>>13880822
>>13880954
How about Sweet Home? Anyone know when the last time we heard about that was?

I find it a bit depressing that JAST takes forever even for a simple nukige.

>>13880985
They're the underdog of the industry right now. If only they could give us faster releases and fill up that Nitro+ backlog, they'd be the top dog once more. It's always sad to see a company slowly die...

>>13880822
Sumaga is currently a mess due to it having like five translators, and Makoto hasn't even gotten to touch it yet because he's working on Sonico, which JAST is prioritizing because Steam. After Sonico is out he can work on Sumaga, then Django. Muramasa maybe sometime after that.

>>13880637
There already is pre-hype for the kickstarter, imagine what the stretch goals would be like. This isn't the #1 vn on steam for nothing.

>>13881034
Can't wait for Django.

>>13881034
They're probably pushing Flowers on him as well since they said they're gonna release it in fall. Is Peter copying Dovac by assigning more than 1 translator to a game? Or did Dovac copy him at first?

Sometimes I feel like forgetting about the industry and coming back in 10 years to see how it is but I like eroge too much right now.

>>13881013

I dunno if I would call jast an underdog. To be an underdog kind of implies a desire for upward momentum, where peter payne seems content to just let things fall where they fall.

As it is, jast is attached to a fairly profitable company, they have some fairly primo titles and strong enough connections to get more should they so desire, and not to mention that if you actually buy a mangagamer hardcopy you're actually giving jast atleast 20%.

Most of jast's problems are self-inflicted as a result of not being peter payne's main focus, but just a side thing.

>>13881050
From what I've heard, Sumaga went through multiple hands because it sucks and no one wanted to work on it.

>>13881063
They're getting paid to translate something that's bad. George Henry Shaft translated a game he hated for free. They should really be more like him.

>>13881058
I wonder if Peter gets a good enough offer if he'd sell JAST but keep J-List/Box. Too bad I'm not rich enough to make an offer. Might as well play the lottery and hope to win.

>>13881073
>I wonder if Peter gets a good enough offer if he'd sell JAST but keep J-List/Box.

Who the heck would buy jast?
Why would someone buy jast?

You'd literally be better starting off a new company. The lack of giving a shit probably means the internal situation behind jast is a mess. It's not like jast is an actual company, it's just contractors like mangagamer, so you'd only be buying contracts, the majority of which are probably no longer valid. Not to mention you'd be losing the actual order fulfilment backend.

>>13881097
They still need a Visual Novel Localization Project Manager, maybe there will be some internal stability with it. All we can do is hope.

>>13880954
You fool, they didn't say WHICH fall.

>>13881186

The fall of mankind

>>13877768
Yeti is owned by Takumi Nakazawa, the main guy behind the infinity games and I/O (but he had no involvement in 12Riven which might explain why it's a piece of shit compared to the other games).

After KID and Cyberfront died, I think it's 5pb. that owns the rights to the infinity games now since 5pb. was responsible for the abomination of an Ever17 360 port and they also sell the three infinity games on Magino Drive, but not 12Riven.

Perhaps an official release of Infinity Plus could be on the table, but priority was given to Root Double since it's newer and Regista/Yeti already had all the rights. Having Nakazawa on their side would make rights negotiations for the Infinity Plus games easier, I'd think.

>>13881063
From what I've heard, Sumaga is the ultimate kamige.

>>13879743
Would prefer to but there is far less shitposting here.

>>13881256
>Remember 11 is in Infinity Plus

Is there even a chance that a sequel will be released?

>>13881266
Hmm, it might be literally kamige, but not quite in the same sense you use the word.

You guys should just consult egs: it's a fairly well regarded game, but it's not at the very top.

Why jp cares so much about games about paper?

>>13881429
Yeah, I was making a joke. And I don't like looking at random peoples' opinions, good or bad. I like an opinion to either be from someone I can trust, or my own.

I am seriously never backing anything related to Sekai Project ever again. I will just pirate their shit from now on!

>>13877527

>>no Mahou Tsukai no Yoru...

>>13881310
What kind of shitposting goes on in /vg/? Never been there and don't really want to go but I'm genuinely interested to know.

>>13881626
I pirated their shit from the beginning because I'm not retarded.

>>13881666
Just go there if you are so curious.

It's just another part of the chan.

>>13881694
Might get spoiled though, I'd rather avoid that.

>>13881662
the tl is dropped sorry

>>13881707
>>13881662
Actually, it has been picked back up as of about a month ago, speaking as a member of the team. We've just been doing some really heavy editing so there's not really an accurate percentage to give. Not sure why it's not in the OP at all though, might be some sort of personal bias.

>>13878754
I just hope that he if does try to get with MG, that he's okay waiting. No way would MG be able to get anyone on one of Chuable's games for a couple of months at the least after all.

>>13882074
Its not like SP is overflowing with available translators either. They are picking fan tls exactly because there are teams behind projects.

>>13882074
Moogy should step up to the plate as one of MG's translators and do one of the games. He talks big, but when does he ever DO anything?

This man does strike me as reasonable and patient though. We'll see how it goes, I guess.

Why does Jast have tbis retarded policy about "No mosiac only"? I heard they missed Balrd Sky because of it. Most cg look better with mosiac anyway and it's really not that big of a deal at all. Maybe one or two really austistic people care about it.

>>13882066
Honestly I'm getting kind of fed up with VNTS man leaving out or refusing to update certain projects. I'm considering edging him out and creating the "main" VNTS threads myself if he doesn't step it up soon.

>>13882094
There is a lot people care about mosaic censorship and wouldn't buy a game without it being uncensored.

>>13882094
Actually they passed on Baldr Sky because it's an absolutely enormous game that nobody has the balls to translate, yet. I think if anyone does it, it'll be MangaGamer because they have some of the best translators in the industry.

What do you think of Starless, by the way?

>>13882100
I never really understood that, myself. Just where is someone's priorities when getting to see a badly drawn penis and/or vagina decides whether or not they buy the game?

>>13882110
It's about principles.

Uncensored means nothing is censored.

>>13882113
Yeah, but when the game was, in the first place, made without what's beneath the mosaics in mind, there's nothing really to "censor". This just goes to show that people like to get really mad about censorship but don't really understand what they're complaining about most of the time.

Well, this is why I'm glad Subahibi is getting a fan translation. So I can keep the mosaics.

Rumor has it that MG has licensed Gensou no Idea ~Oratorio Phantasm Historia~. A score of 80 on erogamescape

>>13882148
>Rumor
You mean something you just made up yourself?

>>13882148
I wish :(

>>13882100

It's the same "censorship" as the original release in JP anyway? Mosiac leaves room for more imagination so it's actually better, the uncensored cgs in Saya no Uta for example were hideous and distracting. I get it that some people care, but it should not be a deal breaker at all.

>>13882104
Moogy (I think it was him) said JAST passed on Balrd Sky because GIGA could not provided uncensored CGs.

>>13882094
I believe its part of the no censorship thing they declared after Shiny Days and Starless got them a lot of shit. They then asked fans if getting a game with mosaics that would be removed later(due to company in Japan stuff) was acceptable and I believe it was mixed opinion?

>>13882162
If it really was Moogy then it's completely plausible that he just made that up.

FUCK. Would someone just translate France Shoujo already? How hard could it be?

>>13882204
Kill yourself cancer.

>>13882217
Cancer yourself kill.

>>13882129
>>13882159
Ideally there should be a mosaic on or off button.

Because there are games that are censored and there are games that are made with mosaic in mind.

An on/off button would be best.

>>13882223
Hahaha so funny XDDDD.

>>13882233
That would require increasing the game site a lot. Better would be releasing a localized version with mosaics and other without them.

>>13882251
Yeah, I can deal with that.

>>13882204
Because it's 5 MB of text, dipshit.

>>13879913
Companies are neither good nor evil. They exist to make profit.

What's the over/under on the grisaia project straight up falling apart at some point?

>>13882350
The uglier the eventual crash will be, the more enjoyment I will have. I plan to watch every second of it, and savor the delicious tears of the morons who spent a fortune on Kickstarter for this shit.

>>13882350
They still remember Makai Tenshi, good.

>>13882350
> we have not licensed soundtrack to Sekai Project

Time to tell all these kickstarter backers that they were outright lied and scammed about OST. Turns out Sekai Project promised them something they never even licensed in first place.

>>13882234
You mad, bro?

>>13882251
What if they just made a patch to add the mosaics back in as an optional download for the people who want it? Not only is it simpler than making and hosting a whole separate version but the file size is a lot smaller too. I feel like this would be the best solution.

Honestly, it's kind of a shame I've never even seen a fan do this. It's definitely possible.

>>13882279
What the fuck could possibly go on in a game like that for it to be 5 MB of text? It's probably just really poorly compressed and that throws off the size.

>>13882404
Fans only do decensored patch, not adding them back in i.e. Family Project.

>>13882383
>we have not licensed soundtrack to Sekai Project
Holy shit. This is even worse than I thought.

>>13882383
Seems the Grisaia staff isn't aware of this.

>Agree with everything you said, I just want Sekai Project to say if they were clued in on this or not, or if Frontwing contacted them about it. Seems a bit confusing to leave Sekai Project to take control of everything on steam except an OST...

>But we're already supposed to be selling it as part of the Kickstarter.

http://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/3fv39y/the_fruit_of_grisaia_original_soundtrack_on/#ctsbv98

>>13882441
Or herkz is just full of shit, as usual.

Do it already, enough empty promises.

>>13882448
The amount of hurt this stuff generates is hilarious from an outsider's point of view.

>>13882448
You have access to dovac's locked twitter? Anything else of interest? Between the Michiru issues (price and translation), Herkz comments about FW, Clannad's hardcopy DRM, and now the news that Sekai never had the license to the Grisaia OST, it seems like Sekai Project has had nothing but bad press lately. Has he responded to any of these issues?

>>13882416
What the fuck are you even talking about? Do you think script size is calculated from compressed files or something?

>>13882463
Nope, just usual stream of random shit like when he woke up or what he ate.

>>13882454
Dovac, the easiest way to generate goodwill is to announce that koestl will translate chiruchiru (eventually, unofficially, whatever), and SP will give OST steam keys to backers at the appropriate levels. And 申し訳ありませんでした.

>>13881073
I'm hoping GHS will Translate SnI next, myself; he is probably the only person in the scene with the courage to do so.

>>13882472
> SP will give OST steam keys to backers
They would have to persuade frontwing for this first.

>>13882472
>SP will give OST steam keys to backers at the appropriate levels

Sekai doesn't have the right to do that, only Frontwing can. Unless dovac just partially refunds the backers the cost of the OST.

>>13882472
Wasn't a hard-copy with the OST one of the kickstarter options?
Man, this shit is giving SP some bad reputation. I wonder how this'll affect their future kickstarters.

>>13882468
Uh, yes? How else would it be.

>>13882490
How did Dovac manage to be so retarded as to not get the things he was promising in writing before promising them? It blows my mind.

>>13882498
>not get the things he was promising in writing before promising them

Based on his comment about having to double check with FW again, just to be sure Grisaia 18+ won't have DRM, it seems he didn't bother to get about anything in writing. The lack of details during the kickstarters is probably because they haven't even finished negotiations yet.

>>13882478
That could very well be the Project 3C he mentioned. Imagine, it's already been translated and edited.

>>13882498
We obviously should have seen this coming when one of the stretch goals was a Grisaia Vita port that he HADN'T EVEN ASKED SONY ABOUT.

>>13882310
That's not always true. Small companies act the same as the people running them and people can be evil or not. In this context "evil" means only wanting to make as much profit as possible and "good" means trying for the best product/service without going bankrupt.

>>13882448
What the fuck does he expect to achieve by tweeting this to nobody but his approved followers? People use their Twitters for the stupidest shit.

>>13882513
Indeed. XSEED and MangaGamer are examples of good companies, when measured by that metric.

>>13882514

The idea is that probably no one will see it so there'd be no one to call him out on it

>>13882496
By looking at the file in clear text? You can't translate without doing that.

>>13882496
Game scripts have to be extracted from compiled (and typically encrypted) archives before they can be counted. This leaves you with one or more raw text files which you can then count using a Python script or something. When people talk about script size for porn games, it's based on an assumption of 2 bytes per Japanese character. So a 5 MiB script would have 2621440 characters. (Generally this figure doesn't include speaker tags, but sometimes it does.)

Compression doesn't enter into the equation because, again, you're dealing with raw text at that point.

>>13882518
So it's just a crazy guy yelling at a wall. Which is coincidentally the plot of Umineko.

>>13882514
Apparently Twitter is the place where you turn your brain off and post stupid shit which will get you in trouble. I really want to know how many people lost their jobs over a Twitter blowout.

>>13882530
I heard from at least two people in the past week losing their job over a Facebook posting.

>>13882530
I think it's because the whole premise of the site is short, off-hand stuff so a lot of the time people forget how important it is to think before speaking.

>>13882509
To be fair, he did say "pending Sony approval" for that one. But really, promising things he didn't even have the rights to? I knew Dovac was dumb, but I didn't think he was THAT dumb.

>>13882529
He gets 2-3 replies from his underlings for each such drama-whoring tweet.

>>13882539
Most likely there was tentative approval from FW, but they didn't put things on paper, and now FW turned their backs on him.

>>13882539
No one is that dumb, seriously. My guess is that he fell prey to some internal misunderstanding, either unintentional or intentional from Frontwing's side. After all, they could've put down "rights to Grisaia" on that licence agreement, but Frontwing was adding (the game only) in their minds which didn't occur to SP at the time.

Of course, this is why any serious company has an army of lawyers to take care of serious business.

>>13882544
It's hilarious if it actually was seeing Herkz's stupidity that prompted this.

>>13882544
>>13882547
In business agreements, if it's not on paper, it doesn't exist. I know fuck all about business but even I know that much. This goes beyond the level of mere stupidity on Dovac's part.

I bet they didn't even send anyone the Grisaia dakis.

>>13882554

Didn't those get cancelled because shocking animu nudity on kickstarter oh no?

>>13882557
Denpasoft is supposed to carry them.

>>13882557
And yet Starfighter had no problem. Really, why does anyone trust Sekai Project ever? Shit, I bet the Starfighter ones are better anyway.

>>13882582
If by different, they mean more xenophobic, more jewish, and even more untrustworthy, then that sounds just about right.

Imagine if a western gaming company like Blizzard was selling their games in "Part 1", "Part 2", and so on, and charging full price for each! Oh... wait, I guess they aren't so different after all.

>>13882582
I have no idea what he's trying to say, but I am erect at the thought of Pure Girl.

Maybe this is some weird hint, like when that guy said "Well, I don't want to wield too much authority" and it turned out to be Brandish.

>>13882582
But they don't have anything appropriate for Steam. Except Hatsumira, but its not even released yet.

>>13882598
Therefore the list might be "longer" than what someone can expect.

>>13882598
Is Frontwing saying it's going to become a publisher for other companies?

As far as Hatsumira goes, it's looking like at this rate they may actually be planning for a global release. VN localization sure has come far.

>>13882644
Probably. Either that or collaborate with other eroge devs to start a new localization company, similar to how MG was first formed.

>>13882644
Haha, imagine if they start picking up a bunch of fan translations and doing Kickstarters. Beat Sekai Project at their own game.

Wanko to Kurasou All Ages Edition, coming soon from Frontwing.

>>13882661
>Wanko to Kurasou All Ages Edition
I can fap to that. Fuck yeah I love Mikan!

>>13882676
Same, I could just eat her right up.

>>13882104
>>13882162
To suggest that Giga passed on Baldr Sky due to length but then was fine picking up Yumina and Seinarukana is absurd.

Baldr Sky 1+2 together are a combined very long game, but individually, each part is eclipsed by Yumina/Seinarukana and then quite a bit more.

>>13882697
Exactly why I think Moogy is bullshitting and doesn't actually know what's going on in the company. I mean, JAST kicked him out because his translation wasn't up to their standards.

>>13882649
>>13882654
>>13882661
The problem is they can't tell a good translation from a bad one. MG's early releases are proof of this. These translations could end up being edited machine translation tier.

>>13882644
>>13882654
It actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Japanese companies are not very trusting of non-Japanese ones. So who better to handle their visual novels than a fellow Japanese company?

I'm really excited to see Frontwing become a major player in this business, we honestly need more competition.

>>13882703
People keep insisting this based on absolutely nothing. The Chiruchiru translation isn't even bad.

>>13882710
What are you basing that on? Because it's certainly not accuracy to the Japanese.

>>13882714
You aren't giving much proof for this claim either, friend.

>>13882721
Don't worry man, he's Herkz. He can totally tell you whether or not a translation is good with his expert Japanese knowledge.

>>13882721
Here's an easy one for your walnut sized brain. The way all voice and style is no longer present. Characters that have distinctly unusual speaking patterns don't in Chiruchiru's 'translation.'

>>13882732
...

>>13882710
Frontwing took the translation because it was complete.The Muv Luv kickstarter is using Ixrec's translation. The goal is obviously quick turnover, not quality.

>>13882710
Conjueror actually said on fuwanovel that the translation wasn't bad. However, I'm sure that the translation is highly inconsistent with the translation from the main series and that directly affects your enjoyment.

>>13882732
>>13882749
That's not an issue with translation, that's an issue with editing. And hardly a game-ruiner.

>>13882761
Editors are mostly for spelling and grammar. Changing entire speech patterns is the work of a translator.

>>13882779
You don't actually know Japanese, do you?

>>13882714
I also agree that it isn't that bad.

>>13882802
Sorry, put an extra that in there by mistake.

Probably not a surprise to anyone, but Clannad will use Steamworks DRM.

https://forums.sekaiproject.com/t/clannad-kickstarter-discussion/59/68

>>13882809
Digital version

>>13882809
How fucking outdated do you have to be to require a CD to play a game. I haven't seen this since motherfucking Utawarerumono. Which I may have even done something wrong with, it was about seven years ago that I tried that.

>>13882779
I think you're mixing editors with proofreaders.

>>13882749

He said it's not that bad
>based on the screenshots
>going by solely on the english without an eye for translation accuracy, as he's never played the game

I dunno if I'd call that a ringing endorsement

>>13882251
In general it wouldn't be "by a lot". I took a quick look at my current HCG packs, and Eroge! Sex and games was one of those in top with 350 MB art pack. So that is among the worst you can get.

A more standard bloated size for duplicating art would be in the range of 30 MB which would go for majority of the cheap ero titles.

The problem is much more the objective rating of "Is this uncensored art bad?". Because you don't need mosaic if it is good, so it is a waste to offer the choice always.

>>13882782

Are you that idiot that wandered in a few threads ago saying that a translator should translate everything as literal and engrishy as possible and then the editor should go through and completely rewrite the thing?

>>13882838
>Our first step

Victorious Boxers Steam Edition confirmed.

>>13882847
Do you know Japanese or not?

>>13882842
Well, that's a bit subjective, so I think always offering the choice isn't a bad idea. I don't know if this is a commonly held opinion but I think Eroge's penises look pretty fucking bad. Full disclosure, I hate dicks to begin with, but I still feel like I'd be able to recognize a good one.

>>13882850

あなたより私の能力がいいです

>>13882856
Even dick art is subjective as hell, which is why a mosaic and a not-mosaic release really please both sides.

>>13882866
That's some pretty fucking awful syntax.

>>13882881

That's some basic-ass syntax you mean.

>>13882850
より私の能力

>>13882872
I really think MangaGamer and co. should consider this. They have the censored CGs as it is, it honestly isn't that much work compared to the work they're already putting into the game, and it would please more people. Options are always great, especially when it's not a hassle.

>>13882889
Just keep repeating it until Doddler-sama comes.

>>13882888
Still wrong.

ハラヘリズム

>>13882897

A: You're arguing with two different people.
B: You don't speak japanese so how would you know?

>>13882896
That's a weird premise for an h-scene, but I can dig it.

>>13882901
1) That doesn't make those any less wrong.
2) But I do. That is the whole basis of this discussion.

>>13882856
Personally if I was a developer, I'd make a darn good engine with flags that let me do the following:

1) Set which other flags a user may set in settings.
2) Have a flag for all-ages content, flag for mosaic art and flag for uncensored art.

Suddenly I only have one game to sell, but it reaches all the markets. Japanese could hack the game and get uncensored art, but hey it's not my fault they hack the game. Steam users could hack the game and enable the ero scenes, but again, it's not my fault they hack the game.

Everyone is happy, and I follow the laws. And all it took was a few bools and forks in the script.

>>13882906
>2) But I do. That is the whole basis of this discussion.

Given how retarded you are, I doubt it. There's nothing wrong with >>13882866 other than it being engineered to be a google translate trap.

>>13882732
Still waiting for your proof. Preferrably with examples of Japanese sentences and their respective translations. Your claims here carry no weight otherwise.

>>13882912
Eroge does a lot of that.

You should play it some days, you can even turn off x-ray cum shot or ahegao.

It's just the original version is built with mosaic so there's no option to turn it off.

>>13882916
I like how he had the audacity to insinuate you're an idiot but then didn't even say anything about the translation. Just "B-b-b-b-b-but muh speaking patterns!"

>>13882921
I'm told that No, Thank You! has a LOT of options as well. But I don't know much more than that as I have very little interest in homosexual men.

>>13882921
I have the hard copy. What I don't have is time to sit down and play it.

I like companies who put those extra options into the game. I think there were a few other high profile nukige companies that did the same.

>>13882889
Its huge pile of work to have 2 switchable arts instead just replacing game resources. "Easy" solution would double amount of space game takes, which is not very good idea.

>>13882948
>>13882950
NTY and Eroge share the same (awesome) artist.

>>13882704
I don't see frontwing publishing other companies work. At best they'll show others how easy it is to get stuff onto steam and they'll follow suit by putting their own work up.

>>13882478
>>13882506
>SnI

I wouldn't doubt that possibility.He's mad enough to do anything.

What does Frontwing even have that's worthy of translation and guaranteered to be half as big as Grisaia? Grisaia was their "it" series, they're so stupid for giving it away first.

>>13882980
A patch.

>>13883008
Question is, what the fuck comes after editing that leaves "so much to do"?

>>13883063
Hacking the engine, making the patch, inserting the text, bug testing and a lor of other madman shit that only he does.

>>13880504
Legal matters take absolutely forever to resolve... drives me crazy.

https://twitter.com/Conjueror/status/629296255340941312

Tokyo Babel is ~15% translated.

Who was that SP guy again who said eroge could only be viably brought over to the west via Kickstarter because us (his ``valued'' customers) don't actually buy anything? I'm proving him wrong by buying every single game in MangaGamer's stock. Their page is a fucking pain to navigate, though, so it's hard to determine how much it would set me back. About $1000, maybe?

>>13883120
herkz, of course.

>>13883120
That was Dovac himself. I think Herkz said it at some point too, but he's an idiot and not really with Sekai Project.

Are you one of those rare people who browses /jp/ but is actually reasonably wealthy?

>>13883120
They have 9 pages worth of vns. If you really want to prove a point up to $1,000, just skim them and pick out ones that look appealing to you.

http://www.mangagamer.com/product_list.php?goods_type=1&page=1

>>13883084
Looking forward to a massive novel about Saihate no Ima that will make his Cross Channel one look like a pamphlet in comparison.

>>13883120
>>13883130
Enjoy "Tasty Shafts" and "Milles, Knight of Anal Tyranny".

>>13883133
>Massive novel
I'm expecting an encyclopedia that's a few 1000 pages long.

Huh. Has anyone else noticed that Demon Master Chris' art style is very similar to Sakura Spirit's? I wonder if it's the same artist.

>>13883138
>Enjoy "Tasty Shafts"
Translation-wise he probably shouldn't buy anything older than Shuffle.

Apparently, buying everything would cost about $1800.

>>13883138
I obviously don't plan to play all that stuff.

>>13883144

You're late to the point, but correct in your assumption.

>>13883120

Around double that.

Also if you're some arab oil prince with thousands of dollars to blow on porn, I think it'd be a smarter idea to pick a good title and just add a hundred sales to that than buy every piece of shit on the mangagamer docket, because they've stamped that logo on some real turds.

>>13883162
Optimally he would do it for Eden and Supipara in order to fund future Supipara chapters. I'd say those are literally the best purchases one could make in this situation, due to that dual purpose.

>>13883185
Unless he wants to support nukige and games that actually include ero.

>>13883194
Minori's games after Supipara are the latter so technically he would be doing so.

>>13883216

You really want that supipara huh?

>>13883222
Yes, and I feel that MangaGamer actually funding its creation would be a great step forward for visual novels.

What's up with Hinatabokko's English title? This actually looks like it has some substance to it, which is surprising considering how long ago it was translated. Also, despite the English title it still seems to have the title Hinatabokko in game?

>>13883232
It was translated to English by a native Japanese speaker. The translation is a wreck. They localized the title by throwing the original one out the window.

https://twitter.com/Conjueror/status/629296255340941312

Current MangaGamer projects: Himawari (in editing) Kagerou (TL: ~0%) Tokyo Babel (TL: ~15%)

Kagerou? Was it ever announced?

>>13883241
That's a shame. They should go back and retranslate it like they did Edelweiss. I see there's a fan disc they never did, too.

Your Tumblr/Fuwafagness is showing. Those are the only places where the default assumption is that every translation produced is the flawless work of God until proven otherwise.

>>13883244
WHAT THE FUCK?

>>13883244
>Kagerou
rail-soft game? That's some kind of bad joke on his side.

>>13883244
>Kagerou
Maybe that's the joke, since it's at 0%? Who knows.

>>13883244
Nope. I thought it was some random project. Ask him for the VNDB link./\

>>13883260
>>13883261
How about looking at his other tweets, retards. Kagerou is a light novel for Himawari.

>>13883253
Hold your hype anon. That's one of Himawari side-stories that's be included in the official release. There's another one.

>>13883246
They likely won't do that anytime soon, since the time it would take and the costs involved would be better spent working on a new game.

Wonder how it'll go.

>>13883267
WHAT THE FUCK?

>>13883267
That's a shame, I was hoping fot this one...
https://vndb.org/v16786

>>13883284
Speaking as someone with good taste, I'd say the Himawari side-story was a far superior choice.

>>13883284
That art is astounding.

Apparently I'm translating Lovelove Choukyou Futago Shimai.

>>13883311
That's neat. Any idea what I'm translating?

>>13883330
Apparently you're translating Otonari no Kokujin Otto ni Dakarete Nakimodaeru Saiai no Tsuma. Sono Hikikae ni Ajiwau Kokujin Tsuma no Hada. -Big Black Cock & Big Black Butt & My Sweet Wife-.

>>13883330
>>13883311
My edited machine TL of Muramasa is done. Looks great so far, it'll get a lot of credit on Fuwanovel for sure. Just some more testing and it'll be released.

>>13883360
I see. Good to know, thanks.

I'm looking forward to reading my completed translation.

Some guy in the past made tools public for working on complets titles, and then as a "service" ran it through google translate and offered them as patches.

I like to imagining that I would go through it and translate it someday for real, but I imagine even small sex romps require quite the time for translations.

After all, we are seriously lacking loli translators, and that is even the safest fan area with all the localizations.

>>13883360
>black guy's name is bob

every time man

Anyone here that read the light novels? I'd like to know if they're a good read after the main game.

>>13883436
The two side stories were first released as light novels, then included in the PSP/PS2 version (and later Vita). But they're mainly a pre-reading for the fandisc, which never got its own PSP/PS2/Vita release and you're not getting it either. So the side stories are cool, but you'll be missing the actual last step.

Common pattern with English releases, fandiscs not getting localizes, localizations not being enhanced special editions etc.

https://forums.sekaiproject.com/t/grisaia-no-kajitsu-kickstarter-discussion/62/1094

This means that even though Sekai handled it on kickstarter, Frontwing is in charge of the product now.

>>13883537
I think it's weird how yesterday dovac couldn't comment on the OST, but today the story is that it was planned to be like this from the beginning. And rather than take to social media to calm backers down, he needs to talk with Frontwing instead. And while Herkz isn't always accurate in his information, on reddit he said Sekai was supposed to be the one handling the OST, not Frontwing.

>>13883790

"Do not panic, we are in control"

>>13883790
Is karma hitting dovac for kickstarting kusoge?

Ikusa Megami Zero has been manually translated up to chapter 7. Has anyone read the partial up to that part yet? Or is it an edited machine translation instead of total MTL?

>>13884380
>Or is it an edited machine translation
That's exactly what it is.

>>13884631
>>13884380
What actual translator would look at this and say to themself "This looks like something I want to be a part of"?

>>13884665
While I don't want to defend the translation cause it reads horribly from what little I've read, the actual guy who is manually doing it hasn't done any of the the graphics or item translations. Those are machine done, and I don't know if the guy has any intention of doing those ever.

>>13884790
At absolute best, it shows he has no pride or ownership in his work.

>>13879743

The truly unfortunate part is that we can't do shit about it without Janny's support, and they don't seem to give a flying fuck about one of the board's main threads.

It's already turned into a shitfest of drama, approximately half of the posts here are about retarded SP drama that only people who read translated VNs care about, and we've somehow picked up multiple people who couldn't sage if their fucking life depended on it, so the threads are getting ridiculously high turn-over.

Hell, we're even getting 'best girl' shit already:
https://archive.moe/jp/thread/13851936/#q13852123
https://archive.moe/jp/thread/13851936/#q13852331

The point of a limited thread is to force people to actually post something fucking relevant, make a consequence for shitting up the thread with meaningless drama by making them wait for the next thread; having run-on drivel like this dilutes it to the /vg/ shit people are 'escaping from'.

>>13883034
Makai Tenshi Djibril.

Pure girl/Innocent girl.

I wonder if you know what you're getting yourself into, shill-lady. I don't really think they're paying you to pick up porn games!

>>13884927
Oh shit. We may have another threat to Sekai Project on our hands! Watch out for Andovar!

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/3g1ct3/is_translation_quality_important/
>is translation quality important
>no, and don't you dare badmouth ixrec

sasuga reddit

>>13884862
Hahaha, of all the things to bitch about, you pick those posts. No wonder we all just ignore you.

>>13884953
>you're not entitled to quality fan translations.

That's what happened in the fuwanovel Monobeno thread. Long time ago but it shows that they'd read anything, even edited MTL, /vg/ is turning out to be the same.

>>13884953
Um, that post's getting a lot of upvotes, it's just the Sekai Project guy being an idiot in the comments (because they bought Ixrec's translation and would look like asses if they admitted it had problems).

>>13884953
Those translations target a different audience, Ixrec's being 7-17 while the other targets those who are 18+. That post is proof that Ixrec's translations are his fanfiction in most cases.

Looking at that post, Ixrec's writing is less incomprehensible than I expected from all the complaints, even if I find Moogy's translation preferable. Maybe Moogy ought to fucking translate a game.

Also, the overuse of ellipses is frustrating, of course........... I find it highly amusing that he spams them everywhere else yet the line "…………" ends up as "...".

>>13885141
>Maybe Moogy ought to fucking translate a game

He did. Dra+Koi. It's about 3 hours long though. He can't translate anything longer because he can't "commit" to it.

>>13885153
>>13885141
He was hired by Jast to translate Schatten. He flaked on it for a year until it was taken away from him.

>>13885166
Why would moogy want to work on trample on schatten when he could trample on ixrec instead?

>>13885166
He was probably trying to work at their pace. I'm surprised that SP didn't pull him in as a translator, or did they?

>>13885153
More like he can't translate anything longer because he takes an eternity to translate anything. How long did Dra+Koi take him?

>>13885153
>>13885191
Didn't he also refuse to do the ero in Dra+Koi? Assuming he even translated the game himself, I've heard from a number of sources that he just put his name on Ixrec's translation.

>>13885191
>>13885235
Yeah he did because he's a faggot. He's best as is right now, not doing shit. I think it took him around a year to translate Dra+Koi.

>>13885252
That's absurd. No wonder he took 2 hours for a fucking ten sentence translation (in the reddit link). And this is apparently the "king of Japanese" that people look to for all advice about visual novels. I really don't see why.

>>13880213
do you have a link to it? I can't seem to find any working links.

>>13885295
Might as well wait for the complete, edited patch since it's almost done anyway.

>>13885295
https://mega.co.nz/#!NswEAJbQ!m9V8y3uNT1wp3wxPj7Uj-poZuNnHFw_7fjt3epzeKlA

This is it. We won't be seeing a full patch until next month because they said "hopefully in august"

>>13885292
>"king of Japanese"

I'm sure he made that up samefagging on different accounts. That's the type of guy he is.

>>13885335
Thanks.

>>13885330
I doubt the first few chapters will be much different in that patch from what they are now.

>>13885335
How did this patch get out there anyway? Someone dissatisfied with how long it was taking leaked it? Or did they release it unofficially themselves but didn't post it on the wiki because it's unedited?

>>13885429
I released it to fuck with you.

>>13885406
Herkz says he's making a lot of changes on his second pass since he didn't know what was going on the first time around. It's probably worth waiting a couple of weeks for the final patch.

And since it's a partial patch it's not like there's much of a point in playing it now anyway.

>>13885429
Someone posted it on /vg/ a while ago. I just re-uploaded those one because the last link is dead.

>>13885433
You mean back in 2014? Because the latest file in that archive was modified on 2014-03-12.

>>13885295

I got it from looking at the discussion page for SubaHibi on vndb. The link was:

https://mega.nz/#!h1lXSSbB!fQaI6qvG7hHNbHTwEf-JxX1g3PtZIlrqrxNzsD0vJW4

I assume it is the same as >>13885335

Reading 5th chapter now and so far almost all text was translated. maybe 3-4 lines total were still in japanese randomly, and all choice popups after the first chapter were still in japanese but you can just pick one and figure out what it was from the context and load. Or just look at the log.

The novel is excellent so far. The first route I did in the 4th chapter made me fall in love with the depressed autistic /k/ommando Kimika. The 2nd route of that chapter left me depressed enough to pick up smoking.

>>13885501
You can read dates. Your guidance counselor must be so proud of you.

>>13885508

>>>111977782

>>13885509
You bet. Nobody fucks with my /jp/ buddies.

Well. Better Ixrec's translation than the translation for old stuff like Candy Candy. When I look at that, suddenly things don't seem so bad.

>>13885508
>pick up smoking.

I only read about 50 lines so far. Seeing Yuki smoke made me feel like smoking too, so I started smoking bidis, it's kinda like weed but legal.

>>13885441
So a leak, then. I wonder if they know who did it. If I were Patch Man I would give a slightly different patch to each person, so that if it leaked I'd know exactly who was responsible. Kinda like Tyrion Lannister or L.

>>13885594
No, it's not.

>>13885594
We all know who it is already but no one is gonna say.

>>13885621
I mean, I wouldn't at this point. Better not to shake things up and just get the patch out before pointing fingers and causing drama. Plenty of time for that when the work is done.

Don't worry guys, I'll bite the bullet and start the partial soon. That way the patch will come out the next day.

>>13885636
Anonymous released it. Could be anyone but I do have someone in mind and I just might be right. I might just forget about SubaHibi anyway because it's taking this long. Looks like kamige falls under the 85% partial curse.

>>13885666
I loved that 85% partial of Dies Irae.