/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>3345499
Wow, haven't seen that style before.

>>3345520
Even Japanese fans are in general agreement that there's more hairstyles, clothing options and such than have so far been discovered by anybody.

It really is amazing how much work's gone into this.

<3 Nene.

>>3345534
Really sets a standard for any games of this type that might be released in the future.
Makes me excited for Idolm@ster as well.

I think this is the nicest haircut for Manaka.

>>3345543
Bottom right = I fucking died.

>>3345548
I think so too.

>>3345557
This one's awesome.

>>3345534
Couldn't they just rip the rom and see all the stuff available?

>>3345569
Unique file encryption methods and/or file formats. 2D textures are one thing, physics-enabled meshes are quite another.

>>3345578
I thought if maybe even they couldn't see it, they could see triggers for unlocking stuff.

It's like I'm really in the 1950s.

>>3345593
Well, perusing the script on tlwiki there's a fair number of "what would you like my hair to look like?" choices, but there's an element of randomness to it. The game is pretty much set so the girl decides her own hair and the player just suggests general directions (longer, shorter, cute, sexy, etc).

>>3345548
I prefer her default hair so far

>>3345598
So if I wanted the girl to have twin tails, I wouldn't be able to directly say that?

There's also a large range of hair colours, from the usual black, blonde and brown to bright green and pink, and more.

>>3345598
That's the impression I get too. And gameplay-wise, I think it's more interesting this way.

>>3345570
HNNNNNNNGGGGHHHH

>>3345598
>but there's an element of randomness to it.
Hmmm, can the debug version of No$ be used to wokr this out?

>>3345611
Just keep asking her until you get what you want. It generally doesn't take too long, and makes the girls feel as if they have a little free will/AI compared to just being dolls.

>>3345621
The latter is sort of an element of mindfuck. I hail from /g/ but I am really addicted to this game because of it.

WILD MANAKA, DA YO

>>3345614
>range of hair colours
Awesome.
>green
Don't know if want.

So how much time have you guys been spending on this game? I was kind of obsessed with it for a few days, but now I'm down to doing 1-2 weeks skip time per evening.

>>3345675
That's really how it's meant to be played anyway.

>>3345651

Unlimited Cute Works.

>>3345675
After getting the girl, I only really play when I'm in the washroom or something.
>>3345692
This is the hairstyle I want.

>>3345675
I treat it like a tamagotchi with a save feature. I just fire it up every now and then and play for a bit in skip.

>>3345724
Actually, this is what I want now.

HRNGGGGGG

Pink hair.

Not so good.

>>3345807

>>3345820
Mind = Blown.
Tokimemo was also my first dating sim.

>>3345651
Wooooooooo

>>3345811
>>3345812
Sideways ponytail hairstyle is silly.

Teh Rei.

>>3345822
I've played them all except the first.

How do you get more clothes for Love Plus mode? Right now I only have a one piece white swimsuit.

>>3345826
No it isn't. You're silly.

>>3345849
I never really liked Imoutits either. I guess the hair can explain it.

HHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

>>3345583

This game is cuteness incarnate.

>>3345833
Somebody on romhacking started translating it again a year ago but the website is now defunct.
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,6275.0.html

How can they prefect this game, and make it better?

>>3345915
Wider selection of girls, on a console, maybe downloadable content or something, more variation in the emails and stuff.

Personally I would like it better if it didn't feel like I was grooming a girl. It would be nice if it was more subtle the way she changed her appearances and stuff.

>>3345929
>maybe downloadable content
Well, if this comes to pass, I'll have to abandon the lite for a DSi. Though Jet Impulse had some downloadable stuff, but I didn't know how to work it...

>>3345915
If there was sex.

Can only kiss in this game. What a piece of shit.

>>3345915
PC
More girls
Moddability

>>3345915
They should make a system solely for this game.

The DS is too fucking weak.

>>3345959
PC is probably the next step. I can imagine somebody somewhere is already working on an engine for the PC.

>>3345977
If this game were to stop being on a portable it would probably be to go on the Wii or PS3.

>>3345989
PC opens up the possibility for sex, so I'd back that.
Wii would be excellent, though.

>>3345999
Except, you know, Konami would never do that.

>>3346006
Then Konami won't do it. Somebody else will come up with a similar engine.

>>3345977
I will play it with my tablet.

>>3346018
But then that would mean it's a doujin game without the voice actors or anything, no thanks.

>>3346029
Not necessarily. It could easily be one of the VN software companies, and those have plenty of voice acting.

is anyone working on a translation??

>>3346041

For reference, eroge usually get very roughly 20k sales to be considered a success. Only AAA big name studios like Leaf or August ever break 100k.

Love Plus sold 48,000. In three days.

For a dating sim, that's fucking insane. I have no doubt some company is going to try and make a game similar to it on some other platform in an attempt to emulate its success.

>>3346041
>Tlwiki page with gameplay help and translation effort:
>http://tsukuru.info/tlwiki/index.php?title=Love_Plus

GEE I WONDER

>>3346038
Yea but it wouldn't have the same voice actors. My Rinko just wouldn't be the same if it wasn't Tange Sakura.
>>3346056
That's three days? Is the first week data available? I think Famitsu usually publishes weekly sales right?

>>3346070
Sorry, meant seven days. Point still stands.

>>3346070
Ah, you were still talking about Loveplus.
I was kinda addressing the potential for future products.

>>3345954
>>3345999
You guys do realize that there's Illusion and Teatime games that cater to that need, right?

I wouldn't trust a game company to do both cute + sex, and excel in both categories. It's impossible.

COME BACK WHEN YOU ACTUALLY FINISHED TRANSLATION.
REPORTED FOR ILLEGAL CONTENT BECAUSE OF 'PLAY THE GAMES IF YOUR COUNTRY IF YOU PRAY FOR WORLD PEACE'

>>3346072
No, you were right, it's 3 days.
The weekly sales chart was August 31 to September 6 and the game came out on the 3rd.

>>3346092
Um. It's not an adult game, so the caompany has no problem with imports.

>>3346086
Part of the reason love Plus works is 2D backgrounds meaning everything can by focused on the girl. The only eroge to do this was Time Leap, which both used prerendered h-scenes, and used a horrifically bad engine (and low res eyerape backgrounds for no fucking reason).

I wish something on PC would use cell-shaded graphics for the characters and high res 2D pictures for backgrounds, along with a decent engine. The effect would look amazingly good.

>>3346086
Love and sex are two sides of the same coin.

>>3346056
It's published by fucking Konami, you know.

>>3346110
>decent engine

That's pretty much the problem. In current Teatime and Illusion games, the girls look pretty good, but the backgrounds are terrible. Not to mention the execrable efficiency of the graphics engines.

>>3346086
You gotta believe, Anon.

Decent 3d engines are expensive.

>>3346096
Also, just wanted to say, 48k in the first three days isn't that crazy. Amagami sold 48k in it's first 3 days too. These types of games generally taper off pretty soon. I wouldn't expect Loveplus to sell more than 100k though I'd be happy if I were wrong.

>>3346135
Illusion's aren't half bad as far as rendering the girls and the interactivity of the sex go.

With 2D backgrounds and nice painted backgrounds (and a decent writer), their games could be brilliant.

Are all the hairstyles available for all the girls. I'm in love with this style: >>3345534

>>3345702
Top row, middle one makes her look a lot older.

>>3346146
No, unfortunately. Some are though, so that hairstyle might be available for one or both of the others.

Pic related, bob cut on Nene.

Konami's probably reusing code from the Tokimeki Girl's Side games.

What annoys me the most is the lack of antialiasing. It's especially noticeable when running in an emulator, and my GTX 295 doesn't help with this at all.

>>3346344
that's because it's meant to be played on the ds, what is wrong with you stupid fucks,
STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT SHIT WHEN YOU'RE NOT RUNNING IT ON THE PLATFORM IT'S MEANT TO BE RUN ON

>>3346485
You're seriously suggesting that the reason why there's no anti aliasing is because we're playing it on a PC?

>>3346529
Poster was obviously referring to the superior graphical features of the DS, including nearest-neighbor filtering and a hard limit on the number of vertices and triangles.

>>3346529
>>3346542
are you fuckers stupid?
it's meant to be played on the ds, so obviously it's not meant to have hd graphics, and you don't notice it as much while playing on the ds than on the pc
BE HAPPY YOU'RE EVEN PLAYING THE GAME

Damn, I cant see Manaka in swimsuit anymore, after the date she is using her usual pajamas again and doesnt switch back when exit LP mode. Maybe it was because i lost all my hearts and some stats.

>>3346562

GOODBYE REAL WORLD

>>3346587
RINKO URESHII

Her third person speech is moe as fuck.

>>3346562
>the way it's meant to be played

>>3346579
>Maybe it was because i lost all my hearts and some stats.

Yeah that's fucking annoying. It's like they're vampires or something. THEY JUST USE YOU FOR THE DATE AND THEN LEAVE YOU A WITHERED HUSK

>>3346609
nvidia_logo.jpg

I must be doing something wrong, because on Manaka 'route' there are tests that require me to have 75% of Athletics and Knowledge on fucking day 30.
Is there a trick or something in raising stats?

>>3346801
That's just how it is. And you have until day 100 anyway, so don't worry.

>>3346801
Yeah, the late pre-girlfriend tests are insane, just avoid them.

Tried to play this on an emulator, didn't work so well. Seems like it'd definitely be worth my money, though, after all look how much effort they've used. That and the fact that its a ground-breaking achievement.

Pick a dump stat and don't take tests for that one until the others are up to snuff and you're ready to raise it.

>>3345826
no u

Recommending No$Zoomer for this after just trying it out.

http://www.mediafire.com/?djgmznmd0mz

A lot more filtering options to make the game look better, lots more resolution options, more reliable picking up of the mic, etc. Finally managed to make it get rid of that annoying stuttering to their voices that was just slightly noticable in normal No$Gba.

Any tips on getting the mic functional?

>>3347498
If it doesn't work on No$zoomer, try a different emulator.

You might be stuffed though. Emulators seem really hit or miss with detecting mics.

The second codes for this are added to Narin's cheat database I'm gonna have a ball.

Not that I'm not having one already

>>3347220

What can't they change about their hair? Oh god, this game is great.

>>3347552
Some are up already.

http://cheats.gbatemp.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=486

But they're not in the database. I don't feel like adding them myself.

Goddamn love plus fags, go back to /v/.

>>3347837
Weak.

repostan' adorable hair manaka

Nothing like coming home and having my girlfriend call me because she misses me~

>>3348065
That hairstyle doesn't look good.

>>3345820
Don't remind me of this fucking materialistic, attention seeking whore.

I've tried playing this, but I clearly do not know enough kanji/vocabulary to understand more than maybe ~1/3 to half of the text. How do you guys manage to do it?

>>3348065
But that's not adorable hair Manaka.

>>3349771
Same guy, I forgot to mention that I have a year's worth of uni Japanese classes under my belt. I still feel like I need ATLAS to play... but there's no voices for me to type out the kanji to translate nor is there (as far as I know) a way to get AGTH to extract the text to translate.

There is a mediafire link on the tlwiki with the dialogue scripts in text files. What you can then do is search all of them for portions of a phrase you see (like the hiragana). I use notepad++ to search using the "Find in files".

Then you can feed the text into whatever you want.

Also only search for text on a single line, the lines in game are separated by newlines.

>>3349781
a year means you can read at the level of a first grader, probably. Tell us your JLPT certification instead.

>>3349810
None. I was hoping to be able to read a fair bit more of it. Oh well.

>>3349805
Thanks.

>>3349769
I'm... I'm sorry.
>>3349781
Really? I failed Japanese 101 and I can play through it pretty decently.

what is japanese 101?

What are those faces under the stat bars for?

>>3349870
Intro Japanese.

Give me the Hitler cut but leave the bangs long.