/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Swim, Ikachan!

>>9967161
fuck off weeaboo

>>9967181
Don't bully him this is cute!!

OP have you heard of ``Cave Story''? It's by the person who made Ikachan. It's good.

>>9967214
Ah, I've played it some time ago. And I'm pretty sure it is, or at least it used to be, one of /jp/'s favorite doujin games. Never knew it had anything to do with this game, though. It makes a lot of sense, since the style is pretty similar. The gameplay is kinda similar too.

I'm not sure if my good doujin games are obscure enough for /jp/.

How about Too Heat 2, and Zen-Ichi?

>>9967222
Ikachan makes a cameo during one of the boss battles.

All of pixel's games are good, though Ikachan and Cave Story are the most fleshed out. I really enjoy Guxt, it's a simple but fun STG.

Dwarf fortress?

I think toadyone is japanese.

A shame Nicalis is going to shit all over Ikachan and sell it on Steam. Everything good comes to an end eventually, I suppose.

>>9967243
Still haven't beaten it. One day, though. It's one of my primary goals in life.

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>>9967343
Oh, I just realized I was on /jp/. Never mind. I meant to sageru.

>>9967327
>>9967334
Not sure why sageru was deployed here. My mistake.

>>9967327
Well, at least we still have a fuckton of RPG RT games to play around with, as long as you have the necessary japanese knowledge. I'm even planning on translating many of the RPG doujin games I have here when I learn my way around japanese better. (Pic related, one of the best doujin games that I know)

>>9967327
Please, stop reminding me of Nicalis...

>>9967510
At least the Japanese box art is nice. The game is inexcusable, however.

>>9967528
I believe this was done before the artist (zanp/shinonoko) was contracted to do the Japanese box art. No idea why they didn't have her do the American box art.

Every time Nicalis remakes a game I love, I die a little inside. They really are the worst company.

>>9967557

>>9967557
>Every time Nicalis remakes a game I love, I die a little inside.
I definitely resonate with this.

タオルケットをもう一度

Warning Forever
ChoRenSha
Blue Wish Resurrection
Demonophobia
Electrical Bird
Eden's Edge
Last Dimension
Navy Mission
rRootage
Shooter's Solitude
Torus Trooper
Vacant Ark
Warmachine Overload

Thank you for these games, /jp/! I have been playing western freeware for years, but I am not very well versed with its Japanese side outside of Pixel's stuff and a few others.

>>9968386
Anon, when you finish translating this please tell us.

>>9968456
Woah some of those look really cool!

>>9968456
>Warning Forever
Holy shit this game. Old but fucking great boss-only shmup.

>>9969935
Someone's translating? Maybe I could help. I'm up to the second 5.

>>9969948
I love that game! So addictive.
ABA Games are great too, I think >>9968456 mentioned most of them.

>>9967557
>Every time Nicalis remakes a game I love, I die a little inside. They really are the worst company.
Fucking seconded. They're right up there with Nyu Media and Carpe Fulgur for butchering games I like, although here it was in a much more obvious and painful way.

Speaking of which, are there any _good_ localization companies? There are good individual translators, but I don't think I've ever seen a commercial/professional translator of doujinsoft that I haven't hated.

>>9974029
What's wrong with Carpe Fulgur?

Haven't played the remakes of Cave Story, why are they bad? And who are Nicalis?

>>9968456
>Navy Mission
Holy shit, this is awesome.

>>9974221
no loli-tits and grammatically correct English dialogue.

>>9973961
Do you have the scripts for part 3 ready? I wanna play it ;_;

>>9974237
Cave Story + is a remake of cave story by Nicalis and I think it's pretty cool. Just pirate it and patch in the original translation.

>>9975651
You can blame "professional" western society for the nololitits.

>>9967245
I have been looking for Too Heat 2 for over 5 years. I downloaded it a long time ago and forgot what it was called. I wish I could buy you a beer.

Ikachan was in my cavestory folder when I downloaded it, get the freeware version and you should get a translated version of ikachan.

Bunny Must Die is pretty fun, though I haven't beaten it.

Currently enjoying Gleam of Force 2 (from those guys who made Ragnarok Battle Offline)

info and latest version
gof2club.wikidot.com/download

What are some cool Adventure/Platform games?

>>9977055
Nezumiman is pretty entertaining. Now for adventure games, I don't really remember. I know a lot of RPGs, though. Most of them are in japanese.

>>9977101
Nezumiman is really interesting, thank you for sharing.

How does the scoring in Eden's Aegis and Blue Wish Resurrection Plus work?

Which one is the doujin board?
As in board number, url, etc. Google translate doesn't give and that other futaba navigation site is really outdated.

>>9976796
You haven't even unlocked Chelsea?
Sorry bro, you're not even haflway there.

>>9967581
>>9967557
How is Nicalis bad? As far as I know, there's been absolutely no negative changes to the games except arguably the art, and if the new art isn't to your taste it's not like you can't get the original freeware versions.

It seems to me you're just make because they're threatening to make your favorite art-games popular.

>>9978310
http://engawa.2ch.net/gameama/

>>9978310
http://2chnull.info/r/gameama/
If you feel like searching throughout the archive. You may find some pretty cool ancient games there. I've had to go through chinese forums sometimes to find doujinsoft. Also, I consider this list pretty essential for someone that's into these games.
http://chaos2ch.com/archives/2763954.html
I've got many of my doujin games from here.

>Electrical Bird
The fuck is this shit.

Any GREAT translated doujin games? I don't feel confident with my level of Japanese yet. I already played ika-chan, cave story and a bunch more and loved every single one of them. I trust your judgement /jp/, so please, recommend me some games.

>>9978324
Well yeah, the fact that they remade it into a possibly more popular version is what bugs me. You know how people say there are films that can't be remade, or even digitally coloured? It's like that. The original art, music, and even the translation I played because I can't read enough nihongo were all part of the charm.
I had no problem with the homebrew ports people were making. I have every problem with an enhanced version of a game when part of the original style was that it was based on games that were the complete opposite of all this 3D bullshite.

>>9978533
Wait for anon to translate towelket and you'll have a masterpiece in your hands.

Obligatory plug for RKS/Grollschwert/Freudenstachel/Weißsilber. The latter two are only for those that keep track of their passwords religiously, though.

Chelsea and the 7Devils is already really good. It's a shame you have to play through the shitpile that is Bunny Must Die to unlock it, but it's worth it.

Oh, and then there's this, if you have an hour or two to kill and don't mind your protag getting naked.

>>9978637
>already
*also

>>9978656
Good taste.

>>9978549
So you're opposed to changing the look of the game?

I guess I can see where you're coming from. But again, it's not like they're forcing people to play the new version. As long as the old vesion exists (which will probably be always), all the remakes are are an opportunity to experience the game in a new way.

Kwarurariru (you will lose the surprise)

>>9979322
Oh, I know. I'm not saying it takes away from the original, I'm saying it's less than the original and superfluous. It's similar to a bad sequel or a poor cover of a song you like. Obviously you can just ignore it, but if it doesn't do justice to the original you have a right to be cross with it. Look at the Star Wars prequels, for example.

Of course, if Cave Story had never existed before Nicalis's updates then I would enjoy them. And they're certainly technically superior, but stylistically I just don't like them as much as the original. And to be honest, I did like it more as a humble, Japanese freeware game than a commercial, multi-developer indie game. Maybe that sounds bitter, but I think a lot of fans would be upset if ZUN and JAST USA released The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil+ 3D: HD Edition on Xbox Live and Steam.

>>9979398
Very good points, that I definitely identify with. I think that's pretty much all to say on the subject and we can agree it depends.

It's been a much better internet discussion than most.

Gigantic Army is top tier. A little too short tho, could use an extra stage or two.

>>9979567
Does that play at all like the Assault Suits games?

I wanted to like those games, but separate movement and aiming controls were too awkward with just one dpad. I like the idea of Assault Suits with mouse aiming for the gun, though.

Just played mari-tan, too bad it doesn't have a translation.

>>9979306
I have never, ever managed to beat this damn game. At some point, I just don't know what to do. I get as far as some server room after some sort of corridor underwater. The room has a floating, rotating platform, but after I fall into the actual room, I can't actually jump high enough to reach it, and your protagonist can't swim so unless I missed some sort of double jump upgrade, I'm effectively stuck on this room fated to die.

Other than that, I can't really figure out a place to get more hearts, and my only other option is some sort of lab with a bunch of those laser things on the way, to the point where I can't even walk forward without being completely butteliminated.

The game is just frustrating. I know you're supposed to walk around, explore and shit, but it conveys some things to you terribly. Also maybe I'm just being picky, but a game where most rooms are filled with water, they should have given your protagonist the ability to swim or something, yet it's never really relayed to you that she can't do it.

Apologies if it looks like I'm trying to make the game look bad or something. It still seems like an interesting premise to me, and maybe someone else will like it better than I did. But damn. Goddammit. Every now and then, I pick it back up and I have never, ever managed to beat it.

Ikachan is fun, but really short and easy. I was expecting it to be more like Cave Story in scale.

And OP, play Ao Oni!

>>9979618
It's heavily inspired by Valken/Leynos. The controls can take some getting used to, since you feel pretty heavy and not very agile, but they're fine once you spend some time with it.

>>9979344
Well that was fucked up...

but I managed to masturbate to this and figure out you can get nude on every level with different game overs on every enemy.

wasn't a bad game either.

>>9979676
Spoiler:It's a breathholding/drowning fetish game, you're supposed to die horribly every few minutes or so. You need to be playing with one hand, if you get what I mean.

>>9976337
You can blame ADTRW for Carpe Fulgur.

>>9976266
I posted about it years ago when I still came to this board. I suck at using RPG maker and manually pasting every line of mojibake into a converter to see what it is was too much of a chore.

>>9984823
Well, do you still have it? I'm willing to go through the deep corners of the internet if it means to get this game translated. This shit has more potencial than almost every doujin gam ever translated.

>>9984842
You said there was someone else translating, right? I'd be willing to help if someone could pull the scripts and start a TL wiki or something.

>>9984864
I don't even remember it clearly. It might even be you, if you were the one that asked for help with translations. The one that searched on some french forums and found a way to translate RPG Maker XP games. As for a TL wiki, that's not really hard to do. In general all this game needs to be translated is a little push.

>>9984884
All I'd really need is a good way to access the scripts and I could get started.

>>9984906
If I transcribe the scripts in japanese, will you be willing to translate it? I'm autistic enough to look up each kanji on jisho.

>>9984940
Sounds like a waste of time to me. If you care that much, you could learn enough Japanese to play it yourself with hardly any more effort.

>>9984945
I'm doing that. But it will be good to practice my reading skills, so I have nothing to lose by doing this. It depends if you're willing to go and translate the scripts, though.

I found a text extractor. I'll see what I can do now but if you could come up with a good way to organize it, that would help. The numbering is weird so I think 3-2-1 is the best order.
http://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/6554/
http://www.freem.ne.jp/win/game/1872

>>9985028
Good luck, anon. Be sure to tell us about your progress.

>>9985028
Also, it's very very good to remember that there are 9 games in the series. They take quite a while to download. Do you want me to zip all of them in a single file and upload to mediafire or something? They are all freeware anyway.

>>9985049
Could you get a wiki started for 3 and split it up into reasonable pieces?

>>9985093
You mean, a wiki for the translation project, or the game itself? In either way, wouldn't it be easier to make a wiki for the whole series?

>>9985177
Do it all if you want but it's not like most of them will be touched any time soon.

>>9985207
Okay, give me some minutes.

>>9985346
Okay, sorry, give me half an hour and I'll have a nice .jp wiki up. Meanwhile have this as a token of my gratitude.

>>9985791
http://www49.atwiki.jp/towelketranslation
Okay, this is looking awfully shitty, but at least I managed to set it up. My plan is to turn this page into something like this, over the time : http://www39.atwiki.jp/ta0rukettow0mouitid0/

>>9985906
Okay, I've made a few improvements, gonna adjust it tomorrow because I'm too tired now.

test

I like Hellsinker.

>>9988519
I like it too. But I failed to find a good download link for it. Hell, in general, doujin STGs are interesting ( not even thinking about touhou, but about pic related)

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>>9968386
Wait, you guys are still going on about this? I'm the one who was doing it before. I got lost in anime and video games again, as well as losing motivation after seeing how shit I had done before (I had finished like most of one chapter before I stopped originally so I have to go over that and correct it, now that I know like 10x as much as before. (which isn't saying much considering I can instantly tell how bad I was))

I was/am sorta translating #1, that is, the one in >>9985036
Here's a link of the like 95~98% finished database translation. All characters, moves, items, enemies, and whatnot should be in either english or have at least an english description for the few I haven't given English titles yet. You basically can just drop and replace your old tarou1 ldb file with this one.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7bs9fz
(Is there a particularly good/liked open filehost left to use? I don't want to make an account anywhere. )

I'll probably get back to work since I have to wait almost another week for more Busou Shinki ultra-lewdness.

re: the wiki
You should probably put an explanation/picture of what a towelket is on it, for the benefit of people who might wonder what a towel-blanket is.

As a note, only like ~50 characters can fit on a text box line and boxes have 4 lines. You should be prepared to make more text boxes if you need to or get a tool that does. (I'm still using the old version of dreamaker from when I started years ago. There's a newer version (like 4.0 or 5.0) but I don't think it's complete or translated or something.)

>>9989577
Ah, so you're the anon who has been doing the whole translation thing. You know, since you are currently translating whenever you can, wouldn't it be easier for you two to help each other by just reuniting on an IRC channel? And in relation to the wiki, are you okay with me reuploading your translation to mediafire, and then putting up a link there?

>>9990218
>And in relation to the wiki, are you okay with me reuploading your translation to mediafire, and then putting up a link there?

Yeah, that's fine.

I don't really use IRC, and I gathered he was translating Tarou3, however I'm not against working together if he wants to

>>9979567
What the fuck is wrong with this game? It refuses to detect half of the buttons in my joystick, the important half. I can't fucking play shooting with START and SELECT, fuck!

>>9991471
Ah, okay then. And, if possible, could you make some short descriptions of each Towelket game you've played, so I can put it on the series section?

Is Eden's Aegis suppose to be harder than Blue Wish Resurrection Plus, or am I playing it wrong?

>>9989261
I can't handle the weird viewpoint of that game

>>9979344
I downloaded it

didn't know what the fuck ryona was.

now I know.

>>9989261
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?h8gjr7vlxouw8g8

>>9991533
3: PPU is an ant.
2: PPU is raped for most of her life and then dies.
1: PPU is murdered and cloned endlessly. All of the clones suffer until the end of the universe.
6: PPU watches her baby die and goes insane. Then she's murdered. Then her other daughter is murdered.
4: PPU hides in the background so nothing bad happens to her.
Fury: Humanity is exterminated.
5: PPU is a netoraresaurus.

>>9991471
Collaboration would probably be better. I can understand most of it fine but get lost on some of the compromises involved in translating. It could help to have someone to hash a few things out with. Also, it would be better to have an actual game ready sooner.

>>9994497
Oh, so are you two okay with an IRC channel then? It wouldn't take me more than 1 minute to create one.

>>9994690
If anyone is interested... #towelket @ Rizon

Wiki has been upgraded. Short descriptions of the series have been added, and link for the database translation is up.