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tl;dr - Support JAST USA's official localizations of Nitro+ games!

ffffffffffffffffffffffuckkkkkkkk yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>By the way, we will continue to work on the Noah translation project.

Fuck yeah

>>2953874
> tl;dr - Support JAST USA's official localizations of Nitro+ games!, We get kickbacks after all if you do.

>>2953862

>1) Increase the speed at which the finished products are released. This is probably the item of most interest.
>2) Ensure that Nitro+ fans are working on the projects, in order to provide the highest localization quality possible.
>3) Simply get more Nitro+ titles translated in general and help support the companies involved. The fact that we can do this with Nitro+'s blessing is even better.

Seems reasonable

>As for details of the partnership... Basically, we'll just let them have our current work and continue to work with them to finish anything we're not done with. We're also interested in working with them on games that haven't seen any sort of translation attempt as of yet.

Be sure to give suggestions

>Obviously, since we'll be working with JAST to have our translations released officially, we've taken the script files and patches offline. This was done in order to both support future official releases and to provide incentive for others to actually buy the damn games.

Good luck with that

>By the way, we will continue to work on the Noah translation project.
Awesome

This is a huge upper. I figured JAST was just C&Ding the whole thing because "we might consider translating this stuff at some point in the unforeseen future, possibly, maybe". This better not delay shit.

So, if we support TLwiki's translations, and TLwiki's translations Support JAST USA's official localizations of Nitro+ games!, then by the transitive property, to support TLwiki's translations is to Support JAST USA's official localizations of Nitro+ games!.

>We are going to try and make Jast fucking release stuff

I am sure that will go just as planned.

From IRC

<LoSs> I got C&D from Jast USA, but we decided to mail them back
<LoSs> and try to cooperate with them
<LoSs> instead of removing the projects
<LoSs> our negotiations were successful
<LoSs> and no[w] we are planning to aid JAST with their localizations of nitro+ games

>By the way, we will continue to work on the Noah translation project.
thank god, I was worried Jast would stop that

>>2953975
I don't think there's a gurantee that all Nitro+ games that are being worked on now will be localized by JAST. If some Nitro+ games won't be localized by JAST, they will probably continue being worked on TLWiki or in private.

>>2953973
><LoSs> our negotiations were successful

I find that easy to believe

LoSs/others to Nitro+- "We want to give you high quality scripts of games that you are releasing for nothing or next to nothing, saving you a huge amount of time, money, and getting a better quality product at the end"

>By the way, we will continue to work on the Noah translation project.

Nice

Hopefully this "partnership" will help get Sumaga over here faster.

Fuck yeah, bring me Hello, World please and I'll actually buy it.

Will the same people still be working on demonbane?

More IRC stuff

<Krade> hey LoSs, are they planning on releasing Saya? Since that one is pretty much ready
<@LoSs> they are still speaking with nitro+

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<Shu> is LoSs being paid?
<LoSs> Shu, we haven't speaked about money yet
<LoSs> we will discuss it when peter will speak with nitro, I guess

Damn you OP for being fast. Here's what I was going to post.
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The Nitro+ translation projects of Sumaga, Chaos;Head, Demonbane, Saya no Uta are now under joint development with JAST USA. Future titles are under consideration.

I shall start off by addressing your immediate concerns.
1. The lolis will not be touched, since all of them aren't underage or human. Fuck yeah.
2. The people that purhcased Chaos;Head, Sumaga, Demonbane, and/or Saya will probably not be able to do some sort of trade-in. Sorry.
3. It'll be way cheaper than Mangagamer's $50 online distribution shit. You'll be getting a boxed copy and maybe some extras, original release style.

Now I'll tell what I want you to know.
1. We may be working with more Nitro+ (and Chiral) titles, so you guys might as well pull them off the board.
2. Before you criticize us for being corporate whores, let me tell you something. Go up to your parents' mailbox and see if you can scratch up money for those bills.
3. I can't stop you from pirating, uploading, linking, or ripping. Remember that neither Nitroplus, the TLWiki, and JAST USA are swimming in Electronic Arts' gold vaults.
4. TLWiki will continue being a safe haven for other, non-JAST related translations. Sweet Pool and the like can and will stay.
5. To paraphrase, JAST thinks that Mangagamer is being really, really stupid about the Higurashi fan translation.

I'll be taking questions and discussion for four hours.

>>2954054

There are no people working on Demonbane. They all jumped ship a couple months back.

>>2954071
Thanks Tin Foil.

>>2954071
>The Nitro+ translation projects of Sumaga, Chaos;Head, Demonbane, Saya no Uta are now under joint development with JAST USA. Future titles are under consideration.

Awesome. Is Jast serious though about releasing Chaos;Head? They haven't released any non-H stuff before

>1. The lolis will not be touched, since all of them aren't underage or human. Fuck yeah.

Fuck Yeah

>2. The people that purhcased Chaos;Head, Sumaga, Demonbane, and/or Saya will probably not be able to do some sort of trade-in. Sorry.
Expected
>3. It'll be way cheaper than Mangagamer's $50 online distribution shit. You'll be getting a boxed copy and maybe some extras, original release style.

Sounds awesome

>2. Before you criticize us for being corporate whores, let me tell you something. Go up to your parents' mailbox and see if you can scratch up money for those bills.

I would like to see you work helping with official stuff.

>4. TLWiki will continue being a safe haven for other, non-JAST related translations. Sweet Pool and the like can and will stay.
Will CH:Noah be added back, or done elsewhere?

>5. To paraphrase, JAST thinks that Mangagamer is being really, really stupid about the Higurashi fan translation.
Could you elaborate farther about what you mean?

Should we expect timely releases or should we take the thing about Demonbane being released early next year as unlikely?

>>2954071
>You'll be getting a boxed copy and maybe some extras, original release style.
This interests me. I don't mind buying a game if I get some cool stuff with it, or if it's really good...
Even an original CD to remember the fun times I had would be good though. ;_; I want an official version of Tsukihime so bad

>>2954071
>The lolis will not be touched, since all of them aren't underage or human. Fuck yeah.
Thank god.
I just hope this also means they wont censor potential guro.
Having Nitro+ censored would be a crime.

>>2954105
Oh god so do I ;_;

>>2954100
>Could you elaborate farther about what you mean?

They shut down the fan translation.

>3. It'll be way cheaper than Mangagamer's $50 online distribution shit. You'll be getting a boxed copy and maybe some extras, original release style.

It's official, I'm buying Demonbane and possibly Saya.

>>2954122
>They shut down the fan translation.

Yeah, but they were very slow (different then the TLwiki people), and only ~25% finished what MangaGamer is going to be releasing in 6 months, and MangaGamer already was translating before the convention so it is likely that they already were past where the fantranslation was. They are very different situations.

>>2954122
>They shut down the fan translation.

Yeah, but they were very slow (different then the TLwiki people), and only ~25% finished what MangaGamer is going to be releasing in 3-4 months, and MangaGamer already was translating before the convention so it is likely that they already were past where the fantranslation was. They are very different situations.

>>2954102
>Should we expect timely releases or should we take the thing about Demonbane being released early next year as unlikely?
I don't know the time, date, or season.

>>2954100
>Will CH:Noah be added back, or done elsewhere?
JAST is talking with Nitro+ and 5pb about it.

>Could you elaborate farther about what you mean?
Antagonizing your target audience is as stupid as telling them to pirate your games.

>>2954111
"Guro is not illegal, therefore we do not care" would be a good summary.

>>2954105
>>2954113
We'll tell them about how eager the community is to have boxed copies with extras or something like that.

ITC amerifags companies are the cancer killing good translation groups.

>>2954071
Will JAST have proper, clean translated images? I don't really mind if they use my edits, but they'd look pretty shitty in a commercial product.

>>2954111
Now that you've brought up that thought, I'm getting worried.
The stuff in Saya no Uta is pretty graphic for America's standards. Wouldn't the average reader be grossly offended by the nature of the novel and, possibly, bring this up for obscenity charges or the like? Might JAST be forced to censor these Nitro+ works?

Higurashi will be $50 for both or each?

>>2954156
There are worse stuff described in the bible.
For an inherently adult product, we SHOULD be able to escape shitty attention.

>>2954149
This is why you move the project outside U.S instead of sucking JAST's cock. I'm sort of sad. Hope the final result won't be a disaster.

Hmm. If I get an actual box, and the translations are decent, I may be interested in buying some games.

>>2954146
>We'll tell them about how eager the community is to have boxed copies with extras or something like that.
I'm actually willing to buy them if they released them boxed. Even more if theres extras.

Paying for something that is theoretically non-existent feels stupid. MangaGamer should learn from JAST.

>>2954153
Yeah.

>>2954156
Saya is a Lovecraftian nightmare. She is not an underage girl, she just appears to be one through Fuminori's eyes or some other legal loophole like that.

>>2954160
I said that these games would be cheaper than Mangagamer's releases, such as KiraKira for around $50.

>>2954171
>theoretically non-existent

>>2954156
If memory serves right, SnU already have some form of censor option, so hopefully that should scare away the moralfags.

>>2954175
Ah, that's good.

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>>2954146
>Antagonizing your target audience is as stupid as telling them to pirate your games.
Did I miss something? I thought Mangagamer just asked the girls to stop their translation project, which is perfectly understandable considering they will be selling their own licensed translation.

>>2954204
Repeat after me
JAST good, MangaGamer bad

>>2954171
Same. I would definitely buy one with a box and extras, as long as it has a reasonably professional touch to it.

>>2954207
Different situations. The Higurashi translation was still getting started after years of doing nothing, TLWiki basically offered JAST "HEY GUYS, GET YOUR PROFESSIONALLY DONE TRANSLATIONS HERE."

age for physical copies of the game

Here's a Noah update to go with the news about the JAST partnership stuff.

The current EXE is in a working state. Effects do not crash like the EXE based on Chaos;Head. Everything I've tested in the extras menu has worked too (but you can't unlock achievements for obvious reasons). The problem with the current EXE is I made some errors while changing the resolution. It will need to be redone before I feel comfortable releasing it. There's also some font related coloring problems but that can be worked around for now.

Well I wasn't terribly interested in Kazoku Keikaku, but screw it. Here's $40 out of my PS3 fund, Pete and TLWiki. Best of luck with those Nitro+ games, when the time comes they'll also be siphoning money from the likelihood of me ever playing Atelier Rorona and Disgaea 3.

I can only hope the Futagotachi are negotiating some similar sort of arrangement with MangaGamer. Their blog post was a bit strange.

Everyone in this thread saying they'll buy these games when they come out will actually just come here saying 'TORRENT WHERE'.

>>2954204
But ryukishi said ok to translation project of twins, so I don't see a legit reason for mg to send C&D's.

>>2954204
It's a bad business decision, although a different one from what JAST had to do. I'm saying (and JAST was saying) that Mangagamer should've approached the sisters with an offer instead of saying "your activity is no longer permitted."

Nice cheap translations > horrible things you made yourself.

>>2954244
I would've saved up for the PS3.

>>2954240
>you can't unlock achievements

Why would a visual novel have achievements? You get points for raping ALL the maids or something?

>>2954260
All 360 games have achievements.

>>2954260
That would be awesome! I'd reread Tsukihime for achievements!

>>2954255

Though if I read correctly, didn't JAST do basically the same thing until you guys mailed them back asking to negotiate?

>>2954260
It's a 360 port, and all 360 games have achievements.

>>2954255
But LoSs said

><LoSs> I got C&D from Jast USA, but we decided to mail them back

Isn't that the same thing the Higurashi translator twins did, except without revealing the C&D stuff to the general public?

>>2954250
That was before it was licensed.

>>2954255
As >>2954221 mentioned the girls really didn't have much done at all and their pace was far too slow to really help Mangagamer with their October release.

Thanks for the update, Moogy/LoSs/TinFoil.

>>2954273
They responded appropriately and profitably to the opportunity, though.

>>2953932
There will be the obvious legal delays, but we're continuing development behind the scenes. You won't see any official, large-scale announcements for a while.
(I forgot to address this one.)

So we get to pay for what would have been a free translation?

Uh... yay, I guess?

JAST USA, not so good.

Why you guys would want to sell your Saya translation to Peter Payne is beyond me, especially since he sent you a C&D at first.

>>2954368
You get to pay for a guaranteed project unlike most fan projects that will work and now has better chances to be done fast and with a good quality.
Or just pirate the overall better product that will probably result.

I'm definitely buying Saya no Uta if I can get a physical copy. Demonbane too, because I'm really interested in the game. I even have and Another Blood figure, though I bought it because it's cute. Sumaga... I don't think so. I'm not rich, I can't afford buying everything JAST releases. I stopped buying games a long ago, and I'm going to start buying them again just because it's an special situation.

>>2954371
Cause instead of just dumping the scripts or releasing it nonetheless and face consequences, they get to get paid or at least finish the project one way or another.

>>2954371
This was actually the result of an overzealous legal department trying to protect their license. Peter didn't know about the C&D and apologized to us in his first email response.

>>2954368
In any case, you would pay for or pirate the original japanese game. How does this change things?

>>2954368
>So we get to pay for what would have been a free translation?

We will in the long run get more translations from this then we would have otherwise. Also, these games will be uncensored, and once announced they are basically guaranteed, unlike fan translations which have a habit of dying and/or never getting anywhere. You'll likely pirate it either way, so don't bitch about it.

>uncensored
so they're going to redraw the penises back onto the guy?
make them stop that useless shit. I fapped to it when it was censored, its just going to make me complain about the shitty redraw.

>>2954456

>>2954456
We actually never brought that up. +1 to the question pile.

>>2954456
No redrawing, they licensed the images and just decided not to add the censoring layer in photoshop

>>2954464
make sure you tell them "flywheel" was all I needed to make me cum

Hey Tinfoil, thanks for the updates. I actually emailed you and you replied, which was quite brotastic.

Good to hear Noah is still being worked on, which was my one major concern.

I don't see why people are bitching about Mangagamer not selling physical copies, because its pretty obvious that they don't have the resources to do it in the first place

Never got around to playing Saya no Uta and the patch on /rs/ is dead, can anyone reup it? I have the game, I just need the patch.

Nice that MangaGamer is around, forcing Jast to FUCKING DO SOMETHING.

>>2954482
They'll bitch anyway, don't try to rationalize.

Oh fuck TinFoil you are really my hero.

>The lolis will not be touched, since all of them aren't underage or human. Fuck yeah.

Jesus fucking yes. My main worry that JAST will censore games or bring out rewritten/changed english or just engrish like MG. But with you people on board i can be sure that this won't happen. I mean you guys translated all the games for no money and with heavy criticism often. If you are on board please make our voices and worries be heard and tell them they need to do extensive Quality checkings and testing phases.

I am trusting you guys on this one.

>It'll be way cheaper than Mangagamer's $50 online distribution shit. You'll be getting a boxed copy and maybe some extras, original release style.

Finally. Jesus christ. Some physical copy. Make sure they sell to all of Europe.

>To paraphrase, JAST thinks that Mangagamer is being really, really stupid about the Higurashi fan translation.

Damn right about this. They could gain more than lose.

As a side note, Family Project is shipping.

>>2954492
anyone?

>>2954541
>Finally. Jesus christ. Some physical copy. Make sure they sell to all of Europe.
I think the online store ships and allows international purchases, but I don't know where they wouldn't.

>>2954563
heres ver v0.9
http://www.mediafire.com/?4ziyyz33eqy

While I really liked Phantom of Inferno, Hirameki's localization of the DVD-Video version was an absolute nightmare. The subs were sketchy and timed by a deaf person. The interface as well was also disgusting (passwords anyone?) and I still can't find a PC media player that will touch the thing (VLC does ok, but good luck trying to resume your game). Does Jast have any inkling of a plan to do something with it?

tl;dr pirate everything who cares.

>>2954586

Thanks, but I found the 1.0 version on donut if anyone else wants it.

http://www.romhacking.net/translations/pc/patches/%5B1380%5D%5bTLWiki%5d_Saya_no_Uta_English_Localiz
ation_v1.0.0.zip

>>2954604
>Does Jast have any inkling of a plan to do something with it?
Well, they checked if anyone was doing anything with it, but then moved on to another subject.
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Some news coverage.
http://novelnews.net/2009/07/17/jast-usa-is-working-with-fan-translators-for-nitro-titles/

Goddamn fantranslators these days are sucking too much corporate cock. Back then, they'd just go "fuck you" and not give a shit instead of giving up like they were going to get killed or something.

>>2954627

From Peter
>In addition to the quality of their titles, part of what attracted us to the games of Nitro+ is the great passion many fans already feel for their games. We’re open to having any talented translators help us with the game translations, regardless of their place in the fan community. Bottom line, anyone who wants to help and can do a smooth, professional translation will be considered.

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When asked about whether this would have an effect on the release date of their upcoming Nitro+ products, he said:

> Possibly, we’re still trying to make a guess about this. We need to talk with the programmers in Japan and find out what their schedule is like.

We also asked him about whether the completed fan translations — Chaos;Head and Saya no Uta — would be brought over as well in addition to the two currently announced titles, and he had this to say:

>We certainly would like to bring these games out to fans, and will try to get them added to the release schedule. Nitro+ is especially interested in the prospect of getting Saya no Uta out to fans (actually there will be an American comic of the story made). We can’t say any more at this point although we are open to taking any positive step that will get these games out into the hands of fans.

>>2954677
>Back then, they'd just go "fuck you" and not give a shit instead of giving up like they were going to get killed or something.
Are you serious? Back in the day, fansubbers would insta-drop their projects once it was licensed in the US.

But like TheFluff put it, the anime fan translation scene already made its transition to full blown warez. If Jast/MG play their cards right, this might not happen to them.

>>2954377
>done fast and with a good quality
>Jast
You've got to be fucking kidding me.

>>2954681
>(actually there will be an American comic of the story made)
What.

>>2954681
>Bottom line, anyone who wants to help and can do a smooth, professional translation will be considered.

Someone show this to anime fansubbers, I am sure there are plenty who would want to get paid for their efforts.

>Are you serious? Back in the day, fansubbers would insta-drop their projects once it was licensed in the US.
You're not old enough to remember that far back, when fansubs were done on VHS and analog equipment. Also, the reaction from the anons here was a lot less than what I would expect.

>>2954377
>done fast
>Jast
I can't wait to read Sumaga in three years!

>>2954240
I realize I'm really fucking late in asking you a question, and you most likely aren't around anymore, but just incase you are:
>but you can't unlock achievements for obvious reasons
Last update on the wiki said that achievements worked without any editing at all. Not that I really give a shit (Achievements don't really matter, even less so in a visual novel), but what changed?

>>2954727
>You're not old enough to remember that far back, when fansubs were done on VHS and analog equipment.
No, many Internet distribution fansub groups did that. You still have trackers around that uphold those "morals."

The whole warez scene transition thing is pretty recent.

>>2954681
>actually there will be an American comic of the story made
what

>>2954745
I'm still around.

It's my fault for not clarifying that. Achievements work in the sense that you can see them, but you cannot unlock them. Previously most things in the extras menu did not work at all (for example, pictures would be missing or misplaced). The game has no way of unlocking them so even if you meet the requirements, you don't get them. Maybe after I've finished messing with the EXE I could code up some functions which would store the unlocks as variables and check those instead of storing them on the 360 like it tries to do. I agree that it's not that important in a visual novel but it would be nice touch.

>>2954756
>The whole warez scene transition thing is pretty recent.

Back as late as 2005, fansubs were generally argued as helping the industry, and many groups would stop at licensing. Then the attitude changed to "who gives a shit, we no longer care about the industry, we just want our fast subs"

Awesome thread

Nice to see that Jast isn't fighting fansubs. This is a unique situation for both MangaGamer and Jast, as this is the first time there were unofficial and official planned translations of the same project.

>actually there will be an American comic of the story made

Anyone info on this? Seriously.

>>2954901
>fansubs

>>2954938
>Anyone info on this? Seriously.

google didn't turn up anything, but seeing that NitroPlus is now Pro America, I am guessing this is an experiment.

>>2954727

Someone else can fight The Man, I just want my games.

>>2954950
Hmm, maybe we can even hope to eventually get the first ever American live-action film based off an eroge... Regardless of whether it were shitty or not, it'd certainly be an important step.

>actually there will be an American comic of the story made

>>2954982

But if it was a hollywood movie then it would have to have a good ending, Fuminori stopping the invasion and saving humanity or whatever. No one has the guts to put a bad end in a movie now, pic is an exception.

Also they'd make Saya into some evil seductress, probably have Angelina Jolie play her or something.

>>2953862
Heh awesome. So whats the price range for all this?

>>2954982
>American live-action Saya
I don't even want to think about that.

>>2955001
>Angelina Jolie

How much are the translators getting from this?

>>2955001
Oh yeah, loli would be way out of the question. Regardless though, Saya no Uta does have an interesting premise, and it'd be easy to toy around with and take a lot of liberties with.

gekkou no carnevale is best

What was wrong with the original Saya translation? I found it fine, I ain't paying for shit.

Saya no Uta is perfect just as is, JAST will censor the loli.

>>2955016
As long as they don't actually show the sex, they could get away with it. Hollywood isn't outright opposed to the idea, they just rarely do it.

>>2954965
Learn moon.

>>2955001
They'd just go with the Kouji end. It has good triumphing over evil (in the eyes of moralfags) and Kouji is already a generic Hollywood B-movie hero.

>>2954681
>>>We certainly would like to bring these games out to fans, and will try to get them added to the release schedule. Nitro+ is especially interested in the prospect of getting Saya no Uta out to fans (actually there will be an American comic of the story made)

Oh, I know how this is going to turn out.

>>2955030

Why bother learning a new language when jast and mangagamer do all the work for me?

>American live-action Saya

Enjoy your toning down of lolicon and sexual elements to appeal to American Christian culture.

My current translated Saya is fine.

>>2955038
Because they only translate a fraction of visual novels, slowly, in poor quality, and rarely ones that are worth reading to begin with?

>>2955051
What about movies like Bruno? I'm pretty sure it doesnt appeal to the "American Christian culture", yet it got away with just an R. Let Saya get a NC17 and let moralfags walk out of the theater.

>>2955068
NC-17 means most theaters won't even show it. They'd make no money at all.

>>2955101
I'm sure they can pay off the MPAA to get it an R, like Bruno did.

You can walk into any store with a decent dvd selection and buy Salo, I don't think Saya would be a problem.

Someone get the indie filmmakers interested in it. It'll be pretentious as fuck but only someone like Lion's Gate would want to touch it otherwise.

The sex is too ingrained into the plot of Saya for it to be taken out without a loss to the story. How would you get around Saya getting raped? That's an essential part of the story when Fuminori kills him, so you have to show why he kills him.

But either way, the plot is just too edgy and bizarre for even the most indie team to touch. Shit, the thing will never get an anime for that reason, so you can forget about a live-action, that is just pure fantasy guys.

You guys do realize that if Jast is successful in marketing eroge in the states that it exponentially increases the chances that moral guardians will try to pass laws restricting it. ZOMG VIRTUAL CHILD PORN!! WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

>>2955189
You mean like in Japan?

>>2955189
Damn this is awesome. JAST, Nitroplus and TLWiki are true bros.

>>2955189
SCotUS has slapped down every attempt to make virtual CP illegal. Obscenity laws are the current attempt but they'll die too when a clean case goes far enough.

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>>2955189
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Jast and Mangagamers are too naive with their acquisitions.

We need to crush them before the moral guardians come down on the entire eroge industry.

I wonder what these two companies are even thinking about this problem, or if they're even thinking of the consequences at all.

Fucking awesome.

>>2955290

>>2955290
I will enjoy reading articles about the backlash, if there are any

>(actually there will be an American comic of the story made)
This better be a very elaborate troll.

>>2955218
The US government will say they are doing all they can and put a bullseye on Japan.

On a side note has EOCS made any final decisions about what they won't accept?

>>2955387

That doesn't counter what I said at all. The poster I responded to said the US will make it illegal - that will never happen because the SCotUS won't let it. I also severely doubt the feminists have enough sway to do anything to JAST's revenue. Heck, EOCs' response had more to do with warding off populist legislation and costly litigation (as the Japanese Constitution would prevent such legislation from holding up) than anything else.

>>2955432
I wasn't trying to counteryour argument, I just wanted to merely add to what was said. Albeit I probaby should have linked the other post.

European slowpoke here who just woke up on this good news (albeit I'm having some doubts about Saya published without any censored scenes in it)

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So if I understand everything correctly, sometimes in the far future when Noah will be completely done, and JAST is going to publish a PC version, despite that the original japanese version can only played on XBOX 360?
I hope the japanese audience isn't going to bitch about it in the end, because in order to play it they'd have to buy a console, yet somewhere out in the west the very same game is ported to PC but on a language they don't understand. (Or are there any plans to port the japanese version too?)

>>2956514
Don't worry; the Japanese don't care about Chaos;Head Noah.

>>2956514
japan bought xbox360 for im@s anyway

>>2956514
They will just do a fan translation project.

>>2956514
>So if I understand everything correctly, sometimes in the far future when Noah will be completely done, and JAST is going to publish a PC version, despite that the original japanese version can only played on XBOX 360?
Noah has an iffy future right now; I think the Nitro+ developers still haven't been contacted about it at all.

It'll be interesting to see how they react to what we've done.

This cooperation is awesome and I happily support it.
I believe that it is very clear now that JAST is far superior to Mangagamer.
I believe that this cooperation is even better than if the fant-ranslation would have continued alone.
With fans making sure that the final scripts good and with JAST making sure that the image editing follows industry standards the quality should be bound to be better, right?
And with this there is going to be a physical product which I think is awesome.
ChaosHead
Saya no Uta
and Sumaga
are VNs that I know that I would want to have as a physical product and I always wanted the Limited edition version of Sumaga with the Nendoroid figurines, but I never got my hands on it but hopefully JAST might release something similar.

With this I hope that Mangagamer will realize that their ridiculous prices for non physical and low quality products won't cut it.

I knew you were bought off. By the way Noah project is officially dead. Don't let confuse you, as Jast wouldn't allow a patch without releasing C;H localization first and then again, fags won't be working on Noah because they will get paid for other works.
So brace for like Noah @ 2015 which means nothing short of being stalled indifinetly.

>>2956583
I see thank you. Well I kinda fear they may not support the idea to have one of their popular games ported exclusively in a foreign language, but only time will tell it for sure. Their reaction might be indeed a sight to behold though.

What about the Nitro+Chiral titles? The ongoing (?) fantranslation projects are still unaffected. Sweet Pool as you guys said can and will stay, and the Togainu No Chi fantranslation ( http://www.midoshiro.com/blwiki/doku.php/ ) is still in progress.
Does that mean JAST isn't going to localize the N+Chiral titles at all? (They already localized yaoi game in the past as far as I know)
Not like I'd give a crap about Yaoi games, but I'm curious.

>>2956632
>Jast wouldn't allow a patch without releasing C;H localization first

That shouldn't take all that much time considering the fact that the fan-translation of C;H is done.

>So brace for like Noah @ 2015 which means nothing short of being stalled indifinetly.

If they don't put priority on other titles I really don't see why it should take that long.
And if they did prioritize other titles than we will get those first in the meantime so it shouldn't be all that bad.

>>2956694
They have already dozen games waiting for release and regarding to nitro+

Demonbane somewhere during March/April/May '10
JM maybe in Summer '10
Saya if it gets released end of '10
Chaos;HEad then somewhere summer '11

I doubt 5pb will give their OK for an official port anyway, agreements and stuff, because they could have released it for PC to begin with.

So nothing for the next two+ years and in the meantime the team won't work on Noah because they will be partners of Jast and not translating stuff for nothing

>>2956694
They have already dozen games waiting for release and regarding to nitro+

Demonbane somewhere during March/April/May '10
JM maybe in Summer '10
Saya if it gets released end of '10
Chaos;HEad then somewhere summer '11

I doubt 5pb will give their OK for an official port anyway, agreements and stuff, because they could have released it for PC to begin with.

So nothing for the next two+ years and in the meantime the team won't work on Noah because they will be partners of Jast and not translating stuff for nothing

>>2954071
Apart from Saya there aren't any other loli in nitro+ works.

>>2956740
>I doubt 5pb will give their OK for an official port anyway, agreements and stuff, because they could have released it for PC to begin with.

I didn't think that 5pb would give their OK for an official port either, I just thaught that if they found a PC release to be ok it wouldn't take JAST until 2015 in order to release it as long as they don't consider other titles more important.

So it was basically an "if" scenario.
I sure do hope that 5pb will find a PC port ok, even though I don't see it as likely.

>>2956759
>Apart from Saya there aren't any other loli in nitro+ works.

How did you reach that conclusion?

>>2956759
Al (Demonbane)
Mira (Sumaga)
Even in the titles currently being discussed, there are lolis.

Everyone complaining in this thread is most likely not even old enough to buy the games anyway.

>>2956794
Assuming that anyone below the legal age has the attention span to read VN's.

>>2956825
You'd be surprised. I knew a 15 year old girl with ADHD, ADD, and a language processing disorder who played all of Ever17. No idea what she got out of it, though.

>knew a girl

>>2956678
>What about the Nitro+Chiral titles?
It looks like it's not an immediate priority, although the hordes of screaming con-going yaoi fangirls do actually buy things, extras, and copies of extras so they could put it on their walls.

>>2956740
>meantime the team won't work on Noah
A lot of members have personally put a lot of time and effort into porting Noah. Since we're not JAST/Nitro+ employees as of yet, development will continue.

What I don't understand is why are people whining so much about MG lack of boxed version
Boxes gather dust, get in the way, and their content breaks, gets lost and/or gets scratches

DL version has none of those shortcomings, and you can always redownload if your drive explodes or something

Also no shipping fees for people outside US

>>2957060
Because DRM.
If Mangagamer goes down, so do your games.

Anyway I personally have nothing against download versions - I get 3/4 of my eroge from dlsite these days, now that decent stuff is actually up there. Most of it is DRM-free, and the stuff that has DRM is usually that 'soft denchi' thing which doesn't bother me at all anyway.

So... jackhammer achievement earned?

>>2956678
>Not like I'd give a crap about Yaoi games, but I'm curious.
Oh, really?

>>2957060
source?

If the translation and everything is good (and better than what the fans were doing), nothing is censored, we have box, there are torrents with cracks then i'll be happy to download and buy if I really the VN and what JAST did with it.

>>2956825
>Assuming that anyone below the legal age has the attention span to read VN's.
Fuck, I WISH I had the same attention span I had when I was younger. I can't just sit down and read like I used to be able to.

>>2957421
I can definitely assure you of that my dear tsundere.
However I was curious how far the JAST/Nitroplus cooperation is going to absorb the fantranslations, and Nitro+Chiral also belongs to Nitroplus, yet curiously I haven't seen any sign of approaching the fanTLs of those yet.
Thanks for the answer TinFoil, I hope that whole thing won't backfire on anyone, and you guys will get rewarded appropriately for all the hard work.
By the way which scripts the upcoming Demonbane localization is going to use? The one which was already translated on TLwiki, or a seperate one which JAST has made recently? (I honestly don't know how much JAST has translated of that before AX.)

>>2957630
>By the way which scripts the upcoming Demonbane localization is going to use? The one which was already translated on TLwiki, or a seperate one which JAST has made recently
Because of legal issues, I _think_ the PC version (not our voiced PS2 port) will be the Demonbane release. I'm not sure on that one.

>You're not old enough to remember that far back, when fansubs were done on VHS and analog equipment.
I still have my badly-subbed, shit quality Nadesico VHS tapes.

Looked at TLWiki page of SnU and found "PONScripter Port" section in "Discussions". Why didn't you removed the links of those Russian guys' work? It incorporates your translation, right?

>>2957903
I still have my Eva fansubs, myself.

>>2957903
GAI SUPER NAPALM!