/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>Hinomaru- 31% translated, common route patch released
Hunks Workshop - ~25% rough translation
Ikusa Megami Zero - 6759/78321 (8.65%) lines translated of the story script, 9542/17108 (55.78%) lines translated of other scripts (menus, etc). Yet to start on the 22459 H-lines
>Irotoridori no Sekai - 37,116/51,100 (72.63%) lines translated, full common route, Kana, Tsukasa, and Kyou route translated, prologue patch released
Kimiaru - Day one translated
Koitate - Ren and Yukino’s route patch released
>Kud Wafter - 1062/33131 (3.21%) lines translated
Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content, Sasami route 66.83% (4472/6691) translated
Majikoi- Yukie + Chris + Momoyo + Wanko + teacher route patch released, Miyako route 45% translated.
>Majikoi S- Trial patch out, full game translation started
M&M Enchanting Magic & Sweet Charms- 92%
Mahoutsukai no Yoru - Trial patch released, work on the full game planned
>Maman Kyoushitsu - Being translated
Mirai no Uta to Tsunagaru Hitomi - Translation planned
>Never 7 - initial translation complete, 107/113 scripts and all tips through final translation, 71/113 scripts and 50/111 tips through final translation+editing, preview patch out
>Oreimo PSP - Youtube based project, part 79.5 out
Pandora no Yume - 15-17% translated
Parfait- Translation planned
>Period- Fully translated, QC of 2 routes and another editing pass remain
Princess Maker 5- 44% translated
Pure Pure The Story of Ears and Tails- Sachi Patch released, 85.48% translated
Real Imouto - 5745/16108 (35.67%) translated
>Rance 6 - teaser patch out, 6895/104155 (6.62%) lines translated
Rance Quest - 6254/101483 (6.16%) lines translated
>Rewrite - 41315.15/101220 (40.82%) lines translated, common route patch out
Rose Guns Days‬ - Will be translated by Witch Hunt with the blessings of 07th Expansion

best thread of the weeeeeeekkkkkkkkk!

>Ryoshuu Shijou - released
Sakura Wars 1 - Project started
Sapphism no Gensou - 47 scripts translated
>Se-kirara - Being translated
Sensei Da-isuki 2- roughly 25% translated, still active
Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo - Fully translated, someone has gone through all the scripts for editing
>Shinigami no Kiss wa Wakare no Aji - Common route and Honoka's route translated, overall 12990/18147 = 71.58% lines translated
Sin- 65% of episode 1 translated
>SubaHibi - Down the Rabbit Hole 1 and II translated, 16583/54337 (30.52%) lines translated
>Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 6- fully translated/TLC, 6/15 scripts QC
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 8- fully translated/TLC
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 9- 5/18 scripts translated
>Sumaga Special - KBs done: [242.50kb/8131.54kb] (2.98%)
Tenshi No Inai 12-Gatsu-"Maho route fixed"
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 - Patch scheduled for July 20th
Touka Gettan: translation status: ~40% translated
Welcome to Pia Carrot 2 - 1st draft translation 35%, as it was found much of the script was originally not dumped
>White Album 2 - Overall: 3081/70253 (4.38%) lines translated, Introductory Chapter: 3081/10769 (28.6%) lines translated
>Yandere - Fully translated, editing ongoing
Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 28% edited
>Yosuga no Sora - Roughly 40% translated, Akira route 12%

>Aroduc's secret project - 9 chapters translated

Official work

MangaGamer
>Dengeki Stryker - Released
Ef - checking final build
>Harukoi Otome - In scripting
OtoBoku - 14/21 scripts translated
>Eroge - 39/60 H-scenes translated
Nexton game 1 - In translation
Nexton game 2 - In translation
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
>School Days HQ - Expected to ship Thursday
Yumina the Ethereal - "Script and images translated. Working on insertion and testing"
Moero Downhill Night Blaze- 90% translated, fixing bug
Saya no Uta - 99% complete
Hanachirasu - 99% complete
Django: Couple more months of translation
Kikokugai - Working out issues
Sumaga- expected to be fully translated this year
Seinarukana- picked up, ~38% 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 - 2nd pass: 154/175 Scripts. Phone and TIPS edited, rough patch out, Jast may pick up the project

Other
LUDESIA- English release planned
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread
A tracker for these threads put together by Tinfoil: http://vntls.tindabox.net/

>Grisaia no Kajitsu- common route fully translated, Amane route 187/988 (18.93%) kb translated, overall 1589/6209 (25.60%) kb translated, 1454/6209 (23.42%) kb edited, demo soon
The demo is already out.

Cool week. Lots of green.

>Se-kirara
Whoa, someone's translating this? I've had it sitting on my hard drive since it was released for free, but I never bothered trying to play it.

Just a quick heads up, next weeks thread may be delayed by a few hours to get all the AX news into one thread instead of splitting it. Jast's panel is Friday night while MangaGamer's panel is Saturday night a couple hours after this thread is normally posted.

>>9225748
That it is, sorry about that. The stats are correct for this week, but I had missed changing demo soon to demo out.

>>9225759
Looking forward to it already. School Days will be the OP pic, I assume, but Schatten should be announced there as well.

Yandere and Period will be released soon, too. Wonder how far along Yandere's editing is?

>Yosuga no Sora - Roughly 40% translated, Akira route 12%
Holy shit, progress.

>>9225800
But Sora's route was released already, there's little point in playing the rest.

>>9225786
Period likely won't be released soon, as it says in the update, the translator wants to do another pass for editing. On site it is now listed as 0% edited.

>>9225807
Well, maybe it's just my autism. I can't play partial patches.

>>9225812
I feel you bro. Have the same problem.

>>9225807
Wow, didn't know that. Thanks.

>>9225758
>Cool week. Lots of green.

Been the past few weeks or so, lots of updates each week.

Translation for Sweet Pool is at 76%. The translators have 24 scripts left to go, out of a total of 99.

Just noticed that Liar-soft yuri game isn't there anymore. Did it get dropped?

>>9225877
That might be true. Perhaps I should have said, lots of green for the projects that I'm watching closely.

>>Ryoshuu Shijou - released
Good news for all those would-be elf rapers out there.

>>9225888
http://wiki.yuriproject.org/okujou_no_yurirei-san
More like it never started

The best thread of the week is here again!

Source on se-kirara?

>>9225800
Not just progress... Progress on Akira.

Akira doesn't get enough love, so this is a good thing.

>>9225758
Same. It's sitting on my HD somewhere too...

And fuck Dengeki, give me Harukoi already.

>>9225906

I love elf rape!

>>9225938
Who doesn't? I think everyone is a would-be elf rapist deep down inside.

>>9225906
Huh. Got a CG set?

>>9225807
so ummm, where's the patch?

>>9225906

It's just pregnancy and not birthing or anything. I want to know how off the deep end ShindoL is going.

Dengeki Stryker will never be cracked, ever.

>>9225991
Which means people will care about it for approximately a week longer than if it was.

>>9225943
I'll second that. Wanna know what I'm getting in to.

>School Days HQ - Expected to ship Thursday

Can't wait.

>>9225991
Cudder still hasn't tried yet. I'm holding out faith that he will show up and save the day.

>>9225906
Anyone know where the game itself can be found? Sukebei turned up nothing.

>>9225786
Yandere will take as long as I want it to take.

I've edited YU-NO, MuvLuv, Swan Song, etc., so you know that what you get will at least have some semblance of quality. How long it takes to get there is entirely discretionary.

>>9226023
>I've edited YU-NO
Oh hey, isn't that scheduled for release this month too? What ever happened with that?

>>9226023
>MuvLuv

That's not a sign of quality at all.

>>9226023

Shouldn't you be playing Starcraft 2, Spin?

>>9226041
Muv-Luv's editing seemed fine. Sure you can cherry pick some lines that didn't turn out well, especially if you want to go with the leaked version that hadn't been fully edited yet, but I can't imagine someone being of the opinion that it was worse than most VN translations.

>>9226031
>>9226041
Nice try guys. I'm in #tlwiki too.

>>9225906
Torrent Torrent Torrent

dengeki stryker sounds like one of those VNs with gameplay

>>9226094
Yeah, when I first saw the trailer I expected it to have

>>9225807
where is this mythical sora patch at?

>>9226284
/jp/ secret clubhouse has it, assuming you are a real /jp/ citizen and not a /vg/ plebeian you should know how to get there.

>>9226304
Not him, and not interested, but what if I don't know and haven't ever been on /vg/?

>>9226304
If it's the secret clubhouse I know of, I can't find it there. Is it included in the YnS archive (even though it's listed as untranslated)?

>>9225935
>Source on se-kirara?

Never mind. For those who want it:

http://fth-scans.com/2012/05/20/se-kirara-staff/

Crack released for Dengeki Strykers. Credit to /jp/ anon.

filerio(dot)in/jpvfw7yy1lny

>Yumina the Wireshark

>>9226409
Thanks as always Cudder

>>9226586
When that game translation release?

>>9226409
Derek?

>>9226586
Would be nice for Jast to give us an idea on when to expect Yumina at AX, so we can figure a half year beyond whatever they state their target is.

So now the question is whether MG will bring over Chou Dengeki Stryker.

Probably not.

>>9226880
At this point with it coming out next month I actually would have preferred MG waiting a little bit longer so that it could be brought over.

>>9226880
Considering it's made by their parent company and thus an effortless license they probably will if DS sells well.

>>9226915
Nothing they've ever released has sold well.

Still, I'd say the chances are good they release it.

>>9226920
I mean relative to what their stuff usually sells. Considering DS's unique premise I think it might at least make enough to cover costs for once.

>>9226923
You have to realize thought that VNs are a niche market and even if they somehow luckily are able to make a profit they most likely won't be able to if they release the same VN but with a more routes.

>>9226935
On the other hand, if they release it as paid DLC for those who already own the game, like Overdrive are doing, it might make some money.

>>9226923

Almost none of their stuff sells enough to make a profit (unless it ends up getting hard copies from JAST) so sales has little to do with what they release for licenses they already own.

>>9226944
MG hard copies are done through JAST? Really? Didn't know that.

>>9226957

http://www.jlist.com/search/807/mangagamer

>>9226962
Is J-List and JAST the same company?

>>9227007

Yes.

>Amagami - "1st day patch testing and QC in progress. ETA ~July 2nd."
But will anyone actually bother to read a game that requires setting up a PS2 emulator (not the most graceful of products, by the way)...

>Baldr Sky - 2851/10284 (27.72%) lines of Nanoha route translated. Overall progress: 21579/91443 (23.60%) lines, 1093.17/4720.14 (23.16%) kb, 81/196 (41.33%) scripts
So, back to progress, but it amounts to more or less nothing. Of course, Ixrec assures the quality of his brand! Eric promises to "motivate" his subordinate here--I'm disgusted by the affair. It's so shamefully obvious: co-opting Baldr Sky like this, compensating for the audience lost by Rewrite... It's gotta feel like eating a McDonald's Soyburger or something, it's just blatant cross-consumer pandering. I don't think Ixrec even has a well articulated plan for putting that which is not yet dead out of its misery. Maybe he thinks he can just try to take the reigns into his crooked, servile hands and murder the beast at his will. But you have competition again, Eric... I hope you're planning something.

>Dracu-Riot - prologue patch released, 8605/53707 (16.02%) lines translated
Insemination, dear boy, you can't be translating this fast. Make your name doing what you do best (we both know what that is--a hint: dolphins), not trying to best someone at a game he isn't playing.

(This week the post is much longer than usual, and will be divided into three parts.)

>>9227033 (continued)
>Grisaia no Kajitsu- common route fully translated, Amane route 187/988 (18.93%) kb translated, overall 1589/6209 (25.60%) kb translated, 1454/6209 (23.42%) kb edited, demo soon
A mistake which our ever-virtuous VNTS-kun has acknowledged. With that having been said, I'm quite pleased with this development. Tlwiki are finally showing their hand--they've made some big moves, and, combined with their historical impact (including a gift from god, the pact with the devil--support JAST USA official localizations of Nitro+ games!), helping to prove that they aren't yet a dinosaur.

>Kud Wafter - 1062/33131 (3.21%) lines translated
Am I correct in stating that every Key game is either translated or in translation? What a ridiculous state of affairs. I see death hurtling towards us even faster than usual this week.

(One more part to come)

>>9227042 (continued)
>Never 7 - initial translation complete, 107/113 scripts and all tips through final translation, 71/113 scripts and 50/111 tips through final translation+editing, preview patch out
Thank you, as always, my friends on this project.

>Rewrite - 41315.15/101220 (40.82%) lines translated, common route patch out
>SubaHibi - Down the Rabbit Hole 1 and II translated, 16583/54337 (30.52%) lines translated
A double feature from me this week. Ixrec, here's the threat that is facing you down more loomingly than any other. And, yet, you dawdle, no hint of a strategic plan or an endgame strategy. In any case, I hope Moogy was right all along... Perhaps, as he always said, this is the translation to end all translations, an irrevocable sin, an act of desperation so destructive so as to never be recovered from. Here's hoping...

>>9227033
PCSX2 has come pretty damn far, actually. People could still burn and play on modded hardware anyways.

>>9227033
>>9227042
>>9227046
Please never stop posting these. Entertaining as ever.

>>9227053
That, and the hacker indicated willingness to do a PSP version as well. It's actually easier to play pirated games on the PSP than legit ones.

>>9227068

I laughed cause it's true.

You ever get that thing where you cough but also fart, and shit your pants a little too?

>>9227068
Not everyone has a PSP or is interested in reading on one. I've been hinting for months that my advice would be a complete port to another engine (an ISOpatcher for the PS2 or PSP versions could still be included as an additional option). It's easier than you'd think, as long as you can extract the resources and the scripts, and decode the opcodes. The hacker must be somewhat skilled, at least, to be willing to tackle a console project, so I won't say this is out of the question unless the hacker himself can tell us why.

You know, for what it's worth, I always want to troll these guys' project, but they're so earnest and level headed that it doesn't end up working out. They take it seriously and seem like their feelings are hurt, or actually try to defend their project and stuff. It's my modus operandi to treat respect with respect, and trolling with trolling, but sometimes I have urges too!

>>9227068
PSP is far harder to edit due to shitty/nonexistent debugging tools. Last I checked anyways.

>>9227165
Well, the Amagami hacker seems to have it under control. He just said it would likely not have translated UI elements, which is fine by me.

Trying to playtest and crush bugs tonight. This whole following week will be mildly stressful for me in general. Anyways...

>>9227033

PCSX2 isn't that hard to set up, especially for this game. They have an easy slider that can be turned on in case tweaking is too hard for people to play it on the emulator and I would assume that some people might play it on actual hardware using a variety of other methods. I might post my setup for PCSX2 too along with the patch...

>>9227068
>>9227187

A discussion with my team concluded that doing a PSP version at this moment in time will be pretty detrimental to the release for the PS2 versions, so we'll be holding off on that, sorry. It won't be that much longer though for us to do that version since the scripts in the PSP are identical to the ones in the PS2 EbiKore+ version. A release date for that will be announced in the very near future for that.

Sorry for any inconveniences this will cause. I personally apologize for this.

>>9227293
No problem. I'm excited to just be able to play the game at all. If there's a PSP version eventually, even better, but no rush. Especially since this will just be the "demo" release, it's more important to focus your resources on the PS2 version. PSP can come later.

Thanks again for all your effort toward making this translation a reality.

>>9227102
Why are you such a faggot?

Just kidding, we love you.

>>9227102

There are two factors that are making a port to the PC unfeasible. One is the fact that they have bytecode in the blocks that we have not been able to solve yet. We've been able to figure out some things about it but it will take longer to be able to manipulate it freely as we please, and I'm not certain if the MIPS opcodes for that will translate over to x86 perfectly or if we will be able to figure it out. That alone will already make it pretty hard. The other is the time factor. The custom engine does not provide any type of easy way to port over onto the PC in any way whatsoever. Although the fandisks are written in Kirikiri 2, none of the resources in the actual game and that save for a couple of CGs and the BGM are actually interoperable in any way. To do as you suggest would take massive amounts of effort and time that would exceed any type of gains in convenience for people or enhancements we would be able to add for the game.

And for your latter half of the post, I simply can't care enough about your personal views or opinions for them in the intention of trolling us to matter much. We will take all feedback and comments that are constructive in some way to improve the experience for everyone who wants to play this but anything else that isn't that is just a huge waste of time that I couldn't even be more concerned about.

But again, that was a good question and I hope I answered it to your satisfaction.

>>9227330

You're welcome.

>>9227410
I'll take your word for it that the work you're already doing in the way of hacking is a feat in and of itself, and that anything more would be detract prohibitively from work that actually needs to be done.

If that's the case, then I'd strongly suggest that you provide configuration files or scripts, links to the exact version of the exact emulator you bugtested on, etc. etc. along with your patch script. Getting the game up and running should involve as few steps as possible. It should come with a clickable shortcut that can launch the emulator and load the game automatically, so that the user doesn't have to go through a separate interface (the emulator's) to get in-game.
In brief, the experience should be as close as possible to playing a native PC VN.

If you can do this, I'll have little ammunition left. Remember, my work is your work, in the end.

For reference this week

Bamboo has a live stream 2pm Jap time on 6/26 (or 10pm pacific time on 6/25)
AX starts on Friday, 5/29
Jast AX panel starts at 10:30pm Pacific on Friday 5/29
MangaGamer AX panel starts at 8pm pacific on Saturday 5/30

>>9227664
Jast will probably have decent announcements which we can expect in 2014, while MangaGamer will likely get more nukige and possibly DCIII.

Never7 really has come a long way over the past few weeks.

>not just translating the PSP version and using a .prx to avoid all the hacking into the engine
>not being an expert programmer

im quoting your mom nerd

see ya later nerds going to the gym

I'm going to post a picture of Moogy every time you mention him.

>>9228113
That one is my favorite

>>9226594
Didn't do that.

>>9227410
Like >>9227454 says just bundle an emulator. There shouldn't be any performance issues.

Period editing won't take all that long, the editor's first update has it 7% of the game and 60% of the common route.

>>9227410
Write your own ghetto engine in whatever ghetto language you like. It'll be much easier than trying to emulate a PSP game.

>Oreimo PSP - Youtube based project, part 79.5 out

OP, Togainu no Chi is fully translated, and has been for a long time.

>>9229069
http://youtu.be/CDYyyDO5hTE

the future of vns

>>9227964
>nerd going to a gym
nice oxymoron there. stop pretending to be a jock and get back to your computer, nerdo.

>Dengeki Stryker
read first 3 chapters... same crap till the end?

>>9229144
Read it and find out.

>>9227410
Thanks for caring about PSP translations; there are a fuckton of Japanese VNs on the PSP but almost none translated. It's a good opportunity.

Dengeki Stryker - racist VN

I can't stand all these OVERDRIVE games from Mangagamers, like why even bother

>>9227454

The fact of the matter is that your opinion on how you want to make the experience as close to playing a native PC VN is only one part of the overall opinion on how the game should be played. Although the large majority might do as you said, there are a proportion of people that will want to play this on native hardware and I can't possibly concentrate on the PC audience only.

It's not that I don't want to do what you said but there are some legal issues that I do not want to tussle over on the emulator BIOS and the actual game ISO itself for what you suggested. In my case, I can only provide support for ripping the content from the actual game disk, applying the patch, then playing it. I've already had a big tussle on here on my stance on this issue but yeah, anything you don't do to the letter is not supported by me. You're on your own in that case.

Bundling PCSX2 is also a big no-no in general, as I am sure that they explicitly prohibit that. I've tested consistently on PCSX2's latest SVN builds but I also tested on the latest stable build, 0.9.8. They all work wonderfully provided you configure the game in a specific manner. Those settings will be given in the readme.

So therefore, the most I can give you guys is the patch, configuration guide to PCSX2 emulator, and support for doing as my instructions provide. It is not noob friendly and some setup will have to be done. But really, that's all I can provide without doing some things that are against my stance and policy on the patch in general, and unfortunately, it's non-negotiable. Flame and troll all you want because of that, but I will not change my stance on that.

Sorry about the long post to read.

>>9230035

Because OVERDRIVE is MangaGamer's parent company.

How else could something like GoGo Nippon exist?

>>9230035
Because they're obviously catering to your tastes only.

>>9230035
MangaGamer is literally a pet project of Overdrive. The whole reason they can afford to localize games like that all is that they're not paying money for the rights.

>>9227033
I imagine that most people who are interested in reading it will be old enough to have played with emulators and actually know how to set one up. Plus there are torrents full of all sorts of plugins and BIOs that are readily available on any torrent site. This is also a good opportunity for people to Google for help rather than begging people to do all the work for them.

Plus it's 2D, most 2D games have been running fine on PCSX2 for a couple years now no matter what setting you choose.

>>9227964

A .prx is not the best solution in this case and would be actually doable if it wasn't for the fact that I have images to edit too so the GUI and menus are translated, which I don't think the .prx can do quite well dealing with the game we have. Picture related.

>>9229212

We'll try and release it shortly ASAP after this release. Probably August 1st or September 22nd.

>>9230077

It does have glitches with D3D internal resolution increase and such like that, and it does some weird things for the character models. But it will work fine with my configuration.

>>9229212
Are there any actual translation except for the Idolmaster one? The people doing the Ore Imouto decided to fuck off to Youtube to get more views on their videos.

I might as well ask here. i've been internetless for about 5 months, and visualnovelnews hasn't been updated. Wich visualnovel translations have been released in this last few months?

>>9230171
Baldr Sky full translation, Majikoi Miyako patch, Muramasa official release by JAST are the main ones of import

>>9230177
It's not nice to lie.

>>9230056
what's why they are still in red.

>>9230297
>what's why they are still in red.

It will be interesting to see what MangaGamer has to say about their finances at AX, with their Jast deal seemingly going well with plenty of hard copies and they have implemented a number of things.

For Jast, the School Days release will probably be the most important title for a while. It is likely to be one of the best selling PC visual novels to date in the West and should help weaken the belief there is no money to be made in the West.

So, anyone willing to leak the Tomoyo After patcch?

>>9230515
School Days is kind of shitty, but plenty of people know about it, so it will definitely sell loads. It'd be nice if they could release Cross Days too.
...Why I want to play that piece of crap, I don't know.

>>9230950
No matter how successful School Days is, it's difficult to imagine Jast picking up Cross Days. You generally don't want to put out products which will alienate much of your audience when you are trying to build a reputation.

>>9230950
The animated VN concept seems like it'd have enough novelty value that I could have some fun with School Days for a while. Of course I won't pay for it though.

>>9230040
PCSX2 is GPL, which means as long as you provide the notice and a pointer to where to get the source, you haven't violated their license. They might not like it, but you can just tell them that's something they can't do anything about since they decided on the GPL. They could relicense future versions under something else but the versions that were already released as GPL cannot.

And don't forget, if you don't want to do it and there is demand, someone will.

>White Album 2 - Overall: 3081/70253 (4.38%) lines translated, Introductory Chapter: 3081/10769 (28.6%) lines translated
2 lines a week general ;_;

I bet it's gonna be terrible in the end too...all that waiting for nothing.

>>9232689
At least they might drop it.

>>9232689
Come on, give them some credit. It was actually 91 lines this week. If they keep up this pace, we can look forward to an early 2026 release.

>>9232706
This would be objectively superior to them completing it.

Wow, I just went over to /vg/ and you guys weren't kidding, they're fucking retarded over there. I just asked for simple recommendations but they all started just trolling like assholes. Never going back there again.

>>9232719
You know what, I'd take their shoddy translation job over no translation any day. There are too many lost and forgotten projects out there. I'm genuinely curious about the new White Album game so I want to play it...even if it's shit and takes forever. At least it wont be stuck in translation hell like Tenshi No Inai 12-Gatsu which was supposed to be a "December release" fucking years ago.

>>9232740
It would be faster, and better, to learn Japanese.

>>9232758
I guess, but motivating myself to devote a large amount of time to a pursuit that I will get no benefits from for months or even years is a difficult thing. Especially considering how unmotivated of an individual I am in general.

>Ryoshuu Shijou - released
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:FLFW2N5DD4KJLK2JUPMVXDKGTEJIJYJI

>>9226623
It's clean.
https://www.virustotal.com/file/963793d980988f33678bb181d8b2920b21600e047b3da8e2a0775d68bb7f98cb/ana
lysis/1340599702/

>>9225807

Where? The full route? I know there was some old partial of the route flying around but did a full get released?

>>9231109
What's Cross Days and why would it alienate the audience.

>>9233633
Because gay homo shit.

>>9233664
Isn't that everything JAST does?

>>9233633

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/03/18/cross-days-finally-reveals-shocking-sexual-secrets/

>>9233780
That doesn't even register as weird to me anymore.

>>9225906
So this is what rape games are like, huh? At least I know they're terrible now.

>>9233964
As if it wasn't blatantly obvious from the beginning.

>>9234236
I liked the beginning. And the scene with the sex machine. That was about it, though.

>>9233964
>terrible
I thought that was the point.

>>9234286
I don't mean morally terrible.

...maybe. I think I ended up liking the girls more out of rape than during it. I don't think that was supposed to happen.

>>9234302
You do know it was meant to be a satire, right?

>>9234311
What? How so?

>>9234302
Maybe you should try Misleet sometime. You will NOT like the lady in that game, and she absolutely deserved everything that gets done to her. You won't have that moral problem getting in the way of your enjoyment.

>>9234377
Even if I hadn't ended up rooting for the elves, I don't think I would have liked it. It was just so...dull.
Explain anyway.

Where is the Sora route?

>Cartagra - Initial translation complete, future is unknown
>Innocent Grey would also like to bring over an upcoming title related to Kara no Shoujo

Why you still no green?

Though Period looks like it'll make a nice distraction for a while.

>>9226023
I don't know about the other two as I haven't played them yet, but Swan Song had more mistakes than a stop sign in the crackhead district has bullet holes. I don't fault TakaJun for that, since he does a really amazing job especially for someone whose first language wasn't English, but the editor's job is to clean up those tracks, and if you didn't, you really shouldn't be bragging about it here.

>>9226023
Hi, I'm not the guy who recommended Misleet, but I agree that it has good heroines for a noncon-centric nukige. Misleet is this alien yakuza warlord queen who gutted the company you worked for and destroyed a bunch of people's lives basically to watch them suffer for the lulz, until the tables turn and you get to make her suffer as revenge until the galaxy police show up and arrest her.

>>9235081
I also forgot to mention that the art is REALLY good for a Black Lilith game. The facial expressions are in a class by themselves.

Good character design is when you don't know anything about the character yet, but you already want to fuck that smirk right off her face.

>>9235081
What about the other heroines?

>>9235903
There's 1 if I remember right, but it's more a side story. And it's pretty crap. Knocking the evil bitch down is 90% of that game.

>>9237168
Hm. I might give it a chance after I find the good end the elf game apparently has. Maybe.

hey guys what happened to yandere.gray7.com? i cant get into site,is it completely down or just changing host?

>>9235085
I came to this like 6 times in the 2 hours I spent playing it. There's something about breaking bitchy women and taking revenge that's so satisfying in more ways than one.

>>9228113
That can't really be moogy... can it?

>>9225759
>Just a quick heads up, next weeks thread may be delayed by a few hours to get all the AX news into one thread instead of splitting it. Jast's panel is Friday night while MangaGamer's panel is Saturday night a couple hours after this thread is normally posted.

MangaGamer has since changed the time of their panel to Sunday night at 11pm, so this delay will not happen and the thread will be posted around the normal time.

>>9237556
Downtime for some updates? Maybe

>>9232689
Slight better than doing nothing at all

>>9235081
>noncon-centric
I, what?

>>9237723
Not him, but I assume noncon menas non-consensual. In other words, it's centered on non-consensual stuff.

Is anyone even looking forward to the School Days release, the anime adaptation killed most of the interest I had in it. I am interested in the Hikari route though.

>>9237960
I am. I've never seen the anime, though.

The mangagamer live chat with Bamboo is about to start

>>9239269
And Tomoe Tamiyasu

>>9237960
>Is anyone even looking forward to the School Days release, the anime adaptation killed most of the interest I had in it. I am interested in the Hikari route though.

It looks decent enough to play through

>>9237960
I am, and I did see the anime.

>>9239269
>>9239277
ongoing now

http://www.justin.tv/mangagamer#/w/3317208832

>>9239301
Why are they speaking in Japanese? Don't they sell translated bishoujo games?

>>9239345
Translators translate into Japanese for them, and then translate responses back to English.

>>9239358
Working for mangagamer as a translator would be every /jp/er's dream, wouldn't it, oniichan?

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mangagamers-from-japan

Moved to ustream

>Aroduc's secret project
Otome renshin prister?

And the livestream is over

Now to wait for Jast's panel on Friday.

>>9239368
I'm guessing Jast pays more.

KNNWSNY - on schedule for a July RTM. In final testing phase.

This will likely be the final font size since we've wordwrapped already. Supported operating systems: Windows XP, Vista, 7.

>>9240506
It just wouldn't be the same without you, Cudder.

>>9240506
That was me.

[Whenever I decide to try posting from one of these things it always messes up somehow. "It just works" - not really.]

For the Jast and Mangagamer AX panels, it looks like we will have the usual live transcript

http://bayoab.info/live/live2.php

>>9226005
It was mentioned in last weeks thread.
But you could always try to google the romanization version of the complete title, and add hentaicenter as an additional keyword, and use google's cashe option to access the result.

I see that Nursery Rhyme is down but Drakoi is still up.

I hope someone in the future will pick up Nursery Rhyme and finish it.

>>9240506
>It's so, a feeling to want to walk a little.
>Because she's wearing pyjamas, it seems she's surely hospitalised.
>The business of Mayuri-san was to visit on her illness?
>Was the reception all right?

You are ever a delight.

>>9242308
I'm reading it right now. If I like it enough, there's a possibility that I'll pick up the project.

This isn't an announcement or anything, just letting you know that it hasn't been entirely forgotten.

SO is the buldar sky guy gonna pick up his speed again? Also man never 7 has been going through about 4 phases..
Over all i still feel like the translation seance is going slow for summer.. Anybody know what Aroduc's secret project is yer? it seems long.

So Rance 3 and 4 were taken off the list this week?
It honestly sucks that those projects didn't go anywhere.

1 and 2 went along great and without much fuss.

>majikoi s translation started
WAT

>>9243699
>1 and 2 went along great and without much fuss.
Uh. You know that they're tiny and machine translated, right?

>>9243754
The second one is still a couple of hundred percent bigger than the first one, even if that still amounts to little.

The translation is better than machine translations though, even if they surely are nothing to write home about. I mean, even if the are pretty bad they are still ok, and better than machine translations.

>>9243866
Because someone edited them to what they thought it should be. And they're still full of grammatical mistakes.

Do translation groups appreciate corrections?
I suffer from anal autism and I would happily read through scripts or play the VNs and compile a spreadsheet of mistakes and fixes.

Might seem like a dick move, though. HERE IS EVERYTHING WRONG WITH YOUR TRANSLATION RELEASE A PATCH FOR MY BENEFIT PLZ.

>>9244026
>Do translation groups appreciate corrections?

Most do appreciate, in fact there will usually be a spot listed for such reports. Grammar errors are almost always appreciated, especially by the translator who can blame his editor/QC people. It is possible a translator might take issue to translation corrections if you are an asshole, but most translators with reasonable skill would also appreciate these corrections.

>>9244026

I imagine it would depend on what you're trying to correct, how many you're trying to make, and the tone you use when bringing them up.

>>9243699
The translator disappeared off the face of the Earth a year ago. They had to get taken down sometime. Maybe he'll reappear someday with a compelete translation, or maybe the group will pick it up again once it finishes Rance Quest. Which is crawling at about 0.1% ever tie it updates, and is apparently outsourcing it's translation to highschool otaku groups.

And while 2 was alright, 1 was typo-ridden as fuck. I was going to help edit it, but found typos in damn near every line, and they said they weren't going to patch it until after they finished 2 anyway. And they basically disolved before they ever got around to it.

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2012/06/26/livechat-summary

>In English, the sales have been increasing quite a bit. If sales get to be 3x what they are now, we’ll start looking into French and Chinese markets.

>>9244895
Does that mean we would wait 3X longer for translations?

>>9244895
Can't resist, so here goes.

>TAMMY, Tammy, Tamy, Tami
Ah yes, Mangagamer quality. Wonderful press release.

>The girls act more naturally in male-oriented games, so she prefers those.
Do her handlers really believe that this is fooling anybody? Did people in the stream at least call BS on this?

>Tamy finds h-scenes fun, especially when making wet sounds.
This sounds like something you'd read in a report about child molestation.

>Also, the term is now Homo.
Most useful peice of information in the entire overview. I'm glad they talked about how gay everything is.

>>9245244 (Continued)
>In English, the sales have been increasing quite a bit. If sales get to be 3x what they are now, we’ll start looking into French and Chinese markets.
Here's the big one. Mangagamer is just Bamboo's fun side project: breaking even is "doing well" for him, because it means he can continue being a westaboo without cutting additionally into his bottom line. Basically it means his trips to LA are free. I'm not surprised to hear that they're thinking about approaching the Chinese market--they'd probably make a lot more money than they do in the English market, even. They could probably do well in--ghasp--Korean, as well, but I'm sure that's unmentionable for cultural reasons... But, what's this? French? Who are they planning on selling that to? Surely not the heavily regulated, culture-conscious People's Republic of France, and just as unlikely the totalitarian Republique du Quebec! Who do they expect to sell these game to? French-speaking Vietnamese? Subsaharan African? Do they think the Muslims in Morocco and Algeria are looking forward to Overdrive's newest pornographic game featuring every type of absolutely-haram sodomy? Without a doubt they'd do better in Spanish or even Russian! What a pointless existence, Mangagamer is. Literally a cancer, growing, dying all at once, symptomatic of our system's beautiful death, but killing it far too slowly. This is the kind of misery out of which we must be put.

>>9245247
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_outside_Japan#France

>>9245247

France is the most weeaboo country on earth.

They'll just censor the loli for the french version. And Americans will laugh so hard they choke on their hamburgers

If MangaGamer starts breaking even or making a profit, expect to see more companies like MangaGamer in the future.

>>9245257
>>9245263
The more mainstream and beloved it is, the more morally deplorable porn of it is. Censor the loli I'm sure they will... good luck with that.

Better evidence for how well MangaGamer is doing can be determined by seeing if Bamboo begs the audience to buy their games at their panel, like he did last year.

http://jastusa.com/blog/2012/06/26/jast-panel-at-anime-expo-2012/

>- Announcements. We’ll be announcing one awesome new license at the panel.

>- Updates. The latest news on all the games we’ve been working on for the past year, plus videos from some titles that are particularly advanced.

>>9245526
So that means they won't be announcing anything new besides Schatten. Too bad.

>>9245526
Only one? JAST you won't make money unless you sell games.

>>9245560
I'd be satisfied if they'd hurry up and release some of the ones they already have licenses for. Where the hell is my Sumaga, JAST? And what hell is up with Saya and Hanachirasu, anyway?

>>9245560
They now have MangaGamer providing them with hard copies to sell.

>>9245589
Remember when releasing Demonbane was supposed to be a sign that things were good now between JAST and Nitro+ and that more Nitro+ titles would get translated and released faster.

>>9245589
>License Starless
>Realize there's no way they can ever publish that
JAST logic

>>9245711
why?

>>9245721
Too much scat?

>>9245732
scatman john approves and if he can do it then so can you

>>9245721

There's like 4 Bestiality scenes.

>>9245721

also a scene where a dude gets his dick cut off by a guillotine

Anyone happen to know WHAT Amagami game it is?

>>9246176
...Is there more than one?

>>9246180
the pc one and the psp one. Considering how psp is a bitch to hack and there's hardly new content in ebikore+ I don't see why they would use that and not the pc version

>>9246185
What? There is no PC release of Amagami. Just PS2 and PSP. They're doing both EBKore+ versions, with the focus on the PS2 version and the PSP version coming later.

If you read the thread, you would know this.

>>9246195
yeah, I meant ps2, just wrote absentmindedly
pretty much everyone is going to emulate it on the pc anyways

>>9246185
Initially it was the regular Amagami for PS2 (Sony ID SLPS-25918) moving on to eb collection+ one (SLPS-25987) as the hacking progressed with PSP version planned for the release as well because its script is identical to Ebikore+ one. PC's Amagami SS has nothing to do with any of these and it may or may not get translated if the team has willing translators and Kirikiri scripters.
At least that's what I gathered by following the VNTS threads.

Period up to 11.7% edited

>>9246195
>>9246215

I dunno if I've been sending the wrong messages to you guys but is it that hard to understand my release schedule and intentions? In any case, sorry if they are, I'll clarify here with a short history of what happened.

At some point in time, you may have seen http://freesmiler.livejournal.com/.. This was the starting platform we worked off of. The only support avalible at the time was the PS2 original release. There were a lot of things to fix up so our initial focus was on that.

We did a little bit of research into EbiKore+ PS2 verson around 1 month and a half after fixing up the tool and save for some really weird things it did with the images, it was nearly identical. We then were able to extend support to that version of the game.

The PSP version hack was very recent, around a month ago when one of my other team members were able to find a unpacker for the game's archives. More research lead to the discovery of tools that could also repack the archives once modifications were made. That was 2 weeks ago.

So at this point in time, we can support all versions of the game. I hope that clarified things for everyone. In the case of the Amagami PC fandisks, I initially thought we may or may not be able to translate them due to the fact that Amagami itself will be a pain to fully translate and that our translators might not be willing to do them. But the translators on my team expressed interest in translating that as well and since it is in KiriKiri2, it wouldn't be that hard to change and modify to translate.

The kicker is that anyone can and should pick up doing the fandisks from us as at the rate we are translating the game, it will take an eternity for us to get to the point where we can translate the fandisks, which would be after the full game in our estimates of around late 2015- 2016.

That Bamboo live chat came and passed. I wasn't actually awake when it did, so did anybody ask about possible English release of Chou Dengeki Stryker? They are releasing the new routes also as Eiden Fantasia style add-on in Japan, after all.
I bought the original game and am really enjoying it, so it'd be great if they could get rest out.

>>9247393

Forgot my game development snapshots of the game I always post...

In any case, I'll post some more project-relevant information about things going on. Just so you guys know, the first day patch only barely covers 0.9% of the game, 20 scripts out of the 2208 scripts we need to translate in the original release only, which is kind of a disheartening thing.

We may need to recruit a lot more people for a project this scale because at our current rate, I don't think 3-4 years with 2-3 translators we have now will make enough progress for you guys to be satisfied. At the same time, I would rather like to now see a lot of fragmentation issues with translation and such and release something high-quality for everyone. The team will probably be internally talking about this after the patch's release.

Also, about the scripts and tools, the tool we use is under the New BSD license, which is GPL compatible. We'll be releasing most of our source code into the Google code page for the thing save for some encoders because of its volatility to change and for project-safety reasons. I dunno about the scripts but they will not be release at this point in time for the patch. They will be in the final release.

Hello VNTS guy,

Any reason why the Rance 3 project isn't usually on your list? Were you not aware of it, or has there been evidence of it being dead/a troll?

http://www.hgtp.info/r3.html

>>9247452
He answered some questions about what it will have, but nothing about an English release.

Does Eternal still update the Translation Library?

http://translationlibrary.blicky.net/

Says
>Last Updated: 18/02
but it looks like it might be dead.

Also loling at the links:
>4chan / JP
>If you can look past the rubbish posted you’ll often find information on translation projects and updates by translators not found elsewhere.
(shii probably wrote this)

>>9248699
why the fuck would you even use it

Bampu pantsu.­

>>9248699
>20.34% Muv-Luv Extra

This is like a way-back machine. 2010, here I come!

>>9248473
Damn, that sucks. Maybe on the AX, then.

>>9245711
JAST licensed Starless and they won't publish it in the US?

MangaGamer put up this hint on their twitter for their AX title

>we're going to be bringing you demons, wars, spies, magical girls, and witches!

From MangaGamer's twitter account

>So we know a lot of you out there enjoy playing "guess the game" so, who wants some hints about titles we're announcing at AnimeExpo?

>Well, here you go: we're going to be bringing you demons, wars, spies, magical girls, and witches!

>>9252145
It'll be more shitty nukige, I'm sure.

>>9251614
Who knows whether they will or not. The sale and distribution of bestiality is illegal in many places though.

Expect either a censored release or possibly a download-only release.

>>9252196
But I like nukige.

>>9252196
It could be good nukige if they get another Clock Up title.

>>9252294
I suppose it's possible. Clock Up do have a few titles that could fit with that description.

Mahou shoujos:
http://vndb.org/v482

War, spies:
http://vndb.org/v1310

They have several that involve demons.

I would assume they're referring to their unnamed Nexton titles, though.

>>9252367
If one of these VN is Dyogrammaton then I can't complain that much but I hope the other isn't Try Stars...

English version torrent where?!
http://vndb.org/v14

Does School Days have any story value aside from sex and I Kill You?

>>9253028
if you like deep romantic stories...

>>9253013
I hope we'll get it soon.

>>9253028
Yes. But I wouldn't say the story is very good.

>>9253028
Sex and violence. That's what you've been begging for those past months, with all your REAL DEAL bullshit. You should be pleased.

>>9254635
School Days is disney shit

>>9254719
Tell me then, which games would you qualifiy as "REAL DEAL", among the ones that were translated ?
If your answer includes MLA, S;G or FSN, I'm gonna laugh so hard.

>>9254783
[continuous laughter]

>>9254783
Everyone knows you can't translate REAL DEAL games.
Once they're in English, they cease being REAL DEAL.

>>9254783
saya no uta, cross channel

>>9256508
This is factually correct.
>>9256476
I don't want to hear an argument from you (or anyone) about why those titles are "real deal" or not, but you are a plebeian by virtue of having replied seriously.

Just noticed something.
>Bible Black
>Discipline
>Starless
So is someone from Active Soft/Empress a King Crimson fag by any chance? Just wondering.

>>9256761
I am guessing it comes down to it being easier to work with one studio for multiple games than 3 studios for one game each, especially when only a small number of Japanese companies are willing to license their games to the West.

Anyone know what the standard visual novels and eroge panel is tomorrow (the one in the time slot before the Jast panel)?

>>9256761
Oh shit

>>9256641
[continuous laughter]

Period is 16.22% translated

>>9253028
No, my GOD no. Paper-thin characters, contrivances at every turn, hours spent repeating useless bullshit conversations, and everyone is a sociopath except Kotonoha. Those games are easy to beat off to, but they're about worthless storywise. Summer Days is the worst offender there, though being able to fuck both the hot moms kind of balanced it out. Cross Days may be the most worthwhile on that front just because of all the unexpected twists.

>>9256761
Wow, well spotted.

>>9225807
Too bad the HnS is better than YnS

>>9260208
1.) You mean edited, or
2.) Stop trolling.

>>9258802
>that moment when /jp/ and /mu/ collides
Glorious.

>>9260249
Yes, that is what I meant, edited.

>>9260249
Yes, that is what I meant, Period is 16.22% edited.

school days out yet?

>>9260454
No. Word has it that the site Erogedownload has arrangements lined up with at least two people who preordered the game, so it should be uploaded there within hours of being shipped to any of those people. It could still be a week or more away though, taking into account that the game is at least 10 GB and that those people might live in remote 3rd world countries with no reliable mail service and slow internet connections.

>ax2012‬ is open! And we sold our first copy of School Days to an eager fan!

Jast from AX.

>>9261515
>>And we sold our first copy of School Days to an eager fan!
The same guy who will make them lose thousands of dollars, with a smile on his face.

>>9261613
Unless it is by someone who lives locally, kind of doubtful that an AX copy will be uploaded during AX, simply because it is unlikely the sheer size will be uploaded on hotel wi-fi or a mobile connection.

>>9261707
I'd upload it but my home connection is terrible. 10 gigs would take almost 2 days. Someone else would probably get it up by then.

>>9261815
That's okay. Cause it would take me 3 months to download anyway.

I think we've finally found the perfect deterrent for piracy.

>>9261707
I don't see why not. Sure it'd take several hours, but I've uploaded multiple gig files from hotel wifi connections before without much trouble.

vnts's twitter account:

>Shatten licensed

as expected.

>>9264797
He has a twitter?

>>9264821
I think that is the Tinfoil's thing.

>>9264832
>Orlando, FL
I never knew Tinfoil was from Florida.

>>9264821
It's Tinfoil, no relation to the guy who does these threads, was created for his tracker.

Should be getting the Amagami trial patch in a few days

Bumping to create confusion.

>>9264864
>no relation to the guy who does these threads

Weren't they in cahoots? Something about a website.

>>9268520
*is confused*

*makes 40 posts*

>>9268545
Fuck off with your *actions*;

I can't believe I had to scroll through 14 pages of absolute shit to find this thread.

>>9272510
Fucking idiot, there's a new VNTS thread http://boards.4chan.org/jp/res/9268399#top

antisage

>>9272952
counter-antisage

>>9272510
Use the catalog next time.
Google "catalog neet".

>>9225736
The best week of the thread is here again!