Would buy day 1 if it will be out on Steam.
lol these comments taught me that buying fan translations is stealing them
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English Translated Japanese Visual Novel/ADV Thread
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Would buy day 1 if it will be out on Steam.
lol these comments taught me that buying fan translations is stealing them
Crash Station
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Oh wow, if this happens, I will buy it and gift it to a few people on my friend list. Someone gets the VN ball rolling on Steam and it could get a legit following.
Will buy twice on day one. One for myself, and one to force down the throat of a bro.
Also, if N+ is planning to get involved, time to right some wrongs. Steamworks, raise the res, fix those bugs.
Some of the comments are just... depressing. Those people aren't fans, not of the VN genre, not of the companies producing the games.
But fuck them. I'm excited that this game could really be coming out officially in the west.
creid
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Sounds like people that are sour that JAST supposedly licensed Chaos;Head, interrupting the fan translation, and then never released it.
Steam seems to have weird factors in how they reject things. Like how Gemini Rue was rejected for the longest time then accepted, and Steam never said the reason why.
Basileus777
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VNs are so niche that a release on Steam could be really significant for increasing the audience for these games in the west. Of course anything adult related wouldn't be possible, and things like licensing the voice acting would still be a problem.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
It's completely translated. The only thing that got interrupted was the fan-port of Chaos;Head Noah.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Loved the anime, would buy day 1.
Basileus777
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Well the translation got pulled off of TLWiki, but a RC is still around on the internet.
Holy shit VNs on Steam? When did we get to bizarro world? Also, bought day 1.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
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I just bought Steins;Gate on iOS, and patched it. It seems to work just fine, and all the stuff is translated to English, except I somehow lost the voice acting after I copied the files over, so now I'm trying to iron out the kinks. I also don't understand how the saving system works. I can't seem to save for the life of me.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Not sure you want to use the unedited patch. It's filled with mistakes.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Yeah, it's maybe a bit clunky in places, but it's honestly no worse than your average fansub really. If they release on Steam, I'll definitely buy that too. I'm just looking to kill time at work.
Okay, reinstalled and repatched the app, it works perfectly, voice work is back, saves work. Awesome.
Need it to be jailbroken for the patch to work or no?
I'll buy it right now if not.
I wouldn't normally care about a VNs VA, but Stains VA almost makes the game itself. Would not play.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
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I just repatched the game and it works perfectly, voicework and saves work fine now. I guess my first download off itunes was corrupted or something. You don't have to jailbreak, no. You just need to download something like iExplorer so you can tether via USB and view your iphone as a disk. Honestly, jailbreaking is preferable as SSH via WinSCP is much, much faster than iExplorer, but iExplorer will do the same thing without jailbreaking.
You can find the game's patch files here:
http://tsuuun.blogspot.com/
If you run into any problems, feel free to PM me.
Awesome! Many thanks.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
They really should have saved all that work until it was completely edited and translation checked.
They have been, however the main project is currently on hold according to their blog. Apparently they said it will be finished, but they don't know when. Err, the PC one.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
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No problem. Though I must mention that you don't copy the folders over as the instructions on the blog detail. The file tree is different on the current 1.2 ver. than the 1.0 he used I think. You have to select all the content in the STEINS;GATE folder that is extracted from the rar and copy and overwrite the files in the Steins;Gate_iphone.app folder. Do the same thing with the files in the SGmovies folder, copy them to the Steins;Gate_iphone.app folder. And finally, copy the one file in the Documents file to the corresponding Documents folder in the Steins;Gate directory. After that, reboot your phone and you should be good to go.
To my knowledge, this is an effort that is undertaken by someone outside of Shourai. Now with the whole JAST fiasco, who knows when the proper patch will actually be out.
Bowling Pin
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Planetarian's protagonist swears, smokes and drinks,
and it ends with the heroine getting shot up full of holes.
I'm assuming that this definition of family friendly is strictly G-rated content only.
R_thanatos
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i played both .
Back in 2005 i liked the cover because kan'u reminded me of setsuna ( negima ) on the cover so i went and tried it ..and got hooked ...since then i have figurines, games , artbooks, dvd & blu rays.
The game without voices is an unnaceptable answer.( for me )
Has anyone played Yu-No?
Can't seem to find anything on Gaf about it, and the HG101 article makes it seem like an amazing game.
http://hardcoregaming101.net/yuno/yuno.htm
Can't seem to find anything on Gaf about it, and the HG101 article makes it seem like an amazing game.
http://hardcoregaming101.net/yuno/yuno.htm
R_thanatos
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Same for me.
Proper Steam release( proper translation + voice ) and i'll get it.
Attackthebase
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Team Gizka also said they would finish the restoration patch for KOTOR II...
It is amazing. I'm a few hours in. It's more adv than it is VN, point and click and all, but the writing really does its job of bringing you in.
R_thanatos
Member
Did anyone played Aselia the eternal ?
i'm thinking about picking the JAST release .. Did anyone have any issues in particular about it ?
i'm thinking about picking the JAST release .. Did anyone have any issues in particular about it ?
R_thanatos
Member
Thanks grabbed it at their store with some other stuff
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Attackthebase
Member
Placed my order for Hanachirasu and Saya No Uta. Should be fun when they are both released over here. I'm really excited for the latter.
Hopefully these do well, there's still so many N+ games that have yet to be translated by anybody.
By the way, anybody know how Demonbane did, sales-wise?
Or maybe you used it but can't remember?!
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
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He lacks the Reading Steiner. I've been playing through on my phone, and found out that you could edit the script with ifile. I tried making some changes to some of the occasionally clunky phrasing and saved the file and it worked like a charm. If I'd already played through the entirety of it, I'd take on the task of editing the script myself.
I never managed to change what I was trying to. ^^
Must have been caught in the attractor field convergance.
R_thanatos
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Steins gate will probably be the next game i try once i'm done with katawa..i guess the various imrpession i got around the net means that the current version ( with the recent new patch ) is playable without issues ?
Bought, bought, bought!
Basileus777
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It's playable, though apparently the script needs editing and isn't the most polished translation. Someone recently put together a 1.3 automated patch that fixes a few things.
isn't that the one with gore
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
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Nah, it's the one with Cthulu loli porn.
Attackthebase
Member
Supposed to come out soon. Last I heard, JAST's goal was to release it before the next Anime Expo.
The pre-order is up for it, with an offer of Hanachirasu + Song of Saya ~ Saya no Uta for 39.99$ and free shipping.
clay_ghost
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I know this is a bit off topic , but i consider Lost Odyssey thousand dream to be one of the best English localization.
I know people who play for the visual novel parts , also these is a English patch for Radical Dreamers. Its good too.
I know people who play for the visual novel parts , also these is a English patch for Radical Dreamers. Its good too.
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