/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status


>Aiyoku No Eustia - 92.45% Translated, 91.65% edited, partial patch released
Amagami - "Script translation done. 2107/2329 original edition scenario scripts edited (90.5%)"
Amayui Castle Meister - Rough patch released with 63% of dialogue translated, overall 74% translated
Chaos;Head Noah - Still ongoing
Chicchakunai Mon - 49.7% translated
>Fuukan no Grasesta - Project starting up
Gore Screaming Show - Prologue + day 1 patch released, 13,40% [5011/37383] lines translated
>Gin'Iro, Haruka - Common + Bethly + Hinata + Momiji routes translated, Yuzuki 15.94% translated, overall 65.00% translated, Common+Bethly+Hinata+Momiji routes patch released
>Haruka ni Aogi, Uruwashi no - "Main School" routes fully translated, Editing and QA ongoing on the Main School routes, overall 57% (38976/68206) lines translated
Junketsu Megami-Sama - New partial patch released
>Kami no Rhapsody - Released
Kud Wafter - 24436/64692 (37.72%) lines translated
>Lover Able - 100% translated, 89.44% edited
Maji Koi A-4 - 8 of 62 scripts translated
Miagete Goran, Yozora no Hoshi O: Fine Days - Patch delayed because to resolve a technical issue
Nursery Rhyme - 100% translated, still being edited
Oreimo Tsuzuku - All scripts through TLC+Editing, technical issues resolved
Pure Pure - 95.59% translated
Pure x Connect - 14945/43896 lines translated, 7808/43896 lines edited, prologue patch released
>Shin Koihime Musou - 100% translated, 34% (37512/108888) edited
>Shukufuku no Campanella - Trial patch released
Steps to Love - Common route TL patch released
>Summer Pockets Reflection Blue - 13,884/34,142 (40.7%) lines translated
Taimanin Yukikaze 2 - Yukikaze route patch released
Watashi wa Kyou Koko de Shinimasu - 100% translated
Yosuga no Sora - Translation finished, editing and TLC ongoing


Official work

MangaGamer
Room No.9 - August 6th release
Ciconia - Phase 1 Released
Hadaka Shitsuji fandisc - Picked up
Shiei no Sona-Nyl - 100% translated and edited, Refrain content 56% translated
Rance Quest - In Beta
Rance IX - 100% translated
Rance X - 28% translated
Luckydog1 - Picked up
Fxxx Me Royally - 100% translated and edited, in image editing
Wan Nyan A La Mode! - Through Beta
Rance 01 - Out of Beta
Rance 02 - In Beta
Mugen Renkan - Out of Beta
Uchi no Kanojo - 100% translated and edited, image editing finished
Trinoline Genesis - 100% translated, 40% edited
Musicus! - 94% translated and 92% edited
Jeanne at the Clock Tower - Fully translated and edited, image editing wrapping up
Steam Prison: Fin Route - 100% translated and edited
Secret Project 3 - 100% translated and 91% edited
Secret Project 4 - 89% translated and 87% edited
Secret Project 6 - 60% translated and 55% edited
Secret Project 7 - 70% translated and 66% edited

JAST
>Shoujo Dominance - Released
Majikoi - "Suffering some unforeseen delays", in QA and preparing Steam release
Sumaga- Upcoming release
Flowers - 3 is up for preorder
Katahane - Upcoming release
Josou Sanmyaku - 87% translated, 85% edited
Django - Waiting on translation.
Machine Child - Announced
Dramatical Murder - Picked up
Lamento Beyond the Void - picked up
Slow Damage - Picked up
Eiyuu*Senki GOLD - 100% translated
Yamizome Revenger - 50% translated
Mamono Musume-tachi to no Rakuen ~Slime & Scylla~ - Picked up

Age titles with various publishers
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - July 30th release
Muv-Luv Unlimited - The Day After - 2020 release
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up

Spike Chunsoft
Robotics;Notes - 2020 release
Robotics;Notes DaSH - Picked up

Frontwing
Loca Love Vol 2 - On hold to resolve problems with Steam
Sharin no Kuni - Debugging of the game engine ongoing, to be followed by beta testing

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Sekai/Denpa
Nekopara Vol 4 - 100% translated and 50% edited, November 2020 release
The Seventh Sign -Mr. Sister- - "Planning release", appears to have been rejected by Steam
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - "More programming"
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Fully localized, in engine work
Re;Lord Volume 2 - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work by the developer
Harumade Kururu - Awaiting engine work, 2020 release
Rewrite+ - Main game 60% translated, Harvest Fiesta 50% translated, November 2020 estimated release
Love Duction - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress
Hoshizora no Memoria (retranslation) - In QA, going to update existing release to HD version
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 60% translated
Island Diary - 100% translated and edited, Winter release
Creature to Koi Shiyo!! for Otome - Waiting on a third party
Miko no Kanata - 100% translated and edited, awaiting engine work
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
Tenshin Ranman - QA and engine work next, in "icebox"
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 3 - Awaiting engine work
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 0 - Awaiting engine work
Sanarara R - 100% translated, 25% edited
9-nine- Episode 3 - 40% translated
Amatsutsumi - Translation and editing in progess
KoiKuma Fan Disc - 100% translated, editing ongoing, waiting on build from dev, 2020 release
Love's Sweet Garnish 2 - Translation and editing in progress, 2020 release
Kanojo no Seiiki - Picked up
Glass - Picked up
New Glass - Picked up
Amairo Chocolate - 100% translated and edited
Kimagure Temptation - 60% translated
Slobbish Dragon Princess - 90% translated
9-nine- Episode 4 - 30% translated
Karakara 3 - In Development
Secret Project 7 - listed

Sol Press/Panty Press
Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki - 30% translated, 10% edited
Nukitashi - 100% translated, 22% edited
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - 68% translated, 68% edited
Irotoridori no Sekai - 100% translated, 90% edited
DareSora - Volume 1 Released, info on future volumes soon
Witch's Garden - Picked up
Happiness! 2 Sakura Celebration - 100% translated, 61.5% edited
Hyper->Highspeed->Genius - Picked up

Nekonyan
Hello Lady - Main game 100% translated edited, and TLC, 40% QC, tentative Summer release
Dracu Riot - 100% translated and edited, engine porting starting shortly
Riddle Joker - 85% translated and 75% edited
Kinkoi: Golden Loveriche - 75% translated and 25% edited
Clover Days - 100% translated and TLC, editing and engine porting starting shortly
IxShe Tell - 85% translated and 80% edited
Aokana Extra1 - 45% translated, 15% edited
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
Melty Moment - 30% translated
Making＊Lovers: Geki Icha After Story - "we plan to translate the Fandisc as well"
Secret Project #1 - 30% translated

Fakku
Abaddon: Princess of the Decay - Localization at "40% to 50%", 2020 release

Visual Arts/Key
Angel Beats 1st Beat - 50% translated

Aksys
Collar x Malice -Unlimited- - August 21st release
Piofiore no Banshou - September 10th
Gensou Kissa Enchante - November 13th release

LoveLab
The Humbling of a Holy Maiden - 60% translated, 50% through programming
Secret Project 1 - 30% translated, 20% edited

Other
>My Creampie Heaven - Released
>Eden's Ritter: Paladins of Ecstasy - July 31st release
Jiangshi x Taoshi - Episodes 1-2 released, episode 3 upcoming
Evenicle 2 - Announced, Steam page for a demo covering chapter 1 put up to be released within the upcoming weeks.
Wanko no Yomeiri - Upcoming release
Taimanin Asagi - Page for the Trial of episode 1 back on Steam
Venus Blood -Hypno- - Announced, Kickstarted planned for September or October
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

[Anonymous No.]

Checkerpeck made a good job!

[Anonymous No.]

Does anyone know how unplayable Kimihime is without the patch

[Anonymous No.]

>Summer Pockets Reflection Blue - 13,884/34,142 (40.7%) lines translated
Kinda glad I willed myself to wait for RB on the off chance Alka TL pick it up.

>>24973865
iirc, there wasn't much H in it anyway, so you should be perfectly fine. And there will be a cue, so you'll know when the scene gets omitted.

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>>24974952
I wasn't talking talking about the H, the pirated, Denpasoft and fajkku version of the game still have that text bug and untranslated lines, wondering how much does it effect the game .

I also now that Xev four days ago finally sent the updated version to Denpasoft, and it only took close to a year

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>>24970361
>Django - Waiting on translation.

Is the translator okay?

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>>24976988
He's preparing very carefully.

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LURKING DEVS
USE UPSCALING FOR YOUR LOCALIZATIONS
NO ONE WANTS 800x600 AND 720P BLURFESTS IN 2020

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>>24970361
I was a bit confused at first as to why Kami no Rhapsody is released but then it seems I was wrong and I was thinking of something else or an incomplete patch for it

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>>24977978
I stopped following technological developments or upgrading anything back when 720p was considered good, so all this 5000 pixel whatever is meaningless to me.

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The krauts are actually /ourguy/ so let's not bully them this time.

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>>24977978
That looks like shit. Look at all those jaggys.

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It pisses me off knowing that Altered Fable is getting released soon and it's forever going to be an all-age western release

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>>24979482
Perhaps some people might mod the H scenes in. Or its one of those where the H scenes are actually just barely censored

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>>24978491
You'll upgrade eventually, and when you do, 720p will look blurry on your new display and the window will appear too small to have legible text. According to Steam's hardware survey, 1080p makes up 64.81% of its 90+ million userbase, with 1360 x 768 coming in second at 10.22% and 2560 x 1440 in third at 6.23%. 4k isn't far behind, at 2.12%. All the lower resolutions are steadily declining, and I suspect the pace will increase as we enter the next generation of gaming. 4k is already the standard TV resolution, which console VNs will likely have to take into account next-gen.

Unless there's a complete lack of resources, there's really no excuse not to use free upscaling tech to appeal to a wider audience.

>>24979475
Galaxy brain. The "jaggys" are a result of you viewing a high resolution image on a low resolution display scaled in your browser. You can open it in a new window and zoom all the way in without seeing a single jagged line.

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>>24976988
Does anyone really care? JAST's upcoming releases have been 80% the same for like a decade.

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>>24979509
They're using the ps3 port of Muv-Luv Photonmelodies so it would be hard to make a patch for. You would think that a kickstarter that made over a million-dollar would put in the extra work to make the best release possible but it has been nothing but shit.

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>>24979779
Photonflowers/melodies are all-ages compilations that were released only on PS3. Saying they are going to release those games specifically implies all-ages versions.

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>>24979849
Well given the fact that the content was cut specifically because of console rules, I would expect anything taken out to be put back in for the pc release.

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>>24980051
As far as I know they do release H-content patches for Muv Luv and Alternative. But still I have no idea what are they deciding for Photonmelodies

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>>24980361
Never mind

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I for one welcome our new all-ages overlords.

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>>24980051
>>24980361
IIRC they never wanted R-18 pach to begin with, the onky reason why we even got Muv Luv and Alternative was because the team who used to run the kickstarter added them as tier's without Anchor knowing.

>>24980421
This shit is funny, because Age just released a bundle a few months ago that had every game they did R-18

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>>24980421
This was reason that was given at their Expo
posted by a backer of their kickstarter

>Photonmelodies: coming this summer 2020! no special 18+ patch due to the differences between the original versions and the photonmelodies versions of those stories where it would apply

they made 1.2 million and they couldn't found a way to tweak the engine to allow them? This kickstarter is MN9 of vn

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>>24980798
Still not as bad as Dies Irae where they said they would make a complete game you could play with all content, but then gave up and said "Here, you get both the all-ages game and the 18+ game and you can play them both once each".

I still have the guide on how to play the game optimally on a tab if I get around to play it. Because you need a guide to play it in the released mess they did.

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>>24977978
>NO ONE WANTS 800x600 AND 720P BLURFESTS IN 2020
But my monitor upscales them anyway. And most of the time it does it better.

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>>24980798
They made $1,200,000 and couldn't even restore upskirts or suit nipples.

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>>24980874
Pretty sure all you'd need to do is play Acta est Fabula then CTRL through Amantes Amentes (the skip function is extremely fast) to get the second ending of Rea's route and unlock the side stories.

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>>24980931
On a side note I didn't really care for the extra content and would have been content with just Acta est Fabula, which is a complete game itself. But that's just me.

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>>24980874
At least their still a way to get the 18+ of Dies Irae, they took down patches for both Muv Luv and Alternative so there's no way to get them legally

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Dies Irae is a fault of how things get marketed in Japan. They know they can get people to buy the original version of a game, then add some shit to it and get people to buy it again, so it's not problematic to have two separate versions. You can't pull that bullshit here, though.

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>>24980878
Both your GPU and monitor can scale the image at lower resolutions, but it'll always look like ass. Even video games that only render at 1080p look like complete and total garbage on a high-end 4k display.
>>24981032
Is it even the same thing? From what I've read, Dies irae was unfinished garbage that needed a bunch of revisions to be salvaged. Capcom had this release model for almost 30 years and only recently started selling "upgrades" as DLC instead of brand new games.

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>>24970361
>Kami no Rhapsody - Released
Is it MTL?

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>>24981718
>81718>>24970361(OP)
>>Kami no Rhapsody - Released
>Is it MTL?

No it's not MTL. It's a meticulous work but a bit literal.

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>>24981598
>Is it even the same thing? From what I've read, Dies irae was unfinished garbage that needed a bunch of revisions to be salvaged.
None of that applies to the English release. There were three releases of the game in Japan: the first version, Also Sprach Zarathustra, was unfinished and has no translation. The second version, which is complete and 18+ is Acta est Fabula.
Amantes Amentes is an all-ages version of Acta that has some side stories (mainly adaptations of drama CDs), a second ending to Rea's route, replacement scenes for the H-scenes that were removed, and some censoring of offensive language (censoring is only in the Japanese release).

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>>24970361
>>Kami no Rhapsody - Released
Am I blind or is there no skip read text only option here?

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>>24983141
you are most certainly blind, anon

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>>24970361
>Kami no Rhapsody
So this is a completed patch of the previously unedited and slightly unfinished patch? Or am I thinking of an entirely different game?

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>>24983333
Nah this is a full version of the game. It will be updated with some edits after some fags reported unnoticed typos or bugs in the fuwanovel thread but that patch is done and translates the entire game + interface.

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>>24980927
It's sad, it's the most successful VN kickstarter but it's nothing but fuck up's.to it, it's the vn equivalent of MN9.

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is there any recommended vn pastebin/pic that isnt 10 years old?

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>>24983141
>Am I blind
Yes

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Kami no Rhapsody keeps crashing for me. I wonder why.

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>>24983935
Go on vndb. If you like the VN's genres and the average score is about 7.5 or higher, the VN is probably worth playing.

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>>24986538
are you using the regular age.exe or the age patch.exe?

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>>24977978
Didn't MG do that for Rance VI and it looked like ass?

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>>24986625
The regular exe. Is that a mistake? The patch exe actually runs the game?
Curiously enough virustotal does not seem to like that exe, but I guess only the less reputable scanners found an issue with it.
Is it because it's an exe that by design messes with other files/executables or something?

Well. Any time I try to open the ADV tab in the options menu the game crashes.
Also. The game in Japanese suggested that I'd mess with the Direct 3D settings, so I gave that a go. And well, that didn't work and I restored all the settings to what they were before I am pretty sure. But now the resolution has been changed or rather it doesn't appear to go into true full screen anymore and it looks worse. Any idea how to fix that?
I guess I shouldn't have been messing with options I couldn't read or understand.

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>>24986769
>>24986538
Wait. What fonts does the game use? I actually think it might be crashing because I am missing the font(s).

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>>24986995
On the off chance that anyone else have had similar problems. I actually got it to work, and the problem was missing fonts. Something the Japanese error messages in no way implied.
But I figured I could install the fonts that Rance 6 uses and see if that'd improve anything. And it kind of did. It changed the engine crash error to an error complaining about lack of free RAM (even though I have like 14GB unused RAM available) and if I chose to ignore and continue anyway, all the non-menu text boxes were just empty. But that was still further than I got before I installed the Rance fonts.
So I tried to open up the ADV tab in the options again, and this time it didn't immediately result in an engine crash like all the other times I tried. Instead I got several of that memory error message in a row but after ignoring all of those I could see that one of the Rance fonts I installed was selected as the System font, which is presumably how I was able to avoid the instant engine crashes I got before.
The chosen ADV font however was blank. Empty. So I clicked on it to choose a font, which admittedly resulted in like a dozen of those supposed memory error messages, but ignoring all of those and scrolling the font list all the way to the top, I was able to choose one of the available fonts. And that solved everything. No more error messages of any kind and the game appears to working properly.
For now anyway. I hope this works.

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>>24986670
Yes, but they used a smear filter called waifu2x, and an ancient iteration at this point. As you can see in this thread, current technology (ESRGAN, Fatality models) produces near hand-drawn results as long as the source artwork doesn't suffer from heavy compression. 720p art can be upscaled to 5k with no loss of detail. 800x600 CGs such as this one to 3200x2400. If you really wanted to, you could upscale 1920x1080 to 7680x4320, but current GPUs can't handle it without a large amount of splits that result in faintly visible seams.

Rance VI was upscaled from 640x480 to 1280x960. We had a discussion about this in a different thread where MG's results were compared to this one.
MG: https://i.4cdn.org/vg/1595606780698.jpg
ESRGAN: https://i.4cdn.org/vg/1595605221827.jpg

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>>24987626
I opened those two images in two tabs, rapidly swapped between them, and could not tell you if there was a difference (besides the text on the ball).
I think this is one of those things where 99.99% of people cannot tell the difference but the couple of people who really care go full autist over it, like audiophiles.

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>>24988339
Seems more like you need glasses, buddy. There's a pretty drastic difference in detail between the two.

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>>24988339
If you look at the backs of the book in the bookshelf, they're clearly blurrier.
It's not a huge difference but it's an observable difference.

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>>24988431
Better to focus on the panties.

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>>24988431
I'm not sure if you two are trolling. There's a pretty big difference. All the detail in the original 640x480 image is preserved in the ESRGAN one. Can you really not see that the MG one is lacking an outline around rance, and that the lightning lacks any detail whatsoever? What about the small gap between Shizuka's right eye and bangs? The edges on the book? The fine details on the hat?

Sometimes the internet makes me wonder.

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>>24988475
I said that it's an observable difference. That in itself is huge I guess, but I just pointed out where it is most easily observed and said that you can clearly see how it's blurrier.
I still think the images are fairly similar though. One is just a bit worse than the other.

I don't know what to say. I won't call it good but I am not going to be particularly upset either. I recall there being worse examples of blurriness than that one though, but I don't know.

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>>24988761
I'd like to point out that this clarity could be retained at 2560x1920 but was kept at the same resolution as MG's upscale for demonstration purposes. The difference is night and day. It's not just blurrier, the details are simply not there to begin with and were lost during the upscaling process. I don't know what to tell you without coming off as insulting.

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>>24981032
In the Photonflowers forums the aNCHOR rep said they couldn't release a patch for melodies because they couldn't have unmosaic'd genitals in Japan. Because that makes sense for the western release.
>We’ve also learned that western Visual Novel fans prefer to buy patches with the mosaics fully removed. We can’t simply remove mosaics from HCGs, because there is a law in Japan that prohibits fully uncensored artwork. It is true that there have been very few cases related to this law, but we have an established name in the industry and have many fans in Japan. Should they discover we’re releasing fully uncensored artworks for Steam release and blocking Japanese customers, it’ll become a very complicated issue.

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>>24988947
>We’ve also learned that western Visual Novel fans prefer to buy patches with the mosaics fully removed
People sure low mushroom cock and slug pussy.

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>>24988947
Oh, and this.
>Rephrasing what we said in the FAQ, we have a huge fanbase in Japan, so we can't make an exclusive version for the western audience only. Muv-Luv is also well-known in the Japanese Industry, so there's a big difference in popularity/genre to the works you might be referring to, and we can't take any risk with the censorship law. We are our own company, and we aren't also forcing anyone to support our business decisions.
Don't you see, everyone? Those other games could do it because they weren't popular enough for anyone to care.

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>>24988979
>>24988947
I seriously feel they are just making ALL sorts of bad excuses

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>>24988979
More like they're showing mercy by not including Age's piss-poor sex scenes.

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>>24988959
That's not even the real problem with that comment.

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>>24989044
I don't even buy VNs. Selling H patches makes me even less willing to pay for it at all.

[Anonymous No.]

Do your reps so you can read Bra-Ban!

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>>24988947
Are Nitroplus and Alicesoft bigger companies? What do Japanese fans think about the uncensored games in the West?

[Anonymous No.]

What were the reasons we never got uncensored Grisaia again even though we almost did?
Those samples we got were great.

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>>24988979
Is Sekai still working with them, sounds like some shit they would say

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>>24990620
All sekai is doing these days is scamming indie devs into letting them be their publishers on steam

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https://imgur.com/a/dbkXHjs

The guy who fantled yukikaze popped up on reddit to say that lilith stole his translation and beyond a laughable denial (they even copy pasted his typos) won't answer emails about it

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>>24990346
They signed some sort of publishing agreement with another company that prevents them from releasing it uncensored, same with Sharin no Kuni and Corona Blossom part 1. It was rumored to be Sekai Project but nobody knows for sure. We know the reason Sayori doesn't release any of her work uncensored and it's because she signed an agreement with her chinese publisher that states she wont release any uncensored work internationally for business purposes as they're worried it'll drive down sales in the homeland or reflect poorly upon her image.

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>>24993356
Time to hit that DMCA button that steam has.

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What's the quality of the Kami no Rhaspody TL like?

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>>24993658
Better than a Sekai Project release, take that how ever you wish.

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>>24993356
Yukikaze is being officially localized? I thought they were only doing Asagi.
Them taking the translation without so much as speaking to the guy is kind of lame though.

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I am able to play Kami no Rhapsody just fine. Kind of. But every few minutes I keep getting this error message.
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エラーが発生しました
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データが壊れています．
再インストールしてください．



プログラムを続行しますか？

はい：このままプログラムを続行します．
(ただし正常に動作しない場合があります)
いいえ：プログラムを終了します．

If I click yes I can ignore the error and just keep playing. Clicking no however and the game will close down. It's quite easy to just click yes, but it's still somewhat annoying to be interrupted over, and over again.
Any idea of how to fix this?
Also what version of the actual game is even up to date?

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>>24993645
Do you think they'll actually do anything? lol

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>>24993356
Bro..hata posted that on vndb a while ago.

https://vndb.org/t14316

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>>24993711
It says that your data are broken and you should reinstall. You need to get a clean install since the game doesn't work "patching over" previous data.

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>>24993834
Steam? Yeah. DMCA's are such a massive thing that nowadays almost every media company immediately acts upon a request being issued. In steams case they freeze the transfer of payments to the developer/publisher of the title being given a DMCA while they review the claim. If they find the claim to be true in basically any jurisdiction they'll remove the title from sale and refund the customers who purchased the title. Any further legal issues would be up to the claimant to pursue. The reason steam would do this and do it in a timely manner is because they want to be protected under the good faith doctrine. For example if you issued a DMCA to steam and they weren't to remove the title and you took the case to court, not only would the developer/publisher be involved in the case, Steam would be as well for willingly allowing theft to occur on their storefront.

Now I'm not saying in this specific case you'd win the court case, but Steam would remove the title from their storefront because in some states it is made clear that using someone elses work without their permission under any circumstances is considered theft and thus Steam would just not want to deal with the the problems that they'd be slammed with if it went to court in one of those states. There's no legal risk for sending a DMCA if it is reasonable to assume some sort of copyright violation occurred, this was affirmed in that big lawsuit with some media company and some youtuber.

So If I were him I'd issue a DMCA request to steam with various links to the blog that the fan-translation was hosted on since those are dated alongside >>24993356 gallery showing that it is a 1-1 copy of his fan-translation work, typos included and state that he never gave any company permission to publish nor sell his work. I would ask steam in that DMCA request to remove the title from the store. I sure as fuck wouldn't take the case to court though, but you shouldn't need to since it's so blatantly obvious that it was his translation and it's such a morally grey area that steam would err on the side of caution and just remove it unless the developer told steam they were willing to take it to court, which if they do you just drop the whole case and say it's not worth the trouble and there's literally nothing they can do legally to you if you just stop there.

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>>24994292
You'd be right in most cases, but these sort of things get selectively applied. I don't think they'll do a single thing about it. If you tried to take it to court I imagine the company would counter-sue over you distributing a translation patch. You can only lose in this situation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24994292
and by Morally grey, I meant legally grey. It's obviously not a morally grey area because you're literally using someone elses work without permission and selling it. That's scumbag to the max.

>>24994409
I'm pretty confident steam would act on it simply due to the fact of how obvious it is and even if they don't, you've made a genuine attempt at doing something and in this case there's no risk to sending the DMCA and asking steam to remove the title so long as you stop at that point and don't try to take it any further.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24994444
>I'm pretty confident steam would act on it simply due to the fact of how obvious it is
I'm not. I think they'd probably laugh at you because they know you can't do anything about it legally without getting fucked over for copyright violations yourself. It's not like you have some kind of moral high ground here.
>and even if they don't, you've made a genuine attempt at doing something and in this case there's no risk to sending the DMCA and asking steam to remove the title so long as you stop at that point and don't try to take it any further.
Sure, there's no harm in it if that's all you do.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24994493
So he might as well give it a shot. If it works then great, if it doesn't then oh well, only a little bit of time lost.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24993711
Check the Eushully wiki for the fix. There should be a Patched AGE.exe that you should run instead of AGE.exe. it might still pop up in the beginning but should go away after a certain point.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24994493
He does have a moral high ground, but he doesn't have the resources nor the resilience for a legal dispute.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24994493
>>24994409
They could only sue him for a patch if he released it in a pre-applied form. If he made a patcher for the game there'd be no basis for suing him.

[Anonymous No.]

>Amagami - "Script translation done. 2107/2329 original edition scenario scripts edited (90.5%)"
christ i graduated uni, lived in japan for 3 years and mastered japanese before this shit fucking ended. now i dont even need it

[Anonymous No.]

>>24996012
No he doesn't. It's complaining about a company violating your intellectual property while you're doing the same thing to theirs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24996434
Distributing a translation of the script without the permission of the owner is a copyright violation, path or no patch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24997204
If he was an official translator he would have the moral high ground, because it'd be completely different to what the japanese text said.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24997222
>>24997239
so the moral of the story is to rewrite whatever it is you translate so that you can say it's transformative.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24997262
The moral of the story is that if you want to engage in copyright violations (I'm not saying that's *wrong* by the way), don't go crying about it when the company turns around and fucks you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24987626
Jesus that really is a big difference.
>>24988339
You're actually blind.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24995333
Hmmmmmm.
Well. Thanks anyway I guess.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24987626
>but they used a smear filter called waifu2x
I thought waifu2x was regarded as pretty decent for up scaling anime style art? Did they use some poor settings to make it so blurry?

[Anonymous No.]

Who is Hata again? I forgot

[Anonymous No.]

>>24986769
damn dude it's called a readme for a reason

[Anonymous No.]

>>25000098
The patch archive has no exe though. Nor does the archive for the fixed exe.
The wiki had that anon mentioned had all that information, but not the archives for the patches themselves.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25000183
I assumed you got it from nyaa, in which case the description clearly says to run the AGE patch exe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24999198
Nah, waifu2x was never that great. What you see in Rance VI is pretty much the standard result for low res artwork. Good waifu2x results are usually cherrypicked and still have major observable flaws and fall apart at higher integers. The images I've upscaled and shared have just been random CGs I've saved from recent VN related threads, showing the results with ESRGAN are universally good.

ESRGAN's 2D artwork capabilities are still fairly unknown outside of the Upscale Wiki/Discord. It's not necessarily just used for upscaling. You can run a Debanding/DeJpeg pass and clean up an image without increasing its resolution.

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>>24999057
>>24988475
>>24988418
There's differences, but they're extremely minor, the average person wouldn't notice them or care, and they only matter to the niche genre of visualphiles who obsess over them. It's the same as all the people who zoom 200 times in on the grass textures whenever screenshots of a new release are shown and complain about how blurry they are and they don't look good in 16k

[Anonymous No.]

>>25000807
See >>24988418

[Anonymous No.]

>>25000449
Why hasn't waifu2x been updated since both are open sourced?

[Anonymous No.]

>>25000888
It has. ESRGAN is just much more advanced and has countless specifically trained models for anything you need upscaled, with more being trained and shared by the community every day. waifu2x is more accessible and easier to use at first, but that's about the only advantage it has.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25000807
Retard

[Anonymous No.]

>>25000449
That looks nice. I hope that it will eventually be possible to upscale any VN with it in real time with a good GPU.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24999095
>It’s possible that some antivirus programs will detect “AGE Patch.exe” as a threat. It’s false positive, just add it as exclusion. It’s the same patch used in other Eushully games to fix the pop up error message.
So who made it initially?

[Anonymous No.]

The absolute state of the cartel

[Anonymous No.]

>>24993356
He has to know fan translations are on murky legal ground and they could have nuked the project/took him to court if they wanted to.
As much of a pirate as I am he doesn't really have any room to complain, he didn't ask their permission to make a translation for their game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25004805
Shut the fuck up. You can DMCA someone, but you can't take someone to court over it. Especially not someone from overseas. What the fuck do you say?

[Anonymous No.]

>>25004707
What does a random fan-translator getting his translation stolen by the original company have to do with the cartel?
>>25004805
Just because they legally can do it doesn't make it not a dick move to not only steal his translation, but claim that it's actually their translation. Especially when the theft is so obvious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25004832
You can and you can. You might not like it but it's the truth. People who have translated non-visual novel things have been taken to court and lost in the past.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25004707
Didn't Sachi work for Sekai Project?

[Anonymous No.]

>>25005019
And people who have had their unofficial translations stolen have taken the original author to court and won in the past. It's almost like the law is extremely complicated and heavily dependent on the facts of the particular case and nobody here has nearly enough information to say what's legal or not.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25005067
>And people who have had their unofficial translations stolen have taken the original author to court and won in the past.
Citations needed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25005012
>Just because they legally can do it
They legally can't. His translation being unauthorised means it's infringing on their copyright, but it doesn't actually make his translation unprotected. So if anything they can both sue each other, because they both infringed on the other's work.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25008595
Wouldn't you be able to claim you re-translated it and only used the fan translation as a reference to see how well you did? And they just "happened" to get it the same, or get it "wrong" and correct it to the same as the translation?

Because as far as I know, there is no law that states you can't look things up when you translate.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25014997
There's a line of plausible deniability for that excuse and they crossed it ten light years ago.

[Anonymous No.]

Okay so in this thread there seem to be some misconceptions so I implore you to read Sanahtligs comment on reddut

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/hynr3o/lilith_ripped_off_my_fan_translation_for_taimanin/

[Anonymous No.]

>>25015152
>Sanahtlig
No thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25014997
Yeah, but that doesn't hold water when you have the exact same sentences including typos. They typos completely confirm that it's a stolen translation because if they wrote it themselves they wouldn't have had the exact same typos.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25015328
You have a big brain!

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>>25015335

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>>24993658
Ive noticed some minor typos and grammatical errors but there isnt anything major so farI'm on Chapter 4 and nothing has been so glaring its made me confused or laugh at it. I'm not complaining about a free TL though. The only thing I find a bit annoying is the MC. its got nothing to do with the TL but he goes about introducing himself to all these monster people who clearly dont want to talk to him and has this "a bloo bloo bloo, Im not very good at this" attitude which I just find annoying. those are the only things I have to complain about. Gameplay is fun so far and the girls are cute.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25015807
Why does she have a tuba inside of a giant syringe?

[Anonymous No.]

>>25016448
its the plunger silly goose.

[Anonymous No.]

>>24970361
>Shukufuku no Campanella
I'm actually really happy about this. Loved the anime ages ago.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25021607
Go to reddit and tell checkerpeck that yourself. He needs motivation to continue the project.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vns/comments/hxa095/shukufuku_no_campanella_english_trial_has_been/

[Anonymous No.]

>>25021607
The guy working on it said that all he's doing unless he see's more support

[Anonymous No.]

>>25022904
Every bit of support helps to keep him motivated

[Anonymous No.]

>>25015807
I quite like the gameplay. It's interesting and serviceable.
But damn if I haven't wasted tons of turns on me clicking on a hex, and not actually clicking on the action I wanted to execute.

I am so, so used to strategy RPGs doing the whole Move First -> Select Action afterwards thing, that I repeatedly forget that this game has you select all the actions in one go.
That's not really that much of a flaw of the game though. The controls are rather efficient. I just need to get used to it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25023160
Kill yourself.

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>>25022888
>>25022904
>>25023160
I get that fantranslators in general are attention whores, it makes sense. But man, this guy is taking it to another level.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25023686
imagine thinking that checkerpeck shills himself if its actually hata :v

[Anonymous No.]

>>25023724
I didn't mean to imply that I think he posted in this thread at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25023753
Okay good. Then you deserve some loli cats

[Anonymous No.]

Look and behold. The German translation of White Wings, the English one right next to this

This is going to be a fest of a review..

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>>25023943
Maybe post this on krautchan.

[Anonymous No.]

This is many degrees worse than machinetranslation. This is machinetranslation mixed with being a dekinai at life.

[Anonymous No.]

https://imgur.com/a/vdrffe3
So no patch for Altered Fable because no one wanted to buy the uncensor patches.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25024795
They didn't sell uncensor patches, they sold partial restoration patches. just FYI.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25024795
They had a kickstarter that did over a million dollars and gave out free 18+ patches to all the backers that paid for a digital copy or higher. Of course the 18+ patches sold poorly when they gave away so many for free.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25024955
I think you mean
>Of course the +18 patch sold poorly when people would expect that to be part of the title itself since the only version that had ever been released in the west prior to that point was the release that had it in by default

Even if they did have to put in a lot of effort to restore it, you can't expect people to pay you for restoring content that you had already removed yourselves.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25025042
Never mind how no one wants to buy a patch that doesn't even do its job properly, like >>25024930 said.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25024930
>They didn't sell uncensor patches, they sold partial restoration patches. just FYI.
This is why I never even got into Muv Luv at all. I wanted to give it a chance, but then I learned that the official release was censored and shit, and that the fan translation is missing the improvements and additional content of the official release. Meaning that neither release is good and that both leaves you missing out.
So I kept holding it off, kind of naïvely hoping that one day this would be fixed somehow, but I guess not.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25025776
>and that the fan translation is missing the improvements and additional content of the official release.
What?

[Anonymous No.]

>>25025896
he's saying he doesn't want to read the fan-translation because it's ancient and missing tons of QoL features that the new release has, but he doesn't want to read the new release because there's numerous content changes. In an ideal world we'd have a release with all the content and all the QoL updates, but you know how much the japanese hate having to do any work. See Black Lillith with them stealing fan-translations and Light with them not creating a combined version of DI despite saying they would do that. Also Alicesoft being too cheap and lazy to register a US branch to release their western titles uncensored.

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>>25025930
I'm asking what was supposed to be new in the official release outside of the retranslation. I wouldn't consider removed music and cropped CGs to be improvements or additional content.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25025950
First off the official release has a CG viewer in Alternative. There's also new CG's and animations for Alternative that didn't exist in the original. Extra/unlimited also have dynamic sprites with blinking and whatnot which the original didn't.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25024795
They can go fuck themselves. I hope these new releases will bomb.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25004397
>>24999095
It's a shame it wasn't open source.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25022888
I get that it's really hard to motivate yourself to work on a stupidly long project like a VN for free if you think that nobody's interested, but that's taking it too far.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25027883
You think so? Every VN fan-translator I know who does it without the intent of ever going official starts out not caring if anyone ever reads it. See Roguetranslator, NTRanon, that nerd who got cucked by Lillith. Sure they're happy to hear people enjoyed it and might be surprised at how well liked it is, but they did it because they wanted to, not because people wanted them to.

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>>25023943
>German

https://youtu.be/Y2otY8nVEsI

[Anonymous No.]

Looks like Steam is retroactively banning VNs again:
https://twitter.com/Kouryuu_/status/1288291719755292672

[Anonymous No.]

>>25031329
Man, MG has the worst luck. One of the first VN companies to get on Steam yet also, one of the most banned. Why doesn't Sekai get this bullshit?

[Anonymous No.]

>>25031329
https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1288300778734497795

[Anonymous No.]

>>25031329
I'm not surprised Bokuten got banned, but I am surprised that they bothered to do it so long after its release. I've always bought off Steam whenever possible, and this is the type of bullshit that reinforces that decision.

[Anonymous No.]

Is this why their website is taking a billion years to redo? Doddler, you could cut and paste your favorite store's design and just change the color.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25031802
Web design is cancer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25031802
Too busy slamming artificial child pussy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25031802
web 2.0 is cancer so I can see why having to create it would be cancer too

[Anonymous No.]

>>25031329
Now I really wonder if Evenicle 2, the full game that is and not just the trial, will actually be approved by Valve.
I also wonder if Evenicle 1 will remain safe or not. Why did they ban Bokuten almost a year later?

[Anonymous No.]

>>25033109
They can probably see the user base of Evenicle versus Bokuten. Removing Evenicle off the store will probably cause a much bigger stink. But Valve are good about plugging their ears to any complaining so they I'm sure they could do it without much issue either. Not many people are going to bat for safeguarding porn games on Steam within Valve. We can see a similar situation with Sony.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25033109
>>25033404
>>25031329
I just don't get how Monobeno's still on steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25031329
>Google Cloud Vision and Amazon Rekognition have both told us that they detect content in this particular image that may not be appropriate for all ages.
Is this related to this or just a coincidence?

[Anonymous No.]

>>25033919
These stupid botnets are still relying on the amount of pink in an image to determine if it's porn?

[Anonymous No.]

>>25033919
If you told me steam's process was 100% automated based on an algorithm, I'd believe you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25033919
I wonder if the game would get unbanned if you reported that as a false positive.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25033854
China?

[Anonymous No.]

>>25028063
I can't speak for the other two, but the Yukikaze guy specifically said that he did it because he wanted people to read the game and see how cute Yukikaze was. He just didn't want an money.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25031418
>Why doesn't Sekai get this bullshit?
Their games make more money.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25031418
Can't get banned if you never release anything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25024930
They sold Alternative's patch which only had one scene for fucking 5$.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25033945
If it uses a neural network, it depends on the sample used to train the network.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25037459
>>25024930

I meant >>25024795
But still why the fuck would anybody pay to put back one fucking CG, 18+ patches was a shitty practice that was on pair with online passes for games. Nobody fucking like them, they didn't sell well and Sekai is fucking idoits for even starting that shit to begin with. And again you made close to 1.3 million dollars, this shouldn't be an issue they should want make the best version for their fan's. Also that "are Japanese customers will be losing out". Shit is retarted, just re-relase the game's with mosaic for them it's not fucking hard.

I just don't understand just come out and say "We don't want to do 18+" instead of making Bullshit excuses that don't make sense and contradict what other companies.

They make Moenovel seem smart on how they handle this shit and those rerards make new games and make sure to release an all-age western version a few months before the 18+ JP version.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25024795
I wish someone leaked some tools that are actually workable with the newer rUGP versions then at least fans could take it into their own hands if they don't want to bother.

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/BishoujoNEWS/status/1288432743546867713?s=20

Free games lads

[Anonymous No.]

>>25038746
Global rule #11.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25038773
Oh, okay. I read it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25025950
>removed music
I don't know why anyone complains about this. It's age's fault for plagiarizing music. There was never any possibility of an official release with the plagiarized songs in it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25039376
Also be glad more didn't cut. There are other songs that are still there (like Christmas and Assault Landing) that are clear rip-offs as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25039376
if Vanilla Ice could get away with it, they could have. or they could claim parody since its different enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25039557
There's virtually no difference at all. It's 100% plagiarism and they would get destroyed in a lawsuit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e1VzG_qWRE

[Anonymous No.]

>>25033854
Based China vs cucked west

[Anonymous No.]

>>25023686
Honestly, choosing to translate something so mediocre and LONG and not needing massive attention or payment is in itself out of question.
It's one of those games were sane people hold ctrl half the time. Now think about translating everything. Gotta get SOMETHING out of it. Team rocket sisters aren't exactly carrying the entire game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25040803
The mum is carrying the game.

[Anonymous No.]

It's over guys for the "making VN more popular in the west" shit jargon. Pack it up and say hello to our JOP / in training / MTL-kun /Chinks chad by keep giving Getchu/DMM money

[Anonymous No.]

>>25044407
We're never going to give up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25044407
I dont really care if theyre popular in the wet or not, I just want to read them and play VNRPGs. if I have companies I can support that I like who dont fuck them up I'll support them. If not I'll just go back to getting the shit from nipland.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25044407
I don't care about VNs as a medium anymore. I think I might have outgrown them or something. There are still a handful that I'd like to play so I continue keeping up with things. What happens if they become more popular? A bunch of shovelware moege get translated. Count me out.

[Anonymous No.]

Rewrite release postponed by few months.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/digital-and-physical-release-of-keys-rewrite/posts/2906772
>Translation on Rewrite+ and Harvest Festa has been slow in terms of progress as Karolis's previous work needed to be checked over first. This has led to a need to revise our estimates for the digital release of Rewrite+ from November 2020 to January 2021. We do apologize for the slight delay in this release but we promise to everyone that this release will receive all the proper attention it deserves.
Seems reasonable to double check Conj's work given what happened.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25046722
Nice of them to put the blame of their delays on a dead man.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25046798
Do you think they shouldn't check over it? He probably was not in a healthy state of mind. It's not blame, it's a legitimate concern. They were polite enough to not clearly state the issue.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25046866
I think all of conjueror's translations should have been checked over, but not for that reason.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25046722
>>25046866
>>25047081
I think the real question is why hadn't they already checked over his work considering he'd been working on it for years. Does Sekai really just wait four years for a translator to deliver a finished translation, THEN look at it for the first time to see if it's good?

[Anonymous No.]

>>25047377
Agreed. Sounds like a bullshit reason. There is no way an editor hasn't checked it along the way.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25046452
I've always found outgrowing a medium to be a dumb statement. Yeah, you can outgrow action games or something because of arthritis, but being able to enjoy certain stories in a given medium isn't solely based on age factors.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25044407
Popularity is stupid anyway. Sure, if more people like them, they would have more revenue to make/translate more things but if you cast your net too wide, you'll just lose everyone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25047826
>but being able to enjoy certain stories in a given medium isn't solely based on age factors
I don't care so much myself but I can see why others can get tired of things like the typical high school setting it as they grow older. Of course there are other settings, but it is also true that the medium heavily favours using it a lot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25047377
>THEN look at it for the first time to see if it's good?
I don't think sekai does that at all, looking at releases like Hoshimemo and Maitetsu.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25048071
For most people, your youth is a happier time which is why it is popular. People don't really want to be reminded of being dragged down by the responsibilities of family.

[Anonymous No.]

I wonder when MG will remember their licencing survey.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25055169
They probably "misplaced" the results at this point. Alicesoft self publishing Evenicle 2 could be the reason for that, or it just might have been that Discord controversy a few months back.

[Anonymous No.]

Reminder that IchijouCHADs run this gen-

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/jastusa/status/1288617973528301568

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>>25033919
>>25031329
https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/07/16/amazon-removes-various-light-novels-and-manga-from-kindle-service-including-no-game-no-life-and-oreimo/amp/
I am not surprised. Amazon has been delisting Japanese Light Novels as well on top of this.
>>25040043
https://fossbytes.com/japan-lawmakers-to-ban-tiktok-chinese-apps/
Japan does not like China either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25046722
Sounds like excuses for their own inept behavior.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25056989
>it just might have been that Discord controversy a few months back.
That was such a nontroversry that I don't think you can even use it as an excuse.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25047826
>but being able to enjoy certain stories in a given medium isn't solely based on age factors.
Of course it isn't, but the key terms there are "certain stories." As I said there are still a few games I'd like to read. But most of it doesn't interest me anymore. There's enough commonality across the majority of VNs that I think that's a fair statement. I'd rather read a novel.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25053438
>People don't really want to be reminded of being dragged down by the responsibilities of family.
I don't have that so reading a game where I can pretend I do is a good thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25048071
Ironically the use of teenage characters or a school setting is one of the things I'm *not* tired of in VNs. I don't particularly like reading about old people, and my favorite novel is The Catcher in the Rye. It's just what most VNs tend to do with those things that I'm tired of, I guess. For one I''m sick of reading stories that are primarily about girls and their problems. Beyond a physical level, they simply aren't that interesting to me anymore. I think that's something that can definitely be "grown out of."

[Anonymous No.]

>>25062999
>Openly shitting on your customers
>nontroversry
Sure thing, shill.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25071978
Hard to call something a controversy if the number of people who were upset are in the single digits.

[Anonymous No.]

S-surely if I wait, Photonmelodies will get at least an unnoficial 18+ patch, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>25072350
No. It's a 0% chance because of the engine incompatibilities.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25072350
Muv-Luv is an all-ages series now. Get with the times.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25072350
What you should hope for is someone porting the script and subsequent translation of the remaining cut content.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25072460
So you`re telling me it`s not 0%

[Anonymous No.]

>>25071978
>Openly
Wasn't it said in the equivalent of what was a staff room?

[Anonymous No.]

>>25072648
an unofficial +18 patch is 0%, a port of the translation to the original and then a translation of the +18 content is entirely possible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25072648
It's not zero. You'd need two key members, a programmer who could handle inserting the script into the jp version and a translator to finish up the remaining cut content, and if the partial patch is any good, 3 routes are already done(I'm assuming that includes any cut content in them). But seeing how rare it is for the community to come together and fix an all-ages release, I wouldn't hold my breath on it. On the bright side quite a bit of people really like Muv Luv, so if there's a game where things might happen, I think this would be one of them. But, easier said than done.

Also, If I'm not mistaken, someone screenshotted the Muv Luv loc director saying something along the lines of it not being too much additional work, but his superiors asked him to prove the demand was there to justify doing it, which is probably business speak for fuck off since it's an unreasonable demand.

[Anonymous No.]

I really wanted to read Altered Fable like a year ago, but my enthusiasm died down a while back. I don't know..

[Anonymous No.]

>>25073541
Well given that there's only 3 routes in altered fable translated, you might as well wait for the rest of it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25073580
Don't care about H-scenes. I read the all-ages version of the main games too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25073640
Well I uploaded a torrent on Nyaa already so have at it anon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>25073226
>Also, If I'm not mistaken, someone screenshotted the Muv Luv loc director saying something along the lines of it not being too much additional work, but his superiors asked him to prove the demand was there to justify doing it, which is probably business speak for fuck off since it's an unreasonable demand.
>>25024795

>>25073541
Yeah, that's me and Muv-Luv in general. The incompetent handling of the games after the KS killed my interest even though I loved them when I read the fan translations. I still haven't bothered reading photonflowers.

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>>25056989
This is the sequence of events.
>Eve2 wins the poll
>MG ask Alicesoft for the license of Eve2.
>Alicesoft tell them that they are doing Eve2 inhouse because MG still haven't released the other five titles they licensed.
>MG misplace the results and bring in additional resources to work on Quest
>EveII is released in English before Quest.

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>>25084144
>Eve2 sells like shit because the chinese can't buy it and a decent chunk of westerners skip out on it due to mosaics
Yep I can believe it.

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>>25084144
>Alicesoft tell them that they are doing Eve2 inhouse because MG still haven't released the other five titles they licensed.
Is that exchange as entertaining as you made it sound?

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>>25084663
It's his headcanon. The real reason is most likely because Evenicle sold like hot cakes on steam and Alicesoft wanted all the profit for themselves.

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>>25084144
Seriously tho how does MG takes forever to finish the fucking games?

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>>25084936
Evenicle made more money on steam than every other adult-only vn release by every other VN publishing company on steam combined.

>>25084948
fixing japanese coding takes a very long time, ESPECIALLY if it's a gameplay title.

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>>25084948
By bullying a translator until he met his maker.

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>>25084985
I'm sure this one sounded better in your head.

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>>25084936
>The real reason is most likely because Evenicle sold like hot cakes on steam
How much of this was sseth's fault?

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>>25085011
Sounded better than whatever the fuck these people were thinking.

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>>25085052
BDH is a tranny right?

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>>25085019
Half of it. It sold extremely well before that but that pushed it over the top.

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>>25085019
Not as much as people claim. I remember it had 100+ concurrent players for months before Sseth's video even came out.
>>25085052
If he killed himself over being called an asshole then he was a very pathetic human being.

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>>25085052
>>25085275
That event happened literally years before he died and he laughed it off. I don't know why people keep bringing it up. Conjueror made an off-color joke, BDH called him an asshole, they apologized, end of story. It's the most absurd non-drama imaginable.

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>>25085310
Please understand. Our German friends only found out about it a few weeks ago.

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>>25084144
Nah. It finishes with
>EveII is booted off steam because valve chokes on cock

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https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/i0x2rk/lilith_admitted_using_my_fan_translation_on/

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>>25086074
Read the thread.

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>>25086074
Good on him.

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>>24977978
Own a 1024x768 monitor that supports 800x600 that is 13 to 15 inches. Go to the thift store if you can.

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>>25085238
Yup. So weird reading his tweets bashing guys when he was one.

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>>25085310
>they apologized

lolno, that tweet from BDH was AFTER Conjueror tried to apologize and after his tl;dr Fata Morgana blog post about "tolerance" of trannies (in hindsight, he wanted tolerance for himself). Haro made a half-assed private apology (after causing the shit storm in the first place) but I don't think BDH ever did.

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>>25086263
no

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>>25084968
Proof? The first Evenicle was region locked so China bux weren't a factor. Wouldn't a KaguraGame or SakuraGame have sold more?

>>25086669
Trannys often like to pretend that they are completely divorced from all other members of the male sex.

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>>25086074
I can't believe they actually caved and apologized.

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>>25090182
KaguraGame and Sakuragame don't do adult only releases because the chinese can't buy them. Neither does JAST, Ninetail, and Nekonyan. Sekai Project does extremely few with Mangagamer doing the most adult-only releases of any VN publisher

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Is steam trying to end off-site patches

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>>25096000
No way to know if that's actually why it was removed or if they just claimed that after the fact. I'm inclined to think it's the latter since their statement wasn't even correct.

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>>25096000
no, steam are saying that the all ages version still contained some 18+ images within the files they are distributing. someone on reddit has gone through the files and apparently this is true - "open 'data02000.arc using GARbro". sounds like someone at MG fucked up packaging the files.

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>>25096337
I just found out, apparently they forgot to remove 2 h-cg out of the all-age version and steam found them in the files later. This is 100% MG fault and I'm mad I have to defend steam

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>>25096389
>>25096415
I wonder how Steam found it. Someone must have dug through the files and found it, but it had passed their review so why bother? Either an employee did it on their own or someone external found it and notified Steam.

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>>25084179
You are the only shizo who cares about mosaics in the west.

[Anonymous No.]

So can someone tell if it's true that altered fable doesn't really have routes just a dream of what girl you choose and the mc ends up with no one

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>>25097388
If that was the case, why would companies bother uncensoring their titles if it was 1 sale? MG would've stopped putting in the effort required to repack the title with uncensored assets if it didn't make a big difference in sales.

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>>25084968
I like how thanks to canadian pedophile now every single delay from MG is "muh japs coding" fault. Never their fault, always the victim.

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>>25097476
>why would companies bother uncensoring their titles if it was 1 sale?
Big and successful companies like Sekai and NekoNyan don't bother. It's only literally who irrelevant companies like MG and Sol Press and old dinosaur JAST.

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>>25097621
>why do both of these chinese focused companies not bother uncensoring their titles
Maybe it's because the chinese aren't allowed to have uncensored titles and the western market isn't their primary demographic which the CEO of Sekai Project has already stated.

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>>25084968
Hi MG shill, MG is not the only jp-eng localization game company in the universe so yeah weird when another can do it within timely manner even more than half of time Alicesoft needed to produce this title after Sengoku (5 vs 3 years)

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>>25084968
Hi MG shill, MG is not the only jp-eng localization game company in the universe so yeah weird when another can do it within timely manner.
This special snowflake of localization company even managed to do it more than half of time Alicesoft needed to produce this title after Sengoku (5 vs 3 years)

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>>25097755
Turns out working on a decently sized gameplay focused title that is poorly coded takes longer than just making another poorly coded title. Who could have realized that reading, learning, and fixing someone elses code who left little to no documentation takes a very long time.

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>>25097691
>>25097755
Did you really redo your post just to add in "special snowflake"?

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>>25097868
Please be patient with him anon, he has autism.

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>>25097796
So why MG does not make research before make a deal ? if they as good and professional as you stated this issue will surely know before hand, is it?
NISA managed to do it with Falcom product and so does Idea Factory/Xseed/Marvelous etc.

No one sane in the industry want to localized a product which need 3-5 years localization work because it's irrational and profitless to do.

Fans will not wait just for your product, they will buy another and just pirate yours and the hardcore one will just start learn jp rather than wait, so what's the point?

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>>25097868
>>25097888
English is my 5th language after my native + 3 east asian one so pardon my autism western faggot tranny.

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>>25097621
NN does bother though 2/3 of their mosaiced titles are from Yuzusoft. Correct me if I'm wrong on any of these.
No Mosaics:
Hello Goodbye
Fureraba
Sankaku Renai: Love Triangle Trouble
Hello Lady!
Making Lovers
IxShe Tell
Clover Days

Mosaics:
Riddle Joker
Dracu Riot
Sabbat of the Witch
Senren Banka
Aokana
Melty Moment

I have no idea:
Kinkoi: Golden Loveriche

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>>25097989
>Xseed
Didn't they spend an awful amount of time on Trails in the Sky SC?

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>>25097989
Well people paid Frontwing to wait 6 years for an official release of Sharin No Kuni. People paid Age to wait 5 years for an official translation of Muv-Luv. People paid Sekai Project to wait 7 years for Leyline series. It seems to me that people genuinely don't care about waiting long periods of time for a title they're interested in and that you're the only autistic person here who screeches about needing to wait a few years for an extremely complex and time consuming job to be finished who would probably pirate it even if it came out the week after being announced because
>fuck you for making me wait im not paying

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The real risk with these wait times is loss of interest, I think. There are games I've wanted to read in the past, and they've actually gotten released, but by that point I just wasn't that interested anymore. Nothing to do with anger at the company.

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>>25098186
Are you grasping at straws just to defend MG?
>Didn't they spend an awful amount of time on Trails in the Sky SC?
yup so? they also managed to release 3rd, cold steel 1-2, corpse party etc within timely manner. Sara (their PC programmer) is good one, so does Hatsuu and Tom.

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>>25098372
Who said I was defending MG? I was just pointing out that they were an odd one to put on the list since that was pretty notorious at the time.

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>>25098256
Well well all the title you stated above is all resulted from kickstarter and countless delay (Do they stated all their released will 5-7 years from the first moment they kickstart the project?)

And I'm sure 100% there will not be another Ages/FW/SP's one in the future for gameplay and plot titles especially if they stated "will be released 5-7 years from the kickstarter campaign over"

You are also literally grasping at straws now for your beloved VN company shitty project management planning.
Done with you both. Enjoy your credited MG points for this shilling.

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>>25097796
So Mangagamer are incompetent and shouldn't take on work they're not capable of doing.

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What's the next VN coming out

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>>25098256
>fuck you for making me wait im not paying
ah maybe that's your line of thinking, how old are you? 12?

Casual majority more like: why I need to pay full price for 5-7 years old game , when I can buy the newly released YS XI and FF XVI with the money.

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>>25098775
>paying full price for a 7 year old game
but anon they aren't charging the $90 price it originally had.

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>>25098565
>Do they stated all their released will 5-7 years from the first moment they kickstart the project?
Nope, they all placed estimates of like 1 to 2 years that obviously missed the deadline. That's why people bring them up, because they screwed up just as bad, technically worse since they should have been committed to that goal more.

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>>25099000
I think most of hardcore JOP will rather pay full price to be play the game at release date than to pay $40-50 for 7 years old english translated game.

As for casual EOP, I find still hard to believe they will choose $50 Rance X rather than newly released $60 FF XVI.

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Fuck Rance
Fuck everyone who argues about Rance and MG in this thread every week
Fuck the anti-mosaic autismo
Fuck that guy that keeps posting about krauts
Fuck that guy from /vn/ that gets mad about all-ages games
Fuck you, whoever is reading this
That is all

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>>25099926
love you too <3

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>>25099926
Best post itt by a mile

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>>25099926
Baseado y rojopillado

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>>25095832
Ah, I see what you mean.

>>25097989
>>25099189
Sadly, between MG, JAST, and Sekai Project, and the various other VN focused companies, Mangagamer is inarguably the fastest. Sure, bigger companies like NISA and XSEED are usually faster, but they also have more money to throw around. If you really want to be pedantic, you could even argue that MG is faster than those two companies because they release a title every month while those two companies don't. That's a silly argument though.

>>25099420
Final Fantasy is shit nowadays, but I get your point. Most VNfags are used to long waits for titles though; that's how it's always been.

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Reddit is is too fucking stupid to know that porn is already filtered out

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>>25106395
Go back.

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>>25097989
>MG does not make research before make a deal ? if they as good and professional as you stated this issue will surely know before hand, is it?
That's because they can translate the series unlike the rest that get cold feet and decide not to. Or when they do they will self censor and remove scenes change wording around on what happens.
>NISA managed to do it with Falcom product and so does Idea Factory/Xseed/Marvelous etc.
The problem is MG is not the exact size of those companies. MG is a VN company not a Game company and a distributor at the same time. They are smaller and cater to the Hentai side which is way smaller. The VN audience buys 1k on average in VN's a great selling title is considered 4-10k that then sells well soon physical sets. If you think you could do better you can always learn a skill and go help out on the project.

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>>25097681
>Muh chinks
Enjoy you 20+ sales of uncensored wannyan cafe, shill. And yes, westerners are second class citizens for successful companies. Deal with it.

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MG Updates:
Refrain content is at 76% translated.
Rance Quest beta is "wrapping up."
Rance 02 is out of beta.
Fxxx Me Royally is in beta
Musicus is 100% translated and edited, image editing in progress.
SP#3 is 100% translated and edited and in beta.
SP#4 is 100% translated and edited.
SP#6 is 64% translated and 62% edited.
SP#7 is 100% translated and 88% edited.

NN Updates:
Hello Lady QA is 50%. Engine Work by the devs in progress.
Riddle Joker is 90% translated and 90% edited. QA is at 35%.
Kinkoi: Golden Loveriche is 85% translated and 45% edited. Port to Unity in progress.
IxShe Tell is 100% translated and 100% edited. QA is at 70%.
Aokana Extra1 is 90% translated and 50% edited.
Melty Moment is 35% translated.
SP#1 is 35% translated.

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>>25117550

lxShe Tell likely to come out soon?

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>>25096520
There's a zero percent chance Valve would ever dig through someone's game archives, especially unprompted, it's obvious someone went out of their way to try to get the game banned by digging and finding something objectionable and reporting it. There's plenty of steam games with 0 byte adult patches with all the adult content loaded into the game, it would be weird for anyone to focus on something like Bokuten unless they're trying to sabotage MG in some way.

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>>25118069
I confess. It was me.

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>>25117550
With 3 release out of beta, 3 releases in beta, and 3 releases (plus one DLC) 100% translated and edited, MG's Q3 and Q4 schedule might be pretty crowded. One of the three releases that's 100% translated and edited is Musicus, which was planned for a release this year. Even if you discount Rance Quest because of the reasonable possibility of additional delays, the DLC route, and Secret Project 4 because that hasn't started scripting yet, that's 7 possible releases for the rest of the year.

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I went through the Bokuten files as revenge for the Rance translation delays.

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>>25117930
It might be within their next few releases after Hello Lady considering how things are progressing. I'd bet that and Aokana Extra will probably release before the end of the year assuming no engine work needs to be done.
>>25118334
They're probably going to stagger releases. If 7 secret projects is the most they'll announce this year, I think this will be the first time in a while with so few projects announced. This is likely because a lot of the current projects will spill into next year's releases. They probably have at least another few projects in the pipeline, but they've been announcing stuff closer to completion these days probably so people aren't waiting years like with Bokuten, Maggot Baits, Da Capo 3, and Rance.

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Is there even any demand for musicus?

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>>25120005
You don't want to read the greatest VN ever written?

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>>25121205
What did moogy mean by this?

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>>25121302
Musicus is too good nothing can top it

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>>25121302
He wanted to let us know about the supreme kamige we're about to receive, but we didn't listen. What fools we are.

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>>25121302

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>>25121302
He wants to overhype it so that people feel it's a letdown when its finally out so he can gloat.

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is this moogy-dono?

[Anonymous No.]

Superior JOP elite here. Musicus is as good as moogy says it is.

[Anonymous No.]

Normal JOP here. Musicus is meh.

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>When the kamige you thought was untranslateable got translated so you have to lower your vndb score
Who am I quoting?

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>>25122109
Doesn't really sound like a quote to me.

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>>25122109
Moogy and Quof

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>>25117550
Progress is quicker than usual. I am surprised.
>>25118334
Most likely they are going to move their heavy hitters out as soon as they can in fall and then begin moving releases out in Spring into Summer. Then basically have titles announced that are at least 40% translated. It's nice to see that titles are no longer announced that are taking years or are at least 60% done.

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>>25121596
I donno.

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>>25122564
What game did Quof do that with?

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>>25126940
Daito

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>>25126965
Makes sense -- that's a much more embarrassing thing to praise that Dies Irae, which is at least good within its own genre.

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>>25127004
He used to say it was the best moege ever lol

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>>25127004
>>25127081
To be fair there are no good moege to begin with.

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>>25126940
All of his list.

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>>25126940
>>25126965
>>25127004
>>25127081
You're misquoting Quof. He didn't lower Daito's score because it got translated. He lowered Daito's score because he hated the newest August game so much he now hates all august games and thinks they're all bad. Nothing to do with the TL.

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>>25127882
That's just as dumb of a reason.

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I wonder if MG will announce their secret projects this weekend to correspond with Otakon or wait until later. One of the secret projects is already in beta, so I'd imagine that even if they stall the announcements, it won't be for longer than a couple of months.

>>25120005
Overdrivefags exist. Sort of.

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>>25127882
somehow even more petty, kudos queef

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>>25121302
Him reading it just coincided with the moment he completely switched his interests to yuri garbage, touhou and retarded IWBTG games.

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>>25129967
Don't forget vtuber trash

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>>25129967
with regards to touhou he's a secondary too

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>>25121205
That fat boi is such a joke.

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>>25134773
He gave you SubaHibi.

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>>25142704
no he didn't, kirby did

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>>25142704
Something, something, surface level. Something, something, wasted localization effort, something, something, dumb EOPs.

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>>25142704
He didn't. That was Kirby.

[Anonymous No.]

Okay guys. I'm back again. Never posting discord again on 4chan because it gets you banned :(

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>>25106395
How the fuck do they not know this?

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>>25148756
New thread up with the updates for this week