/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Best thread of the week!

Ikusa Megami Zero - New project starting up, C&D, continuing.
Imouto Ijime - 50.1% translated
>Katahane- 29651/32287 lines (91.84%) translated, both Shirohane chapters are fully translated
Kara no Shoujo - 100% translated, edited, and hacked, may be released officially
Kichikuou Rance- 20% translated
Killer Queen - 97 % translated 11312/13785lines
Kizuato - 182/246 scripts translated
Lamento ~Beyond the Void~ -4%
Lamia no Baai - ~1/7th of the game translated, plus some new translation on top of that
LILITH-IZM03- 75% patch out
Little Busters - ~80%, new patch released with Komari's route, Mio route 70% translated, Haruka route 31% translated
Love Plus- Dialogue translation: 25.8%
>Majikoi- Prologue patch out, Yukie route TL progress: 67%
M&M Enchanting Magic & Sweet Charms- 61%
>Muv Luv full patch released - Alt progress - 1150.73 /2738.39 KB (42.02%) Muv Luv overall (Ex/Un/Alt) progress, 3737.41/ 5253.50 KB (71.14%) translated, 1st Alternative patch released
Never 7 - 22 of 97 scripts translated
Osananajimi wa Daitouryou ~My girlfriend is the President.~ Translation/Editing 100%, QC 80.0%
Period- All image/UI editing complete, Miyu's route translation complete, game total translation:26.44% complete
Popotan- still going very slow, but image editing is nearly finished
Princess Maker 5- 18%, image translation 100%, editing underway
Princess Nightmare - Translator said the project is still active, but very slow, nearly 50% translated
>Prision Battleship 2 - 43% translated
>Pure Pure The Story of Ears and Tails- Sachi Patch released, 63.20% translated
Rance 1- Because of problems hacking the remake of Rance 2, the translator is now working on Rance 1. There are plans to translate other Rance titles afterwards
Rin ga Utau, Mirai no Ne-iro- a bit short of half way through the Mirai no Neiro part, with a goal to finish either around Christmas or early next year. The Rin part will come afterwards

Sa.Na.Ra.Ra - 7 completed scripts
School Days- Translation at 100%, chapters 1-3 released, project reconized by 0verflow, episode 4 in alpha
Seinarukana - Prologue and Chapter 1 translated, translation at 9.1%, image editing mostly complete, chapter 2 translation almost complete
Sensei Da-isuki 2- 20%, still being worked on
>Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo -translator working on non translated scripts, 6/12 of Natsumi's scripts translated
Sin- 60% of episode 1 translated
Sono Hanabira 3 - To begin as soon as 7 is finished
Sono Hanabira 5 - stalled
Sono Hanabira 7 - 50% translated, plan to finish within the next 2-4 weeks
>Starry Sky ~in Spring~ - Full release by an anonymous group
Suiheisen made Nan Mile- Trial patch 55% translated
Sweet Pool- Active translation ongoing
Tenshi No Inai 12-Gatsu-"status: ~translating:active~"
Togainu No Chi- 69% translated
To Heart2- 51% - "The final product is still years away unless I get more help. ", Tama-nee alpha patch released, Yuma's route translated
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 2nd Kiss - 1st (not complete) patch is in beta
>Tomoyo After - 2 scripts translated this week
Touka Gettan: translation status: ~30% translated
>Umineko 7 - Translation: 100% Editing: 50%, 50% patch released
Under The Moon- 6% translated/checked/programmed
Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na -picked up by the guy doing Ashita no Kimi to Autame Ni, most of the first day translated
Yosuga no Sora - 20% translated
>YU-NO- Total: 3499.85/3995.61 KB (87.59 %), Prologue patch released, all normal routes translated, translation moving onto the epilogue chapter, Editing at 1819.72/3995.61 KB (45.54%)

Official work

MangaGamer:
>Da Capo: IF - Released
Da Capo II - Making an attempt to get this out for Christmas
Koihime Musou - 1/31/2011 scheduled release, trial out, in testing
Ef - Editing of The First Tale complete, the first tale and the latter tale will be released seperately
Zaishuu The SiN - Pushed back to focus more on Koihime
Dear Drops -picked up
Harukoi Otome - Being translated
Unannounced title- translation and editing finished
Ongoing talks with a company whose bread and jam you would not want to eat
Chance they may be bringing over Kara no Shoujo, according to Kouryuu
Picked up a Circus title with gameplay
Two additional teasers (both audio) have yet to be identify
Additionally, random sex romps are scheduled as well

JAST
Demonbane- delayed
Jingai Makyou- Not mentioned in their panel
Nitro Royale- being translated
DraKoi- fully fan translated, image editing is finished as well, however scripts are unlikely to be released outside of an official Jast release
Yumina the Ethereal - announced, expected to be released within a year
>Sumaga- 78.7%, still being translated, unlikely to be released outside of an official Jast release
Muramasa - Chapter 4 complete, but because it is Nitro+, it is uncertain what will come from the project
>"Speaking of which, we’re currently in the process of planning three major announcements for the coming months, with one each being unveiled in December, January, and February."

Other
HgameZ is alive again, possible releases in the future
Kisaragi no Hogyoku- English trial out, now being translated as part of project T0rama
Bible Black Infection- Delayed until Janurary 25th, 2011
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Upcoming from active fan groups
Some LiarSoft will be done by Ixrec after the Muv Luv saga
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3rd Love Plus -- Planned by the translators doing 2
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

Best thread of the week!

>Tomoyo After - 2 scripts translated this week

How big is a "script" to these people?

>Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo -translator working on non translated scripts, 6/12 of Natsumi's scripts translated

Oh God.

Best thread of the week is finally here.

>G-Senjou no Maou- Translation:1782.75/1811.40 KB (98.42%), editing at 1733.77/1811.40 KB (95.71%)
That is great, hopefully it's done soon.

>Majikoi- Prologue patch out, Yukie route TL progress: 67%
Fantastic, shame Momoyo's won't be translated next. Really, what's so good about Chris?

>Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo -translator working on non translated scripts, 6/12 of Natsumi's scripts translated
Say whaaaaaaaaaat. （ﾟДﾟ;)

>"Speaking of which, we’re currently in the process of planning three major announcements for the coming months, with one each being unveiled in December, January, and February."
Oh man, please let it be Sumaga.

>YU-NO- Total: 3499.85/3995.61 KB (87.59 %), Prologue patch released, all normal routes translated, translation moving onto the epilogue chapter, Editing at 1819.72/3995.61 KB (45.54%)

Woah, editing made a big jump.
Thanks to the people working hard on YU-NO, my most anticipated VN.

>>6566615
>How big is a "script" to these people?

Of what was translated this week, one script is 603 lines long, the other is 423 lines long

>>6566615
If Tomoyo After uses the same engine as Key's previous games, a script can be around anywhere from 50 to 400 lines.
So yeah, probably not much.

>>6566615
>How big is a "script" to these people?

Of what was translated this week, one script is 603 lines long, the other is 423 lines long

>>6566619
If it's 100 lines minimum, it's a hell of a lot better than the
>1 line translated this week
I'm used to seeing.

>>6566622
Well, that is good news!

>>6566619
If it's 100 lines minimum, it's a hell of a lot better than the
>1 line translated this week
I'm used to seeing.

>>6566626
Well, that is good news!

From IRC:
<Moogyko> tlwiki has two releases planned for christmas

He wants to get his secret project out this month so I guess that and... G-Senjou? Osadai? Something else?

Two more scripts to translate before Tomoyo After partial patch is released...

http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Tomoyo_After

>>6566632

Those are the only ones close to release as they are near complete.

>Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo -translator working on non translated scripts
Fuck ye--
>Natsumi's scripts
ಠ_ಠ

>Hatsukoi - 66.2571% translated
>Baldr Sky - Translation ongoing
Why am I not surprised

>>6566647
Deal with it.

>"Speaking of which, we’re currently in the process of planning three major announcements for the coming months, with one each being unveiled in December, January, and February."

What?


> ''<Moogyko> tlwiki has two releases planned for christmas''

probably G-Senjou and Osadai.But From Moggy's profile

''Current Project Progress
13/40
Going to be out of town this weekend. Will resume this when I get back, hopefully at a faster pace than it's been going... or rather, I kind of need to pick up the pace, if I want to make a Christmas release...''

So maybe one of them is his secret project.Anyway whatever osadai or his secret,still good news.

>Tomoyo After - 2 scripts translated this week
Nothing new he-
>"scripts", not "lines"
Holy shit.

>>6566617
>what's so good about Chris?
Shizuka Itou and Char Aznable as a father in law!

>Baldr Sky - Translation ongoing
Is this legit?
Any screenshot or anything about progress? Is the game even hacked? Sound fishy that it has been going on for a year now and still no news about it.

>>6566805
Maybe a patch will magically show up around Christmas

;_;

Sumaga stuff from TLWiki's Talk page.
>What happened with the Sumaga project, really? I remember them saying it was probably going to be done by October, October 2009. The thing is that it was going really fast at that time when you said that, so it wasn't exactly an unlikely statement.
>But what happened? I know the partnership happened, did the drive disappear because it wasn't going to be released anyway, as in "no hurry", or was it something else?

>Hello. This is gckc. Wow, ready for October 2009. Time sure flies. Well, let's just say some pesky IRL shit happened and is still largely happening. Plus, it went fast in the beginning at the cost of quality. It happens when you're a total amateur with a rapidly changing vision (such as using proper tenses and cementing mostly Oki, Mira, Arided and God's speech patterns). The early stuff needs some extensive retranslation and style matching(from overly literal to something inspired by Ted Woolsey of FF6 and Chrono Trigger) anyway, which is partly what I've been doing at the moment.

>>6566617
>what's so good about Chris?
She's M-O-E.

I've heard it's Strato's MO to not really make progress known until he's done.

Granted, Baldr Sky has a shitton of text to translate and with the speed he presumably seems to be working at, you won't see a release until like 2016. By then everyone might be playing the next Baldr game already

>>6566886
> something inspired by Ted Woolsey of FF6 and Chrono Trigger
I hurled

>>6566632

It's G-sen and his secret project Dra+Koi.

>Starry Sky ~in Spring~ - Full release by an anonymous group
Fuck yes. Glad to see more otome games being translated.

why is tlwiki translating nitro+ titles? didn't they have the partnership with jast usa or so?

>>6566977

i dont know what is his secret project but i'm sure its not drakoi.

>>6567054
Sup Moogy

I'd rather Tsui no Sora over Dra Koi.

Yeah, he only put a Drakoi quote on there as an elaborate red herring. He's actually translating Reika's Bitch Training

>>6567076
owned

>>6567076
Fuck yeah, I had no idea, well played

>>6567054

It actually is, which you could easily find out if you idled #tlwiki.

Lamia no Baai - %28,3 Translated

http://tlwiki.tsukuru.info/index.php?title=Lamia

good to see some update.

>>6567076
Moogy gonna moog

why is moogy such a nerd? 20 year old virgin nerd at that

>>6567139
>Lamia
>movement

>>6567155
What. Are you saying you're not a nerd?

>>6567162
Takes one to know one! xD

http://www.last.fm/user/Moogy

>To Heart2- 51%
>Osananajimi wa Daitouryou ~My girlfriend is the President.~ Translation/Editing 100%, QC 80.0%
>Love Plus- Dialogue translation: 25.8%

>Baldr Sky - Translation ongoing
No progress report?
;_;

And so it continues, yet another december without angels. ;_;

>>6567238
There's still plenty of December left
Don't give up hope

>Awatake Takahiro's "Deep in a Thicket"
What's this?

Please if you wanna shit a thread up with moogy shenanigans then make a different thread about it.

I just downloaded Starry (as well as Umineko a little while back) and installed the japanese language files but I'm a bit of a newfriend to this so I don't really know how to patch them correctly. Is there anything I should do with the folders beforehand?

>>6567305
Seconding this.

>>6567305
>>6567377
http://shii.org/awatake/thicket

There was a thread explaining it but I guess he deleted it.

FUKKIN DINOSAURS UP IN DIS SHIT

>Apathy Midnight Collection Vol. 1 - 8 of 11 arcs translated

What, no more 'should be released by November of 2016?'.

>"Speaking of which, we’re currently in the process of planning three major announcements for the coming months, with one each being unveiled in December, January, and February."

Please be something that you're actually convinced will sell and not obscure shit like Demonbane.

>Alt progress - 1150.73 /2738.39 KB (42.02%)

Ixrec is god.

>Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo -translator working on non translated scripts, 6/12 of Natsumi's scripts translated

Oh god yes Mana Transfer here we come.


Also, you might wish to remake this thread tomorrow, since it's probably going to be deleted real soon.

>Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo -translator working on non translated scripts, 6/12 of Natsumi's scripts translated

EEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS


I'm gonna be needing a link to this project if anyone's got it. I seem to recall being told that the translator who did Sharin originally didn't want to do anything about the other routes because they weren't good enough or something.

>>6566632

It's G-Senjou. The last script is translated, they're just holding off on putting it up until Christmas.

>>6566904
>I hurled

Oh come on, Woosley translations are great. Anything else sounds artificial and stilted.

>>6567622

They're pretty much entirely porn.

>>6567037

Well it seems the only way they get released in English.

>>6567171
>imp‭lying jp isn't a nerd-only board where only nerds post.

>>6567622
Just check the tlwiki page, if it's TNA doing then we can assume G-senjou translation is finished

Has anyone managed to find that alleged Misleet patch from last week?

>>6567865
It makes me sad to see how naive /jp/ really is.

Use some common sense, people! Is there ANY reason why ONE SINGLE script would take a month to translate when the rest of the game has been done at a much faster rate, in comparison? Of course not. They refrain from uploading the final script to prevent someone from making an unofficial 100% patch, which is exactly what I would do if they DID upload it.

Now, here's the thing: I can just make a 95% patch, and play it for a month until they release the whole thing. Did the same thing for Remember11, except that time I couldn't make the patch myself because the engine actually required real hacking.

>Period- All image/UI editing complete, Miyu's route translation complete, game total translation:26.44% complete

This interests me. I didn't know about this project before this week, but it'd be pretty cool if some Littlewitch actually got translated.... because, well, Quartet is never coming out.

>>6567935

Which is why I said easily that G-Senjou is actually complete. It'll be released on the 25th, as will Dra+Koi.

>>6567965
Yes, I'm not picking on you specifically, anyway (I secretly think you are Moogy). I was really just directing that at the hoards of stupid /jp/ers that eat up everything they read in green and don't spare a moment of independently initiated thought.

In any case, even if you aren't Moogy, you are absolutely right. I idle in #tlwiki, and I've seen Moogy and his henchmen discuss the plans to release Dra Koi and G-Sen together on Christmas.

>Kimiaru - 57% translation, 34% editing, partial patch released

Yay!

>>6568125
Oh wow I haven't seen this in forever.

>Galaxy Angel: Moonlit Lovers- Milfie route complete, shared routes complete, about 15274 lines remaining

>Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo -translator working on non translated scripts, 6/12 of Natsumi's scripts translated

YES

>>6568125
Haven't seen this troll in a while, where you been bro?
Also, I liked Tsuyokiss more

When is the official CHAOS;HEAD coming out?

>>6568181
Weekly dose

>G-Senjou no Maou- Translation:1782.75/1811.40 KB (98.42%), editing at 1733.77/1811.40 KB (95.71%)

I loveeeeeeee itttttttt.

>>6568181
Never, and I wouldn't be one bit sadder because of it.

>>6568181

Never, its not a Nitro+ title as they only published it, its a 5pb title.

Also its not a ero game, Mangagamer could published it as they dont have a problem with non-ero VN but JAST?

When the deal come, TL Wiki pretty much ended C;H project (so they could sell it to JAST) and the Noah project despite not being terminated (since its based on the Xbox version) simply died off soon after.

>>6566891
AND VOICED BY MOTHER FUCKING SHIZUKA ITOU

>>6568263
If you want to use voice actors, an argument could be made for almost all of the characters

>>6568379

Most of the main girls have eroge-only VAs, though.

>>6568383
If your speaking strictly Majikoi then I think only Miyako and maybe Kazuko has an eroge only VA. Yukie, Momoyo, Chris and a good portion of the supporting cast have all done/are doing anime right now.

>>6568181
Just freaken torrent it and get the English patch. Why are you waiting for jast? I read this like a year ago.

>>6568406

Yeah, Kazuko is eroge-only. Funny, I thought Momoyo was as well, but she's Rider, isn't she?

>>6568413
Yup. She's Rider, Hibiki from Amagami, the older cousin in School Rumble, Motoko from Love Hina, etc.

>>6568263
I like your taste bro. Also, Mifuyu and Chris are both awesome.

It would be awesome if Char was my dad.

>>6568125
Status threads just aren't the same without you. Welcome back.

>Kizuato - 182/246 scripts translated
Weekly dose, I don't even know why I want to read it so bad.

>>G-Senjou no Maou- Translation:1782.75/1811.40 KB (98.42%), editing at 1733.77/1811.40 KB (95.71%)
>Osananajimi wa Daitouryou ~My girlfriend is the President.~ Translation/Editing 100%, QC 80.0%
>>Umineko 7 - Translation: 100% Editing: 50%, 50% patch released
Winter break this year might be as good as last year, holy shit.

Late-night bump.

>Starry Sky ~in Spring~ - Full release by an anonymous group
Fuck yes. I hope the other games in the series get translated too. This is awesome.

>Little Busters - ~70%, new patch released with Komari's route, Mio route 87% translated, Haruka route 31% translated

New update.

>>6569529
So we'll have her route by christmas more or less?
I wish they'd do Haruka's after Kud's, Haruka is so boring.

>>6569529

Holy shit

When is the official CHAOS;HEAD coming out?

>>6569769
Never, and I don't see why you care.

Dear OP, could you start adding the progress of the Rewrite Demo please?

>>6569936
Oh god, I just installed it a few days ago. How is it going?

>>6569947

11000 lines are already translated, which is roughly 1/3 of the whole thing

>>6569957
Isn't it too long for just a demo?

>>6569957
That's just the demo? The main game is going to be a beast.

>>6569960
Rewrite demo is fuckhuge, it's rare but it's not like it's the first time something like this happens.
I've seen 8+ hours trial versions before.

>>6569957
Thank you anon, you brightened my day, really. Best news of the week.

>>6569960

Remeber, it's KEY....
＼| ￣ヘ￣|／

>Last Christmas:
Galaxy Angel, Higurashi, Sekien no Inganock, Umineko EP 5

>This Christmas:
Dra+Koi, G-Senjou no Maou, Umineko EP7, Starry ☆ Sky ~in Spring~ (and possibly Osadai and Katahane?)

So, /jp/, which December wins?

>Baldr Sky - Translation ongoing
Do we really have a proof that the translation for this game is ongoing?
This have been here since ages ago.

>>6569993
This one.
Also
>christmas
>inganock
>released in mid november

>>6570006

Ah, VNDB has the date a month ahead.

Why would anyone want to translate Rance 1? It's shit.

>>6569993

Why do you think DraKoi is going to be released?

>>6570018
Moogi is working on it (probably)
And he said tlwiki was ghonna release two VNs for christmas

>>6570018
I wouldn't talk too to that guy if I were you, he's probably involved with the mafia.

>>6570018
I wouldn't talk to that guy if I were you, he's probably involved with the mafia.

>>6567396
>shii.org

>Chapter 2 will be released when about 35 people purchase it from the original artist. (My apologies for this-- it's a rudimentary attempt to slow piracy.) If you'd like to read the next chapter...

stay classy shii

>>6570089
>stay classy shii

What's wrong with this? You are entitled to neither Awatake's work or Shii's translation.
Why are you disgusted at being asked to pay for something that costs money? 35 is a hell of a low number either way.

>>6570242
sup shii

>>6568523
Well, you'll just have to blame it on the misfortune of your birth that he isn't.

>"Speaking of which, we’re currently in the process of planning three major announcements for the coming months, with one each being unveiled in December, January, and February."

Only thing I'd like to hear is that they'll stop taking 8 months per game to translate. Or at least they could translate 8 at once so that you get a new one each month.

>>6570461
But JAST doesn't translate the games. TLwiki does, and JAST just sits around which Nitro+ does the hacking, and then JAST gets to sell them.

>>6570461
>Only thing I'd like to hear is that they'll stop taking 8 months per game to translate
They're still faster than most fantranslators.

>>6570493

Fantranslators don't put up pre-orders and check how many they sell before starting to translate.

>>6570510
They need to eat.

>>6570017
I want too see how it all started.., Like how rance got his sword,who really is he. Basically i want too know all the background story until i play every other game.

>>6570527
If I remember correctly, from what I read from /jp/, Rance really was an horrible rapist and violent faggot in the first games, he became much cooler and awesome in the later games.

>>6570527
Prepare to be disappointed then. It has none of those.
All you get from Rance 1 is that he's a bounty hunter and Sill is his slave he recently bought. That's it.

Rance 1 is just some stupid detective story. Rance 2 and 3 is where Rance and the setting gets fleshed out.

>>6570628

Who the hell cares? We're getting a translation of Rance 1 (hopefully). I'll take it. I don't care if it sucks, I'll still read it if it's translated because it's a decent series.

could you give me a mediafire link to the starry sky translation?

>>6569957

Where is this info found? I'd like to keep up to date with it as well if the progress is listed somewhere.

>>6570925
#rewrite at rizon
Also, anyone has a link for the katahane trial that isn't megaupload or torrent?

>>6570806
seconding this.

>>6571445
>>6570806
What's wrong with the MegaUpload link?

>>6555492

>>6570954
http://holyseal.net/cgi-bin/mlistview.cgi?prdcode=5490?
If individual mirrors are too slow then use aria2 or something to download from all of them simultaneously.

>>6571524
thanks.

Why is the best thread of the week so quiet?
Clearly Moogy is behind this!

>>6572048

Maybe because we're all just waiting on G-Senjou, Katahane, Alternative, etc?

>>6572048
no drama=good but early dead thread

>>6572427

Last week's died due to pudding, though.

>>6572439
It was alive and well by wednesday, because lots of translator drama.

>>6567196
Don't worry, masat01 will handle it!
>>6567076
No no no, masat01 is doing that one, you would know this if you idled #ammy

where has masat been anyway?

This should get stickied every week

>>6572485
Moogy killed him

>>6572491
>implying we have actual mods
we just have a janitor we call meido, and the japanese reading community of /jp/ could be bothered, but it kind of means one less touhou thread at the front page.

Ok, since nothing else is happening in this thread right now... let's talk about moege! (that are currently in translation)

I'm waiting warmly for Hoshimemo, which seems to be moving at an acceptable pace, and all despite a C&D and some annoying engine issues. (inb4 2015, the pace is fine and VN translations are supposed to take years anyway)
Fortune Arterial has also got me pretty excited, because it seems to be pretty active all of a sudden in the last few weeks.
Osadai looks like it will be decent for pure moe enjoyment, although I hear that it sucks as a game in general (but that's not what I care about in a game I'm playing for moe anyway).

Other than those, what (active) projects relate to the topic at hand? Should I be looking more into mangagamer's offerings after all?

>>6572504
and nothing of value was lost

>>6572509
>we just have a janitor we call meido
Not anymore. ;_;

>>6572510
Flyable Heart and Da Capo 2

>>6572515
doesn't she clean this place every now and then?
this week too.

>>6572528
Did you miss the shitstorm? He quit.

Notice the lack of active moderation over the past few days.

>>6572515
That wasn't the first nor the last meido /jp/ will have, even if it was true.
And really, the timing was far too convenient for me to believe it.

>>6572532
/jp/ has never have waht you'd call active moderation, just board cleaning once every few days.
And self modertaion here isn't too bad.

How glorious, the new translation thread is out. Surely someone has decided to pick up SubaHibi this wee-

>No Tenshi no Inai 12-gatsu
It seems that this too will be another December without Angels...

>>6572558

I think the TLWikier has some big plan for it.

>>6572661
I really don't think Moogy is going to translate it any time soon.
It's not that he totally opposes a SubaHibi translation on some deep philosophical level, it's that it truly would be too much work to translate it, and if he did, nobody would enjoy it anyway.
In other words, if he wanted to spend six years on it, he could, but he's a laid back guy that doesn't think it would be worth it when there are so many other games that would fare much better in translation.

>>6572804
Wow. You are literally moogy.

>>6572804
>it's that it truly would be too much work to translate it, and if he did, nobody would enjoy it anyway

This is completely untrue.

>>6572820
If you disagree, you are a hipster faggot that pretends to enjoy pretentious shit because your autistic mind makes you think that people will think you are smart if you "understand" things they don't.
I'm not suggesting SubaHibi is bad (If I were, you'd have to call me TakaJun), I'm arguing that it would not be enjoyable to play a translation that would generally amount to nonsense that barely manages to hang onto the thread of the author's twisted intentions.

>>6572815
I love it when I get to be the Moogy!
Also, um... Takes one to know one! Haha! Tag, you're Moogy!

>>6572837
That was uncalled for. ;_;

>>6572837

From what I've heard, Subahibi really wouldn't be any more difficult to translate than Cross+Channel, and frankly, I'm perfectly fine with translation notes.

>>6572894
Excellent point, but here's the issue:
Would the translators be willing to use TL notes to the necessary degree? Ammy doesn't do that anymore, remember.

>>6572922

Which is fucking retarded.

Anime and VNs are completely different. While translation notes and tangents popping up everywhere while watching a video are annoying, they're not going to be that obstructive when playing what basically amounts to a text adventure with pictures.

Alternatively, you could do what the CLANNAD FV translators were doing and have translation notes pop up on mouseover if you don't want to include them in the normal text at all.

Fact is, some things ARE simply untranslatable and rather than giving up and saying LOLOLOL THIS VN WILL NEVER BE IN ENGLISH it would be a better idea to at least make some kind of attempt. Furthermore, I don't think that many people will be able to tell how 'bad' a Subahibi translation would be in the first place.

I for one just want to be able to read it.

>>6572804

>>>Moogy
>>>Translate anything
>>>laughingelfman.jpg

Ixrec will probably do SubaHibi eventually. It's at the top of his fan requested VNs to read/translate, and it seems like something he'd like. Just hold your horses.

>>6572048
We are just sad, since it is december, and there are no angels.

>>6573062
Ixrec isn't as much of a superman as /jp/ likes to pretend he is, but I do honestly believe that he wouldn't be nearly so daunted by the unique "challenges" (a.k.a. "risks") associated with SubaHibi as His Mooginess seems to be.
My reasoning: Ixrec is planning to translate Forest, and Forest is definitely much more impossible to translate than SubaHibi.
There are some who firmly believe that any translation of Forest is bound to fail, but if Ixrec is willing (nay, determined) to attempt it, he would surely be willing to approach the much more "reasonable" SubaHibi.

Survival age.

Moogy is behind the lack of bumps.

Brave man. Enjoy your horse head.

>>6573160
>Ixrec isn't as much of a superman as /jp/ likes to pretend he is
He was a super human because of what he did last year. Translated one really long VN in like 3 or 4 months and immediately afterwords translated another in two. This year there's a few reasons slowing him down 1. He didn't really like Extra and Unlimited and 2. He's been going to college.

>My reasoning: Ixrec is planning to translate Forest, and Forest is definitely much more impossible to translate than SubaHibi.
Cross+Channel.

>>6573735

This sounds like a post I would make.

....You're Moogy, aren't you!?

>G-Senjou no Maou- Translation:1782.75/1811.40 KB (98.42%), editing at 1733.77/1811.40 KB (95.71%)
>Osananajimi wa Daitouryou ~My girlfriend is the President.~ Translation/Editing 100%, QC 80.0%

Waiting very warmly.

>Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo -translator working on non translated scripts, 6/12 of Natsumi's scripts translated

I CAME IN MY PANTS WHO IS THIS GLORIOUS PERSON

>Tomoyo After - 2 scripts translated this week

Sounds good bro.

Where's the LB progress? Please return to us, dango!

>>6573864
>Where's the LB progress? Please return to us, dango!
He changed his Twitter name but it's still active :
http://twitter.com/DetectiveDango
>Hopefully, before Christmas~. 88.19% (5138/5826)

>>6572963
if it's a bad translation you're not "reading it", you're reading a shitty fanfic of it

and even if it's not a bad translation shit like 遠くで雫が落ちる。何処か遠くで、雫が砕ける音……。砕けたものは、地を
潤す。砕けたからこそ、恵みを与える。砕けた恵みは大地に染み渡る事が
出来るから……。 is going to sound dumb in english

just stop being a lazy ass and learn japanese, it's faster than waiting for a translation and will have more satisfying results

Has there been a serous visual novel about Hitler or ww2 at all? was just wondering.

>>6573885
Wait - I have him followed on twitter, why am I not getting updates any more? After they stopped I assumed he had vanished. RELIEF! Thanks anon <3

Also note that the new Sharin no Kuni translator is Egbert.

>>6573892
>if it's a bad translation you're not "reading it", you're reading a shitty fanfic of it

Oh lord, here come the 'anything translated is bad' faggots. Guess we might as well shut this thread down, huh?

Listen, learning Japanese takes a LOT of time and effort, and learning it solely to play pornographic games is just fucking depressing.

>>6573892
Hello Ice_Rabbit. Might wanna stop listening to Moogy so much. He fills your head full of bad things.

>>6573945

Plus we're all lazy asses here anyways. We sit around waiting for translations. I accept that I'm a lazy fuck. A patient lazy fuck, though.

>>6573916
You probably won't care for this, but there's a yaoi VN coming out next year which deals with a country still facing the harshness of what Britain did to them. It's primarily going to be set in a strict religious school, so I imagine that WWII will only remain a background element.

>>6573892
I don't see how reading it with a shitty understanding of Japanese is any better than reading an inaccurate translation of it. You're still going to miss things either way.

>>6574067
if it's your own understanding that's shitty, it might improve the next time you read it. a translation never will

>>6574113
Ooooh, someone is feeling a bit snarky today.

>>6574029
I will be keeping a lookout for this.

trying to patch Starry Sky.Invalid directory.what did i do wrong?I already selected the right folder where the game belongs.

>>6574169
Here's the VNDB link;

http://vndb.org/v3660

>>6574196
Is your regional language set to Japanese or are you using AppLocale?

trying to install starry sky.already set system locale to japanese.i don't get it what i did wrong

>>6574113
>a translation never will
Now that I think about it, it's kind of sad that some really great titles will be potentially be forever marred by varying degrees of bad translations; and at the pace things are going, I doubt there'll ever be the opportunity for retranslations to pop up.

>>6574585
I always thought if I ever learned and actually got fluent in Japanese, I'd form a translation group solely for going back and re-translating things that had a shitty translation made for them. Though at the time the idea occurred to me I was thinking more of manga than VNs, I guess it could work either way. Though chances are even if I did learn Japanese I wouldn't do it because I'm lazy...

>>6574196
I explained it in the patch thread, >>6564421 and below a few replies.

age

>>6574029
Not really want i was asking for, I know theirs a shit ton of visual novels , there has too be at least one about ww2 or maybe even where your one of the leaders. Would be cool if you where Stalin or Hitler.

>>6575954
In Valusia there's undead Napoleon Bonaparte who aims to be a god who will survive at the end of the story. If that counts.

>>6576101
That sounds pretty fucking awesome, Somebody should translate it now. How did he come back to life?

>>6576101
What? The Machine Lord was one of his officers, not the man himself.

>>6573892
That's not even a good example of something hard to TL into English, unless of course it's an excerpt from some poem/book/etc. that was originally not in Japanese. However in that case you probably have some context to tell you where it's from anyway.

>>6576588

Subahibi is often cited as being hard to translate, but that makes no sense to me. Like half the game is composed of quotes from Western philosophy texts.

>>6576111
No, no one should ever translate Valusia.
It's pretty and fully voiced, that's about it.

>>6576944
Yes! That is exactly what makes it hard to translate!
It's not that SubaHibi takes an unusually high degree of fluency in Japanese to translate, it's that it takes a lot of plain old WORK.
That's what I was getting at when I said "Moogy wouldn't bother because it's not worth it."
Look, try it yourself. Plenty of the quotes are quoting material that is going to be harder than you think to find. It's not introductory level stuff.

>>6566616

8/12

I just want to say that I actually started learning japanese just to play SubaHibi.

No, seriously, I study 3 hours a day just for this single reason, not even shitting you.

>>6576944
"quotes" doesn't mean that you just have the text translated for you and just have to copypaste.
You have to scan the whole game to see if you missed references, find the smallest quotation from a book that's not probably even available on internet, doublecheck everything, etc.
This just for the quotes, without considering when the text just turns plain weird or difficult to translate in general because of the author style.
It's not "untranslatable", just more trouble than it's worth it since most people would dismiss it as lolDEEP shit pretentious hipster faggotry like it's already happening before they even played it.

>>6577552
Yes, I agree 100% with this person. Or rather, that is exactly what I think Moogy thinks... But don't worry, I won't accuse you of being Moogy, because you're basically agreeing with me right now.

>>6577501
that's sad.

>>6577567
You are hilarious.

>>6577576
I know, right? I think it's pretty pathetic myself too. But then again, my whole life is pathetic itself, so when you are at the rock bottom you just don't care anymore.

>>6577687
I understand.
There's not really many lower things that /jp/-related things in life.

>>6577687
I still say you are better than the vast majority of us that you have a goal and you are working hard for it.
I will never be able to learn Japanese as I am not intelligent enough for it to come without a fuckton of hard work and practice. I would rather shoot myself than to take a real class so I can read VNs and eroge.

>>6577576
How is it sad? I think learning a new language which you normally wouldn't do for petty reason such as that is quite incredible, actually.

/jp/ - Where learning something new is sad.

>>6578074

Plus on top of that you're opened up to loads more visual novels and so much more if you learn that language. Shit, if I wasn't a lazy son of a bitch, I might try learning it as well.

Does it not take native japanese like 6 years of elementary school before being able to read things beyond light novels and the like?

>>6578390
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/basic

One page/day. Remember to also buy a notebook and write the stuff down. Takes 2 hours/day tops, and it isn't totally boring as people think. It will take like 4 months to finish all the lessons, maybe 2 more to absorb everything. After that, you can use AGTH to read your kanji and enjoy them VNs. It's not a short path, but if you start now, one step at a time, you will be glad you did 6 month from now on.

Do it.

>>6578455
It takes English-speaking schoolchildren just as long to become educated in their first language, too.
Presumably, you are more mentally developed than a child, and you can already read and speak at least one language.
Now, learning as many Kanji as an educated native speaker would probably take at least a few years, but the idea is that once you know your kana and grammar, you can use AGTH and a dictionary to lookup EVERY kanji, until you start to remember them.

Actually, putting it like that makes it sound so simple and easy that it kinda makes ME want to try it. I mean, how hard can it be to learn the kana and the functions of a few particles?
...Ok, so it's probably more difficult than I make it sound, but for reference's sake, I do believe Ixrec started translating with less than a year of Japanese experience under his belt.

>>6579121
It IS that easy. I memorized the JLPT4 Kanji, the basic grammar on Tae Kim's site, and started translating manga. Granted, it was a pain in the ass at first, but if you do it a month or so things start sticking and you can just pick up the advanced grammar as you go along by looking it up.

The hardest part is identifying kanji, which is a pain with furigana-less manga but blissfully simple with AGTH and some random visual novel.

MG is doing some weird twitter spam, and dropped a few hints about unannouced games:

>It's not incest if you don't do it in the pussy. #bestworstadvice #maid
This is most likely that nukige their editor mentioned some time ago.

>Remember to save before your party jumps out of the TV screen. #bestworstadvice #harem
>If you find yourself in sex play that's too advanced for you, level up and try again later. #bestworstadvice #harem
Now this is something new. It look like an RPG or a parody of RPGs, so it's either that Circus title with gameplay, or the source of those unidentified teaser BGMs.

Been studying Japanese on and off for a year and a half.

What the guy says about reading VNs with AGTH is right, this makes some VNS easier than manga. You can avoid all the "HOW MANY STROKES LOL CAN U FIND ME?" bullshit.

And when you find these fucks, add them + the word into anki, WITH THE STORY for that kanji that you made up or found on kanjidicks or whatever. Eventually you have shit like 翻す memorized. I must note though, that without anki I hardly remember anything.

And the best way to learn grammar if you can't figure it out is by ASKING PEOPLE. I shit you not. Everything else, learn on your own.

>>6579396
>HOW MANY STROKES LOL CAN U FIND ME?
Search by radicals first, it could save your life.

Bump

>>6579396
>You can avoid all the "HOW MANY STROKES LOL CAN U FIND ME?" bullshit.
why don't you use IME pad? easy as pie
if you use OR software like yondecoco you don't even eed to look them up anyways, it's like AGTH for manga.

Rise up, best thread.

>>6579396
>You can avoid all the "HOW MANY STROKES LOL CAN U FIND ME?" bullshit.
I lol'd. Oh god the horrible memories.

This thread must live

>>6570242
because this guy is such a jew i wanna pirate it just for the sake of it. he even did report the hongfire posters for posting his works

there's just too much artists who deserve more than him just by being humble

>>6582225
>just

well, unofficial g-senjou chapter 4 patch is already on the net

>>6583022
>unofficial

I don't understand things like these. Why don't you let the guys who are working on the translation release their patch when they think it should be released?

>>6583035
I don't understand things like these. Why don't you let the guys who want a translation make their patch when they want since it's a public project?

>>6583040
It was a genuine question, I'm not blaming anyone. I mean, what's the point in getting that "unofficial" release? It's something that wasn't isupposed to be released, therefore its quality has to be inferior to the "official" release.

>>6583078
Like Clannad, right?

>>6583148
For example.

>>6583022
link if you please

>>6583155
Clannad never had an official release.

>>6583583

Which is exactly the point. We'd still be sitting around waiting if it weren't for the unofficial release.

>>6583583
Yeah, but didn't that actually happen because the translators were angry because the scripts where "stolen" before the completion of the project?

>>6583078
The point of it is that you get to start playing it now, and by the time you get to the untranslated part, the official patch may already be released.

Additionally, some people probably believe that chapters 1 through 4 are already fully edited and QC'd, and although that is probably not entirely true, I do think that the segments in this unofficial patch will be MOSTLY identical to those in the official patch.

I personally won't be downloading this, because a partial patch seems useless to me when a full patch is on the horizon (and out of respect to the team...), but I don't think that creating "unofficial" patches from publicly avaliable scripts is inherently wrong. It's not a leak and it's not "stealing", and I don't think it's against the spirit of fan translation either.

If the translators express a clear desire to NOT have their work released before they chose to, I will personally respect that (and the G-Sen devs already HAVE expressed that, in my opinion), but at the same time, I think making scripts publicly available kind of makes it "fair game."

Chapter 4 is pretty much ready, actually. But by the time QC finished, the game was already almost completely finished anyway so it was decided 'fuck it, why bother' and to wait until it's done.

I don't really care if someone makes an unofficial chapter 4 patch at this point. But the last person who made a patch and posted it to the public literally used scripts that were 2 years old(as in, scripts that were in use before the project was even put on TLWiki). If you're going to make your own patch for personal use, whatever. But if you're going to make it public, at least don't go out of your way to do a shitty job of it like the last person.

>>6584041
Stolen? Their scripts were always available to everyone on a wiki. That's just lame excuses for people who got sick of translating and editing a game.

ageru

Who cares about tlwiki drama, I'm just glad the thing's finishing.

We're all gonna whine about how bad it was anyways. No need for more whining.

After G Senjou is released, people will either hate it because it's translated, or hate it because someone will post 3 lines that don't perfectly match the jap script.

>>6585684
Or hate it because it's bad. That's just the way things go. I really don't see a need to get worked up over any of this.

>>6585032
The reason the scripts were public is that you don't need to jump through hoops before editing the scripts and helping out. Not because you can just take whatever you want and shit on everyone who's been working on it.

>>6585687

People never hate on something because it's bad. People believe that it BECOMES bad once all the 'normals' get their hands on it.

>>6586175
It's more like something was actually bad all along when normals got their hands on it, and we must repent for ever liking it with hate. Since, if it wasn't bad, why would normals get their hands on it? Normals have no interest in good things.

>>6586199
This is what /jp/ actually believes

>>6586199

Please tell me you're joking.

>>6586475
Welcome to /jp/. Enjoy your stay.

>>6586475
Yes, we really are that shitty

G Senjou isn't really that amazing in retrospect, and really annoying/stupid at times even (I'm looking at you, Deus Ex Machina ending).

I thought G Senjou was trite and pretty disappointing.

>>6586591
At least the sex scenes were good.

>>6586591
>>6586598
>>6586608
It has already begun oh god

>>6586628
Nah. I play lots of games in Japanese. I think most of them are bad. I don't even know why I do it anymore. It used to be for practice, but now I think I might be a masochist.

How can you guys hate on G-Senjou guys? It's the biggest Eroge Expert's, Asceai's favorite game.

>>6586642
He rated it 2 on vndb, along with many good scenario games, is he just trolling the site or what?

>>6586655
He wants to be different and a unique snowflake, so he rates with his own inverted system: 1=10, 2=9, 3=8 etc.

Not kidding.

>>6586667
That's...nice, considering it fucks up the average rating count and a lot of other things.

I just feel like the horror aspects were the only thing that the game did right. There's a lot of really shitty and awkwardly written slice of life parts that do nothing but pad hours and hours onto the story without adding anything relevant. It seemed like for every one hour of suspenseful writing, I was forced to sit through two hours of generic drek.

Fun fact: The reason VNs "become shit" in /jp/'s eyes after they're translated is not because of glorious nihongo elitists, but because of the whiny fucks in this thread that love to stir drama, "troll" and make a big fat deal about petty shit. It's not that the japanese speakers change their opinions.

>>6586677
It doesn't fuck up anything because admins disabled his votes of affecting ratings.
>>6586690
Yes.

>>6586690
More like the only people that talk about VNs before they're translated are the die hard fans who feel the need to rant about how X is so much better than Y all the time. Nobody else cares enough.

Has anyone heard anything about a project to translate Narcissu 3rd?

>>6586678
Hor...ror? What game are we even talking about?

>>6585737
The reason the scripts were public is that anybody can do anything he/she wants with them. That is what 'public' means and anybody hoping for anything else is either an idiot or too naive for his own good.

>>6586175
No, not always. From what I've read so far G-Senjou's got a lot of nonsense in it. It'll probably entertain fine and all of that but still end up somewhat lacking. It might be only natural if the reaction isn't that great. That's just how things are. The people who like it will like it, and I don't see why we need to be any more nice about it than that.

Just finished 999, and from the synopsis, Killer Queen seems very similar. Hope the translation is finished before the end of the year.

>>6588324
He's retranslating whole VN.

>>6588303
G-senjou is top tier no matter what.
It has its flaws but let me ask you, is there any VN that doesn't have some really glaring flaw?

>>6588345
Obviously not, for sure. I'm just basing this on what I've read ie the few patches they put out for it. The only way to tell if it's actually good would be to wait for the full translation to be released but judging from so far it's not far-fetched to expect little. In any case there's at least some reason to hate it and I see no reason why we should be nice about what we don't like.

so can we get that chapter 4 patch for G-Senjou? Can't wait until xmas

>>6588345
That is exactly the kind of blind fanboyism which in turn encourages /jp/ VN hate.

Autism, autism everywhere.
(Including me, since I turned a simple age into an insult)

SAGE

>>6590130

At least then /jp/ would discuss something other than Saten spam.

age

Tomoyo After update today. 1 more script to finish until partial patch is released (~35% of the game)

>>6595069
Why, I never thought I'd see the day...!

>>6595069
>>6596864

Two lines a week for years adds up.

Live!

>>6596916

That adds up, you know.

Live Osadai QC'ing http://www.livestream.com/piroko

>>6597677
this is fucking hilarious
is there someone who isn't an attention whore in the translation community?

>>6597689
the starry sky ones.

>>6597697
They actually demanded for the patch to stop being distributed and to everyone create a livejournal and request to be their friend, so that they can choose who gets it.

>>6597708
ahah oh god is that true?

>>6597708
That was a troll. The game patch is an open, public release and they have stated that.

>>6597739
There was that possibility, but with so much drama related to the fan translation community, I wasn't so sure.

>>6597741
I see. Well, what they've said is game patches will be open release but their smaller releases (comic page/ drama CD track translations) are to be kept in the community only. Not that most people will care since the game patches are what matters most anyhow.

http://yandere.gray7.com/?p=1140

Seems like Chris is still winning the poll, but Momoyo's getting close.

>>6597899
Which one is voiced by Rider?

>>6597906
Momoyo.

>>6597899
Funny how the taste of the English speaking community is EXACTLY the opposite of the japanese.

>>6597914
They both like Ever17 though.

>>6597914
yea well you know......
>japan
>taste
>hilariousreactionimage.jpg
etc.

>>6597914
to be fair most people there voted knowing very little about the character themselves.

>>6597914
What do you mean?

>>6597925
I'm not him, but I'd guess the character poll in Japan had Chris and Momoyo in the last two positions while Wanko in second place.

>>6597925
Popularity among nipponjin: Wanko > Miyako > Momoyo > Chris
Popularity among gaijin: Wanko < Miyako < Momoyo < Chris

The butthurt over Chris is hilarious. I, for one, am more than pleased about prideful and moralfaggy waifu, she's a good contrast to snarky cheater attitude of MC.

Chris has one of the best route, the more you know.
You guys should stop being butthurt about everything and nothing

2 more scripts completed of Patch 2 of Alternative. Just about 50% done.

>>6598022

But she's everything that was bad about Meiya in Extra, in addition to being a tsundere. That's ten times as terrible.

Kazuko is the superior waifu.

more like we don't see Chris so much in the other routes, so i tihnk it's okay to clear her route first
to me, it's a wise choice

Did starry sky get translated? Link?

>>6603486

>Translation of G-Senjou no Maou is done but moogy won't release it before Chritmas because he's retarded
How surprising.

>>6606089
two files of editing left and the QC are left.

>>6606094
It's probably done already, they know if they finish them someone'll make a patch by themselves and distribute it. So they're probably keeping it until they want to release it.

>>6606104
That's a given, there's a reason there's only one file left.
But the QC needs to be finished for real, considering this week edited a few ones.