/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status


>Aiyoku No Eustia - 14.55% Translated, 7.64% edited
Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "2166/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (93.8%)"
AstralAir - 100% translated, release a long ways off
Clover Day's - Common + 4 routes done, last route 348/711 KB translated
Daitoshokan - 100% translated and edited, images, engine work and QC remain
Gakuen Heaven 2 - Demo released
Heart no Kuni no Alice - 85% translated, 3rd partial patch released
Hemoimo - Trial text translated
Junketsu Megami-Sama - partial patch released
Kanojo to Ore to Koibito to - 7303/26935 lines translated
>Koiken Otome Revive - 5% (1352/27095) lines translated
>Lover Able - 70.09% translated
Maji Koi A-3 - Starting up
>Majo Koi Nikki - 86% (34767/40208) lines translated, prologue patch released
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3 semi-active projects, one project released ch 1-7
Monster girl quest paradox - Another new patch released, released, although some scripts still untranslated
>Oreimo Tsuzuku - All scripts through TLC+Editing, 207/268 scripts finalized
>Sansha Mendan - 23,107/35,409 lines translated, 18,263/35,409 lines edited
>Sayonara wo Oshiete - 108542/257436 (42.2%) characters translated
Shin Koihime Musou - Partial patch with first chapter of Shoku's route
Sukimazakura to Uso no Machi - 12,891 / 30,513 Lines (42.3%) translated, 1 route translated, partial patch released
Tsui Yuri - 100% translated and edited, 86% QC
Tsujidou-san no Jun'ai Road - 3.31% translated
Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete - 34% (11889/35476) lines translated
>Venus Blood Chimera - 30% (11045 / 36862 Lines) translated, partial patch released
>Witch's Garden - 24% (13125/53677) lines translated
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 100%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited



Official work

MangaGamer
Kuroinu - Chapter 1 Released, Chapter 2 100% translated and edited
Higurashi Hou - chapter 5 released. chapters 6-8 through TLC+Editing
Umineko - Released chapters 1-4
Bokuten - Port in progress
>Dal Segno - Through beta testing
SukiSuki - In Beta
Princess Evangile W Happiness - In Beta
>Imouto Paradise 2 - 100% translated, 68% edited
>Fata morgana fan disc - 59% translated, 44% edited
>Sorcery Jokers - 97% translated, 81% edited
>Maggot Baits - 34% translated
>Hapymaher - 77% translated, 74% edited
>Bocchi Musume x Produce Keikaku - In scripting, Summer release
>Hadaka Shitsuji - 87% translated, 58% edited
Hadaka Shitsuji fandisc - Picked up
Shiei no Sona-Nyl - Picked up
>Hashihime - 61% translated, 8% edited
>Trinoline - 21% translated, 2% edited, 2017 release
>Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden - 74% translated, 62% edited
Marina’s Cuckolding Report - 100% translated and edited
Secret Project 1 - 94% translated, 88% edited
>Secret Project 2 - 73% translated, 44% edited
>Secret Project 3 - 54% translated, 53% edited
Secret Project 4 - 100% translated, 77% edited
Overdrive's Final title - English release planned


JAST
>Eiyuu*Senki - In preorder, Summer release
Flowers - Vol 1 released, Vol 2 onwards still to come
Katahane - "Translating new scenario, editing original scenario"
Princess X - 100% translated, in editing and coding
Princess X fandisc - Picked up
Trample on Schatten- Translation 100%, in editing
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sweet Home - 100% translated, debugging script
Sumaga- Fully translated, 70% edited

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
>Nekopara Vol 3 - Released
>Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk - In QA, Summer release
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - 72% translated, Kickstarter finished, Summer release
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Picked up, Kickstarter finished, Winter 2018 release
Grisaia no Rakuen - Steam version released, uncut release upcoming
Hoshizora no Memoria - 100% translated, Kickstarter ongoing
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - Stretchgoal in ongoing Kickstarter
KaraKara 2 - 60% translated, late 2017 release
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
2236 A.D. - 100% translated, Engine/QA work ongoing
Maitetsu - 100% translated, engine work ongoing
Nenokami - Part 2 2017 release
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
Tenshin Ranman - 99.25% translated
Darekoi - 100% translated Engine/QA work ongoing
>Wagamama High Spec - 100% translated, Denpa version announced. Editing/Engine work ongoing, Demo released
>Koikuma - 73.58% translated, 2017 release
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
SakuSaku - Engine/QA work ongoing, Spring 2017 release
Baldr Sky - Picked up both 1 and 2
>Fatal Twelve - 72% translated, Kickstarter finished, demo released
Her and Her and My 7 Days - 70% translated
Girls in Glasses - Picked up
>The Bell Chimes For Gold - 48% translated
Unannounced Project 1 - 68% translated
Unannounced Project 2 - 100% translated, editing/engine work ongoing
CyberRebeat - Picked up
G-senjou no Maou - Denpa version announced
>Re;Lord ~Herford no Majo to Nuigurumi~ - 100% translated
>Nekopara Vol 4 - Announced



Frontwing
>Grisaia: Phantom Trigger - Vol 3 July 28th release, Indiegogo project starts June 4th.
Sharin no Kuni - 2nd Kickstarter finished, goal reached, August 2017 release
Island - Roughly 50% translated, 2017 release
Subahibi - 2017 release
English release planned for "upcoming adult title"


Visual Arts
Little Busters - On Steam Greenlight, 2017 release
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Degica
Symphonic Rain - 6/14 release
Muv Luv Alternative - 2017 release
Muv-Luv Photonflowers - Translation started
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - To follow Photonflowers
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
>Collar x Malice - 7/28 release
Bad Apple Wars - 2017 release
Code: Realize fandisc - Picked up


Fruitbat
Seven Days - Late 2017 release
SeaBed - Late 2017 release
>Chuusotsu! 1st graduation - Kickstarter started, demo released, late 2017 release


Other
>Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen - Released
>LoveKami Useless Goddess - 5/29 release
Dies irae - Steam release 5/31, uncut patch to follow
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Short term delay
Tayutama 2 - Summer release
Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro - Sept 5th release
Danganronpa V3 - 9/26 release
>Chaos;Child - Q3 release
Magical Charming - Fall release planned
428: Shibuya Scramble - 2018 release
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
Harumade, Kururu - Seems to have an English release planned
Taisho Alice - Volume 1 released
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

[Anonymous No.]

>>17090511
>Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen
No PC version?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17090611
There's no PC verison in Japanese as well; porting it would too much of a hassle for what it's worth.

[Anonymous No.]

>SakuSaku - Engine/QA work ongoing, Spring 2017 release
Spring is about to end and there's not a peep. I know it's gonna get delayed and yet for some reason I keep holding into hope.

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>>17090697
Considering there's no Kickstarter preorder for it yet, there's no reason to hope that it will come out any time soon.

[Anonymous No.]

When are Mangagamer going to announce more Rance games. I'm getting impatient.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17091193
In 1 to 3 months.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17091193
Always wait for AX and Otakon. MG biggest announcements are on these conventions.

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>>17091193
Probably Otakon at the middle of August. Maybe Anime Expo, but I don't think that
Rance is one of the secret projects currently shown. In any case, there's always the chance that it's a different Alicesoft game for this year.

Evenicle would be extremely nice of that was the case, though I would just be happy with Escalayer, Daiteikoku, Blade Briders, or even Galzoo Island.

>>17090510
Secret project 1 is 100% translated and edited.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17091561
That domiNANt line seems pretty Evenicle and Arunaru's been free from SukiSuki for a long while now. It's not a bad guess.

[Anonymous No.]

What's a VN that would take me multiple days maybe even a week to complete? Something so long when you finish you feel like you've just completed a journey.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17091663
Isn't that most standard VNs? 10-30 hours would still take a few days unless you go full hikkineet on it.

Little Busters feels like an appropriate example of what you described though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17091663
>What's a VN that would take me multiple days maybe even a week to complete?
You are basically after something that has gameplay along side it if you want something extremely long.
Consider something like Rance, Kamidori, Bunny black, Yumina, etc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17091663
Clannad, Da Crapo 3

[Anonymous No.]

>>17091663
Dies irae is around 60 hours long if you read all 4 routes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17090510
>Sayonara wo Oshiete - 108542/257436 (42.2%) characters translated

Wait what? I thought it was dead because Cafe don't work for free?

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>>17091561
>though I would just be happy with Escalayer, Daiteikoku, Blade Briders, or even Galzoo Island.
You must be the only one here who want to read something like Galzzo or Blade Briders who both flopped in Japan and looks like shit. Be careful what you wish for.

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>>17091930
It's just like people who keep asking for Fraternite when the staff apologized for how crappy it ended up being due to staff issues during its development.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17091954
Well Fraternite isn't finished, it's a shame that they had to axed it because the beginning is quite good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17090510
Is the one of the left porn?

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>>17091930
Considering the amount of people that want Daiteikoku which got critically panned and basically killed Alicesoft for a good number of years, is it really a surprise?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17092012
How do you not know Nekopara?

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>>17092012
A few scenes with erotic content hardly can be called porn.

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>>17092021
Oddly Daiteikoku doesn't have that bad of scores on erogegamescape. It's at an average of 72.

https://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/game.php?game=13530

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Top 5 Ranking: https://pastebin.com/gtDP8R8V
Popularity Sort: https://pastebin.com/FVRyPN1d
Full Data Point List: https://pastebin.com/aGP7kViq

As always, this tracker is powered by anonymous like you, so post order numbers if you've got em'.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm laughing that Utawarerumono is getting bad ratings because people didn't know they were getting a visual novel.

>If I wanted to read so much I would have just bought some books.

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>>17091663
Fate/stay night

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>>17092051
Are you playing the Steam version?

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>>17092086
If you read the reviews below though, a lot of people that gave up and hated it still gave an average of 60. It's not an outright horrible game, but a very disappointing one. Especially as a follow-up to the Dai-series. Even TADA uses Daiteikoku as an assurance, saying that Rance X wouldn't end up like it.

I also don't know what >>17091930 is smoking when he said that GalZoo flopped in Japan though. It's one of their highly-rated games and got 80 on EGS.

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So I've gotten the hang of extracting scripts with arc unpacker and such but that leaves me with a new problem. Is there a quick and easy way to get rid of the non japanese stuff in these? Or do I have to manually do a find and replace for all of them?

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>>17092420
>Is there a quick and easy way to get rid of the non japanese stuff in these?
You probably don't want to be messing with that as it might break the script. All you should be doing is translating and replacing the Japanese lines that are used as part of the text to be shown on screen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17092123
Order Number - 274010
Order Date - 2017-05-27

[Anonymous No.]

https://anonfile.com/W5Q1I3b6b7/nekopara_vol3_bgm.zip

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>>17092203
No, but these h-scenes were so short and borring that I almost forgot about them.

[Anonymous No.]

Does anyone know if Jast announced anything at their Phoenix CC panel yesterday?

[Anonymous No.]

What happened with vampire libra? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/updates/510936587/1489645694
Did it get canned? It was supposed to be released 2 weeks ago

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Shinyaku Eien no Aselia when?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17093464
They don't want to launch it without steam trading cards, and valve hasn't approved those yet...

[Anonymous No.]

>>17093476
Wot
That's silly as fuck
So what is new release date?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17093476
Didn't someone say that steam code requires higher specs than their physical release and that's why they try to fix it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17093501
That looks about right

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.siliconera.com/2017/05/28/steinsgate-elite-anonymouscode-switch-roboticsnotes-sequel-announced/

A lot of Steins;Gate announcements including Noted. They even hinted about localization for Steam.

One thing that confused me though is they said they are having a majorly updated version of Steins;Gate. I wonder what that even means.

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>>17093702
Updated graphics most likely though I wonder what's going to happen with JAST.

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>>17092051
Word on reddit is that the porn is half the game length. I don't trust reddit people though.

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>>17093709
I wouldn't be surprised if the JAST license for Steins;Gate expired soon enough. At the very least, I doubt they are licensing any more games from that series.

It would be interesting if MAGES tried to become a full fledged third party publisher but we'll see.

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>>17093494
They can't set a new date until Valve approves the cards.

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>>17093517
Now it's being held up by CPU issue and after that adult patch testing. This could take awhile. I'd say a few weeks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17093702
They just said that previously released games in the series would be on Steam. Not a word about localization.

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>>17093466
please respond

[Anonymous No.]

People who got Libra's physical copies are saying the translation is pretty bad.

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>>17093850
Makes it easier for potential fan translations at least if they are not going to translate everything.

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>>17093734
You don't trust yourself?

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>>17092420
What are you trying to do? Whatever it is, that script looks like N2System...except it's filled with weird non-textual data which you'd need to be careful not to break (assuming it isn't a symptom of faulty extraction in the first place). Have you tried using NIPA, the tool made for N2System extracting/repacking? (Also, if you're going to modify N2System scripts, be very careful and test thoroughly - it's notorious for breaking both silently and disastrously if you look at it wrong.)

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Oh didn't notice there's a new thread

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/17591-libra-of-the-vampire-princess-releasing-may-16th-2017/?page=3#comment-452463
>Stream with reduced force runs along her thighs like water trickling from rocks and flows onto the washing area of the bathroom
>It is simply impossible to stop mindlessly flowing pee with a thin cloth
>But so many weird things happened recently like, a random attacker and cosplay girl. And close to me, two transfer students from a small country I never heard of before called Racronia.
>Hooray, Master's got a lawful wife! After this, suck as much blood as possible and keep your favorite mistresses! Yay, harem, successful man!

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>>17094051
More importantly, are there honorifics?

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>>17093850
My bad I just did not understand it completely but that is good news if MAGES does get their older titles over on Steam.

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>>17093769
Most likely that is what is happening. I bet the console ports will go to Pqcube and the Translation from that will be ported over by MAGES themselves to Steam.

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>>17093891
Oh god is it a disaster? How bad is it?

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>>17094126
>>17094051
Like this.

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>>17094051
What's weird is with Decoy I rarely agree but he is right. This person does not know how to formulate or use analogies that well.

He does have the theme down and some words that fit the style. But it really needs someone else to be an editor and to patch it up really badly. It's not Chrono Clock tier bad but it's close in how it tries to flow together.

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>>17094051
Meh, not bad in the same way Chrono Clock was, but a thorough editing would help a lot. It's not Asia-region tier TL at least.

It was obvious from the KS that the TL would be about this level of quality, so I wouldn't have complained even if I did back the KS.

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>>17094023
I'm collecting VN scripts. But the scripts for Steins;Gate and Kusarihime give me a whole bunch of gibberish along with the text.

I'll look into trying NIPA, thanks for the suggestion.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17091663
Muv-luv

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>>17090627
Worth buying?
I thought they were going to do a porn version and release it on the PC.

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>>17095006
Aquaplus hasn't done porn in a long time

It's quite likely it'll never be ported to PC, because Japanese VN, and Atlus never ports their localizations to PC unlike IFI or NISA or XSEED.

PS3 emulation is getting pretty good though, so maybe in a year or two it can be emulated (after someone inserts the translation into the Japanese PS3 version)

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>>17095016
They had to open source a few games due which was kinda funny.

https://github.com/jeeb/aquaplus-sources

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>>17093734
It's more like 1/3 of it

[Anonymous No.]

>>17093702
I'd really like the Switch to become the "weeb machine". It'd be amazing.
I like my Vita, but I'd much prefer the Switch to take its place.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17095796
Good luck with that. Sony always had the weeb console.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17090627
Welp, guess I need to buy PS4 for this.

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>>17094051
>>17094211
Not that it would have fixed the issues, but one thing to remember is that back during the prefundia stage, the initial goal for Libra was originally set to be $160k, but they managed to reduce it to $125k before the Kickstarter launched with this explanation.

>The new budget was achieved by renegotiating translation costs. In addition, we have reduced the number of translation passes by one.

They actually gave the original localization budget breakdown in the Prefundia comments as well, adding up to to $93k, though I don't believe they ever remarked on what the new negotiated rates were.

Although if the translation itself ends up being seriously flawed in a way that an editing pass wouldn't be able to fix, then the mistake would probably be hiring 7 Happy Creations to do the translation in the first place.

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>>17094051
Reminds me of the unnatural Edelweiss days of translating. The intention is there, but there's a definite need of better editing.

It's not painfully bad like CC's though, which is "patch the uncensored CG to the original and play that" level of avoidance.

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>>17095913
>3 passes
That list is it doesn't mention if the passes include an editorial pass or are just TLC passes. Actually it doesn't even mention editing at all, so it is hard to tell if they just got the translators to edit it themselves or had a proper team for it.

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>>17095913
>Hiring happy creations
>$94,000

That is true I would have given the script to those who have translated games before. But 94k for a team that did this poorly is really bad. I am sure any team of freelance translators even a few pros would have taken the opportunity to do it well.

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>>17091930
Galzoo is great though. But I am probably biased because I love its type of dungeon crawlers and its gameplay.

[Anonymous No.]

Eroge are dying, it's a mobage future.

>Well, gotta jump on that bandwagon. Eroge probably aren’t going to be viable on their own that much longer

https://twitter.com/Good_Haro/status/869145186265333761

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>>17096638
That's implying that the mobage hasn't already taken over.

On a side note, seeing Kalmia8 promoting and even helping to re-do the OP for BocchiMusume so that all the text in it was English reminds me of how much Taisho Alice got screwed over.

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>>17095913
>1,000 dollars just to read their game
that's funny

[Anonymous No.]

>>17096767
To the translator it's just work to get an idea of any phrases and such that need to be kept in mind when translating as not to cause any consistency issues.

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>>17096141
>That list is it doesn't mention if the passes include an editorial pass or are just TLC passes.

It's going to be either the 2nd 1.5 yen/charcter or 3rd 2 yen/character pass they dropped, but yeah it doesn't really describe what is being done at each step. It wouldn't have made much of a difference if they didn't have someone skilled for the pass in the first place, but at the very least they intentionally compromised with their initial translation plans to reduce the costs for the Kickstarter.

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>>17096638
>Eroge are dying, it's a mobage future.

That's been the news for awhile now, but just because "professional" eroge will probably eventually die doesn't mean that it'll all die. There'll always be some doujin shit on the dmms and dlsites of the time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097129
In that case I should probably buy a tablet. I can't stand trying to read on tiny screens.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17096638
Eroge dying in Japan helps the West license titles, in the short term at least. I think that VNs are too niche here to actually save a failing VN company though; maybe just stall the demise until things get better. Generally, titles still sell better in Japan in the West. The only exceptions are the occasional Steam title, but Steamfags aren't reliable enough to be a stable foundation for a VN company.

[Anonymous No.]

No update on the new Flowers? I know JAST are slow as fuck but come on.

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/215814918/chuusotsu-1st-graduation-a-visual-novel-with-philo

Last day

Go give them your shekels guys

please

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097320
I won't since they won't fucking fix the typos in 99 Spirits.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097320
It's already past the base goal. No need to shill.

It'll probably make the first 2 stretch goals of new CG (23k), but probably not much more than that. Maybe the side story goal if it was 25k, but 30k is a more likely estimate for that.

[Anonymous No.]

At what point does JAST just come out and admit that licensing Sumaga was just a prank and they wanted to see how long they could keep the joke going? 10th anniversary?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097368
Eventually they'll just delete it and pretend they never said they had it like they did with one of their other pickups back in the day

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097396
>like they did with one of their other pickups back in the day
Was it due to technical issues?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17093702
So many new versions of novels, their company is really big.

[Anonymous No.]

Dies Irae tomorrow right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097519
Day after tomorrow, if I'm not mistaken.

[Anonymous No.]

Any word on Maitetsu? Do I get ero with my loli and train infodumps, or not?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097519
>Irae

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097519
On the 31st, if it's not delayed. Its Steam page isn't even up yet,so it could end up as another last minute delay.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097547
31st is tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097620
No it isn't.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097629
In japan is. And the project is based in Tokyo, with even the Backerkit ending tomorrow afternoon (In america).
And I'm with >>17097594 they might delay it at last minute.

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Hoshimemo is up to $50k, so another $25k until the fan disk. Even if slows down considerably this week, the slow gain for the next couple weeks and the final push should be enough to get it to the fan disk with room to spare.

It has actually been gaining on the Chrono Clock's pace (although in part because it has gotten a few shout outs with other Sekai Kickstarter updates), and is now only about $5k now behind where Chrono Clock was at this point, and Chrono Clock ended up with $87k with no goals beyond $20k.

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>>17097670

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>>17097519
You mean August.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097677
Why August?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097686
The release of the +18 patch.

[Anonymous No.]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/626510/LoveKami_Useless_Goddess/

That new Moenovel title is out. The last one actually has managed to get to about 7k on Steamspy, but I'd expect that there will be a drop off this time around compared to that.

[Anonymous No.]

Any chance to get it on MangaGamer instead of Steam?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097701
>17+

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>>17097703
If you mean Love Kami, then nothing's been announced. They haven't put any of their recent projects on MG.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097677
August tomorrow? We're getting Daitoshokan?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097662
>>17097594
I'd be pretty pissed if they delayed it at the last moment. They've been giving regular updates with no indication that anything's not going according to plan. Just three days ago they posted
>With the English release coming up soon, our team has been hard at work. We look forward to bringing this wonderful game to you and hope you are excited too!

I was refraining from starting any new VNs the past couple days since I was going to be reading nothing but Dies Irae after the 31st, if we're not getting it by then they should say so already.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097746
You deserve anything they do, all-ages pleb.

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>>17097670
Since I'm sure it is going to come up, those who aren't a fan of Chrono Clock's style of translation for the most part won't see what Libra has done as a great translation style either. While a fair number of people may prefer honorifics and Japanese name order (and you don't need to go full meme style if you do remove honorifics and use Western name order), that is hardly the same as wanting nothing but a ton of romanized Japanese words, and there is a hell of a lot of space between what Libra looks like and some of the dialogue in Chrono Clock.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097762
Upload it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097746
For some reason the Japanese like to delay giving bad news. If anything, letting people know sooner would be better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097670
>>17097762
>literally TL note keikaku means plan
I thought it that was just a meme

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097762
Still better than Chronoclock IMO, but this is TV Nihon tier.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17093869
When It's Done™

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097549
No real indication that any new info will be announced this year. AX is probably the last chance to do so. Come back July 4th or so.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17097952
>AX is probably the last chance to do so

That is more true with Jast titles, any title they don't talk about at AX is likely to see any meaningful progress this year. On the other hand, Sekai still has a couple conventions after AX (Anime Fest in August and AWA in October), and they have a habit of not talking about something until the last moment. The Hoshimemo and LeyLine Kickstarters for example both suddenly appeared without warning (not to mention they had no R18 announcements until the Kickstarter started).

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>>17097762
Libra is more of a "Oh this new company forgot to get a good translator".

Sekai on the other hand is "Fuwanovel machine translations with editing passes by meme gurus".

I can forgive the first and hope they do a MG and improve. Sekai should just stop hiring trolls just because they agree with the leadership trolls.

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>>17096638
Mobage is only for Koreans and Chinese. I highly doubt it will work forever.

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>>17098192

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>>17097547
Is there not a 18+ version coming out or is it a patch to Steam? I kind of forgot about that.

[Anonymous No.]

>TSUJIDOU-SAN NO JUN’AI ROAD UPDATE #1

>Common Route Part 1: 57.93%
>Common Route Part 2: 0.0%
>Ai: 0.0%
>Renna: 0.0%
>Maki: 0.0%
>Saeko: 0.0%
>Total: 7.56%

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>>17097834
Nope, dumb translators definitely earn their ridicule.

[Anonymous No.]

List of Sekai VNs of which the 18+ version is also released in English (or about to be released):
- Nekopara
- Grisaia no Kajitsu
- Nekopara 0
- G-Senjou no Maou (18+ not released yet)
- Nekopara 2
- Atom Grrrl!!
- Karakara
- Grisaia no Meikyuu
- Ne no Kami
- Koi to, Guitar to, Aoi Sora.
- ChronoClock
- Neko-nin exHeart
- Grisaia no Rakuen (18+ not released yet)
- Wagamama High Spec
- Nekopara 3
- Tokeijikake no Ley Line -Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen- (not yet released)
- Tokeijikake no Ley Line -Zan'ei no Yoru ga Akeru Toki- (not yet released)
- Tokeijikake no Ley Line -Asagiri ni Chiru Hana- (not yet released)
- Hoshizora no Memoria (not yet released)
- Seireki 2236 nen (not yet released)
- Ne no Kami 2 (not yet released)
- Koi ga Saku Koro Sakura Doki (not yet released)
- Boku to Koi Suru Ponkotsu Akuma. (not yet released)
- Karakara 2 (not yet released)

List of Sekai VNs with no 18+ version confirmed yet:
- Maitetsu (not yet released)
- Tenshin Ranman (not yet released, not coming any time soon)
- Baldr Sky Dive1 (not yet released, not coming any time soon)
- Baldr Sky Dive2 (not yet released, not coming any time soon)

At this point I think we can safely assume that unless otherwise stated, we're getting 18+ versions of Sekai games as well despite people assuming the opposite whenever they announce something. And judging from past announcements I doubt the 18+ announcements will come at cons (something tells me that 'guys, we finally got the super-blatant loli porn you were waiting for' wouldn't go over too well with the Steam audience).

The only way we're not getting 18+ Maitetsu if it really is too loli for them and they're afraid of the backlash, but that would be a first (unless you count G-Senjou's extreme delay between all-ages and 18+ versions).

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>>17098210
It's a patch. It won't be released until August though

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>>17098250
If Sekai hadn't spent multiple years telling the 18+ crowd that they weren't their target audience then people wouldn't be so skeptical. It also doesn't help matters by dancing around the issue when ever it is brought up at conventions or in Q&As for things like Baldr or Maitetsu. People just want a clear answer not "please wait until the next con" for the next year+ every time it is brought up.
They only have themselves to blame for the stigma they have and will take years for it to be cleared up.

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>>17097368
So wait, do they have Muramasa too?

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>>17097762
What's the point? Those lines are voiced, right? Player will hear them saying henshin anyway

[Anonymous No.]

>>17098346
What if I'm deaf?

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>>17098366
read from the lips

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>>17098250
>The only way we're not getting 18+ Maitetsu if it really is too loli for them
Considering that both of these girls are getting fucked I would say yes, it's too loli for them
Have there ever been a game this loli before? Maybe only witch roman-something on steam

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>>17091663

Yu-No, Muv Luv (All 3 Parts), Fate Stay / Night, Ever17 in full, Root Double in full, Majikoi all routes-- I think Yu-No and Muv Luv have the biggest sense of "completing a journey". Higurashi and Umineko are also good for this.

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>>17098343
JAST has exclusive rights to all Nitro+ titles, so yes. They'll never release it though

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>>17091663
Higurashi.

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>>17098293
I think the point of the list that the anon made was that, even if Sekai says contrary, +18 releases follow an all-age release.

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>>17098398
Only one of them is a loli. And to be honestly loli from HoshiMemo doesn't looks much older.

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>>17098398
You mean Littlewitch Romanesque? JAST released an 18+ version (before they released the all-ages version even).

I think the most loli titles currently available are MangaGamer's Ammolite games, which are still a lot less loli than Maitetsu. If I recall correctly (but I can't find the quote anymore), Kouryuu once said even MangaGamer doesn't want to into 'red backpack' territory (i.e. absolutely blatant loli). This was before they released Natsuiro Mikan, though, so perhaps they are moving towards more blatant loli.

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>>17098444
>+18 releases follow an all-age release
If it is going to take 5 years to get 18+ Baldr people aren't going to give a shit and move on.

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>>17098477
I will read it. I won't read the all-ages release.

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>>17098250
While I wouldn't expect Sekai to pick up a new censored only release (aside from a scenario like MG with Himawari), for Baldr Sky in particular I would think they need to change Giga's mind to get an R18 release. For most of their other R18 announcements, they just never gave much of an answer until it was time with the Kickstarter, while Baldr Sky they have commented in such a way that it seems like at the moment they aren't able to get it (at least as of AWA).

For Maitetsu, I am quite willing to believe they are in negotiations, but they have been addressing it as coming up with a "solution," both at AWA and when they addressed it in a recent stream. So it is hardly a sure fire bet that they'll manage to get all the related parties to agree to that "solution".

I'm not sure what to think of Tenshin Ranman, and Sekai hasn't done much in the way of commenting on it. Even at the start of the year it had seemed like the least likely of their non-Baldr/Maitetsu titles to get an R18 release because they picked up the Vita release and there are larger than usual differences between the console and PC versions. But they could go for a separate R18 release especially with their current Denpasoft push. Although with the translation being mostly finished, I wouldn't put it in the same "not coming anytime soon" category that Baldr Sky is (although how long it takes would depend on the technical situation)

>And judging from past announcements I doubt the 18+ announcements will come at cons

I wouldn't be surprised if the announcement is made outside of a con, but they'll almost surely have another Denpa specific panel at AX (probably with another porn-like panel name) where it would be fair game to make any such announcements even for Maitetsu. They certainly don't mind treating their Denpasoft panels like nukiges panel judging by the streams of their last two Denpa panels.

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>>17098472
>doesn't want to into 'red backpack' territory
ImoPara literally has a character with 'red backpack' tho

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>>17098343
Jast did tease Muramasa on their Twitter during the Spring, so it wouldn't be a huge surprise if they announced it at AX.

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>>17098444
R18 announcements do. The only cases where the R18 release was delayed have been the Grisaia titles and G-Senjou where they went back to get the R18 version.

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>>17098497
They did, but moogy has also hinted he might be working with makoto on Tokyo Necro. So it is a toss up really.

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>>17098472
Where is that pic from?

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>>17098520
Use your reading skills if you want to get anywhere.

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>>17097701
>Drop off

Nekopara did not drop off yet it has the same visual effects for it.

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>>17098250
>Announced
>Actually happening

Pick one because Sekai always announces but takes forever with it.

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>>17098277
Alright so that means I will just buy it on Steam and buy the patch whenever it comes out.

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>>17097368
Slightly related.
https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/868927934928519168
>and jast projects
Does that mean Doddler is currently working on something for them since it seems to be in present tense?

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>>17098669

Well schatten still isn't out yet so

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>>17097701
>original lovekami with h-scenes is not translated
So those are non-h games?

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>>17098790
Unfortunately.

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>>17098790
These spinoffs are relatively short and cheap ecchi titles that were designed from the ground up to be Nekopara clones and cash in on Steam. There is no R18 version of them though, and Moenovel has shown no interest in the original.

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>>17098807
>Nekopara clones
But nekopara has good animated h-scenes. Do people play nekopara for anything other than porn?

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>>17098820
Nekopara is a meme Steam game with apparently just 3% of Steam buyers also buying the patch for Vol 3 (and even if you factor in people pirating the patch, it hardly is going to be a significant fraction of buyers). The H-scenes may be good, but its runaway success on Steam is not directly related to the R18 version, but rather it becoming a meme with a broad non-VN crowd on Steam (as well as being a huge success with the Chinese audience, making up a very large fraction of its sales).

Moenovel's Winter Love Kami spinoff was no Nekopara like success, but none of the other Nekopara clones like Corona Blossom were as well with or without R18 versions. In that regards Love Kami Divinity Stage being around 7k is on par with Corona Blossom volume 1 performance on Steam.

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>>17098398
Well, there sure aren't many of them because someone had this crazy idea that short girls are harder to sell than torture, rape, scat, yaoi, furry, tentacles, gore.

Apart from Shit countries like Canada, you only need to claim it is part of a story and it is legal anyway.

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>>17098853
>Steam buyers also buying the patch for Vol 3
What the fuck
You need to buy all-ages version and then also buy h-patch? What a scam

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>>17098880
All-ages version is $10 or the 18+ version is $20. Or the 18+ patch is $10

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>>17098880
They have a standalone R18 version off of Steam for Nekopara, though more people buy the patch than the standalone R18 release.

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>>17098853
>huge success with the Chinese audience
The author is Chinese, right?

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>>17098853
Over 50% of owners are Chinese, so yeah, appealing to that audience is a good choice.

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>>17098904
Yes here are there names

https://youtu.be/L1JYHNX8pdo

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>>17091561
I'd be happy with Pastel Chime 3

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>>17098853
>Nekopara is a meme Steam game with apparently just 3% of Steam buyers also buying the patch for Vol 3
You forget to add important detail. That info came from Dovac personal twitter. Nice and reliable source bro.
https://twitter.com/dobacco?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

[Anonymous No.]

http://moe-gameaward.com/prize/2016/index.html

Sekai picked up Wagamama High Spec before it was even released right? It's funny how it became such a big thing almost out of nowhere. Wonder if they realized it before picking it up.

Still probably going to muck it up though.

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>>17100477
Why would Dovac ever lie to us?

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>>17100477
Regardless of the exact percent, it is going to be a rather small percentage. We can see how releases have done compared to each other on Denpasoft thanks to the popularity sort being a long term sort based on sales, and the patch for Nekopara Volume 2 has yet to outsell the R18 version of Grisaia no Kajitsu, despite Nekopara Volume 2 being around 250k on Steam.

It's too early to say roughly how much Nekopara volume 3 has sold (Steam Spy is at 55k, but it is still catching up, as the previous 2 days were 41k and 28k), but the Volume 3 patch has yet to outsell The Labyrinth of Grisaia on Denpasoft.

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>>17100574
Lets assume that you are correct for a moment.
https://denpasoft.com/?orderby=popularity
Right now vol3 patch is 4th place in popularity. 3% from 55k is 1650. I really doubt such low number is enough to get 4th place.
In the fist place the fact that patches from vol 2 and 3 both get into top 5 and compared to a sales for a complete vn is indicator that there more then enough demands for an ero even amogst steamfags.

[Anonymous No.]

Dies Irae torrent when

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>>17102078
It's not released yet. And since the Steam page isn't even up yet, it might get delayed.

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>DI comes out literally tomorrow
>No Steam page
>No news on the 18+
>Actually no news for about a month or so now

It's delayed

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>>17102251
>no news for about a month or so now
The last Kickstarter update was on the 26th, less than a week ago

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>>17102251
As of May 26th

>we will be locking the Backerkit surveys on 09:00 AM, 31 May, 2017(JST).

>With the English release coming up soon, our team has been hard at work. We look forward to bringing this wonderful game to you and hope you are excited too! Please continue to support us!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1986219362/dies-irae-english-localization-project-commences/posts/1894574

[Anonymous No.]

My dad who works at sekai tells me that they licensed amatsutsumi

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>>17102418
>Apparently they licensed teaching feeling.

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>>17100667
It's best not to use the individual Steamspy numbers until it stabilizes (probably a few days at least), just because Steamspy typically needs time to catch up at launch. The Volume 2 data will be more solid, and you wouldn't need that high of a percent of 250k for it to outsell Grisaia no Kajitsu on Denpasoft. Though regardless of if Nekopara Vol 3 ends up with 3% or 6%, it is going to be a small slice of the Steam buyers.

Of course, even 3% of what Nekopara Volume 3 will sell (probably at least 200k) is more than the life to date sales of most Sekai titles released onto Steam in the last year. The point here wasn't that R18 Nekopara wasn't worth it, but rather Nekopara being a smash hit on Steam isn't directly tied to the R18 content. It also only applies to Nekopara, as obviously the percentage is going to be far higher on something like Grisaia, not to mention their recent Kickstarters have been heavily based on the R18 versions.

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>>17102735
>The point here wasn't that R18 Nekopara wasn't worth it, but rather Nekopara being a smash hit on Steam isn't directly tied to the R18 content.
And this doesn't demonstrate that point. You'd need to know how many people are paying for it on Steam and pirating the 18+ patch. If the 18+ content is helping to sell the base game it's still making them money.

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>>17102754
The easiest thing to do here is to look up the most popular torrent sites and check the download numbers for the Nekopara patch. Then you'd get an idea of who only wanted the patch.

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The final total on the Chuusotsu Kickstarter ended up being $24,104 from 589 backers (Average $41/backer). They added 4 new CGs between the first two stretch goals and a promotional effort, though came up short on adding a side story and new opening (although they could probably make it up on Backerkit like other recent projects if they want to). The results are probably a mixed bag for Fruitbat Factory, the Kickstarter managed to succeed, but it didn't exactly go much beyond that.

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>>17102800
I only downloaded the patch, and then I saw the game which I downloaded was prepatched.

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>>17102891
Fruitbat confirmed with their campaign finished update that they'll count money raised in the backerkit towards the remaining stretch goals.

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>>17102672
The fan translation patch uses gpl code so that means the translation is open source too. Pretty unethical practice packaging up a free translation and selling it.

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>>17103040
They never announced anything.

[Anonymous No.]

http://tenka.seiha.org/2017/05/so-i-married-a-giant-stone-turtle/
>There's plenty of room in the world for Kamidori and Worse Kamidori, and maybe things come together somewhere past hour 10, but I wouldn't put any money on that. Having had a glance at a script dump, it's significantly lighter on the text, around 70% the script length, or 2x a Bunny Black 3, or 1.3x a Baldr Force. At this point, it's not high on my list of games I feel like playing, let alone something that'll jolt me out of my translation hiatus.
I guess we aren't getting Amayui from Aroduc then.

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>>17103217
Apparently, Aroduc is translating _

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>>17103247
I really hope he does Baldr Force to spite Sekai Project. He wanted to do it originally but gave up because how ass the engine runs on modern operating systems.

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>>17103261
I hope he releases his Baldr Sky work to spite Sekai Project.

They're shitholes, screwing over someone who helped them is unacceptable, and it's galling that the entire community of translators is completely fine with it. I don't blame him for being pretty pissed off with them and finding it hard to keep contributing when not even his own team has his back.

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>>17103114
The guy who made the patch announced on ULMF today that it's licensed by them

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>>17103365
http://www.ulmf.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=28380
and
http://boards.4chan.org/h/thread/4635404#bottom

Ya - I have had that game for about a year or so - followed the patch and mods since then - confirmed.

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>>17103365
>>17103505
>The English translation of Teaching Feeling has been officially licensed by Sekai Project, and as a result I have ended unofficial development of the English patch for the game. That's why the link went down. However, it wasn't taken down by force. I took it down myself upon request.

>What I can say about the official English version is that I was directly involved in its development, that the English translation is of an even higher quality than what was present in the unofficial patch, and that I stand by the officially-licensed version proudly as a complete game.

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>>17103040
See >>17103517

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>>17098192
> what is nutaku and why it earns millions of free cash

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>>17103362
What did he expect trusting Doddler, DxS, and Herkz?

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>>17103544
Doddler helped him very often before, so he had reason to trust him. What do the two autists have to do with this ''betrayal'' though?

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>>17103365
Also forgot to mention - it won't be the current ver 1.9.2 that is out now - but a newly updated ver2.0.0+ that has many new features, artwork, and new scenes - slated for July (ish)?

Pancakes and head pats everyone ;-)

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>>17103555
>slated for July (ish)?
I wonder if this is going to be one of their AX announcements.

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>>17103543
A casino.

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>>17103549
Two of his editors who are Team Sekai Project

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>>17103040
Uh, isn't commercial use like half the point of the GPL? It's supposed to make things free from restrictions - including commercial restrictions - while forcing people to make even more things free from restrictions. Companies using GPL stuff are forced to GPL their stuff as well, which benefits the free software ecosystem. Hell, there's plenty of notable GPL projects with commercial origins like VirtualBox and OpenOffice.

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>>17103918
No company wants to be forced to contribute to the free software ecosystem and release their code. They'll avoid integrating GPL code into their software because of that.

I don't see the big deal around the GPL code in this case anyway. It doesn't mean that they can't commercialize the translation. All it means is they have to release the code, but the code can be separated from the copyrighted work.

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>>17103517
Damn it. Teaching Feeling is one of those games i like. On one hand i hate Sekai and i have boycotted them, but with this i may have to make an exception just because i have a soft spot for the artist and how he draws. Did they ever state if they will allow the option to switch between Japanese and English text or to read both? Would be a worthy feature to add in the game.

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>>17104335
Also i forgot to add i do like Broken Girls, its not just for the drawings as well. That is just another factor of it.

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>>17098472
I love that vn. The ending was shit like 95% of vns but from start to climax it was fucking great.

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>>17098472
Visually the girl in Mikan could have easily passed for a high school girl.

[Anonymous No.]

REEEEEEEEE where is my DIES IRAE!!!?

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>>17104541
what is the situation with dies

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>>17104551
Sekai Project bought it out, release now 2019+

[Anonymous No.]

>>17104551

It's supposed to launch tomorrow and it's increasingly becoming tomorrow across the world with no sign of it launching.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17104541
frogposter leave

[Anonymous No.]

It's currently past noon May 31st in Japan. No update yet on Dies irae. Backerkit has closed, but preorders are still up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17104335
>>17104350
Well Nomake Wan - who did the unofficial TL - is also involved in the new English version.
I have talked to him today (I have helped with the unoffical Tl at one point also) and K-ray will not allow anything to edited out - so this will never be on Steam - kek. No worries there.

As for the JP/Eng issue stated - very easy to do - just change one line in notepad.
translate.js - file - change TyranoTranslate.translate = TyranoTranslate.translate to TyranoTranslate.translate = false (not exactly like that - as I have to see the new code - but it will most likey point to the origional JP file instead - but just to give an illustration of how easy it is to do).

It is now, and still will be very Mod-able :-)

[Anonymous No.]

Two questions.
1- I don't know much about VN VAs, what's the closest thing to Mamiko Noto I can find in porn?
2- How is MangaGamer's translation quality? I'm considering picking up Kyonyuu Fantasy, but since their naming sense makes me unsure.

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>>17105350
>1- I don't know much about VN VAs, what's the closest thing to Mamiko Noto I can find in porn?
She's a voice actress so - question needs some clarification. Sorry.
>2- How is MangaGamer's translation quality? I'm considering picking up Kyonyuu Fantasy, but since their naming sense makes me unsure.
For the most part i find their TL's to be pretty good.
Kyonyuu Fantasy - "Some thoughts about the game" https://vndb.org/t3388
Not bad actually - bit silly - go for it.
MangaGamer needs all the support they can get :-)

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>>17105350
1.i do not know
2. Relatively good actually. MG is known for having weirdly named titles but having really solid Translation. So do not worry about the quality.

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>>17105393
http://blog.mangagamer.org/2017/05/20/anime-central-2017-announcements/#comment-16419
They have weirdly titled nukiges, because it's apparently better to be blunt as possible for the small nukiges.

Kyonyuu is one of those that I disagree with in that I think Kyonyuu is not as obscure as they seem to think it is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17104765
If they're doing an exclusive Steam release, it'll be up on the store when it updates as usual later today.

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>>17104765
Steam store updates at 10 AM PST
I have no idea why they had to wait until release date to add it to steam store though

[Anonymous No.]

> Steam download code to be sent later this week!
Amazing

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1986219362/dies-irae-english-localization-project-commences/posts/1899216

New update for Dies Irae, a week delay on the Steam release, additional delays on the physical and other digital crap.

They also decided to treat the project as having hit $300k (despite being at $290k). Although it is only meaningful for those who had bids at or above $400 as the artbooks are being sent out at that level.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17105677
That should be delayed to "within the week", rather than being given a blanket 1 week delay.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17105677
Well fuck
Not even a new date, just because they're gonna send codes within a week doesn't mean it'll come out in a week

[Anonymous No.]

>>17105677
fuck this shit

[Anonymous No.]

>>17105677
Why is it so hard to release visual novels on time if you have a kickstarter? Has there even been one that did release on time?
Might be better for every project to add a few months on to the projected release date and then bring it forward if they get through it quicker than expected.

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>>17105716
>Why is it so hard to release visual novels on time if you have a kickstarter? Has there even been one that did release on time?

In short, things go wrong, and Kickstarter forces you to set a release date months in advanced. MG would regularly miss all their target too if they had to estimate release dates months in advanced, and Jast tends to miss their estimates by years.

>Might be better for every project to add a few months on to the projected release date and then bring it forward if they get through it quicker than expected.

That would help in a situation like this, Chrono Clock or Root Double, though other projects have gone far longer beyond that (Grisaia and Muv Luv for example. Himawari would have as well had it been a Kickstarter project.

Although Hoshimemo should reach its listed, since they seem to intend it to be a 2017 release but instead screwed up and had it go live with a placeholder date of September 2018.

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>>17105734
Is better to seen releasing early than seen releasing late, which just makes the project management look a mess. So maybe maybe a few months is too conservative and a year might be better, but that would depend on if the original devs would be fine with that.
I do hope in this case it is a small engine issue and they aren't behind in some editing passes like in the case of the 84% edited for Chrono Clock.

[Anonymous No.]

Dies Irae never
It's a scam

[Anonymous No.]

>>17105716
>>17105734
I can see those first-timers like Libra or Dies Irae not knowing how long these things take and taking longer than they expected, but SP has no excuse. They done this so many times and yet they still can't pad out their schedule to account for these kind delays?

Of course, they would just say that the parent company forced them to give such a date or something.

[Anonymous No.]

Seems like the delay will be short

[Anonymous No.]

>>17106051
Minimum of a month delayed confirmed then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17106051
This faggot's work not making it past QA and has to be redone by the other translators confirmed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17106051
Let me guess did Reading Steiner fuck up his end of the work and now they are going to have to bum rush his parts and they are overworking because hes not as good as he advertised himself to be?

[Anonymous No.]

No one cares about the crippled release except for porn haters.
The real release comes later.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17107268
>crippled release
But it is the same as the version the japs consider definitive, except we get the bonus of splicing in a few things from Acta est Fabula.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17107353
Yes, I'm sure all elevens hold the same opinion.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17105423
Who cares if it is obscure though? Not like everyone has said Umineko is too obscure of a name and it should be called seacats.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17108049
Nukige get more buyers if it has a very obvious porn-sounding name. Boob Wars and Harem Party were very good sellers based on their titles at cons.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17108061
I doubt that has any truth to it. Because I don't want to think con visitors are so retarded that when they have the chance to look at the cover of a DVD, they would just read the title and ignore the rest.

Besides if names mattered, you should have had much better sales on all the cheaper nukige with terrible porn names.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17108206
Self explanatory titles do help, since most people just impulse buy things. People don't look into things or do proper research. It's why people didnt even realize Utawarerumono was a VN.

[Anonymous No.]

So in one month and three days, baldr sky is official announced one year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17108914
and yet 0 progress

[Anonymous No.]

>>17108950
They could've at least started on it behind the scenes. I expect news at AX, because that's where it was first announced.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17108950
Their progress is antagonizing the person who could've helped them have it already released by now by being a pack of shitpackers, driving him away from translating all together.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17109762
Will he release a patch just to spit on their face?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17109964
They're petty little shits who would try to sue him, so I doubt it.

[Anonymous No.]

Dies steam page could still go up for preorder even if they had to push the launch date back because reasons. What gives?

[Anonymous No.]

Don't know if you guys saw this but Ludo explained that Dies was actually split into 3 parts.
The common route is free-to-play.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110202
At this rate they will be cutting it dangerously close to steam summer sale, and nobody is going to see anything that launches then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110211
Sounds right, since that's how the Android and iOS versions are. The common route is free and you only pay for the heroine routes

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/DistantValhalla/status/870004876763308032
>Sorry, the Vita version of Dies irae is NOT releasing alongside the Steam edition. Sorry if the PR gave anyone that impression.
wow

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110173
Aroduc de-registered his channel and nick the other day. It's over. He's done.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110355
We did it. We ruined another translator.

Congratulations all around.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110355
>>17110359

Yay.

[Anonymous No.]

Fortissimo in english when?
Heard that it was bad but I still want to play them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110211
Wow what does this mean though? It will be released every 3 months until next year? I kind of wish we had dates when the games are coming out in an order at least an estimate is nice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110341
Its to be expected. I believe it will be much easier to have the parent Company of Dies Irae do it themselves than to have someone else do it. I have a prediction that it might be ready by fall near the time when the anime airs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110407
You're an idiot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110407
All three parts will be released the same day. It just means that the common route is a free trial and you have to buy the rest

[Anonymous No.]

https://sekaiproject.com/2017/05/31/anime-central-2017-announcements/

Sekai listed Hoshimemo as a Fall 2017 release in their Anime Central write up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110501
Looking forward to paying for the VN which I already read.
Said no one ever.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110518
Now you have a choice between two shitty translations, both by people who don't understand Japanese or English.

Just like Cross Channel.

[Anonymous No.]

What the fuck is going on, Doddles?

[Anonymous No.]

What the fuck is going on, moogles?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110586
>>17110672
They're both Team Sekai Project. They want Aroduc gone so they can use his work freely.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17103918
No, GPL is meant to make things entirely free. There are way better licenses if you want people to be able to sell things commercially even if the source is originally free, like a BSD license or lesser GPL.

[Anonymous No.]

Pretty much nothing news wise on the Sekai stream, as they just went over Anime Central announcements.

During the stream, they had a prepared video from the creator of their otome title introducing it (she actually did the video in English). Although that seems like the sort of video they should have had at their ACEN panel when they re-announced the game instead of on a stream with roughly 40 viewers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110980
>Although that seems like the sort of video they should have had at their ACEN panel when they re-announced the game instead of on a stream with roughly 40 viewers.
Lol. But that would require planning!

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110481
Weird, since even the kickstarter page said it would only be in 2 parts.

The free to play common route could also backfire and make people not want to buy the routes.

[Anonymous No.]

Is Fata Morgana good?

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone knows what's the update for Eiyuu Senki* Gold?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111432
There hasn't been any news about it at all. JAST is only doing the original version.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111432
That would actually require work to translate instead of re-releasing something already completed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111277
Yeah. It's kind of depressing, though. If you like a grim story and not much levity, then it's a good read. Really high quality OST, too.

Wish that stupid faggot BDH would stop spamming his Twitter and work on the fandisc more.

[Anonymous No.]

Steam page is up for Dies Irae, lists a June 2nd release date.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/644540/Dies_irae_Amantes_amentes/

[Anonymous No.]

>>17110677
Doddler didn't really have anything to do with that, though. He was just as confused as Aroduc was when that whole shitstorm went down.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111636
nice. any deets on the 18+ patch?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111645
And despite that, chose Sekai Project and abandoned Aroduc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111657
Coming around August or so.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111684
I suppose you go where the $$$ takes you...

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111699
Money over self-respect.

Kind of makes him a whore.

[Anonymous No.]

>Translate game everyone said was too long to translate and too difficult to hack
>Get it licensed
>Become persona non grata in the translation community and have to throw all the work away because he crossed the cabal

Unluckiest translator? Nah. This is God telling him to stop.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111636
>The common part scenario can be played as a basic free of charge.
>In order to play each heroine scenario, purchase of DLC is required separately.

It sounds like they are structuring it like ChuSinGura 46+1 on Steam where they have the base game be free and sell the rest of the game as DLC. ChuSinGura itself got roughly 220k downloads, but it is impossible to estimate how many downloads they converted into sales.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111734
This is what happens when you trust someone like Moogy. Moogy told dovac about Aroduc's translation and now put all blame on Aroduc and forced him out of project.

[Anonymous No.]

Licensed VN translation was a mistake.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111753
Moogy was a mistake

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111684
Was Doddler already done hacking into Baldr Sky? People keep saying that Aroduc should just leak it, so I assume that Doddler hacked it already.

So his options were to do nothing with Aroduc or restart his work from scratch with a different build of Baldr Sky. Honestly, Doddler gets screwed either way. At least he gets paid on the second one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111758
That's Moogy-dono to you, EOP.

[Arunaru No.]

Yuki was a mistake.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17112030
More like Moogy Kuso Yaro

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111636
torrent when

[Anonymous No.]

>>17112597
You buy that shit, porn hater.

[Anime title No.]

>>17112606
Are you seriously going to pay for a game that has want you money for a separate routes?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111636
>The common part scenario can be played as a basic free of charge.
>In order to play each heroine scenario, purchase of DLC is required separately.
Does this mean that the first part is free?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17112642
I already got my copy from the kikestarter. That said, I'm going to read it in August.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17112606
>buying porngames

[Anonymous No.]

>>17112691
Yeah, the common route is basically a long free trial

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/DistantValhalla/status/870258612106670080

[Anonymous No.]

Well, Dies Irae is out for backers. Only got delay 1 day, so I'm okay with that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113269
https://twitter.com/DistantValhalla/status/870266882754048002
This is a fucking mess. Made me laugh, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113284
>THEY MADE IT SO YOU CAN SELECT THE ROUTES. SELECT NEW GAME OR YOU WON'T START FROM THE START. PLEASE DO NOT DO THE REA ROUTE FIRST.

Now getting on the route you want takes zero effort at all. The other 2 routes are hidden until you unlock them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113328
Oh boy, some people are going to start with Rea, aren't they?

[Anonymous No.]

>hmmmm. The UI is still in japanese.

>some of the UI at least, looks like if you mouse over the top or right click, you can properly reach the config settings.

Seriously Light?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113334
Probably. I can actually see people skipping the childhood friend route entirely because of how it ends. So, it ends up between Kei, Marie, and Rea.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113355
I've seen some people say this, but my UI is in English. No idea why

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113355
The trainwreck that keeps on wrecking.

[Anonymous No.]

>The development of the R-18 patch is taking longer than expected. The texts are already translated, but the texts has to be implemented and debugging is needed before the release. We are expecting it to be released around the end of July. We will be posting exact release date once we know.
2 months for H-scenes

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113328
>Just wanted to clarify something here: The buttons will lock you onto the selected route. They will not skip the common route, however.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113374
>>17113376
It might be because some people have non unicode programs set to run in Japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

What a world

[Anonymous No.]

Weird, I can't find the option for 4:3 ratio in the menu.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113390
I have japanese applocale and mine are in english.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113382
Worst two months of my life.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113382
at least it isn't 9 months circa Sekai

[Anonymous No.]

>https://ask.fm/Conjueror/answers/139269852891
>In your opinion who are the best translators you've worked with?
>GareJei and Reading Steiner. I talk about how great GareJei is all the time so I'll spare you this time, but the quality of Reading Steiner's work on Dies irae is impressive to the point I actually have to push myself pretty hard not to get left behind.
I thought you guys said ludo was shit?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113805
>trusting a dirty ESL who makes bad translations
Hmmmm

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113805
Did you really think the guy would say "Yeah, this other guy I worked with was a complete retard." Think a little anon.

[Anonymous No.]

What do you think Secret Project 1 is?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113922
It being 100% translated already likely means it's something short.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113813
>shitting on based conjeuror

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113970
Stop shilling here, Conj-poop. Go back to Fuwanovel where people think you have any semblance of talent.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113979
without conjeuor we wouldn't get Kamige like DI or Himawari

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113805
Conjueror also looked at a Fuwanovel 'translation' of Baldr Sky's first chapter that didn't realize the German words were German, didn't realize the Russian words were Russian, didn't recognize any of the cyberpunk references, and fucked up basic things like colors, and said that it looked really good. Probably because it didn't have too many typos.

His opinion on the quality of translations is based on nothing but how the English looks. He has said that he believes that anybody who doesn't know Japanese couldn't produce a translation at all and wouldn't bother trying, so anybody who puts out a translation must therefore, ipso facto, know Japanese.

He's a fucking idiot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114102
Didn't he admit that he made a mistake and didn't look into it carefully enough? And he quickly backtracked on the second paragraph

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113383
While I detest routes being based on choices like "Throw cake at girl C" and other obscure choices, I am not sure I think just picking the route is better.

Then again it isn't really different from all the episodic games spammed the last 2 years.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114165
Dies irae's a really long VN. If people accidentally ended up on the wrong route, they'd have alot of text to skip through and all those different choices to figure out to get where they want to be.

That said, it makes the common route choices feel mostly pointless.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114165
>>17114184
The problem with this is that in the Japanese version Marie and Rea's routes are unlocked after you complete Kei and Kasumi's routes, because that's the intended reading order. Reading Rea's route first would ruin the whole thing

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114111
After being proven that everything he said was wrong, he admitted that he might have been wrong that one time.

Throw him a ticker tape parade and re-elevate all his opinions to Word of God.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114011
>Himawari
>kamige
It's all ages kusoge

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114226
>Reading Rea's route first would ruin the whole thing
How? I know Kasumi's is supposedly the least in depth route, but does Marie's and Rea's really spoil the other 2 routes?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114332
rea route is the true ending

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111616
I wonder if MG will release a voice patch for Fata Morgana. I'm waiting for it to read.

[Anonymous No.]

The free + DLC routes should really pay off when the anime comes around. It will be much easier to get people to give it a try when it is the VN of that anime they are watching when it is free to play the common route of, and regardless of how the anime turns out by the end, the beginning at least find an audience.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is some Crunchyroll cross promotion effort being planned, considering that it has been announced as a Crunchyroll license since March (despite being a Fall series), not to mention we just had them do an interview with Light.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114384
It seems like Limited Run is somewhat likely to get the Vita version of Fata Morgana. In the event that they do, I wonder what it would mean for MG since at the very least I would think Limited Run would need to work with MG to get the translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114384
How can they release a voice patch when the original game doesn't have a voiced edition?

There are the drama CDs and then there's the vita version with a side-story/epilogue for the characters, and [that] is voiced, but nothing else has been voiced.

Even if it does get full voice support in the future, I have to wonder if MG would pursue licensing it. Pretty much every voice actor which Fata Morgana used was top-drawer; lots of famous names. Not sure if they'd be willing to pay for that.

[Anonymous No.]

Up to about $55k on Hoshimemo. Compared to the Chrono Clock Kickstarter it is continuing to gain, now roughly $3k behind where Chrono Clock was at this point.

It would need both a considerable slowdown and nearly no ending boost to miss the $75k stretch goal at this point, especially since it has maintained stronger momentum than Chrono Clock which ended up with $86k. Provided it hits the stretch goal with a few days remaining, it could have a particularly strong final boost since the fandisk would be added as a paid add on, thus bumping up the average pledge.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114404
At least when it launched it didn't sell very well. I kind of doubt they'd pursue expensive VA for a title that has already seen the majority of sales it would get.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114461
Yeah, I think so too. Just not worth the financial investment, currently.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114461
>At least when it launched it didn't sell very well.

It was their 9th best seller on Steam in 2016, just behind Higurashi Ch 3 and Gahkthun, so it hasn't been a particularly strong seller compared to some of MG's other Steam titles. That said, it seemed like it had a particular slow start, but has maintained its momentum much better than some other MG Steam titles (and continues to do so through now), so a sizable fraction of those sales during 2016 were likely post launch.

[Anonymous No.]

Maggot Baits is taking a long time, eh? Didn't Euphoria only take a year to get translated?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114523
I will note that MB is waaay harder to TL than Euphoria (its writing is super grandiloquent) but more important MB is being tl'd by Kouryuu whereas Euphoria was by cafe

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114529
Fair enough, I guess

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114386
Although one potential pitfall with the DLC strategy is you won't be able to get sales through impulse buying, since you will have a hard time making sales on the DLC until a particular reader has actually read the common route.

As good as Grisaia is, the low conversion rate of getting people who purchased Grisaia no Kajitsu to also buy Grisaia no Meikyuu suggests that Sekai sold a lot of copies of the first game to people who didn't read through it. The first is in the 25-30k range while the second is just 4-5k on Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114523
Different translators. And Kouryuu didn't even start on the translation of Maggot Baits until several months after it was announced.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17113390
>>17113658
I've heard the problem is the opposite. People who have their non-unicode settings not in Japanese get the issue.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17112597

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114715

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114404
Wait, only the vita version have a voiced edition? What's the point? Make it for the pc version too for fuck sake.

[Anonymous No.]

Fata Morgana has a ton of vocal tracks so wouldn't it be kind of awkward for it to be voiced?

[Anonymous No.]

Doddler, I heard that the contract offered for Baldr Sky was batshit insane.

Confirm/deny?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114912
I'm pretty sure the same thing happened with Ozmafia. PC release only partially voiced, while Vita version was fully voiced.

[Anonymous No.]

As an example of how Kickstarter can inflate the initial concurrent users count on Steam, Dies Irae has shown 104 concurrent users already despite the general release not being for another twelve hours.

Thanks to the free+DLC model, it is going to be very difficult to get a general about how Dies Irae is doing. The best we'll be able to tell is roughly how many people download the common route, but that won't exactly be informative as to what kind of percent of people who try it end up buying the content, and I doubt Light is going to give out that information.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17115134
True, some people download every free game that comes out on Steam. Dies could say it has over 100,000 owners, but maybe only 10k or less of those might actually purchase either of the DLC.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17115134
I'd be playing it if I got my code.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114260
>t.BDH ... another fucking idiot

[Anonymous No.]

>>17115456
You used the "t." meme wrong, my witless friend.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17115469
>t.BDH (tranny faggot)

[Anonymous No.]

>>17115503
A lot of people are BDH today, it would seem. You're still using that meme wrong, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17115530
This sounds like faggotry only BDH would say ...

Did you want a ticker tape parade for pointing it out? Or perhaps you might consider that because the accusation was never the main point of the post (or even made in a serious manner) that I didn't want to use it in the correct way? In any case you're not the "Guardian of the Memes" so it really doesn't matter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17115578
Your ellipses spamming and incoherent ramblings are outing you as a Fuwatard. Please go back to whatever hole you crawled out of, ESL. And take your retarded e-celeb worship with you, thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

10 more hours until Dies Irae it's on Steam. I wonder when the next one will release.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17115245
You can get it on backer kit when you log in. Didn't get mine via mail either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17114925
Any work done while on contract is owned by sekai that's how bad it is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17115014
any chance to hack the vita version with the english script?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17115858
It might be easier to hack the extra voices into the PC release.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17115134
Do not forget though that not everyone lives in the same timezones.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17115895
I'll give it a shot. Anywhere with the fata morgana vita dump?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17116039
The full game isn't voiced. Just the side story.

[Anonymous No.]

Gare posted a walkthrough for Dies irae.

https://gareblogs.wordpress.com/2017/06/01/dies-irae-amantes-amentes-english-walkthrough/#more-9696

[Anonymous No.]

how is dies 18+ gonna work

[Anonymous No.]

>>17116690
Patch for all ages version will come out by the end of July or so. MG is set to sell Dies irae too, so they might just sell the 18+ version when it comes out.

[Anonymous No.]

June 30th release for Dal Segno

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/870491034945335297

Seems MG finally dealt with their problem, Dal Sengo has an official R18 patch for Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

I have to wonder if they'll go back and patch anything. The Dal Sengo patch is going to be a free patch, but for most of their existing titles there is a price difference that reflects the difference in content.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17116706
After so long, MG's rep has finally given in to the patchness.

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2017/06/02/d-s-dal-segno-now-available-for-preorder/

D.S. on Steam with free 18+ patch.

[Anonymous No.]

Why is it on Steam Greenlight there seems to be some good chinese VN's for once.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=933036821

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=929855766

Kind of weird when i think about it.

[Good Haro No.]

>>17117094

We're looking at doing it with some older games, but we still need to get some things sorted out. I think we should have news about at least one of them in the next couple weeks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117095
>Going forward it will be our general policy to provide free content patches for all Steam releases whenever possible where there are content differences between versions. Technical issues or contractual obligations with specific developers may make patching not possible for specific titles, but we will do our utmost to ensure that doesn’t happen. Should patching not be an option for a relevant title, we will inform you before it goes on sale.

>We will be working to update some of our existing Steam titles with content patches in the future; however, as our previous Steam releases were designed as separate versions, it may not be immediately possible for some older releases. We will have more information pertaining to previous releases in the coming weeks, so keep your eyes peeled for more good news!

>Even with content patching on the table now, stripping our more “mature” offerings of the bulk of their content would just be tragic, so no, you won’t be seeing all-ages euphoria on Steam. That said, you will always be able to pick up our raunchier titles directly from us!

Finally. Plus, I'm betting their sales took a hit once they couldn't offer free Steam keys with purchase anymore.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117111
Will I live to see SukiSuki?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117095
>>17117114

Damn that is amazing. Does this mean Valve secretly gave in to a compromise or something? Its weird because of their flip flopping policy of whether or not they will allow it. But my guess is it makes sense to have a 18+ patch alongside as it is no different than downloading your game and modding it anyways. It would be hypocritical and also it would put them in a stalemate.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117121

>We know how important platform choice and version parity are to many of you, so we used our recent in-person meeting with Valve as an opportunity to address those concerns and discuss content restrictions and off-site patching. We’re committed to doing right by our customers while adhering to Valve’s policies, and to that end we managed to reach an understanding with Valve regarding patches.

They got at least some sort of approval, probably from pointing out that nearly every other competitor in the marketplace is doing patches as well.

[Anonymous No.]

So what exactly is Dal Segno about? There are no reviews or anything out there. All I know is that it has a score of 70 on egs

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117138
https://vndb.org/v17742

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117138
fucking cute girls

[Anonymous No.]

>mfw no all-ages Euphoria on Steam
Back to negotiating!

[Good Haro No.]

>>17117118

Should be out this year for sure. So if you plan on living for another 6 months, probably.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117149

Wasn't that an April Fool's of theirs at one point?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117134
That is true and i think the thing is honestly, Mangagamer wanted official approval from Valve due to their policy of saying no but allowing it in a grey area with Sekai's own Grisaia 18+ Patch and Nekopara as well.

I officially am buying Dal Segno

>>17117149
Well they can not put in a game centered around porn on Steam. It most likely makes sense with Dal Segno because its part of the game but not centered around it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117152
>>17117153
I am aware, it was a joke.

[Anonymous No.]

Here's the list of existing titles that would need patches on Steam.

Cho Dengeki Stryker
eden*
Princess Evangile
Myth (not much to add)
The Stargazers
Da Capo 3

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117163
Princess Evangile and Eden would be huge along with De Capo. But more so Eden and Evangile because those are really highly selling games for MG.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117167
Of the list the 2 easiest would be Myth and Stargazers. Myth's prices are already the same, and Stargazers is negotiating with an indie OELVN developer. And the price difference with the latter title is only $3.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117176
You are right actually Myth and Stargazers would be quick. It may also help Myth's sells by 50 or 100 at least. I think people were dissapointed to see it had to have an adult patch in the first place.

But i also kind of argue for Evangile and Eden only because Steam sale is around the corner and its not even 3 weeks away now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117053

I think it's a bit too late to really boost steam sales by much, and that's going to utterly kill sales on their site.

Seems like a wash at this point.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117196
I can also see Dengeki Stryker getting one, because with Overdrive going under, I doubt they have much to lose at this point.

The 3 remaining titles all sold very well, so those are the ones MG would have the most trouble working things out for. Da Capo 3 could either drop $5 on MG's site or go up $5 on Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117216
Seriously, I thought the main point of keeping the 18+ version on their site was so they can take in all of those sales? Now they offer a free 18+ patch? As a consumer I'm thankful I suppose, though I don't use Steam, but it seems a little silly to take away sales from front where you get the most profit from a business standpoint.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117216
I doubt they'd bother doing it if their sales numbers didn't back it up. Once they quit offering free Steam keys, the people who wanted the full VN and to play on Steam just wouldn't buy from them at all.

They'll still get sales on the titles they won't be putting on Steam and from people who don't want to bother with patching.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117224
>I thought the main point of keeping the 18+ version on their site was so they can take in all of those sales?
That was peoples tin foil hat theory. The real reason was Valve was being wishy washy about 18+ patches until recently.

[Aroduc No.]

>>17114925
You have no idea. Imagine the craziest terms you can think of, just on the wrong side of legality, and you'll be close.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117224
Do they actually get much more profit? Adult pay processors charge high fees and they already had to switch to a different one after that steam fraud thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117224

It would have made sense if they could have pulled it off like two years ago back when the boom was boomin', it just seems like it won't do much now that exposure is dead

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117248
>it just seems like it won't do much now that exposure is dead
It will help obnoxiously loud Steam users who flood the forums with this crap to stay quiet.

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>>17117248
Exposure on Steam is still bigger than people that buy directly from MG's site.

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>>17117246
It's difficult to estimate what their Japanese payment processor may charge, but a company like Denpasoft probably pays a sizable percentage using a US one.

[Anonymous No.]

This also works out in the favor of people who don't like the all-ages versions being cheaper than the 18+ versions. Now they'll just be priced the same where ever possible.

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>>17117224
It is very tricky to pin down how it works out since Steam exposure is somewhat of a positive feedback cycle based on how well it sells in the first place.

A title like Hapymaher may be hurt a bit though if they see a drop in traffic to their main site (they still have all their PR including their newsletters that get sent out for announcements). Though such a title already was in an awkward position of not necessarily appealing as much to the pure porn games crowd and not having a Steam release.

[Anonymous No.]

Provided they don't any issues with doing a patch for it, MG's new ability to do patches will probably be a big benefit for Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome.

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>>17116690
Depending on who they get influence from, it could be as terrible as alternate sex scenes from gallery and nothing in game. But I do hope they have it along the routes as it should be.

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>>17117111
Good job at not following your steam rep lies for life.

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>>17117149
All-ages Euphoria is still the only all-ages game I'd buy. I want my cute porn, but my disgusting porn can be removed for all I care.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117146
Sounds like a kamige.

[Anonymous No.]

Dies Irae has now been released.

[Anonymous No.]

Is there really no 4:3?

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>>17117259
>>17117246
Can't be worse than the 40% cut valve makes can it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117770
Wasn't that one of their promises?

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>>17117770
They explained this during the Kickstarter. The all-ages version is 16:9 and the 18+ patch is 4:3

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117952
Valve's cut is 30%, not 40%. I'd be surprised if anyone was paying a payment processor with that high of a fee, but it will be a meaningful amount dropping the difference between a sale on Steam and a sale off Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17118062
Guess I will really wait for the all-ages version, then. I can't stand cropping.

[Anonymous No.]

what if dies turns to be shit?

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>>17117277
I'd imagine a significant amount of companies wanting to charge for the patch like Age did for Muv Luv.

It also puts MG's older titles in an awkward place, though I'd imagine that Da Capo III, Dengeki Stryker, and Myth will get 18+ patches in due time.

[Anonymous No.]

where the fuck is the torrent

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117224
>I don't use steam

And Steam users such as myself do not purchase from the site unless it is absolutely necessary like Euphoria. I am sure there is data that backs this that the userbase is different and does not cut into their sales overall.

[Anonymous No.]

Does Rusalka have a route?
If not then why the fuck was she in most of the promotional materials?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17118711
She doesn't have a route, no. She plays a pretty large part in the story though and she has some sex scenes in the 18+ version

[Anonymous No.]

>>17118711
>Will Rusalka's ending be included in the game?

>Yes, with the successful funding of the Kickstarter, the Rusalka ending will be included.

though having not read it, I don't know if its an actual route or just some sort of cheap rushed ending

[Anonymous No.]

>>17118764
I think her ending is in Rea's route.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17118764
They're talking about something from Rea's route. I don't know why they're advertising it like that though since it has always been in the game

[Anonymous No.]

>>17118401
No torrent for you, all-agesfag.

[Anonymous No.]

Any word on an off-steam 18+ patch for Tayutama 2?

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>>17114512
I guess the endless and unceasing shilling of Fata Morgana did work. I'm sorta impressed.

>>17117151
That's good. Main reason I want to buy it as soon as possible is because of the Chuable Soft president actually listening to the people on twitter and partnering with MG instead of Sekai. I would have waited for a sale otherwise at least.

>>17117167
I don't think Minori will go for a free patch because of the $10 price difference.

[Anonymous No.]

How long is the common route in Dies Irae?

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>>17118975
>I don't think Minori will go for a free patch because of the $10 price difference.
In the case of eden* it's only a $5 price difference. They could just raise the price of the Steam version by $5 though.

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>>17119053
It's an old game that's been heavily discounted already, raising the price would be crazy.

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>>17119056
It's an odd situation though. They'd need price parity between their site and Steam, so the price either has to go down on their site or go up on Steam. I doubt most devs would just accept a price drop of $5-$10, so I do expect those to be raised on Steam by about $5. Dal Segno being $40 could end up as MG's new default price on moege. Split the difference between $45 and $35.

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>>17119068
>I doubt most devs would just accept a price drop of $5-$10,
A permanent $5 drop is probably acceptable for a game that has dropped $10 in sales a few times.

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>>17119093
Depends if minori would approve that. The patch is adding content to the game, so they could say it's adding value.

I expect MG's Steam releases to be slightly more expensive going forward at least. $40 instead of $35 etc.

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>>17119027
yes

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>>17119027
Around 10 hours

[Anonymous No.]

I'm going to read Dies without a guide and without using the route locks. I will forge my own fate, since that is what the VN is urging the reader to do anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17119281
No need to tell us what you're going to do in 2 months.

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>>17118975
FM didn't really have that much shilling, though. At least from what I've seen. I don't go on Twitter, though. Mostly because everyone on there are huge faggots.

And, yeah, the ChuableSoft president seems pretty cool. Someone posted a translated excerpt from his Twitter where he said he was very happy that the English audience was taking an interest in his stuff, and that he planned to make sure that more games come over. That's typical PR stuff and all, but it's nice hearing it from a President instead of a middle-man.

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>>17118975
>I don't think Minori will go for a free patch because of the $10 price difference.

Eden* also has the complicating factor that both versions have been separately rated by the ESRB, and I doubt that they would look fondly at an official AO rated patch being available the the M rated version of the game. Not to mention, Minori is easily the most demanding company that MG works with, between ESRB ratings and the R18 version of their titles still having DRM after it disappeared for everything else.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17119314
>>17118874

>h-18fags

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>>17119430
Cho Dengeki Stryker's all ages version was rated by the ESRB as well.

The 18+ patches could just be seen as mods though, so it might not be an issue because it's not part of the base version of the VN on Steam.

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>>17119453
As was Princess Evangile, depending on the ESRB policies it could be an issue for both of those. MG already had to drop the all ages versions of them from their own storefront because of ESRB rules. Eden* sticks out a bit more though because both versions are rated, and an official patch would convert an M rated title to an AO rated title.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17119432
I'm an anti-cropge fag, actually.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17119472
Adding in not-rated content into a rated title could be an issue too. They didn't realize the drawbacks to the ratings when they applied for them and the rating can't be taken back.

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https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/870689107696992257

Doddler suggest that their free patch policy is in part being in line with what Steam allows, as Steam doesn't care what you do with what they see as free mods but does care about how you handle directing people to buy things at an off Steam storefront.

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>>17119485
Doesn't look cropped so far.

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>>17119497
Eden* was always going to get rated, but getting ratings for their other all ages titles has been nothing but drawbacks. Thankfully they have stopped getting most titles rated after they took down their all ages rated titles from their main store. It could put a halt to any plans to patch Trinoline as well, since minori will likely once again require the releases to be rated.

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>>17119504
The CG are I think

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>>17119504

[Anonymous No.]

I thought you guys said that Aroduc gave up and died. Why is Doddler still hacking Prism Ark then?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17119504
Find 5 differences?

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>>17119523
Whatever will I do without a boring-looking fence?

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>>17119529
Enjoy the girl on the rights heading being cut off I suppose?

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>>17119504
You can see it is cropped right in that image. It doesn't matter much for a background but it might in a CG.

[Anonymous No.]

Dies has it's first negative review.

>Meme game
0.2 hours played.

Looks like they used an off site key, so I'm guessing they backed it on kickstarter out of hype.

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>>17119537
>cropped
dropped

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>>17119498
That's about right. If you look at nekopara games for example you'll see that sekai doesn't have any news/posts/links/mentions on steam of the denpasoft patch. It's no wonder dovac is complaining of a low conversion rate.

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>>17119581
The reviews are all shitposts

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>>17119586
Why the fuck are you people bitching about the all-ages version?
The 18+ will be 4:3 and it's coming out in August.
Fucking wait.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17119581
>it's
its

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>>17119592
Nekopara is a unique case simply because it sells 2 orders of magnitude more than most VNs (and it sells them to a very different crowd), so its percentage is going to be quite different. I'd be far more interested in knowing the overall ratio for Chrono Clock 18+ vs what it has done on Steam.

Although for paid patches for full games are pretty much untested. Muv Luv is the only paid patch for a full length Japanese VN, but even that had thousands of patches go to Kickstarter backers.

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>>17119524
Because he's been doing it since 2014.

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>>17119498
It makes total sense actually. With Nekopara allowing it along with Karakara from Sekai they were never in trouble with that at all. But I can understand the confusion and the worry about it being a thing where they could be taken down.

Honestly no one should worry about people speaking about the patch and guiding others towards it. As long as it warns you need to be 18+ to apply the patch and does not mention it on Steam etc it's not MG fault for what happens.

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>>17118401
>Yea, the DLCs are included in the Free steam download and just need to be unlocked, I used codex steam emu (ini+dll attached in OP) since it's very easy to setup.
>All the DLC routes are fully playable from my testing. I have heard people had the same success with ALI213 emulator etc, so just choose the one you like the most I guess.
https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=81130

The attachment from that OP:
http://www62.zippyshare.com/v/JVSb5kEL/file.html

[Anonymous No.]

Making the "base" game free and adding DLC routes was a terrible idea. Especially since it's just a hex edit away from being fully unlocked, or in the worst case scenario, a drag and drop. If Dies irae wasn't already fully crowdfunded, they'd be in serious shit if they expected any sort of return on their investment.

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>>17118163
They need to remember that charging 10 dollars for a patch may mean they lost a 30 dollar game sale.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. A free patch is like advertisement that you get your consumers to do for you for free. A paid patch is like asking people to pay 10 dollars to click on a banner.

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>>17119929
If people wanted to pirate they'd pirate.

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>>17119941
It adds another possibility entirely.
>so i enjoyed the free route, what now? oh, there's this tiny file i can dump in the folder and save 40 bucks?
I wonder what the average Steamshitter would do.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17119910
Wow someone fucked up big time.
Doesn't matter to me anyway since I'm waiting for August.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17119910
so i need steam for this shit? don*t really want to start steam every timeto start the game

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>>17119910
Based. Still waiting for 18+ though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17119962
Only to download the game. You don't need it anymore after using the steam_emu thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>this thread consists of 15 year olds and third worlders who have no choice but to pirate
DIDNT SEE THAT COMING

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>>17119989
>and third worlders
Please don't bully!

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>>17119989
Hi Cuntjueror.

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>>17119581
>You won't understand Dies Irae on more than a surface level if you didn't read Nietzsche, Kafka, Goethe, Wagner & Kant.

the dies irae reviews are cringe

some people really taking this porn game seriously

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>>17119910
I guess someone saw on /vn/ that it worked and made that thread. It still isn't 100% confirmed that the DLC fully works as no one has got that far with it. The only indication that it should is that on the route election screen they aren't grey like in the free steam version all the routes are orange.

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>>17119910
I guess someone saw on /vn/ that it worked and made that thread. It still isn't 100% confirmed that the DLC fully works as no one has got that far with it. The only indication that it should is that on the route selection screen they aren't grey like in the free steam version all and the routes are orange.

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>>17119929
It is difficult to say how this strategy will work and this will be more of a test case than anything else. The idea is being free gives it broader reach than it would have had otherwise, but the only other relevant title released this way on Steam is ChuSinGura 46+1 (though it isn't uncommon for mobile releases).

It's a shame we have no accurate way to judge what sort of percentage they'll get to buy the DLC. But if we start to see more VNs follow this path then that would be a sign that it is probably working.

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>>17119989
https://youtu.be/JwKHxzfmAOY
You will never see it coming.

[Anonymous No.]

Does CTRLing through the story and only fapping to H-scenes count as reading a VN? Can I cross it off on VNDB?

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>>17119524
https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/870718177264648196
Maybe Aroduc can finally finish it now Doddler has put some tools online.

[Anonymous No.]

Is he right?

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>>17120152
The logic behind the release strategy is sound, it is just a question about how well it will work in practice.

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>>17120152
If a route was only $10, I could see people more likely to impulse get the common route then buy a character route DLC than those likely to impulse buy a $50 VN.

It's hard to equivocate the pirates who said yes in the poll and people likely to buy DLC in a free-to-pay item though.

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>>17120131
Why would he be putting them up for anybody to use if he was still working with Aroduc?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120131
That's assuming Aroduc breaks free from his cuckshed. Dovac is literally fucking his mother right now while holding the Baldr Sky license in both hands.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120460
I think you're using the word "literally" a bit too liberally.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120437
Why would he still be working on it a day ago if he wasn't? Unless someone licensed it.
https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/870375105582383105

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120477
Because he's been working on it since 2014.

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>>17120492
And? If Aroduc had given up on it then what point would there be in continuing? Unless someone else decided to give it a go.
It wasn't long ago Doddler said he had no time to do much so I can't imagine he is doing it for fun.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120521
At attempt to make it up to him for siding with Sekai Project in screwing him over. Aroduc moved the project back to the dead projects section of his forum. That's not a living project.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17111712
Not everyone mooch off their government like you do, hikineet.

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>>17120614
You think Dovac pays decently for shit?

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>>17120589
His forum isn't going to the be all and end all of if he is working on something or not. Don't forget Aroduc is the guy who said he would never do Baldr Sky after slating it in one of his reviews, so it is kinda unreliable to know what he is and isn't doing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120622
No, but there are plenty of people who work shit jobs just for a measly salary - life's not great, why do you think we need escapism like visual novels in the first place?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17117138
The description has me sold.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120467
Not literally, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120467
Check definition #2

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120722
>literally means not literally
When did this happen?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120728
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally
>"I literally blazed with wit." William Makepeace Thackeray, Punch, 30 Oct. 1847
Since literally centuries ago

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>>17120630
Cite

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>>17120152
I would say it probably doesn't help. If it is a person that only play free things, then they won't buy DLC. If it is a person who buys games, then the game might have just as well been sold normally.

But there are people out there playing flash games at nutaku and spending a lot on "DLC".

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120747
Microtransactions is something else entirely.

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>>17120732
So... literally centuries ago or LITERALLY centuries ago? Really fires up the Jimmy Neutrons.

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>>17120735
Multiple times he basically said he didn't really like it and said he didn't really want to do it because he didn't like the plot and would rather do Force. In the end only reason he did it was because Force kept breaking.
http://tenka.seiha.org/2015/02/brain-damage-and-haphazard-boners/
>One of the games I’m often (incessantly) asked to work on is Baldr Sky, and one might assume from placing it below a game about creating your own personal army of children by defrauding the government as a one-man incestuous polygomist commune, that I’m not a great fan.

http://tenka.seiha.org/2013/05/a-not-so-short-short-list-of-non-projects/
> Baldr Force/Sky also certainly deserve to be translated, but I’m not a huge fan of the Baldr engine in general and I think I’ve made my distaste for amnesia storylines known well enough.

>http://tenka.seiha.org/2015/08/that-other-completely-broken-giga-game-that-i-sort-of-like/
>But maybe some day, if for no other reason than to undercut Sky.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160911181832/http://tenka.seiha.org/2016/09/concerning-recent-game-translation-activities/
>this wasnt predicated on me suddenly discovering a love for the game as much as it was attempting to work on Baldr Force and the entire thing crashing in a blue-screen hot mess multiple times before I could even get out of the prologue.

[Anonymous No.]

Please pre-order Del Segno for more moege in the future!

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120784
I didn't say cite your source for how people ask him to do it, or how he thinks Baldr Force is better, shitlord.

>Don't forget Aroduc is the guy who said he would never do Baldr Sky

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>>17120802
You said nothing ,faggot. You said "cite" which means little by itself if you don't add anything to it since it is too broad.
And it seems you can't read into what he said. Each time he said he wouldn't do it and if he ever was going to so something Baldr it would be Force.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120822
How do you post when you're illiterate?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120833
If you can't read into what is being said you might be retarded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120837
Who's trying to read these posts to you? You should stop sucking their dick because they're doing a terrible job.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120870
Did you have to spend 20 minutes trying to think that up? Really must have been mashing those those 2 brain cells together.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120876
Did you spend the last 20 minutes breathlessly waiting over your keyboard just for that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120886
It is called having 4chax. It gives me a nice popup whenever I get a reply.

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/06/02/steam-direct-publishing-fee-is-100-dollars/

Valve publishing fee is out just now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120894
Wasn't it $100 before to get on greenlight? So what exactly has changed?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120891
>4chax

You continue to type as well as you read.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120946
Wow, another 20 minutes. Really giving them a work out, aren't you?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120953
All this time on your hands, and you still can't back up a word you said.

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>>17120970
>All this time on your hands
I can do things at the same time, you know? Playing Dies irae right now.
And I posted links and comments earlier. It just seems to be to difficult for you to read into the words that he said.

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>>17120984
Oh? Let's recap, shall we?
>Don't forget Aroduc is the guy who said he would never do Baldr Sky after slating it in one of his reviews

To support this, you pointed out him saying:
He's not a great fan
It deserves to be translated, but he doesn't like the amnesia story line
He might translate Force
Force crashes too much for him to translate

Your nanny must be so proud that you've managed to copy paste random shit. Perhaps one day, god willing a drug is invented to help your brain focus, you can defeat your ADHD and understand relevance.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120998
Each time he said he doesn't like it. He said he would rather do Force just to spite Sky. It really doesn't take much to see that he was saying he did not want to translate it.
Do you struggle to put 2+2 together?

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>>17121009
Good, child. Good.

Now, can you tell me the difference between these two statements?

He doesn't like it.
He said he would never do it.

It's subtle, but I bet with a little help, you can figure it out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17120895
>Wasn't it $100 before to get on greenlight? So what exactly has changed?

The Steam Greenlight process was $100 for access to Greenlight, though it covered all titles submitted by the publisher going forward. The new upcoming system will be $100 per game (recoverable once you make $1000 in sales), but a title by a new publisher no longer needs to go through Greenlight, so it will be in effect another barrier reduction to entry on Steam. The net result will likely be more garbage VNs making its way onto Steam (as well as less protection against infringing games and scams we saw get caught during the Greenlight process).

Valve seems to be aware that it will lead to more garbage, since they spend half their post making the announcement saying they'll improve tools for curators and the recommendation system. But I wouldn't hold out too much hope on that suddenly working well to direct sales towards the VNs that should do well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17121021
Do you not know the concept of hyperbole?

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>>17121027
Most of the totally trash or fake Greenlight submissions usually ended up being a one off thing for a company anyways. It seems all they have done is removed the vote aspect of the process and said they will be more tough on fakes, so I am not sure if this is better or worse.
If anything it just seems more a side step with the "potential" of improvement if their tools work as advertised.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17121030
Riiight. You were citing sources in order to support something other than what you were saying.

Brilliant. And it works for everything!

[Anonymous No.]

>>17121092
I was citing that he didn't want to translate it. It seems you spent the last 2 hours sperging over the "never" part of that line.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17121095
It's still an own goal even if you move your goal posts into my endzone.

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>>17121171
You can take it if you feel that you need it, I was just showing that he is unreliable showing what he was doing. Which as the main point in the first post you asked "cite" to.
You don't use words like
>disdain
>I’m not a great fan
>distaste
>no other reason than to undercut Sky
for something you want to translate.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17121186
Let me refer you back to this
>>17121021

[Anonymous No.]

>>17121212
Why would someone do something they hate? At the time we didn't know he was crazy enough to so how does that go against what I said?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17121086
The barriers were already low enough that this won't necessarily make a huge difference as to what gets through. Though it does mean Valve has no plans to stop the flood of crap titles with their response here being to open the floodgates a bit wider.

[Anonymous No.]

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>>17121569
Why do plotfags get so easily triggered?

[Anonymous No.]

>Dal Segno got finished before SukiSuki

really gets my noggin joggin

[Anonymous No.]

>>17121569
>waiting 2 mths for the original = not reading it
seems legit

[Anonymous No.]

>>17121575
It's because of the internal arguments over Yuuki.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17122246
Yuki*

[Anonymous No.]

>>17122246
Hopefully they've spent that time on obfuscating the script or something like that in order to prevent the name restoration or unfucking it will be way less interesting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17122134
>original
You're not getting the "original" in two months. You're getting the same version that's available right now with a handful of h-scenes that add a grand total of 180 seconds to the 70+ hour experience. It's absolutely hilarious that someone would hold off for several months just to get those three minutes of poorly drawn genitalia. I sincerely hope you enjoy getting spoiled, which is inevitable if you're active in any sort of VN community such as this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17122594

[Anonymous No.]

>>17122594
Wow, I didn't know it was possible to have wrong opinions, but you sure managed it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17122594
I will print out your post and cum all over it after I'm done with said H-scenes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17122594
Does the version that's available right now have uncropped CGs?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17122889
Nope. All assets other than event CGs are native 16:9, though.

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.ulmf.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=30855
Is SP trying to snatch yet another fan translation?

https://vndb.org/v19427

[Anonymous No.]

>>17123252
Well, Norn was insane enough to turn their latest nukige into an all-ages Steam release, so I can buy that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17123004
Yeah. I'm not reading a cropge. Sorry.

I'll wait 2 months.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17122594
L-leonhart? Is that you?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17123356
You'll read cropge and like it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17123383
No

[Anonymous No.]

>>17123252
>0% progress
Please.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17123445
It's 5% according to him, actually. I'm more concerned about
>other Norn/Miel games in general
part.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17123252
With Norn being a nukige company interested enough in the West to strip down one of their own game and put it on Steam, it would make a lot of sense for them to go with another localization company for their other titles.

Sekai seems to be a reasonable guess, and they would benefit having a source of cheap nukige with their Denpasoft push.

[Anonymous No.]

tfw when you get cucked by one of the other heroines.

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>>17123815
>story about nazi wizards or some shit, killing hundreds of thousands of people for some ritual
>time skips forward
>protag is a fucking high school kid complete with all the requisite tropes like childhood friend, etc
What the fuck Japan

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>>17122636
>>17122821
>>17122885
>/vn/ reads Dies irae
>/vnts/ spergs about h-scenes
What went wrong?

[Anonymous No.]

Dies irae ~What A Beautiful Crop~

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>>17123837
The only sperg is >>17122594

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>>17123848
I really don't see the point of ruining CG just so it can be in widescreen.

Japan is so retarded.

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>>17123837
Who are you greening?

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>>17123859
They originally did it for the PSP and mobile ports so they wouldn't have black bars on the sides. Why they did it to the Steam version is beyond me though

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>>17123848
I'm not too bothered about porn but I'm waiting for r18 version because of this anyway.

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>>17123849
But he's right.

[Anonymous No.]

Why does vndb list Dies Irae's vita version as 18+ with ero scenes? https://vndb.org/r51903

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>>17123944
Except he isn't. We're objectively getting something closer to the original in a few months, since it won't be a cropge.

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>>17123924
>Why they did it to the Steam version is beyond me though
MG once said that people prefer HD vns.

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>>17122594
If you don't understand the Visual Novel culture then don't even bother posting. You're just embarassing yourself and showing others how you don't care about it.

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>>17124029
>>17123924
Is the 4:3 version going to be 800x600? Or do they have higher resolution assets to use for it?
I think it was recently for Sharin no Kuni where they decided said that since people demanded uncropped CGs they had to go for a 800x600 resolution since they didn't have any uncropped HD assets.

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>>17124116
4:3 supposedly will be 1280x768.