/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status


11eyes - 2nd partial patch out, very slow to effectively stalled for the time because of the main translator needing to deal with real life unless a new primary translator joins
Acchi Muite Koi - 5% translated
Air - 25% translated and 23% edited
Aiyoku no Eustia - prologue complete, chapter 1 fully translated, 90% edited
Akai Ito- Yumei's route released, Nozomi route fully inserted,Uzuki route 40% inserted, 14300/21674 (65.98%) overall inserted, last untranslated arc being translated by original translator
Amagami - "Prologue patch ETA ~July 2nd. Alpha testing underway"
Apathy Midnight Collection - fully translated, one arc left to edit
>Baldr Sky - 843/10284 (8.2%) lines of Nanoha route translated. Overall progress: 19571/91443 lines (21.4%), 993.76/4720.14kb (21.05%), 77/196 scripts (39.29%)
Cartagra - Initial translation complete, future is unknown
>Concerto Note - C&D, continuing, translation at 42%, editing at 18%
Daiteikoku - 35% translated partial patch out
DraKoi- Initial translation complete
>Dracu-Riot - prologue patch released, 4715/53707 (8.78%) lines translated
Eiyuu Senki- 6.6% translated
>Fate/Hollow Ataraxia- 80.2% translated, third partial patch out
Fortune Arterial- Prologue completly translated, Kiriha route patch testing, Erika route 60%, Haruna route 50%
>Hadaka Shitsuji - 45.32% translated
>Grisaia no Kajitsu- 84.2% of the common route translated
Hakuisei Renai Shoukougun - 4 scripts translated
Hanahira - 15 of 50 scripts translated
>Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni - Fully translated, 14% edited
Higurashi Daybreak - being translated
Hinomaru- 26% translated, main arc editing
Hunks Workshop - ~25% rough translation
Ikusa Megami Zero - Project alive again, 5205 lines translated
Imouto Paradise - 5% translated

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

>Irotoridori no Sekai - 34,739/51,100 (67.98%) lines translated, full common route, Kana, and Kyou route translated, prologue patch released
Kimiaru - Day one translated
Koitate - Ren and Yukino’s route patch released
Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content, Sasami route 51.89% (3472/6691) translated
Majikoi- Yukie + Chris + Momoyo + Wanko + teacher route patch released, Miyako route 35% translated
M&M Enchanting Magic & Sweet Charms- 92%
Mahoutsukai no Yoru - Trial patch released, work on the full game planned
Mirai no Uta to Tsunagaru Hitomi - Translation planned
Muv-Luv Chronicles - Work being done on The Day After 00 + 01
>Never 7 - all 113 scripts and 97 of 111 tips through initial translation, 96/113 scripts through final translation, 59/113 scripts through final translation+editing, preview patch out
Nursery Rhyme - 9049/34410 lines (26.3%) translated
Okujou no Yurirei-san - project starting up
>Oreimo PSP - Significant progress made with a youtube translation
Pandora no Yume - 15-17% translated
Parfait- Translation planned
Period- game total translation: 93.39% complete, Miyu + Rin + Aoi + Kohane + Tsuzumi + Miyu patches released, next patch will be final
Princess Maker 5- 44% translated
Pure Pure The Story of Ears and Tails- Sachi Patch released, 85.48% translated
>Real Imouto - 5514/16108 (34.23%) translated
Rance 3 - 75% translated
Rance 4 - 20% translated
Rance Quest - between 4 and 5%
>Rewrite - 33641/101228 (33.23%) lines translated
Sakura Wars 1 - Project started
Sapphism no Gensou - 47 scripts translated
Sensei Da-isuki 2- roughly 25% translated, still active
Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo - Fully translated, someone has gone through all the scripts for editing

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Shinigami no Kiss wa Wakare no Aji - Common route and Honoka's route translated, overall 12361/18147 = 68.12% lines translated
Sin- 65% of episode 1 translated
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 6- fully translated
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 8- fully translated
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 9- 3/18 scripts translated
>Sumaga Special - KBs done: 180/8100 (2.22%)
Tenshi No Inai 12-Gatsu-"Maho route fixed"
Togainu No Chi- 77% translated, partial patch out
To Heart2- 63% translated- "The final product is still years away unless I get more help. ", new alpha patch released
Tomoyo After - Partial patch released
Touka Gettan: translation status: ~40% translated
Welcome to Pia Carrot 2 - 1st draft translation 35%, as it was found much of the script was originally not dumped
>White Album 2 - Overall: 2696/70253 (3.83%) lines translated, Introductory Chapter: 2696/10769 (25.03%) lines translated
>Yandere - 83.5% translated
>Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 28% edited
Yosuga no Sora - Roughly 40% translated, goal for greater than 50% patch around mid-to-late february

>Aroduc's secret project - 5 chapters translated

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

Official work

MangaGamer
Ef - checking final build
Harukoi Otome - TL/Editing complete, Scripting in April, latter half of 2012 release expected
>OtoBoku - 8/20 scripts translated
>Eroge - 30/60 H-scenes translated
Dengeki Strykers - Trial out and preorders open, 6/22 release
Da Capo III - Mentioned at AX
Innocent Grey would also like to bring over an upcoming title related to Kara no Shoujo
Negotiations with age still ongoing
Negotiations for Oretsuba are still ongoing
Games from Denbonosu - "Hopefully in the future with MangaGamer, I can do something in the US too."[president of Denbonosu]
Negotiations ongoing with Clochette, would like to bring over Kamikaze Explorers
Picked up a Circus title with gameplay

JAST
School Days HQ - expected to be golden master by month's end
Yumina the Ethereal - "Script and images translated. Working on insertion and testing"
Moero Downhill Night Blaze- 90% translated, fixing bug
Saya no Uta - 99% complete
Hanachirasu - 99% complete
Django: Couple more months of translation
Kikokugai - Working out issues
Sumaga- demo soon, got new staff
Seinarukana- picked up, ~38% translated
Starless - Work ongoing
Starry Sky- negotations with voice actors
Muramasa - Common route complete, 2 of 5 chapters towards true end translated, uncertain what will come from the project
Steins;Gate - 2nd pass: 154/175 Scripts. Phone and TIPS edited, rough patch out, Jast may pick up the project

Other
LUDESIA- English release planned
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread
A tracker for these threads put together by Tinfoil: http://vntls.tindabox.net/

[Anonymous No.]

Hey OP. Didn't you get the memo that Hollow Ataraxia's translation moved BACKWARDS this week when they discovered that, surprise, their open crowdsource model resulted in people throwing in a few thousand Google Translated lines?

[Anonymous No.]

Best thread of the week is finally here!

[Anonymous No.]

finally week is the thread best here of

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>>9071964
And you missed the Rance 6 project starting up too.

Not a good week for you, VNTS.

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>>9071964
They did release the third patch (thus the pic) and the listed progress is 80.2%. I'm not sure what the progress will be after they sort that out, but I went with that since it is the only numeric value the project offers.

>>9071975
This I did miss, where is this at?

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>>9072004
http://rancetranslation.wordpress.com/

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>>9072010
Thanks, shall be on the list going forward.

[Anonymous No.]

Cudder status - still irrelevant

[Anonymous No.]

Is there a torrent for Umineko Hane anywhere?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9072069
I heard if you look into a mirror and say three times, you'll summon him.

[Anonymous No.]

>Oreimo PSP - Significant progress made with a youtube translation
Not sure how to feel about this.

[Anonymous No.]

>Sumaga special
I still don't get it.

[Anonymous No.]

Hit two milestones this week with Grisaia:
• 20% of text (by kb) is translated
• The main section of the common route is complete. Remaining scenes branch into the character routes

[Anonymous No.]

>>9072110
Those bellies are cute.

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>>9072110
You have my sincerest thanks for working on this. I'd suck your cock, dude.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9072110
Tummies

[Anonymous No.]

I seriously don't understand why F/HA doesn't get more help

It's fucking TM

[Anonymous No.]

The best thread of the week is here again!

[Anonymous No.]

>>9072270
Because it's bad.

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>>9072270
You answered your own question right there.

[Anonymous No.]

>Kimiaru 84% translated, partial patch out

awesome, it is nearly there

[Anonymous No.]

>>9072473
Aaah, Venus. You will always be lovely.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9072285
>>9072290
Hipsters

[Anonymous No.]

>>9072482
Benisu

[Anonymous No.]

>>9072491
No.

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>>9072004
There IS one other number - 23196/44305. That's the TLC/editing, and what this patch includes.

A "bugfix" patch is imminent, by the way. It's been way too long since the last release, and it shows.

[Anonymous No.]

any idea on what Aroduc's secrete project may be

[Anonymous No.]

>>9073139
Duel Savior

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>>9073139
Barney Black.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9073139
Eiyuu Senki

[Anonymous No.]

>>9073144
That would make me happy.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

KNNWSNY - 100% translated 92.3% edited

>>9072069
u mad?

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>>9073441
>To have such a face, in this house it is only this person
>The smile of someone is genial

And this is what you pick to show off how your machine translation is doing.

Stop, Cudder. Just stop.

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>>9073441
How does it feel that your translation projects are not accepted as real projects anywhere? Not on vndb, not on 4chan, not in these threads.

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>>9073449
>>9073452
Go away trolls. No one is forcing you to read those translations.

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>>9073463
No one's forcing you to post them, Cud-tan. Can't stand the heat, don't machine translate games.

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>>9073466
Implying that you are not effectively doing the same when you AGTH untranslated games. You wouldn't be in this thread if you could do any better, nerd.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9073449
>>9073452
How does it feel to be a discriminatory bigot?

Or rather, why didn't YOU volunteer to translate?

It's quite a bit better than FH's translation.

Either way it doesn't matter to me.

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>>9073472
Yeah, you got me. I discriminate against bad things. It's my cross to bear. Somehow, I have to find the strength to carry on each day, knowing that I have the unfortunate preference of preferring quality and effort over garbage. Somehow, I manage.

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>>9073449
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genial

Go read some more books, loser.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9073474
"bad" from YOUR OWN VIEWPOINT.

Not everyone has the same level of English education as you.

Don't forget that 99% of the posts here aren't 100% perfect English either.

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>>9073487
I prefer translation project where a semblance of the actual story remains.

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>>9073474
> unfortunate preference of preferring quality and effort over garbage
The irony.

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>>9073487
>Being Cudder is suffering
>Cudder の中に苦しんでいる
>Suffering from during the Cudder
>Cudder 中に苦しんで
>Cudder while suffering from
>苦しんでいる間 Cudder
>While suffering from Cudder
>Cudder からの苦しみながら
>While suffering from Cudder

[Anonymous No.]

>Irotoridori no Sekai - 34,739/51,100 (67.98%) lines translated, full common route, Kana, and Kyou route translated, prologue patch released
Tsukasa route is done too, Mio's is projected to finish in July.

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>>9073487
The level of English is irrelevant. Heck, you could edit the entire game so the lines were in perfect English. It wouldn't matter. The translations would still be awful, and incorrect in many places. Editing the English to flow better only helps disguise the poor translation, it doesn't make the translation better.

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>>9073441

yay for the progress but well... the translation is kinda...
but whatever meh, someone translating this is good enough. thanks. I'll just use my brain to decipher the meaning of the words (lol)

but well, even though the editing is already at 92.3%, according to your post last week there's still image editing and yada-yada-something-you-name-it, right?

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>>9073507
>someone translating this
But nobody's translating it.

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>>9073507
How desperate can you get?

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>>9073505
After Mio's route, how many others are left to translate?
Good for Grisaia, but I guess it will take quite a few to translate all the route, since they're supposed to be long, right?

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>>9073523
>how many others are left to translate?
Only Shinku's, hers and Kanna's are the longest routes if I remember right.

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>>9073523
He did 20% in about 2 months, so assumig he keeps this pace he should be able to finish translating in 8 more months.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9073495
>>9073506
I agree that you need to look at the original to compare the translation accuracy, so now you can look at the original.

[Hopefully our client doesn't object to me doing this since I'm not complaining *against* him here.]

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>>9073530
They're trolling, cudder-kun. The translation isn't horribly wrong, but the editing for those two lines could have some work done.

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>>9073535
>The translation isn't horribly wrong
Uh, yes it is.

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>>9073530
not bad, keep up the good work

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>>9073530
I wasn't trying to imply those two specific lines were mistranslated. Those two lines are short and simply enough for a machine translator. I'm sure even Flyable Heart had some lines that were correctly translated. Try to show a translation of a much bigger sentence.

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>>9073547
But they are mistranslated.

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>>9073544
>>9073548

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>>9073548
They aren't significantly mistranslated. They are just very poorly rendered in English.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9073556
Did he capture tone?
Presentation?
Style?

A nope.

大好きです is not correctly translated as "big liking there is" and his spew is not correct for the exact same reason.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9073569
>Did he capture tone?
>Presentation?
>Style?
Getting these makes something a better translation. Not having them does not make it a mistranslation.
>大好きです is not correctly translated as "big liking there is"
What does this example even have to do with the tone, presentation, or style that you were just harping about?

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>>9073580
Because it's similarly fucked up by ignoring fucking everything about the language and how it works by just doing machine substitution of chunks.

But why argue. Here's an object lesson of how Cudder works.

>そんな顔をしてくれるのは
>To have such a face
>この家ではこの人だけだ--
>It's only this person at this house
>誰かの笑顔が温かい
>Someone's smiling face is warm

That's OCN. Would you look at that. And genial's the last dictionary definition for 温かい. God only knows why he did that. Probably because he thought non-verbs could just be substituted for any of their meanings so set the automatic feeder to just pick one at random.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9073547
Here's the top 5 longest lines.

Report generated via the following query.
SELECT u.idx as idx, t.text, u.text
FROM knnwsny.orig1 u, knnswny.trans1 t
WHERE u.idx = t.idx
ORDER BY LEN(t.text) DESC

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9073597
This project would not have taken over a year if we had that sort of technology. Your trolling is pure propaganda.

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>>9073597
I believe that Cudder himself is a machine translator that has somehow evolved sapience. He does seem to understand Japanese, but when it comes to actually converting it into English, his translation algorithms come into play and it comes out all wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

The funny thing is, if cudder spent half the time he spent trying to convince us that edited machine translations are fine on learning Japanese instead, he would be fluent enough to give us a flawless translation by now.

[Anonymous No.]

Why there are nothing about Umineko no Naku Koro ni Hane was translated?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9073767
cudder is that you?

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9073679
-32768/10
>>9073691
-255/10

I have thought about trying to learn Japanese before. But it's really a pretty useless language, and I have more useful things to learn. If I were forced to pick another language to learn I would probably choose Chinese.

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>>9073771
“I have thought about trying to learn Japanese before. But it's really a pretty useless language, and I have more useful things to learn.”
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　—Cudder, Japanese game translator

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>>9072072
9070756

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>>9073780
Please, ignore her. His weekly troling only contribute to wreck this tread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9073780
I want to learn Japanese so that I can go to 2chan instead of staying in this shithole of an imageboard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9073812
hahahahahaha

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>>9073780
>Cudder
>Japanese game translator
Please, she's a blahblah localis(z)ation blahblah company.

[Anonymous No.]

>Negotiations ongoing with Clochette, would like to bring over Kamikaze Explorers

So is this ever going to happen?

[Anonymous No.]

why is vn translation scene so shitty lately. wheres drama

[Anonymous No.]

>>9074216
Nothing to drama about.
Translators have been doing what they are expected to proficiently without going fullretard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9074219
fags

[Anonymous No.]

Awesome to see Baldr Sky moving again

[Anonymous No.]

Rance VI getting a translation?
How long is that game?

[Anonymous No.]

>Oreimo PSP - Significant progress made with a youtube translation
Not sure how to feel about this..

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>>9074508
Took me about 80 hours to finish it.
It's very long, probably one of the longest rpg I've played.
Actually probably only DQ7 was longer

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>>9072099
>>9074514
epic hivemind :D

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>>9074508
Some guy from /vg/ translates it, probably best to ask him directly.

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>>9073771

Cudder I used to support your efforts. I even defended your projects when neigh everybody was criticizing you, Retrans and the translators you work with. Unfortunately you have completely lost my confidence and I can no longer support your projects, or accept your them as being legitimate translations of visual novels.

Now, you may think Flyable Heart project was acceptable, but it wasn't. It read atrociously and was obviously translated by a translator with a very limited grasp of proper English. Now you may say well at least he tried. However this is a disaster for anyone hoping to eventually see a 'real translation' of this visual novel. Having been 'translated' and I use that term loosely, this visual novel is less likely to be picked up by a translation group and properly translated in the future.

Now, you're from Russia / or of Russian origin correct? Well imagine you had to read your favorite book in mangled Russian. To the point where you felt the translator was completely and utterly destroying your favorite book, with mangled, often incomprehensible Russian, which read badly and made the book lose its appeal completely. That is the Flyable Heart translation project for an English reader.

For me Flyable Heart was no big loss, but for someone it was something they looked forward too and they were met with disappointment. I ask that you not release any more visual novels without ensuring the quality of the translation and please maintain a minimum of editing/proofing by someone competent to do so.

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>>9074888
cont.

Otherwise your group will just continue to release monstrosities of visual novel translation, which far from helping the community, hinder it and do not please fans, just disappoint them. Such translation projects reflect badly on yourself and your company Retrans, as they facilitate and encourage poor quality translation of visual novels.

I say this not to give you a hard time, but in the hope that your group will decide to alter the way in which you conduct your business.

Kind Regards, Anon

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>>9074537
That's less the size of the game and more the power of a bad combat engine and grind.

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>>9073487
From mine too, deal with it faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

Rance VI guy released a teaser patch.
http://rancetranslation.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/rance-vi-english-teaser-patch/

[Anonymous No.]

Eiyuu Senki (TLWiki project)

KannaRei: on 16.05 I received a dmca mail from tenco making me stop translating and the team abandoning the project. None of us intend to go against tenco's wishes with this so we will not take it up again unless tenco themselves give us an ok. If you really want/need it in english either find someone else who does not care about dmca and such or use atlas or whatnot.

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>>9075409
Is it good?

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>>9075682
wow, is that real, what a bunch of faggots.

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>>9075682
Well there goes that. It cock blocked all the older women anyway and only the lolis got shit so fuck that game anyway. I would be too pissed off to play it knowing that didnt care about the people who liked older women even though there was shit ton of them.

[Anonymous No.]

THIS WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU FAGGOTS HAD SIGNED MY ANTI-DMCA GUESTBOOK ON MY GEOCITIES PAGE

[Anonymous No.]

DMCA:ing translation projects of works you have no intention of releasing overseas is quite bad taste. Honestly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9076404
Who knows? That could happen in twenty years.

[Anonymous No.]

Tenco if you don't plan on getting Eiyusenki released here legally then fuck you

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>>9074892
>>9074888
He's too retarded to understand.

[Anonymous No.]

Who cares abou the Eiyuu Senki project dying? They didn't have a translator and had gotten nothing done.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9076428
They had "KannaRei" and "Ulandus" listed as TL, as well as "Vardest" on TLC, though?

[Anonymous No.]

Wasn't Eiyuu Senki supposed to be kind of terrible anyway?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9076568
>Wasn't Eiyuu Senki supposed to be kind of terrible anyway?
yes, it had no content for 90% of the heroines and only pandered to some lolis. fucking want a let down.

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>>9076571
>>9076346
Take your autism somewhere else.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9076568
I wouldn't call it terrible, but I'd be hardpressed to call it anything better than really mediocre. The mechanics are solid, but poorly implemented and the writing is dull as dishwater.

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>>9073580
It absolutely does make it mistranslation if you don't account for tone or style. That is how language works. Those without autism understand how important non-literal meaning is to communication and good writing.

Part of the reason you enrage people, cudder, is because you refuse to acknowledge the very basics of how translations work and what translations are. Also your astroturfing and shitposting but who's counting.

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>>9072072
hmm i have it... but what's the magic word /jp/??

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>>9076571
>>9076592
If you have a problem against eiyuu senki, I suggest you go back to your button smashfest games. Or perhaps you could explain your sudden tantrum, you bitch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9071950
>sumaga special
lol wut

[Anonymous No.]

>>9077344
Daiteikoku is a piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>Apathy Midnight Collection - fully translated, one arc left to edit

I wonder if this will ever be done; I was looking forward to it when it was first announced.

Anyway, thanks for this thread as always, OP.

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>>9077400
Nice argument... noob!

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>>9077436
Welcome back, Dingus.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9074888
I neither care for nor need your support. If your complaining is about the translation then that is beyond our responsibilities as a service provider. Implying that we should to do anything is like telling your ISP to censor sites that *you* don't like, and as a strong supporter of free speech we cannot do that. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

>Having been 'translated' and I use that term loosely, this visual novel is less likely to be picked up by a translation group and properly translated in the future.
Again, whether or not anyone else wants to try doing a better translation is not our problem. [The original translator is going to be trying that for the SP, but if you want to or know someone who does want to do so, then please do let us know.]

>Well imagine you had to read your favorite book in mangled Russian. To the point where you felt the translator was completely and utterly destroying your favorite book, with mangled, often incomprehensible Russian, which read badly and made the book lose its appeal completely. That is the Flyable Heart translation project for an English reader.
First of all that's a big part of why I learned English --- to take advantage of the large amount of material in it. I've had the same experiences in English (pic related), but why complain? A translation you have to work at to understand is better than nothing at all, and as the saying goes, "anything is a long way from nothing." It should also be mentioned that many of these experiences involved much more crucial things than consumer entertainment, where a wrong translation can cause a release of "magic smoke".

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>>9078665
And now all the retards have assembled. You and Dingus should get a room and not come out until one of you has either killed the other, or have so worn each other out through clumsy moron sex that you can't inflict any more harm on the world.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>For me Flyable Heart was no big loss, but for someone it was something they looked forward too and they were met with disappointment.
Looking at the dates on the files FH was out for almost 2 years before someone was willing to translate it, so if there wasn't that translator those wanting to read it would've probably still not been able to, and may have just looked for something else. Remember that this is entertainment we're dealing with, where new is important and the "audience" loses interest quickly.

The general impression outside of 4chan of FHTRANS has been mostly positive --- we're about to hit 43K downloads on the RTM. But as I said above, this stuff is all volatile and not of much value. That's why we're not expecting to see many new adopters of the SP when it comes out.

>I say this not to give you a hard time, but in the hope that your group will decide to alter the way in which you conduct your business.
We're not going to change anything. Our goal is not to please self-entitled individuals like you. We will continue providing freely accessible, fully managed services for everyone who is interested in starting their own translation project but does not want to handle the technical aspects.

tl;dr: Want better translations? Give us better translators.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9078675
>we're about to hit 43K downloads on the RTM
You're cute when you're lying.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9078681
FHTRANS-20110613080341_1152_RTM.7z, 9 MB, 42787 downloads

And that's not counting all the mirrors that've surfaced.

[Cudder No.]

FHTRANS-20110613080341_1152_RTM.7z, 9 MB, 992787 downloads

Oh shit! 95,000 more downloads.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9078702
Vous, monsieur, sont et idiot :)

[Anonymous No.]

>>9078711
Fuck off with your emoticons.

[Anonymous No.]

Flyable Heart: One of the Most Popular VNs Ever Released
Just ask Cudder. Surely he is giving factual information and has no ulterior motives.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9078718
IIRC the torrent on Hongfire was at a few hundred K before they folded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9078731
Yes, Cudder. You're right. Your machine translated drek is more popular than every other VN ever translated, including the entirety of the Muv Luv series COMBINED.

Why ever would we doubt you?

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9078739
I would post the link to the HF thread, but it's gone now. But ~43K is the statistic from the patch site via MF. Go ask the erogedownload guy how many DLs of FH he's had if you don't believe me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9078761
I'll get right on investigating your obviously bullshit claim as soon as I solve the Challenge of the Ancient Empires.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh, there's the e-drama. I'd wondered where it had gone.

So why stop thee. I want to know if the Eiyuu Senki realy got C&Ded, or if they just realized it was going to be work and punked the hell out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9078702
statistics are real... he downloaded 42000 times himself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9078711
The more you feel the need to defend your honor on 4chan, the more you look like an idiot, especially with posts like this.

[Anonymous No.]

It wouldn't surprise me if those stats are real, they really aren't all that far out of line over other projects, and most people don't follow /jp/ and know who he is, but grab the link elsewhere, and don't know it's shit.

[Anonymous No.]

It would be nice if someone with skill would bother with Cudders service so that it gets something good related to it. I'd do it myself, but my skill is equal to the Flyable Heart translator, and we don't need more crap like that.

However, at least my re-writing skills are higher so I could make my mess sound good. But at that point I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't just re-write a whole VN since the content is lost anyway.

I'm still glad I'm staying away from VN translations.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081345
>It would be nice if someone with skill would bother with Cudders service so that it gets something good related to it.
I suppose I would consider it as a last resort for a game I really, really wanted to translate, but I'm uncomfortable with his approach for a number of reasons.

Mainly: hackers don't get to run translation projects, and they certainly don't get to keep the tools and scripts to themselves and force me to work through their interface. When I'm doing 95% of the work on a project, I do not want to be at his mercy in that way, especially when it's someone who appears to be borderline mentally unstable and prone to kicking people off "his" projects.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9073441
Are you trying to imply that bad translations/machine translations are fine and as long as the general meaning isn't lost?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081427
Pretty much this. The only way I would be comfortable working with Cudder is if all other options were exhausted, and only if he gave me the scripts in an untouched format, so if he disappears one day I wouldn't have to completely redo them when I found another hacker.

And only if he promised not to spam my project all over /jp/ for months on end.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9073812
Do you think you can cope with the japanese's mentality?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9076415
Eiyuu Senki has loli. I doubt it'll make it here

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081456
But the main problem with machine translations is that the general meaning often IS lost.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9075682
The same thing happened with Yosuga no Sora if I remember correctly.
They don't want us dirty gaijin to play their holy porn games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081427
>95% of the work
You'd underestimating that by about 5%, plus or minus a margin of error.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9078711
You can't speak french for shit

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081480
Yeah, but the story as a whole is understandable.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081489
I was being generous. Some projects have editors or TLC people who put in a lot of time, or very tricky hacking work

[Anonymous No.]

Can Cudder hack rUGP?

If so, then his "service" could potentially be worthwhile.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081487
No. They don't want risk for absolutely no gain for them. Which is perfectly reasonable. These are not giant companies like Western console developers. They're core groups of about 5-6 people.

Also, it bears mentioning that like Yosuga no Sora, Eiyuu Senki didn't even have a translator when the evil DMCA appeared and 'killed' it. Funny how projects with active translators never get DMCAed, isn't it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081502
So that's all you want? To understand the general gist of the story?

Well let me tell you a story about this awesome brand new thing called Wikipedia. It'll let you have the 'experience' of hundreds of VNs in only a fraction of time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081528
I never said that 'I' want this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081427

Well, I dunno. It's been working fine on my end with me running everything else on top of my duties as a hacker. I tried to step down and no one else from the translators wanted that role so I guess I'm stuck as the leader.

I dunno, it seems like it's a special case for our team, I guess... I hope at least I'm mentally sane and nice to people in general...

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081606
Nah, you're fine. Just don't start acting like Cudder and no one will hate you.

[Anonymous No.]

Here peeps I have the umienko hane patch and well.. ahem yeah enjoy.
http://www.mediafire.com/?y39hy5g52p5msm1

[Anonymous No.]

Y'know what? This whole thread was pretty negative, but it's motivated me to get some of my own translation project done. I haven't been doing it for a while, and I need to hurry up. Hopefully, then we can get done what I want to move onto next.

After all, why put off until tomorrow what you can get done today?

[Anonymous No.]

Sakura Taisen/Wars has been dropped. Another new TL group that got in over their heads. Nothing to see here, move along. Etc. etc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081661
Well fuck.

[Anonymous No.]

I would really like to translate something some day. The problem is just that my English is too bad, and it would be a waste to translate into my own language.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081675
If you find good editors it shouldn't be too bad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081675
Just translate it well and get the point of each line across and get an editor to make it sound good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081677
>>9081685
You're right, of course there would be a en editor to help me out. I didn't even think so far.
It looks like there is hope for me then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081675
Work on your English then? Once you've got it up to spec you can start translating visual novels.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081739
I'm not sure that I ever will be able to provide the same quality as a native-speaker. But that is also an option. Thanks!

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081772
Good luck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081661
Source?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081986

Don't have one aside from myself.

The remaining hacking issues which were above my skill level were never really dealt with and the people we outsourced those parts to spaced on us for months. By this point even if we get that out of the way, the translator isn't going to be able to do the entire thing before leaving for Japan in September. It's really not worth trying to rush out a full translation on something the size of ST in ~3 months and the quality could very well suffer due to that. Furthermore, we all find it highly unlikely she'll be doing any translation while overseas either, so that's out. We're not intending to pull a Shuffle or squat on a project that someone else might want to pick up a la Air. So it's effectively dead until further notice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9082782
Are you going to share what you do have done?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9082782

What were your technical issues with the game? Gameplay or script-related?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081659
IT HAS BEEN DONE.
THE ROUTE IS COMPLETE.
and now I rest.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081772
If it makes you feel any better, your English already sounds superior to that of a certain VN company's head translator.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9078665
>>9078675

"Self entitled individuals like yourself", why are you insulting me and making assumptions when you don't even know me. My interest is not in gaining free entertainment, but in seeing the visual novel translation scene grow.

As to your point about things needing to be new to be translated, I think the visual novel translation scene has proven that statement wrong any number of times. Plenty of older games get translated.

Comparing censorship and quality control, really... really how does this even make sense to you, please explain your reasoning on that. That is one hell of a leap between arguments. You should change your statement to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death my right to provide poorly translated visual novels, without quality control, to hell that I'm ruining the chances of that visual novel receiving proper translation and disregarding the audience of said visual novel".

As to the 42,000 downloads, do you have records of how many enjoyed it, how many played through even one route, how many just deleted it in frustration.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9083058
TakaJun doesn't run a company.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9082804

That's really on the translator. The engine is still completely in Japanese so it'd be largely unplayable once gameplay hits anyway. I don't have any access right now to anything besides a handful of tools I tinkered around with, a few test scripts that contain no real translation, and a couple subbed movie files.

It's probably best to assume any work done on this has vanished into that big open void where all progress goes once something goes belly up.

But it's probably for the best. To my knowledge the project hasn't moved much since it was announced months ago. Now that it's completely beyond hope due to our time limit, we're pretty much abandoning any plans for it. Rather than let it stagnate on lists like this and become a running gag like so many projects before.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9082859

A combination of both. We could get the script working, but everything had to be hex'd in as it stood. Super annoying to handle and an absolute nightmare due to the fact that the lines for certain conversations are spread across multiple "macro" files. This is before we even get into the usual BS to sift through when dealing with VN scripts, which is even more annoying when you're doing things the long and fairly stupid way. Editing this sucker would have been a clusterfuck of epic proportions. We contacted some people about getting a better method of script insertion running. That was about 4 months ago. We then contacted some other people. About 2 months ago. Thus far, haven't heard a thing. The script itself largely worked fine due to us swiping a lot of work from the Russian version, which enables better character spacing, english language characters, and, best of all, proper line breaks. All you have to do is copy the executable to the folder and overwrite the japanese version. A couple tweaks here and there and you have something presentable. Good news for anyone picking it up, I guess. All you really need is a good grasp of how to get scripts out. Sadly, my abilities in that area are sorely lacking.

We've also run into some major gameplay related bugs. Specifically the images involved in various aspects of the gameplay involve transparencies. While we did come across a tool that allowed us to get into the image file packs (a chinese tool called RPGViewer, specifically version 3.0), the whole thing got horribly lopsided once we tried inserting anything that wasn't a large static image (IE: chapter title splash screens and backgrounds). I should add that we don't really have any image editing done to speak of because of this, so we're still way behind on that end too.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't think Cudder should even bother with translating VN's. VN fans are the type of people to already have access to machine translation, so they won't bother with his stuff anyway.

From what I could tell from Cudder's words in this thread, he's already creating tools, ripping text from games, making it easier for translators to work. Sort of in the spirit of mangahelpers.com. Sounds good enough for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9083431
I decided to look through this thread, and I agree he shouldn't translate. I'm saying this based off the assumption that this (>>9073441) is his work. While those words are individually components of the English language, the presented sum of those components is not English. That picture is utter nonsense.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9083425

Well, I could've helped you solve the transparency and image issue at least, but for the others, you really need some file format analysis done to get an idea of what is going on with it.

Sorry about that. Shame that it had to be dropped.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9083470
Too obvious. Even an elementary school kid would understand sentences as simple as those.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9081606
How far are you into translating anyway? Would we be able to see it this summer? I will be able to play it on my ps2 since i have swap magic, cant wait to play it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9083612

We're fixing out kinks and such at the moment. At this point, we're only going to be able to offer the prologue for sure. We may be able to rush the first day so you can get a taste of each girl, but really, the minimum I can promise is that you get the prologue, which is only a good 15 minutes... We have the scripts distributed to all the translators now and our first priority is right now to get a menu translation to work. But rest assured once that's done, we'll be going for trying to release everything on the first day.

Yeah, I'm sorry. Hacking issues are still very commonplace at this point but we're trying our best to get through most of them. We've fixed the names for everyone but your own, as you can see in that picture I posted, but we still have little annoyances such as backlog crashing and such. In any case, I hope I didn't disappoint you.

In any case, I need to sleep but post any questions and such and I'll try to answer them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9083721
What format are the PS2 files in? MRG?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9083721
Nah its cool, how many translators do you have?
Are they considers fast?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9083772

Refer to the alpha version of the documentation here for more information about the game's files. Disk file system and such should answer your question. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44714814/amg_doc.pdf

We've improved upon it but it won't get released until the patch does.

>>9083793

2 at the moment, with a 3rd pending and possibly 4th person to join. Fast, I can't say as I haven't seen their full capacities as they have been as busy as I have been with school and such. But accurate, well... I can't really tell as I don't know Japanese. I'll let you guys judge when it releases, as I can release a script file with the release to let you guys judge if it's accurate or not.

A bit too late now for me. Any other questions will have to wait until morning.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9083857
Oh cool, have they said once they are done with school, will they translate a lot faster?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9083915
We're finishing up the image translations first, but there aren't that many. We'll get to work on the actual scripts soon, but there are so many that you won't be seeing the finished translation for a while. Because this is a dating sim and not exactly a normal visual novel, you can't release individual routes. Maybe like the leader said above, we can put out a first day patch, but don't expect much.

[Anonymous No.]

How would someone go about hacking/reversing a SDL game like Touhou Diablo.

I usually have starting point with most executable files but Touhou Diablo doesn't even have any strings I can search...

[Anonymous No.]

>>9083207
> TakaJun doesn't run a company.
His Japanese is also markedly better than the aforementioned individual's...

[Anonymous No.]

>>9073610
I guess the concerned person didn't notice how incorrect line 4753 is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9083973
I haven't a clue what I'm doing at this point.. usually I'm able to find the strings in the dump or memory but I can't find them but I know they are there..

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9081345
The MH guy was one of our clients for a while. Then lost interest.

>But at that point I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't just re-write a whole VN since the content is lost anyway.
Our services are obviously oriented towards translation, with things like RWI for matching up the original and translated lines, but otherwise they are rather generic. Go ahead and use us for adaptations/rewrites/whatever if you want.

>>9081427
Do you use Gmail or any other email services? iCloud or any other cloud storage solutions? It's the same idea. We are primarily SaaS-based. You either like it or hate it. No argument there.

>>9081456
As an LTP it doesn't matter to us. But personally, if I can communicate with the other party then that's all that matters. It may be a bit of a struggle, although keep in mind that someone who doesn't know English has their own difficulties too. "I'm better than you because I'm perfect with English grammar" is a little pointless to claim.

>>9081468
We're standards-based so compatibility shouldn't be a problem, and although we do not expect to be going anywhere in the near future, rest assured that should anything arise we will provide sufficient advanced notice to allow migration. It's all in the SLA.

[Anonymous No.]

Hey Cudder would you consider doing a project to port Ixrec's Muv-Luv translations over the the all-ages versions, for the updated engines and added features? It's my understanding that the script itself is almost identical, so there shouldn't be too much of an issue with having to retranslate stuff.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084761
>We're standards-based so compatibility shouldn't be a problem, and although we do not expect to be going anywhere in the near future, rest assured that should anything arise we will provide sufficient advanced notice to allow migration. It's all in the SLA.
If it's anything other than the native script format for whatever game I'm working on, that's not interoperable with other hacking solutions, which rather defeats the purpose of standards. Would you be willing to simply extract and insert the raw scripts, and handle things like word-wrapping?

I am asking because I may try to get into VN translation myself in the near future and want to know if your services would even be an option for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084791
Fuck that, he should port the Inganock and Sharnoth translations to their full voice releases. Much easier and I think more people would be interested.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9081493
Je parle tres peu de francais, mais 'et' au lieu de 'un' a ete deliberee.

>>9081525
To what extent of work do you want done, and how long do you want to wait?

>>9081606
Looks good. That line spacing could be a little more closer.

>>9083188
Sorry, I didn't mean that as an insult, but you seemed to be demanding that *everyone* follow *your* standards of quality.
>My interest is not in gaining free entertainment, but in seeing the visual novel translation scene grow.
Your appeals for more "regulation" won't be inducive of growth. China is a great example of that.

>I'm ruining the chances of that visual novel receiving proper translation and disregarding the audience of said visual novel
I've already addressed your first argument in a post from before, and as for the second part, do you think you and people just like you make up the entire possible audience? There's a huge untapped market in those who just want some novel (no pun intended) entertainment, "cute pictures with a porny story" to be precise. The ones who don't care too much about exacting translation and themselves likely not great with English. I'd say the majority of the FHTRANS downloads are coming from this audience, although without any sort of usage statistics it's uncertain (and adding such statistics collection is not something we'd like to do.)

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084826
See >>9084791

Not the guy who originally asked that but I think that would be a really cool thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084826
>Our goal is to target people with no taste and no standards

At least you're finally being honest with yourself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084842
Not just that, people who don't even know English, so foreigners with no taste and no standards. It's like he's running a Russian bride service.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084842
Shut up fag, Cudder is providing a service and blaming him for the people that use it is almost as retarded as you were doomed to be due to your alcoholic crack whore mother smoking crack and drinking while you were in the womb. Trip bashing just because it is fashionable is /v/ tier heresy and I will not have it in my /jp/.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9083431
>>9083470
I don't translate. That's the same guy who did FH.

>>9084125
Makes sense with the line above it. Would you like to propose a better translation? He's talking about doing something to Maria.

>>9084492
It's UTF-8. Your hand-holding debugger even tells you that. Go look at 51CEE0.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084850
Awwww. I think Cud-tan snapped.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084855
>Makes sense with the line above it
No, Cud-tan, it doesn't. It is not in fact, even comprehensible English. It doesn't matter what the line above it was, unless said line was something like "Please begin saying words at random."

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084858
Except >>9084850 and >>9084855 were posted at pretty much the same time proving it's not him.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084861
Sure thing

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084855
>The person herself desires or not desire, has nothing to do with it
Whether she herself desires it or not, that has nothing to do with it.
>Because I thought it's incorrect, I only trying to correct it.
Because I thought it incorrect/Because I thought it was incorrect, I only tried to correct it/I am only trying to correct it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084855
Whether or not the person herself desires it has nothing to do with it. I was only trying to correct what I thought was incorrect. Generally the person concerned does not often notice that they are incorrect.

Well, I have no idea what the original line was, but at least it's not so awkward.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9084802
The "native script format" is almost certainly some proprietary binary format. Only the more "popular" engines like *nscripter will store the "source code" text directly; anyone can work with that stuff and won't need our services anyway. (We specifically point anyone who asks about those to the appropriate TLwiki page.)

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084876
Shows how much I know about hacking. All I've played with so far is Kirikiri and NScripter stuff.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9084791
>>9084810
>>9084829
Contact us with the detailed requirements and we'll discuss this offline. The queue is currently a little long and free requests are a bit delayed.

>>9084842
>>9084847
Whatever you want to call it, that's just how things are. I've talked about this before, look at 8898336 for an explanation.

>>9084866
>>9084869
Forwarded to the translator. ...Whether or not the person himself desires or not desires to change it, is his decision. Because generally, the person concerned should not notice that it's incorrect? [That was too suitable of an opportunity to pass up...]

[Anonymous No.]

>>9077337
hocus pocus

[Anonymous No.]

>>9084956
?

[Anonymous No.]

age

[Anonymous No.]

>>9086622
mage

[Anonymous No.]

So anything new with the baldur sky guy?
Is he gonna be working on it a lot more during the summer?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9089657
Ixrec just posted on twitter that Futsuu died in a car accident.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9089657
Futsuu is a NEET.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9084903
There's probably at least several dozen other engines out there besides those, not including the one-offs that have everything compiled in.

>>9084866
>>9084869
...and this is what he did. Looks like it still has the same meaning.

~~~~
Anyone interested in translating 俺の妹が
こんなに可愛いわけがない. and 俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがないポータブルが続くわけがない can give it a try here:
http://rechan.eu.org/go/retrans-oip

[Anonymous No.]

>>9090264
>or does not desires
For fuck's sake, tell him to get his shit together.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9090264
>desires or does not desires
>only am trying
Forget translation accuracy, this isn't even good English.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9090268
>>9090274
And then there's the incomplete clause in the third sentence.

So good work, Cud-tan. You went 0 for 3 in valid English sentences on your SECOND try at a single line AFTER people had already corrected it for you.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9090290
>>9084916

[Anonymous No.]

>>9090290
You know Cudder isn't the translator, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9090264
Awww, so you are trying to steal the OreImo projects from the guy who hacked them first.

That's so adorable. And pathetic. Go wander off into the tundra and get eaten by a bear.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9090326
Yeah, it's FH4, who just happens to share his trip with Cudder, post the same horseshit about being a localization solutions company in the tird person as Cudder, and use Cudder-approved machine translations.

They're totally different people though. After all, Cudder said so.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9090332
>steal
You should know better than to repeat the same accusations I've already defended against.
--> >>9048936 (archive)

[Anonymous No.]

>>9090385

>>9090337

[Anonymous No.]

>>9090326
hes till a retard

[Anonymous No.]

Why has fan translations been so slow when its summer for all the college students? shouldn't it be picking up speed instead of going slower?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9093446
Heatwaves. Humid heat makes the mind sluggish.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9093461
I mean the baldur sky guy was going 10x faster 3 weeks ago. And every other project like never 7 and such should be done by now if you think about it, the speed of the whole translation sence (even ixerc) has slowed done by a lot..

[Anonymous No.]

>>9093519
3 weeks ago he was doing nothing for a month.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9093525
well i mean before that, it just seems like everything is going a lot slower now, is it just me? I mean its summer,things should be moving at lighting speed now..

[Anonymous No.]

>>9093446
Random variation and confirmation bias on your part. Look at the number of weekly updates on the VNTL status tracker, it hasn't been trending in any obvious direction.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9093542
Futsuu specifically said in /vg/ that his speed was being affected by the heat, it's over thirty degrees on average where he is, and it's humid too.

[Anonymous No.]

>[Sumaga's] translation will be finished this year, but it's difficult to predict when we will be able to release the game.
Support JAST USA's official localization of Nitro+ games!

Anyone know if Makoto is the one doing the Sumaga translation, or is it someone else?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9093645
sauce?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9093824
JAST's Twitter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9093446

Dunno about everyone else, but I know Hadaka Shitsuji's been stalled the last few weeks because the TL just moved across country.

Also, I imagine some of the college student TLs might be in the midst of exams or moving home for the summer.

[Anonymous No.]

It looks like we're getting a partial translation patch of Air this weekend.
http://forums.novelnews.net/showthread.php?t=16662&p=70212

Also, Kud Wafter translator has got the scripts and is about to start the translation.
http://hosikuzu.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/script-dumped-translation-begins/

[Anonymous No.]

>>9096073
What ever happened to tomoyo after? I would rather have that then the kud game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9096298
They are both bad, one at least offers loli.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9096299
fuck lolis. kud is boring.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9096314
And Tomoyo comes with dreadful drama.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9096314 fuck lolis.
Yeah, that's the point.

[Anonymous No.]

regardless,it's nice to see Air moving on again,and given who's working on it now,the chances of seeing it finished are high.Let's just hope we don't have another C&D again...

[Anonymous No.]

>>9096743
>another C&D again...
You say that like we got one in the first place.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9096298
Doki are having fun with it.
http://doki.co/2012/05/31/riddle_me_this/

[Anonymous No.]

>>9096761

didn't the previous group working on it drop it because they got a C&D from Key/Visual Arts?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9097495
By that logic, the LB project AT TLWIKI should have gotten one.

[Anonymous No.]

How do I choose fonts for UI editing?
I tried using a few standard sans-serif fonts but I'm getting mixed responses from the people I ask for feedback

[Anonymous No.]

>>9097529
Nothing fancy, that's for sure. Try standard Windows ones. Here's how MG chose theirs:
http://forums.mangagamer.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=748

[Anonymous No.]

>>9097759
I made 5 mockups and asked around already.
I think I'll do two versions of the UI and screenshot them ingame after insertion to see how it will look.
These are interface buttons, not actual text, so I will have to edit a few images for each version. (And build a new archive for each, ugh)

[Anonymous No.]

I wonder if the new Rance VI guy will go back and translate 3-5 afterwards, since the old translator disappeared.

And edit 1 too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9098355
He said he'd translate Kichikuou next

[Anonymous No.]

>>9097759
MG was only doing that to avoid having to pay for a font license. There are usually much better options if you're not aiming to sell your translation.

[Anonymous No.]

http://visualnovelaer.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/japanese-opinions-on-eiyuu-senki-take-down-from-tenco
/

[Anonymous No.]

>>9098800
>Well westerners are 90% pirates. 10% purchases
That guy is completely wrong! It's 98% pirates 2% purchase.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9098812
That's probably still pretty generous.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9098812
the point is... if they don't want to localize their products and they don't even want for fans to create translation patch, then how can they even claim piracy in the western territories is hurting them?

They clear not only do not expecting any money from them, they don't even want them to buy their products.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9098873
Honestly, I can't blame them. Even if eroge devs made their games available to the West officially, they might sell a few more copies, but it would put them at risk of another Rapelay incident. It's better for the Japanese companies if eroge stays underground in the West, and from that standpoint, it makes sense that they'd be nervous about fan translations that won't really get them any additional sales anyway.

That doesn't mean I like it, and if my project was C&D'd I'd probably tell them to fuck off, but I do understand where they're coming from.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9098800
>Aaeru
I can't take it easy

Reason for mocking various well-known people in history make sense though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9098812

I love it how they claim that piracy isn't a problem in Japan. You just have to look at the seeders for VNs to proof them wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099106
>You just have to look at the seeders for VNs to proof them wrong.
That's beyond ridiculous. 80% of the peers are .jp. It's laughable.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099118

I think they just like to play a good old game of pretense.

But it's Japan. Nothing new here.

[Anonymous No.]

>1109: RapeLay was really dangerous. Rape & other Assault Games had become harder to make as a result. If more westerners playing these sorts of games translates to risking the industry then western fans should be crushed instead. Whatever the case, western fans hardly constitute “sales” so no big loss.

That /jp/ style elitism

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099147
Don't compare simple monetary self-interest with the special brand of fuck-you we serve up here in /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9098873
How could letting it go possibly help them? They're not going to see any benefits, and if by some chance, the media does get hold of some cultural thing (loli and rape content especially), that's nothing but bad publicity and potential legal headaches for them which would get in the way of if they ever do want to do it. Plus they have no control over the content or quality of some fan project.

TL;DR: At best, they have nothing to gain from it. At worst, they get a lot of headaches and fires to put out.

Of course, Aaeru's take on all this has nothing to do with any of that. Her BS is "It's digital, therefore it should be free to everybody," completely ignoring that this is a business.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9097529
MS Sans Serif, Arial, Helvetica, if you want a classic look, or Segoe UI if you want something newer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9097529
Use a serif font. It's easier on the eyes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099289
I'd have to strongly disagree there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099295
Then we'll have to agree to disagree. Fag.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099295
``Serifed fonts are widely used for body text because they are considered easier to read.''
　　　　　　　　　－Me, quoting Wikipedia, 2012

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099332
"Sans-serif fonts have become the de facto standard for body text on-screen, especially online. This is partly because interlaced displays may show twittering on the fine details of the horizontal serifs. Additionally, the low resolution of digital displays in general can make fine details like serifs disappear or appear too large."
　　　　　　　　　－Me, quoting Wikipedia, 2012

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099336
``ur a fagget.''
　　　　　　　　　－me, quoting myself, 2012

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099336
That's only true for old as hell LCDs and CRTs by the way.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099365
Look at the resolution most VNs run at. That's not high enough resolution for proper serifs. Sans-serif is still easier to read in that case.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099374
But you play those in windowed mode, so it's the screen's pixel density that matters, not the window resolution.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099384
Font size.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099384
Do people really run VNs in windowed mode? I sure as hell never do. And anyway, yeah, the font size doesn't change, so the extra pixel density doesn't help you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099395
Easier to hide if your mom walks in...

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099418
Eh, alt-tab works for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099395
They look like shit in fullscreen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099386
>>9099395
Most VNs also use high font sizes and split the text into lots of screens instead of trying to squish everything into a single screen with a small font.

Also, do people really run VNs in fullscreen? They're designed for the window size and usually look awful at anything higher.

[Anonymous No.]

I run them on fullscreen unless it's something I just skip through to collect scenes

[Anonymous No.]

Running them in a window kills the mood for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099490
I usually minimize everything else and change my background to something plain.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099498
Wouldnt it be easier to simply run them full screen then?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099395
Full screen hurts my eyes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099508
I think it's only a bother if you run machine translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099508
No, because then everything is blown up and ugly.

[Anonymous No.]

http://doki.co/2012/05/31/riddle_me_this/comment-page-4/#comment-35424
Tomoyo After 100% Completed
>So there you have it folks! As you have all (just about) by now figured out, the Tomoyo After English Patch release date is July 20th, 2012. Fuuko’s birthday. Surprise!

fucking finally

[noko No.]

Alright. This seems to be a VN thread, so a question. I just finished most of Cross Channel, but I did things weird, and I can't play the Tower of Friends route.
Can I get a plot summary? And exactly what was explained? The internet in general is failing me here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099902
I didn't even know they had actually been doing real work on it.

Are they doing the original release or the Memorial Edition? Or both?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099914
You are way off, try searching /vg/

[noko No.]

>>9099916
Very well. Away!

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099925
They didn't like me for that. Oh well. Got info anyways, much obliged.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099915
it seems it's the translation for only the normal edition for now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9100073
If you can even call what Doki does translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9100158
Can't be any worse than Insemination. I hope.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9100210
That's not saying much. Text hookers and machine translations aren't worse than Insemination.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099332
I'm the dude who asked earlier. This is not abouth the text, but about UI elements like buttons.
I'm actually having trouble to decide between Segoe UI (which I really like, but looks a bit weird in this case) and Verdana (got the best reponses when I asked around).

[Anonymous No.]

How hard would this be to hack?
I want to do the same as what has been done with Touhou Diablo.

[Anonymous No.]

'Prince Maker 2 Braveness' has been released.

http://princemakerproject.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/it-is-here-translated-prince-maker-braveness-down
load/

For the record it has straight and Yaoi endings with one of the Yaoi endings being the canon ending (referenced in Prince Maker 3 - Sleeping Chapter)

[Anonymous No.]

>>9100541
>Chinese
>amateur game
>yaoi/shota
>canon

Uh, okay.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>9100473
How about Tahoma or Helvetica.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9100220
That's a bit of an exaggeration I think.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9100823
Only a bit. That's the sad part.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.mediafire.com/?br4kgbzo8tzt6o6

Let's rock.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9101946
https://www.virustotal.com/file/c195990f08e20ba952187091a5024bb57d6f3b83761d211d3762d4152a9ca54b/ana
lysis/1338562843/
Seen worse.

http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=238082

[Anonymous No.]

>>9101946
Fucking Finally. Thanks a lot, Translationguys.

I don't know if the version I downloaded is the troll one. What'd be the fastest way to check?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9101993
http://ronove.blogspot.com/2012/06/higanbana-no-saku-yoru-ni-first-night.html

If I wanted to try and distribute a virus, I'd do it in a much better way than posting a random mediafire on /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9099902
>http://doki.co/2012/05/31/riddle_me_this/comment-page-4/#comment-35424
>Tomoyo After 100% Completed
Holy shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9102280
>http://ronove.blogspot.com/2012/06/higanbana-no-saku-yoru-ni-first-night.html
fuck yes, something to do.

[Derek No.]

>>9102280
I knew that I should've signed my post. Oh well.