/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
>I Walk Among Zombies - 100% translated and edited, waiting on a third party for engine work, Summer 2018 release
Koikuma - Awaiting on Steam content and Chinese script integration, 2018 release
Dracu-Riot - Through 1st round of QA, fixes from QA next before more QA
>Maitetsu - Through QA, needs Steam approval
Nanairo Reincarnation - 100% translated, waiting on a third party for engine work
Baldr Sky - 50% translated, Combined release of Dive 1 + Dive 2 in mid 2018
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - 100% translated
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - 50% translated
Riajuu Plus - Release "within a couple months"
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 33% translated
Miko no Kanata - Picked up
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
Tenshin Ranman - QA and engine work next
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
CyberRebeat - QA done, need fixes
G-senjou no Maou - Denpa version announced
Nekopara Vol 4 - Announced
Rewrite+ - Picked up
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Senren * Banka - Picked up
Ninja Girl - Announced
Island Diary - Announced
Love Duction - 100% translated, needs engine work
>Koi ni, Kanmi o Soete - In QA, needs testing
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
Secret Project 4 - 30% translated, needs engine work

Frontwing
Sharin no Kuni - Targeting a May release
Island - 100% translated, 40-50% edited, 2018 release
Loca-Love - Fall release
2 upcoming secret announcements

Sol Press
Newton to Ringo no Ki - 100% translated/edited, Aiming for an early June release, awaiting approval from Steam, demo released
Sakura Sakura - Released delayed to beyond April, demo released, remain work includes finishing the increase in resolution
Yotsunoha - July 27th release, 75% translated, 70% edited

Nekonyan
Hello,good-bye - 50% translated, Auguest release
Sanoba Witch - 70% translated, 25% edited, October release
Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ Mini Fandisc - Fall release
Suki to Suki to de Sankaku Ren'ai - Early 2019 release
Melty Moment - Aiming for a release next Winter

Cherry Kiss
>Tsundere Idol - Released
Harem Guild - Upcoming release

Other
>Tayutama 2 - June release, R18 patch planned but may not be ready at launch
Hemoimo - Dropped by SakuraGame and no longer being released on Steam, upcoming Fakku release planned. Currently waiting on beta build
Punchline - Summer 2018 release
Magical Charming - Release planned
Song of Memories - 2018 release
>Neighbor - 2018 release, 75% translated
E-Gene - 1st entry planned for Fall 2018
>Venus Blood Frontier - Prefundia going up around June 26th
Angel Beats - 50% translated
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Seven Days - Picked up
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
Harumade, Kururu - Seems to have an English release planned
Monmusu - 2018 release
Taisho Alice - Volume 1 released
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

>>19151687
>SukiSuki - In Beta

Only two more years to go!

>>19151393
Getting Steam to ban VNs only screws the bad cones tho, Sekai and SakuraGame that is. JAST and MG will be fine even without Steam.

>>19151837
JAST isn't really relevant since they don't do much anymore, but I wouldn't be so sure about MG. They might survive, but do you really want to go back to the pre-Steam nukigegamer days? Don't underestimate the amount of revenue Steam brings in.

>>19151841
>but do you really want to go back to the pre-Steam nukigegamer days?
Not him. But I have never really understood this. Mangagamer always had plenty of nukige. From day one, but that persists to this day so I don't really see a big difference. The overall quality of the titles have no doubt improved but there is still plenty of nukige now just like before.
On the flip side of things Mangagamer has also always had more expensive non-nukige titles in their catalogue. I'd make the argument that the quality of these have improved as well, but these types of titles were still part of their catalogue since day one.

So I kind of have something of a hard time discerning what these supposed "nukigegamer" era is even supposed to be. Yet I see it mentioned from time to time.
Even more confusing is your implication that Steam somehow got them out of it. You're talking about a change I can't even discern and then you're alluding towards Steam having brought an end the era. And I am just left confused.

What releases would you say signified the supposed "nukigegamer" era, and what releases would you say brought forth the beginning of its end?
Because as stated I am at something of a loss and I am not quite following you.

>>19151837
Steam isn't getting rid of VNs, and neither MG nor Sekai will find themselves off the platform anytime soon (especially Sekai, as they have more mainstream titles like Clannad and the multi-million seller Nekopara series, and are gradually becoming a console publisher). At worse, Valve may follow up their recent controversy with restricting the allowable content (which would mostly result in more content being in off Steam R18 patches), and be somewhat more restrictive on the titles they allow onto the platform in the first place (in particular, potentially excluding titles with a PR risk like Maitetsu, which if such a title finds a problem, especially if precautions like using the console version for Steam were taken, would just serve to discourage localization companies from localizing titles with more questionable content in the first place).

>>19151900
MangaGamer's 2013 lineup was Tick! Tack!, Super Secret Sexy Spy, Orion Heart, Throb! The Greatest Inventions of the Sexy Era, Harukoi Otome, Eroge, Ruby Striker, Bukkake Ranch, Warrior Princess Asuka, and Touma Kojirou's Detective File, and ef - the latter tale. Of the three non-nukige that year, Harukoi Otome was said to have done poorly for its localization costs despite being their third best seller of 2013, Tick Tack would be the second to last Navel title before Navel dropped MG and only made 5th on their 2013 chart, and Ef didn't make the top 10 in either 2013 or 2014. Their 2014 lineup had a few more non-nukige titles (thanks in large part to Overdrive), with Really? Really!, Cartagra, d2b VS Deardrops, Cho Dengeki Stryker, and No Thank You along with their nukige. Although despite a better line up, their 2014 top 10 sellers on their website had 8 of the top 10 as Nukige, with Cho Dengeki Stryker making 6th and Really Really making 9th.

It was with the success of Go Go Nippon/Higurashi/Eden/Princess Evangile on Steam in late 2014/early 2015 that MangaGamer put a renewed focused on non-Nukige titles (which could be clearly seen with their 2015 convention season announcements). MG has and will continue to sell nukige (and have better nukige these days), but it isn't quite the overwhelming focus it used to be when they were releasing relatively few full length titles, and most of the full length non-nukige titles they had been bringing over were finding poor sales not justifying the higher localization costs.

>>19152271
most of MG's modern nukige are pretty bad or mediocre at best. I mean old MG had a lot of bad nukige too, but since there were more nukige titles you'd usually get a 2 or 3 good ones every year. Now I'm just happy to see a single good nukige a year. So far this year the only MG Nukige I've really enjoyed would be funbag fantasy, and I don't even read it for the ero since I don't like how awful some of the tits look in comparison to the heroines body.

I'm pretty excited for Maitetsu but man is it a controversy waiting to happen. I just can't fathom what could have possibly convinced Sekai it would ever be a good idea.

>>19152368
Yeah I've never understood why they decided to license that.

>>19152409
I don't understand why they license half the shit they do.

>>19152414
i don't understand why JAST licensed Princess X. I also don't understand how someone actually translated that and didn't die. I should probably add I have absolutely no fucking clue why they ALSO decided to translate the fandisc but I wont question that one. It has a fantastic rape scene in it.

>>19152513
Many translators are dying for getting just a little bit of income. MangaGamer also promises them that if they work on a few of the worse titles and they do a good job, they'll get to translate bigger titles. The problem is that MangaGamer's pay is mainly trash even in the visual novel scene, and that you might translate some of the worse titles doing an awesome job but never get to translate bigger ones.

>>19152523
I should note that I'm not shitting on MangaGamer, it's understandable that nukige and the likes will get paid worse, and they have good translators already so getting new ones to translate bigger titles is more difficult. But it's another example of why translators might translate titles like the one >>19152513 listed. Lack of opportunities, confidence and titles in your belt to get companies to hire you for bigger titles. Everyone's gotta start somewhere.

>>19152513
I liked it.

>>19152301
Sideboob Story was really good story and translation wise. I feared that they might mess up Aphrodia's old medieval English speech similar to what Sekai Project did with Dorothy in Chrono Clock, but they actually did a pretty good job. I doubt I would have liked Sideboob Story so much if it wasn't for the good translation.
Hope the guy gets to translate the other Funbag Fantasy titles as well.

>>19152271
I doubt MangaGamer has the long breath like JAST has thanks to the J-list money or the kickstarter and steam drones like Sekai Project, but to a degree I respect them for trying to get at least 1 license for every visual novel ''category'', even if it ends up as a risky failure sales wise.
They could have just gone the easy route and translate Moonstone moege/nukige, Alicesoft titles only and make a profit.

>>19152513
As I understand it Princess X has monster girls, which is highly popular, and it has rape, which always sell, so it would be a normal expectation that it would be a big seller.

Of course Moe people would rather have a real nukige with monstergirls in them, matching all those harem mangas.

And I have no idea what rape people really want. I don't share their interest.

>>19152513
>i don't understand why JAST licensed Princess X.

JAST wants Black CYC and they're going through Poison@Berry to get it.

They mentioned at one of the Q&A's at a con years ago (2009?) that they actually had a deal with CYC. But it happened after CYC lost most of their staff so they couldn't work their engine very well so it was sidelined.

CYC must have found someone because they released Princess X and started porting titles to Windows 10. JAST seems to have noticed and reignited that deal.

>>19096926
It does, but you still shouldn't buy it.

>>19145475
I admire his will to be helpful, but he has chosen the wrong person to assist.

>>19157335
A beginner who writes like that is useless. Probably some kid who'll get bored of it 2 weeks in, too.

Still waiting for Evenicle release.

>>19157359
Eh. Optimism isn't all too bad to have. The bigger worry is that he's from the fucking Philippines, so his English is probably real fucking terrible. That and you can probably assume that neither of those two guys will have any sort of good management over the script at all.

>>19157397
The "translator" is just using machine tl and guesswork, so it really doesn't matter if the editor speaks any English at all. I'm tempted to think that all of this is just a ploy to get a competent translator to show up and try and salvage the project, netting this fag a free translation. Hopefully no one will offer and he'll burn out on his own.

>>19157395
No shit? So is everyone. It's coming out on the 28th.

Three whole months later and Sol Press have still yet to release anything. I wonder if they will actually manage to release Newrin this month.

>>19152513
>I have absolutely no fucking clue why they ALSO decided to translate the fandisc

Most of the good H-scenes like fucking the fairy while it's inside the loli happen in the fandisc.

I feel like I'm missing some butthurt from the release of Hajimete no Okaasan.

>>19159049
No idea why you'd think anyone would care.

>>19159049
If you find fiction revolting, then just ignore it. It's not like it's hard to do that.

>>19154184
As far as I know, the only company that specializes in that is Vanadis. I'm a bit surprised that they haven't been partnered with anyone in the west yet, but the cause could be due to a large variety of factors.

There's Galzoo Island I guess, but Alicesoft gal monsters are weird and don't really feel like "monster girls" as a whole. Galzoo Island is a bit weird on top of that, so I can't help but think that anyone wanting Galzoo for monster girls will be disappointed.

>>19159049
There was a reddit thread full of butthurt

>>19159403
If you know this, you need to leave.

MangaGamer's Top 5 Weekly Chart:

1. Evenicle
2. Kuroinu Ch.3
3. The Tower of Five Hearts
4. Magical Marriage Lunatics
5. Fallen ~Makina and the City of Ruins~

Evenicle catapulted straight to 1st place, followed by Kuroinu Ch.3, while Magical Marriage Lunatics is slowly losing it's place in the Top 5 after good 2+ months.
Higurashi Ch. 6 still hasn't showed up in the chart, but just like The House in Fata Morgana, it's a title which earns most of it's sales on steam.

>>19159966
>it's
its. Twice.

>>19158177
It sure does sound like the good content.

>>19159966
I've personally noticed that a game tends to sell well right when it goes on preorder and right when it goes on sale on the MG store. The sales from right when it goes on preorder are generally a good deal lower than from right when it goes on sale.

While Kuroinu hasn't sold particularly well, it probably does sell as well as an average short nukige. Evenicle preorder sales surpassing Kuroinu weekend sales on a day by day basis is a good sign for Evenicle's total sales down the line.

>>19161687
Than again, there just arent that many gameplay VNs compared to other genres so it may last for some time. I wonder how Kamidori would have sold these days with an official translation, despite being old at this point.

>>19162101
I'd buy Himegari Dungeon Meister at this point.

>>19162101
Kamidori is one of the best gameplay eroge ever released in English, so I imagine it would have done pretty well. Age isn't that bug a deal in the VN community, especially when you're starving for gameplay titles.

I wonder how Monster Girl Quest would have done if it had gotten an official release.

>>19162496
Kamidori is basically normalfag-tier in the West at this point, it's so well known. Eushully made a huge mistake not getting into the West, they would have made a ton of money.

>>19159895
Leave then, you know it too now

>>19162580
All gaijins are pirates.

>>19163037
The plebbitor is cheeky. Wow.

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien when

>>19162580
They will join the western scene sooner or later, it's just gameplay titles are usually huge and require so much more work compared to your average visual novel release. If Aroduc was still part of the scene, you know which company would try to buy and sell his Kamidori translation officially.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solpress/newton-and-the-apple-tree-a-visual-novel-by-laplac/posts/2205725
Seems like steam have still yet to approve Newrin after almost a month.

Does anyone know what tool(s) were used to unpack and repack Hatsukoi(https://vndb.org/v750)? Been digging around and haven't found any leads so far.

>>19167696
Oh man, it's the good Hatsukoi for once

>>19167696
Clearly a shitty one, considering the wordwrapping is completely broken.

>>19165564
Sekai Project tried.

You can imagine how that went.

>>19167869
I'm pretty sure everyone's tried by this point. You'd think they'd want the extra money after a couple flops but I guess Amayui got them enough money to not give a shit about the West.

>>19167889
You misunderstand. Sekai Project approached Aroduc about buying his translation, and then lied repeatedly about what they were doing.

>>19167895
Oh you were referring to the Baldr Sky incident. My mistake.

>>19167889
Eushully seems like the type of company who refuses some way to generate 1k extra sales if it means 10k more people pirate their game. While I sort of understand being disappointed people are "stealing" your stuff, the number of people who pirate your stuff is only extremely indirectly related to how many people buy your work in the end. There's no point in angsting about how someone got your hard work for free so long as plenty of other people already paid you for that hard work anyways.

>>19168117
Wrong again, friendo. Sekai Project approached him about both Baldr Sky and Kamidori. They lied constantly through both discussions.

>>19168648
Any more juicy deets my friend? This is more damning evidence of sekai fucking up.

>>19168656
Not really. If I had to guess, Dovac was simply lying to save face rather than admit that Eushully had straight turned them down. My understanding is that he would cite problems (eg technical) as blockers that prevented an English release, Aroduc would respond with a solution, then Dovac would say that wasn't actually the problem, but something else was, repeat 3-4 more times until all credibility is gone.

This was the prelude to the Baldr Sky screwjob.

I realize there is futility in asking this since I can't really tell but do we still have people doing translation criticisms with Japanese/English here about various projects or is it mostly now just one sided with grammatically incorrect English criticism? It has been more than 4 years since I've been here and I've browsed a few prior archived threads to search for an answer myself but I am wondering if I will get any feedback of worth if I post something that I've made public 3 months ago and see what comes out of it here.

>>19169061
it's rare but there has been occasions where JOPs here explain issues with translations

>>19168672
I think you have the timing backwards, it would make just as much sense that he asked Aroduc if he would offer his translation before approaching Eushully. That's how we know Baldr Sky went down after all. Unfortunately for Sekai, and just about everyone else for that matter, Eushully has absolutely no interest in the western market.

>>19169360
First, that's not how Baldr Sky went down. Sekai had been pestering Giga for a long time before they found out about the project. Knowing it had solved a bunch of the problems that Giga couldn't solve itself is what pushed Giga over the top into accepting.

Second, whether he approached Aroduc or Eushully first is irrelevant. He approached both, and from the conversation I know about, he repeatedly changed his story about why they were choosing not to get the license. Note, not that they couldn't get the license, but always a claim that there was an impossible issue that nobody could overcome (which then had a workaround) that prevented anybody from ever getting the license.

anyone recommened any vns like tsujidou san junai road?

>>19170555
No.

>>19170555
Ayakashibito.

>>19170401
>Knowing it had solved a bunch of the problems that Giga couldn't solve itself is what pushed Giga over the top into accepting
How did JAST get so far (as in the only thing that blocked a final deal was demosaiced CGs) if Giga was held up over the engine issues?

>>19170768
Jast was in talks with Giga years ago, well before Sekai even existed, let alone the Steam explosion. Who the fuck knows what was assumed or promised back then? I also wouldn't put much stock in ancient secondhand hearsay anyway.

>>19170768
>>19170931
Also, the censored image thing is a non-issue for a Steam release and go hand in hand with engine issues. A Steam release doesn't give a shit about censored images because they'll be removed, but to do that, you need to have fine control over the engine.

>>19170931
>ancient secondhand hearsay
Pretty sure it was moogy who came out and said it at some point since he was working with JAST around that time and no one else came out to correct him.

>>19170972
Do you need a definition of the words ancient, secondhand, and hearsay?

>>19171093
Yes.

https://gematsu.com/2018/06/clannad-for-ps4-coming-to-us-as-digital-only-title

>Prototype will release the PlayStation 4 version of Clannad as a digital-only title in the United States, the company announced. A release date was not announced. In Japan, Clannad will be released both physically and digitally for PlayStation 4 on June 14.

>As previously detailed, the PlayStation 4 version of Clannad features both English and Japanese text, which can be switched at any time during gameplay. This is true for both the western and Japanese versions of the game.


Why is Prototype the publisher and not Sekai Project?

>>19151688
>Maitetsu - Through QA, needs Steam approval
Shit, so it's pretty much done? Can I safely feel hype now?

>>19171184
It's like you enjoy being disappointed.

>>19171154
Prototype is a parent company of Visual Arts, they most likely bought the translation from SP and are now selling it themselves, just like Nekoworks did with Nekopara for the PS4.

Frontwing put up a Kickstarter preview for Phantom Trigger Volume 5.

>>19171154
Was wondering this too the moment I read that news when it was first announced. I still don't know whose translation Key is using for their PS4 release.

>>19171316
They're most likely using Sekai Project's translation like >>19171232 predicted.

>>19171284
Here's the page to give Frontwing feedback.

It has a $30,000 goal.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frontwing/178357709

>>19151687
>Grisaia: Phantom Trigger Vol.5 launches on Steam this summer!

Also it estimates it will launch this July.

>>19171284
>>19171344
The rewards for this campaign are terrible.

>>19171381
Are they ever not terrible?

>>19171385
Volume 4 had more reward tier options.

>>19171344
For some reason that doesn't open anything for me.

>>19171479
4chan keeps thinking the full link is spam, so here's a screenshot with the web address.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1666776116200553082

Valve posted this about what is being allowed onto Steam.

>>19171988
>developers who build controversial content shouldn't have to deal with harassment because their game exists, and we'll be building tools and options to support them too.

>It means that the Steam Store is going to contain something that you hate, and don't think should exist. Unless you don't have any opinions, that's guaranteed to happen. But you're also going to see something on the Store that you believe should be there, and some other people will hate it and want it not to exist.

>As we've hopefully managed to convey, navigating these issues is messy and complicated. Countries and societies change their laws and cultural norms over time. We'll be working on this for the foreseeable future, both in terms of what products we're allowing, what guidelines we communicate, and the tools we're providing to developers and players.

Based Ganes just saved Maitetsu.

>>19171988
>With that principle in mind, we've decided that the right approach is to allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling.
Did they just allow explicit porn on Steam?

>>19171988
>developers who build controversial content shouldn't have to deal with harassment because their game exists, and we'll be building tools and options to support them too.

>It means that the Steam Store is going to contain something that you hate, and don't think should exist. Unless you don't have any opinions, that's guaranteed to happen. But you're also going to see something on the Store that you believe should be there, and some other people will hate it and want it not to exist.

>As we've hopefully managed to convey, navigating these issues is messy and complicated. Countries and societies change their laws and cultural norms over time. We'll be working on this for the foreseeable future, both in terms of what products we're allowing, what guidelines we communicate, and the tools we're providing to developers and players.
Based Gaben just saved Maitetsu.

>>19172010
I don't think they can, since payment processors. They'll just keep allowing offsite patches like before most likely.

>>19171988
The absolute state of that comment section. Based Steam saving porn games.

>>19172010
Porn is illegal in enough places that they still aren't going to allow it.

>As we mentioned earlier, laws vary around the world, so we're going to need to handle this on a case-by-case basis.

>>19172047
Amazing, isn't it? I expected the exact opposite.

>>19171988
>developers who build controversial content shouldn't have to deal with harassment because their game exists, and we'll be building tools and options to support them too.

So they are getting ready to add an 18+ section for explicit porn content. This almost means that you can have gore in the game and some porn elements. And there would be patches to allow sex scenes in. This is good news overall but I would still put games on GOG just for backup situations.

>>19172128
No, see >>19172074

>>19171988
Even if Steam gets an 18+ section, such a section would likely get restricted in China (just like Steam Community already is) so Western VN publishers would still have reason to pursue proper all ages releases in some cases. For example the main reason KoiKuma got delayed was Denpa and/or the Japanese publisher decided at the last minute to create an all ages version for Steam, and the major drive to create such an all ages release would be Sayori's appeal in China, not just to have it available on Steam for a Western audience.

>>19172244
I did not mention porn in the game. I said porn would only be thing to be patched in. Steam is going to allow more than usual though.

>>19172254
Farther along those lines, someone like Sekai won't be giving up their separation with Denpasoft as a brand either regardless of what happens. I suppose if an R18 storefront comes along, a big question would simply be if Valve would allow two separate versions of a title on Steam, one an R18 release and the other a more traditional all ages release.

>>19172039
Is there any reason Valve can't make their own payment processor at some point? They are a big enough storefront and probably have enough revenue to fund one.

>>19172962
That doesn't fully address the problem when they are going to want continued support from Paypal.

>>19172981
Make 18+ stuff only buyable with steam cash. Steam cash is buyable through paypal. That's the standard way of doing things.

>>19172074
Can't they just blacklist games in certain counties or regions to stop people buying them there? They already do it for some other titles that are banned where they have to submit revised editions to get listed in certain areas (like removing Swastikas for German releases).

As one dev puts the news.

>I've already had people PM me like "does this mean you can patch all of your games????"

>and i've had to explain to all of them like "i have no idea"

>>19173208
Is typical Valve. Give out a vague broad statement but never really spell out the specifics or message devs with extra info so people know where they really stand until the next controversy hits with enough backlash to force their hand.

MG posted a backers only update on Koropokkur.

>>19173287
>@steam_games still refuses to speak to us developers about Maidens of Michael. They're not even responding to us or allowing us a chance to appeal the decision, let alone make whatever changes they may deem necessary. Even though the title is perfectly fine, legal, & permissible

https://twitter.com/Kouryuu_/status/1004463506132013056

Posted just today.

https://store.fakku.net/pages/maitetsu
>Release Date June 2018

>>19173624
Man, that art looks a bit worse than I remember. And what on earth is with Sekai's font choices? They're always ugly as fuck.

>>19173645
>And what on earth is with Sekai's font choices? They're always ugly as fuck.
https://twitter.com/sekaiproject/status/1004185821463896064
It looks even worse when there is more text on the screen, looks like an artifacted jpg.

>>19173656
They should just use something good and free like Liberation Sans or something. I don't know who makes the font decisions but they're dumb

>>19173656
Disgusting. I hope there are font options.

>>19173624
It isn't all that surprising to see Fakku's involvement with the R18 release, as their involvement seemed likely ever since Denpa announced a partnership with Fakku.

>>19173672
I'm more surprised about the price-tag, I wonder how much negotiating it took for Lose to lower it down to 40 bucks. I was expecting 50 at least.

>>19171988
>things we decide are illegal
>we decide
I don't know what to think about this, at the end of the day you're still left at the mercy of some random Valve employee who never read a visual novel in his or her life. This changes nothing apart from Valve saying: We aren't responsible in any form if game X creates the next big shitstorm or controversy.

>>19173624
Seems Sekai/Denpa themselves won't be touching it at all distribution wise as the page notes Fakku is the exclusive distributor of the 18+ version. Where it is listed on the general page for Fakku's games, the game entry doesn't even include Denpasoft as a publisher like it does for Denpa's other titles, instead it only lists the developer Lose.

>>19173802
I just wonder what shit fukko is trying now.
Never trust those fucks.

>>19173624
Mosaics and I guess they didn't even bother to translate the 10+ appends too?
For 40$ at least they could have removed the mosaics.

>>19173857
>>19173802

As far as I see it, Sekai Project most likely sold them their translation and rights for the 18+ release, while washing their hands off any kind of legal responsibility.
They will most likely release the all ages only version on steam, while ignoring everything in regards of the 18+ version.

>>19173923
Animated H-scenes. Removed mosaics in Imopara are so bad in the animated H-scenes.

>>19173958
Compared to something like Boob Wars 2, Imoparas animated scenes looked much better IMO. Then Imopara 2 improved on 1s scenes. Animated scenes definitely dont work well in all VNs though.

>>19173958
>>19173988
Mosaics, and animated scenes rather. Some of the demosiaced VNs from MG really look horrible, but that's not really their fault.

>>19173656
The text font is horrible. What the hell Sekai. I can barely read the white font over the dark background.

>>19151687
>Kyonyuu Fantasy 2
Wait, what? Not the Gaiden sequel? Why?

>>19174257
they're probably going in release order

>>19174265
Yeah, but Kyonyuu Fantasy, Gaiden, and Gaiden 2 are a trilogy covering Lute. Gaiden 2 is basically a prequel to all the games covering an ancient ruler who existed way before Lute's time. While Gaiden 3 is its own thing as well.

>>19174265
Yeah, but Kyonyuu Fantasy, Gaiden, and Gaiden 2 are a trilogy covering Lute. Kyonyuu Fantasy 2 is basically a prequel to all the games covering an ancient ruler who existed way before Lute's time. While Gaiden 3 is its own thing as well.

>>19174265
Yeah, but Kyonyuu Fantasy, Gaiden, and Gaiden 2 are a trilogy covering Lute. Kyonyuu Fantasy 2 is basically a prequel to all the games covering an ancient ruler who existed way before Lute's time. While Kyonyuu Fantasy 3 is its own thing as well.

how many attempts do you need to make a post

>>19173958
Looked fine in UBW, though. I think it had more to do with the animations themselves in ImoPara 2, which were very much on the cheap. Then again the animation in Maitetsu doesn't really look that special either.

https://eisysinc.talentcld.com/job/481

Hmmm...

>>19173996
I would say more often than not titles made within the past 5-8 years have pretty good uncensored artwork. ImoPara 2 had really decent uncensored art overall, especially for a title with a moege-ish artstyle which usually have horrid uncensored art.

>>19174576
>English: native with excellent writing skills
>Japanese: fluent (preferably JLPT N1 or equivalent)
Hahahaha, yeah right
Do they think nobody has ever played their official releases or what

>>19174967
The ones I tried seem fine. Note that only the ones that have "Official DLsite translation" tag are translated by them. Those who just have a English tag are by whoever and sometimes even mtl.

>>19173923
But Cura's a good artist!

>>19175845
Was aimed at >>19173958

>>19173988
Doddler spend countless hours messing with the animated H scenes in Imopara to get them to look right. They were terribly done before he adjusted them.

>>19175845
I don't think demosaiced animation is really in the artist's hands.

>>19173427

>In the short term, we won't be making significant changes to what's arriving on Steam until we've finished some of the tools we've described in this post.

Here is what will happen, mark my words: over the next couple of months Valve will develop tools for whomever upload games to their service to being able flag their titles as offensive, pornographic or whatever else. Failing on doing such could lead to the games being removed and refusal to do further business with said devs. These titles would likely be hidden for regular users by default, being displayed only for those that have selected some opt-ins.

Once those systems are in place, every game that has been removed thus far will be able to be reinstated or at least re-evaluated. Trying to force things now just after they announced all this is ludicrous.

>>19177108
Proper pornographic games will never, ever be on Steam. It might be on some other Valve creation some day, but as long as Steam is a tool widely used by children and partnered with mainstream payment processors it will never bring down the hammer that is actual pornography upon itself.
And no, no age gate has ever worked properly and everyone who has been a child in the internet era knows it.

>>19177508
And who cares about that, its the parents job to take care of their children, not Steams or other companies. And since you are speaking of that its not like it will prevent children from getting those games anyway. They either pirate the game like I used to do as a child or they just patch it like the other steam fags.

>>19177508
Heck, I've been a child so I know the biggest consumers of porn are children. It is just the entire world trying to deny it because it would be improper.

>>19177546
>its the parents job to take care of their children
Not relevant.
>And since you are speaking of that its not like it will prevent children from getting those games anyway.
Also not relevant. It's about maintaining appearances set by the mainstream.

>>19177546
I agree with you Dee Snyder. Parents need to be responsible for what their kids consume and where they go. So many parents just blame video games or rock music or TV for all their issues when it's really just them being a shitty fucking parent and literally doing the opposite of their job as a parent. It sickens me.

Thankfully in the US VN's aren't considered Obscene and can be publically sold. Unless it's like a really heavy nukige, but even them you could probably argue that some part of it makes it Art.

>>19177546
That's great and all but unfortunately the real world doesn't work that way. The reality is that whether it's parents, Paypal or China there are many, many walls preventing Steam from putting porn on there (at least without it being hugely, hugely unprofitable).

>>19177574
The absolute best that Valve could do if they actually wanted to go down that road is create a separate platform that is comparable with the Steam client, but otherwise kept separate from Steam proper. It would get around most of the logistic issues as it could handle payment processing differently and it would be easy to block access to China and other markets where an R18 platform wouldn't be allowed. Although it would likely lead to increased restrictions on the primary Steam platform (the titles which drew warnings from Valve would likely get removed from the primary platform), and if it is treated as a quarantine titles wouldn't get much promotion. Additionally, the VN localization companies would lose out a lot on being unable to reach the Chinese market with such titles, especially if Valve were to block a title from being on both the main platform and the 18+ platform and limit titles with an R18 version elsewhere from doing an all ages version just for the primary Steam platform.

>>19177508
>And no, no age gate has ever worked properly and everyone who has been a child in the internet era knows it.
It works better when it's tied directly to a credit card.

>>19178005
That seems like a security catastrophe waiting to happen. It's probably better to just have an half-assed age gate and blame the parents if the kid starts going to places he isn't supposed too.

>>19173624
Coming out on the 29th.

>>19173624
>18+ version
Holy shit? Well it's SP so i'm sure it'll be a shitty release tho. Who is the translator?

>>19179022
i wouldn't be surprised if the Maitetsu release is actually OK since it seems like Sekai has been doing fuck-all this year in regards to their other releases, possibly because they were all focusing on this one

maybe that's just blind optimism, though

>>19177508

Disagreed, Valve was pretty clear with this announcement. If they didn't want to have pornographic content in their store, they would have said it. They had every opportunity to do it but they didn't.

As others have said, they will probably be stricter with age gates, maybe requiring a CC or so. Then, they'd gate all the content from the main store (unless the user opts-in) so the all ages market isn't affected.

>>19179460
Valve could easily say "porn is illegal in China" or something to that effect. I do think that it's extremely weird that they wouldn't say no explicit eroge outright, but maybe they thought that would cause too much controversy and decided to just deal with that issue later. Everything Valve said is empty PR talk right now. We'll just have to wait and see.

Inb4 Evenicle on Steam

>>19179576

What stops them from filtering content per region again? Like how MangaGamer and such blocks nips from buying from them.

>>19178042
It's Steam, they already have everyone's credit cards.

Trample on Schatten is up for preorder, doesn't seem to list a release window though.
https://twitter.com/jastusa/status/1004915255590440962

>>19173923
>Mosaics and I guess they didn't even bother to translate the 10+ appends too?
I believe the appends are TLed too

>>19179769
>believing in SP even once
Besides, I don't think all the appends are out just yet even in Japan. Unless Sekai promises post-release support which would be very uncharacteristically nice of them.

>>19179773
i think Fakku said it

https://gematsu.com/2018/06/sekai-project-announces-console-focused-initiative-sekai-games

Sekai Games seems to be the branding that Sekai Project is using for their console releases.

>>19179776
Even worse

>>19173624
so I bought it and
>Your digital copy of Testing Chapter is now available to download.

what did Jacob mean by this? the download page leads to 404

>>19178005
>It works better when it's tied directly to a credit card.

those who do not learn from history...

>>19179858
They would have no reason to lie about it, especially this close to release.

how many years has it been since sumaga was announced now?

>>19180523
7?

>>19177997
They might do this and create a backdoor for it.

>>19179692
It'll probably release at or around AX.

Island when

>>19180993
I wish it would come out soon because the anime is coming out in about a month and I would prefer to play the VN before watching it.

>>19181011
You could just not watch the anime since it's going to be garbage anyways

>>19181011
If it isn't out before the anime I'll just avoid the anime until afterwards. The anime may end up being bad anyway like most other VN adaptations.

Has any studio other than KyoAni ever managed to make a good VN adaptation?

>>19181136
Shaft with ef

>>19181136
Amagami was a good adaptation. But yeah, that's one out of like 50 VN adaptations I've seen.

>>19181011
>>19181018
>>19181019
One of the original voice actresses refused to work on it. Seems like a bad sign

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-01-29/island-tv-anime-recasts-sara-after-script-changes-dispute/.127066

>>19181493
Maybe. Depends what the scene being disputed was (it could even be something that was originally in the game that is now problematic for her), and there could be other factors like the actress's career advancement/image/whatever.

Are you ready for your pseudo child pornography to be allowed on Steam completely uncensored? Fucking pedos.

>>19181590
>>>/vg/

>>19181595
>get out of my safe space
>reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Good one, cuck.

>>19181613
This is a peaceful thread where we talk about VN translation updates so please take your epic maymays somewhere else. Thank you.

>>19181627
You're the one screeching for people to get out of your thread, retard. Steam allowing uncensored content on Steam is pertinent to this thread, snowflake.

>>19181645
Then discuss the subject like a normal person and try to fit in, rather than causing a disruption.

>>19181648
Or you can stop being a sissy who takes offense to absolutely everything on the internet. How the fuck did you even end up on 4chan if you're this easily roused?

>>19181652
I'd rather just stop responding since you'll eventually go back wherever you came from either way.

>>19181652
just fuck off please

>>19179600
I use paypal though. Some people just use Steam pay cards or prepaid credit cards.

>>19181136
White Fox with Steins;Gate, but that's really it. I can't think of any other visual novel that got a proper adaptation.

>>19180993
>>19181011
>>19181019
Frontwing said they were planning to release the localization close to the airing date of the anime. They also said they'll have news on the visual novel soon. https://twitter.com/FrontwingInt/status/1004180009068531712

>>19181018
>it's going to be garbage anyways
Then it'll be a faithful adaptation of the game.

>>19181136
Boku no pico by natural high.

>>19180993
They said they will have a kickstarter for Island, seeing that they don't even have a prefundia date yet you'll wait a bit more for it.

>>19181136
Umineko no Naku Koro ni by Studio DEEN.

>>19179773
>Unless Sekai promises post-release support
Given they're not listed as the publisher on fakku's site and fakku is the sole distributor of the VN, it seems as though Sekai just sold off the 18+ verison to fakku and isn't responsible for it now.

This makes perfect sense, considering Sekai's recent focus on becoming a console publisher on the Switch. >>19179828

>>19181976
Would accept this answer if you put Higurashi instead of Umineko.

>>19181988
I tried watching this recently but lost interest halfway through the first season and dropped it. Haven't read the VN.

>>19182045
The first season is a shitty mess. The second is alright though, but still not as good as the vn.

>>19182054
I'll probably try the VN if Mangagamer ever finishes releasing it

>>19182081
Speaking of which, I've been considering reading Umineko in the meantime. Is it important to have read Higurashi beforehand?

>>19182103
They are separate stories and have nothing to do with each other.
Also you are missing out by having not read it yet, i suggest you do so right now.

>>19182103
Not really. There are a few minor references here or there, but they are minor, and you won't know that they are references just from reading Umineko

>>19181725
School days anime is probably better than the VN

>>19182103
Not really, you can read Umineko without Higurashi just fine. But if you're planning to read both, I recommend starting with Higurashi.

Although they might not share the same story, Umineko does expand on Higurashi ideas and themes. They're complementary works.

>>19182103
you don't but umineko is overhyped trash anyway

Any tools for repacking Buriko .arc archives? Trying to repack script archives for a 2016 game, so the newer the tool the better.

>>19183326
Format is ARC20, by the way

>>19183326
AE?

>>19183378
Tried it, it keeps throwing an error. Also, funny thing: it also doesn't close streams after the error occurs so trying again returns a "this file is being used by another process" error instead, with said process actually being itself.

>>19183387
In particular, it throws this the first time:
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AE v0.6.10.420 Nepeta [2015/01/24]
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Access violation at address 00515F14 in module 'AE.exe'. Write of address 00000000.
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OK
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>>19173663
I imagine Sekai saw complaints with their chosen font as they went out of their way to note that fonts can be changed.

https://twitter.com/sekaiproject/status/1005183970538151936

>>19183693
>6 million characters
Holy fuck Sekai Project is dumb. They took into account code too, and now they're making it look like the second longest visual novel to ever exist, when it comes nowhere near that.

>>19183804
Going for a release date at the end of the month seems odd, especially if their target is the 29th mentioned by Fakku, as that would presumably be during the Summer Steam sale.

>>19183693
Going for a release date at the end of the month seems odd, especially if their target is the 29th mentioned by Fakku, as that would presumably be during the Summer Steam sale.

>>19183961
they did that last year (or two years ago) with the Grisaia sequel, didn't they?

>>19183804
Post proof so it can be put against their tweet

>>19183961
>See, loli games don't sell, so we won't be doing any more of them.

I come from the future.

>>19184224
Would explain why they picked the loli game most likely to disappoint the memelords who will be buying it.

>>19183693
Inb4 wordwrapping or overflow issues with non-default fonts

>>19180480
>They would have no reason to lie about it

That hasn't stopped them from lying about all kinds of things in the past.

>>19183326
For BGI you can normally just dump the translated scripts without repacking in the main game folder and it will override the ones in the .arc files if you are really struggling with repacking.

>>19181768
My biggest wish for the Island anime is that they don't adapt the true route. I haven't been as disappointed in an ending for a while.

>>19184382
I don't disagree at all, and some part of me actually wants Maitetsu to be a shitfest so we can get more Sekai shitposts (always fun), but I get the feeling that it will probably be mostly as they say.

The translation seems a bit weird already, though.

某はもう日本語が出来るし英語翻訳なんぞには興味が有りません
永劫にエロゲやりまくりで御座る

>>19185919
Why would you want any TL release to be a shitfest? Every TL should be in good quality ideally. I know it's fun to make fun of companies for shitting but we shouldn't actually want them to shit

>>19187740
It's not wrong to want companies that act unethically, have poor standards, and animus towards the medium and their consumers to fail.

>>19187740
combination of anti-EOP elitism and cynicism about whether competence is rewarded

>>19188478
Well yeah I want them to fail or at least fail so hard they're forced to get better but you can't want the company to fail while also wanting a good translation

I've started reading a few eroge and am already worried about the amount that's been translated, would you guys say translation efforts for VN's has been gaining speed or the growth has been stagnant?

>>19183326
What did you use to unpack the scripts?

>>19189532
I'd say things are faster than they were 10 years ago when MG first showed up. The speed is more or less than the same it was 5 years ago though, since the new companies that have showed up since Sekai Project became a big player haven't really been big contenders, except maybe for Frontwing. It doesn't really help that MG is the only company that consistently releases monthly (sometimes biweekly) while Sekai is only marginally faster than JAST when it comes to big titles.

>>19189532
I think that the likihood of things getting actually finished is a lot better than the past but translation efforts in of itself is kind of stagnant.

>>19189752
>>19189897
Thanks for the answers guys, reminds me why I like /jp/ so much, I hope the pace quickens one day and the good untranslated ones don't become forgotten. In the mean time I'm glad there is a lot of manga and anime translated at least.

>>19189532
I don't know what your tastes are, but most VNs are fucking crap. Most (not all) of the ones that are actually good are already translated. If you want an endless amount of mediocre porn to wade through you should just learn Japanese.

>>19190573
Stupid plotfriend.

>>19190603
Indeed. If a VN doesn't have a good story I'm not interested in it at all.

>>19190573
Ah I'd have to aptly agree, but I think that's truthful for all forms of media. I have a soft spot for cheesy harem anime and visual novels, though I like intricate plots more than them.
I like wading through visual novels as it passes time and lets me escape into anything but my own life, bonus points if there's a loli heroine.
I'd say my favorites are Euphoria and Saya no uta but I'm a big noob, I've downloaded 100+ now though for later.

Lol I wonder what new tools MG is given for Steam now. because it looks like there are fans wanting Rance right now.

>>19191316
Mutiny dev said on twitter that there's been no confirmation that uncensored games are allowed.

>>19191354
Of course they won't allow uncensored stuff, they do have to deal with paypal and shit. And I don't think you can sanitize rance and make an uncensor patch, with the whole game being rape rape rape.

>>19191409
I bet Sekai could do it.

>>19191409
If you can put Tsundere Idol on Steam you can do it with Rance

>>19191417
>>19191420
Well yeah, if you're willing to mangle and cut up the story to make it family friendly.

What a nice dilemma. I don't want to give Sekai Project any money, but if they do I good job on Maitetsu, I need to support a lolige that was brought over here and was actually handled well. I want to see Sekai Project fail, but I want Maitetsu to have had a good translation and be successful.

>>19191553
then buy from Fakku, it's purely a Fakku release if you buy the +18 release. SP has no rights or royalties to that version.

>>19191558
Fakku is even worse. Fuck those guys. But of course I would buy the 18+ release. thats the only version that matters. The point remains the same. I hate them, and want to see them fail, but if they actually give me everything I want I need to buy and support the product they provided. Especially if it means a possibility of getting more of that product that I desire.

>>19191553
>I want Maitetsu to have had a good translation
There's no indication so far that this is going to be the case, unless you have a really loose definition of the word "good".

>>19191578
I WANT TO BELIEVE.

>>19191575
God I can't believe you're actually thinking of buying from those fukko fags.

>>19191578
There's no indication otherwise either.

>>19191585
Like I said, if they somehow deliver a good product, I have no choice but to. Thats not to say I've already pre-ordered, I'm waiting to see the final result. IF they actually do I good job, I have to support a well done loli translation project. If it sucks, or is cut in anyway, I'll be sad, but I want them to fail even more. Of course I'll still play it, just pirated.

I expect a bunch of fakku shills to come here and shit the place the closer we get to maitetsu's release. I wish they fucked off.

>>19191592
Except for every other translation they've ever done. I'm sure it'll work out this time though.

>>19191599
Do we actually know who did the translation for Maitetsu? If it was someone who has a poor track record that'd be more credible then just saying "everything Sekai does is bad". At least from the screenshots so far I haven't seen any retarded localization decisions and they've kept honorifics too.

>>19191628
>Do we actually know who did the translation for Maitetsu?
I sure don't. I doubt Sekai ever deemed this piece of information important enough to announce publicly.
>I haven't seen any retarded localization decisions and they've kept honorifics too.
I'm not about to trust that anything's correct just because they're not slamming their head on the keyboard and calling it a day. I guess we'll see how the translation is when it's released and people have a real chance to compare it to the original. Until then I see no reason to give Sekai the benefit of the doubt considering how many times they've fucked up.

>>19191628
>I haven't seen any retarded localization decisions
>they've kept honorifics

>>19191683
Fuck off, herkz.

>>19191692
This. No more cartel localizations.

>>19191628
Raillord is extremely retarded

>>19192016
New thread up with this week's status updates.

>>19190482
You can write off a lot of the older 800x600 or below resolution games being translated as most publishers won't pick them up any more unless they can rework them at a higher resolution leaving it down to fan translators for the most part and that adds to unreliability.

>>19191683
>they've kept honorifics
Holy shit? Will it be the first good translation of SP?

any straight men playing otoge? how do you self-insert as the dude?

>>19184679
Thanks, that worked. I tried loading the files externally once before, but I thought you needed to put them in a folder named after the archive.
>>19189594
https://github.com/Inori/FuckGalEngine/tree/master/BGI/BGIKit to decode and encode the scripts
https://github.com/morkt/GARbro to extract them