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http://mangagamer.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/hard-copy-distribution-plans/
http://www.jastusa.com/j-list-partners-with-manga-gamer-in-package-distribution-deal

>After our first experiment with hard copies via the Da Capo Limited Edition, we were able to come in contact with and get to know many other vendors and distributors. We spoke with many of them, and we have decided that the best option which would help us reach the widest possible audience in North America, would be to work with J-list for the distribution of our hard-copies. We both agreed this deal would be in our mutual interests, and hope that hard copies continue to prove a success so we can continue to bring you even more in the future.

Jlist main page
>Now we have even more good news: we've signed an exclusive distribution agreement with MangaGamer to bring their awesome English-translated game titles to you!

>> No.7641217
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>> No.7641216

So how long now until Peter buys out Mangagamer?

>> No.7641218

This is actually really great news. Mangagamer gets advertising and exposure that isn't their own twitter feed and American buyers get cheaper games and hard copies.

>> No.7641221

I would fuck the hell out of Mangagamer's loli's little pussy.

>> No.7641220

Manga Gamer is shit.

>> No.7641223

>Reading VNs in English

>> No.7641228

>>7641218
The downside being that they still get Mangagamer translations.

>> No.7641229

>>7641228
Unless they improved I don't see how that is a bad thing. The last thing I played by Jast was Family Project, the last thing I played by MG was Kara no Shoujo. Give me the Kara no Shoujo translation any day.

>> No.7641230

Que false advertisements

>> No.7641232

>>7641229
Old Mangagamer TLs (anything pre-Higurashi Kai, really) are very terrible. Newer ones are usually mostly fine though.

>> No.7641239

Moogy is somewhere in the shadows, counting his gold.

>> No.7641240

>>7641232
Anti-Toutaku alliance. Really, where do you find editors that stupid?

>> No.7641243

Not enough porn of MG girl.

>> No.7641244

>>7641211
Who give a shit.
Release schedule is still slow like fuck.
Tell me when they start releasing 1game/month.
I find it unacceptable to play a 20hours game once every 3months.

>> No.7641245

>>7641230
I wonder if you mean cue or queue. Either way, you're a moron.

>> No.7641258

>>7641245
No, he's just Mexican. The machine translator didn't realize he forgot the accent mark.

>> No.7641277

>>7641221
>>7641243
Seconded. How long till we get some good porn of J-list girl and MG loli doing each other?

>> No.7641373

>>7641240
That one really was Japan not understanding comments on the beta submissions and applying a change intended for one section to the whole game.

Yeah, we headdesked at that as well.

>> No.7641380

>>7641244
Learn Japanese.

>> No.7641398

Playing KnS right now. Translation is good.

I'm happy about the deal, it means hard copies for MG releases and a cross pollination for JAST and their customers. All of which will feed the burgeoning market.

I'm actually rooting for these companies to succeed. Go ahead and throw tomatoes at me now.

>> No.7641412

>>7641277
I think the manga gamer girl is a better fap than any of their games, but I don't think I've played them all, so I could just be running my mouth.

>> No.7641425

is it true that mangagamers is trying to get kiminozo from age? I'd rather have altered fable but I guess it makes more sense to start at the beginning.

>> No.7641529

>>7641425
You'd be lucky to see any of the Muvluv games localized any time soon, especially considering Kouki and the other age devs don't seem to hate money as much as Bamboo and the Overdrive devs do.
If we see any version of KimiNozo at all, it'll probably be the 2001 or DVD spec versions, not say, LE. Which is a damn shame, as LE adds a ton to the game, as well as being Wide Screen and having higher resolution resources and such.
And regarding Muvluv, I really don't see it happening because of several reasons. The first being pride. Muvluv/Alternative have essentially become age's flagship currently, and I don't exactly see them letting that go be localized in a market as small as this especially when a free patch is widely available. Second would be the engine. Unlimited and Alternative pretty much would not work at all without rUGP, and considering MG's policy of porting games to their own engine, I wouldn't even want to buy an MG release of those games if they were on rUGP. And if they were to release and still keep rUGP, they'd still need to tweak it a bit to support machines that don't have their Locale set to Japanese. How much work that would be, I have no idea. And the third would be cost. If I remember right MGs business structure essentially has the company that made the game cover the localization costs. Sure, age may have a copy of the translation sitting on their laps for free, but they'd still need to have someone TL check it, and pass over editing it again most likely. And both of these need people hired to do them. Then there could also be costs need to license various resources such as the music, voices, and so on, as well as the associated costs with possibly making engine changes and so on.

>> No.7641540

Pretty good for mangagamer, they are final doing something right. Jlist is a hotbed for the "weeaboo" crowd who go to /a/ / /v/ and click their ads on 4chan. I think they will get some good business out of this.

>> No.7641552

>someone on /bun/ suggests they should start an affiliate program because they suck at market
>one week later affiliate program
>300+ replies /jp/ thread about "I won't buy from mangagamer unless they have hard copies and other shit"
>two weeks later new deal for hard copies

>> No.7641561

>>7641552
They've been saying they'd get the affiliate program up for ages, just like their manga section. They've had hard copies for a while at this point as well.

>> No.7641563

>>7641425
But kiminozo is miles better than altered fable.

>> No.7641567

>>7641563
KimiNozo lacks "rich people are silly" which AF brings out in full force.

>> No.7641573

>>7641567
But rich people are silly is one of the worst things ever created.

>> No.7641574

>>7641529
>and considering MG's policy of porting games to their own engine
Read: "I'm a retard and no one should take what I say seriously."

>> No.7641578

>>7641552
They're sniffing around these parts, I'm not surprised thoughl. /jp/ is the premiere visual novel/anime screencap board of the internet.

>> No.7641581

>>7641574
I haven't been keeping up with MGs releases since the end of last year, but I'm pretty sure all of their title up to that point were ported over to their engine for DRM purposes.

>> No.7641583

>>7641581
As far as I know the only game that doesnt use BGI shit is Kara no Shoujo.
Not surprising that KnS is the best game MG churned out so far.

>> No.7641585

>>7641563
but it already got 2 animu adaptations while altered fable has zero translated material.

>> No.7641594

>>7641585
2 anime adaptations=more popular=more sales
AF is a revamped extra and almost as shitty.

>> No.7641599

>>7641585
>>7641583
Any game that requires a special engine uses that special engine. See Koihime for example. Another example would have been KnS but the Japanese devs couldn't get it to work properly for English text since it just wasn't designed for it, so they ported it to KiriKiri 2.

There is nothing special about BGI that makes DRM more effective than any other engine. Nothing at all. If you think them porting it to BGI is because of DRM purposes then you are just flat out wrong.

>> No.7642041

But KnS was translated at TLWiki.
Is it really correct to use it as an example for MG's translations while comparing it to years old titles not translated by TLWiki to represent Jast?

>> No.7642055

Where's the j-list manga-gamer crossover lesbian sex fanart?

>> No.7642226

>>7642041
It becomes a blurry line with fan translators, but seeing that Apoptosis has been translating other MG games (sex romps according to occasional posts in the VNTS thread), it is probably fair to consider him a MG translator rather than a fan translator by now.

>> No.7642239

>>7642226
Well, sure.
But with the partnership with JAST, Tlwiki and N+, don't you think Demonbane, Sumaga and their upcoming titles to be a better example for JAST?

>> No.7642360

At least MG still translates things in house. I think Jast has just one game that they recently announced (Django) which a translation is being started from scratch.

>> No.7642633

>>7642360
/jp/ might be too refined for such things.
But they did translate Yukkuri Panic, and they are translating Starless from scratch, so it's not only Django.
Seinarukana is also being translated though, don't think Dakkodango has anything to do with that one.

>> No.7642683

>>7642633
>Seinarukana is also being translated though, don't think Dakkodango has anything to do with that one.

They said they are working with the existing translation group.

>> No.7642761

who cares. yumina fucking where

>> No.7643566

if you know jap, you can play more than 10 new games every month.

if you dont, you get stuck with this bad translation crap that releases one very old game every 6 months or more.

your choice.

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>>7643566
>learning a language just to play abominably bad VNs that offer nothing but cheap titillation

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>>7643566

half the time, the uncensored CGs alone are worth the wait.

>> No.7643580

>>7643566
I made the first choice a long time ago. But it seems I am too slow or dumb as I can't even read slices of life yet.

>> No.7643586

>>7643566
>if you know jap, you can play more than 10 new games every month.
There's like 1-2 actually GOOD games released every month adn I can be arsed to play one.

>> No.7643602

>>7641552
They're listening to their customer base, and this is a bad thing?

Either way I still won't be buying. Money is tight and all that.

>> No.7644419

Regarding their Nitro+ titles

>These games will be produced in cooperation with the same expert localization staff (and others) who brought you the quality of translation content included in the Demonbane release, as well as under the close supervision of Nitroplus. Nitroplus is on board with us in the understanding that the Demonbane development cycle was undesirably slow, and we intend to have all of the above games released by the end of 2012.

>> No.7644422

They should put the ero version of Aselia on Steam with achievements.

>> No.7644428

>>7644419


>we intend to have all of the above games released by the end of 2012.

I hope he doesn't think anyone actually will believe this.

>> No.7644482

>>7644422
Now I'm frustrated

>> No.7644494

where are dem leaked staff pictures

>> No.7644528

They are a fucking company,yet they take as long as fan translations, fucking retarded. They also pick retarded vns.

>> No.7644643

are they bring over the 18+ version of Aselia?

>> No.7644646

>>7644643
Yes, you illiterate swine. Go away and never come back.

>> No.7644686

>>7644646
Eat a dick, you upstuck yurofat sudomuncher

>> No.7647050

>>7641211
oh god yes. Awful Higurashi release in a poor CD case here i come!
now they should only make Kara no Shojo one

>> No.7647062

I'm still not going to buy.

>> No.7647080

>>7647050
Yeah don't expect much on the packing for the Mangagamer releases.

Kira Kira was just literally a DVD case with a poorly printed label and the disc in it.

>> No.7647088

>J-List
Not buying anything from that shit hole.

>selling at 200% base price
>ridiculous international shipping rates
There better be a different distributor in Europe, otherwise NOPE.

>> No.7647090

>>7647088
Wait, I should have RTFA before replying.
Everything alright, except for NA.

>> No.7647092

>>7647050

To be fair, the original Higurashi games came in cruddy CD cases as well.

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It cost me 40 dollars to get shit shipped from that site, no thank you.

>> No.7647097

>>7647092
It fits the content, don't you think?

>> No.7647154

>>7647092
yeah i know. I'm not denying that the original packing is also shitty.

>>7647088
I'm also from Europe. I never shopped with them before, but aren't their shipping rates for each service comparable with those of another countries? I mean i always take it easy and choose SAL. Shipping one book for example from Japan is about $6, if you buy more than one, shipping per one title gets even cheaper. But then again, USA may have higher prices, i never checked the tables..

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Anyone who purchases vn's doesn't belong on /jp/

>> No.7647243

>>7647214
i don't think so

speaking about j-list. i wonder if ordering this makes any sense, or would using a deputy service be cheaper.
Not only it's $120, you have to add shipping and i doubt it's really 300g
http://www.jlist.com/product/PCG6558

>> No.7647938

Europe you can just avoid J-List and use the European hard copy distributor that they have on their main site.

>> No.7648006

>>7647938
what you talkin' about

>> No.7648033

>>7648006
They have a different distributor handling Europe.

>> No.7648409

>>7647243
The game costs about ~$85/€59 so yes, using a deputy service is going to be cheaper, probably in the ballpark of ~$15 less.

>> No.7648872

Now if only they'd sell a decent visual novel.

>> No.7650166

JList twitter

>Warning, if you come to my booth and brag about how you download all my eroge games, I will preach to you about why that's a very bad thing

>> No.7650176

>eroge games

>> No.7650177

>>7650166
>eroge games

>> No.7650181

>>7648872
Kirakira and kara no shoujo are already better than anything JAST has published.

>> No.7650195

Needs moar Kara No Shoujo. Maybe a limbless fig in an eggshell too.

>> No.7650202

>>7650176
>>7650177

Withdraw money from the local ATM machine and pay for them properly

>> No.7650207

>>7650166
I wonder what kind of sermon he has ready if you admit to downloading his ero game games.

>> No.7650212

>>7650181
Don't forget Kazokei.

>> No.7650228

>>7650202
>pay

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>>7650195

>Kara No Shoujo
>limbless fig

That's pretty messed up dude.

>> No.7650483

>>7650166
I thought they sold legal downloads though.

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