For no particular reason my interest in olds DOS dating sims has been rekindled. I've played true love, season of the sakura, runaway city, and three sisters story. What other ones should I play in English?

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Anonymous Mon Sep 29 16:04:37 2014 No.1973213 [Reply] [Original]

For no particular reason my interest in olds DOS dating sims has been rekindled. I've played true love, season of the sakura, runaway city, and three sisters story. What other ones should I play in English?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 16:07:14 2014 No.1973218 >>1973213 For no particular Gravity Falls related reason?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 16:07:53 2014 No.1973220 >>1973213 It's not a dating sim, but you should try Yu-No.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 16:24:35 2014 No.1973254 >>1973220 What this man said

Anonymous Mon Sep 29 16:34:59 2014 No.1973268
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>>1973218
Not OP, but once started to get interested in VHS tapes again, mainly just because I watched Ringu(which I only saw because I thought Sadako was cute)

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 16:35:22 2014 No.1973269 Pia Carrot if you can live with the PC-FX port being translated and not the DOS original. It has voice acting and h scenes that way.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 16:39:22 2014 No.1973280 >>1973220 Most of the games he mentioned are not dating sims. The number of actual dating sims with translations is depressing. Goddamn Tokimeki Memorial still lacks a translation, it's crazy. Only the Girl's Side games were translated.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 16:46:04 2014 No.1973295 File: 119 KB, 640x480, PrincessMaker2_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Princess Maker 2 is a raising sim/RPG with slight dating elements.

Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo Mon Sep 29 16:47:55 2014 No.1973298
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>>1973280
I'm personally hoping Tokyo Nampa Street will get a translation (possibly the first dating sim, depends on when JAST's Afternoon of Angels was released that same year). It takes a unique approach to the genre premise: working from a cheap hotel, you have to pick up girls off the street and get them into bed after a restaurant conversation. A mangaka developed it with help from people at Enix.

http://polsy.org.uk/play/nico/?vidid=sm5142485
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/tokyo_nampa_street_msx

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 16:51:39 2014 No.1973306 File: 11 KB, 109x143, awkward.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1973298 >go on a date with don rumata >he seems like a really nice guy >ask him about his hobbies >he spends the next 3 hours talking about japanese pc games from the 80s

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 16:58:11 2014 No.1973318 >>1973298 Too bad notability isn't enough to motivate rogue translators. Neither is popularity, apparently.

Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo Mon Sep 29 17:02:16 2014 No.1973328

>>1973306
I'd probably start with reading Maupassant or theater. Still need to make a website so I can post short stories.

>>1973318
Usually depends on familiarity with hacking. SNES translation is easy because they've been doing it for more than a decade. MSX hacking's just the same thanks to resources developed since Oasis released the SD Snatcher patch in 1995.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 17:04:17 2014 No.1973331 File: 488 KB, 1600x1200, 1348823025642.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1973295 >Went into this with a perverted mind >Left the game feeling confused and realizing I want a daughter Thanks PM2.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 17:04:37 2014 No.1973332 >>1973328 >SNES translation is easy because they've been doing it for more than a decade To sound like a scratched record: there's a Tokimemo 1 version for SNES!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 17:07:53 2014 No.1973342 >>1973332 >To sound like a scratched record: there's a Tokimemo 1 version for SNES! And IIRC the hacking was a pain in the ass, there have been countless projects for Tokimemo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 18:05:27 2014 No.1973447 >>1973213 True Love 95 is what you are searching.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 18:24:45 2014 No.1973480 >>1973218 Yes >>1973295 I raised olive oyl many times great game >>1973447 Yes thank you. That FSA and was as great. Thanks everyone and keep it coming. I also played one where you train 3 maids. Damn fine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 18:30:19 2014 No.1973483 >>1973331 Pretty much 99% of people who play Princess Maker 2 have that same experience.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 18:36:06 2014 No.1973494 >>1973483 I played it because it was Gainax and a sim. I LOVE dating-rasing sims.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 19:23:57 2014 No.1973573 File: 122 KB, 576x376, 1412033037315.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here you go OP. http://www.asenheim.org/ I especially recommend Divi-Dead in the spirit of the upcoming season. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKzcSk431x0

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 19:27:13 2014 No.1973579 Graduation 2 had also an official english version, there were download links in an old thread in /vr/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 20:16:08 2014 No.1973656 File: 76 KB, 640x400, tm_03.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1973573 wot

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 20:18:20 2014 No.1973661 File: 38 KB, 640x400, Japanese Kissing.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1973656 Fun times

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 21:04:02 2014 No.1973762 >>1973573 I like that anatomy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 05:52:15 2014 No.1974512 >>1973656 Drvi Dead... Its been ported to a number of Consoles now.. I've been replaying it on my old XBOX for a while now. Its actually pretty cool. But, walking 'round waiting for shit to happen kinda sucks though...

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 06:15:42 2014 No.1974531 >>1973213 >wants to play dating sims >lists three hentai visual novels you fucking retard

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 07:56:31 2014 No.1974606 File: 523 KB, 992x1512, 015.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dokyuusei

Anonymous Tue Sep 30 08:02:04 2014 No.1974614
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>>1973573
I wanted to like Divi-dead but the dog-shit translation and the aimless walking around waiting for something to trigger (just like Nocturnal Illusion) did it in for me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 08:11:30 2014 No.1974626 >>1974531 Call them adventures.

Anonymous Tue Sep 30 12:24:44 2014 No.1974972

>>1973280
>The number of actual dating sims with translations is depressing.
For a while now I've been puzzling over this phenomenon that there are numerous parodies like OP's pic targeting an audience of people who have no actual experience playing the games being parodied.
There's more English-language parodies of romance sims than actual English-language romance sims.

Anonymous Tue Sep 30 12:40:35 2014 No.1975007

>>1974606
This is one of the best god damn games of all time.
>tfw when you finally find the last event for the last character in the Saturn version and the title screen changes and now has a vocal opening song

Everyone always talks about Doukyuusei 2, but I like the first one way better. The player's motivation and the player-character's motivation were in sync, and the protagonist's behavior made sense--he was wandering around town specifically for the purpose of finding girls and acted enthusiastic when he found them. In 2, he was wandering around for no good reason and his interaction with girls was like "Oh hi, fancy meeting you here. Well, bye."

I feel like 2 was actually the beginning of the end for romance eroge, and after that games started focusing on tear-jerker stories like your girlfriend is leaving the country or dying of AIDS or whatever, and the relationship development got shoved to the side.
(And then they butchered the Windows version of Doukyuusei 1 trying to make it more like 2.)

Anonymous Tue Sep 30 12:57:05 2014 No.1975058

>>1975007

I have to say that I liked better the characters in the first Doukyuusei (hell, I even read the light novels). Although, as a game I enjoyed how fleshed out everything was in Doukyuusei 2, some characters in Doukyuusei 1 just dont have anything to say.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 13:18:48 2014 No.1975108 File: 174 KB, 1024x628, DSC_2624.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1975058 >hell, I even read the light novels My brother. Those are damn good. And then I went on to read the Kakyuusei novels and they were shit and I was sad.

Anonymous Tue Sep 30 13:40:51 2014 No.1975150
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>>1975007
>I feel like 2 was actually the beginning of the end for romance eroge, and after that games started focusing on tear-jerker stories like your girlfriend is leaving the country or dying of AIDS or whatever, and the relationship development got shoved to the side.
Obligatory: https://archive.today/HD0Z

Also I've never played the Saturn version. How different is it?

Anonymous Tue Sep 30 14:02:14 2014 No.1975187

>>1975150
>How different is it?

It adds some heroines and some more text here and there. It's the same as the PC Engine CD version but with better graphics and sound, of course no porn scenes at all. Still, you are a moron if you play Elf games like a nukige.

Anonymous Tue Sep 30 14:08:17 2014 No.1975194

>>1975150
>I've never played the Saturn version. How different is it?
It's based on the PC Engine version which is overall faithful to the original DOS release. Sex scenes are toned down of course but they're still there and characters have the same stories and personalities; it's not re-written like the Windows version was. (e.g. in DOS/PCE/Saturn version you have sex with Satomi and in so doing she puts her first lover Kenji behind her and works on getting over him breaking up with her. But in the Windows version Satomi is still a virgin, never slept with Kenji, and you don't have sex with her either because you stop before getting really getting started. Windows version is full of shit like that.)

Saturn version has the PC Engine characters in it (Midori, Masumi, and Mai's sister Kyouko) with some tweaks to them over the PC Engine version.

Mostly the same voice cast as the PC Engine, except this is the version where Koorogi Satomi became the voice of Misa and then played Misa in all Doukyuusei media/games from that point on.

Anonymous Tue Sep 30 14:13:40 2014 No.1975201

>>1975194
>this is the version where Koorogi Satomi became the voice of Misa and then played Misa in all Doukyuusei media/games from that point on.
Kind of. PC Engine Misa had a different voice, but Koorogi played Misa in the OVAs before the Saturn version.

Anonymous Tue Sep 30 14:33:33 2014 No.1975235
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>>1975201
Somewhere around here I have an issue of Saturn Fan with a VA interview in which Koorogi says they informed her, regarding her role in the Saturn release, "this a non-naughty Doukyuusei (良い子の同級生) ." (Since prior to that, she'd worked on the R15-rated OVAs and the smutty radio show/drama CDs.)

Although really, Doukyuusei Saturn is pretty sexy. It's not like those eroge ports where they cut out the sex from the story entirely. If you sleep with them in the DOS version, then you sleep with with them in the Saturn version, it's just not explicit. Looks like pic related.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 19:24:22 2014 No.1975757 >>1973480 Pia Carrot is ok too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 20:01:32 2014 No.1975795 File: 21 KB, 641x483, perfectly normal title screen.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1975187 get a load of this goy

Anonymous Tue Sep 30 22:37:29 2014 No.1976063
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>>1973213
why is she using an IDE cable as a bonnet

why is the background piccolo flavored

why are the colors so garish

why does she look so weird

why is her book in a different perspective relative to her position

why is paul robertson a fucking hack whose work is entirely too formulaic and gimmicky

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 30 22:44:28 2014 No.1976078 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPZDBF0kei0 Speaking of just suddenly wanting to play old Dating sims >That old computer styled dithered animation

Anonymous Tue Sep 30 23:44:45 2014 No.1976165

>>1973480
>I also played one where you train 3 maids
Maid Story. I think it's awful as it turns everything into a chore, including the sex scenes.
Usually these games are meant to be played multiple times to achieve different endings but in that case playing through it a single time was boring enough to win all the main girls and so boring that I never wanted to play it again.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 02:09:59 2014 No.1976359 >>1976063 Answer to your first question: I have not seen the series but I believe that she is supposed to be an AI.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 02:13:13 2014 No.1976367 >>1976063 >>why are the colors so garish It's a reasonable presentation of the PCE palette.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 02:20:43 2014 No.1976379 >>1973331 >tfw Princess Maker 2 is actually the proto-Telltale's Walking Dad >tfw no faec

Anonymous Wed Oct 1 07:10:15 2014 No.1976625
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>>1973213
I've been looking for something like this myself, after delving into Japanese PC games. It's a shame there aren't more translations.

Anyone have a list of translated DOS dating sims or translated Japanese DOS games?

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Anonymous Wed Oct 1 07:58:19 2014 No.1976654

>>1976359
Yes. She murdered her programmer that tried to delete her (kind of like in X-Files) and later got obsessed with another character from the show that used her to learn how to talkt to girls. She then tried to kill his RL date while possessing animatronics.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 14:18:09 2014 No.1977056 >>1976640 What filter ?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 14:21:18 2014 No.1977058 >>1976625 What game is this? Is it on DOS?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 14:27:23 2014 No.1977069 >>1977058 DOR, originally on PC-98 DOS and later ported to Windows 9x and translated from there.

Anonymous Wed Oct 1 21:49:42 2014 No.1977830

>>1976625
Afaik True Love is really the only translated actual dating sim from that time, and that game wasn't remarkable for its time in any way whatsoever.

People here shouldn't put Tokimeki Memorial on a pedestal either. It has none of the charm or entertaining writing elf's dating sims had, all they came up with was tedious stat management, because that's obviously what dating is about.

Konami killed those games by turning them into spreadsheet simulators. Tokimeki has only historic value, nothing more.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 22:06:12 2014 No.1977864 >>1977830 >Tokimeki has only historic value That's only the first game, Tokimemo 2 is actually a good game, but kinda like in Doukyuusei I liked better the characters in the first one, even if they are all stereotypes like in the first Doukyuusei.

Anonymous Wed Oct 1 22:46:52 2014 No.1977942

>>1977864
Well, when people speak of stereotypes in Japanese 2D media, they usually think of certain archetypes being slavishly adhered to, I don't feel that's the case in Doukyuusei 1 however.

Sure, you have roles like the smug rich rival, the sporty tomboy, the solemn popular girl (which being the main heroine also happens to be one of the less interesting girls) etc. being played out, but all of them are real characters in their own right, unlike the stock personalities you would see in later Japanese media.

And most importantly, the protagonist of Doukyuusei is in a league of his own, good luck finding anyone remotely like him in eroge today outside of fantasy settings.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 1 23:35:52 2014 No.1978026 >>1977830 Except Tokimeki is an actual dating simulator. It has stat/time management.

Anonymous Thu Oct 2 00:02:58 2014 No.1978057
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>>1978026
>Game series created to get Japanese youth interested in dating and reversing the population decline
>Further contributes to it by offering relationship substitutes to shut in otakus

Well, at lest you tried Koji...

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 2 11:34:45 2014 No.1978767 >>1978026 More of a school life simulator, really. Dating is boiled down to, what, 3 answers to a question during a date?

Anonymous Thu Oct 2 11:43:29 2014 No.1978774

>>1978767

That's in the first Tokimeki, and you actually have to pick the date correctly and know what the girl likes. The sequel has actual fights (not like the ones you see in the first Tokimemo) with a route based mostly on that and a lot of new events.

Also, if you want a game focused in the conversation aspect I heard True Love Story is very good, too bad I hate the art.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 2 12:10:13 2014 No.1978789 >>1978767 What you do outside of dates is also mostly done to romance the girls you're interested in, though. But yeah, it's indeed a school life simulator first.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 2 15:37:27 2014 No.1979195 >>1977830 There's also May Club and Casual Romance Club and Bloody Bride on the PS1.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 2 16:20:23 2014 No.1979248 >>1976063 I'm sorry that you can't draw, anon, but that's no reason to be so butthurt.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 2 20:32:23 2014 No.1979776 >>1978026 And Doukyuusei somehow doesn't have time mangement? Like I said, all Konami introduced to the genre was stat management, and random minigames that are wholly unrelated to the core game itself as well, I guess.

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