/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>Irotoridori no Sekai - 10,250/51,105 (20.06%) lines translated, up through chapter 7 translated, teaser patch in December
Kawakaburi No Cherry - Being translated
Koitate - Yukino’s route patch released
Little Busters - Fully translated and edited, patch out with Haruka's route and Kud's route
>Majikoi- Yukie + Chris + Momoyo + teacher route patch released, Wanko route TL: 66%
M&M Enchanting Magic & Sweet Charms- 92%
Milky Holmes - Being translated
Muv-Luv Chronicles - Work being done on The Day After 00 + 01
Never 7 - all 113 scripts and 55 of 111 tips through initial translation, 20/113 scripts through final translation
Nursery Rhyme - 9049/34410 lines (26.3%) translated
Ore no Imouto - 9.4% (28/299) scripts translated
Otomimi Infinity - 6630 /105610 (6.28%) translated
>Period- All image/UI editing complete, game total translation: 77.10% complete, Miyu + Rin + Aoi + Kohane + Tsuzumi' patches released
Princess Lover - 10% translated
Princess Maker 5- 42% translated
Princess Nightmare - Translator said the project is still active, but very slow, nearly 50% translated
Pure Pure The Story of Ears and Tails- Sachi Patch released, 81.69% translated
Rance 3 - 75% translated
Rance 4 - 20% translated
Rance Quest - 2% translated
Real Imouto ga Iru - translation: 4330/16108 (27%) editing: 3910/16108 (24%), demo up
Rewrite - Ixrec's project following Forest
Sensei Da-isuki 2- roughly 25% translated, still active
Serifu de Kanjite! Seiyuu Doushi: Total: 185/5400 translated
Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo - Fully translated, someone has gone through all the scripts for editing
Sin- 65% of episode 1 translated
Sorairo - 2755/48557 (6%) lines translated

Steins;Gate - Script and TIPS fully translated, being edited. Unedited patch out, all early scripts fixed, system images finished
Suihensei Made Nan Mile - 32% translated, plans to get a patch out "soon"
Tenshi No Inai 12-Gatsu-"status: ~translating:active~"
Tenshin Ranman - 2% translated
>The Second Reproduction - Fully translated, image editing
Togainu No Chi- 77% translated, partial patch out
To Heart2-63% translated- "The final product is still years away unless I get more help. ", alpha patch with Konomi, Tamaki, Manaka and Yuma routes translated
Tomoyo After - Partial patch released
Toradora Portable - Being translated
Touka Gettan: translation status: ~30% translated
>Umineko 8 - Released
Under The Moon- 6% translated/checked/programmed, still active
Welcome to Pia Carrot 2 - 1st draft translation complete
>Yandere - 22.7% translated
Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 6% edited
Yosuga no Sora - Roughly 40% translated

>Aroduc has been working on something new, though has yet to reveal the title. ~60349 /76302 lines translated

Official work

MangaGamer:
>Dear Drops - Beta testing, trial out, Feb 2012 planned release
Ef - Scripts back to minori
Harukoi Otome - 6 scripts left to translate
Dengeki Strykers - Translation and editing complete, 2012 release
Sexy magic title from Score- finished testing
Da Capo III - Mentioned at AX
Innocent Grey would also like to bring over an upcoming title related to Kara no Shoujo
Negotiations with age still ongoing
Negotiations for Oretsuba are still ongoing
Games from Denbonosu - "Hopefully in the future with MangaGamer, I can do something in the US too."[president of Denbonosu]
Negotiations ongoing with Clochette, would like to bring over Kamikaze Explorers
Picked up a Circus title with gameplay

JAST
Osananajimi wa Daitouryou - Golden Master, release mid to late December
Yumina the Ethereal - Final QC/post production, couple thousand more images to translate, before AX 2012
Moero Downhill Night Blaze- Early 2012
School Days HQ - April/May 2012, editing through 25% of chapter 5, porting though 30% of the final chapter
Saya no Uta + Hanachirasu - Release shortly after getting stuff from Nitro+
Django: Couple more months of translation
Kikokugai - Working out issues
Sumaga- Spring goal, demo soon, got new staff
Seinarukana- picked up, ~32% translated
Starless - Work ongoing
Starry Sky- negotations with voice actors
Muramasa - Common route complete, 2 of 5 chapters towards true end translated, uncertain what will come from the project

Other
LUDESIA- English release planned
Hakuoki - Feb 14th, 2012
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

Week thread of the best here finally is!

Best Thread of week etc and;

>Irotoridori no Sekai - 10,250/51,105 (20.06%) lines translated, up through chapter 7 translated, teaser patch in December

why is it incredibly fast? i mean with this speed it'll finish before summer and its a one man project.

>Umineko 8 - Released

holy damn finally

you forgot new project for 'air'

what happened to Fortune Arterial? it was very fast at first,but now its been almost one year and still no update except "Yandere has just announced they're going to carry out the full TL of AnE. Cmon guys, if they finish before us that's just gonna be too much " From june.

i guess its already dead,but still i want to confirm.

>>8253463
>Umineko 8 - Released

At long fucking last.

>Ef - Scripts back to minori
Enjoy playing ef in the spring xDDD

>>8253511
we already played it,so get lost please.

>>8253487
About 1,200 lines a week sure as hell is not fast.

>>8253549
so the game's itself is short then?

>>8253561
Assuming the line count is accurate, it's about moderate length. Slightly on the long side.

>>8253499
I was hopeful as well, the progress was going so fast to begin with.

>>8253493
>>8253500
Who here is not that enthusiastic about reading it? Every release up until 7 I have been foaming at the mouth but I just can't get into it...

>Fate/Hollow Ataraxia- 70.4% translated, second partial patch out

They hit the 70%, eh?

It may be out late 2012, who knew.

The Mayans were predicting Fate/Hollow Ataraxia's english translation

PSP gets no love.

>>8253598
Me and a friend read EP6 in one go. 'Twas a great day.
But EP7 sat in my backlog folder for months, and even before it was released I knew I just didn't want to read anymore.
I suspect the same will happen with EP8.

>>8253549
>About 1,200 lines a week sure as hell is not fast.
Better than being dead — not to mention it's a lot faster than most projects on the list, assuming some of them are still alive in the first place.

>Hoshizora no Memoria - prologue patch out, common route fully translated, Isuzu's patch released, overall 39941/55183 (72.38%) translated
This is somewhat outdated. I've completed Asuho's and Komomo's routes for quite a while now.

Thanks as always for maintaining this list. I started on the MGQ part 2 translation today, and will post updates at http://roguetranslations.wordpress.com/category/mgq-part-2/ (I don't know if you compile this info based on websites or by IRC channels or something).

>>8253549
Yes it is. Most projects do not move that fast.

>>8253653
>>8253672
200 lines a day is not fast, even by fansub standards. They're averaging slower than that. Learn to do math.

>>8253643
I am afraid of EP 8 rumored terribleness and lol dream ending. My dilemma here though, I have spent god knows how many hours discussing this series with you guys and I want to see it through but I don't want to read something I think I won't like.

>>8253701
Except your average VN translator can't even manage your "slow" 200 lines a day without disappearing from the internet entirely or having a convenient hard drive crash.

>>8253701
>200 lines a day is not fast, even by fansub standards. They're averaging slower than that. Learn to do math.
Fansubbers translate one or two episodes a week. That's not even 100 lines a day. Learn to do maths.

>>8253837
How fast does an average vn translator work anyway?
Excluding ixrec, of course.

>>8253837
Fast for a fansub translator is within 12 or so hours of the show airing and also requires timing, typesetting, and other things as well as not having the words in front of them and not including things like "..." as lines.

>>8253990
Are you implying that it is easier to fansub than it is to translate a VN?

>>8254020

Far easier, where exactly do you come from

>>8254020
Sort of. I'm saying that if given the same number of lines from an anime and from a VN, it is more difficult/time consuming to sub the anime's lines.
That said, the entire script of a 13 episode anime will probably be only about 2,000 lines, so yes, it is FAR shorter, but those lines will not be explicitly given, will not include empty lines like "...!", and will need further work done on them before they can be used.

Gore Screaming Show will never be translated, will it?

There's a difference between conversational Japanese and literary Japanese.

VNTS is the only reason I even visit /jp/ anymore.

>>8253990
And the post-translation work isn't part of the translator's job, is it? So what exactly is your point?

>>8254037
>13 episode anime will probably be only about 2,000 lines
Name me any standard-length anime episode under 160 lines and I will suck your cock.

>but those lines will not be explicitly given, will not include empty lines like "...!"
Most VN lines are longer than anime lines, so it balances out.

>>8254152
>Most VN lines are longer than anime lines, so it balances out
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha no.

>>8254152
>Name me any standard-length anime episode under 160 lines and I will suck your cock.
Technolyze episode 1.

not and anime episode but a whole movie: Tenshi no Tamago.

[sarcasm_mode]Subbing that one must have been a pain![/sarcasm mode]

>>8254227
Almost any episode of Potemayo.

I did misremember from when I did my count though. Geass clocked in at around 400 lines/episode which I estimated as about 200 line-equivilents to a VN. Not really sure if that supports or hinders my argument though, so whatever.
http://archive.foolz.us/jp/thread/S7264917#p7280215

https://junktheeater.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/rejoice/
https://junktheeater.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/the-hope/

>>8254299
Who is that faggot?

For me fansubbing takes a lot longer than translating the equivalent written text, but the extra work is mostly trying to figure out what words are actually being said, not doing the actual translation. Maybe I just have bad ears.

>>8253463
>umineko 8 released

downloading at 8.8 kb/sec from the WH link. mediafire mirror fucking where?

1 hour, 35 mins remaining for the 46 meg file.
I've waiting this long before even touching ep 8, another hour or so means nothing. ;_;

>>8254299
From the look of his text I think he's getting too excited in this.

>>8254313
The person who translated the Kara no Kyoukai light novels.
http://emptyboundaries.wordpress.com/

>>8254377
>>8254299
Oh snap, just how many lines is in the demo?

>>8254377
But that's good too you know.
>>8254425
To be honest I don't know. Here, moogy wrote this on #tlwiki. And this is correct.
[03:03] <Moogy> http://www.mediafire.com/?mj3ykb6o0qdj4f0
[03:03] <Moogy> mahoyo trial script file
[03:03] <Moogy> i heard you liked scripting.
[03:05] <Moogy> 828 lines of text out of 5029
[03:05] <Moogy> 5059

Can somebody post a dl link of witch on the holy night or a torrent.

>>8254545
>The visual novel adaptation will be released in April 12, 2012.

>>8254377
>English (Philippines)

>>8254688
Can anyone here that reads moon see if his translation is decent?

>>8254688
At least it's not Malaysian English, lah!

>>8254764
It's overly flowery and less concise compared to the original japanese. I give him credit for being not purely literal, but just slapping on extra adjectives isn't the way to approach this sort of thing.

Example: Literally, the second line reads something like "Perhaps according to the creator's plan, there was no electric lighting whatsoever in the entrance hall."
That becomes:
"Doubtless, the architect thought the lighting scheme of the entrance hall a particularly brilliant stroke: There was none of the warmth of electric light here."

>>8254764
The last sentence in Japanese, more stiffly translated is:

明かりになるのは、その高い天井にある窓から差しこむ日差しと月光だけだ
。
The only sources of illumination would be rays of sunlight and moonlight pouring from the window on that tall ceiling.

You can draw your own conclusions from his translation, but I like what I see.

>>8254764
Lazy literal translation:

Same as the outside atmosphere, the lobby was also dimmed grey.
Perhaps by the architect's intent, this entrance had no sort of electric lighting.
The ceiling reaches up to the second floor.
The only sources of illumination would be rays of sunlight and moonlight pouring from a window on that tall ceiling.

>>8254873
high, not tall

"The only illumination is sunlight and moonlight shining from a window on that high ceiling."

>>8254990
>high, not tall
Eh, there's no real difference.

Hey people, hurry up on Yosuga no Sora.

Just finished the anime; vaulted into my top 3.

>>8253613
I have no idea what's holding back the next patch (unless it's image editing for the hanafuda game, but there's been no word about that). All the scenes that were supposed to go into it have been translated for weeks.

Dangan Ronpa is getting some sort of translation (LP) too.

>>8255085
Hanafuda is exactly it.

Waiting for editors to fix a few more images, and translating miscellaneous utterances/popups in the meantime.

The aim is to get it 100% finished by New Year's, but it looks like we might still miss it by a bit.

>>8255174
thanks for all your work lately. i love saber.

>>8253837

I can't stand it when people say "maths" instead of Math. Just say MATH you little shit!

>>8255266
Calm down.

>Forest - 7003/11938 (58.66%) lines translated, no updates until finishing a script with >25% of the text
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>Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni - 2973 / 8082 (36.79%) lines translated
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>Hoshizora no Memoria - prologue patch out, common route fully translated, Isuzu's patch released, overall 39941/55183 (72.38%) translated
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>Period- All image/UI editing complete, game total translation: 77.10% complete, Miyu + Rin + Aoi + Kohane + Tsuzumi' patches released
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>Umineko 8 - Released
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>Yandere - 22.7% translated
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This week's post has been redacted in protest of SOPA.
Did you miss me, /jp/?

The Second Reproduction shouldn't be far off now.

Umineko 8 and Monmusu Quest! Part 2 both in the same day

>>8253598
>>8253643
>>8253728

Finish it.

Ryukishi still knows how to write great set pieces and climaxes.

I just hope we'll get Little Busters! around Christmas.

>>8255266

maths ----> mathematics
math ----> mathmatic >hurrr durrr

>Aroduc has been working on something new, though has yet to reveal the title. ~60349 /76302 lines translated
He's almost done. Why won't he announce it? He's waiting for Christmas or something?

>>8255174
oh okay then.

As long as that crashing bug that shuts down the game after you get a plot item (from Quiz Dojo or the card from Leysritt on the one day) then it's all good.

>>8254340
The same shit happens when trying to get the context with written text. Get over it, shitty fansubber.

>>8255266
You're going to have to nuke the Commonwealth if you want to change our superior British ways.

http://tlwiki.tsukuru.info/index.php?title=Little_Busters!
And it's finally out!

>>8256203
Oh my, it's true.

>Little Busters - Fully translated and edited, patch out with Haruka's route and Kud's route

i don't think it is out.

>>8256215
Check the site.

New Air project confirmed. TL by Edgar, editing by Sheeta.

http://forums.novelnews.net/showthread.php?t=16662&page=3

>>8256215

>Team fluffy is delighted to announce the release of the Little Busters! complete translation patch. The impatient one may proceed to download it here.

Also,
>With this release, we are happy to announce that we are officially moving on to translating the Ecstasy and Memorial Editions (after the translators have had their well-earned rest).

>>8256229
That's really nice. He's the Canvas 2 translator, right?

LITTLE BUSTERS FULL PATCH IS OUT ON THE TLWIKI

REMAKE A NEW THREAD WITH A LB PICTURE OP

>>8256269
ALSO, THEY ARE TRANSLATING ECSTASY AND MEMORIAL EDITION

>>8256229
Nothing will ever come from an Air project.

Ren route of Koitate has being translated apparently

>>8255430
Especially since it started "Image Editing" mode back on December 4th.

>>8256297
What's the difference between both?

>>8256425
One of them is all ages while the other one is 18+.

The last time Stato appeared, a looooong time ago, he said he would release Baldr Sky 1 when Refrain got out. Maybe we'll get a surprise...
I think we wont

My body is ready for a TSR release at Christmas.

>>8256605
This and partial for TnC and my Christmass will be great.

>Tenshi No Inai 12-Gatsu-"status: ~translating:active~"
Another December that lacks angels ;_;

Maybe next year

>>8255769
16,000 lines isn't THAT close to finished

>>8256729
Yeah, I know, but he's fast.

>Planet Starlight: Chasers Excellent

well,at least Canvas 2 got a complete translation released,so I think I can have some hope...

>>8256229
>editing by Sheeta

Is that the girl who bosses Ixwreck around? So her harem grows...

>>8256991
It was kind of horrible though.

>>8257219
Not really.
It wasn't great, but it was perfectly up to standards of the English VN Translation Scene.

>>8257332

you mean the translation or the VN itself?I liked the translation,though the VN wasn't particularly special to my eyes(Elis was kind of annoying,even though I enjoy some Kissing Cousins).But at this point,I accept anything,as long as I'm still alive to see Air translated...oh,and Yosuga no Sora too.

bump

>>8256640
Text insertion issues aren't holding that one back anymore.

No status for Ore No Imouto Portable?

The Second Reproduction status: 12/19 Trying to insert images and QC after that, I think.

Anyone know what's happening with Neko Kawaigari? Haven't heard anything for a while.

>>8260495
Text insertion issues were never holding back anyone.

>>8261069
Bullshit. The translation project was on a halt because no one could insert the text without crashing the game.

>>8261283
The translation project was at a halt because no one fixed the engine problem. Text insertion is just a matter of changing the striong table at the end of each scripts. Even Cudder's PoC (which he claimed did not crash) crashed in the same way the translation did. It's very easy to get the engine to overflow its buffers.

>>8260655
Christmas release incoming?

>>8261365
You think people that took months to edit will take a couple of weeks at most to QC?

Togainu patch should be out by Christmas, and if not by Christmas than the day before or afterwards. Patch should include Keisuke and Motomi's routes.

A 15% Lamento patch was also released. Translator seems kind of butthurt by saying it'll probably take six years to translate the thing.

>>8261360
>Even Cudder's PoC (which he claimed did not crash) crashed in the same way the translation did
Now this is funny.

>>8256760
When did he start, anyway?

>>8261770
Hey, Cudder has probably done a lot more to help /jp/ than you have.

>>8261836
Hello Cudder

>>8261857
I'm not even cudder, and I think you're a fag.

>>8261602
>Togainu patch should be out by Christmas, and if not by Christmas than the day before or afterwards.
Is this true?

>>8261867
Yeah. Also I heard YU-NO is getting released in June.

>>8261867
>caring about disgusting yaoi shit

>>8261867
Yes, it's true. As I said, it apparently only contains the Keisuke and Motomi routes.

>>8261836
Is this a zen statement? Because last I checked, Cudder's only spammed the place, tried to release a machine translation as a real one, and put out poorly implemented cracks a day or two before someone did real cracks. He has done nothing but shit up the place with more dedication than most of the shitposters. There are creatures living on the bottom of the ocean who have never seen light that have done more good for /jp/ than Cudder.

so is it better to play the regular lb or the ex/me version? i have both, so i'm wondering if i should go with the original and if i'll miss anything like the extra porn in ex.

>>8262311
The ex content isn't translated, so go with whichever you want.

>>8262321
i'm guessing you can't transfer your saves from original to ex, so i'd probably have to replay it again to unlock everything, fill up the cg room etc though.

if the bugs they mention on the wiki aren't bad enough i guess i'll just go with ex then.

>>8262341
EX asks you if you know 'the secret of the world', so if you press yes, you can just do the extra routes straight away and dl a savedata for the rest when you finish them.

>>8253499
actually, I know the guy who was running the translation, well I "knew" he seems to have lost interest, he has not dropped off the internet but he appears kinda randomly with long time gaps in between....all we can do is hope he reappears with interest as most of the old team is still waiting for him.

>>8262097
You sure are mad.

Let me guess, you secretly enjoy the sudo shit.

>>8262353
Looking forward to it!

So as to know which version to want to play, what are the differences between the different versions of LB?

Hey /jp/, /a/ here. But I'm a flaming homosex weaboo, just like many of you.

Recommend me a good otome. Also, sorry to make you feel disgust, but I need a translated one, because I can't into moonrunes yet.

I didn't like Absolute Obedience, I think gayroges won't work.

Saging just go fit in.

>>8263849
youre a nigger

>>8263849
EX: two extra routes and porn
ME: EX with the porn removed

>>8263874
Alright, thanks.

>>8263859
Otome and straight VNs are hard to find in English. From the top of my head I can only think about: Yo-Jin-Bo (http://www.vn-meido.com/k1/index.php/topic,373.0.html), and Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 1 (http://www.vn-meido.com/k1/index.php/topic,485.0.html) and 2 (http://www.vn-meido.com/k1/index.php/topic,927.0.html).

If there is any problem with the download links, post on those threads.

>>8262352
So, that means you can export your save file?

>>8256580
Was that in an IRC, or do you have any sources you can link me to?

>>8264228
Knowing nothing, my guess is that it was a jab at tlwiki's speed excusing his own slowness with Baldr Sky. So I wouldn't expect much.

>>8264261
Makes sense to me, that lazy fuck couldn't even move his ass for cash, so they had to hire another translator for Haruhi.

>>8263859
Keep an eye on The Second Reproduction translation! Can't wait.

>>8261360
What? Do you have instructions on how to reproduce it? Is this a configuration-specific issue? (E.g. a required font was not found?)

I went through what I think was an entire route (started at the beginning, went through a lot of text, choices, sex, and eventually ended up at the title screen again) in the PoC and did not experience any crashes.

There is still 16.75 hours I can put into this.

Also, I found the translator and he says he's translating and the Nagato guy from TLwiki is working on the tools, but if text insertion is as easy as you say then it may not be a problem with tooling.

>>8262097
>poorly implemented cracks
Do they not work?
YES - I'd like to know which ones and how.
NO - Then why are you complaining?

>>8264837
The main buffer issue has already been fixed. If you want to see it for yourself, though, just use the backlog often and you will run into it eventually. The backlog concats all of the strings on a page into one which causes it to overflow since it can only hold 302 characters before it starts to overwrite other data, and about 308 characters before it'll overwrite an important address and then completely crash.

>>8265865
They fixed it? Good.

Then I need not be concerned with that anymore.

[Maybe I stimulated them into doing it by releasing that PoC. Either way, it's all good.]

play Little Busters EX or ME?
i read from the vn thread 3 weeks ago that the ero scenes in EX are irrelevant to the plot and will only ruin your image of the girls. is this true?
i might play ME, but what do you people think, EX or ME?

>>8264837
Here Mr Munroe is suggesting that programmers are so dedicated to their work (almost autistic, if you will) that they undergo coitus in order to have a child for the sake of fixing a software bug. In the last panel Munroe employs a pun: software testers often report that they cannot "reproduce" a bug under given conditions, and here it had the additional meaning of "procreate." Of particular interest is the second panel, notably the dialog: "Hey, can you do me without a condom?" This is how women really talk, and Munroe knows this because he is a sexually active young man.

>>8265952
except the place should be taken by a fat neckbeard or at most by a horrible landwhale, not a normal chick. she would be a secretary at most.

>>8266044
Stick figure abstractions hide those nitty gritty details.

Picture is one of Munroe's usual partners. I hear she fucked him because she found out he was, "Such a nerd xD".

>>8261872

>disliking Nitro+

Your faggotry levels are off the roof.

>>8265924
What's the difference between the original version, EX and ME anyway?

>>8266463
EX: Adds two routes and sex scenes.
ME: EX without sex scenes.

Jast is considering snatching Ayakashibito.
http://twitter.com/#!/jastusa/status/149032042775052288

They do not have plans to do the same thing to Majikoi. Yet.
http://twitter.com/#!/jastusa/status/148950497427070976

>>8261872
Huh?

>>8266515
It's yaoi. There is GAY FUCKING in it.

>>8266526
Yeah and?

>>8266534
Faggot. Not him, and not in a particularly insulting way either.

>>8266526
>/jp/ >Not being gay
Get out.

>>8266555
Hah... Why would you do that?

>>8266503
fuck me. I was really hoping we'd actually see that within a year or so

>>8266503
Fuck these guys, i fucking hate them.

>>8266503
>>8266863
>>8266883
you are literally retarded

>Rewrite - Ixrec's next project

So how long do you think this will take him? Less than a year?

>>8266887
Yes, now you've totally convinced me that I should be hoping for a pointless delay on this project, please die

>>8266914
RETARDED

>>8266557
Fuck off shitposter, go make your penis threads in /soc/ or something faggot

Every week I hope to see Killer Queen back on that list, and every week I die a little inside...

>>8266972
What the fuck is guy talking about... Sorry but you are the shitposter.

Wouldn't it be nice if JAST actually initiated their own projects, instead of jumping on fan translations that would be finished anyway?

guys, do the Little Busters patches work on the same version of the game? Or is there a different version of the game for each patch?

nno

>>8267097
There's a different patch for every version the game has.

>>8266895
Probably around 6 months, from the time he starts translation.

>>8267016
That's the reason I hate them and the people that support them.

>>8267180
Well, from a business standpoint it's a brilliant strategy. Even if they compensate the translators, it comes out to a fraction of what it costs to translate it themselves, and they get to release it almost immediately. Agreed that it accomplishes next to nothing for the English VN community, though, besides possibly helping to keep the company afloat with the assumption that they might release more stuff (that wasn't just shamelessly hijacked from a fan-translator) later.

>>8267189
>release it almost immediately

If they actually did this, I wouldn't care so much.

>>8267203
Well, by that I meant prepare for release almost immediately, as opposed to having to wait for the thing to actually be translated. But yeah, their process could definitely do with some more efficiency on this end, but then there are a lot of things outside their control on that end as well, as far as uncooperative-as-shit Japanese companies.

Not even trying to be JAST-defense-force or whatever either, I've pirated every single one of their games that I've played. Just, I can understand why from their point of view it makes sense to do what they do, even if it dicks over the rest of the community.

>>8267189
The only way I think they'd help the community stay afloat that way would be having translators start projects with the hope of getting money out of them from the start. But then again, those translations would most probably be worse than average, free fan translation, and very likely to be dropped.

For those of you on the fence concerning Little Busters! let me tell you that it doesn't seem to be the standard Key affair. I am loving it so far despite not enjoying Clannad. I am really enjoying it, praise the translators and anyone who worked on it.

>>8269098
And what if I fucking loved Clannad? Will I like LB?

>>8266982
One day anon. One day.

>>8266503
It must suck being the guy running Jast's twitter since he has to answer a million "hey r u guys gunna translste this erogay" questions.

>>8269515
Moogy is the one that answers that.

>>8269103
It's more fun and games but gets into the familiar Key drama later on.

>>8269103
Clannad is my favorite VN and I'd definitely recommend Little Busters. It's rather different from Key's standard nakige, but you'll still be able to find plenty you'll enjoy.

>>8269103
Oh and the characters are a bit less retarded.

>Oh and the characters are a bit less retarded.
Gao the VN fucking when ;_;

>>8269895
They really aren't. Only Mio and Kurugaya are in the "not retarded" category but they aren't especially great characters.
The heroines of LB are pretty weak overall, Rin is cute but she is definitely pretty retarded.

Little Busters is pretty bad. Awful protag and boring character routes.

Refrain is worth reading though, as is the amazing common route.

>>8270751
Yeah, and there were no dinosaurs after all the hype.

>>8271133
Wrong game dumbass.

>>8269515
BlackCycFan asks the JAST Twitter every week if they're going to translate everything. どんまい

>>8270751
Riki was not awful. He was the cutest Little Buster.

>>8271149
Chill out, dude.

>>8271150
>ひらがな
Really?

>talking about Disney shit in the VNTS thread
Fuck off back to >>>/a/ you enormous faggots. VNTS-general is for discussion of Real Deal VNs only.

>>8271764
Can I pitch a few titles to the real deal committee that I think might not be Disney?

Strato just made an announcement on his blog, Dive 1 scheduled for Christmas release.

>>8271798
Link to his blog? I would be amazed if it were true.

>>8271798
Holy shit it's true! My God, after all this time I thought that project was dead...

>>8271798
This is going to be the best Christmas ever!

You should've said Aroduc. He actually has a blog.

>>8271798
please don't troll

>>8271798
>>8271810
>>8271815
同fag.

>>8271855
Please use chiitrans like civilized people.

>>8271798
Fuck, I thought those other guys were trolling, but it's true!
>>8271850
>>8271855
>>8271863
please stop trolling

>>8271798
link to his blog.

Dudes! Yu-No is getting released in June!

>>8271798
Is this guy telling the truth?

>>8271950
Check the blog yourself, it's true.

>>8271950
Don't be an idiot, it's just a samefagging faggot.

One problem, Strato has no blog and its impossible to hunt the man down. But it would be awesome if we actually do get baldr sky as a christmas gift

Or you could just learn Japanese in all the time that it takes for these lazy subbers to translate the VNs

>>8272128
But that would require effort instead of just waiting and complaining.

>>8272128
tomorrow

>>8272128
The difference is that I could play Baldr Sky this year or the next rather than two years from now. Of course I'm gonna hope Strato is actually translating it. Not that I actually believe he is...

strato is till still working on it, he dropped by #tlwiki yesterday

>>8272170
Uh, no. Baldr Sky won't be translated for at least another 6 years at this rate. I'm pretty sure you can reach a competent level in Japanese in less than that time

>>8272238
I'm calling bullshit. Not on your post, necessarily, but on Strato still working on it.

>>8272238
Proof? And don't >conversation in IRC me, Strato giving signs of being alive is enough of an event for someone to screen-cap it.

Plus, how did you confirm it was the real Strato?

I'm Stratos' cousin and he told me at Thanksgiving that it was still being worked on;

>>8272270
Jeff? I didn't know you frequented /jp/!

Yes, I was planning on a Christmas release, but I fell behind schedule. Expect Dive 1 midway through January.

>>8272276
Ignore that imposter, I'm not behind schedule. I should still make it by Christmas.

>>8272276
>>8272281
These are both imposters. The translation is already done and a deal with JAST is in the works.

Indeed. We've already sent the work to Giga for some touch-ups.

It's funny how people attempt to impersonate me without even trying to crack my trip. The translation is still a work in progress, I have translated about a route and a half of Dive 1.

>>8272285
You too, huh?

Baldr Sky will be out for Christmas

Everyone in this thread is becoming so sarcastic and jaded. What happened to taking it easy?

>>8272327

>>8272337
I think people are just having fun..

>>8272348
What's that?

>>8272352
Like sex, but less naked. And with less clicking.

>>8272354

Is YU-NO really getting released by June? I'm starting to get really excited, I've been waiting for this title for a long time.

>>8272630
Yu-no was released a decade ago.

Damn, you guys really like to whine.

>>8272630
It's true! Look up the blog!

>>8272681
Except nobody is.

>>8272659
I meant the translation you mongoloid.

>>8272711
So much passive-aggressiveness. Baldr Sky will soon be 3 years old, shouldn't you guys be used to 'translation ongoing' by now?

>>8272826
Read the thread, it only started because one guy started claiming shit, and then people played along. Nobody with a brain is believing or complaining about anything, save for the JAST talk 100 posts ago.

>>8272826
It's the summation of three years (HA HA STRATO) of waiting frustration boiling over.

>>8272726
Calm down.

>>8274909
why should he though? the internet's the only place where he can unload his frustration and anger on other people without any consequences.

penis

>>8278011
Suck it, dude.