/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>Irotoridori no Sekai - 41,709/51,100 (81.62%) lines translated, full common route, Kana, Tsukasa, and Kyou route translated, prologue patch released
Kurukuru Fanatic - Being translated
Koitate - Ren and Yukino’s route patch released
Kud Wafter - 4350/33132 (13.13%) 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 50% translated.
>Majikoi S- Trial patch out, Monshiro route released, Margit route fully translated, 32% edited
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 - 50% through the first past
Oreimo PSP - Youtube based project, part 89 out
Pandora no Yume - 20% translated, engine hacked, scripts need to be extracted
Parfait- Translation planned
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 3 - 20% Complete
Rance 6 - 51% Complete
Rance Quest - New translator working on it with overall progress 9356/110000 Lines (8.5%) Complete.
>Rewrite - 61540.78/101220 (60.8%) lines translated, common route patch out, Kotori/Chihaya routes translated
Rose Guns Days‬ - Demo released
Se-kirara - Being translated
Sensei Da-isuki 2- roughly 25% translated, still active

first

Official work

MangaGamer
Sexy Demon Transformation - 9/14 release
Otoboku - In beta testing, Fall release
Boob Wars - In beta testing, Fall release
Eroge - Fully translated and edited, Winter release
Harukoi Otome - In beta through September, Winter release
SSSS - 100% translated, 90% inserted, Winter release
Orion Heart - 100% translated, 2013 release
Slave Witch April - beta done by end of August, 2013 release
Ef: The Latter Tale - being worked on

JAST
Yumina the Ethereal - "- All game data translated. Testing.", release "Maybe this year"
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- 51.28% complete, going through retranslation
Seinarukana- Translation expected to be complete by end of year. Testing to follow, ~44% translated
Starless - Work ongoing
Trample on Schatten- In translation
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
Liar Soft would like to bring Steampunk titles over
The Night of Kamaitachi - 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/

Shinigami no Kiss wa Wakare no Aji - Fully translated, 2 routes of editing and technical problems remain
>SubaHibi - Down the Rabbit Hole I patch released, 28136/54285 (51.8%) lines translated and 28039/54285 (51.6%) lines edited
>Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 6- fully translated and through TLC, 6/15 scripts QC, beta patch out
>Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 8- fully translated, 13/18 scripts through TLC, 4/18 scripts QC, beta patch out
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 9- 5/18 scripts translated
>Sumaga Special - KBs done: [1156.45kb/8131.54kb] (14.22%)
Tenshi No Inai 12-Gatsu- "Maho route fixed"
To Heart2- 63% translated- "The final product is still years away unless I get more help. ", new alpha patch released
Tomoyo After - delayed because of a bug with the minigame
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, 36% edited
Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 34% edited
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 59.1%, Kazuha 87.8%, Akira 21.4%, overall 14809/39696 (37.3%) lines translated

Aroduc's secret project - complete, working on extra disc 2.
>Rance Translations secret project - 36% complete

So Baldr Sky has been confirmed dead?

thanks dude

Goddammit, Rance Translations. Why would they start a secret project right in the process of another translation? I just want to play Rance 6. ;_;

>>9665908
It's pretty much confirmed to be Rance 5D, which has important plot connections to VI.

Sumaga green, never thought I'd live to see the day.

>>9665919
Yeah, and only because
>retranslation
It's funny, not AIR-funny, but still funny.

>Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 6- fully translated and through TLC, 6/15 scripts QC, beta patch out
>Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 8- fully translated, 13/18 scripts through TLC, 4/18 scripts QC, beta patch out

For the beta patches, see http://axypb.net/2012/08/30/beta-translaton-patch-for-a-kiss-for-the-petals/

>>9665919

Retranslation isn't thing I wanted to see, though.

Well, Updates decrease lately

What happened to Ayakashibito?

>>9665978
translator quit months ago.

>>9665908
Rance 5D is short, so it'll be done mid-October at latest. Primary translator just came back, so we can more accurately guess completion time by next week.

How long has Baldr Sky been stuck at 26.06%

Oh my god.

>>9666007

Forever

>Tomoyo After - delayed because of a bug with the minigame

>>9666091
>we haven't finished translating half of it but we'll make up this excuse because it's unthinkable someone would just release the story part standalone

>>9666091

Not one bug, but too many bugs.

Can't wait to see Cudder's project.

>Tomoyo After - delayed because of a bug with the minigame

Fuck this gay earth.

>>9665896
>So Baldr Sky has been confirmed dead?
Yes.

Why is Futsuu so predictable?

>>9666343
He's one of the most consistent translators in the scene.

The best thread of the week is here again!

>Tomoyo After - delayed because of a bug with the minigame

goddamn, its been like 8 years since the release

Aroduc's secret project
so could it be buldar sky?

>>9666391
I'd rather it be something good.

When the FUCK can I play toaru kagaku no railgun

You better answer me nerds.

>Princess Maker 5- 44% translated

Sigh, no one is gonna continue this one? C'mon, there isn't even as much text as the other VNs.

>>9666407
I'll get right on it. Just as soon as I learn Japanese.

>>9666407

5 - 44 = -39.

How the fuck did they manage to get it to -39% translation?

>>9666273
No

>>9666421

Perhaps they retranslated ???

>>9666421
See Flyable Heart for an example of how to have a negative translation percentage.

>>9666406
What do you mean? You can play it in VLC right now.

>>9666446
>VLC

>>9666458
>he still uses inferior media players

>>9666446

Please just answer me. I rly wnt to ply it bad.

>>9666467
You can play it as soon as you learn Japanese.

>>9666474

Brb memorizing 3000+ characters and their meanings.

>>9666482
Good for you! I wish you luck.

>>9666483

No I was just being sarcastic!

Pls tell me when toaru kagaku no railgun is getting translated into english?

Does anyone have the uiharu pics with the glowsticks by the way?

>>9666343
Because he's normal.

>>9666493

There isn't any translator want to do it, anyway

>>9666493
>Pls tell me when toaru kagaku no railgun is getting translated into english?
Never.

>>9666499
>>9666498

Well do you atleast have the uiharu glowstick pictures?

Damn, I was going to ask a dumb question very politely, but this fag with the even more dumbly asked Index question means I'll never get a serious answer. Fuck!

>>9666524

Well do YOU have the uiharu gloswtick/rave pictures?

>>9666530
I do, but not gonna sharing.
SUCK IT BITCH

>>9666542
The funny part is, I actually do have at least one Uiharu glowstick gif.

>>9666530

You mean you don't?

>>9666549

No, I used to, but my hard-drive died, and I couldn't boot another OS on a different disc partition, to save the files on the old windows partition. Very traumatic for me.

>>9666542
>>9666546

Now you guys are just mean.

>>9666564
go away

>>9666564
>>9666549
>>9666546
>>9666542
>>9666530
>>9666524
>>9666510
It's been twenty minutes and you're still going. I will have to politely ask you to leave this thread. Start a new thread if you have to, but please leave this thread alone.

>>9666567

PLEASE give me the uiharu glowstick pictures. Then maybe I'll leave.

MUH UIHARU GLOWSTICK PICTURES

I'LL BE BACK FOR THE UIHARU GLOWSTICK PICTURES JANITOR.

You haven't won yet.

To get this thread back on topic, does anyone have a source for the claim made in the last thread that LB!EX is progressing?

>>9666091
What's the story behind this image? I've been seeing it for years whenever people talk about delayed stuff.

>>9666592
Probably the same guy.

>>9666592
It's the avatar of the hacker Message (known for making fancy installers). Apparently there was something involving delays around Fate/stay night's Unlimited Blade Works that caused people to make fun of him, I don't know much about the details.

>>9666592

It's a pretty epic meme, can't believe you haven't heard.

You're new is showing.

>>9666589

When will the next patch come out? One day you'll wake up and BAM! TRANSLATION! ...That's how it usually goes

Well, that's that

SubaHibi went down the same rabbit hole of Baldr Sky? .3% this week and slowing week by week?

>>9666649

At least Subahibi has some progress each week, edited scripts tag along too

>>9666649
Maybe Kirby is back in school now.

>>9666662
back in school, his roommate is a normal and don't understand, hunching over his laptop to translate, spaghetti falls out of his pockets

>>9666686

Surprisingly accurate.

>>9666686
why care about what society thinks of you

>>9666802
Edgy

>>9666605
sweet memories

You should add Dramatical Murder. They're at 11%.

>>9666686
I have translated in the middle of a class though.
With the novel closed of course. It was a boring class.
I think we were reviewing induction or something.

Anyway. It seems like there's nothing really close to being finished.
Which means that for quite a few weeks now we'll be watching just numbers I guess.
I'm interested in aroduc's project though.
My theory is it doesn't have fandiscs at all, and it's just a scheme to throw us off.

>>9667212
>I'm interested in aroduc's project though.
Speaking of that, does anyone know what VN with gameplay could have hebrew in it?

>>9667212

It does have fandiscs. Two of them. So it's not really a joke (although that's not what he's been translating recently. More like extra content for the game.)

>>9667212
You never can tell. Aroduc is king troll about things like that.

> posting yurishit
> having taste

Decided to start Baldr without it. Looking forward to Concerto Note.

>>9667224
I just thought this when I first read something about hebrew but...
What VN would actually have relevant hebrew in it?
I mean, it's not like your regular otaku can read it right?

>>9667628
It could be katakana Kabbalah shit, and he needs someone who's familiar with the terms to come up with appropriate transliterations.

>>9667628
I heard speculation that it might be Ikusa Megami Zero. Some fags were even saying that it might be Baldr Sky bat that's obviously bullshit.

>>9666139
KNNWSNY - delayed, waiting for some outsourced work to finish
Hatsukoi - waiting for translator

The FH/KNNWSNY translator is starting on another project in the meantime.

>>9667700
IM0 only has one extra disc.

>>9667984

But 4 has two discs

>>9667991
4? You mean Verita?
It has three actually.

I really doubt it's Verita. It's stupid as hell to translate it before IM0.
It's like releasing Dive 2 before Dive 1. You won't understand what's going on.

>>9666469
>he doesn't use media player classic, but instead a bloated piece of shit like vlc.
>quoting your mom in bed

>>9666605
best part was when someone on the team got tired of his attention whoring shit and leaked the patch-less version.

much butthurt followed.

>>9668131
>MPC
Yeah, no.

Feels pretty good not having to fuck around with system codecs, or look at ugly subtitle rendering. So does not having random lockups, and being able to play Blu-Ray discs.

When I have 4 GB, an extra 40 MB of RAM usage is a small price to pay for a media player that actually works.

>>9668590
>Feels pretty good not having to fuck around with system codecs
There's nothing to fuck around with. It takes 2 minutes to install MPC and the filters.
>or look at ugly subtitle rendering.
10/10. You got me.

>>9668766
>10/10. You got me.
Compare them yourself. Subtitles look like shit in MPC with CCCP compared to recent VLC builds because they're rendered at the resolution of the video and not the desktop. Maybe it's possible to make them look better using other subtitle filters, but again, why would I want to fuck around with it when VLC works out of the box? But by all means, keep making up excuses for your shitty media player.

>>9668823
>VLC works out of the box

>>9668823
VLC doesn't support ASS subtitles. It's only "good" if you watch ghetto yellow DVDRIP subs.

VLC is the kew K-Lite pack for people who are too lazy to spend 2 minutes installing MPC.

>>9668962
That's how it's supposed to look dude.

>>9668962
Looks a lot like the Haruhi encode I tried to watch with MPC a while back. VLC handled it fine.

>>9668987
That hasn't been true in years. As in, many years. As in, when the hell was the last time you used VLC?

damn!!when in the hell will finally we get Tomoyo After's patch?

>>9668995
That's how it's supposed to look when you use VLC.

>>9669398
When Doki deems us worthy.

it's faster learning japanese than waiting for translations.

>>9665908

First it was
> One brave anon working on Rance Quest while another worked on Rance VI
> Guy working on Quest decides to switch and help out Rance VI translator
> Start working on Rance III
> Start focusing on Rance 5D
> Another anon arrives on the scene to help out with Rance III
MAKE UP YOUR MINDS

>>9670069
Well, it is and it isn't. I mean, say it takes 500 hours for a person to learn enough Japanese to struggle through an easy VN, or 1,000 hours for a translator to translate the VN. And say a hundred people wind up reading the translation, That means that only 1,000 total man-hours were used, as opposed to 50,000 for them all to learn individually. Even if we factor in a translation decay of about 50% (signifying that their experience is reduced to about 50% of the experience of someone reading with a good knowledge of the original language, ignoring for the moment the absurdity of a person getting to that level in a mere 500 hours) it's still more efficient to wait for the translation, by a factor of 25:1. And I have a feeling more than 100 people download most translations.

>>9670069
No shit. I started learning Japanese around the time the Baldr Sky project started, and I could probably read it right now if I wanted, with some help from ITH.

>>9670102
After spending 500 hours to learn the Japanese, you can also read a hundred more visual novels without waiting on people to expend 100,000 hours translating them.

>>9670102
First, we're talking speed, not efficiency. Second, on an individual basis, it's much more efficient to learn Japanese than having to wait for translations. Put in the time learning Japanese, and you never have to wait for translations again.

>>9670102

I am who I am, I don't give a shit if some other retard has to spend 500 hours learning to read jap for a VN, because he means nothing to me, its stupid to try and look at things from some sort of societal point of view anyway, because its not like any of you were going to do something meaningful with your time. If anything, you make yourself better and more presentable by learning a foreign language than spending 500 hours jacking off to cartoons in your mothers basement. Maybe when you go into a job interview for your first mcjob (as if you ever would stop being a neet), you can put down on your resume that you know japanese and whoever is hiring will be impressed because everybody thinks its a difficult language and its always better to have more second language diversity in the customer service industry, so they will think about hiring you over some braindead high school kid who knows the same language as everybody else does, Spanish.

>>9667170
What the fuck, already?

The translation spawned off from an /a/ thread literally not even a week ago.

>>9670184
Really devoted translator, so it seems.
I'd have preferred if they were translating lamento or SP, but DMMD was cool too.

>>9670184
4chan related translations go at sanic speeds.

>>9670102
Why in hell would you care about collective time efficiency when you are learning the language exclusively for your personal gain?

>>9670192
Someday, someone will teach you idiots what percentages are.

What's the next route translation planned for S? I wanna masturbate to kokoro's ass already.

>>9670184

The TL says it's mostly backlog that they'd been working on prior to actually getting a hold of the script, but they're confident they can finish in under a year.

>>9667912
>Hatsukoi - waiting for translator

Oh no, you don't.

>>9670102
But the person that put in 500 hours can start translating themselves for the benefit of all.

>>9670102
>it's faster learning japanese than waiting for translations.

>Well, it is and it isn't. I mean, say it takes 500 hours for a person to learn enough Japanese
>or 1,000 hours for a translator to translate

500 < 1000. As a result, it's faster. Stop being a faggot.

>>9670653
You disregarded the whole rest of my post. It's like a car uses less fuel than a bus, but a fully loaded bus will use far less fuel than one person in a car. Same principle here but with time instead of fuel.

>>9670818
Far less fuel per person I meant, obviously.

If everyone learned Japanese for themselves then how would translators get e-penis?

>>9670492
http://exhentai.org/g/455640/0b84b218b6/ Here you go. Just pretend there's a few lines of shoddy dialogue underneath it going on about how big your penis is.

>>9670899

Your bow is SO big

>>9670165
That's assuming you're using busy waiting. Practically, it's more useful to divert the remaining CPU time to other processes until the external operation has been completed.

No word of Dies Irae at all?

>>9671274
Why would there be?

>>9671286
I don't know, why wouldn't there be?

>>9671293
The same reason there's no news for <INSERT VN HERE>

>>9671468
But there was news just the other day.

Also Futsuu called, apparently Baldr Sky is cancelled forever. His project is so dropped that even the originaly Japanese version is retroactivly dropped as well. So if you wanted to learn moon and read it yourself you're FUCKED.

>>9671473
Please don't use foul language. This isn't /v/. We strive to be polite at all times here.

>>9670818
But if you had to pay for the fuel, which would you choose?
If you are a greedy bastard like most people, you'll choose the car.
And it's not like someone learning japanese makes a VN untranslatable.
So how are those even related?

>>9671166
You realize what board you're on, right?

There has been for some weeks some people trying to translate Muv-Luv Altered Fable.
Check: >>>/anime/1344210784/read/anime/1344210784/read/anime/1344210784/read/anime/13
44210784

Well, I don't know if the translation will be very good or not but maybe it can be considered to also include in the list this translation if it continues making progress.

There has been for some weeks some people trying to translate Muv-Luv Altered Fable.
Check: >>>/anime/1344210784/read/anime/1344210784/read/anime/1344210784/read/anime/1344210784

Well, I don't know if the translation will be very good or not but maybe it can be considered to also include in the list this translation if it continues making progress.

So, has anyone figured out Aroduc's secret project?

>>9675786
It's Baldr Sky

Going by the chapter count, extra discs, and hint about Hebrew, I'd say Baldr Sky is the most likely possibility. Can't really think of anything else that fits all the evidence we have like it does.

>>9675786

It's Twinkle Crusaders.

>>9675816
If you spent more than ten minutes in his IRC you'd know that it's not. He's confirmed that it's BS. Futsuu was told a few months back to quit working because Aroduc would have his translation out faster. That's why he went pretty much silent.

So if Aroduc really is doing Baldr Sky, I wonder if Futsuu has been working on something else in the meantime. Like Parfait, or WA2.

>>9675846
It's possible. I imagine he'd stay quiet about it either way because he doesn't want to spoil the surprise.

I do wonder if Aroduc took over where Futsuu left off, or if he just started again from the beginning. Seems kind of wasteful if he's just throwing away the stuff Futsuu already did.

>>9675813
>Going by the chapter count
Yeah, of one route.
>extra discs
BS has one fandisk, and that's it.
>and hint about Hebrew

Think of duel savior. Which has enough extra discs, common chapters and hebrew to be more likely.

>>9675813
>>9675885
I don't know either way, but consider that Aroduc may well be fucking with us regarding chapter counts and extra discs and whatnot. The only hint that might be worth anything is the Hebrew one.

Well, I guess we'll know soon enough.

>>9675885
Duel Savior has no Hebrew

>>9675885
BS has one fandisk, but it is two discs that are included that each have different content. Also Aroduc could be doing something funky, for example considering every "chapter X" to be one chapter even if it's the same numbered chapter of different routes.

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
Cartagra - Initial translation complete, future is unknown
Kud Wafter - 4350/33132 (13.13%) lines translated
Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content, Sasami route 66.83% (4472/6691) translated
White Album 2 - Overall: 3081/70253 (4.38%) lines translated, Introductory Chapter: 3081/10769 (28.6%) lines translated
Steins;Gate - 2nd pass: 154/175 Scripts. Phone and TIPS edited, rough patch out, Jast may pick up the project

Tell me /jp/. Why is life so unfair?

>SubaHibi - Down the Rabbit Hole I patch released, 28136/54285 (51.8%) lines translated and 28039/54285 (51.6%) lines edited

:o

>>9675926

WA2 is doomed, that was obvious pretty much from the start. The translator was way too slow and his Japanese too bad to consider it as a serious project. I don't care for the rest, though.

>>9675915
Yes it does

>>9675885
>BS has one fandisk, and that's it.
Core Defender & DiveX

>>9676456
also how long is disc two, should he be done soon?

>>9675821
>>9675811
>>9675813
Oh man, if its bs its a dream come true..
is it just bs 1 or both?

>>9676192
>>9676456
>>9676459
It's not Baldr Sky.

>>9675786

Fortissimo

>>9675811
It's not Baldr Sky. Instead it might be somthing that's actually good.

It's Custom Reido 4

For fuck's sake, I'm not translating Baldr Sky. Why would I pick up something someone else is already translating?

>>9676776
The obvious answer to this riddle is that you ARE Futsuu.

>>9676776
Because you're a faggot?

>>9676776
Because /jp/ loves drama.

>>9676776
The only two posts with this trip in the archives are this one and one claiming to be TakaJun. Nice try, though.

>>9676776

What is your obsession with cats?

>>9676811
Maybe TakaJun and Aroduc are the same person.

>>9676788
>>9676811
>>9676821
Aroduc is every fan translator.

>>9676788
>>9676821
All translators are the same person. If we think of it this way, every translation is actually moving very quickly.

I just want to play baldr sky.

please.

It's the reason I took up japanese seriously, like fast paced reading. Ill learn the language before I see it out now.

>>9676829
Aroduc is like the translation version of Anonymous. He is LEGION!

>>9676918
Epic! Reposting this on le reddit.

>>9676830
I'm currently picturing Moogy, sitting in a dark room, with like eleven monitors, all with different VN scripts open, translating like a madman.

>>9676945
All of which will not be released because he is above translating ero.

I thought about translating a VN, but I have no idea how to do all the technical shit. I have no friends. Are there people who will do that stuff for free? I did find guides on how to do it, but I have school full time so it would be kind of a pain in the ass.

>>9676964
Generally there are people that will help, but most want at least to see some proof you're serious before they put any real work in. Also it could already have tools made for it depending on what it is. I'd ask around #ammy and #tlwiki on rizon as most people in the TL scene seem to congregate there.

>>9676964
You'll need to show some work before anyone's going to take you seriously. I'd avoid #tlwiki just because of the politics and clique-nature of the site and its channel.

>>9676964
If you're going to release the product free then we can do that. Our fully managed solution is an excellent fit for your requirements. You can translate anytime, anywhere. Please contact us for more information.

>>9676973
>>9677031
>>9677158

Thanks for the info.

Maybe I should translate some doujins to establish myself?

>>9677170
We don't do text extraction for doujins... Contact us with the exact VN and any miscellaneous information and we'll get you setup with an account. Processing times are dependent on the VN and may range from a few days to a few weeks.

>>9677158
When are you going to extract the scripts for 神採りアルケミーマイスター, Cudder?

>>9677229
Wasn't a patch released for that already?

Either way, we haven't received any requests for that outside of threads on /jp/, so we have chosen to pursue other more profitable projects.

guys the translation bubble is gonna burst and none of these projects will see daylight for 4 years at least thoughts?

>>9677287
I think you're a retard.

>>9676964

If you're a decent TL and you want to work on something with a reasonable enough demand, usually if you put it out there that you want to do it, you can find someone to help on the technical side.

Though I have to admit I really only know about the BL game TL scene. Maybe hackers are less helpful in the general arena, I dunno.

>>9677269
>profitable projects
What kind of profit does extracting text from VNs bring you?

>>9677872
nothing, it just talking nonsense as usual. Anyway... wasn't it banned 3rd time? We had couple of clean threads... until now.

>>9677872
Whoa there nigger. Cudder is the CEO of REtrans International (trademark pending), a localization technology provider. Don't lump her in with run-of-the-mill, hobbyist text extractors.

>>9679013

Ah, that's why her posts sound like some fraudulent business website.

What happened to Majikoi project?

>>9679261
It's dead.

>>9679449
それは違います。

So has Aroduc been saying anything about releasing it soon?

Please, will anybody translate Pigeon Blood?
It has some kind of training system, I can't into that kind of nihongo!

>>9679682
I'm on it, will be done tomorrow.

>>9679689
o-ok, I get it. I'll go to the corner.

>>9679635
Only if you beat him at Melty Blood.

>>9679635
That's not his style. He'll just drop a patch out of the blue when he feels it's ready, possibly with some sort of pre-release event like he did with Kamidori (Melty Blood challenges for one day early access) but that's as much advance notice as we can expect.

>>9679635
Probably still going to be an editing phase after the translating done.

Am I the only one happy about the SonoHana patches being released? Because I am, very happy indeed. Thanks yuribros!

>>9677872
Note that I said "projects" and not "VN projects", quite appropriately because we've been doing a lot lately that has absolutely nothing to do with VNs.

>>9678988
Stop spreading lies. None of that is true. I won't repeat it here, go look in the archive if you want to find the truth.

>>9682400

I'm happy. I just don't express it. /jp/ seems to have a thing against yuri.

>>9682427
Cudder, how much do I need to pay you to suck my dick?

Why don't you guys just learn Japanese?

You could be able to play any VN by the time any one of these is finished translating. It's so silly to wait for translations when these games are already released.

Don't you feel depressed knowing that what you want to play is already released and you have to sit here waiting for translators to spoon feed it to you?

>>9682429
Get in the queue.

>>9682432
It takes too much effort and time, studying is boring. I tried with agth+vn but I didn't understand anything so I gave up.

>>9682435
http://visualnovelaer.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/how-to-read-visual-novels-in-japanese-in-2-years-time
-step-by-step-guide-%E2%80%95-learn-to-read-through-vn-or-anime/

I can see how people wouldn't want to essentially read and memorise a page of a dictionary every day.

>>9682432
The waiting is half the fun.

>>9682445
Two years is a longass time. If I could motivate myself to do something that I would see no results from for two fucking years do you seriously think I'd still be here?

>>9682432
But I have a pencil and a notebook for practicing kanji right in front of me. I'm still unable to read though (and it'll be like that for quite some time), so even if I'm learning I depend on fan translation efforts.
I can't believe I haven't lost all my motivation after 200 kanji.

>>9684921

It's more like one year though. The estimates on her guide are ridiculously long.

1 year for kanji? 20 days for kana? That's craziness, anyone can learn kana in two days.

>>9685016
>her guide

It's not her guide, though.

>>9685016
Yeah, but to learn kana in two days you have to try.

Twenty days is now long it would take someone who only looks at the kana chart ten minutes a day while preparing food.

>>9685049
No offense but if you spend "10 minutes a day" to learn a new language, you might as well not even bother.

>>9684921
First, as already said it doesn't take two years. Second, you'll start reading VNs as soon as you feel somewhat comfortable with the grammar, or at least that's what you should be doing. Sure, it won't be Albatross, it'll be easy moege at first, but still. Just sitting and grinding kanji all day is not going to teach you the language.

>>9685062
I think I'll probably be able to read children's manga within three or four years. I'm not really in a hurry.

>>9685016
>That's craziness, anyone can learn kana in two days.
20 days for kana is indeed too long.
2 years for kanjis seem fine if you have brain problems.

It all depends on how much of your free time you spend on it. Is it something you do idly, or is it an obsession? Obsession gets things done, but that prevents you from taking it easy.

>>9685483
Taking it easy doesn't mean procrastinating. Taking it easy is obsessing over things you like.

>>9685666
>Taking it easy doesn't mean procrastinating

In /jp/'s case, it does.

>>9685666
Just because we like VNs doesn't mean we like studying for hours a day for a year in order to read them.

>>9685825

It's not like you have anything else to do.

>>9685016
I think the idea is to immerse yourself in the language by trying to read the media, and not just memorise dictionaries and tables.

It's sort of the same with maths, asking someone to memorise entries in a multiplication table will not be as effective as getting them to practice problems. Go read VNs, manga, whatever. You have to use the language to learn it.

>Fate/Hollow Ataraxia- 83.2% translated, third partial patch out
One day.

One day...

>>9686448

Yes, one day you'll experience the disappointment of waiting so long for such a mediocre game.

>>9684921
>no results from for two fucking years

Uh, no? Learning a language is an ongoing thing, you don't wake up one morning and you are fluent. You'll see the first results after a really short time, and you'll be able to read an easy written VN in 3 - 4 months (with some additional help of ITH).

>>9682445
Does anyone actually have followed this guide? Does it work? It seems like funniest way to learn Japanese.

>>9682427
if it's not related to VNs, then you can kindly get the fuck out.

>>9686706
Posted by what faggot? I highly doubt it.

>>9686725
It seems too good to be true, that is why I asked.

>>9686728

Not sure if it was true, but there was a thread where people claimed to have learned through a similar method.

>>9686728
>>9686734

At its core, the guide just encourages one thing: reading. You'll be exposed to the language rather than academically analyze it. And yes, it's a pretty fast method. I can't see how it's hard to believe.

>
Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 34% edited

;_;

I hope this picks back up again, because the sooner it's done the sooner work starts on Air.

>>9686867
sheeta a SHIT

fags japanese isn't a hard language. I never took courses formally, only memorized the alphabet, watched subbed

anime, and grinded some grammar a little. Some kanji or phrases occur so fucking often you will instantly recognize

it the second time around. Machine translations is good for some complex words, but some games are fuck annoying for

machine translations. Imagine japs using english machine translations: "what" will be translated 何, but whaaat?whhat?

will probably come out as giberish, and considering how much words tail off for verbal effect and colloquialism in

games, learning some basic japanese including listening make reading VNs quite easy, right now i don't ever wait on

translations, pretty much read whatever the fuck i want, and cruise at auto-mode speed for most VNs with very good

accuracy and understanding. Well worth the small investment, last you forever derp. translations is a thankless job

and no one in the fucking mind will dedicate time properly without incentive, so enjoy your wait.

fags japanese isn't a hard language. I never took courses formally, only memorized the alphabet, watched subbed anime, and grinded some grammar a little. Some kanji or phrases occur so fucking often you will instantly recognize it the second time around. Machine translations is good for some complex words, but some games are fuck annoying for machine translations. Imagine japs using english machine translations: "what" will be translated 何, but whaaat?whhat? will probably come out as giberish, and considering how much words tail off for verbal effect and colloquialism in games, learning some basic japanese including listening make reading VNs quite easy, right now i don't ever wait on translations, pretty much read whatever the fuck i want, and cruise at auto-mode speed for most VNs with very good accuracy and understanding. Well worth the small investment, last you forever derp. translations is a thankless job and no one in the fucking mind will dedicate time properly without incentive, so enjoy your wait.

>>9682445

I don't understand, if you're just memorizing the letters you will have absolutely no idea what they fucking mean. Wouldn't it be easier to use like rosetta stone and shit so you can actually understand some of the language before memorizing the alphabet?

>>9684921

The irony here is, the "motivated" people who spend their time learning this language just so they can play porn games and watch cartoons might be wasting more time than the people who are just waiting for the translations.

>>9689536
Until the next thing they want to read comes out. Then they can start it right away. Why would you spend time learning a whole language just to read one single thing?

>>9689590

You couldn't have missed the point any more than you just did ...

>>9689536
You get to learn a new language, that's pretty productive if you ask me.

>>9689623
Learning to do something, regardless of the reason, is never a waste of time.

Aroduc hates mecha, why would he bother with Baldr Sky?

>>9690411
I don't know, why don't you ask him that?

Baldr Force or Duel Savior. Aroduc's project is one of those two, probably the latter.

Anyway, which would you like most?

>>9692252
It can also be IM0 perfectly. Also there's no way he has translated the whole BS since he released kamidori.

>>9692258
IM0 doesn't have 2 extra disc.

>>9692258
>Consensual Sex Involving Tentacles
I would love for it to be IM0, but it's probably Duel Savior.

>>9692265
Neither does BS.

>>9692258

IM Zero already has someone in charge: http://vntls.tindabox.net/project/ikusa-megami-zero

Yeah, laugh with me.

I just finished G線上の魔王. I liked it a lot.

>>9682427
oh sorry... it's 4th time?

>>9690411
Sure he does. That's why he watches so many mecha anime.

Are there any VNs that the community wants translated but simply don't have a translator? Something with the system already hacked, with reinsertion tools or so.

>>9692811
There are many in the OP that are all but dead.

>>9692819
I don't know, it still seems to me that those not on green at OP still have a spark of life on them. Maybe I'm being too optimistic about how translators work, but...

For example, is Mahoyo being actively worked on? Just not being regularly updated with progress?

>>9692811
Translate this one
http://vndb.org/v7723

>>9692848
While I really liked Meikyuu, I had the feeling the translator planned on going for the series, not just the first one. I just don't want to go ahead and impose on someone else's work.

>>9692811
How about this?
http://vndb.org/v548

>>9692868
Dies Irae is fine, as long as the tools exist. Do they?

Also, that version release hell, oh boy.

>>9692881

As far as I can tell, Dies irae ~Amantes amentes~ for PC includes the "new graphics, animated scenes, and all new routes" of the PSP version. It seems to be the definitive release.

>>9692811

Pincess Maker 4. Without doubt.

>>9692929

This please.

>>9692811

Princess Maker 5. 44% translated and stalled for months. It would be a waste if it weren't finished.

>>9692811
I second >>9692868

I third dies irae.

>>9692938
>>9692929
Sadly I am not a great fan of raising simulators so I find myself pressed in giving enough passion and dedication to it, since I haven't played these PMs yet.

And I think months stalled isn't much in this community.

>>9692811
White Album 2, Eiyuu Senki, Little Witch Romanesque, euphoria, Dies Irae, etc.

All of these seem to be appreciated around here.

>>9692811

The Bishoujo Mangekyou series, Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete or Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate are more recent titles.

>>9692980
WA2 is of my interest as well, so if the project is really dead I will consider that too.

Eiyuu Senki, I thought it was dropped due to legal issues, so that's a bit iffy.

Littlewitch Romanesque looks interesting, and those speech bubbles look like they would be a considerable obstacle for a translation. Although I think Quartett handled it fine...

Euphoria is by Clock Up right? Mangagamer is dealing with them now, so I'd prefer not to.

>>9693003
Biman was pretty okay and the engine looked simple enough, I don't know if it was a generic engine though since I didn't bother looking into the specifics of it

Ushimirai was goregous, so if tools existed that would be welcome as well.

Koichoco was relatively bland but I didn't look into the engine either.

I've yet to see tools linked though for all of these mentioned, the less hacking work I have to do the happier I'll be.

>>9693015
UshiMirai is Kirikiri so tools should be hard to find, some of these should work here: http://tlwiki.org/index.php?title=Tools
for others dont know about status of hackings. And Eiyuu senki shoulnd't be even considered people only want it because historical figures genderbended. Its generally rule of thumb if you are serious about translating, translate enough to show that you are serious and then go asking around and I'm sure you'll find a hacker

>>9693057
That's nice, if Ushimirai is krkr I could work with that myself. Never noticed it.

I am generally afraid of the translating community and drama, which is why I was asking about existing tools in the first place.

>>9692811
Dies Irae

where can you get the english patches from? Do you have to download the jap version first and then apply the patch, or are complete english versions provided?

havn't spent very much time with visual novels so far and I want to change that, thanks

How about Sayonara wo Oshiete?

>>9693155

http://erogedownload.com/downloads/

>>9693074

Let me tell you something you probably already know: work on something you really like, because that's the only way to stay motivated to finish it.

>>9692811
http://vndb.org/v893

>>9693458
Get me some tools ready and I'd put this over the other suggestions, really.

>>9693608
If you wanna try... http://tlwiki.org/index.php?title=Tools#RLdev

But there are better choices with less lines (82112)...

>>9693646
I tried these and they weren't for the RL version my copy of Snow used, it was one more akin to the one in Little Busters, but I could not get in contact with the hacker in question.

>>9693688
Try asking there irc://irc.rizon.net/tlwiki

>>9693015

WA2 had been considered dead already.

>>9693074
If you're serious about UshiMirai, it is pretty easy to work with.

>>9693074
>I am generally afraid of the translating community and drama, which is why I was asking about existing tools in the first place.

you've been mislead by these threads about the amount of drama involved. and whatever your project, you will likely need technical help and almost certainly editing

>>9693074
No matter what you do, you'll end up pissing off some group.

>>9693936
That's not true at all. Translation groups tend to be very supportive of other groups, provided you're not completely incompetent and don't step on someone's toes and try to translate something someone is already working on or something else like that. Most of the time when you hear about drama between two groups it's because one or both sides have some aggressive outspoken personality like Moogy or GipFace that want to argue about some dumb thing, not because of the translations themselves.

>>9692811
http://vndb.org/v9093

>>9694150
Did you read this or just thought 'oh, this is new and looks pretty'?
because 3 out of 5 routes are rather bad.

>>9694155
I just want something new and pretty.

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2012/09/07/scripters-corner-softhose-seal/

Mangagamer has a secret title in the works, anyone got any idea what it is?

>>9693688
Try asking the ceomegahackingsage... ahemm, try asking Cudder

Hey would anyone be interested in "Seven Days With The Ghost". It's a short,free, yuri VN, with surprisingly high quality.(only on visuals and music, since I don't know much of the story).

>>9694236
Yuri... no thanks

>>9694204
>as well as one secret project, which I’m sure you’ll love
Grisaia? I know that Doddler was involved with that fan translation project before.

>>9694261
baldr sky

>>9693773
I think I'll take a shot at it. Are there any specifics I should know before delving into the engine?

>>9693392
I'm probably going to do Sayo Oshi next (unless Makoto can pull some strings for me regarding another game.)

>>9694716
That makes me happy to hear. At least it hasn't been forgotten.

can somebody translate this?
It looks fucking amazing and should be up there to translate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCYqPZtf7z0
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-4HZv4-Nvw

>>9694787
>Albatross Koukairoku
Isn't that the game known for its fiendishly difficult Japanese?

>>9692811
I think the Daiteikoku translation has lost it's translator, but everyone seems to hate that game.

Personally, I always suggest
http://vndb.org/v1021
whenever a translator is looking for suggestions.

But then, I'm a perv.

>>9694801
I think so but if somebody could give it a go that would be amazing. It looks like a 10/10.

How about the one vn with the 40 year old man that gets divorced and can get with other girls and his wife.

>>9694817
If you were good enough at Japanese to understand it, and a good enough writer to be able to pull it off, I bet it would be pretty fun to translate something like that. Just use the most obscure, over-the-top wording you can come up with.

>>9694839
also from the same company, looks hot.
http://vndb.org/v10678

>>9694849
Learn moon or give up on raiL-soft.
As a translator, I would fear that my writing could not emulate how raiL-soft works express their narrative.

>>9694862
but there has to be some way.. whats so hard about? what English book would be equal to it?

>>9694862
how about this? im surprised nobody has translated it yet

>>9694876
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL2v-HS3tfs whoops.

>>9694787
>>9694817
>>9694849
>>9694873

Oh, man, it's this guy again.

>>9694873
It's definitely not impossible to translate, but asking an amateur translator to translate it for free is completely ridiculous.

>>9694878
>Nitroplus
You should lurk around more a bit before commenting, newfriend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nooMQ3tO5w
this must be translated, dat art.

>>9694716
dammit, i was planning on doing that at some point in the near-ish future. had the opening translated for fun, but that's hardly even 20 lines. oh well.

>>9694967
No way, man. If you want to do it, go ahead. I don't want to squat on a game when I'm barely halfway done with the one I'm doing now.

Dramatical Murder is at 18% as of the recent update

>>9695340
whaaaaaat yes, 7% increase from when I checked it this morning. Go girls go!

Y'know, say what you will about Togainu no Chi but the English script in the patch was really well done. All that fanfic writing makes itself useful, apparently.

Opinions?

>>9695674
My opinion is that you should all calm the fuck down and wait for the damn release instead of filling thread after thread with your autistic guessing games.

>>9694204
I hope it's Shin Koihime Musou.

>>9695718
Who called the Fun Police?

>>9695674
Fortissimo

New project (name withheld) - 4.95%

>>9694129
>and try to translate something someone is already working on
This should be encouraged, it creates more competition and more choices for the consumer. I doubt any two translators could produce exactly the same output.

>>9694208
If TLwiki already has the tools, go ask them. We don't provide (free) support for third-party software.

>>9695779
koy-heem moo-soo.

>>9695963
>it creates more competition and more choices for the consumer
It also makes one person waste their time since
>People are going to read the first released one
>VN translation takes too much and they can just spend their home translating something that hasn't been done yet

Competition stops being competition when one of the choices is never going to be used and feels like a waste of resources.

>>9695858
Fortissimo?
I don't remember such picture in it.

>>9695963
>New project (name withheld) - 4.95%
Are you using Bing or Google?

>>9696051
Atlas is better for the quality, which is the main point of their translations.

>>9696013
By your logic, everything would only have *one* supplier, and it'd be a monopoly.

Learning is never a waste of resources. "Once you stop learning, you start dying."

>>9696060
It was a joke. The idea is it’s awful and retarded.

>>9696076
Cudder, are you genuinely autistic?

>>9696079

I think he just answered your joke with another, or at least sarcasm.

>>9696087
That is a possibility.

>>9696076
>everything would only have *one* supplier, and it'd be a monopoly.
No, enterprises actually can into competition, two people translating separately the exact same thing doesn't work.
Let's say one company releases a mobile phone, the next year, a different one releases the exact same mobile, it can't do anything the other can't but the layout is a tiny bit different.
No one sane would buy the outdated mobile.

>>9696051
>>9696060
Neither. Make your own conclusions.

(We are looking for those knowledgeable in Japanese to help with developing technologies for more efficient translation. Contact us if interested.)

>>Fate/Hollow Ataraxia- 83.2% translated, third partial patch out

>>9696115
>developing technologies for more efficient translation
Cudder, go look for a decent translator instead "improving" you shitty machine translator.

>>9696106
Bad analogy, because as someone once said, "Don't overestimate the saneness of those who buy Apple products."

There are multiple ways to translate something, and each of those ways has their supporters. Some may want more literal, some may want less literal, some want it NOW and don't care about accuracy too much, some want to wait (almost) forever for a "good" translation. Unless all translators are doing exactly the same thing there is a wide multidimensional spectrum of capabilities and corresponding consumers.

"There's more than one way to skin the cat."

>>9696079
I thought it was quite obvious I was joking, but there are many idiots on the net so I shouldn't be surprise by such an answer, but still...

>>9692811
GothDeri made incredible use of the KrKr engine a few years back. It supposedly had a translation project going but the guys working on it just wanted an excuse to get out from it, and then the entire wiki was shut down closing all projects. It's likely it was just some stunt to rival TLWiki or something.
http://vndb.org/v3939
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP2qgN77y88
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIp1Ri0B-Qw

Disregarding that, it uses the KrKr engine and you have tools for it here
http://tlwiki.org/index.php?title=Tools
It really is a shame that it was never completed because it isn't all too text-heavy, has some fun characters packed with shadowrun-esque magic and it's a really cool little fast paced action novel.

Of course, if that doesn't float your boat then there is always things much simpler, like say Cara the Bloodlord.
http://vndb.org/v10249
It's not all that fancy but it's a nukige title and as with most Lilith stuff has good voice acting, and this one in particular has animated ero-scenes. But most of all, this title packed with erotic content and has multiple characters, but is _incredibly text-light_. Which may be worthy of note for a translator.

Of course, if you were to be interested in a nukige title and don't so much care about it being notably text-light, there is always Saimin Reido.
http://vndb.org/v1601
The sheer number of fetishes it caters to is simply incredible, and among other things it is also among the best the mind control genre has to offer.

But by all means, do whatever you want. Working on something you don't enjoy is bound to be a failure. Or in most cases at the very least. Cara the Bloodlord really is text-light. Check the titles out in either case.

>>9696537
Gothic Delusion is pretty cool. Insane production values, and not too long. That would be a good choice.

You probably want to avoid translating anything from lilith (anime lilith, black lilith, lilith mist and lilith soft) because they've C&D two translators already.

>>9696537
that game looks insane but that Lilith title looks hot also.

>>9696675
A lilith game was just translated.

>>9696717
I must be blind, I can't find an entry on VNDB. Which lilith game was just translated?

>>9696749
The shidoL elf one, captive market

>>9696770
Fair enough. I just thought I'd leave a potential translator a warning that that company has C&D in the past.

>>9695340
>>9695628
The common route it a little more than 65% done translationwise. There'll be a patch for it once it gets edited/tested/ect.

>>9693773
>>9694531

So after a night of playing around, I managed to extract the scripts since they were encrypted at first, but I haven't toyed with reinsertion yet.

>>9697438
Well, let us know how it goes when you do.

OP hurry up ``please''.