/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status


>12Riven- 31.5/72 scripts translated
Ace Attorney Investigations 2 - translation: 93%, editing 65%, case 1 and 2 released
Air (Project 1)- Released 2nd Beta patch and 70% edited
>Air (Project 2) - 90.4% translated
Amaenbo - Being translated
Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "420/1966 original edition scenario scripts translated (~21.4%)"
Anniversary no Kuni no Alice - 31% translated
Aoiro Rinne - "Translation progress: "47% (579 KB of 1.24 MB)", 16/78 scripts edited
Ayakashibito - Fully translated, 36956/50995 (72.47%) lines edited, Touko route done
>Cannonball - 24444/36902 (66.24%) lines translated
>Comyu - 32142/51433 (62.49%) lines translated, common/Benio route partial patch out, Hisoka route fully translated
Cross Channel - Final check finished
Dote up a Cat - 32.2% translated
>DRAMAtical Murder re:connect - Fully translated, reviewing routes
Fate/Hollow Ataraxia- 97.5% translated, third partial patch out
Flyable Heart- 4673/47192 (9.9%) lines translated in new translation project
Fortune Arterial- Prologue completly translated, patches for Shiro, Kiriha and Kanade routes released. Erika route 65% done. Haruna route 80% done.
Gensou no Avatar - ~15% translated
Haruka Na Sora - Sora 11.29% translated, Yahiro 4.99% translated, Kozue 20.85% translated
Hatsuyuki Sakura (project 1) - Between 10 and 15% translated
Hatsuyuki Sakura (project 2) - 3.1% translated
Higanbana 2 - Fully translated, in editing
Hinomaru- 51% translated, common route patch released
I/O - All scripts and tips translated. 127/249 scripts and all tips edited
Ikikoi - Fully translated, 2 active editors working on it
Irotoridori no Sekai - 43,365/51,100 (84.86%) lines translated, going through revision, partial patch going through chapter 6 planned
Killer Queen: New translation started from scratch, 40/72 scripts translated and 18/72 scripts edited
Koichoco- 227/397 files translated, 132/397 files edited, Common/Chisato routes fully translated

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

>Koiken Otome - 50.24% translated, 13.77% through second pass
Kourin no Machi - 13075/36959 (35.4%) lines translated
Kud Wafter - 10488/33132 (31.66%) lines translated
Kurukuru Fanatic - 46% translated
Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content, now a joint project with Doki. Sasami/Kanata routes fully translated
Majikoi- Yukie + Chris + Momoyo + Wanko + teacher route patch released, Miyako route 85% translated
Majikoi A- Sayaka patch released, Benkei 40% translated
Majikoi S- Monshiro, Margit, Kokoro, and Tsubame routes patch out, Momoyo 44% translated, 44% edited
Mahoutsukai no Yoru - 830.20/1221.01 (67.99%) kb translated
Maman Kyoushitsu - Saera Kanzaki, Honoka Mizushima, and Mimeri routes patch released, ~8 scenes left in Emiko route
Mashiro Iro Symphony - Common route 93.98% Translated
>Monster Girl Quest 3 - 89376/131806 (67.8%) lines translated, 62% partial patch released
Muv-Luv Altered Fable - 65% partial patch released
Nursery Rhyme - 13465/34410 (39.13%) translated
Oreimo PSP - 251/299 scripts translated, 69/299 through TLC+Editing, Kirino partial patch released
Oreimo Tsuzuku - Youtube based project, part 23 out
PersonA - 36% translated
Princess Maker 5- ~90%, translation progress stalled while putting together a beta patch
Pure Pure- Fully translated, 77.26% edited
Rance 4.1 - 5% translated
Rance 5D- 85% complete, awaiting engine tools
Rance 6 - 53% Complete
Rose Guns Days 2 - 95% translated
Sayonara wo Oshiete - 3341/14309 (23.3%) lines translated
Shinigami no Kiss wa Wakare no Aji - Final QC
Shuukaku no Juunigatsu winter - 80% translated, 42% edited, trial version out
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 9- Fully translated and edited
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 10- 14/18 scripts translated

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SubaHibi - Down the Rabbit Hole I patch released, 41090/53562 (76.7%) lines translated and 40597/53562 (75.8%) lines edited
Sukisho! - First Limit - 60% translated
>Supreme Candy - 8122/43261 (18.8%) lines translated
Tenshin Ranman - Prologue patch released, 1308.4/4560 (28.69%) translated
To Heart2- 67% translated- "The final product is still years away unless I get more help. ", new alpha patch released
>Toradora PSP - Fully translated, Oct 26th release planned
>Toushin Toshi II - Released
Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 54% edited, partial patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 19.76%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 61.99% Motoka 23.08%, Common and Kazuha fully edited
Your Diary- Prologue patch released, common route fully translated, 11/19 scripts translated for Yua's route, 1/10 scrpts translated of Kanade's route

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

Official work

MangaGamer
>Bukkake Ranch: Released
>Ruby Striker - October 25th release
Demon Master Chris - October 31th release
Ef: The Latter Tale - "Testing potential final build"
Touma Kojirou no Tantei File - In Beta
Chou Dengeki Stryker - In scripting
D2B vs Deardrops - In scripting
Really? Really! - 80% through scripting
Milles - Fully translated and edited
Imouto Paradise - 86% translated, 58% edited
Princess Evangile - 41% translated, 40% edited
Warrior Princess Asuka - Editing complete
Boob Wars 2 - Translation and editing complete
Cartagra - Initial TL going through revision
Kara no Shoujo 2 - picked up
Armored Warrior Iris - 46% translated
Valkyrie Svia - 32% translated
Space Pirate Sara - 25% translated
Free Friends - Picked up
Free Friends 2 - Picked up
Da Capo 3 - Picked up both R and R ~X Rated~


JAST
Steins;Gate - Winter release planned
Hanachirasu - 99% complete
Django - Couple more months of translation
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Seinarukana- Being translated by Aroduc
Starless - In translation
Trample on Schatten- In translation
Romanesque - In translation
Shiny Days - Sekai project to do the TL
Osadai fandisc - In Translation
Raidy III - TL finished, in insertion
Sweet Home - In translation
Sumeragi Ryoko - Picked up

Other
Danganronpa - NISA in early 2014
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.org/

[Anonymous No.]

>Trample on Schatten- In translation
I wonder if they ever found a new translator for this.

[VNTS !!jIcPNMSVBL3 No.]

Forgot one:

>Muramasa - Fully translated, final QC

[Anonymous No.]

>>11543841
>Bukkake Ranch: Released
My body is ready

[Anonymous No.]

>>11543844

[Anonymous No.]

>>11543835
>Higanbana 2 - Fully translated, in editing
pls hurry up

[Anonymous No.]

>>11543844

...Wait, what? Link or evidence or anything?

I know I really want Muramasa translated and all but this is really out of the blue

[Anonymous No.]

>>11543875
Look at the trip.

[VNTS !rq49TT0eZI No.]

>>11543844
>Fully translated by Insem, final QC by FHC

[Anonymous No.]

>>11543879
Don't forget
>Publishing by Aaeru
>Funding by Peter Payne

[RapeWhistle !P0IfHjzAm. No.]

Air soon :)

[Anonymous No.]

>>11543879
>by Insem
lmao

[Anonymous No.]

Whats going on with I/O...

[Anonymous No.]

>>11543880
how could you forget the man who will make the installer for the project?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11543903
If it's not our Lord and Savior Message, I'll be disappointed.

[Anonymous No.]

>Toradora PSP - Fully translated, Oct 26th release planned
Phoenix Wright 5 is coming out just before that, guess I won't get round to reading this for a while.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11543898
It's being edited.

[Anonymous No.]

>Cartagra - Initial TL going through revision
>Kara no Shoujo 2 - picked up

damn. how long has it been like this for these 2? i got hooked on kara no shoujo

[Anonymous No.]

>>11544010
You don't want to read Kara no Shoujo2, trust me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11544039
Why anon? The first one wasn't bad and I think KnS 2 is ranking high on EGS.

[Anonymous No.]

Ixrec stopped translation

http://amaterasu.tindabox.net/blog/?p=1885

[Anonymous No.]

>>11544086
This means there is now an absolute 0% chance of Baldr Sky ever coming out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11544086
It's not like he's been translating anyways since he dropped whatever it was he was "working" on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11544086
its so nice that true love can bloom from translating porn games

[Anonymous No.]

>>11544086
the vn translation scene has gotten really fucking horrible, i been its barley there anyway..
what happened, i mean it was going so well in 2011-2012. now we are going back too 1990 status, the dark ages. I mean its even taking forever for Mahoutsukai no Yoru when its a fucking short game, even though its such a popular franchise. its like we've been going no where for months. no decent story related visual novel are being really worked on besides I/O and comyu..

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>>11544122
>I/O and comyu
>decent story

Why do you make statements about things you clearly know nothing about? Or is this more of a "Kamidori had a decent story too" kind of thing?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11544136
they will be better than any other fucking vn we have gotten in the past 2 years. last game with actual plot was never 7. I know when a vn is worth putting my time into it and not.

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>>11544149
What else does the crystal ball tell you?

[Anonymous No.]

thankfully we will get steins gate and I/O soon, thats all im looking forward too and maybe 12 riven after. everything else is either not gonna happen in 10 years or is something i will read for a bit and then drop.

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>>11544155
because I/O actually has setting and a plot and its not slice of life.

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>>11544122
everyone learned japanese since then!

do your reps and you can join us. dont let yourself be an EOP

[Anonymous No.]

>>11544165
You didn't answer my question about what else your ass is telling you about the future.

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>>11544086

Makoto, TakaJun now Ixrec. koestl is the lone savior of VN translations...

... Nah. He'll quit after TLing the remaining Grisaia titles. Better you start hitting your Anki decks.

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>>11544197
>after TLing the remaining Grisaia titles
He'll get 90% through Meikyuu then drop it.

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>>11543867
You didn't get the beta patch, did you?
If you want I can upload it.
I was one of the people that got accepted and read the entire translation a month ago, but have yet to report back to them...
But seeing as that's not fair to Ronove, I don't think I SHOULD upload it. If you were in my shoes, I'm sure you would understand what I was going through. Now, wouldn't you agree?

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>>11544255
You're the type of person on /jp/ that's absolutely terrible.

[RapeWhistle !P0IfHjzAm. No.]

>>11544259
No bully

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>>11544122

The VN translation community hasn't come close to isani's quality which was all the way back in 2006-7. It's been a slow state of decline since then. What the heck seriously happened?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11544278
Katawa Shoujo

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>>11544285
That might explain the decline of VN consumers, but it doesn't explain the decline of translators.

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>>11544259
the kind of person who goes on hongfire and posts screencaps of videos/games everyone is waiting to get uploaded and says he got it from a private source and isn't allowed to share it. and then when people call him out he gets all defensive and says they should have bought it if they wanted it so bad.

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>>11544278
>Insani
Weren't there translations horrible? I remember their translation of FSN's trial being half made up. Nobody gave a shit about them though because almost all of their translations were of demos, cell phone games, or really shitty doujin games. You could play through every single thing they translated in a single afternoon and still have time to spare.

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>>11544299
it was better than mirrormoon's translation, that translation is way too literal

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>>11544307
Opposite side of the problem, but still both wrong.

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>>11544122
>>11544278
I'll tell you what happened. Translating VNs is a ton of fucking work, and the people translating them got burned out. Several years ago there were a few high-profile VNs translated, people got excited about the medium, and for a while everyone and their brother wanted to translate VNs. A few of them, like Ixrec, actually went on to release something. But most didn't because, as it turns out, translating VNs is a ton of fucking work. And now the craze has died down, and no new translators have joined the scene because translating VNs is a ton of fucking work and there's not much reward in it. Anime or manga is a much better choice in terms of work/reward ratio. Even Ixrec is finally getting burned out and I expect sooner or later he'll leave the scene officially, or maybe go on an indefinite hiatus like TakaJun. After that happens, there will be no one left because everyone now realizes that translating VNs is a ton of fucking work.

Bottom line: if you like VNs and want to keep playing them, you'd better start doing your reps now.

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>>11544334
get out of /jp/ ixrec

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>>11544086
I just read his Asairo review, jesus christ this guy

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>>11544334
I can't say that I blame them.

It's not just the work but the fact that their every move is criticized under the Asperger's Electron Microscope that is "the fanbase."

Should I even mention that purchasing the official English releases might stimulate market growth?

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>Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Never.

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>>11544431
>Should I even mention that purchasing the official English releases might stimulate market growth?
To be frank, I don't think that translating scenario-ge will ever be commercially viable. The market for adult games in the West is too small, the cost of a decent translation is too high, and there's too much piracy. I'm honestly amazed MangaGamer hasn't fully given up on non-nukige yet. Maybe they see them as loss leaders or something. JAST can probably keep going for as long as they can keep paying fan translators a pittance to use their work.

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>>11544468
But, based on statistics, the most popular eroge on the west are non-nukige, also the most popular VN on vndb has almost the same votes of the most popular on EGS; for a public that relies mainly on fan-translations I think it's not a small quantity. And translators are supposed to get paid by word, then again I don't know how it's done with Japanese. Why do you think it's not commercially viable to translate scenarioge?

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>>11544431
> It's not just the work but the fact that their every move is criticized under the Asperger's Electron Microscope that is "the fanbase."
This.

I'm amazed people in this thread believe they deserve anything at all. Cannot connect "trolling the fuck out of every translator" and "translators exit and noone replaces them" together, do you?

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>>11543844
>VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs
>VNTS !!jIcPNMSVBL3

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>>11544600
T-t-t that was the joke. Neither of those answers is OP.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone ever wake up with cum in their diaper?

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>>11544573
Popular among the small group of enthusiasts on the Internet that are almost exclusively pirates anyway does not equate to high sales. Long, story-heavy games take many months to translate even at Ixrec speeds. Now factor in licensing costs, distribution costs, programming, testing, marketing, support. We're talking about games that would be lucky to break 1000 sales and go for $40 a pop. It doesn't add up. Nukige are cheap to license, are typically short and fast to translate, and they actually sell. It's no surprise MG pumps out so many of them. It's the only way they can stay afloat.

[Anonymous No.]

So, how's Toushin Toshi 2?

[Anonymous No.]

So what happened to Ayakashibito or Ikikoi?

[Anonymous No.]

Is Bukkake Ranch like the Cadillac Ranch?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11545018
It's a twenty year old 5 hour RPG that was dated even when it was released. How do you think it is?

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>>11545244
As epic as all the old Rance games.

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>>11545244
I'm enjoying it fine.

[Anonymous No.]

where is the project page for Toushin Toshi 2?

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>>11545247
An apt comparison.

Because they're terrible too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11545269
People like Katawa Shoujo and Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme. We'll put you on the same level as them.

[Arunaru !!DwJrPrzAV2M No.]

>>11545252

There isn't one, I don't bother maintaining a website for this or anything. If you want the game you can get it here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/gc0w2j0sg06syru/Toushin+Toshi+II+-+English.zip

>>11545244

Not that I really want to get into defending a game I spent a lot of my time working on since obviously I'm biased, but for those that may otherwise be swayed the game's closer to ~25 hours and it's in the top 100 on EGS. In some ways it's certainly outdated but it is considered a classic.

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>>11545398
>the game's closer to ~25 hours
Bullshit.

[Arunaru !!DwJrPrzAV2M No.]

>>11545446

I guess if you just want to get through it, under 20 hours would be pretty easy. In any case it's closer to that end than 5 hours, was the point.

[Anonymous No.]

I just finished my 4th route on Grisaia with one more to go and I also started rereading Little Busters! thanks to the Refrain anime.
I can't handle all of this emotion.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11545464
/vg/vn/ is there =>

[Anonymous No.]

Best thread of the week.

[RapeWhistle !P0IfHjzAm. No.]

>>11545464
kawaii

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>>11543842
How was it that project started now again?

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>>11546927
It was originally being translated by His Majesty, but he quit, probably because it's a hell of a lot longer than Dra+Koi and it would have taken him a century and a half to finish.

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>>11544468
>>11544630
Shouldn't we wait until Steins;Gate is properly released before going down the piracy argument?

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.witch-hunt.com/news.html

RGDays season 2 translation released

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>>11546945
RDG is shit. Where's Higanbana?

I am amazed that there's probably been tens of beta testers yet no leak yet. I wonder if the group are saving it until Halloween.

[Anonymous No.]

Why are VN translations so dead right now?

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>>11547233
everyone is doing their reps to stop being EOPs!!!!!

[Anonymous No.]

>>11547233

Old translators are getting too old for NEETing around all day, no new translators are there to fill the gap.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11547233
Because VN fanbase is made of assholes and retards. Noone wants to intentionally subject their beloved games to fate of ones like majikoi/grisaia and pretty much everything else released last several years.
Even translating hentai rpgs is much more rewarding — fans there actually appreciate your effort and enjoy the games.

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>>11547233
Most people who are truly serious about wanting to read visual novels are doing their reps, and very few people want to translate a top rated VN just so that the lowest common denominator of VN fans, that are mostly on /vg/ and hongfire, can read an hour of it, then call it boring.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11547290
That's why you should translate incredibly polarizing games that no pseudo-normie weebs would want to touch. I bet like ten people will play Sayooshi when it's released, for example.

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>>11547937
>when it's released
Shouldn't that 'when' be an 'if'?

[None !!x+mnmrU0sW+ No.]

>>11547949
Kirby-chan is still translating, just very slowly.

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>>11547984
Please take your time, I want to read it in Japanese before it gets ruined.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11547984
> still translating
How many games at once? Like, 5 with JAST ones?
I doubt we will even see subahibi release any time soon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11548075
subahibi is irredeemable kusoge, so the only decent game he's 'translating' is sayooshi

[None !!x+mnmrU0sW+ No.]

>>11548075
I finished Sumaga a long time ago, bro. Sayooshi is on hiatus because I want to focus on Subahibi and because Cafe is too busy translating MG nukige to do his part, which means Subahibi is the only VN I'm translating right now.

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>>11548186
Not that I'm criticizing you or thinking you are obliged to do anything at all, but you translated 3k lines in last 6 months. Given there are 12k more lines to go, projected date is autumn 2015, which is in my opinion "not any time soon".

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>>11546938
...You do realize VNs other than S;G have been legally translated, right? How many of those have been roaring successes that clearly prove people have an interest in the medium?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11548710

Wasn't School Days pretty successful? I mean, for a VN.

[Anonymous No.]

Phar please save us from shitty translations

[Anonymous No.]

What the fuck, just release the translation already.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11550240

Well, he never said something about releasing it, did he?

[Anonymous No.]

Took a year, but I'm finally done. I can read.
For me, it's up from here on out, suckers. Enjoy watching progress bars and percentage numbers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11551571
I've been watching them for 8 years, ain't nothing gonna stop me now.

>Cos I'm having a good time, having a good time

[Anonymous No.]

season 2 is translated, if you faggots didn't notice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11553448
no one gives a shit faggot

[Anonymous No.]

>>11553448
Wait me, Leo.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11553818
0/10

[Anonymous No.]

>>11553448
Oh flying fucking fuck, I didn't. It's RGD times. You can't know how it makes me happy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11548186
Please actually progress in SubaHibi faster than 1% per 2 months.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11548061
>ruined
I on the other hand can't wait for it to be done so we can taste your autistic tears.

[None !!x+mnmrU0sW+ No.]

>>11555184
Would you believe me if I told you I've done more than 3% in the past 5 days?

It'll happen before 2020. I guarantee it. It might even be before 2015, if you're lucky.

[Anonymous No.]

Cross Channel retranslation released. Need to install the Amaterasu patch, then run a python 2.7 script to install the new patch on top of that.

Translation looks like this...

[Anonymous No.]

>>11559686
We all saw this coming.

Do your reps, anon.

[Anonymous No.]

The translator of SubaHibi is an annoying cunt anyway. I wouldn't want to inflate his epeen.
Fucker should stop shitting up vn threads.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11559711
Okay.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11543835
>Ace Attorney Investigations 2 - translation: 93%, editing 65%, case 1 and 2 released

what

where?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11559686
What's so wrong with that, besides the fact that the guy felt the need to write comments on almost every single line?

[Anonymous No.]

Hullo. I wasn't sure if I should make my own thread.

I got a torrent of Maji de Watashi ni Koishinasai! but whenever I try to install the first disc, I keep getting a visual.pac error. Could anyone suggest what I should do next?

[Anonymous No.]

Jesus fuck TLs, get your shit together. You're seriously doing <60 lines/day. That's pathetic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560243
I did like 520 for mine yesterday

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560251

It's average pace that's important. I'm doing 60/day on mine, and although it means it's ~1.33 years out still, I've /surpassed/ most of the listed stuff at this -abysmal- rate. (12311/33829 Lines).

Seriously guys, WTH.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11559686
Can somebody do a comparison of the two translations?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560369

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>>11560369
it's >>11560384's picture exactly, with the gold bars being the original jp version.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560391
More like the gold bars being Ixrec's translation, the shit being Romeo's pretentious trash. I read C+C in Japanese years ago but it wasn't until Ixrec translated it that it actually became something worth reading.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560406

Nice try, EOP.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560410
But it's true. Ixrec turned Romeo's clunky and awkward prose into true art. The only people who disagree are delusional Japanese Only Faggots who want to justify the time they wasted learning a dying language.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560412

EOP please.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560412
You know you're arguing with a troll, right? Everyone knows Romeo's C+C was shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560420
>>11560412
>>11560406
>Friday night and Ti9 has no friends

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560464

You might think that's trolling, but there are people who seriously think like that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560468
And you're doing a service by pretending to be those people while none of them can be here, hm?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560483

Now I'd love to hear how you came to this conclusion.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11544122
Everyone who cares enough learned moon.

[Anonymous No.]

I think the decline in translators came about because with the translator boom that followed mirror moon and whatnot going on back then, people interested in VNs saw that they could just wait and go about their lives as most worthwhile VNs got translated. Now that those translators are dying out, the next generation doesn't have as many people to replace them. Combine that with the fact that those who do read VNs untranslated now have ended up in something of a disdain for translation, and...

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>>11560516
>Combine that with the fact that those who do read VNs untranslated now have ended up in something of a disdain for translation

I wouldn't say that. I just think it's silly to wait years for a translation if you can learn Japanese in a fraction of that time. It shouldn't even be a question if you really care about VNs as a hobby. Relying on translations is only accepatble when you are a casual consument of a medium.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560530
I agree with you, but there's a pervasive sentiment that things are ruined by having been translated and it's not entirely in jest.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560530
>it's silly to devote five minutes every few weeks to tracking a translation when you can spend 1000+ hours learning the language instead

Do people seriously think this way? If you know Japanese then good for you, but don't even try to pretend it's somehow the easier option. Most of us don't have nearly the time or discipline for that shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560544

Which isn't entirely wrong considering most translations are piss poor. Of course, there are also exceptions but they are really few and far between.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560555
>discipline
You can fix that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560559
Not really. It's easy to be disciplined for a couple of weeks, it's hard to keep it up without faltering for a year or more, all the while knowing you're not going to be able to do jack shit with this for a long time. If I were able to motivate myself that easily I wouldn't be in a position to read VNs all day in the first place.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11560555

As I said, you should only do it if you care enough about VNs as a hobby. But it's okay if you just like to read VNs casually.

But: you can learn basic Japanese in 100 hours. If you have enough time to post on /jp/, then you have enough time to learn Japanese.

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>>11560530
>only acceptable when you are a casual consumer of a medium
Most people who say they like VNs are. These threads are interesting because they're filled with people that care enough about the medium to actively visit a weekly thread about their translations, but don't care enough about them to do their reps. It's almost like a form a tsundere. I-It's not like I really enjoy VNs that much or anything. D-Don't get the wrong idea! I-It's just that, if one happens to get translated I might read it. That's all! They're definitely not worth learning a foreign language for."

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>>11560581
Yeah, I mean I like VNs but I tend to read them in phases then go off and spend months do other things and not touching VNs at all. If VNs were my only hobby I'd probably go learn Japanese quickly since I'd run out of material fast otherwise.

Though I'd almost be more motivated to learn for all the fun looking JRPGs I'll never get to play otherwise.

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>>11560561
>easy to be disciplined for a couple of weeks, it's hard to keep it up without faltering for a year or more
1. It takes about month to get habit formed. If you keep doing your reps daily for 3-4 weeks, it will become norm for you and will not stress you at all.
2. If you need more than 6 months to learn enough moon to read VNs, you are retarded and should go watch hollywood shit or play dota instead.

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>>11560590
Most JRPGs that are translated have even poorer translations than the fantranslated VNs that some people look down on the translation quality of.

[Anonymous No.]

Toradora! Portable out!

[Anonymous No.]

http://tsukiatte.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/nothing-to-see-here/

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>>11562399
As someone who's worked on a game for 5 months full-time and has been waiting for 16 months (and counting) for the business side of things to get shit together and actually release the damn game, I can understand where the translator is coming from. Investing a lot of time and effort into something only to have it remain unreleased because of people who quite frankly don't care nearly as much about the project as you do can really crush your motivation.

At least I can play the game I made, I guess for translation you don't even have that.

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>>11563564
What if you just released the game on your own? Put it up as a ddl or torrent