/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
Koikuma - New round of QA starting, 2018 release
Dracu-Riot - Through 1st round of QA, fixes from QA next before more QA
Nanairo Reincarnation - In QA, waiting on a third party
Baldr Sky - 50% translated
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
Creature to Koi Shiyo!! for Otome - Waiting on a third party
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+ - 35% translated
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Senren * Banka - Picked up
Ninja Girl - 100% translated
Island Diary - Announced
Love Duction - 100% translated, needs engine work
>Koi ni, Kanmi o Soete - Expected to be release ready this month, dependent on Valve approval
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 2 - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 3 - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 0 - Picked up
Re;Lord Volume 2 - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work
Majo Koi Nikki - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work
Harumade Kururu - 75% edited, awaiting engine work, 2019 release
9 -nine- - 100% translated, 0% edited, awaiting engine work
Tokyo Chronos - Kickstarter ongoing

Frontwing
>Island - August 24th release
Sharin no Kuni - Targeting a September release
Loca-Love - Fall release
Lilitales - Picked up

Sol Press
>Newton to Ringo no Ki - Released
Sakura Sakura - Demo released, remain work includes finishing the increase in resolution
Yotsunoha - Q3 release, starting QA, demo Released

Nekonyan
Sanoba Witch - 100% translated, 70% edited, October 26th release
Hello,good-bye - 60% translated, 25% edited, November release
Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ Mini Fandisc - Fall release
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
Suki to Suki to de Sankaku Ren'ai - Early 2019 release
Melty Moment - Aiming for a release next Winter
"Two big titles" to be announced in August

Cherry Kiss
Harem Guild - Upcoming release
Nekura Ijimerarekko o Tasuketara Natsukareta - Picked up
Tenshi to Akuma to Elf ga Oyome ni Kimashita - 1/3rd translated

Fakku
Hemoimo - Dropped by SakuraGame and no longer being released on Steam, upcoming Fakku release planned. Currently waiting on beta build
Love Cube - Picked up

Other
Tayutama 2 - August release, R18 patch planned but may not be ready at launch
>Punchline - August 31st release
E-Gene - 1st entry planned for Fall 2018
London Detective Mysteria - Fall 2018 release
Magical Charming - Release planned
Song of Memories - 2018 release
Neighbor - 2018 release, 100% translated, editing to start soon
Venus Blood Frontier - Prefundia up, Kickstarter in August
Angel Beats - 50% translated
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Seven Days - Picked up
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

In the previous thread:

>SP in full damage control.
>Tokyo Chronos got fully funded in a day, highly likely by SP themselves.
>Aokana "overseas version" announcement soon(tm). Many hope that it'll be by NekoNyan, yet some fear that it'll be SakuraGame.
>Confirmed by Doddler that the entire industry will have problems with Valve for the foreseeable future. Expectations vary from a few months to early 2019.
>Chuee confirmed that none of the NN announcements at the end of this month are Favorite titles.
>DMM/Hobibox released the 18+ patch for Your Diary+ and is atrocious.

I'm glad Sol Press finally released something.

>>19699021
And it seems they didn't botch the release and all, I'm liking what I see,

>Rewrite+ - 35% translated
holy shit, some sort of progress after about 2 years

>>19699047
It's slightly shorter than Baldr Sky, taking into account all the extra dictionaries and shit, and yet Baldr Sky is supposedly being translated about ten times faster.

Unless they're lying about something. But Sekai Project would NEVER do that.

I'm actually surprised Aokana is actually coming over after all this time.

>>19699891
If Nekonyan got it I just hope that it doesn't bankrupt them

>>19698295
>>19699047
>Rewrite+ - 35% translated
Where was this update posted? Also I'm glad to hear something but I'd hoped they were closer to being finished than that.

Posted a review + translators interview on fuwanovel. Check it out my dudes.
∠( ﾟдﾟ)／

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/20903-i-wrote-a-review-about-newton-and-the-apple-tree-and-held-an-interview-with-translator-bango/?tab=comments#comment-493056

I found a review for Denpa's I Walk Among Zombies.

https://vnhorizonreviews.wordpress.com/2018/08/18/i-walk-among-zombies-review/

>>19700077
No one cares and all of your questions were shit.

>>19699037
Not on my end. I've had around 10 random crashes in less than 5 hours. I'm going to have to wait for them to fix this. I've heard the 18+ patch might be the culprit, but I haven't tried taking the patch off.

>>19700156
How about downloading the patch again, I had issues like that too and it solved it.

>>19700151
Love you too anon.

>>19700156
I had 2 crashes in the All-Ages version they gave us across 26 hours playtime. Not too bad and a major improvement to usual releases.

>>19700279
Do Sol Press pay you to suck their dick so much?
>Not too bad and a major improvement to usual releases.
I've experienced more crashes in this VN than I have with all recent releases I've played combined.

>>19698294
>>19698295
>Steam's content-driven freeze on game approvals expected to last for months
https://archive.fo/j8j4z
>Sexy Steam games delayed indefinitely while Valve builds new store filters
https://archive.fo/S7yIQ
If anyone wonders why VNs are slow to release this is why. Its going to take months perhaps maybe even November or more for this to be done.

>>19700279
It shouldn't be crashing at all, in fact most VN releases are crash free.

>>19700365
It's not even an issue of sexiness (Koropukkur has Itaru art for crying out loud). It's just Steam blanket stalling every remotely animu resembling game until they finally get their system working, which honestly seems like low priority for them.

GOG might take this time to approve more VNs that were on Steam before, but I'd imagine that Sekai would have issues getting their recent big releases in due to all of the quality issues and the rumors of them. Well, Maitetsu doesn't seem to have many issues with the all ages version, but it's not exactly a big enough seller on Steam that GOG would be excited to take it. MG should have an easier time. I could see them having trouble bringing in Kindred Spirits fully uncensored, but the censored version Maidens of Michael should be fine.

>>19700376
Sol Press actually pulled back their review copy and I wrote a critic about them because they gave us an all-ages releases. I'm "sucking" only bango because he made an awesome debut as a translator.

>>19700376
I play mostly Nitroplus games and this engine is very wonky. Could be because I am a Windows 8.1 fag

>>19700531
I'd understand some issues with windows 10, but I use windows 8.1 as well and have never had a VN crash, so either Newton's engine is terrible or their programmer sucks.

Have the people reporting crashes tried turning off their anti-virus? Some anti-virus software does not play well with certain VNs as Shadows of Pygmalion showed.

For anyone that wants to change the terrible font in Newrin: >>>/vg/225205147

>>19700519
Hata, you broke your embargo. We stated several times that this copy was for you to write a review, but not to be released until launch day.

You released your review before the patch was even released, you posted screenshots of unreleased material on your discord server, you hinted at a boycott on your discord because you were playing an all-ages version on Steam, and you have been constantly misrepresenting your role in the project, claiming to be a beta tester. You were provided with an advance copy of the game, not a beta copy.

>>19700376
We actually did not have a single crash to desktop during QA, which is why we need to investigate this in much more detail.

>>19700733
What is your guys opinion on this?
>honorificsetting

>>19700741
>giving out advance copies to retards and expecting them not to be retarded
wew

>>19700744
Fixed.

>>19699037
The font isn't the best and pic related this is another small issue if you want to use a gamepad (you have to guess what control does what because it is untranslated). Other than that it seems to be fine though.

>>19700741
>You released your review
No lol. I released it this morning at 3am lol.

>you posted screenshots of unreleased material on your discord server,

We were talking to bango and only showing him pictures of text issues, typographical errors and that stuff.

>you hinted at a boycott on your discord
Well, i did hint but nothing happened. I wrote a big review and I like the game and I analyzed it thoroughly. Just the practices of even taking away a reviewcopy without warning is dumb because its not even your game. I can just get the japanese version and see what happens there.

>and constantly misrepresenting my role in the project was a misunderstanding which decay told me. The game was called "Newton and the Apple Tree - Beta Testing"

Just a lot of misunderstandings happening. Anyways. I am happy your game is successful and that the different censored versions did not end in drama.

What I released beforehand was a showcase of only the material which your press stuff contained.

-> What I did wrong and accept that I did it wrong is that I talked with bango openly in discord about the game. Bango himself then told me that he should rather have stopped me. I can provide screenshots of that conversation.

It was still a fun game, review and thanks for your time.

Ignore all posts with reddit spacing.

ESLs: not even once.

>>19700741
Can I ask how much QA was done? It's best to do an array of configurations, including AV software, OS, etc.

>>19700820
>What I released beforehand was a showcase of only the material which your press stuff contained.

That's usually a big no-no. Press kits are for press only and are not meant to be made public before the game's release.

>>19700975
The language barrier must've been too strong here if they thought this is a review lol

https://visual-novel.info/showcase-newton-and-the-apple-tree-charaktere-storyline-und-mehr/

>>19700918
Anti-virus programs are pure cancer. Everyone should stop using them already.

>>19700918
We've had 5 QA members (7 if you count the editor and translator) all on different machines. Each went through several passes (see picture) without having a single crash.

>>19700994
your english is shit tier

>>19701014
When you pulled back my review copy I was in the middle of Lavis route. It crashed at the beginning after the intro or me and I didn't reboot the game until i was finished with Yotsukos route. At this point after the credits ran I got another crash and then I couldn't review the game anymore so I had to use the JOP way and play the japanese version

>>19701037
Just typographical errors. Happens when you type 105 wp/s sadly

>>19701014
non-Steam version of NewRin when?

>>19701062
Are you seriously so retarded that you got wpm and wps mixed up? That's not even mentioning leaving in the "per" and yet adding an unneeded slash. Shit-tier English confirmed.

>>19701062
>typographical errors
>whats allowed to use
That is a bit more than some typo.

>>19701095
Yeah, I guess I should proofread more.

if you can't type accurately then that's not how fast you type, esl-kun
anyone can mash a keyboard

>>19701151
I blame black switches. It's always the blacks.

Looks like this thread will have an early death too. Can you just leave ESL-kun? There hasn't been a good thread since you started posting here.

>>19701066
Never, since they only care about Steam I guess we can get a Steam free version from Erogedownload instead.

>>19700744
The default is off which means most players will use it like that. I doubt majority changes settings.

>>19701066
We're actively working on it.

>>19701197
You should get used to it. I feel quite at home here with all the hate here and praise whereelse.

>>19701240
I'm sure you would enjoy /vn/ much more than you like it here.

>>19701066
When somebody rips it

>>19701263
It's already up on sukebei

>>19701257
What is the difference though? I despise OELVNs and I'm a japanophile.

>>19701240
holy shit dude your english is so bad, just fuck off

>>19701287
>>>/vg//vn/
OELVNs aren't allowed there. I feel like it's more suited for you.

>>19701322
Wow, that does make four useful channels to hang around in. Good that I have time to check them all. Thanks!

>>19701204
I agree. I don't understand why they put rewrite as default when they themselves said only a small group of people prefers it that way.

>>19701371
I assume the reasonining is that anti-honorifics people wouldn't have the brains to use the settings. While a lot of honorific readers would be able to find the settings.

Still means more suffer than if it had been default on.

>>19701371
British setting lol.

>>19700741
I was going to bring up the crashes myself but it seems it was mentioned already. I bought this like two days ago and it's happened like 4 times already

>>19701522
If you report it on our discord, they can walk with you through getting more information I believe. You can also email us as well.

>>19700744
I think it is a good compromise, but the cartel are dogmatic zealots who would be against it even with it defaulting to off. It is also not something that is easily* done with many releases.

*not actually hard, but the VN industry isn't going to pay the rates of people that are competent enough to do it

>>19700741
based, no one here likes the kraut

>>19701540
>not actually hard
It literally requires double the QA. It is so not worth the resources.

>>19701563
I cannot talk for the QA but bango said he likes to do additional work here.

>>19701563
Dovac you need to go. Shouldn't you be supervising that retranslation of Hoshimemo?

>>19701540
>but the cartel
Why the fuck would official publishers care about the cartel? More importantly nobody cares about the cartel except the cartel itself and people who suck the cartel's cock

>>19701580
I'm speaking as a customer. Every fucking game is full of typos. I don't want more typos.

>>19701584
The fuck is the cartel? Is that the TLWiki squad?

>>19701606
How new can you possibly be?

>>19701587
It's not really humanly feasible to avoid every typo be it official or fanTL. One or two will always slip through the cracks.

That's not even just a VN thing, sometimes regular books will have a couple typos

>>19701657
It is not one or two. That's the problem.

>>19701616
First time in this thread, eroge journalist since May. Started playing eroge in 2011. A little new :(

>>19701772
Jesus, can everyone from the cancerous kraut discord fuck off and never come back?

>>19701783
kraut discord is only a part of it. We house more english people :)

'journalist' has very shakey connotations for me but I threw up in my mouth a little at "eroge journalist", doubly so at the kraut thinking he is one

>>19701854
Don't worry. Gaming Journalists are cancer and I'm very pro-gamergate

>>19701854
I wished he'd get a trip, then I could at least block him.

The funniest thing though is him thinking he actually matters just because he talks to a few official people and gets a few people riled up on 4chan, which is really not hard at all and just childish to get excited about.

>>19701889
He had one before, but go rid of it because everyone filtered him.

>>19701889
I don't matter. The server isn't a personal cult. It's not Hata-novel its Visual-novel.info

Can't we mass report him so he gets banned?

>>19702255
Global rule #7

>>19701889
Where did this fucker even come from? Haven't been in the thread in awhile and all of a sudden there's a cancerous retard here that speaks as if he's from Reddit.

That aside I did actually end up purchasing Newton since supposedly the release seems ok. No problems yet. Reads relatively well so far. Supposedly there are some crashing issues but I have yet to receive any on my end personally.

Did anyone pick up the Fata Morgana concert video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDbJomX1pEA

>>19702462
Buying Steam VNs ...
I guess this really is Reddit now

>>19702607
>...
Nice try reddit friend.

>>19702462
I'm the destroyer of worlds.

>>19702633
Destroyer of words is more accurate, given your horrific command of the english language.

>>19702759
Good joke!

>>19700499
>It's just Steam blanket stalling every remotely animu resembling game

Didn't Flowers 2 get through pretty quickly?

>>19702780
It's not a joke, your English is awful.

>>19702790
And Island.

Someone on /vn/ fixed the NewRin font: http://www.mediafire.com/file/fo6xq49bq9s17q9/NewtonCustom.ttf

>>19702848
I can fix it myself by going to the settings.

>>19702848
>>225220947
I'd wait for an official patch (if it ever comes).

>>19702848
>>>/vg/225220947
I'd wait for an official patch (if it ever comes).

>>19702807
Your wordplay was good. Do I really have to explain every single fucking shit on the internet? Read context clues.

>>19702898
>Do I really have to explain every single fucking shit on the internet?
Sorry, could you repeat that in English?

>>19702878
Hmm, wait for something that might never come OR not get eye cancer while you're reading it with a possibility of a minor overflow issue. Let me think on that.

>>19702583
I'm a huge fan of the game's OST and all, but I have some misconceptions about how well it'd translate to a live performance given that the compositions employ some pretty huge and diverse music forces and it doesn't even seem like they have half of that there. That being said, as long as it were properly re-arranged for a live setting it would hardly matter, but I have some misconceptions about the audio fidelity. I mean, just listen to the ending example there. The very audible background hum and noise is something I'd expect of a live broadcast from the 60s, but for a modern recording? It's pretty easy to do some minor tweaks in an audio editing program and spit out a better end-product in just a few minutes. Here, I did it myself!

https://u.lewd.se/26KOaK_example.mp3

Took me just a few minutes, and, of course, if I were to put more time in it, I would have taken out all the extraneous noises, clicks, and thunks as well. Might've played around with the denoising just a bit more, too. Some people go a bit too over-the-top with denoising and don't leave any noise at all, leading to a lifeless recording, so I left some. At least it's preferable to the wall of noise that's on the YT trailer, though.

>>19703000
I haven't picked it up yet because I had the same concerns as you. The trailer is fucking garbage too, I don't know what they were thinking with that.

>>19702906
∠( ﾟдﾟ)／　猫が好きです

>>19702906
Stop giving him attention already.

>>19702927
>>>/vg/225232337
I think you guys are getting too used to getting fucked by sekai

>>19703195
>>>/vg/225232009
sorry

do any of you guys commission your own translations?

>>19703218
Sure. If you give me $10k, I will MTL any game you want.

>>19703218
There use to be a guy around here who actually did commissions. LV1 translations or something like that but he stopped years ago.

>>19703218
What's the safest way to commission a fan translation of a VN without running into legal trouble?

>>19703663
You get in touch with a group without making it public. Tell them not to release public updates until it is out (they can obviously still give you status updates).

>>19703663
Why? What VN do you want translated?

>>19703000
>misconceptions
The word you're looking for is misgivings.

>>19704204
Yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRHE5gnGj0g
The state of trip-faggotry

MG Weekly top 5
1. Sweet Switch
2. Evenicle
3. Treasure Hunter Claire
4. Tsui Yuri
5. Hapymaher

Evenicle being so high isn't too surprising considering Rance VI and Haruka sales. It might be selling less, but that may simply due to price.

I'm curious if Claire selling well will be representative on how Acerola games will sell in the West in general or if it's just a one time fluke. Well, more are on the way, so we'll see.

I'm pretty sure that Tsui Yuri is doing better than Maidens of Michael. Maybe it's the twincest thing. New Generation had twincest too though, so it might just be an issue of price.

Hapymaher being 5th a month after its release means that it's selling pretty well by plotge standards. Hapymaher had a strong preorder month, so it's probably doing better than Sorcery Jokers on the MG store, though Hapymaher doesn't have a Steam release, so that's a bit of a moot point.

>>19704666
Hapymaher was off of the top 5 for 2 or so weeks though. Maybe its because I didnt follow it too closely, but it seemed to do worse than nukige like lilipalace, and the other rpgmaker games. Its definitely doing better than SJ, but it hasn't really done well in any capacity.
It had a good preorder period for sure, but being 2nd at best until a day or two before release isn't what I would call strong. Unless you mean being on the upper side of the top 5.

>>19701287
Welcome and enjoy your stay, friend

>>19704757
IIRC, Hapymaher was 2nd during its preorder period, even reaching 1st on release day before quickly being pushed out by cheap HRPGs. Starnova and the Princess Evangile sale didn't help matters. Assuming that there wasn't a huge spike of sales because of the Otakon panel, it being 5th now suggests that Hapymaher had at least sold enough
to warrant 5th place under normal circumstances for the weeks it wasn't on the chart. Cheap HRPGs have always sold well on the website, and 2 being added onto the MG website at nearly the same time overshadowed Hapymaher's sales.

Now, I personally don't believe that Hapymaher has sold the few hundred or so to do well enough for MG to consider the fan disk, much less whatever Purplesoft's standards may be. Maybe if Hapymaher bobs in and out of the chart for the next few months, which isn't exactly overly likely.

>>19705085
I don't think it's getting a fandisc either, the Q&A session at Otakon pretty much confirmed that it's not selling enough to bring over the fandisc as the translator went out of his way to beg the crowd to buy it.

>>19705116
And if we do find out, I imagine it won't be for another year at least. Princess Evangile's fandisk took over 2 years from the original game's release date to come out.

>>19698294
sweet pool and totono are 100% tl according to project status of the translator so can add it

>>19699671
I'm assuming they have more than 1 guy on baldr sky on top of conjurer also having other projects.

That brings it's own problems though without decent project management and we all know what sekais' is like

>>19705459
do we know who is the lead tl of it?

I think it was the 18+ patch giving the NewRin crashes because I just deleted and re-downloaded it and now I haven't seen any.

>>19705689
I told you man

Thanks for telling me about the vg thread! Gonna lurk in 4 different vn threads now. ∠( ﾟдﾟ)／

MAKE EROGE GREAT AGAIN.

>>19705830
>MAKE EROGE GREAT AGAIN.

I'm starting to think that you're the one who leaked most of the AX announcements.

>>19698294
>>Aiyoku No Eustia - 49.78% Translated, 40.06% edited

>>19700077
Fuck off faggot, nobody likes you here

Make your mind up. Hint: The first one is better. Japs don't reverse Isaac Newton to Newton Isaac either. No reason to do it the other way around. That goes for all the shitty companies which reverse the name order.

>>19700077
>Fuwanovel
Just end yourself.

>>19706473
Don't laugh.

>>19708133
I wouldn't expect any better if they're already stupid enough to romanise it as "Syuji".

>>19708133
I asked bango why the fuck he does that and he said he cannot disclose on that. I wonder why this is such a book with 7 seals.

>>19708404
I didn't give you permission to reply to me, filth.

>>19708407
Just filter his trip.

You responsible for who you raise /jp/.
Long time ago we got an self proclaimed ''eroge expert'' and fed attention to that thing. It growned so big that now it has personal army of memers parroting its opinions all over the web.
Please do not step on that rake again.

I come to check VNTS for the first time in a month and I have to filter a trip for the first time in years, what the fuck.

>>19705459
>I'm assuming they have more than 1 guy on baldr sky
They don't. It's just Reading Steiner aka Ludo aka the guy whose work on Steins;Gate was all thrown away for being shit, and then claimed he had severe mental problems which makes his translations shit but you can't blame him for it because he's suffering so much when people started getting sick of him constantly lying about translating Alicesoft games and producing shit quality translations.

So once again, Sekai Project picked up someone who failed out of both Jast and MangaGamer and from the samples Doddler's posted on Twitter, is doing a similarly shit job on this too.

>>19708786
https://foolz.fireden.net/vg/thread/86928642/#87218280

>It's 魔王戦争, which is Demon King War, I updated it in the later version of the video. It'd be more like Demon King War: Gi, leader of the Dark Lords, challenges Gele, who was trying to live as Demon King for eternity. The Mages thing is a fuckup of Majin that I have no idea how I came to because I don't remember anymore.

>You guys want honesty from me? Fine, whatever. It doesn't even matter anymore.

>I'm a nut suffering from severe disorganized schizophrenia, I have memory issues so bad I can barely remember last week and I don't know my name some days.

>I've been suffering from depression for the good part of a year and I really fucking want to work, but I physically cannot bring myself to do it sometimes.

>You can post old translation mistakes I made all you want but it doesn't mean shit to me because I legitimately cannot recall making them, I cannot justify strange old choices either because the logic I applied is long since lost. A lot of the translation choices I've made and stuck with even now don't make a lot of sense to me but the me of the past made them and now I'm with them.

>Arunaru, I've translated multiple games at this point, your complaints towards me won't change that. I'm sorry that you hate me or whatever. Ask Vodka if I've made any progress because I've just updated my shit to the SVN, I didn't realize I hadn't uploaded anything yet. I have been trying to work on VI but there is a lot of shit going on with me right now.

>I'm going to bed, maybe you'll get lucky and I won't wake up.

He and Dovac are a perfect fit.

Wait, is Island all ages? I thought this was going to be the next Grisaia

Okay memo to myself. Posting selfies gets you banned on the vg thread :thinking:

I'm playing Enigma rn. Do you know that VN?

>>19708786
Funny how even their current CEO is the guy who got fired from MangaGamer after his ImoPara 1 translation. Didn't he even refuse to translate the loli route too or am I remembering it wrong?

>>19704666
Hopefully I don't need to wait for Sep 6 for the next pre-order since I'm not really into yuri.
If not, maybe Sol Press will put Newton on MangaGamer's store.

>>19708942
>Didn't he even refuse to translate the loli route too or am I remembering it wrong?
You're remembering it correctly.

>>19708926
All ages with prostitution background and pregnancy. Not even once.

>>19708958
I really hate visual novels which do this.
The only worse thing are scenes in an all ages visual novel where the heroine is literally cock teasing the MC, but it all ends in a funny and quirky way like nothing happened.
If I wanted this kind of trash I would be watching anime.

>>19709113
Well, the official poster is literally a cock tease.

>>19709176
That's for the anime not the VN.

>>19708958
Why couldn't you have pregnancy in an all-ages game? The only game I'm aware of that has a serious arc where the MC becomes a parent (Clannad) is all-ages.

>>19709922
>The only game I'm aware of that has a serious arc where the MC becomes a parent (Clannad) is all-ages.
Read more VNs.

>>19709291
They go hand in hand.

>>19710063
Feel free to name some that have something like that as a serious dramatic part of the story and not just an epilogue.

>>19710304
Sounds like Clannad wouldn't fit that requirement either. Exception being the fan disc.

>>19710304
YU-NO

>>19710344
??? A significant portion of After Story deals with Tomoya owning up to the fact that he's a parent and reconciling with his daughter. It's not an epilogue but the most important part of the story where his most important character development takes place. And I have no idea what you're referring to with Tomoya After, given that Tomoya doesn't have any children in that game at all, only briefly helping to take care of Tomoyo's half-sister. You apparently haven't read either VN.

>>19710361
This, but it's hard to blame someone for not playing something that old. Maybe Ever 17 or Rance Quest, but that's stretching a bit.

>>19710304
Hajimete no Okaa-san

>>19710304
Minna Daisuki Kozukuri Banchou

>>19710370
Correct. They are in my huge backlog.

It seemed more logical that a sequel would be the parenting part, and not likely that all those girl routes would end in parenting. But I can accept that perhaps they only bothered with parenting in certain routes.

>>19708786
>whose work on Steins;Gate was all thrown away for being shit
The translation base that Makoto worked off of (or overhauled in editing) wasn't done by Ludo. iirc he only did the OP/ED lyrics, or something. His work in S;G was extremely small. And I don't think he ever got approached by MG for anything, period. But, yes, he did lie to the Alicesoft general for years and had an embarrassing meltdown.

>>19708786
Isn't Reading Steiner the one that translated Dires Irae? That one had a good translation, no?

>>19710874
Dies irae had, like, 5 translators.

>>19704666
Only update is that Evenicle and Sweet Switch swapped spots making Evenicle 1st again. I'm somewhat surprised its stayed in the top 5 so long, especially due to price.
I dont know how much more, or less Evenicle may be selling compared to Haruka and Rance VI, but it isnt anything to laugh at approaching 3 months straight in the top 5. Although, not in first the entire time.

>>19711111
The way they spoke about the sales during Otakon sounded like it was selling better than expected. I wouldn't be surprised if it tops the sales chart for this year. I also wouldn't be surprised if they announce Evenicle 2 soon after it's released in Japan, like they did with Rance X.

>>19710794
As Maria said, Mangagamer had their hooks into the Alicesoft people long before it was officially announced. He was merely chased out of the thread for lying and shitty translations a few months before it all went public, that's all. A technicality. Why the fuck do you think he was never asked to join them despite his obvious fandom of the games and Mangagamer's constant public requests for more translators?

>>19711197
Anon, please, it's obvious why he never got approached by MG, but saying "failed out of both Jast and Mangagamer" when he only worked for one and not the other is just poor phrasing on your part. Ludo's an idiot, and putting S;G on his profile when he barely did any work on it is completely silly, but it's not like he "failed" either Jast nor MG when he barely did work for the former and didn't work at all for the latter. Aside from which, he seems like he's stabilized these days and that outburst was quite a long time ago, so maybe he's improved. I wouldn't know. I didn't read Dies irae nor do I know the parts which he translated.

>>19711241
>maybe he's improved. I wouldn't know.
Having seen the excerpts of his work on Baldr Sky that Doddler's posted, I do know. He hasn't.

>>19710779
The parenting thing is the big epic true route that's why everyone remembers the VN.

>>19711332
>>19711241
>that time he offered a translated Chaos;Head Noah script to pqube for free but they rejected it
Imagine how shit it was

>>19711429
pqube is also a really terrible company so it could've just been them being fags, too

it's not like they have standards (see their Chaos;child tl)

>>19711440
Yeah, I've heard about C;C. Apparently their TL even translated names wrong giving giving us the gem "Serika Itou". I also heard there's an untranslated map of Shibuya that you need to be able to read to complete one of the routes and the game itself by extension.

>>19698294
>CyberRebeat -The Fifth Domain of Warfare- will be heading to Steam on August 24th!

https://twitter.com/sekaiproject/status/1031589089861140480

>>19711543
nice, but >paying for a free vn

>>19711543
I still don't know why they bother with stuff like this. Surely it doesn't sell well.

>>19710924
The only person who's vouched for him is Conjueror, and we've seen how little it takes for Conjueror to say that a translation is good.

>>19711567
NIgger we already had this conversation. If you want the free version, read it in Japanese. You're paying for the localization.

>>19708786
How do you know he's the translator?

>>19711576
With Steam currently dragging their feet on approving most VNs for Steam something all ages like this has the best chance of getting approved for sale.

>>19698294
>translation and editing are both done at this point

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1231894392/koropokkur-in-love-a-little-fairys-tale/posts/2235274

>>19711789
He said he was on Twitter and then deleted it.

>>19711111
Evenicle selling so well despite being on the upper border of what Mangagamer will price a game is a good sign for the sales of Rance Quest and Rance IX, the former which is more or less guaranteed to be $45 because of its size and the latter which might be that high because 3D (though maybe MG would just give it the somewhat rare $40 price). IIRC, Rance and Haruka both stayed on the chart for about 6 months, and Evenicle seems to be on the same path. Alicesoft games probably don't have voice licensing antics since Haruka got a physical, so I would expect an Evenicle physical by next year.

>>19711159
It's possible, especially if Arunaru doesn't plan on translating Rance X the entire time, but SLC's pretty busy for the next 2 or 3 years. They would have to put whoever's programming Escalayer (Black Dragon Hunt IIRC) or maybe someone completely new.

>>19699671
>>19708786
Man they shouldn't have picked Baldr up, we would have a fantranslation for years if it wasn't for SP.
Not only that, I don't believe they'll ever finish this anymore. Why don't they just kick that fucking idiot, I mean how many years can a fucking official publisher even take to translate one damn VN? I don't visit these threads regularly, was there even any progress made on Baldr the last year?

>>19711895
I'd be shocked if Sekai doesn't have at least 20 VNs in its backlog by the time it goes bankrupt to be honest. It would be funny if age went to Mangagamer after Sekai goes bankrupt after all of this time.

>>19711913
This is exactly what would happen. They have a bazillion projects and finish almost nothing. Stuff they picked up years ago should be prioritized, they should exchange translators or make others join after they finished their current project, but nope. Instead of finishing it they buy the licenses for 30 new projects. Who the fuck is the boss of this company?

>>19711954
They're just going to run a kickstarter for it, ostensibly for a physical version, knowing that whales will throw money at them to 'support the industry' especially after all their shit about struggling.

>>19711759
I don't think so. If we paid for translations then Maitetsu would cost more than the Japanese game on Steam.

>>19711895
>>19711913
Why didn't they just take Aroduc/Seiha Translations' version? Why are they so stupid?
As far as I remember they weren't interested in Seiha's work and stopped replying or some shit. Now we have this idiot who doesn't do anything at all. Does he even get payed for it? I mean he must live from some money he makes, doesn't he? Unless his work for Sekai is just a secondary job.

>>19711994
This statement applies to games which are freeware in Japan. Pricing is a bit different with your example.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solpress/sakura-sakura-localization-project/posts/2268079
>Hello everybody! I apologize for the large delay between updates, but I’m delighted to finally be back with positive news. The upscaling efforts for Sakura Sakura have finally been completed! We owe a lot to Spudman and Doddler, who have worked extremely hard over the past few months to get this done.

>QA has now started, and we’re looking to wrap it up within a month. At the same time, we’ll be starting the Steam approval process, and be looking to get the exclusive beta we promised out to you as soon as possible.

>>19712005
They did want it, but they were assholes to Aroduc, antagonized him constantly, and wouldn't offer him reasonable terms.

http://tenka.seiha.org/2016/09/concerning-recent-game-translation-activities/
http://tenka.seiha.org/2017/07/some-long-overdue-remarks-on-translation-work/

>以前ですから
>already happened
Yeah, not like this misTL could have been spotted by anyone who's not stupid enough to think the industrial revolution was a thing in 1687.

>>19712005
>>19712166
They wanted it, but assumed that him saying yes to them was a given and acted like they always do, delaying, going back on their word, and jerking him around until he walked away. A lesson their backers could stand to learn.

>>19712180
>stupid enough to think the industrial revolution was a thing in 1687
Was it the same in the original or was it something added in the translation?

>>19712212
A mistl, the translator probably misread or something.

>>19712212
Re-read his post.

>>19711197
How bad is Ludo? I never delved that deeply in current translation projects, is he even able to write proper Japanese or is this some selflearner or some shit?
As said I have never seen his translation so no idea how bad they actually are.

https://twitter.com/luneman_etc/status/1031350240899522560
More hints.

>>19712293
Pretty fucking bad. A lot of his shit looked like it was uncleaned up MTL, filled with Japanese punctuation artifacts like attached. Unfortunately, he scorched earth his site in a shitfit and the archives from when he was active are patchy. You can still dig up random references to how other people always had to be cleaning up his mitakes, especially right before his meltdown if you go looking though.
https://yuki.la/vg/59157901#p59303184

Here's his meltdown. You can probably browse forward or backward to find a bunch of his errors and behavior being reported that led to it.

https://yuki.la/vg/86928642#p87215969

>>19712526
Thank you I was searching for that.
Man why must everything always end up being DRAMA.

>>19711111
Looking back at the releases we had in 2018 so far, I would say that Evenicle is the biggest release we had this year that didn't have any big fucks ups.
Gameplay title which has a decent translation, uncut and mosaic free. Evenicle also didn't have any other competition, unless you count the Kagura Games HRPGs.
Hell, even I bought it and I buy only 1-2 visual novels max per year.

>>19712429
Considering that he tweeted a few months ago that he's looking to put Lewd Elves on steam, I guess he never approached MangaGamer and it's a MTL by some random Japanese or Chinese company.

If you want to check for yourself, here's Ludo's initial Widenyo release.
http://www.mediafire.com/?agkzocmd8ny5ory

https://yuki.la/vg/16426720#p16492582

It was then followed by about six months of being fixed, probably redone from scratch because it's that shitty. The excuse used after the fact (note that in the thread, he says it's done) was that he HAD to release an unedited WIP because everyone was so anxious for a release. No translator's WIP should ever look like this.

>>19712625
Those 10 year old memes about Baldr being cursed regarding translations are most likely true. I will never see this thing in English.

>>19712636
What did you expect when people literally try to kill the project and drive off the translator?

Yo, Steiner here.

Figured I'd clear up a couple misconceptions. Yes, about five years ago I thought I was hot shit and started a series of events that ended up stringing along the Alicesoft thread. I regret it, but what's done is done. My Japanese at the time was frankly abysmal and I was certainly dealing with an inflated ego. I was in no position to be a translator. I've since made my peace with them and even reconciled with the other translators that I ended up causing hassle for back in the day.

That being said, it has been four years since that frankly shameless incident and it really did end up putting things in perspective for me. After a lot of introspection I ended up coming back to the official translation scene with a renewed vigor, and I'm proud to say that I've worked hard on a lot of projects since then. I haven't heard any complaints from my clients or audience.

If you'd like to hang on to old wrongdoings, that's your own prerogative, and I wouldn't blame you. I was certainly a certifiable retard and I was talking out of my ass. If, however, you'd be willing to hear me out, then I'd ask you to judge me on my current work instead of my past garbage. Since then I've worked on game titles like Valkyrie Drive, Dies irae (two full routes worth), as well as Light Novel titles like Infinite Dendrogram, Isekai Smartphone, and Sorcerous Stabber Orphen. If you'd like to read through any of them and see if they're to your liking, that would be nice. I am not the man I used to be, but I also won't reject the mistakes that brought me here. I will readily accept that I did wrong by a lot of people, and since then I've been working hard to be a better person.

As an aside, there's been nothing tying me to the Baldr Sky project, and even if I was attached, the screenshots Doddler posted would be unrelated to my work.

>>19712609
>Considering that he tweeted a few months ago that he's looking to put Lewd Elves on steam, I guess he never approached MangaGamer and it's a MTL by some random Japanese or Chinese company.
>https://twitter.com/luneman_etc/status/1009992510142177281
Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my end, but perhaps it was just MangaGamer mentioning to them that Steam might be allowing more sexual things on their platform, rather than a Chinese/Japanese (or Sekai) company trying to butcher a nukige and make it an all ages game.

>>19712669
It was a long time ago. Haven't read any of your recent stuff but I'm glad you're doing better mentally and with your Japanese. Good on you for confronting it directly.

>>19712625
Even that thread has a ton of errors reported, and a bunch more in the next thread. And those are the fanboys. Annoyingly, almost all the images are 404, but it should take more than a day for your error reports to be hitting triple digits. He didn't even get "magic defense" in the interface correct.

>>19712654
Yeah I knew this would happen. After so many years without any translators at all and after a few translators inbetween that dropped it again I actually got hopeful for once when I heard that Seiha was working on it and considering he was at 80% he was pretty far as well but nope, the curse hits yet again and now we will never see it due to that drama about that translator. He will probably do a few % a year from now on until Sekai Project goes bankrupt in 2020 and Seiha is probably to pissed to ever touch it again.

>>19712669
Fair enough

>>19712680
He never "left the translation scene." He just went to have his dick sucked by the sci;adv crowd instead.

>>19712704
Who are you quoting? Take it up with him, not me. I don't keep track of translators like some of you in this thread.

>>19712669
Well fuck so we don't know who's doing Baldr Sky then. Translations never.
Happy to hear you feel better now. I think we all have these phases. I just had a year in which I did absolutely nothing aside from being depressed and shitposting, but finally starting with a new job and creative shit tomorrow.
Haven't read your new works yet but I will definetely buy and read Dies Irae soon.

>>19712669
>As an aside, there's been nothing tying me to the Baldr Sky project, and even if I was attached, the screenshots Doddler posted would be unrelated to my work.
Uhhhhh

>>19712726
>I will definetely buy and read Dies Irae soon
You really shouldn't.

>>19712609
Unless someone got a Eushully game, the only competition for Evenicle that has a chance of being released this year is Sengoku Rance. Even though that has already had a fan translation and every Rance title is practically confirmed (remakes are only a matter of time), I suspect that it will still sell about as well as Rance VI, especially if they lower the price to $30 due to it not being upscaled.

>>19712730
I would say to not purchase it as well. Not because of the translation, but because Light and whoever handled the Kickstarter conducted themselves horribly and lied to people on certain subjects for months. It was a fun read, though

>>19712726
>Well fuck so we don't know who's doing Baldr Sky then.
That's not what he said. He said that there's been nothing tying (sic) him to it. This is the same bullshit Aru did. They're too big a pussy to directly lie, so they say evasive shit like that because they think they're clever.

>>19712739
>because Light and whoever handled the Kickstarter conducted themselves horribly and lied to people
What happened?
And on a side note, why do almost all KS projects end up being so problematic? They either end up being shit, scam or some sort of drama.

>>19712741
I wondered about the wording there. It sounded weird in this context.

He changed his twitter handle to Steiner Sky around the same time Aroduc told Sekai to fuck off and they would've been looking for a translator.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:g18w8PIMy0MJ:https://twitter.com/distantvalhalla/status/747064528307879940+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

This is just as open a secret on tlwiki as Aroduc's Baldr Sky translation was in the first place. The people on these projects are too smug to know how to keep their mouths shut.

>>19712669
It's nice seeing people actually admitting past mistakes and acting like adults. Rare enough, especially here.
Looking forward to your future works!

>>19712741
Be glad we're getting some hints, it's better than nothing since they'll probably get into problems if they actually say something.

>>19712772
So if he supposedly has nothing to do with the lines that Doddler posted, I guess that means there are multiple translators on it

>>19711429
pqube shouldn't be pretending they have high standards after C;C

>>19712791
Great. That way Ludo can claim it was someone else's fault when it's full of errors. He's never done that before.

Doddler also used the singular when talking about the staff, so...
https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1015445852209287168

That's from the only time they've posted any snippets. There were only about six lines and half of them had issues.

>>19711429
Chiyomaru actually rejected Chaos;Head fundamentally due to the age of game and some licensing issues pertaining to the engine it runs on. PQube was very much behind the idea and got us an audience with him to begin with. Given it's an older TL I would definitely want to redo it, but there'd be no point since an official release is all but impossible now anyway.

>>19712802
That was handled in-house by 5pb, and they had limited freedom in modifying it. Same with S;G0. Sadly when dealing with mega companies like MAGES, the west has little freedom. Chiyomaru puts all the actual effort and support into the Chinese releases, rather than English.

>>19712760
Honestly many big projects likely run into some delays and other problems behind the scenes during development, it just tends to be much more publicly exposed when there is a Kickstarter. After all, a Kickstarter typically occurs early during development and requires a company to put out an initial estimate for a release date (which generally won't be reached) and regularly update the public when other projects would be out of the public spotlight until they were closer to release. Beyond that, Kickstarters disproportionately are done for large complicated projects with more things that can go wrong.

You would have had just as much drama if MG titles like Himawari or Bokuten had Kickstarters early on during development with the problems they later ran into. Or worse than that, if Jast had ran a Kickstarter for anything sizable they have picked up this decade.

>>19712293
>or is this some selflearner or some shit
Do you seriously believe there are actually translators in this industry that properly learned Japanese in university and even lived in Japan for a few years?
People like that normally get jobs that actually pay, and don't translate porn games for a few bucks.

Isekai Smartphone? The TL which removes all the honorifics except for -dono? Fuck you.

>>19712833
There's Makoto and that's pretty much it. Everyone else is trash.

>>19712834
>honorifics, the most important aspect of a translation
Post a page and its raw and I'll gladly try and find mistakes, but hating a translation because of (missing) honorifics is stupid.

>>19712834
You don't have to agree with my philosophy, but don't misrepresent my decisions. I removed honorifics from the book because it's a western-styled fantasy and it doesn't require them. The characters that still use honorifics are from that world's version of Japan, and I kept it as a stylistic choice that my boss thought was a decent idea. Frankly it helps keep Yae's character voice distinct, which I'll gladly take in a book with such an obnoxiously large cast.

>>19712669
Well, the rest of Rance is finally coming over and that's all I care about. I don't really go in for LNs so I'm just hoping you have another good VN or game project. Dies Irae was pretty good.
I'm glad you actually showed up here.

>>19712866
I've got like 5 unannounced things right now, but you should be seeing two VN announcements in the next couple weeks. It'll be nice to actually talk about stuff I've done since it's been a while, especially after my Omega Labyrinth Z TL got banned in the west.

>>19712857
>and it doesn't require them
Says a shitty translator as he's rewriting a conversation about honorifics.

I wonder who else, besides the people we already know of, lurk this thread?

>>19712877
>two VN announcements in the next couple weeks
At AWA?

Based Ludo

>>19712884
I honestly don't know the details on the announcements or how they're being done. It's two different companies.

>>19712877
Neat. Not to sound like I'm sucking your dick but I hope you'll come back here when that happens. It's nice to have people here who are actually involved in the industry to some degree instead of the usual shitposting about honorifics or something.

>>19708821
>I'm a nut suffering from severe disorganized schizophrenia, I have memory issues so bad I can barely remember last week and I don't know my name some days.
>I've been suffering from depression for the good part of a year and I really fucking want to work, but I physically cannot bring myself to do it sometimes.
Reminds me of pic related to a T.

>>19712879
Is there a particular conversation about honorifics that you feel was butchered in the translation of Isekai Smartphone?

>>19712812
>Doddler also used the singular when talking about the staff
Doddler also said the translation was 50% and then said he was just using what was publicly known and they had only sent him essential scripts in a clarification so there could be more things/people behind the scenes. The team management being a mess and the people not knowing what others are doing isn't that surprising.

>>19712841
Makoto is a fucking ghost. No one seems to know what he has been, or is doing in the JAST dungeons besides a few cartel members. Supposedly he's working on something with moogy but last I heard it's stalled, and we won't even hear about it for fuck knows how long.
Really boggles my mind why the best translator on the scene doesn't have more of a presence.

>>19712926
Nah, I haven't read it. I just watched the raw animu so I knew what to look for while skimming through the LN preview now. But even if I had read it, I would need to read the original as well to make a proper comparison. Speaking from experience, however, it's simply not possible for there to not be at least one conversation about them in a work like this. And cartelfags can never ever translate those without rewriting the whole conversation. Like introducing a nickname which is never mentioned again or some bullshit like that.

>>19712880
Most people in the scene will at least know about the thread and will probably have people nudge them whenever they get mentioned here. Afterall it is still the most comprehensive list that is regularly updated that as active replies on the status of translations and the industry in general. Most other sites that just copy and paste the list in the OP and get a couple of dozen replies at most.

>>19712857
>I removed honorifics from the book because it's a western-styled fantasy and it doesn't require them.
I don't get this "the setting justifies my changes to the writing" idea. It's still how it was written and how the characters communicate. You're essentially abridging the writing to suit yourself.

>>19712983
Translation is inherently a change to the writing. You aren't reading the original work when you read a translation, you're reading a filtered interpretation.

>>19712987
Writing style =/= content

>>19712993
So a western work translated into Japanese shouldn't have honorifics, right?

>>19712996
Correct.

>>19712983
Honorifics are not part of the writing, they're part of the Japanese language. As every part of the language, they should be translated, but it's the only thing even the stupidest weeb can recognize without knowing Japanese so they want it to stay.
Official translations of real books won't have honorifics as well. You know why? Because only weebs think they're impossible to translate.

>>19712999
That's insane, I'm sorry.

>>19712987
Doesn't mean you have to change it more than is necessary. I've just always found the "if it's set in Japan use honorifics, if not we don't need to" to be a pretty nonsensical distinction. Keep honorifics or translate around them. Pick one. Be consistent.

>>19712996
I've actually been wondering about this. I'm not sure how you'd translate English works into Japanese without either honorific bombing or having everyone sound rude as fuck.

>>19712880
>people we already know of
I'm assuming you mean anyone that used to post here or on /vg/?

>>19713001
>Official translations of real books won't have honorifics as well.
This is wrong.

>>19713001
They're not impossible to translate, but direct translations of honorifics often (not always) sound very unnatural in English, and this is often compensated for with not-really-correct translations or simply translating as if the honorifics weren't there.

>>19713001
>Official translations of real books won't have honorifics as well. You know why? Because only weebs think they're impossible to translate
The ironing.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Kokoro.html?id=2ZdpBbNZajIC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false

wtf i like ludo now?

>>19713030
Yeah, pretty much. Although it seems like most of them have left us.

>>19712996
I really want to know this.

MG translator for ImoPara3 here. We’ve decided that the sisters will call their brother Big Bro, Broski, Nigga, Beloved sibling, and Esteemed older brother respectively.

>>19713116
If there's no Bronii-chan then I'm not buying it.

MG translator for ImoPara3 here. We’ve decided that the sisters will call their brother SoiBoi, Fag, Nigger, Dickface, and Cum Dispenser respectively.

>>19713116
>>19713131
Go back to /vn/

>>19713020
The same way they choose pronouns and polite/casual speech: they pick one that would be appropriate for the occasion and roll with it.

I looked at the Japanese translations of a couple non-Japanese novels and they all seem to have honorifics attached.

>>19713139
I guess you’re too stupid to realize that the purpose of this is to show the ridiculousness of your argument.

>>19713161
Ridiculous analogies don't prove anything ridiculous other than themselves.

>>19713155
If you were to write something in Japanese and English simultaneously, what would be the best way to go about it? Would you use honorifics in the English version too?

>>19712954
Makoto used to do all the Nitro+ stuff, but had to take over as the de facto project manager for Jast, and as solid a translator/editor as he is, he was a really shitty project manager and didn't keep tabs on people or do a good job vetting them, leading to a bunch of problems, delays, and extra work (Yumina, Schatten, Steins;Gate, etc). I think he's moved on in general now.

>>19713180
Oh really? How would you translate the sisters’ dialogue in ImoPara? Obviously we’re talking about how they address the MC.

>>19713194
Meant for >>19713178, but you know that.

>>19713194
Just use his first name for all of them.

>>19713219
And ruin the main point of the game?

>>19713155
>I looked at the Japanese translations of a couple non-Japanese novels and they all seem to have honorifics attached.
I didn't see any honorifics in Norwegian Wood

>>19713228
Nobody calls their older sibling "big brother" in English, that sounds dumb.

>>19713237
Exactly, that's why you keep onii-chan.

>>19712954
Sometimes when you are really good and especially when you have JList backing it's difficult to have the motivation to translate or to go out and do VN's. I respect his decision if he wants to not do it.

>>19713219
There's a scene where MC asks Rio to call him by his name instead of Aniki at the end of her route (she pronounces the name if you left it on default). Get fucked, retard.

>>19713234
I wonder if Japs who read western lit have arguments about adding honorifics or not.

>>19713243
She'd obviously be calling him "bro"

>>19713116
what were the terms used in the original

>>19713262
https://vndb.org/v21766/chars#chars

>>19713260
>just use his first name for all of them
>>19713262
The same, but in katakana.

>>19713269
>two "Onii-chan"s

>>19713282
Same as 2.

>>19713282
if you were forced at gunpoint to remove honorifics you could probably go a long way with bro / big bro / older brother / honored brother interspersed with first name as long as none of it becomes a major plot point

>>19712669
Which parts of Dies did you do because the common and Kasumi routes were noticeably much worse than the rest of the game.

>>19713415
We're not allowed to specify which parts we did, but I had no hand in those parts.

>>19713437
Shocking.

>>19713437
And Conjueror has heavily implied he did Rea's route, so that leaves you on Marie's route. Maybe Kei's route too.

>>19713453
Seriously. Did I step through a gate back to 2014? This is exactly the shit he pulled with Widenyo and Little Princess. He declares that he translated something, but if anybody points out a problem anywhere, then it was someone else who did it.

>>19713473
Conjueror has said the same thing, though. They might just not be able to say which routes they did.

>>19713482
I think anon's talking about the second segment of the sentence.

>>19713495
I mean, in this case what am I supposed to do. Breach my agreement? I didn't do Common or Kasumi. I declared that I translated a chunk of Dies irae, which I did. It's just not that chunk.

>>19713510
Question 1: Did you translate Kei's route?
Question 2: Did you translate Marie's route?
Question 3: Did you translate Rea's route?

Please answer each question independently, taking care to avoid breaching contract

>>19713495
Let's ask him whether he did any given route individually so that we get a "no", "no", "no", "no", and "no comment."

Sometimes my powers of contractual evasion frighten even myself.

>>19713524
No.
No comment.
No.

>>19713525
Okay, I didn't think he'd actually do it.

>>19713545
You're a very gullible boy.

>>19713552
You're not wrong, but I was surprised enough that he'd even spill half the beans that it felt plausible to me at the time.

>>19713533
That's not "two full routes worth"

>>19712669
I won't believe your lies

>>19713573
He could've done the bonus stories too. Are they all long enough to make up a route together?

>>19713588
He could've done absolutely nothing.

>>19713696
Getting paid to have insider information on translations and not contribute with anything? Sounds like a dream job.

>>19713709
Or he was an editor.

Or he's lying about getting paid.

He claimed to be part of S;G's translation team for years, and now admits that was a lie.

>>19713816
He's in the credits as a translator on Dies, though.

who is ludo?

Is Sekai going to die or what?

>>19713998
No. Just laid some people off and needed a woe is us story so they can kickstart Baldr Sky and have all their usual cheerleaders pile on.

>>19714003
Isn't that worse for PR?

>>19714007
For the whales who think it's their duty and privilege to give as much as possible to make sure Sekai stays in business? No. They swallow everything Sekai says at face value.

>>19714227
Unless you count Sekai themselves, whales didn't save Tokyo Chrono.

It would be funny if Sekai tried to subsist on a patreon like many of the EVN devs that it published.

S'up, EOP pals. Seems like you got Newton Ringo.

How did the release go? Is it fucked up like EOP releases usually are? What about the translation quality?

And what about the game itself, are you liking it?

>>19714340
All shit.

>>19714380
How come? And details?

>>19714340
It had issues with the font being kinda tiny, but they fixed it. I noticed an error in a line about the industrial revolution in the beginning, the translator said they'll fix it.
Besides that the rest of the game reads pretty good and it's fun so far, I'm reading Haru's route rn.

>>19714400
Cool. It's a rather nice game. I'm hype for Mirai Radio next week.

>>19712438
Which Rance is this?

>>19712824
MG had that Kopukkur (spelling?) Kickstarter that went with no problems I think

>>19714340
So far things are okay but a couple of people have had crashes, though not enough people that it's an issue

>>19715051
>though not enough people that it's an issue
Oh yes, it is an issue. A lot of people reported the problem, and they found out the 18+ patch files were fucked or something. Now it should be fine, but it sure wasn't fine for a few days.
>>19714400
>I noticed an error in a line about the industrial revolution in the beginning
You mean the one I posted here? I found 1 other misTL, a capitalization error, and a typo. And I only got to the part where they got accepted to the dorm. I've seen a few screenshots of meme lines, so I know what (not) to look forward to. Don't even get me started on the font problems. If you want to get eye cancer, read the game with their font, even with the updated one. If that's not your thing, you either need to download the patch here OR change it in the game options on every single start up. Also, if you do the latter, bam, all the spaces are now underlines. Another thing - the input menu is not translated. If you want to change the hotkeys, you have to play the guessing game, because they even broke the Japanese.
It is certainly not as terrible as we're used to, but it's not excellent. Don't let it go to their heads.

>>19715125
>all the spaces are now underlines
I shouldn't have said all. All the spaces which are not directly in the text. That means choices, text preview in settings, non-colored name tags, and who knows what else.
I forgot about the inconsistency here >>19708133. The game and the glossary use different name order (unlike the Japanese version). As a bonus, I found a line where Alice's fat face appears next to the next even when it's not her turn to speak. But that issue is in the JP version as well, so I'll let it slide.

>>19715125
>Oh yes, it is an issue.
I should have been more clear. I mean that it isn't enough of an issue that enough people have gotten the error that makes the game literally unreadable. I've gotten the error myself.

>>19715373
Crashes are a very big deal, even when they are not gamebreaking.

https://imgur.com/a/ll6d1bZ
It's a hassle, so I'll stop here (before even meeting the grandpa).

>>19715921
I guess it's not bad for a first release.

>>19715958
Like I said, it's not even the whole common route. Not terrible, but I don't see the 9000 hours of QA they had thanks to the delay.

>>19713182
>>19713242
>translator
>promote him to management where he never translates anything
Brilliant. I just hope he really is back to translating.

>>19715921
You do know there's an honorific mode that adds all the honorifics and changes name order, don't you?

>>19716714
I'm using it, genius.

>>19715921
Thanks for the input, do you mind if we use some of these to improve the script?

>>19716863
I want you to improve the whole script, not just this.

>>19716714
Why would he complain about inconsistent name order and 3 honorifics if he didn’t have them normally?

>>19716865
It's not like the whole script is horrible, is it now?

>>19716966
I can assume the overall quality based on several hours.

>>19713244
>I wonder if Japs who read western lit have arguments about adding honorifics or not.

A better question is if they replace the name occasionally with oniichan, aniki, Makoto-pyon and all other words that an english would translate into english as their name.

>>19717014
b-but 9000 hours of QA

Guys I'm translating a moege and getting rid of honorifics and stupid things like oniichan oniichan!

https://solpress.co/blog/329/sol-press-weekly-roundup-08-20-2018

There's a demo for Yotsunoha in case anyone is curious.

>>19717390
Yes, released 2 months ago.

>>19717390
>2006 title
Why is SOLPRESS so retarded?
If you are gonna do loli do MAITETSU!

>>19717411
Loli isn't really a selling factor, honestly speaking. Maitetsu isn't a gameplay title, nukige title, or even a moege, so it sells like shit (censorship antics don't help much). Short loli nukige sell pretty much the same as other short nukige.

>>19717014
I'm really enjoying it so far, and I'm almost done with the game by now. I don't think they did that bad of a job honestly.

>>19715125
>He replaces the built in font with one of his own, and then is surprised to find some text doesn't display correctly.
I'm almost impressed that you're trying to call them out on a mistake you made yourself

>>19713116
>not using broseph
my little sister actually calls me this

>>19717639
I can say I really enjoyed Fureraba, but I can't say they did a good job. Those are two separate things. The quality of the game itself overpowered the fact that half of the commas were missing, it was riddled with typos and bad grammar, and had chuee's masterful editing.
Not doing a bad job doesn't mean you did a good job. I'm harsh because most people are clearly okay with localization companies shitting in their mouths after paying for a VN. I don't know what needs to be done for all the QA teams to not suck balls so much. Give them a reward for every legitimate error they find or something. It's the same thing, every single release from every company is at most "good". On a scale from 1 to 10, I haven't read a single release from this year that would come even close to an 8. And again, this has nothing to do with the quality of the games themselves.
The last VN I read in Japanese had 1 (one) issue, where the voice line had a different word than the written text. And that's a 30 hour long game from a torrent created right after the release, so it's unpatched. But I don't read that much in Japanese, perhaps the resident JOPs who come to laugh at us plebs can tell us how common it is for original releases to look like the stuff we get on a regular basis.
>>19717729
What is this menu for, anon? Tell me. If they release a VN with a fucked up font after it being pointed out to them on several occasions, what is the reader supposed to do?

>>19717766
The menu is only enabled because you modified the game to make it visible. And what's a reader to do? Get the updated build on steam to get a bigger text size obviously.

>>19717766
>>19716863
Well, at least they seem willing to listen, for a change.

>>19717781
Yes, the bigger text size which is still half as big as the one I have.

>>19717788
Sure, but don't complain that they broke the text when you were the one who broke it. It uses a custom font for a reason.

>>19717766
Why would you even read translated trash if you know Japanese.

>>19717766
>>19717804
BTFO

Sol Press staff. I know you're reading this.
Translate Monobeno please!
I kill my parents if you want.

>>19717793
Removing the functionality that existed in the original version is still a reason to complain, especially if you use a bad font. They're obviously using a small font because some lines were too long for the textbox. Guess what, split the line and have it continue upon pressing enter. That's what many other VNs do. It's the same shit with Happy Mare and its hugeass textbox added in the English version.

>>19717838
Fun thing about the cs2 engine: It doesn't support spaces in names. It doesn't support spaces in text options. The engine also cannot be modified under contract. The fix: A custom font that replaces an unused character (underscore in this case) with a space so they look right to the user. The downside of this approach is you can't really change the font without breaking it in ways you described. But changing the font doesn't really work well anyways, it only allows full japanese supported fonts, and as people earlier found some characters (like the letter J) don't display at all in a lot of fonts due to the game's wonky text rendering. There's a reason it's turned off.

You're right that the original font isn't the greatest. But it doesn't break the experience, especially with the updated text size.

>>19717871
Alright, with this information I'll concede that the only way they could have done things better is to modify the custom font to not suck ass so bad. Which they kind of did, but only after the release when a lot of people complained about it. Maybe someone should have reported that it reads like shit during the QA. Maybe that's why they okay'd the errors, because they couldn't see them.
But thanks for the lecture, Doddler. Hopefully the kamicompany which will finally localize Kamikaze Explorer will take notes from this.

>>19717411
Yotsunoha isn't a lolige.

>>19717934
>Maybe someone should have reported that it reads like shit during the QA.
>>19262651

>>19717766
>how common it is for original releases
Not really common. It happens mostly in the titles with the huge script size. I'm pretty sure that, for example, anyone who've read baldr sky would tell you that it has a whole bunch of typos, and it's not like they are all in one place that was badly edited, they are all over the place. Masada tends to misspell stuff, but given the size of his works it's... well, expected. Though I don't remember any mistakes in bansenjin, so I guess it was actually well-edited. From the stuff I've read recently, I remember a couple of mistakes in apeiria and hello lady, but that's about it.
So, anyway, it's more of an exception. Short works are generally almost perfect in that sense, though I can't say much about the doujin works, so I hope some other anon can comment on that.