/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status


11eyes - 2nd partial patch out, very slow to effectively stalled for the time because of the main translator needing to deal with real life unless a new primary translator joins
Air - 13% translated and 10% edited
Aiyoku no Eustia - Fione Route- 99% through 1st pass, 40% through 2nd pass, looking for new translator
Akai Ito- Yumei's route released, Nozomi route fully inserted,Uzuki route 40% inserted, 14300/21674 (65.98%) overall inserted, last untranslated arc being translated by original translator
>Amagami - project starting up
Apathy Midnight Collection - fully translated, one arc left to edit
>Baldr Sky - Chapter 11 of Rain's Route done
Cartagra - Initial translation complete, future is unknown
Concerto Note - C&D, continuing, translation at 39%, editing at 18%
Daiteikoku - 35% translated partial patch out
DraKoi- Initial translation complete
>Fate/Hollow Ataraxia- 77.7% translated, second partial patch out
Fortune Arterial- Prologue completly translated, Kiriha route 99%, Erika route 60%, Haruna route 50%
>Hadaka Shitsuji - 40.02% translated
Hakuisei Renai Shoukougun - 3 scripts translated
Hanahira - 15 of 50 scripts translated
>Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni - 7132 / 7817 (91.23%) lines translated
Higurashi Daybreak - being translated
Hinomaru- 25% translated, main arc editing
Honey Coming- Prologue 100% translated, common route 80% translated. Yuma Shichiri's route 5% translated
>Hoshizora no Memoria - Patch released
Hunks Workshop - ~25% rough translation
Ikusa Megami Zero - Project alive again, 5205 lines translated
Imouto Paradise - 5% translated

[Anonymous No.]

>Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni - 7132 / 7817 (91.23%)

my body is ready

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

>Irotoridori no Sekai - 26,130/51,100 (51.14%) lines translated, full common route translated, prologue patch released
Kawakaburi No Cherry - "Meanwhile I am working on it, should be out in a few weeks."
Koitate - Ren and Yukino’s route patch released
Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content
>Majikoi- Yukie + Chris + Momoyo + Wanko + teacher route patch released, Miyako route 18% translated
M&M Enchanting Magic & Sweet Charms- 92%
Mahoutsukai no Yoru - Trial patch released
Milky Holmes - Being translated
Mirai no Uta to Tsunagaru Hitomi - Translation planned
>Monster Girl Quest II - Released
Muv-Luv Chronicles - Work being done on The Day After 00 + 01
>Never 7 - all 113 scripts and 81 of 111 tips through initial translation, 68/113 scripts through final translation, preview patch out
Nursery Rhyme - 9049/34410 lines (26.3%) translated
>Pandora no Yume - 15-17% translated,
>Period- game total translation: 88.32% complete, Miyu + Rin + Aoi + Kohane + Tsuzumi + Miyu patches released, next patch will be final
Princess Maker 5- 44% translated
Princess Nightmare - Translator said the project is still active, but very slow, nearly 50% translated
Pure Pure The Story of Ears and Tails- Sachi Patch released, 85.48% translated
Rance 3 - 75% translated
Rance 4 - 20% translated
Rance Quest - between 4 and 5%
>Rewrite - 15120/101228 (14.94%) lines translated
Sakura Wars 1 - Project started
Sapphism no Gensou - 46 scripts translated
Sensei Da-isuki 2- roughly 25% translated, still active
Serifu de Kanjite! Seiyuu Doushi: Total: 185/5400 translated
Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo - Fully translated, someone has gone through all the scripts for editing

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

Official work

MangaGamer
Magical Teacher - April 13th, preorders opened
Ef - Scripts with minori right now, final movies with NNL
Harukoi Otome - TL/Editing complete, Scripting in April, latter half of 2012 release expected
OtoBoku - Translation ongoing
>Eroge - 6/60 H-scenes translated
>Dengeki Strykers - Translation and editing complete, in beta, Demo Testing Done, expected to be out for AX
Da Capo III - Mentioned at AX
Innocent Grey would also like to bring over an upcoming title related to Kara no Shoujo
Negotiations with age still ongoing
Negotiations for Oretsuba are still ongoing
Games from Denbonosu - "Hopefully in the future with MangaGamer, I can do something in the US too."[president of Denbonosu]
Negotiations ongoing with Clochette, would like to bring over Kamikaze Explorers
Picked up a Circus title with gameplay

JAST
Yumina the Ethereal - "Script and images translated. Working on insertion and testing"
Moero Downhill Night Blaze- 90% translated, fixing bug
School Days HQ - June 2012 goal, editing through 25% of chapter 5, porting though 30% of the final chapter."We hope to have it out in June."
Saya no Uta - 99% complete
Hanachirasu - 99% complete
Django: Couple more months of translation
Kikokugai - Working out issues
Sumaga- demo soon, got new staff
Seinarukana- picked up, ~35% translated
Starless - Work ongoing
Starry Sky- negotations with voice actors
Muramasa - Common route complete, 2 of 5 chapters towards true end translated, uncertain what will come from the project
>Steins;Gate - 2nd pass of translation complete, 122/175 scripts through editing, rough patch out, Jast may pick up the project

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

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

>Shinigami no Kiss wa Wakare no Aji - Common route translated, overall 6843/18147 = 37.71% lines translated
Sin- 65% of episode 1 translated
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 8- 14/18 scripts translated
Sorairo - 2755/48557 (6%) lines translated
Suihensei Made Nan Mile - 32% translated, plans to get a patch out "soon"
Tenshi No Inai 12-Gatsu-"Maho route fixed"
Tenshin Ranman - 2% translated
Togainu No Chi- 77% translated, partial patch out
To Heart2- 63% translated- "The final product is still years away unless I get more help. ", new alpha patch released
Tomoyo After - Partial patch released
Touka Gettan: translation status: ~40% translated
Welcome to Pia Carrot 2 - 1st draft translation 35%, as it was found much of the script was originally not dumped
White Album 2 - 4/30 scripts from the introductory chapter translated
>Yandere - 58% translated
Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 14% edited
Yosuga no Sora - Roughly 40% translated, goal for greater than 50% patch around mid-to-late february

Aroduc's ongoing secret project - "16800 'lines' remaining -- Story #1 Finished"
>Aroduc has a second secret project listed

[Anonymous No.]

Best thread of the week is finally here!

>Hoshizora no Memoria - Patch released
I'm still not entirely convinced that's the actual release and not just April Fools patch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784558
>Air - 13% translated and 10% edited
This is so dead.
>Pandora no Yume - 15-17% translated
I wonder if the guy found a hacker.

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>>8784578
The only reason it was updated last time is because someone asked, they aren't going out of their way to update progress

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>Baldr Sky - Chapter 11 of Rain's Route done
holy shit this guy is fast, he did 2 chapters in a week.

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>>8784576
What do you mean? That they went out of their way to make a bad English version?
Or unfinished?
>>8784619
I wonder if that's as good as a thing as it seems

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>>8784626
well good, that means hes perfect for this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784619
10 and 11 aren't particularly long, especially compared to 12 and 13.

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>>8784619
I heard that he has nothing else to do so he spends all day working on it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784563
its about time, i really wanted to read this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784576
Just wait for someone to clean it up and your good

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784629
>I wonder if that's as good as a thing as it seems
Going by random screenshots, the quality seems good.

[Anonymous No.]

I guess we really will be able to read bular sky this summer, Is this real life?

[Anonymous No.]

Is Hoshizora no Memoria any good?

I read the vndb description, and it looks pretty cliche.

[Anonymous No.]

Best thread etc.!

I'm glad Higanbana is almost done. But now I'm thinking I may have downloaded the troll release that 2ch did, with the BGM changed and all that.
The Never7 preview patch release is also great.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784649
You could at least copypaste the name.
>>8784651
It's fun, has likeable heroines and good drama and a couple of good twists. It got quite popular when it was released.

[Insemination No.]

>>8784651
Ranked 5th in 2009.

>>8784576
It wasn't April Fools' yet when we released it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784649
>bular sky
dafuq

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784558
>>Amagami - project starting up
Oh god yes!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784660
>Ranked 5th in 2009.
That was actually surprising considering the monsters it had to compete with in the same year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784660
Not that I'm any far but it's a good translation, thanks

[Insemination No.]

>>8784660
Derp. Forgot picture.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784629
Take a look at the previous VNTS thread and the patch release thread. The TL is all over the place and it includes errors that were supposedly fixed before.
>>8784660
Nice try.

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>>8784675
Why, yes

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784675
Just use the ftp.

[Anonymous No.]

Any body got a torrent for Hoshizora no Memoria.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784684
This is the kind of moment you learn to use the archive.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784679
link to it please.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784676
>supposedly

This was how the line was a month ago, in my copy of the scripts.

{0x0008D32A 53bytes}
それは、俺がまだ自分のことを僕と呼んでいた頃のこと。
It was around the time when I couldn't call myself a man yet.

When Insem runs over the scripts, I typically had to recheck his changes to make sure he didn't add any new errors (which, as you can see, he did).

[Anonymous No.]

Good progress this week.

[Anonymous No.]

>supposedly

This was how the line was a month ago, in my copy of the scripts.

>{0x0008D32A 53bytes}
>それは、俺がまだ自分のことを僕と呼んでいた頃のこと。
>It was around the time when I couldn't call myself a man yet.

When Insem runs over the scripts, I typically had to recheck his changes to make sure he didn't add any new errors (which, as you can see, he did).

[Insemination No.]

>>8784676
Errors are inevitable with projects of this magnitude. Keep in mind that I often had to work from 11pm-1am to meet my daily quota simply because I didn't have time during the day.
That being said, we hope to learn from our mistakes and improve for our future project(s). Thank you for your continued support, Anonymous.

[Anonymous No.]

Things are moving with this, also.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784720
Oh Michiru, words can't express how much I love you.

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>>8784719
Just getting a competent editor to fix your scripts in terms of silly mistakes like that and also consistency in handling Japanese terms would be enough.

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>>8784702
Likewise, many typos and grammar fails that you missed have since been rectified following your dismissal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784720
Oh yes. I am so happy this is actually looking like it might be a good translation project for a change. Translator I love you.

[Anonymous No.]

Someone should check the CGs after applying the Hoshizora no Memoria patch.

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>>8784733
Don't worry Insem', I liked your translation.

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>>8784738
In-game they look fine.

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>>8784745
I'm still reading it, you know.

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>>8784742
all of them?

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>>8784719
11pm-1am? Oh you poor thing. Come on over to Mama.

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>>8784733
Never said I was perfect, but it's still a fact that you've made steps backwards when you went back to the previous scripts.

Well, if I ever get the free time and you feel like letting me have access to the scripts again, I can probably go back and fix them at some point... But it's increasingly unlikely from here out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784752
Hey, anybody can fix tiny errors like that. Why would he need you?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784756
Because I spent 14 months on the project and I'm very familiar with the script?

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>>8784765
Excuses, excuses.

[Anonymous No.]

>Amagami - project starting up
I don't have any details about this yet, but I'm betting now it will be forgotten. Do they even have a hacker willing to work on a PS2 game?

>Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni - 7132 / 7817 (91.23%) lines translated
So... close... Just a little more, Ronove!

>Hoshizora no Memoria - Patch released
Ah, the time has finally come for /jp/ to know I was right all along. This patch is confirmed for a troll. I bet they just gave up months ago and haven't actually edited anything. Has anyone completed the game with this yet? It probably doesn't even translate everything. Sure, they say it wasn't an April fools patch because it wasn't April Fools when they released it, but I'm pretty sure the kids translating it live in a time zone where it's already April. Prepare to get trolled in the butt, /jp/. Hmm, I'm not sure that came out exactly how I had hoped. Sorry, 'Sem.

>Never 7 - all 113 scripts and 81 of 111 tips through initial translation, 68/113 scripts through final translation, preview patch out
Thanks to the whole team! Preview patch looks great, and thanks for taking care of the CD audio issue.

(continued)

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>>8784776
(continued)

>Period- game total translation: 88.32% complete, Miyu + Rin + Aoi + Kohane + Tsuzumi + Miyu patches released, next patch will be final
Home stretch, now. The percentage counter hasn't been increasing much lately, but I'd like to see this be the "little translation that could."

>Rewrite - 15120/101228 (14.94%) lines translated
Is it just me or is Ixwreck slowing up this week? Probably too busy sucking Sheeta's metaphorical cock to translate. Is Ixwreck into femdom? It sure sounds like it. I guess that's lucky for us, though--it just means that his fanclub of English-only peasants (tm) will be stuck reading boring moege from now until JAST releases Sumaga (i.e., forever). You know, the way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if Ixrec were a sock puppet created by Moogy to kill fan translation. Someday I bet we'll find out that Aaeru and Fuwanovel were made up as part of that plan, too. Well, good luck to him, I guess. Maybe what this scene needs is a hero brave enough to kill it.

>Yandere - 58% translated
Glad to see this still ticking along even after the merger of the two project's scripts was completed. Does anyone know anything about this title? (And I don't mean something you can read on vndb.)

Something just doesn't feel right with me this week. Not sure what I did wrong but I can already tell I screwed this post up. Did I forget to comment on something important?

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>>8784720

Man, I wish you all the luck in the world. If you follow through and your translations are as good as that script showed, you'll be a hero.

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>>8784773
Excuses? If that's how you want to look at it, Insem.

Either way, being kicked off means I am no longer to blame. I merely offered the chance to fix the new errors.

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>>8784720
Oh yes.

Well, I'll probably learn Japanese to the point where I can start reading it before a 3.5 MB game like Grisaia is translated, but it's neat to see interest in it nonetheless.

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>>8784731
The three main problems with finding an editor are,
a) competency
b) speed
c) dedication
I know for a fact that many projects have been stuck in editing hell, and a fair share of them had their editors disappear. The Irosekai translation project, for example, had its editor disappear from the internet only just recently after serving his term for a little over a month.

>>8784776
No worries. It's been a pleasure reading your autistic comments every week.

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>>8784810
How much time does an editor require? Do they need to speak Jap? If the first isn't a shit ton and the second is no, I could help. I'm pretty good with grammar.

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>>8784810
So basically, Hoshimemo confirmed for never going to be edited.

Congratulations on the release though.

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>>8784810
If you get a proper editor you are willing to release an updated patch with the revisions, correct?

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>>8784822
Both Insem and I gave the common route several revisions, and all the routes sans Chinami/***/Mare at least once each.

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>>8784818
The time spent will depend on a number of factors, such as;
a) the length of the lines,
b) how different your writing style is from the translator's,
c) your familiarity with the English language and
d) your experience with editing in general.
That being said, 300 lines an hour is a reasonable speed, with 500 being on the upper end of the spectrum.

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>>8784776

Hacker and project leader here for the Amagami project. My thread is here in case you want to see more about the details. It's actually almost fully operational and ready to be translated with still some issues to be worked out. You can hit me up in IRC if you have any more questions.

>>8768464

[Insemination No.]

>>8784818
Missed this question in the last post. My apologies.
>Do they need to speak Jap?
Editors generally don't need to speak moon. One that knows moonrunes will be more likely to preserve meaning or nuances in the script, which might actually cause the script to be more literal than it should. An editor that doesn't know moon is more likely to produce a readable script with beautiful, flowing English—perhaps at the cost of valuable information.

>>8784829
The way this fanbase operates is pretty much "get-excited-for-the-game-then-forget-everything-about-it-and-move-on-a-week-later". Having someone edit after the full patch has already been released is simply not feasible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784779
>will be stuck reading boring moege from now until JAST releases Sumaga (i.e., forever).
>Baldr Sky - Chapter 11 of Rain's Route done

>You know, the way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if Ixrec were a sock puppet created by Moogy to kill fan translation.
Because he translator 2000 lines this week instead of 3000? Sounds like you are exaggerating a bit.

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>>8784898
I think many people would be willing to wait for an edited patch if you manage to find an editor. (me included)

[Anonymous No.]

So is the AIR project dead again?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784905
As much as I disagree with Insem's beliefs, the patch IS still readable, all things considered, and there's not a whole lot of motivation to fix what's left.

[Anonymous No.]

>I wouldn't be surprised if Ixrec were a sock puppet created by Moogy to kill fan translation
I lol'd.

[Anonymous No.]

http://vndb.org/v1203
Pandora no Yume actually looks pretty damn good (despite the art). i wish the project good luck.

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>>8784905
I don't want to invest any more time into this game. It's taken up a good chunk of my life for the last 18 months or so, and I'm more or less sick of it.
This is both my first VN translation project and my first attempt at translating anything, for that matter. I've grown to accept that some things will never go smoothly. Perfection is but an asymptote on a graph.

Should I ever find another editor, it will be for our next project.

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>>8784939
Damn, you really sound fed up. I would recommend you translate a shorter VN.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784939
At least upload the scripts somewhere so someone can fix it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784939
But wouldn't the editor be the one putting more time into the game, not you? I still highly recommend more editing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784939
Would you be inserted in doing the second game of Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni? ronove said he might not be able to do it..

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>>8784939
Why not do something with gameplay where the dialogue and story is not so important.
For eg, himegari dungeon meister or those studio ego srpg.

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>>8784963
Also Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni is really short, so you would be able to breeze through it.

[Insemination No.]

>>8784972
>>8784959
I don't support open projects because they usually don't go very well. On the other hand, If I were to recruit an editor for a closed project I'd have to take responsbility for the final work.

>>8784960
Although I can hold my own in photoshop, I don't like the idea of spending hundreds of hours on editing images. Furthermore, our engineer simply doesn't have to debug a gameplay engine.

>>8784963
No, I only do pretty and shiny games.

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>>8784985
But dont you get bored of those types of games? like wouldnt you want to do something with more impact like I/0 or 12riven,etc?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784986
Hahahahahahahahaha

[Insemination No.]

>>8784985
*responsibility
*doesn't have enough time

>>8784986
A pretty game with lots of scenery porn is good enough for me. You generally don't notice how boring a game is when you're actually translating (because your mind is on other things).

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>>8784985
Eden is pretty and shiny, and short. Gothic Delusion is also short and pretty.

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>>8784985

Well, I don't think the intent they're asking is for you to release the source now. Release it when you feel like you are done with this project. That way, people can actually fix it themselves instead of complaining. about it at release time. Sure, you'll still get criticized but the community will make up for the whatever shortcomings they perceive the patch will have and fix it themselves.

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8784905
This. I usually wait until the best possible patch is available for a VN. When it means a better reading/playing experience, I can be patient. However, I can understand if you're eager to move on. Good luck on whatever project you choose next.

8784906
I just asked about the status on the Gemot project thread, hopefully Edger or Sheeta will eventually see it.

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>>8785002
...woah.

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>>8784905
This. I usually wait until the best possible patch is available for a VN. When it means a better reading/playing experience, I can be patient.

>>8784906
I just asked about the status on the Gemot project thread, hopefully Edger or Sheeta will eventually see it.

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>>8784993
how about Axanael?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785009
Jesus fuck, keeps garbling my post. I give up.

[Anonymous No.]

Christ guys, let the dude decide for himself what he wants to translate next or if he even wants to start another project.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785010
Why would you want that translated?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785016
He said himself that he does.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785015
because it looks fun.

[Anonymous No.]

For those of you throwing out suggestions to how a translator should run their project, I suggest that you first try to see how difficult it is to implement those suggestions. Get an editor, you say? A good editor who knows English that sticks around and gets things done in a timely manner is as rare as a translator who does the same. If you care about the grammar so much, why don't you try to edit for a change? It's a lot more work than you would think.

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>>8785010
cant be worse than 99% of the stuff mangagamer has been doing and i like the neet main character type.

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>>8784997
I respect NNL and their position with Minori. As for Gothic Delusion, I believe Cudder was translating that—not that I'm interested in it.

>>8785001
Like I said, open projects generally don't work out very well. Releasing the sources would achieve very little (or nothing at all, for that matter).

>>8785010
I'm not touching Nitroplus due their partnership with JAST.

>>8785017
I've already picked a game to translate, provided that we manage to hack it. Our engineer has no experience with kirikiri2, so we're currently in the process of trying to get script extraction working. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785035
but as long as you dont whore out that your translating a vn from Nitroplus, they will never know.

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>>8785035
>Like I said, open projects generally don't work out very well. Releasing the sources would achieve very little (or nothing at all, for that matter).

And not releasing them would achieve even less, so stop being a faggot and do it.

I swear, the entire translation scene is full of humongous fucktards.

[Anonymous No.]

Holy shit, why do you guys even want this fucking troll to ruin something else?

Stop feeding him.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785035
Do you like age? ever thought abot dong Kimi ga Nozomu Eien?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785035

Well, I'm not sure if you understand. I'm saying you can make it closed source up to the point where you decide to make a patch for translating the VN 100%. Then afterward, I'm saying you should release the source. Please consider it.

>>8785041

Even if you want him to do that, don't use impolite language to try and articulate your point across. It's won't serve much purpose and it wouldn't liken the fact that he would want to release it and most likely, it would be more likely he won't do it.

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>>8785057
I don't give a shit.

I don't post on an anonymous imageboard to still have to suck the dick of whatever celebrity is there at the moment.

Hell, I don't even give a fuck if he releases it or not, I'm just calling him out for not having any reason not to. Other than being the oversensitive faggot he is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785035
>Not translating Eden.
NNL doesn't even look like they are doing shit with it.

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>>8785065

It's not dick-sucking. It's acting appropriately to get something you want. If you don't want it, you may as well go all the way and full-out bash him. But I'm saying that if your objective is to get him to try and release the scripts, calling him out using "faggots" and "fucktard" won't make it more likely to happen. Otherwise, why care about the issue then if you don't care about the source?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785075
I stand up against things that I believe to be wrong, no matter whether they affect me or not.

And I don't believe in being nice for the sake of it, if you're acting retarded, better believe I'm going to call you out on it. Whether you choose to take offense like some sort of manchild or clean up your act is up to you.

I don't want for people to just act nice to me if I fuck up in the future.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785075
>acting appropriately
These kind of behavior is appropriate for real life but we are on the internet here.
No need to pretend to be kind just to get what you want.

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>>8785081

Well, I'm saying if you care about it, you should consider it. Situations like these where it's only source code may be very irrelevant and you may not care if you get it or not but you have other ways of portraying him in a negative light if not opening up source is such a big issue for you.

Again, I don't really care if that's how you act, that's fine by me. But yes, before we get off track, if you feel entitled to the source and you are complaining because he won't release it, I'm sorry to say that you have bigger issues than just the source for this.

>>8785093

True but if you think it may not work for the internet because everything is different, I think that's a very subjective thing to say. Your mileage may vary but personally, if you are to ask me to do something whether on the internet or in real life, I would be much more inclined to do it even with criticism if it was done in a formal and appropriate way rather than how the other anon handled it. If his point is just to bash the other person, then this is irrelevant.

Saged for getting off-track.

[Anonymous No.]

>LB! EX Sasami route 51.89% (3472/6691)

[Anonymous No.]

has there been a fix for the word wrap for Little Busters yet?

[Anonymous No.]

Edger's reply about Air:
>I'm about 6 scripts away from finishing the common route. Not sure how much that is percent wise, but the common route is fairly large. Editing isn't too far behind either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785175
Woah, he is actually making pretty damn good progress.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785144
Huh? Coding something like that is on the level of a Com Sci 101 assignment.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785198
I will never understand how groups will spend countless hours translating a long VN and not bother to do something like this before release

[Anonymous No.]

Wait when did muramasa get licensed??!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785250
Well, N+ and JAST do have a partnership after all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785241
Admittedly, there are some scripts that I've seen where it's nontrivial, but that's far from the norm.

[Anonymous No.]

Meanwhile, JAST has had this partnership for about three years and has one release to show for it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785035

You can literally grab a tool from tlwiki that works on all KK2 games...

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785035

http://tlwiki.org/index.php?title=Kirikiri2_for_Translators

Here you go

[Anonymous No.]

Big props to the Never7 team for their great release and making this the best April Fool's Day ever.

Just one thing:

> Volume control
> The PSP soundtrack is louder than the PC version by default, which means that it sometimes gets too loud and drowns out the voice acting. To get around this, we have added an option that allows you to control the volume of the voices and the music, not present in the original.

Does this exist yet in the preview patch? 'Cause if so, I'm not finding it.

[Anonymous No.]

Damn you april fools!

[Anonymous No.]

>Tenshin Ranman - 2% translated

Someone need to contact the translator group

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785510
GundamAce here.

No, we weren't able to get it ready for the preview patch. We'll try to have it ready for the final patch.

But in case it's too much of a problem, we have a temporary solution. Please tell me if it's too much of a problem.

[Insemination No.]

>>8785483
>>8785286
Those tools are for games with no protection. Many games are encrypted nowadays—not to mention encryption varies from game-to-game so there is no single premade tool that will work on every game.

[Futsuu !!QDZ7jtjNPvp No.]

>>8784629
>>8784634
TerraChronicle (the editor), the whole Ballr Sky team and I can assure you that we are taking the utmost effort to maximize the quality of our Authentic Ethnic Localization Initiative. I hope you continue to support our efforts, we appreciate it very much.

If you're still not convinced, here are a few choice samples of the fruit of our labors.

[Futsuu !!QDZ7jtjNPvp No.]

In this emotionally charged scene, our hero protects his mother's honor.

[Futsuu !!QDZ7jtjNPvp No.]

Has our protagonist forgotten his obligations? Will he ever be able to return to the path of righteousness?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785601

If the game you're looking at is really a Yuzusoft game then either kirikiri or xp3dumper can get the scripts. The proof is that counts of all yuzusoft games are on the tlwiki script sizes page.

I've also never come across a KiriKiri game with hard to get scripts, insertion sure, but extraction has never been an issue.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785691
>>8785699
>>8785701
This made my evening.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785691
>>8785699
>>8785701
Now I wanna play a gangsta VN.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785691
>>8785699
>>8785701
I am going to be so butt devastated if there isn't a patch like this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785691
>>8785699
>>8785701
>Translating into English and not just making it romanji
It's like you WANT your translation hated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785580

Hey man, great work.

Quick questions though:

1) Why does the font look the way it does in the screenshot an anon posted above?

2) I'm using the version that they game out for free back during that promotion last year in october. For some reason it keeps asking me for a CD every 5 seconds. What did I screw up?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785691
>>8785699
>>8785701
Buster Sky.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785691
>>8785699
>>8785701
Wonderful, the characters feel so real.

[Insemination No.]

>>8785703
We've extracted the scripts themselves; they just look like garbage. Any tips for working with kirikiri encryption or some common things to look for?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785751
Set the character encoding to Shift-JIS.

Hope this helps! :o)

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785751
Use Notepad+ to change the encoding to UTF-8.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785757
Windows' built-in text editor can't change character encoding?

Lol next you'll tell me it can't read newlines properly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785691
>>8785699
>>8785701
Busta Sky

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785762
Gentoo master ricer?

[Anonymous No.]

Where did Ayakashibito go?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785580
Nope, no problem at all. I prefer to fiddle around with the volume controls in all the VNs I play, so I wanted to do that ASAP if it was available, but as it stands it's not really an issue. Even considering how low-fi the voice samples are (to be expected, considering the age of the game), they're still perfectly audible over the music. Thanks for addressing this so quickly though.

By the by, is there a place to submit typos/TL issues and such? Do they go on the error page, or is there another page for them? Or, failing that, is editing the script directly with them allowed providing a note is left?

[Anonymous No.]

>>Hadaka Shitsuji - 40.02% translated
I can't believe this is getting translated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785712
Someone should translate AV King into entirely gangastaisms. I mean, it's literally about pimping out your ho.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm going to post a picture of Moogy every time you mention him.

[Good Haro No.]

>>8786162

Believe it, man. We started testing our first partial alpha patch today. Thankfully we haven't run into any major problems (yet).

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786479
is IT moogy?!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786486
go back to Something Awful pedofreak or i'm telling zorak you like loli

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786499
Yes, my new friend.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786508
zorak would probably ban/probate him too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786486
What...Are you the Haro that was playing Ragnarok with me?

[Good Haro No.]

>>8786508

Be my guest.

>>8786531

Nope. I don't play Ragnarok.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786526
She's a woman. Apparently, liking yaoi and translating eroge with all sorts of "creepy" (as a goon would put it) fetishes is okay as long you are one, but God forbid you ever mention a title of some "creepy" japanese cartoon, you're getting banned right away. Or maybe Zorak is secretly homosexual and anticipates the translation.

[Anonymous No.]

Patiently waiting for yandere and togainu.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786553
There was a Bad Haro playing with me. Is he your onii chan?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786752
It is shit

[Anonymous No.]

Never7 torrent/etc where?!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786754
You shit

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786762
No seriously

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786767
Seriously? If you can't find it yourself, you don't deserve to have it at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786803
I mean it seriously IS shit.

[Anonymous No.]

How bad is the translation of Hoshizora? Did anyone check yet? Moderately bad? Unplayable bad?

[Anonymous No.]

Never 7 preview patch means 1 chapter or all chapters, just not edited?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786839
Some typos and mistranslations,n but readable.

[Anonymous No.]

no WA2 this week.

Maybe we shit-talked the translator a bit too much and he ran away.

[Cudder !MhMRSATORI!!FBeUS42x4uM No.]

>>8785035
>As for Gothic Delusion, I believe Cudder was translating that—not that I'm interested in it.
No.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784619
I'm in love with him.

Any clues about Aroduc's project?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786908
I'm sure it's going to be like Kamidori: he'll announce the project when it's done.

Or, if someone is crazy enough or really want to know, he/she can check all eroge's script size and see those who match.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786923
> he'll announce the project when it's done.
People knew it was kamidori way before.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786927
Oh yeah? I didn't know.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784626
A true hero

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786931
You never ever frequented this threads before its release?

[Anonymous No.]

I just marathoned MGQ part 2 today. I thought that was the final part. Fuck. And I want to rage those spin-offs too. Such is the life of those who do not speak Japanese.

[Roger Pepitone No.]

>>8786847

The Never7 patch does all common route events, plus Yuka's route

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784626
Savior of VNs

[Anonymous No.]

Never7 isn't shit. It isn't brilliant or anything, but it's above average. Also, one ending is literally all the heroines laughing at the protagonist for being such a fucking loser. This is an actual ending, hope you enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.]

http://c624285.r85.cf2.rackcdn.com/esd/cyberfront/Never7.zip

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786988
Link is legit, just drop in soundtrack files

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786939
I did.. I probably missed it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784626
I wish I had his free time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787037
The guy lost his job.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787038
Aw, shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787038
What was his job?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787038
Didn't he quit?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784558
>Baldr Sky
Is that Dive1? Or both?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787097
Baldr sky is 6 routes, 3 routes each dive. Rain is still dive1.

[Anonymous No.]

Does this mean the update worked or not? I didn't see any installation progress so I'm not sure.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787150
Yes, it worked.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm getting this error. Any ideas?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787162
Go to Staircase site, download the 1.1 update and apply it before the english patch. I'm >>8787150
I got the same error before, but now it works.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787170
That worked. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8784719
>we hope
>our mistakes
>our future project(s)
are you the borg? or did cudder's multiple personality disorder infect you?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785580
GundamAce are you planning on doing I/0 next?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787252
Yes, that's the plan. I'll be doing it as a collaboration with BlickWinkel. I'm translating Higurashi Daybreak in between the two, but translation on that should only take a month or two.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787286
Oh awesome, i cant wait to read that, it looks like a amazing game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787315
It looked a lot like an early teaser, it was basically barely animated introduction CGs and promo art.

[Anonymous No.]

anybody got a torrent for Memoria? I really cant find one..

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787487
Nyaa has a few.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785751
I have been able to break through compression by hooking xp3 dumper to a game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787509
only can find a music album..

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787652
Are you checking Nyaa or Sukebei Nyaa? Try searching using the title in Japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787487
http://sukebei.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=16300

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787680
thank you.

[Anonymous No.]

>Suihensei Made Nan Mile
According to VNDB and various other sources it's
>Suiheisen made Nan Mile? - Deep Blue Sky & Pure White Wings -
>Suiheisen
Not sure how Tinfoil's parser's going to handle it, but that's his problem.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785751
If your next project is what I think it is (that is, if the placeholder silhouette is relevant), w8m's arc_conv (and w8m himself) may help with encryption. Supported games: http://pastebin.com/db14id6q

Tool itself: https://desu.ru/forums/topic/330-archive-extractor/

[Anonymous No.]

>Magical Teacher - April 13th, preorders opened
12 days left before that loli orgy, my penis will NEVER BE READY

[Anonymous No.]

It's just me or vn crashes right after these words?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785035
Yuzu soft? Please tell me it is Dracu-Riot (despite how new it is) and not Noble Works.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787827
Might not have anything to do with the translation. I remember the VN crashing occasionally when I played it years ago.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787829
all their games are pretty much the same anyways

[Anonymous No.]

>>8785035
>Like I said, open projects generally don't work out very well. Releasing the sources would achieve very little (or nothing at all, for that matter).
There are tons of projects out there where the translator never released the source, was like half-finished or more and then disappeared from the fucking planet. It's annoying as shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787830
Can't pass it... Crashes in both window and fullscreen mode. Disabling soundtrack doesn't help.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787836
welp ctrl'ing sometimes helps to pass crash.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787836
Use windows 98 sandbox to pass that bug

[Roger Pepitone No.]

>>8787827
Hmmm... If you save right before that point, and play through again, does it crash? (If so, send me the save (from save-en1/) and save/save_sys.dat.)

Do you remember the exact set of choices you made to get to that point?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787919
Saving right before crash, doesn't help...

save:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dei1tsitex2mehl

Choices:
Try calmly asking her "Did something happen?"
Try to put my thoughts together
Try saying something else
Recall last night's events
"Yuka, you can cook?"
"Y-Yeah..."
I'll back up Yuka
"What do you mean, 'Seminar'?"
I'll play tennis with Yuka
Lob Her
Straight
Gotta return it
Try running to the net
Vodka!
Beer!
Gin!
I'm grateful
"Stop lording it over me and say it"
"Yeah, you were right"
Keep my mouth shut
I won't cover for Okuhiko
Because you're going shopping with me

[Anonymous No.]

>deal with it

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787954
You remember all that?!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787919
Vista 64bit, running vn in W98 compatibility mode.

>>8787958
No... If there's no eng walkthrough I write one myself. Just copy/pasted from notepad.

[Roger Pepitone No.]

>>8787954

Workaround: Restore that game, then tap control once. Play normally after that. I'll work on a fix.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787846
>>8787987
Yep, this is the exact same crashing that happened to me when I played it years ago.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787955
Oh wow

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787955
That's been in there since the last patch.
There is stuff like "come at me bro" etc. in there either, but I think it only happened in 3 or 4 instances.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788220
link?

[Anonymous No.]

If never7 hangs up at the end of 6th day, try replacing original video files with these:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zk68aq7h2v6dkgn

It seems due to interference of external splitters + some video files not having audio, vn fails to play them.

[Anonymous No.]

http://53rg10.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/flyable-heart-translation-project/

[Roger Pepitone No.]

>>8788518

Could you get in contact with us? I'd like to know what you did to fix those videos.

(Create a folder movie-en/ and put any replaced videos in there.)

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788565
>tagged with シガツツイタチ

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone know if Eiyusenki will ever get translated?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788586
Yes. I'm working on it right now. I should be finished by next week.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788589
Thank you Mountain Dew.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788586
There'll be a doomed Hongfire machine translation project for it in a week or two.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788589
Nice.
Thanks for the info.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788604
Like Daiteikoku? Those guys should really get their shit together.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788566
5 videos missing audio. Add empty audio file encoded with PCM 16bit.

[Anonymous No.]

http://amaterasu.is.moelicious.be/blog/?p=1342
http://tenka.seiha.org/2012/04/%E2%99%AB-twilight-i-only-meant-to-stay-awhile-%E2%99%AB/

What else is there for today?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788607
Oh I was wrong, you just need to remux it, what's it.

[GundamAce No.]

>>8788607
Really? I just tried one of your videos myself, and the game froze. When I used the original movie file and tried again, the video played successfully.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788608
This isn't the first time I have seen a random out of nowhere comment followed up by some Daiteikoku hating, not nice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788652
>not nice
And yet oh so true

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788652
I think they were all me

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788654
original Yuuko.avi - hangup

remuxed with mkvmerge and renamed Yuuko.mkv to Yuuko.avi, plays fine.

I have K-lite codec pack installed, never7.exe added to "don't use ffdshow in" list.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788703
>I have K-lite codec pack installed
Hahaha, people still have this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788713
and what do you suggest? CCCP?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788724
If you're a dumbass, then yes. I just install everything I need by myself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788734
have fun nitpicking crap.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788734
Personally I like to install CCCP and then install my own filters and set them to prefer over CCCP's stuff for pretty much every case that I actually see frequently. Why use CCCP at all in that case? Well, I like the thought that if and when I do run into something unforeseen, I'll probably be ready to run it anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8788703
"Yuuka", not "Yuuko"

[Anonymous No.]

So, anyone got far in the Hoshizora no Memoria patch?

Between the errors, inconsistent treatment of Japanese words, using "Chinami" instead of "I" even if the original text doesn't call for it in her dialogue, and the Australian localization, I still don't know whether this is just bad or actually a troll patch.

[Anonymous No.]

>2012
>installing codec packs

ISHYGDDT

[Anonymous No.]

>>8789509
>buying meat instead of raising your own livestock and slaughtering it yourself

ISHYGDDT

[Anonymous No.]

>>8789515

>buying an entire cow when you just want the ribs

ISHYGDDT

[Anonymous No.]

>>8789559
>taking only ribs from a free cow

[Anonymous No.]

>>8789509
>>8789515
>>8789559
>>8790072
Now who the fuck are you faggots quoting?

And yes, codec packs are for faggots that can't into computers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790086
>Now who the fuck are you faggots quoting?
Nobody, i am using greentext to communicate with that person. That joke is old. Deal with it.

[Anonymous No.]

>2012
>still greentexting because everybody does it and that's my excuse to be a complete fucking idiot with no sense of humor
>ISHYGDDT

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790099
>>still greentexting because everybody does it and that's my excuse to be a complete fucking idiot with no sense of humor
I think it is YOU who has no sense of humor. Everybody uses greentext to write things like >>8789559. DEAL WITH IT you FAGGOT. Also who are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.]

>because the majority of people find something to be an absolute truth, it must be true
>a majority of people still worship a dead jew
>ISHYGDDT

right, everybody does it, shit's cash. sorry for doubting your logic asspie.
>inb4 internet tough guy
>inb4 lololol i troll you
>inb4 some hurp derp ''I have no thoughts of my own'' meme response

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790090
>>8790109
It's not a joke, and you should go back to your own board, kid.

>>8790099
>>8790123
Who're you quoting?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790123
>not believing in God
Have fun in hell.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790131

all my lols.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790134
Everybody knows that heaven is boring as shit and that hell is where you'll have fun.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790123
>a majority of people still worship a dead jew
Watch your language you faggot, not everyone is autistic like you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790123
Watch your language. Not everybody has a brain of an ant like you, autistic faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790150
>>8790155
This was not on purpose, fucking 4chanx bugged.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790162
Fuck off, jew worshipper.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790123

This is called a strawman argument and you're a complete fucking retard for using it. Not to mention it has nothing to do with truth. Greentext can and has been used to express thoughts and feelings so it's not wrong to use it that way. The only narrow-minded, nincompoop here who is trying to preach an absolute truth here is you.


>BAWWW STOP USING GREENTEXT IN A WAY I DON'T LIKE! IT'S WRONG BECAUSE I SAY IT IS BAWWWW

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790166
Fuck you. You are a monkey if you believe humans evolved from them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790155
>>8790150
>>8790162

the lols just keeps on comming.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790174
>BAWWW STOP USING GREENTEXT IN A WAY I DON'T LIKE! IT'S WRONG BECAUSE I SAY IT IS BAWWWW

Thank you for proving yet again why greentexting isn't welcomed and is only used by subhumans.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790174
who u quot?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790173
Why are all moralfags this retarded? I went to a catholic high school and they had no problems with the theory of evolution.

>>8790174
It's just not used that way in this board, and you adapt to the board you come to shitpost in, not the other way around. Though I commend you for making an argument and using propper grammar, as opposed to that other retarded kid.

All in all, I know the VNTS thread attracts people from all boards, but I really have to wonder why they insist on posting their shit and having it accepted.

[Anonymous No.]

Why you faggots still using CCCP and then whining when it crashed?
That is a shit codec.
Nowadays you only need to install 3things.
MPC+LAV+Haali.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790212
Even Haali isn't necessary, LAV has a splitter now.

Just MPC-HC + LAV is more than enough for anyone. Hell, even MPC-HC alone plays most shit decently, I don't get why people still suggest CCCP.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790193

>too retarded to come up with a proper counter argument
>herp derp your dumb bcuz u paraody my idiotic post and mindset XD

Thanks for proving you're a fucking retard.

>>8790207

>It's just not used that way in this board

Why? Because you said so? You're sounding like an egotistical child. It clearly IS used that way on this board since it spawned an entirely new meme based on it. And it will surely continue to be used as such no matter how badly you bitch and moan and try to force your delusional fantasies.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790226
True.
But Haali is useful for having thumbnails.
It is obvious the people whining here are pretty retarded.
I mean they are even going on about the true usage of greentext outside of quoting. It is like they are arguing about sage as an insult.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790240
It's a "meme" as much as people telling to google shit when you're asking for source on something is. People can go ahead and do it, and people will continue to point it out.

And for the record, I don't particularly hate non-quoting greentext. However, I do dislike people that crash into boards they're unfamiliar with and then complain about behavior that's normal for the board in question.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790310

>It's a "meme" as much as people telling to google shit when you're asking for source on something is. People can go ahead and do it, and people will continue to point it out.

Except instead of being an obvious fact, it's become more of a running joke akin to EVERY THREAD MUST BE REPLIED TO and the butthurt parody images.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8789503
Anyone?

[Anonymous No.]

Sure is /v/ in here

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791423
It's fine, and better stay consistent with Chinami referring herself in 3rd person.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8789503
I'm no Japanese expert, but Chinami is one of those people who says "Chinami ____ "instead of self reference words like boku, watashi or whatever.
Although I have heard this before in other contexts where they translated it to "I ____" so I guess it's just preference..?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791439
>>8791429

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791429
Making her speak as a retard when she speaks normally is not better, no.

Particularly using "Chinami is sorry" instead of "I'm sorry" and similar simple phrases just reads ridiculous.

And it's not like English has multiple first-person personal pronouns and you have to wonder which one to use.

But if that's just how bad the translator was, I'll deal with it. God knows it's not the worst translation I read.

>>8791439

Japanese doesn't translate into English literally, translating phrases that don't use a personal pronoun in original, but are normal, regular speech, into gimmicky third person speech every time completely distorts the perception of her character.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791439
I wish translators wouldn't do that, referring yourself in 3rd person is supposed to be a quirk to appear childish, you just can't remove it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791456
When it's explicitly there in the original, sure.

When every two times out of three she refers to herself in third person is because of the translator's choice of words?

Fuck no.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791461
>Fuck no.
She never EVER uses a pronoun, it's either ommitted or Chinami. It's not a distortion of the perception of said character at all because that's basically the character, a girl who acts childish by using that speech. Being consistent and using Chinami when there's no pronoun is what should be done.
In fact in examples like
>Particularly using "Chinami is sorry" instead of "I'm sorry" and similar simple phrases just reads ridiculous.
She says quite a few times, literally Chinami is sorry, whcih is the exact same and changing it around just because is stupid.

[Anonymous No.]

If people are such sages about the Japanese language, why are they reading the translation?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791491
Guess what, I refer to those times when she doesn't. What the fuck do you think I am, deaf or something?

And again, no, changing normal speech into retard speech every time isn't fine for the sake of consistency, just preserving the instances where she explicitly refers to herself as Chinami is more than enough.

There's a huge difference between using your name instead of a pronoun in Japanese and referring to yourself in the third person in English anyway.

[Insemination No.]

>>8791454
a) If I used a combination of first/third-person on a case-by-case basis, I'd get complaints about speech consistency.
b) If I used third-person for all her lines, I'd get people complaining about Chinami being portrayed like a retard every time.
c) If I used first-person for all her lines, I'd get people complaining about completely neglecting her speech quirks.

See the problem?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791558
Yes, that's why you need to ignore people complaining about it, and choose the correct one.

As in, the one I want.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791558
What is wrong with option one?
Most people played it with voice on anyway.
They can hear when she uses Chinami and when she uses watashi? No?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791558
The third option is the only correct option, you should use first person but adjust her dialogue to give her the same personality as in the original.

Of course, this is both the hardest option, as well as the one that would get the autistics pissed off the most.

[Anonymous No.]

I have a problem with Hoshizora here. I got through the prologue and the intro popped up in another window. But when it finishes playing, it just goes blank and the game refuses to continue. Anyone had the same issue?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791558
I think the best option for speech quirks that cannot be translated into English is usually not to translate them. Just keep them in mind and influence the character's tone and vocabulary.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790134
what hell? there is no hell in the original version of the bible, before some gaia-tier faggots took it and wrote a fanfic called new testament filled with mary sues like jesus.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791653
Alright, nevermind. I deleted the movie in game dir and it works. Forceful methods are always the best.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791605
>Chinami
>using watashi

It's like you don't understand how speaking in third-person works.

>>8791653
Remove 01.mpg from your movie folder in your directory (to skip the OP entirely) or change your CCCP settings so that they look like http://i40.tinypic.com/nya8ts.jpg

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791694
I didnt play the game.
From the discussion it seems like she switches speaking in 3rd person and not 3rd person? No?

Anyway to make it easier why not just translate everything to I, they can hear her using her cute CHINAMI~ by their ears.
The whole point of her using CHINAMI~ is to sound cute anyway. You can of course then hear her cute sound voice by not pressing enter.

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>>8791710
No, she always uses third person. Period.

But you know, Japanese love to omit pronouns entirely sometimes (e.g. ごめんなさい = I'm sorry). The argument is whether or not to use "I" instead of "Chinami" then.

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>>8791710
>From the discussion it seems like she switches speaking in 3rd person and not 3rd person? No?
From what I've played of Hoshimemo so far, no she doesn't. There are times when she doesn't use any pronoun to refer to herself (since in Japanese you very often don't have to use one) but that shouldn't be interpreted as her using "I" in those sentences like someone with a normal speech pattern.

To give a similar example if someone uses "ore" whenever they use a first person pronoun you wouldn't translate any sentences where they drop the pronoun as though they are someone who uses a more polite pronoun like "watashi."

I am sleep deprived and probably did not explain that well at all, but whatever.

[Anonymous No.]

I love it when retards who don't know the language works try to criticize a translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791746
I like it when retards who don't know if the person criticizing the translation knows japanese criticize him.

[Anonymous No.]

Why translate it at all if you're just going to translate it into retard speak with half the words left untranslated?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791760
Trust me, it's painfully obvious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791764
Bad translation>No translation

[Anonymous No.]

I didn't play the game in question, but I'm curious as to the outcome of this discussion since I work as a translator and just recently was in a position where I had to translate a character who similarly refers to herself in the third person.

I ended up going with the "use I sometimes, use third person sometimes" solution. Even though I realize that it doesn't make sense logically for her to switch the way she speaks between sentences, I kind of agree with the Anon who said that making her speak in third person all the time makes her sound too retarded. That's why I eventually decided to use the mix of first and third person.

The problem is that, like many people pointed out, in Japanese it isn't always necessary to use a pronoun, plus it just isn't as retarded sounding to use third person as it is in English. So, a third person character in Japanese may not sound too bad, but if you translate her that way into English, she'll come off like a retard, and lose points with any non Japanese speakers except for the most simple minded fans of retard moe.

That's what I thought, at least. Please respond.

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>>8791782
Congratulations, you're a better translator than Insem.

Well, that's not exactly saying much, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791778
No translation (original) > Translation > Bad translation

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>>8791782
Respond to what? What's your question? I like "Use I sometimes, use 3rd person sometimes" solution too. Only 3rd time looks really retarded in english.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791787
No translation (original) > Translation > Bad translation>No translation
I was right.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791789
>Respond to what? What's your question?
I just wanted to know if /jp/ thought I'd made a good choice or not. Thank you for your opinion.

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>>8791782
In my opinion:
Using first person all the time but doing other things to make the character's speech more childish > using third person all the time > using a mix of first and third person

Like you said using third person in English is a lot more retarded than it is in Japanese, so if you use third person all the time you aren't conveying the sense of the original text. But if you mix third and first person you still aren't conveying the sense and on top of that you have inconsistency.

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>>8791782
I did a little bit of work on a VN with a character like that (then realized how much work it was going to be and dropped it before making a project announcement).

I eventually decided to just use "I" all the time, since the other characters never actually brought up the issue directly. If they had, it would have been a more difficult choice. If you're good, you can substitute the third-person pronoun with similarly childish speech patterns in English to maintain the feel of the original script.

That said, I don't think Insemination made a bad choice here, because there's no one right answer. Anyway, it's a stylistic decision, not an error in translation, so those of you who don't know Japanese will just have to learn to deal with the choices like this that translators are forced to make.

[Anonymous No.]

where does Memoria keep its saves?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791934
If you're using Windows 7, it's in your Documents folder.

[Insemination No.]

>>8791811
>If you're good, you can substitute the third-person pronoun with similarly childish speech patterns in English to maintain the feel of the original script.
Then I'd get all-knowing experts in Japanese whingeing about why I didn't just write out the character's name every time it was said out loud.

>>8791579
More or less nailed it here. I realise that not everyone may agree with my decisions, but I didn't expect people to make this big a deal out of it. I underestimated /jp/.

>>8791934
C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\Documents\FAVORITE\星空のメモリア

[Anonymous No.]

So why not release the scripts? No, "open projects turn out bad" is not a reason, because it would not necessarily be an open project, and even if people somehow made it worse the new patches would just be ignored.

[Anonymous No.]

As always when writing anything, you have to keep your audience in mind. Most of the people reading VNs are so weeaboo that keeping third-person pronouns and honorifics or leaving certain words untranslated is perfectly acceptable. Naturally, if you were writing for a more mainstream audience, you'd want to do things differently.

>>8791958
>Then I'd get all-knowing experts in Japanese whingeing about why I didn't just write out the character's name every time it was said out loud.
Yep. No matter what, there will always be some people who complain. Just have to ignore the autism and go with what you feel is the most correct choice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791983
E-Penis. Don't worry, i'll just extract the translated script from the patch/patched game itself, there is nothing difficult in it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8791983
The public is neither entitled to them, nor are they obliged to release them.

[Anonymous No.]

>HoshiMemo released
>Higanbana almost finished
>Hadaka Shitsuji at 40%

This was a pretty damn good week IMO. Still impressed with how fast the Hadaka group is going.

Pandora no Yume looks really interesting, but I'm wondering how the text orientation will work in English...

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792366
Don't forget that guy who is translating Majikoi S. He said he is at 7%~

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790173
You seriously think somebody can only worship Jewsus? News flash, there are better religions out there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790173
just because you think you're a special little snowflake, it doesn't mean you are.

it's the same with humans, they weren't "created to be the pinnacle of everything, in the image of a god, to be his sons", that's just full of shit, extreme pride and arrogance.

btw. jesus taught that pride is a cardinal sin. you claiming that humans are so special and chosen ones is just oozing with arrogance and misplaced pride.

fucking sinner. i hope you burn in hell for eternity.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792608
>better
>religions

>>8792653
Sage after bump limit why don't we?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792726
Yes, there are. Germanic or Norse Paganism, for one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792726
i like saging.

[Anonymous No.]

The very concept of religion is stupid.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792789
How so?

[Anonymous No.]

Why are we debating religion in a VNTS thread?

Regarding the whole third-person pronoun thing, in all fairness, Chinami does kind of act like an idiot, so it works out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792963
I don't want to get into an argument so spare me that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792972
Typical atheist scum.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792974
typical jesus fucker

[Anonymous No.]

>>8793068
You are so retarded for going along with such a typical overdone troll.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8793068
I said it before and I said it again, how does me being religious equate to me worshipping a kike on a stick?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8793068
>>8792974
>>8793083
You're both equally retarded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8793173
Fuck off, platitude spouter.

[Anonymous No.]

>Dracu Riot
>Candidate for our next project.
http://staircasesubs.com/

Thought I'd bring the thread back to topic.