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best here of thread finally is week the

>Baldr Sky - 3 chapters of Rain's route translated with new project

Holy shit, it's not a troll project?

>Irotoridori no Sekai - 17,838/51,100 (34.91%) lines translated, full common route translated, prologue patch released
Kawakaburi No Cherry - "Meanwhile I am working on it, should be out in a few weeks."
Koitate - Ren and Yukino’s route patch released
Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content
>Majikoi- Yukie + Chris + Momoyo + teacher route patch released, Wanko route TL: 100%, Wanko After Story 75%
M&M Enchanting Magic & Sweet Charms- 92%
>Mahoutsukai no Yoru - Trial patch released
Milky Holmes - Being translated
Mirai no Uta to Tsunagaru Hitomi - Translation planned
>Monster Girl Quest II - 57518/109225 (52.66%) lines translated
Muv-Luv Chronicles - Work being done on The Day After 00 + 01
>Never 7 - all 113 scripts and 64 of 111 tips through initial translation, 42/113 scripts through final translation
Nursery Rhyme - 9049/34410 lines (26.3%) translated
Ore no Imouto - 9.4% (28/299) scripts translated
>Period- All image/UI editing complete, game total translation: 84.34% complete, Miyu + Rin + Aoi + Kohane + Tsuzumi' patches released
Princess Lover - 10% translated
Princess Maker 5- 43% 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, 83.44% translated
Rance 3 - 75% translated
Rance 4 - 20% translated
>Rance Quest - between 4 and 5%
Real Imouto ga Iru - translation: 4330/16108 (27%) editing: 3910/16108 (24%), demo up
Rewrite - Ixrec's upcoming project, expected to take 6-7 months after starting

NIGGERS

>Sapphism no Gensou - 46 scripts translated
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
>Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 8- 4 scripts translated
Sorairo - 2755/48557 (6%) lines translated
Suihensei Made Nan Mile - 32% translated, plans to get a patch out "soon"
Tenshi No Inai 12-Gatsu-"Maho route fixed"
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. ", new alpha patch released
Tomoyo After - Partial patch released
Toradora Portable - Being translated
Touka Gettan: translation status: ~40% translated
Under The Moon- 6% translated/checked/programmed, still active
Welcome to Pia Carrot 2 - 1st draft translation 35%, as it was found much of the script was originally not dumped
>Yandere - 26.9% translated
>Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 11% edited
Yosuga no Sora - Roughly 40% translated, goal for greater than 50% patch around mid-to-late february

>Aroduc has been working on something new, though has yet to reveal the title ~73032 /76522 lines translated, two routes done
Aroduc has a second project at 366/6004 lines translated

>>8517638
Get out.

>>8517640
How much percent is 3 chapters?

Official work

MangaGamer:
Dear Drops - Beta testing finished, trial out, end Feb or early March 2012 planned
>Ef - Scripts with minori right now, final movies with NNL
>Harukoi Otome - Translation complete, latter half of 2012 release expected
Unannounced title from Nexton planned for Q2 2012
Dengeki Strykers - Translation and editing complete, expected to be out for AX
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
Two games which they might be getting, the first with a trap, and the second with a hint of "How much blood would you shed to stay alive?"
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
Yumina the Ethereal - Final QC/post production, couple thousand more images to translate, before AX 2012, website online
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 - Solo release planned
Hanachirasu - Solo release planned
Django: Couple more months of translation
Kikokugai - Working out issues
Sumaga- Spring goal, demo soon, got new staff
Seinarukana- picked up, ~35% 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
>Steins;Gate - 171/175 scripts translated, rough patch out, Jast may pick up the project

>Baldr Sky - 3 chapters of Rain's route translated with new project
whoa

>>8517644
> Get out.
I just wanted attention :(
*deletes post*

I think it's safe to declare the MLA Chronicles project fake.
They claimed to they'd have something to show by now in the original announcement, and there hasn't been any word since then, and any e-mails I've sent to the given address were never responded too, even when I was volunteering help.

>Baldr Sky - 3 chapters of Rain's route translated with new project
Citation needed.
Is there a link or website showing this or just IRC insider news?

Just look on the archives, you idiots. The guy doing it posted in this thread last week.

>>8517656
why are you on /jp/?

How much is 3 chapters/how many chapters are there? Are these guys fast?

Best thread of the week, etc.

>Sapphism no Gensou - 46 scripts translated

Plot synopsis seems a bit iffy, but I'm all in for the yuri and Liar-soft.

>baldr sky
>air
Is this real life?

>>8517662
Some guy that quit his job and has a year to kill, he posted on /a/ about it a week or so ago.

>>8517671
The last thing I saw being mentioned about Baldr Sky during the week was some anon dicking around making false screenshots to troll other people with.

>>Baldr Sky - 3 chapters of Rain's route translated with new project
Please tell me this isn't the guy who was going to use machine translators.

Mahoutsukai no Yoru

how is the trail patch?

also no ero right?

>>8517675
>>8517644

According to the archive

>If Baldr Sky guy really translated about 4000 lines so far (I believe thats what his post said) we should see Dive1 in about 15 weeks if he keeps up the pace. But we all know that wont happen, expect it in like 25 weeks or so.

>Baldr Sky - 3 chapters of Rain's route translated with new project

Does this guy have a site, a blog, anything?

>Air - 13% translated and 10% edited
I had thought I would never see the day it got translated.
I have read it already, but I'm just going to re read it in Rnglish wihen it comes out.

>>8517745
To avoid C&D letters from GIGA, nope.

>>8517754
they actually send them out?

>>8517777
They C&Ded Parfait and Baldr Force's projects.

>>8517777
They are REALLY trigger happy when it comes to that.

I don't think that there's a single GIGA game that's translated.

>>8517780
GIIIIIIIGAAAAAA

>Air - 13% translated and 10% edited
Pleasant news, let's see how far this goes. The project seems to be in good hands, however. Whatever you or I may think of Sheeta, Edgar seems like the type to finish what he starts.

>Baldr Sky - 3 chapters of Rain's route translated with new project
In before/after shitstorm. Maybe if this project takes more than a year, we'll end up having 3 different groups translating this at once!

>Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni - 6377 / 7817 (81.57%) lines translated
Inching closer every week... Keep it up, Ronove, we're looking forward to it.

>Hoshizora no Memoria - prologue patch out, common route fully translated, Isuzu's patch released, overall 50300/55183 (91.15%) translated
The translator for this project has confirmed that he has no intentions of releasing a clean patch for this game. Hopefully, we can expect a re-packed patch to be released later by a third party. I might even do it myself.

>Mahoutsukai no Yoru - Trial patch released
This refers to an English translation of a Russian translation of this trial, not the native English pretentious rewrite-level translation being carried out elsewhere. The translation seems decently readable from what I have explored, and at least it lacks the frills we've seen in screenshots of the other.

>>8517632
>Air - 13% translated and 10% edited
>Baldr Sky - 3 chapters of Rain's route translated with new project
I'll believe it when I see it. Thank you very much.

>>8517786
>I don't think that there's a single GIGA game that's translated.
Xross Scramble is, but it's a fandisk, not a full game.

>Never 7 - all 113 scripts and 64 of 111 tips through initial translation, 42/113 scripts through final translation
Thanks, as always. Good work so far, and good luck going into the future!

>Period- All image/UI editing complete, game total translation: 84.34% complete, Miyu + Rin + Aoi + Kohane + Tsuzumi' patches released
Almost...there... We'll show them! We won't let Little Witch be forgotten!

>Pure Pure The Story of Ears and Tails- Sachi Patch released, 83.44% translated
Always a pleasant surprise to see progress here, when I least expect it. Hope you guys managed to get back in regular contact with each other, since engineering a release would probably be a little challenging otherwise.


Looks like this was a good week, judging by the length of my post. For the first time in a long time, I might have to split it into two posts!

>>8517793
>The translator for this project has confirmed that he has no intentions of releasing a clean patch for this game
But the translator has confirmed today he wanted to release the patch by the end of march

>>8517793
>>8517799
Whoops, forgot to link my posts together.

>>8517732
So how many lines/chapter does dive 1 have?
How long has this guy been translating it?

>>8517825
Rain's route has 13 chapters and 2 different epilogues.
And there two more routes.
Also there's the menus, weapon description, plug ins...

>>8517825
43K lines, ~30 chapters, I guess.

He claimed to have started on Jan 18th, and had 3559 lines translated on the 30th.
Also what that guy above said about other stuff that he'll have to translate.

>>8517865
How does Stratos feels about this?
Someone actually stealing his project or is he laughing about it and then actually releasing his fully translated Baldr Sky when the new guy do up to 90%.

>>8517786
Koisuru Oukoku, a relatively old dating sim that was translated years ago.

>>8517892
Nothing has been heard from Strato considering this new project.

Let it be that way.

>>8517892
Fuck him, he did shit.

Anybody ever translate that "Half Life" VN (as in, FROM english and TO japanese, not the other way 'round)? Somebody said they were doing it awhile back and then I never heard about it again. And now I can't even find where you would d/l the original, since it got removed from DDL sites for reason: "random panic, have a nice day."

>>8517865
If he did 4000 lines in a week, im sure we will see it this year then.

>>8517793
> The translator for this project has confirmed that he has no intentions of releasing a clean patch for this game. Hopefully, we can expect a re-packed patch to be released later by a third party. I might even do it myself.

What do you mean by 'clean'? I haven't played the patch; does this mean there's no install support, or no in-game elements editing or what?

>>8517935
You are so bad at math that you are actually making me stupider.

>>8517975
It means shitposter.

>>8517935
That's more like about 2000 lines a week. Assuming he kept the same pace up all the way through (I doubt it) then it would take about 21 weeks for Dive 1 @ 43k lines.

>>8517690
That was never intended to be a troll screenshot, according to him.

>still no progress on Ikusa Megami Zero
;_;
Why is this considered alive again?

I feel kind of happy about Baldr Sky being translated, but my blood chills when I realize it's far more of a video game than the other VNs /v/ already spergs over.

>>8518208
Whenever I am at the point of despairing over the wrong people talking about Baldr Sky, I just remind myself that I'll always have /m/.

So once Baldr Sky gets translated, to what VN will all the "translated=shit" people flock to? My bet is FMD Muramasa

what is the status of yosuga no sora? is it still ongoing?

A release that you didnt even know was coming out is the best.
kirikiri sure has come a long way, was the engine ever this good? It doesnt feel like a powerpoint anymore.

>>8518234
You can do a lot with krkr2. The problem is that most people don't have the budget to make fancy animations and such.

>>8518225
You have gotta keep yourself updated.
The newest kid on the block now is White Album 2.

>>8518243
Kirikiri is a fucking awesome engine. Amatsukaze was made on Kirikiri.

The best thread of the week is here again!

>>8518226
/m/ is my mecha eroge refuge, too. I'll see you there soon.

>>8518234
GothDeri made incredible use of the KrKr engine a few years back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP2qgN77y88
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIp1Ri0B-Qw

The Mahoyo trial kept reminding me of it.

>>8518234
Haven't been following what Yuzu Soft has done with the engine, have ya?

>Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni - 6377 / 7817 (81.57%) lines translated

Waiting warmly

>>8518425
He slowed down a lot sadly. He went form doing 10% in a day to 1%.

>>8518422
Not him, but I don't recall anything particular outstanding effects-wise in Noble Works or Tenshin Ranman.
Besides that continuous ero-voice thing in their eroscenes, but I don't feel that's relevant here.
And I can't really recall ExE all that well.

>>8518430
Probably for the better. Translating too fast and we get the kind of Ixrec.

>>8517975
Apparently, he doesn't appreciate Cirno wallpapers. It's a shame, really.

>>8518254
I never really liked kirikiri. Working with the scripts was a massive pain in the arse as each text block was a mess. Maybe the problem was just particular to the game I was working on, but I'm never touching that shit ever again.

>Akai Ito- Yumei's route released, Nozomi route fully inserted,Uzuki route 40% inserted, 14300/21674 (65.98%) overall inserted, last untranslated arc being translated by original translator

Can we just declare this dead and stop taunting me every week? ;_;

Krkr2 is simply versatile. It's only the matter whether the company can do the animation and effect themselves.

>>8518455
That looks a lot worse from the Kirikiri scripts that I've seen. Probably just varies from company to company by how lazy or organized they are.

>>8518455
reminds me of http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/report/shakespeare/

>>8518481
weren't you just banned for spam?
reported for ban evasion

>Yosuga no Sora - Roughly 40% translated, goal for greater than 50% patch around mid-to-late february

Are they even working on this anymore? If not, somebody should just announce it dead already.

>>8518490

I already asked this:
>>8518229

I would also like to not that I am watching KnK for the first time and it is very good.

>Air - 13% translated and 10% edited

Wait...wut? Wasn't over 50% of it translated like a few years ago?

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

The translated scripts are still in the history, too...Why start over from the beginning?

>>8518540
They scrapped the whole thing about a week ago and started off from dirt. Unknown reason.

>>8518540
They are shit translations, and the translator wishes to do a good job.

>>8518540
If you look at the translations, and know Japanese, you'll understand why.

>>8518459
maybe he's waiting for the one year anniversary?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqLOgw7nYNQ

>>8518430
At least he's no Witch Hunt

Bets on Aroduc's Second Project?

>>8518849
Not the case, but I sort of wished he jumped in on the Princess Maker project.
One can always dream, right?

For the love of God, my captcha was 2 lines long. What's next? A greentext short story for captcha?

Anyway, that feel when VNTS guy is not reporting a full game release makes this a bad week.

One thing I like about Kirikiri is that there are hacking tools for it.

>>8518890
What I like about krkr2 is that the entire engine is open source.

>>8518887
The VNTS guy can have some beer for doing this weekly though.

There.

Pure Pure progress? Bueno! Now to wait another several months before I see it in green again.

>>8518459

You'd probbably be better off just reading the web translation with the game open in a window.

>>8518849
>Bets on Aroduc's Second Project?

When he first post it, he asked how the hell was it 6000 lines, and he still puts single quotes around the word lines. This probably means that it is either something extremely very short (and it just counts the lines poorly, giving more lines then it should), or something with long lines so the low line count is not representative of the length.

>Harukoi Otome - Translation complete, latter half of 2012 release expected

Why are they wasting time with this shitty game?

>>8519371
BaseSon game, not a lot of choice for MG. But yeah, haven't heard good buzzes around it.

>>8518849
>>8519361
well thinking if Aroducs current big project is kamidori, and seeing that smaller line count and way he counts the lines and so on, it probably wouldn't be too long shot to assume that it could be the Kamidoris append patches, so he would have the whole game translated.

>>8519371
>>8519380
From the h-OVAs (at least, the second), Umi and Riru are cute. And that's about it.

>>8519361
>>8519393
It's a short doujin game with a ton of branches which have a number of duplicated lines between them. It's not a VN and probably shouldn't even be listed here.

>Harukoi Otome
>average protagonist
>imotou in cowgirl costume
>tall, dark and strong ojou-sama
>friend-zoned childhood friend
>shy kouhai
>lesbo classmate
>gentle senpai

Nothing interesting as far as the cast goes.

>>8519433
>imotou in cowgirl costume

How is this not arousing?

Ignoring the fact that she's a fake imouto.

>lesbo classmate

With drills. The drills are important.

>>8519460
I could care less about their character design. If them bitches don't have shit to back up the cowgirl costume and the drill, I have better games to play.

Might as well post Umi as well.

So wait, someone translated the Mahoyo trial? Where can i find this? There's something about it on vndb but it links to some weird Russian forum.

>>8519509

In Soviet /jp/, translations to english from the russian translations are a good idea. My advice is scramble about on the forum possibly with google translate on looking for a download link

>>8519521
But it's not a translation from Russian.

>>8519509
I am feeling nice today so I will provide you with the links.
But anon you should brush up your google-fu.
I found it in 10secs.
>Mahou_Tsukai_no_Yoru_Demo-en.part1.rar.html

Oh shit I cant even post it.
>Contain banned URL.
Man this is why I hate helping. Use those keyword above.

>>8520116
yup, it was translated by http://emptyboundaries.wordpress.com/
The russian guy just "built" the game with this translation.

Has the Baldr Sky unemployed guy posted anything since then? I heard he got a tripcode but have no idea what the trip is.

>>8520138
Apparently the guy isn't nearly good enough to tackle Nasu though
http://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread.php/34-Mahoutsukai-no-Yoru?p=584823
look for the last reply on that page.
I don't browse that forum, I was just linked this.

>>8520154
He did say he would get someone else to do his TLC and editing next time, apparently for the demo script he was his own editor and TL checker which is not really a good idea.

And why do you have to go to such extents to dissociate yourself from Beast's Lair?

>>8520154
I played the trial and I am concerned. Honestly, I know we are supposed to be pessimistic about everything, but yeah. It's a worry. Still, I have hope.

i hope new bs project is a troll. it will be funner this way

>>8520144
He only posted once with his trip.
It was on /a/, under the name Futsuu.
http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/60646562/#60652079

He lurks the /m/ non-MuvLuv VN general, though.
>>>/m/7336314

>>8520175
>And why do you have to go to such extents to dissociate yourself from Beast's Lair?
Just playing it safe since you know how /jp/ is with other communities and things devolve from that. I heard that place is full of powerlevel wankery amongst other things so yeah.

>>8520182
I lurk or post in pretty much every eroge thread around here.

>>8520266
Even better.

>>8520200
Sounds like /jp/

>>8520200
BL is a pretty laid-back community, even their random powerlevel discussions are friendly and while heavily reliant on translated side material acknowledge that powerlevels are kind of a moot point in the Nasuverse. Polite sage for offtopic.

>>8520284
>Polite sage for offtopic.
Fuck off.

>>8520284
>Polite sage for offtopic.

You don't have to announce that. We know how sage works.

>>8520154
>>8520177
>EDIT: Made some changes to a paragraph that I read immensely incorrectly (see comments below). This is one of those “red in the face” moments I mentioned earlier. It is totally fine though! I am very welcoming of any critique or correction that anyone throws at me, whether its stylistic, in translation, or otherwise. It’s not like I’m going to react by sitting slumped in a chair, flicking a lighter on and off, and wondering where it all went wrong, or something.

So far this is the only correction he had to do
Also his translations of KnK were pretty good so I'll trust him.
Not to mention that he was the first to release a complete translation of the trial in English.

>>8519380
It also shares characters with Koihime, which is one of their more popular titles, something they can use for selling.

>So far this is the only correction he had to do

Because it's the only one pointed out to him.

There's plenty plenty more.

Only a month and a half until HoshiMemo. I need to clear out some of this backlog before then. Also,
>Air
>Baldr Sky
Life is good.

How long should it be until we get kamidori?

>>8521200
If that actually is Aroduc's project, he did roughly 2000 lines last week, and has 3500 lines to go, so the translation should be finished in a couple weeks if he continues at that rate. That said, the translation of the scrip isn't necessary the only stuff which needs to be done, so it could take some time afterwards. At the very least however, if it does take a bit after the translation finishes, then I would guess he would release it with his site's anniversary (either last day of March or first of April, forget which).

>>8521266

Isn't his Project Super Galdelic Hour?

Man, the animation made this scene so exciting

>>8521709
Pretty sure that is just a name he gave the project, especially since he said the project has 3 routes.

To avoid making another thread, I'll ask here.
Is there a decent No-cd patch for little busters?

>>8521778
I never could get the patch thing to work properly, but dug up a prepatched reallive file easily enough on hongfire at the time.

Also, holy shit @ Baldr Sky. Does the guy intend to do both dives, or just the first?

>>8521731
I liked this part better. Fucking quotes

>>8521807
The guy seems motivated to translate both of them.

Doing only the first would be so stupid that I couldn't believe it.

>>8522027
Hopefully he doesn't burn out though. 4000 lines in a week is extremely fast. Even Ixrec usually sticks around 400 lines a day doesn't he?

>>8522040
It's more along the lines of 2000-3000 per week.

There's a liar soft game I want to translate but there are no tools for it in tlwiki. I tried contacting the the person who worked on sharnoth/inganock but he hasn't responded yet (maybe I emailed the wrong guy) anyone got any ideas?

>>8522062
Just drop by #ammy on irc.rizon.net, someone there will probably be able to help you eventually.

>>8517935
>>8522040
Did these two go to the same high school or what

>>8522071
If you're referring to both of us using the 4000 lines number, I just took it from the other guy.

>>8517892
I've been fucking saying I'd release Dive 1 around June this year in these threads for months now. But I know nobody believes me, so I don't particularly mind either way.

>>8522079
Oh, you're going to release it around the same time YU-NO is getting released? That's pretty cool, June will be a good month for VNs it seems.

>Baldr Sky
>Air
Well, if Duel Savior gets a project, there goes all my motivation towards learning Japanese. Well, there's Material Brave too, which I played around with for an hour and liked, despite the dictionary pace.

>>8522062

Somewhat in the veins of this guy, there is a game I wanted to attempt a translation but since it's at 1.5.x.x RealLive game, I tried contacting the guy who worked on the Little Busters patch to see if he could help me with at least extraction, but he never answered.

Someone here have an idea on how to work with RealLive?

>>8522235
Weren't there tools for RealLive?

>>8522217
Baldr Sky is almost three years old, you never had any motivation. Don't lie to yourself.

>>8522235
http://dev.haeleth.net/rldev.shtml

alternatively ask in #tlwiki on rizon

>>8522249
>>8522246

I know about these tools. But I thought they only worked for RL 1.4.x.x and below.

>>8522235
>>8522062
For both of you, your best bet would be to go to #ammy or #TLWiki on Rizon, and ask in the channel rather than through an e-mail which may or may not be ever be checked.

>>8522217
Muramasa doesn't motivate you?

You are shit tier.

>>8522254
Wait... someone's actually TL'ing it.

Fuck me.

Oh well, there's still a shit ton of untl'd stuff.

>>8522248
Though I played F/SN years ago, I only really got into VNs around six months ago. Hell, haven't even played MuvLuv yet.

>>8522252

The medium I tried is twitter, directly with the hacking tools lead of LB (R23), but I'll guess I'll have to resign to visiting their IRCs...

>>8522217
>Well, if Duel Savior gets a project, there goes all my motivation towards learning Japanese
It had a project. It died because nobody could (would?) make tools that reassembled it right.

>>8522277
In general, those involved with visual novel translations tend to be on a few IRC channels, and it is typically the easier way to meet them. And in the case they can't help you specifically, they should be able to point you towards someone who can.

>>8522282
I know that, I was one of the ones who wondered last thread how on earth could it be "impossible to reassemble".

Doesn't change the fact that there isn't a translation project at the moment, and thus I'll have to play it in Japanese.

>>8522259
Even without motivation, I've come far enough to finish learning on pure inertia, but I still will feel the guilt when I play BS in English when the patch gets released.

Long shot but... I am trying edit a script, and porting it to ONscripter EN. But I can't add any question marks to the text, because it crashes.
If I reword the sentences to avoid using ?s it works fine, but it's not practical. Anyone know what's going on?
Maybe the question mark is special in programming languages?

>>8518887
Full game release?

>>8522289

I just didn't want to deal with the general elitism that tends to happen in those channels. I've lurked around in them enough to turn me off of them. I'll just give up, it was just a fleeting thought anyways.

>>8518887
>VNTS guy not reporting a full game release makes this a bad week.
So, 9 out of 10 weeks are bad weeks?

Stop being spoiled, this week was green as fuck.

>>8522769
>elitism
I think you mean circlejerking.

>>8522785

Yeah, mainly that too, you're right. I used to have nice chats with someone in IRC until said person started working in some position in one of their groups.

It was never the same again.

>>8522780
True. For me, any green is supergreen. Just seeing the projects move ahead a tiny bit is nice.
Especially for things like
>Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni - 6377 / 7817 (81.57%) lines translated
And I can't wait for
>Rose Guns Days - OO/OO lines through initial translation

>>8522780
Try 45 out of 50.

>>8523238
I'm gonna assume that's a joke and not that everyone suddenly sucks at math. Or are you the same guy?

>>8523608
Not him, but fuck math. I don't need it to read my chinese porn games.

>>8522769
Translation circle elitism tends to place translators above everyone else, though. So just for acting like you're working on a project means you'll be treated pretty well.

>>8523809
If you actually did any work, you could get some respect too.

>>8523835
I'm not trying to criticize the practice. Personally, I don't give a fuck, as long as the translations get released one way or another. Just trying to calm the guy's fears a little bit.

Though honestly someone who is so quick to give up probably wouldn't have gone very far anyway. Nothing against you, translation guy, but it is a very long process that tends to require a lot of motivation to stick to. More projects than we could count wind up getting canned because of loss of interest or "RL issues".

>>8522062
Who did you try to contact? Inganock and Sharnoth were done by different people. Best way to get in contact with people is on forums or IRC.

>>8523855

You do have a point, although my fears are less about the people and more of wanting to keep a low profile.

>>8523909
Wait, what? Weren't those both Ixrec?

>>8523986
Yes. Ixrec is also a master hacker, and he's the one that successfully reverse engineered rUGP to boot.
Is there nothing Ixrec-sama can't do?

>>8523991
Oh, I thought you meant translation, I'm a retard.

>>8523238
Recently, there has on average been at least a couple translations a month, so not quite 45 of 50 weeks.

>>8524434
A couple of releases a month? I don't think so, unless you count trials. Probably more than 5 a year too though.

>Period- All image/UI editing complete, game total translation: 84.34% complete, Miyu + Rin + Aoi + Kohane + Tsuzumi' patches released
The translation is bad. I still can stand the literal translation a bit....but i can't stand when what i read and what i hear have a completely opposite meaning, and it happens a lot too.

What are you doing here, thread, near the bottom?
Up! Up!

The speed is great on the Monster Girl Quest II translation

>>8525672
You know that even he says the numbers are wildly inflated, right?

>>8524438
I would think there's about a release a month, with several months with no releases at all and a fuckload of releases near the end of the year.

How hard to read is Baldr Sky? I really wanted to read it before it became available to the /v/ kids.

>>8527559
Haven't read it, but I've heard it's not terribly difficult to read in Japanese. If you have no experience with reading eroge in Japanese, don't bother.

>>8527916
Well, I read Flyable Heart if that counts, though with ITH and at a snail's pace. How much more difficult would BS be?

>>8528165
Don't do it.

Aroduc just released Baldr Sky on his website. I guess that's what the secret project was. So much for that other anon's project.

>>8528223
It's real this time, dude.

>>8528219
Stop that.

>>8528219
HOLY SHIT IT'S TRUE

Oh god today is the best day of my life!

>>8528219
Welp, time to avoid /jp/ for a week or two. See you all then.

>>8528219

>>8528219
There goes the neighborhood.

>>8528219
>oh look, another lazy troll
>check anyway
>my fucking face

Anyone have a download for Baldr Sky? Can't wait.

>>8528264
Here's Dive 1:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WW1HOPK0
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FGVB4NIJ
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4QARUFNA
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=14Z3P4VT
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TZYPIGOL
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DFWQRVUB

Dive 2 should be up on erogedownload by the time you're finished with that.

>>8528270
Thanks Anon. Download links work fine. No virus (:

There's going to be a few annoying weeks of this, isn't there?

>>8528297
Most likely. When Aroduc releases whatever the fuck he's translating it'll probably be over though.

>>8528302
He's translating Baldr Sky. Apparently Ixrec asked him in IRC a while back about it (because he was also interested in picking it up) and Aroduc said that his secret project was Baldr Sky Dive1+2, which is all going to get released at once.

So what if all "projects" of BS were real? How many translations would we end up with?

Strato, Ixrec, Aroduc, new anon, machine translation anon.. Any more?

>>8528329
I started translating it two months ago, I'm about halfway done now.

>>8528329
Overcompensation for these couple of years?

If someone actually was secretly working on it, I hope they have the courtesy to tell the new guy about it. Would suck to be him otherwise.

>>8518455
Waiting warmly, reading the prologue on hoshimemo has convinced me to read Irotoridori because of Favorite.

>>8528270

>Megaupload

HA HA HA HA

>>8528365
>doesn't know how to get past sad FBI notice

>>8528317
Its Kamidori now fuck off.

>>8528417
Like that would make it stop.

>>8518234
While we're kind of on the subject of engines, anyone know how to do script extraction from a game using ExHIBIT? It looks like it'd be fairly simple to understand for someone with any coding/hacking skills at all, which I sadly do not have.

Bump

>>8528343
I wouldn't think so, since it's his project and he's clearly not just attention whoring (I'd think..).

And then again, translating Baldr Sky is, provided it's a good job, a guaranteed one-way ticket to God status within the community, so I don't think some other "secret" translator wouldn't at least hint people that he's working on it.

Stealth bump.

>>8530185
People said the same thing about translating Muv-Luv Alternative, but nobody even remembers who Ixrec is anymore.

>>8531693
I remember him and check his twitter every hour of the day.

>>8531711
You're a sad person, ixrec.

>>8531693
>People said the same thing about translating Muv-Luv Alternative
They were right.
>nobody even remembers who Ixrec is anymore.
lolhate.

Regardless of what you or I think about him, he has an e-penis bigger than this fucking board. (Takajun too, even though the F/SN translation is ancient).

>>8531806

Taka translated KnK movies for gg.
don't forget that one.

>>8531693
If there hadn't been drama associated with MLA, I think Ixrec would be viewed far more favorably.

>>8531813
Are you implying the KnK movies are remotely as well known as the F/SN game? Really?

>>8531850
Oh yeah, there was also that too.

>>8531850
Ixrec's been pretty infamous since Cross Channel. Tons of moonspeak readers were pissed that one of their holy grails was being translated, and then he butchered it, which only made things worse. The poll trolling and all the drama surrounding that was what really made Ixrec stand out from the other countless eroge translators, though.

>>8532231
Is the CC translation really that bad?

>>8532303
The only good thing about Cross Channel is the language and style.
Guess what didn't get translated.

>>8532313
No, pretty much everything about CC is great, including but not limited to the writing. Sorry your taste is shit.

>>8531991
>Are you implying the KnK movies are remotely as well known as the F/SN game? Really?
In the general English-speaking weeaboo community, the KnK movies are on an entirely different level of popularity than F/SN the VN - they're much more well known.

>>8532325
Between who? Because that's certainly not the case in 4chan.

>>8532325
Would most of those people (who know of KnK but not F/SN) even make note of who TakaJun is though?

>>8532379
Well, his name is in the group tag for the DVD releases [gg-TakaJun]

>>8532681
Oh, didn't know that. Been a while since I watched those.

>>8517649

"Innocent Grey would also like to bring over an upcoming title related to Kara no Shoujo"

It's Cartagra or Kara no Shoujo 2?
Are there any additional information about KnS2 other than the picture and qutoe on vndb?

>>8532313
I thought the language and writing style were delightful. It's not the translators fault there are a lot of jokes that don't work in English.

>>8532852
Sup Ixrec. Sucking your own cock again?

Well honorifics are the biggest problem obviously.
It just isn't the same when in English Miki, Youko and Touko all speak in the same way

>>8532231
Gotta keep in mind that that project was only Ixrec's second project. He obviously bit off more than he could chew, but his intentions were good at least, and honestly I doubt there are that many fan translators that would have done better.

Besides, I have a feeling he'll come back to it eventually, like he did for Moon.

Aroduc's done with the mystery project, turns out it was Only You -Re Cross-.

Kind of shocking.

>>8533027
Source? I don't see anything on his site about this.

>>8533039
Did you check the new one? The old one from bmw days isn't used anymore.

>>8533050
I checked http://games.seiha.org/

>>8533027
Well shit, it's legit. Man, what a downer. I was looking forward to Kamidori.

>>8533027
>>8533056
These guys trolling me? I can't find anything about this.

>>8533027
You kidding, right?

>>8533027
He has been switching the name of the forum every few thousand lines. Nothing is confirmed.

Oh come on! It's fucking Kamidori, confirmed.

>>8533061
People posting false information in a VNTS thread to rile up people? I shudder at the thought!

>>8517892
I believe in you from the bottom of my heart Strato!

Wanko after story 100% editing

>>8533385
Thanks.

>>8534848
I don't get this meme. Why would a skeleton be waiting for something?

>>8535515

it wasn't a skeleton when it started waiting.

>>8535519
Huh? What was it then? You lost me.

>>8535529
It was a person when they started waiting, and have been waiting so long that it became a skeleton.
Why the fuck do we have to explain this?

>>8535529
A person. See, because it takes a long time for a person to become a skeleton.

>>8535551
I don't think you get the joke.

>>8535555
Sick quads bro

I will ne ver understand Dra+Koi's translation

Is katawa shoujo translated yet.

>>8535801
Nope. Probably won't be for some time.

>>8535770
Did it ever get released? I thought Moogy just translated it and then let it sit cause he didn't want to do 0.05 MBs of H text.

>>8535823
Moogy is an asshole.

>>8535823
he wants to retranslate it now

>>8534848

>Ixrec Eric Hitchcock
>For those of you who don't know, a guy named Futsuu is translating Baldr Sky. I've just confirmed his translation is good.
>And that means one more long-ass VN I don't have to do!

There goes your only hope for Baldr Sky being translated within the next couple years. Might as well just start learning Japanese because that new guy will stall at some point.

>>8536135
If the new guy stalls then why wouldn't Ixrec pick it up? He was clearly willing to do so when Strato's stalled project was all that existed. And somehow I doubt he'll be as patient with this new guy.

Anyway, you're looking at this wrong. If the new guy DOESN'T stall then that means another VN Ixrec can translate in the time he would have done Baldr Sky, and we'll get Baldr Sky earlier because we don't have to wait for Rewrite+obligatory few months break before he starts.

Also I'm more interested by >@IKuronekoI Unless you mean the whole project, in which case no, various people from Ammy are signing up for the other jobs.

That's actually kind of encouraging. Say what you will about Ixrec, but his team is really fucking efficient when they need to be, and having them onboard should help motivate the translator more as well.

>>8536135
>because that new guy will stall at some point.
I'm sure if he doesn't finish it Ixrec will come in and save the day anyway.

>>8536387
Especially considering he just confirmed that his team is going to be filling all of the roles in the project besides translator. So he can easily just grab the old guy's script and pick up where he left off (though he'd probably at least give it a quick pass to make it consistent) if things go bad.

I am seriously not too happy with all the power and concentration of talent that Ixrec is getting.
Just look at moogy-dono. Compare him from years ago, seems like all the power is getting into his head.

>>8536698
The difference is, Moogy learned Japanese and then decided he hated all translations, while Ixrec knew Japanese when he started to concentrate people around him. Moogy never contributed seriously as a translator, only as an editor, while Ixrec has released more then half a dozen titles that he translated.

>>8536698
His quality has been pretty decent lately, so I don't really see it as a problem. As long as the translations get done.

>>8535555
Of course, since you didn't post a Shiro pic anywhere, plus it's not even a sexual context. Kids this days. I'm gonna hold back my project just for that one misuse, you know.

>>8536776
>more then half
>then
English sure is hard.

>>8537524
Before you do it, I'll do it myself.

>>8536885
>Kids this days.
These*.

>>8538658
Who are you quoting?

>>8539298
If you want to bump that badly, just say "bump" if the alternative is being fucking stupid.

Whose idea was it to turn "Who are you quoting?" into a meme that's used even when someone really is quoting someone. I want to shoot them.

>>8539315
Who should you be responding to?

>>8539315

Only /a/ uses our memes incorrectly. If an actual /jp/er says it will be directed at someone who is actually misusing the quote function.

>>8539411
So either I misused the quote function or there's still some /a/ on this thread even though it's already Thursday?

It's probably just a bumping anon, you know.

>>8536390
Wait so it's pretty much amaterasu translations with someone other than Ixrec translating it? That's about as good as you could ask for with a Baldr Sky translation.

>Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni - 6377 / 7817 (81.57%) lines translated

Editing is also going well. There'll be a little bit of tidying up to do once the translation is finished, but we should be releasing soon after.

>>8539590
I just love how Ixrec does things. Having "all of his team fill up the positions for Futsuu" essentially makes him highly involved in the project. And checking the translation of another translator let's him either pick up the project or have the project "Ixrec approved".

In other words, he fuels both his lovers and his haters in a single swift move, while actually producing good results.

>>8539968
'Sup Eric Hitchcock

Seriously, Ixwreck just can't keep his fingers out of every pie he sees. He couldn't stand the thought of not getting all the credit for Balrd Sky, but at the same time, his reputation couldn't take the infamy of snatching the translation out from under someone who was already doing it (while simultaneously abandoning Rewrite, another "populist" choice). This is the best thing he could do for himself--this way, he is "supporting the community" and "playing fair" while also stroking his own penor.

This kind of thing is why we need the old Gipface back...

>>8540280
Sup Gippy.

>>8540280
How is he taking credit? The only way most of us even know his team is involved is through his twitter, and nobody ever bothers to remember the people who worked on a project besides the translator.

Also, I seriously doubt he told his people to go work on that. More likely they were already excited to work on Baldr Sky (because he was planning on doing it later) and when another project popped up they obviously still wanted to do it, so joined up.

Why not just be happy that it's not going to wind up in editing hell like YU-NO did? Do you really have to shoehorn drama into every possible event?

>>8540310
>Do you really have to shoehorn drama into every possible event?

Yup

>>8540280
I love how you just used the exact same arguments I used when I said he stirs up both sides. Way to get credibility right?

If anything, this move finally makes this translation feel "real", to me at least.

anyone got tools for kamidori

>>8541617
Ask Aroduc.

Some guy on fuwanovel says he would work on Snow and Trample on Schatten if he had scripts.

>>8542387
> on fuwanovel

No.

Don't even start.

>>8542407
It might be a horrible place, but if there is a translator looking for scripts for a game he wishes to translate, and if it's a title that isn't too hard to get them for, then someone should give the translator the scripts regardless of where he puts the request at.

>>8542410
Well if one is really against fuwanovel I guess someone could hand over the scripts via an avenue outside of fuwanovel.

>>8542429
Indeed that would be the best option for such a hacker, although if there is no other point of contact, hate of the creator of the site, and the site itself, shouldn't be a deterrent from getting a translator what he needs to translate what appears to be a decent visual novel.

Seems Mangagamer is going to be making some announcements at a panel later this month, from MG's twitter

>We have our first set of announcements lined up already; maybe we'll have more by the panel?

>>8542387
>Trample on Schatten
Oh my, the campy cheesyness, Trample of Schatten was great.

Micchi @SuperImoutoTime

Shiny Days will be 0verflow's final game. Rumour has it that they went bankrupt.

>>8542516
>Rumour has it that they went bankrupt.

That's their karma backfire for getting Makoto raped by 3 land whales.

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-7243.html
They are dead.
Lets hope mangagamer is next.

>>8542387

I'm the one helping out this guy, but my technical prowess isn't that great. Snow runs on RL 1.5.x.x, that's why I asked earlier in this thread. (I didn't know he posted about it in Fuwanovel, though.) >>8522235

If I could get help on Schatten, though, that would be cool as well. I actually like this game more.

>Dra-Koi

Is Fungi not ever going to pick this up?

>Nursery Rhyme

This is dead, right?

>>8542541
>Makoto raped by 3 land whales

What? When did that happen? Are you sure you're not confusing him with Yuuki?

Also fuck all you haters, Cross Days was awesome.

Looks like Ixrec is now a moderator at Fuwanovel. With the support of Amaterasu Translations, Aaeru's project could become a major player in the western Visual Novel translation scene!

So no one is not translating Baldr sky, and it will be done in ten million years: is this the conclusion we've reached?

>>8542783
Visual Novels for the whole world!! Feels fuwa man

>>8542802
At least they've changed their stance on provision of full games, they're only providing patches now.

Now that 0verflow isn't making more games, I've been thinking for a bit; does Mangagamer/overdrive make enough money with translated VNs? At least enough not to get into bankruptcy?

>>8542801
>Ixrec Eric Hitchcock
>For those of you who don't know, a guy named Futsuu is translating Baldr Sky. I've just confirmed his translation is good.
>And that means one more long-ass VN I don't have to do!

>IKuronekoI WhatsCrackin
>@Ixrec lol xD Futsuu is doing the whole translation himself? :o

>Ixrec Eric Hitchcock
>@IKuronekoI As far as I know, that's the plan.
>@IKuronekoI Unless you mean the whole project, in which case no, various people from Ammy are signing up for the other jobs.

The conclusion we've reaches is that a previously unknown anon is translating Baldr Sky with the support of Amaterasu, and Rain's route will be done in a matter of months.

>>8542810
I think bamboo confirmed mangagamer operates at a loss. As long as overdrive survives within the domestic market they probably won't bankrupt too soon.

>>8542810
MangaGamer is in the red, and have to rely on Overdrive.

>>8542834
Maybe they should stop releasing crap like Da Capo and strike a deal with KeroQ.

>>8542811
>just confirmed his translation is good
"Good" in the legit sense, or "good" in the quality sense?

>>8542541
Care to elaborate?

>>8542849
D.C. was nice, it was also highly acclaimed in Japan. It's just that to few people play VNs, and most pirate them. There's no way they can make good money.

There is no market for vns in the west. Companies should stop trying and disappear.

>>8542883
I don't know why a VN fan would wish for the market of his hobby to stall.

>>8542883
Jast has been around for more then a decade, and Nitroplus giving Jast 4 titles after Demonbane suggests Demonbane made money. They have got a number of high profile titles recently, even if they are focusing on fan translations, and they may be getting Steins;Gate onto Steam which would surely be a high profile release expanding outside of the typical VN audience. Peter Payne has said his titles sell well, and Jast makes a profit.

MangaGamer has actually been quickly putting out hardcopies of many of their titles ever since they made a deal with J-List, putting out two last month and have one up for preorder suggesting that those sales are at least making something as well.

We have from the broader industry stuff like Corpse Party and the upcoming Hakuoki doing decently, and there is an influx of interest by the broader community thanks to KS earlier this month.

It is not true that there is no market for VNs in the west, even if MangaGamer was set up in a way that had they not changed their approach, would surely have failed. Even if MangaGamer had/does fail, that speaks more for their stupidity then it does the Western VN market.

>>8542691
TURU MA HAATO

>>8542960
> thanks to KS earlier this month.
Nice pasta, i had not seen this one.

>>8542901
Not him, but how does "the market" help us? More translated VNs? Not convincing. And the western market has nothing to do with the eastern market, so it's not like flunking here will make them flunk there.

>>8543232
>Not him, but how does "the market" help us? More translated VNs? Not convincing.

In an ideal scenario (and the endgame for those supporting the market) for those who don't speak Japanese, we would get all the meaningful games from a company when that company forms a partnership. Overdrive is probably the closest ideal we have right now, from them we have got all their games, however they are driving MangaGamer so it's not a surprise from them. This is in contrast to fan translations, which would be more likely to bring over solely the best title or two by a company.

>>8542865
>>8542883

This. There isn't a market for anime, either.

>>8543369
>>8542883
>>8543232
Nice samefagging, bro.

>>8543641
Yeah, because everyone that disagrees with you must be the same person, right? Actually, you accuse me (>>8543232) of samefagging even though I didn't even express any point.

I don't particularly care about the western market for VN's because I have never used an official work and I don't plan on relying on translations much longer. However, I am curious as to why should "we" support the official localization companies.

>>8543334
>This is in contrast to fan translations, which would be more likely to bring over solely the best title or two by a company.
How is this a bad thing? If you want to play that badly every shitty game that is not good enough for someone to want to translate it, you can try learning the language. If it's a good game that isn't getting translated, chances are it will get to it at some point. And if you just can't wait, then fuck off, faggot.