/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa
Amatsutsumi - Rejected by Steam, looking at alternative platforms
The Seventh Sign -Mr. Sister- - "Planning release", appears to have been rejected by Steam
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - Q1 2022 release planned, ongoing QA
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Fully localized, in QA
Harumade Kururu - Waiting on build
Rewrite+ Harvest Festa - 50% translated, 20% edited
Hoshizora no Memoria (retranslation) - Going through QA
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 100% translated and edited, programming work to begin soon
Island Diary - 90% through QA
Miko no Kanata - 100% translated and edited, awaiting engine work
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
Tenshin Ranman - QA and engine work next, in "icebox"
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - 50% translated
Sumire - Picked up
Sanarara R - 100% translated and edited, waiting on build
Kanojo no Seiiki - Picked up
Glass - Picked up
New Glass - Picked up
Karakara 3 - 100% translated and edited
Yume to Iro de Dekiteiru - 35% translated
Zutto Mae Kara Joshi Deshita - Announced
Gakkou no Seiiki - Announced
Imouto no Seiiki - 40% translated
Kanojo no Seiiki - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress
Chiisana Kanojo no Serenade - Announced
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi - Announced
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi AA - Announced
Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka - 50% translated
QUALIA ~The Path of Promise~ - 100% translated and edited
Re;Lord 3 - 100% translated and edited, waiting on build
Amairo Chocolate 2 - 100% translated, in editing
Kemonomichi Girlish Square - 100% translated and edited, waiting on build
Secret Project 1 - 100% translated and edited, waiting on build

Nekonyan
Hello Lady - January 21st release
Kin'iro Loveriche -Golden Time- - 75% translated and TLC, 5% edited
Dracu Riot - 100% translated, TLC, and edited, engine porting starting shortly, HD release planned
Clover Days - 100% translated, TLC, and edited, engine porting ongoing, 5% QC, 2021 release
Melty Moment - 75% translated and TLC
Cafe Stella - 95% translated, edited, and TLC
Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - 100% translated, TLC, and edited, engine porting 50% complete
Aoi Tori - 90% translated and TLC, 70% edited, engine porting in progress
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
Making＊Lovers: Geki Icha After Story - 100% translated and TLC, 50% edited
Secret Project 1 - 100% translated and TLC, 75% edited
Secret Project 2 - 60% translated and TLC
Secret Project 3 - 100% translated and TLC, 50% edited

Visual Arts/Key
Angel Beats 1st Beat - 50% translated
Loopers - English release planned

LoveLab
Chinkamo Twins! - English version nearing completion
>Secret Project - 6.7% translated

Aksys
Variable Barricade - February 24th release
Lover Pretend - 2022 release
Piofiore no Banshou -Episodio 1926- 2022 release
Kimi wa Yukima ni Koinegau - 2022 release
Paradigm Paradox - 2022 release

Shiravune
>Nope Nope Nurses - Released
>KamiYaba: Dicking Destiny on a Dicey Deadline - January 21st release
Ryuusei World Actor: Badge & Dagger - Announced, trial version released
Doukyuusei Remake - Announced

Moonchime
Tokyo Onmyouji - February release

Other
Hentai Houseparty: Gyaru Gangbang - January 18th release
Secret Kiss is Sweet and Tender - February 17th release
Hakuchuumu no Aojashin - Targeting a January or February release
Kawaime M Maid-san no Oshigoto SM Lesson - Upcoming release
Venus Blood -Frontier- fandiscs - Ongoing Kickstarter successful
Jiangshi x Taoshi - Episodes 1-3 released
Monkeys! - English release planned
Evenicle 2 - Demo released, approaching new platforms after being rejected by Steam
Venus Blood -AfterDays- - Kickstarter planned
NarKarma EngineA - Announced, in development
Taimanin Asagi - Page for the Trial of episode 1 back on Steam
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Below - 2021 release
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

>>38211133
>Tsukihime - A piece of blue glass moon - Arcueid Day 1-5 partial patch released, day 6 though 9 translated

Wait. MTL are on this list now?

>>38211698
N-no! Apparently they got volunteers to help out!

>>38211698
Isn't that the other group that actually has a decent translator now? Not Hollow Moon

>>38211698
>Wait. MTL are on this list now?
Based! Localizers btfo!

>>38211698
Yes, MTL are officially accepted in vndb too. jop BTFO.

>>38210971
I find it funny they are getting mad at the fact that because sex is involved it's no longer art. May as well just admit he has a prejudice viewpoint against Porn overall and that he just does not like it.

>>38211698
Group claims it's not mtl. But you're free to prove it is. Go compare scripts and then tell us results.

>>38212842
>Group claims it's not mtl.
After initially admitting that it was MTL.

>>38212902
And now they claim it's not mtl. Also, it may be not even the same group (i.e. people) anymore. Mtl translation was started by Clover Moon, then they announced they'll cooperate with Tsukihimates, and now it's just Tsukihimates.

>>38211133
>Django - Waiting on translation.

Is the translator okay?

>>38212481
I stopped reading after the first page. That stuff is almost as bad as youtube comments.

>>>/vg/368686042
Walkure guy confirmed they're at Celia 100% TL/Edited and waited on a QA build. I dunno how long QA takes (or what that even means), but probably means a partial soon?

Anyone know if the Jast Muramasa release works on Win 7? Their website says it's for Win 8/10 but when it came out Win 7 was the current windows so I feel like it should work.

>>38217774
It doesn't. The original 2009 game works on Win 7/8/10, but JAST's doesn't. Yes, they released a game that's less compatible than the original, somehow

>>38217850
Guess I'll just run it in Wine once I set up my desktop.

>>38217774
It runs on my Win 7 after adding some Anon's files from months ago when it was released.

>>38217774
There's a patch that makes it work on win7

>>38213052
It will end up the same even if it's a group change.

What happened with the total eclipse translation? Shouldn't we've gotten a release date by now since winter is almost over?

>>38219559
cancelled due to poor sales of mikhail and the fandiscs.

>>38219745
You're joking right?

>>38217771
I can't fucking wait to read Celia route. She is one of the hottest character i have ever seen.

>>38223199
Are the other routes not worth it?

>Kiminozo - "now in production for English release"

is this ever going to progress? or is this dead in the water?

i really wonder what happened with the previous falling out, i wonder if some shitty porno game localization company can truly hold a NDA against the translator if he released it to other people

although i guess a grand total of 10-15 30+ boomers would be interested in it anyways, so there's no real reason to do anything

>>38227266
Knwoing Age they will stick with Steam to sell their VNs so most likely to avoid a ban the new re-release will be all-ages.

>>38227305
We've already known it'll be all-ages only. The only question was how much in addition to the original all-ages release would be cut out. Anyone who thought we were getting the +18 release is a genuine retard.

>>38227396
The translator (before getting fired) announced that it will be the "latest edition" so it's normal to assume that it should be the censored edition + the patch.
But after the retard idead of redoing the translation I agree that Age is retarded enough to kill their future sales with a censored version.

>>38227463
>censored edition + the patch.
they wouldn't be able to do a patch, that's the problem. Otherwise the Muv-Luv patch would still be legally available.

>>38227305
it being all-ages is pretty irrelevant when there are workarounds - i'm mostly concerned with the TL being completely dead in the water despite being something that's licensed.

i was probably one of the few people who wanted to read the various fanTL projects of it that never turned into anything.

it's been like a year since the last "update" that the previous TLer blew everything up right? i presume we'll hear nothing this year either at this rate.

>>38226664
Dunno whether other routes are worth it or not, but at the very least Celia is clearly the most popular character from the VN by a mile.

https://twitter.com/sekaiproject/status/1483201234152607750

https://a.pomf.cat/hpkzvj.zip

Translation patch for for https://vndb.org/v4382

Done by some anon on /vg/, >>>/vg/368855558

Looking forward to the sheer amount of seething from Hollow trannies when Tsukihime R gets fully translated before they even have the chance to start

>>38231819
They could very easily avoid these problems if they didn't try to reserve a half-dozen games exclusively to themselves then take six years for each of them.

>>38231336
Is it good? Kinda random for a title to translate I guess but always nice to see a finished project.

https://twitter.com/TheZackZeal/status/1482680494454157315
Jast, please.

>>38234881
No one cares about your twitter post, Zack.

>>38231336
Nice, thanks.
though all the links are dead so most likely no one will play it

>>38234881
Hahaha what a story Zack.

>>38211138
>KamiYaba: Dicking Destiny on a Dicey Deadline
Who even comes up with names like these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZXsSJFZI50

Looks like MG has Evenicle 2.

>>38241614
lmao that's an easy day 1 pirate.

>>38241614
Fakku got it as well, listing Alicesoft as the publisher, so they probably just went with a "whoever is willing to sell it" approach.

https://www.fakku.net/games/evenicle-2-english

https://jastusa.com/games/alcsft001/evenicle-2

JAST also has Evenicle 2.

Just link the tweet, idiots.
https://www.twitter.com/Alicesoft_en/status/1483605000979120128

Does anyone know the gpdb database of light novels and their difficulty level?

Doth talked about it in his Korekara podcast interview.

He said it was gpdh dot io but that doesn’t work.

>>38241693
Probably gets added to GOG at some point, kind of surprised to see it launch without one when the original has been there for a few months. I think Denpasoft is the only dedicated R18 VN storefront to be skipped?

>it's in MG shop too
Must be awkward after they tried to publish it by themselves to get more money.

>>38241827
MangaGamer are still doing Rance you know?

>>38241847
They already had a contract in place before Alicesoft tried to do it on its own.

>>38241827
I'm shocked MG actually accepted it. I wonder if they're going to create a unique refund policy for it since a lot of people wont expect the mosaics and might request a refund over it. Perhaps they'll just tell those people to get fucked.

>>38211133
Anything on Kara no Shoujo 3? Did Mangagamer even bother to renew the translation license after 2 flopped?

>>38241972
I don't know why you'd expect them to do that.

>Released in every storefront except steam
steamkeks utter and thoroughly BTFO

>>38242059
Who are you quoting?

>>38242045
Hope, anon-kun. Hope.

Nyaa is the only store I can trust

https://twitter.com/Alicesoft_en/status/1483614666022854660
They seem to have re-added the content that was going to be cut for Steam.

Remember the anon that claimed that DMM/Johren bought the rights to Alicesoft's entire non-Rance catalogue and was gonna exclusively release Evenicle 2? Because I sure do

>>38242156
>you know how we told you guys to go fuck yourselves because we were removing a shit ton of content from the title and not doing a patch to put it back? Yeah well now that steam has banned us we're going to go ahead and put everything back in teehee
Nah still pirating your game, go fuck yourselves.

>>38242455
Source: Your ass.

>>38242455
Dohna Dohna must've sold reeeeally badly then. Evenicle 2 is an insanely high profile release so the fact they didn't secure an exclusive release must mean that they knew the title was nowhere near worth what Alicesoft was asking for. To be fair, they might as well have signed an exclusive deal since the release is censored anyway and it's not on steam so nobody is going to buy it.

>>38242703
Anon, Alicesoft have said that they're looking for other platformS to sell Evenicle 2 on ever since it was banned on steam. A game which only came out 3 months ago's sales have nothing to do with this and you're retarded if you think that is the case.

>>38242716
90% of sales occur within the first two weeks of release. Alicesoft wasn't planning a global storefront launch for the past 15 months, that's for damn sure. To me it seems like a really last minute thing where they just sent it out to every storefront they could find and said
>welp lets just hope for the best
because an exclusive publishing deal fell through.

>>38242734
>To me it seems like a really last minute thing where they just sent it out to every storefront they could find and said
Standstill literally said that's what they planned on doing shortly after it got banned on steam. It was not last minute.

>>38242753
Didn't Standstill also translate and localize the demo? I wouldn't trust the words of someone that incompetent.

>>38241693
Why did quof and steiner distance themselves from this project, again?
The text from screenshots looks fine to me.

>>38242952
Because the developer told customers to get kicked by a horse and die for wanting a version without any content cut out. They decided they didn't want their names associated with the project after that so they hard bailed. Quof didn't want to again be called someone who would literally kill his grandma if the pay was right. I guess once was enough.

>>38242156
Good news, steam is pozzed shit. Hopefully other devs and publishers start ignoring it too until it dies for good.

>>38243042
Steam accounts for 90% of sales, or like 95% in the case of Meru titles. Companies will do what ever it takes to get on steam because it's a 1000% increase in sales.

>>38243273
While it is obviously going to be much less than Steam, have any developer commented on how GOG titles have been doing sales wise with them seemingly being okay with a fair bit of what is rejected by Valve?

>>38243591
GOG has nowhere near the foot traffic for non-retro traditional titles. This has actually been a massive issue for them because last year they tried to pivot to be a more mainstream storefront selling modern AA/AAA titles and obviously those titles have DRM. Generally it was minor stuff like requiring a one-time authentication but it eventually all came to a head when they released the modern Hitman titles which required an always online connection to progress or access half of the missions and they got blown the fuck up for it. They then tried to double down on it which blew up even worse and eventually they pulled the game and offered refunds and basically gave up on publishing games from AA/AAA companies. A month or two after that they began allowing adult content on their storefront which basically shows they no longer intend to aim for the mainstream audiences. I think retro VN's might actually end up with a decent GOG audience but I highly doubt they'll have any notable impact for "modern" eroge releases simply because their userbase is mostly focused on DRM-free titles from the 90's and early 2000's and modern VN's absolutely do not have that feel.

>>38241705
Your hearing reps anon.

>>38242687
>>38114625 #
That's the point, it was obviously bullshit and stupid. Hilariously out of touch with reality.

>>38241748
>Denpasoft is the only dedicated R18 VN storefront to be skipped
No one wants to deal with sekai bs anymore LOL

>>38243042
>until it dies for good
Lmao, steam is not going to die. But trash companies like sekai gonna die out without steam for sure.

>>38243782
Evenicle 2 probably would do okayish (though not a Steam level success) on GOG if only because it has broad name recognition, no Steam release, and GOG would be more palatable to a more general audience than any of the storefronts initially releasing it. Although this would be a case of people using the platform for one title they were already interested in which just happened to not be on Steam, and not help anything else released there.

>>38241972
Not sure 2 flopped. They did a hardcopy release for it

>>38227536
MLA's got nothing to do with Steam's rules, it's anchor wanting to pretend the 18+ content never existed in the first place.

>>38242156
Sweet, I will one copy on every store to support AS.

>>38243273
>Steam accounts for 90% of sales, or like 95% in the case of Meru titles
It really depends on the publisher here. I would argue that both JAST and MG can 100% live without steam and do fine sales wise, but titles from Yuzusoft make 99% of their sales on steam thanks to the chinks. I'm pretty sure the same goes for Sekai Project.
Denpasoft could have been a big adult storefront to rival JAST and MG if Sekai Project bothered to focus and promote it, but they focused on steam and now that steam is banning titles they are getting fucked over big time.
I will never forgive them for the Nanairo release.
>>38245785
>They did a hardcopy release for it
MG does hardcopies for almost all titles which sell close to 1k+ copies. Hell, Hapymaher got one and nobody bought or even read it. It getting a hardcopy doesn't matter, the licensing and VA cost matters more, which if I remember Doddler's old posts on twitter correctly was quite big.

>Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
This has been on this list for longer than Greenlight lasted. Hasn't been a thing since mid-2017.

>>38247908
Yeah I do think they themselves want to do it but it might be too costly right now. They don't seem to have as many titles in the works like they used to have so money might be an issue currently.

>>38241972
The only way is to spam their social media with KnS3 requests.

>>38241972
Is there any other detective vn that even comes close to KnS?

>>38244320
Did you notice that their release of Seventh Sign on GOG had JP text screenshots lifted from VNDB for the first couple days? Literal clown show. I will never understand how they've stayed in business this long.

>>38241972
There was a Kara no Shoujo 2?

>>38252314
>I will never understand how they've stayed in business this long.
Nekopara bucks. It's that simple

>>38252321
Even so. Repeatedly shoddy releases (basically every Nekopara, Hoshimemo, SakuSaku, whatever the fuck they're doing with Leyline, etc., etc.), being run by literal manchildren that were more interested in whinging on Twitter about how hard their lives are and trolling anyone that disagrees with anything they say (looking at you, dovac. At least that Chris guy can pretend to not be a moron for 5 minutes), driving away partners and translators with their sheer incompetence (Yuzusoft, Novectacle, Frontwing, Favorite...I feel like I'm forgetting some), and heavily relying on Steam when the market has already peaked and Valve is getting increasingly hostile to the medium itself...literally barely better than Sol Press, and Sol Press is fucking dead and was run by dipshit scam artists and tax evaders.

Just die already, Sekai. You served your purpose and made JP VN companies realize there's an actual market in the west. Now do everyone a favor and fade out of existence so the other companies that care about literally anything can take over your spot.

>>38252490
>driving away partners and translators with their sheer incompetence (Yuzusoft, Novectacle, Frontwing, Favorite...I feel like I'm forgetting some)
Ray-k

>>38252490
Like, seriously, the idiots that crapped out SakuSaku and ruined Hoshimemo looked at how incompetent Seaki was and thought, "Wow, even we could do better," and NTR'd Sekai's best-selling non-Nekopara partner extremely easily. Imagine not even being able to compete with a bunch of European weebs that speak English at a high school level and think moege is the pinnacle of the medium.

>>38252609
Nekonyan are a Sekai project subsidiary. Also Yuzusoft wasn't Sekai's best-selling partner because they never didn't release any of their games in the first place.

>>38252681
Wrong.
https://uk.globaldatabase.com/company/nekonyan-ltd
https://www.northdata.de/FoxCat+GmbH,+Osnabr%C3%BCck/HRB+215734

>>38211133
>Onee-chan no Yuuwaku - 90% translated
Very nice. I hope they pick up other short older heroine eroge like this one.

>>38252681
You are at least right about Sekai never selling any Yuzusoft games. I actually forgot Yuzusoft took all of their VN licenses to NekoNyan. For some reason I thought they released 1 or two titles first, but Sekai gonna Sekai.

I'm amazed it took until 2022 for the reality that releasing Japanese adult games on Steam is a stupid idea to sink in, I figured if they made it this far it would never happen.

>>38247908
But these chinks can't buy from Steam anymore. and the future chinese steam store most likely will flop

>>38254810
Yes they can. Steam was never banned in China, you fell for some clickbait article.

Nope Nope Nurses was removed from Johren for some reason.
https://www.johren.games/games/download/nope-nope-nurses-en-zh/

>>38255656
Also steam release changed to "Coming Soon"

>>38253752
>all
Tenshin ranman when?

>>38255688
NN were probably waiting for this version to come out https://vndb.org/r83881 since it has updated UI
I imagine it's one of their secret projects.

>>38255739
You think they'd push the AA version knowing that Sekai already made people wait over 5 years?

>nothing new on Baldr or other Giga stuff
Oh well, I'll go try that old Baldr Force patch from SteppenWolf then

>>38255656
This is more funny that it should be lol

>>38227396
>The only question was how much in addition to the original all-ages release would be cut out.
The console versions of Kiminozo released before the DVD version and latest edition. They are literally missing content out the ass that got added in those versions including whole sub-routes, trying to mix latest edition and the console script would be a complete clusterfuck. They would have to literally remove whole parts of the game for the steam version because those parts don't have an all ages script to put in. Don't even get me started on how fucking bad the all ages script is. If they are stupid enough to not have an +18 patch on release day 1 the game is unironically gutted. I went to check a few months ago and the first "sex" scene of the game goes from
>2 teenagers try having sex for the first time, excessive foreplay of all kinds, she's very nervous, tries sticking his dick in but it's hurting her so he decides there's no need to rush things in their relationship and just stops while explaining it's not that he finds her unattractive because fucking women
to
>Him being so into her that he can't stop himself from hugging her really hard while they are both fully clothed, making her say that it hurts. He then feels like shit and it loops back into the no need to rush talk. Presumably whoever wrote it thought it's a clever play on the meaning of 抱く but unless you know the PC version there's absolutely no fucking way you think they're trying to fuck, she literally doesn't even undress.
https://youtu.be/OYbMCJN7t5g?t=988

>>38256897
Steam is banning way more stuff lately, I wouldn't be surprised to see that entire scene cut out.

>>38256913
No part 1
No Akane route
Final destination.

>>38256913
Well the game starts with a talk about bestiality that is censored in the console version

>>38255656
>>38255682
https://twitter.com/shiravune/status/1483998478108086273?t=F5EnKtP3nOuGD2aWhpLXFA&s=19

>>38257523
Maybe there is something wrong with their shitty DRM?

>>38259261
well the torrent is already out so I guess it doesn't really matter.

How many hours until Hello Lady?

>>38261307
That hard to check a steam page?

>>38261326
As expected from lazy EoPs

I torrented the Nope Nope Nurses release and after I launched the crack my internet slowed down to an absolute crawl and my laptop went fully noisy fan mode. After I now deleted the folder again and threw away all the remnants in the registry the internet went back to speed.

Is it possible that Shiravunes shitty DRM can slow down your internet and that is why they took it down without explaining? That would literally be the worst situation for them as that could be classified as malware.

Can someone else download the nyaa release and check whether it is just the crack or the DRM protection causing these problems?

>>38261483
Lol that would be funny if true. Reminds me of the good old days with Kazaa.

>>38261483
big if true

>>38261483
Have you never bothered to check in process explorer before deleting it, faggot? Also go back to plebbit.

>>38256670
Baldr Sky flopped hard because of SP. Why do you think we will see another Giga title ever again?

>>38263783
Why are you blaming SP? It's not their fault this scene is packed to the brim with pirates.

>>38263817
>Why are you blaming SP?
ALL-AGES
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>>38263817
It kind of was their fault since they didn't check their first translators japanese proficiency before letting him translate the whole VN, they had to scrap all his work and let Ludo take over.

>>38263783
Giga: "There must be no demand for our games in the west. Clearly, since why else would people be upset at us demanding a cut, all-age release only? They just didn't want it in the first place."

Is the problems with the baldr series translations fixed by now?

>>38263817
>It's not their fault.
That one was their fault.

>>38241693
>Cucksoft

https://twitter.com/NekoNyanSoft/status/1484264811198390272
Hello Lady will have mosaics after all.

>>38265939
If I were NN, I'd ask for my licensing money back and tell them to fuck off.

>>38265958
They really need a decent release though because Shiravune is outpacing them hard as of late.

>>38265958
I strongly dislike NekoNyan, but what else can they do? They're not going to torpedo the release, it would look bad to delay hours before the release, and stating what they did is as much pressure as they can put on anyone without being unprofessional. Remember when Sekai just said literally nothing for literal years about Baldr Sky? NN is shit, but they can't do anything else unless the contract allows it.

>>38266113
>I strongly dislike NekoNyan, but what else can they do?
Clearly telling their customers to get fucked is the best option because then they can continue to sell the title and be done with any expense incurring part of it. They CAN do other stuff though, they're just not good business ideas such as selling the title without mosaics anyway, canceling the release and getting their licensing fee returned. Clearly all terrible choices but they could do it.

>>38266178
They've already sunk money into the TL, presumably image editing since they're not Sekai, QC, etc. Going nuclear is not in their best interests, financially or otherwise. What you're suggesting would get them into legal trouble
/contract violations and would sink their reputation with Japanese VN companies. Why would they realistically do any of that?

>>38266251
>Why would they realistically do any of that?
As I explicitly stated, they wouldn't because it's a terrible choice. However it is a choice. The nuclear option is always a choice.

>>38266263
Yeah, just like killing yourself

>>38257154
They changed it from calling the guy a fatty with a bestiality fetish to calling them a fat jew?

>>38265939
>That was the plan until a few days ago. Unbeknownst to us, the owner/IP rightsholder for Hello Lady had changed to a different company recently. A few days ago we discovered this change in ownership during a routine contact for assets.
They didn't have the uncensored assets already? The fuck? Did they think they'd only need two days to get all the uncensored assets and put those in and not need to worry about any debugging? How could this possibly only come up right before release?

>>38267946
Wouldn't be surprised.

>>38211138
Some PC-98 titles show decent progress in English fan translation.

YU-NO
https://archive.org/details/yu-no-pc-98-english-rc-1

Dragon Knight 4
https://utreon.com/v/ob0Ch4RE0HM

>>38267970

>>38267113
I was kinda thinking that's like solving your headache problem by eating your own gun. Nuclear option, it's always a possibility.

>>38266113
>>38265958
>>38266178
No one gives a fuck about mosaic except few discord-4chan trannies. You faggots should kill yourselves.

>>38267896
No and no.

>>38268642
This you?

>>38268694
This you, mentally ill monkey. Last twitter poll shows how little of eroge enjoyers actually gives a fuck about retarded shit like this.

>>38267896
The line is about how he would rather be called a maniac for bestiality porn featuring fat people
the main character then later gives him the Debujuu nickname which is short for this
console version skips the explanation of what Debujuu actually means and just has him say Debujuu right away, that way the nickname remains intact and can be used throughout the game but you don't know what it actually means.

>>38268707
It seems ridiculous but on the flip side in such a screwy niche market I can see WOW UNCENSORED BENIS IN VAGOO being the selling point for the western release in particular for a noticeable number of hardcore porn consumers.

>>38268860
That's actually the only reason I bought La Blue Girl on DVD some 15 years ago. I remember thinking how good the animation was and how much it was ruined by the censoring. A few months after watching it I stumbled upon it in a video store and saw it was being sold completely uncensored.

Some of the JAST staff have given more teasers/info over the past 2 weeks:

Monthly releases:
Someone asked if monthly releases are still planned for 2022. They also directly confirmed Jast has something coming in Feburary.
>Yeah that's the plan
>counting jast blue there will be some months with more than one

Regarding lighter titles (Moege, romcoms, etc):
>We have gotten some complaints that our last....... a lot of titles have been noncon-heavy
>We'll have some lighter fare for you soon.

On simultaneous releases:
>Kurokami-sama doing good would give us the ammo we need to push more simul-releases
>I'm a big believer in simul releases. But it demands tremendous buy-in from the devs to work extremely closely with us. I hope everyone supports Kurokami-sama to show appreciation to Minato Soft for their cooperation there.
>When simul-releases make big money, it shows the devs it's worth it to keep to the strict schedules and heavy communication burdens they demand.

No loli titles currently planned, they don't sell.
>honestly you fuckers haven't spent enough money on loli games
>well round up your lolicon friends and send them to buy some more Meteor Pendulum Hearts and Sweet Sacrificeses
>But my point is loli is one of those things that people always say they want, but I think most people are shy about actually purchasing. They're thirsty for lolis but don't actually want a loli game on their purchase history, don't actually want loli merch in their house. Too ashamed.
>I think I remember the boss of Sol Press saying that was one of the things that killed them. Their polls showed people wanted loli games like Oni Kiss really bad and then they sold poorly.
>Just some midnight thoughts. As always, if you want more of something, put your money where your mouth is. And also your mouth where your mouth is, because you can't market loli games. You can't buy ads for loli games. You can't pay influencers to talk about loli games. You can't promote tweets about loli games. It's all super taboo. No one wants to touch it. So the only marketing you can really do is word of mouth.
>So yeah, go to all your lolicon forums and discords and stuff and tell the fuckers to get out there and buy because it's the hardest stuff to get done.
>I'm always down to do riskier things. But I need buy in from the fans to pull it off.
>But I'm sure we'll dip into loli again someday. Seryuu is my right hand, after all
>and that little devil won't shut up about the stuff. I just hope your kind can be a little more open minded. Maybe don't skip over the title if it has a tentacle or two, or the wrong kind of animal ears, just show some support for a publisher licensing riskier content.

Someone brought up the BL fans showing up for Dramatical Murder with money.
>Yeah and we got a bunch of BL in production

On Otome:
>historically otome has not sold well on our platform, at all. But maybe if we got more, it would do better
>it's the only genre whose jast to steam sales ratio is worse than BL

More Ueda Metawo is coming:
>All I can say for now is there is a lot more Ueda Metawo stuff coming from us

On the titles they've previously announced (Sumaga, etc):
>As for other announced titles, I can't say with 100% certainty that any of the long-awaited ones will get dragged out. I have a good feeling about Katahane though

>>38269398
desu most lolige are trash, i can think of maybe a handful that are actually worthwhile at all

>>38269398
>I'm a big believer in simul releases. But it demands tremendous buy-in from the devs to work extremely closely with us. I hope everyone supports Kurokami-sama to show appreciation to Minato Soft for their cooperation there.
>Please buy this all-ages cash grab
Nah I'm good.

>>38269398
>Seryuu is my right hand, after all
lewd

>>38269398
>All I can say for now is there is a lot more Ueda Metawo stuff coming from us
I bought Sadistic Blood and Dead Aegis, all for opportunity to have GSS from jast. Just give it to me.

>>38257523
>>38255656
Is it bricking computers or something, or why else would they actually remove it?
Did the legal team spill their coffee all over the legal documents and mess up the contracts or what?

>>38269398
>On the titles they've previously announced (Sumaga, etc):
Please just give it to me before my erectile dysfunction has progressed beyond reprieve.

>>38270389
Unless you know someone that works at Shiravune, your guess is as good as mine. It could have been a half-baked piece of shit release that DMM pulled so their "reputation" didn't take a hit. Maybe someone on either side violated contract and they're suing/renegotiating. MC looks shota-ish, maybe Valve threatened to ban the game if they released an 18+ patch for it. It's literally impossible to tell. I don't really care, that VN looked like a piece of shit anyway.

Shiravune replaced onii-chan with "bubby" in Kamiyaba

>>38268860
>western release in particular for a noticeable number of hardcore porn consumers
Hello Lady isn't even about porn, it's plot driven eroge. I don't get why coomer-moebuta crowd cares about HL to begin with.

>>38270508
>that VN looked like a piece of shit anyway
It's actually excellent. But I wouldn't be shocked if the protagonist looking like a shota is why it got pulled. But he is just a weak manlet. Not a shota.

But if Nope Nope Nurses is finding (or attempting to find anyway) its way onto none Johren platforms.
That said. Does the Steam release of Saimin Gakushuu still have denuvo? I am guessing it does.
Also. How in the world did Saimin Gakushuu even get onto Steam in the first place if Nope Nope Nurses failed to? And all the other numerous other games that have been rejected. It's ridiculously inconsistent.

>>38270663
Saimin Gakushuu was mtl

>>38270709
Was I just a retard for not noticing?

>>38270556
That's fucked up beyond comprehension.

>>38270663
I don't think it got pulled for the "shota" reason. DD is still up and has far more questionable content.

>>38269398
>No loli titles currently planned, they don't sell.
I want big boobies.

>>38271325
I've bought all their loli titles. Except Dead Aegis and that other Guro one. Just not a fan of Guro when it comes to loli's.

>>38269398
Maybe I'm wrong, but nowadays lolis seem like something people only enjoy when they're posted on a blue board by somebody else so they can spam their reddit uoooh memes. I haven't actively sought out loli content in years after growing bored of it.

>>38271364
>guro

>>38271325
When the fuck is Lune finally gonna get off its ass and start actually doing shit. The twitter guy has been saying for years now they are looking to release something, but how hard can it be.
>>38271367
Yeah I feel the same. Most loli 'fans' seem to just use it for memes and to show off how much of a 'weeb' they are. They won't actually buy stuff. Personally loli stuff doesn't really do it for me, maybe just one or two per title for variety. I'd rather see more milf stuff.

>>38271630
The few times loli stuff that people actually asked for got released, the releases were bricked beyond redemption (Maitetsu, Oniikiss) which hurt sales, Maitetsu was especially egregious.
I heard Oniikiss was one of the better selling Sol Press titles, they simply didn't have any successes did they.
Anyway the JAST statement is a bit disingenuous. "These titles that nobody asked for and hardly anyone likes had 1 loli character, and they didn't sell well!"
I had never even heard of Meteor Pendulum Hearts or Sweet Sacrifices before and I'm on top of the loli VN sphere. Besides it turns out those games just have 1 loli, which makes his statement redundant. Plenty of VNs have 1 loli and many of those did sell well. It's just an archetype like any, with its own fans and detractors.
Maybe it's true that lolis don't sell. I don't know. But consumers never got a good chance to disprove that statement either.
I always thought it was more about morals, culture, payment processors and stuff like that than pure sales. Stuff that makes releasing lolis a pain. After all there's no good proof that lolis don't sell, given the history of releases.

>>38271945
Sweet Sacrifices is one of the worst examples. Yeah it has a loli but if you're not into tentacle rape why the fuck would you buy it

>>38272001
Yeah that was a bad example. Tentacles are a different fetish, I don't buy stuff that mostly focus on them.

>>38270622
If it has porn it's for coomers, h-scenes are completely irrelevant to the story and their only purpose is being masturbation material, making that material better by releasing it uncensored would be a major selling point.

>>38272124
I fucking love tentacles, which is why I was so mad about Eden's Ritter being censored. They ruined the entire fucking appeal of it by doing that.

>>38272124
But it's even dumber if you think about how well Venus Blood did and loli was one of both those games most supported content.

>>38272124
Meteor Pendulum Hearts is a bad one to because most people thought it was jqut a cheap shovelware because nobody ever heard of it

>>38272212
Just thought about this. Venus Blood is loaded with lolis and seems to be doing well. I'm sure the publishers understand that lolis don't automatically mean bad sales, they just need to release stuff people wanna play.
Noone's really tried a true lolige (Unless you count oniikiss) either. So nobody knows how those would do.

>>38272316
If you think back to things like Eiyu*Senki and Girlish Grimoire both of those did well

>>38272169
Plebbit logic.

>>38272343
Those are not pure lolige either though, but loli was also well supported.
Hmm. Anyone knows of lolige that contains gameplay? Or at least a gameplay-driven eroge that contains a lot of loli? Sure that's gonna be more palatable.

Is this real? How?

>>38273098
That's kinda specific, but Musumaker I guess?

>>38273098
It's less than half, but Venus Blood Hollow has a lot of loli. Like a fourth or more or something of it is loli. Maybe it's closer to a third.

Do read the tutorials though. They're very gameplay heavy, but they can be a bit obtuse if you don't at least read up on the tutorials first. Especially in regards to Frontier. Hollow is easier to get into.
Frontier has a fair bit too.
But the gameplay is really fun if you manage familiarize yourself with how they play.

>>38274443
Untranslated I mean, to see if some companies can be convinced this way.

>>38270622
>>38272169
>>38268860
https://youtu.be/zeat0l1_scQ

>>38273098
A lot of gameplay driven eroge have some loli by virtue of the sheer amount of characters that they have. Both Evenicles have a loli heroine for example, and while the Rance series isn't very loli focused at all, you could argue that it has a couple of H-scenes every game that are loli. Probably the most popular gameplay eroge that has a lot of loli is the Sequel series, though it's more like 30-40% loli overall as opposed to what I would call a loli centric title. That said, I'm pretty sure most people just pirate the games; an official release of them wouldn't sell all that well.

>>38269436
I really don't know any good lolige except Monobeno.

>>38272169
Uncensored visuals is the only reason to release stuff in the west. MT are doing a fine enough job by now that localization isn't a selling point anymore.

>>38276893
>monobeno
>lolige

>>38278484
Well it's a coming of age story but the loli part is still very strong, even the main focus with yokai and countryside stuff.

>>38271945
Onikiss was only fucked up for a single day. If anyone wanted to support it they could have purchased it from any day forward but they didn't.

Should I torrent Hello Lady now, or wait and see if they'll get access to unmosaic'd assets?

>>38279262
The NN version has mosaics?

>>38279262
I'd buy it if literally anyone other than NN (excluding Sekai or DMM) was behind the release. Don't give idiots your hard-earned dollars.

>>38279327
https://nekonyansoft.com/blog/hello-lady-important-information

>>38279350
Fuck. And the new owner isn't related to Shiravune/Johren?
I hate how these japanese companies want to censore the western releases because they fear that later their citzens could re-download these new uncensored CGs.

>>38279411
Nobody knows, NN hasn't mentioned publicly who now owns the rights to Hello Lady.
It's seriously just extreme paranoia about getting into legal trouble. A lot of devs/pubs think they'll get arrested for obscenity laws even if they don't release the uncensored VN themselves.

>>38279712
>>38279411
Most likely DMM bought out the devs' parent company, High Level Co. They haven't released any game since 2017 (besides a compilation in 2019) so I'm guessing they were in hot water and NN couldn't work fast enough on HL.

Wasn't Lovely Cation in one of Shiravune's leaks or something?

>>38279327
Yep, NN changed their mind 12 hours before release. So I'm just going to pirate their shit going forward since they clearly don't give a fuck.

>>38279984
But HL is not avilable at Johren.

>>38280172
Yeah, it's weird. Usually, if a release will have mosaics, companies will be upfront about it, not mention it the day before release

>>38279984
>Wasn't Lovely Cation in one of Shiravune's leaks or something?
There aren't any leaks. That was some anon shitposting.

>>38280635
You know what, I aint even mad. It saved me $30 which means instead of buying Hello Lady, I can buy DeadAegis.

>>38280436
That doesn't stop shitposting anons that think DMM is behind every noise outside their windows at night. If they could buy everyone in the VN scene they would have done so already.
>>38280784
You were going to pay for a NN release? lol that's what you get

>>38280877
If it was uncensored, sure. It's not though and after this bullshit I don't plan on buying anything from them, even their future uncensored titles. What they did was absolutely disgusting.

>>38280877
It's actually a Sekai Project release. We now finally have proof that NN is Sekai Project.

>>38281025
Most of the SP staff migrated to NN so calling it SP 2.0 seems fair.

>>38281187
>migrated
They work for both.

>>38281271
>Implying that SP is working but not sitting on their licences until the expiration date day

>>38281025
Look, guys, this anon figured put how to use inspect element!

>>38281534
It actually was marked as Sekai Project when it came out earlier today. They fixed it and hour or two after.

>>38281187
That kinda happens when you lay off a fuck ton of them

>>38281534
It was actually Sekai Project for a while. I'd have archived it somewhere but JAST's site doesn't play nice with archiving due to the +18 warning causing issues.

>>38281598
Should use screenshot for Windows or snipping tool.

>>38281598
Even so, the rumors that Sekai = NekoNyan are dumb as shit. I know the people that founded both companies, and they 100% would not share licenses. docac is too much of an egomaniac to share the limelight, and chuee and akerou are too incompetent and full of themselves to fully work with docac and Co. on that level, even if they'd lick his boots. They literally thought their grasp of English was fine when a high schooler could poke holes in their fouency; what makes you think they'd listen to literally anyone else? It's dumb-fucks all the way down, and yes, I wish I had never interacted with any of them. They are exactly as cringy as you'd expect.

>>38280946
That is also, again, why I think giving them money is hilarious. They might hire good translators, but they're still the same fucking morons that ruined SakuSaku and Hoshimemo, and they deserve to be remembered for doing so. You should, at best, be suspicious of anything they release because they have the same shit editors on every release. Chuee gets his grasping hands on everything NekoNyan touches, and that dumb mother fucker was incapable of understanding basic American English idioms. Why would you give money to a company that almost exclusively used ESL editors to touch up their competent JP->EN translations?

>>38285522
Same anon. I know Steiner, dovac, akerou, and chuee, and I would trust Steiner a million times over with doing a decent job over the rest of those fucking idiots. I honestly don't know how anyone can stand chuee in real life, the guy is a fucking cringe machine. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone fucking loathed him but pretended to tolerate him. He's that cringe mix of scorn and incompetence, to the point where anyone actually competent would call him out, but they're too polite to do so. Anyone that actually uses Twitter to dunk on people is a fucking loser just trying to feel better about their own lives. Do not give any of the fucking idiots that run NekoNyan a dollar, they don't deserve your money.

>>38285522
>Why would you give money to a company that almost exclusively used ESL editors to touch up their competent JP->EN translations?
because life is full of unforeseen complications. The important part is that they're operating in good faith which they've shown with their most recent scandal is no longer the case. They are no longer operating in good faith. Thus I will no longer support them. This is the exact reason I do not support Frontwing, Sekai Project, Shiravune, Alicesoft, Laplacian, and now Nekonyan.

>>38285576
I am literally telling you that they've always been holier-than-thou shitheads. Again, I had the misfortune of knowing them before they founded NekoNyan, and I will never give them a fucking red cent for a reason. Maybe try thinking about why that is instead of giving them the benefit of the doubt again and again and again, until you finally hit a red line that you won't cross. They. Are. Fucking. Morons. Do not give them any money or you will regret it.

>>38285610
I've actually only bought a single title of theirs because all of their titles I've been interested in have been censored so I pirated them instead.

>>38285614
Again, that is one title too many. I don't know how many times I have to tell you, they despise you. They think they're better than you. They think they're smarter than you. And fuck, if you buy their releases, they probably are smarter than you. Just pirate everything they release like the rest of us, and maybe you won't beat chuee in a dipshit competition.

>>38285628
i kneel

>>38285633
I'm not even trying to insult you, just don't give them money. I'd much rather buy MG or JAST releases any day of the fucking week, but those scam artists have been able to convince multiple JP companies that they're somehow worthy of touching any mediocre fucking eroge. Think about the quality of Yuzusoft releases, and then connect to why they partnered with Sekai, and then NN. They are all shit, everyone involved. They don't give a fuck about anything other than money, and it's very clear. When the Chinese money dries up, Yuzusoft will fuck off and NekoNyan will drown in their own incompetence, as they should. Don't pity them, they fucking deserve it.

>>38285667
And also, I'm not even against supporting new companies in the scene. I just know who is behind that shit curtain, and it's not pretty. Look up who you're supporting, because it does and always will matter. I bought Meikyuu to toss some dollars koestl's way, and look how that turned out. I funded fucking dovac being a fucking moron. Learn from your mistakes or you'll be doomed to repeat them.

>>38285574
Wasn't chuee the bastard that said company releases are better than fansubs?

>>38285576
What's wrong with Frontwing?
I thought they are decent.

>>38285721
Literally look up his Fuwanovel and Twitter profile. He's been fucking spouting bullshit his entire time in the scene. Anyone that knows he's attached to a project should think twice about buying it. At this point, he's either dunking on people on Twitter or retweeting lolige, both of which is cringe as fuck, and I have nothing against lolige. Don't harass the guy, he's just a fucking moron.

>>38285727
I backed their shitty Sharin no Kuni Kickstarter and look what I have to show for it. They're still crapping out excuses to this day, claiming that they ran into yet another unforseen problem when they've created entire different eroge in the entire time between the start of the Kickstarter and now. Either they have the most incompetent coders known to man or they're full of shit. That's not even addressing their other, multiple Kickstarter campaigns they have yet to fulfill entirely, or even their obvious scaling down of their western presence. I'm going to demand a refund, or at worst file a a charge back, and I don't give a shit if KS bans me.

>>38285766
>Either they have the most incompetent coders known to man or they're full of shit.

I mean they're Japanese programmers...

>>38285727
What they did with subahibi put them on my shitlist. They censored Subahibi without telling anyone, continued to claim it was uncensored, then when someone made a patch that restored the cut CG they went and DMCA'd the patch. Then they advertised it as releasing on JAST's storefront 100% uncensored and half a dozen people said
>100% uncensored? Really? Nothing is cut?
>Yep! There's no censorship at all
Then one person specifically asked about the dogfucking CG and they go
>oh no obviously that's still not in it, but other than that it's 100% uncensored
No you dumb bitch it doesn't work that way. When you say something is uncensored that means NOTHING is censored. You can't just go
>Oh yeah it's completely uncensored aside from the shit we censored, if you don't count that then it's uncensored

>>38285766
You're the dumb bitch here. Why in the fuck would you back the Sharin no Kuni kickstarter when they confirmed they'd be keeping mosaics AND using the FanTL as a translation base? You could've literally paid an anon whatever you gave them and he'd have done a better job than they ever could while doing it within a year compared to the 6 years it's taken them to finish that paid re-edit + tiny fandisc.

>>38285522
Because nobody cares anymore. The Japanese niche media market is all ESLs serving ESLs and they give about as much of a damn about the quality of an English script for anything as text hook readers care about Japanese prose. You don't see it widespread in official physical releases for manga, LNs, or mid-market video games because those are attached to established companies that follow some sort of traditional industry standards but eventually everything without an American or British dub will be SEAmonkey edited MTL trash to maximize profitability.

>>38285766
The funny thing is, I actually felt bad for pirating Sharin, and wanted to fund a better release. Look where that got me. I no longer give a flying fuck about pirating mediocre releases, and I feel goddamn great about it. There is no point in caring more than these companies do. Invest your dollars in companies like MG and JAST. They might be a little archaic, but at least they give a shit about their perceptions and the products they release. This is all coming from a former pirate, I have literally no agenda at all. Fuck Sekai, fuck NekoNyan, fuck Frontwing, and fuck DMM. The sooner they all die, the better.

>>38285810
I have to buy MG releases on GOG because MG's storefront is complete ass that doesn't accept my credit card. ( ._.)

>>38285574
>>38285522
Did chuee raped your ass with no lube applied or something? Lol.

>>38285793
Yes, I was a dumb bitch. That's why I'm warning people against being dumb bitches for other companies that don't deserve it. It's literally a waste of your time, money and self-respect. I backed after all of that shit, and assumed that they'd make it worthwhile eventually. I should have just accepted that I stole from Akabei, and not felt the slightest bit bad about it. Literally use my experience as a lesson.
>>38285806
I tried pointing out NekoNyan's numerous errors and mistakes before, and ESL readers basically ignored me or shouted me down. You can't polish a turd, regardless of how much you try. I don't even think all ESLs are bad at English, just the ones that gravitate towards EN translations and editing are. I swear to God, it's an ego thing.
>>38285820
It's still worth it because you're giving money to a storefront that rejects DRM, and a localizer that doesn't fucking hate you and the product they touch.
>>38285832
Try interacting with that fucking loser for months and not despising him, I fucking dare you. It's not possible unless you're just as much of a tool as he is.

>>38285832
t. Chuee

Back to your discord shithole you go.

>>38285888
I'm sure that fucking idiot browses this board, too, just to see if people mention him. Fuck you, chuee, you hack. Go back to ESL classes already. My 15 year old cousin could edit better than you can, and she's more interested in kpop than she is in English. You are a joke.

>>38285793
>without telling anyone
I'm pretty sure they told people before the game came out during some convention panel or livestream that the CG would be cut. Not defending any of the rest though that alienated me too.

>>38285888
>>38285881
>>38285909
Have you guys considered maybe taking a shower and going outside to touch some grass? You sounds very frustrated.

Will utawarerumono lost flag ever get an english translation?

>>38290129
I hope not. Give us Uta4 not this gacha shit

https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/1484632151106764812?cxt=HHwWmIC-zerEvJopAAAA

>>38290801
Who cares, really

>>38290437
They will this year but I still want to play the gacha

So is Hello Lady good or what?

>>38269398
>And also your mouth where your mouth is, because you can't market loli games. You can't buy ads for loli games. You can't pay influencers to talk about loli games. You can't promote tweets about loli games. It's all super taboo. No one wants to touch it. So the only marketing you can really do is word of mouth.

Meanwhile, in reality

https://twitter.com/ProjektMelody/status/1484413469474672641

>>38291859
Ask /vn/

>>38292782
While Dohna Dohna contains a lot of loli, it is not pure lolige. In fact, the gameplay is similar to that of Darkest Dungeon, which is what helped it attain notoriety outside of the usual places.

>>38292782
You seem to be a fan of hers. Or at least a shill.
Are there vod recordings of her full playthrough? I'd watch that.

>>38291859
No, lol

>>38294494
JAST hasn't localized any "pure lolige" either, in the context of that comment they're referring to games that contain a loli as one or more of the main heroines amongst others.

>>38299308
>in the context of that comment they're referring to games that contain a loli as one or more of the main heroines amongst others.
Not the guy you replied to.
But then the Venus Blood games would qualify and haven't they been relatively successful? So I kind of assumed he was referring to something more specific.

>>38299308
onigokko

>>38299340
Never played it. Looks 2/4 loli at a glance.

>>38299308
I think that's the issue overall.

>>38306110
New thread up with the updates for this week