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I'd say there are two reasons: 1. Some translations are actually pretty bad. I mean, I wouldn't mind finally rereading Fate if it actually got a new translation. The problem here is that it never will, and if it does, it won't be done by MG. 2. Some people just want a way to get a way to support a novel they like officially. Not everyone is comfortable buying games on Japanese websites. Especially since many games don't even have download editions, so you have to import a physical copy, which leads to many different problems. And some older games, especially by smaller publishers, are often not available at all. I tried to look for a way to buy Rose Guns Days, but I was out of luck.

But what does my young foolish self do, who took that key and dropped it down the drain? Never read a mystery novel in my life, and frankly, haven't read any since, if not for other mystery visual novels. Regardless, I've decided to give it another try. Here's a stream of consciousness for the first episode of Umineko, which I started on Thursday and only now finished. Spoilers for the entire novel as I've read the whole thing and will be using the bits and bobs I remember as I go through. I'll follow with the tea party and ??? and then possibly clearer thoughts. Also I'll make a blogpost for my everything on Episode 1 at some point.

Denpasoft has opened their survey for this year. https://twitter.com/Denpasoft_pr/status/1305662564752338946 And here is the direct link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HDSDLQR Please vote for Akeiro Kaikitan and some Chuunige while you are there. ^^

Oh snap, that's awesome! If that pre-order sale is going after the end of October, I won't have to worry about my budget at all. That really made my day. Thank you!

Yes. At the very least, you should use PONScripter-fork as the engine. For the script: decrypt it with nsdec, re-save the text as UTF-8, and replace the ` symbol with ^ for text lines because of PONScripter syntax.

Now I guess a few things will need to be changed, based on what I'm seeing. You're translating to French, so Shift-JIS text encoding won't work. We want the script to be stored as unicode (like UTF-8), but the existing ONScripter build doesn't seem to read UTF-8. Use a different engine such as PONScripter-fork: https://github.com/sekaiproject/ponscripter-fork/releases Get the file named narci2-windows.exe (find it under the "Assets" label) and put it into the game's folder. You will use this exe to play the game. I made a few changes to the script to run with PONScripter. Get the file here and put 0.utf in the game folder At this point, the text should look like this. You can translate the text in 0.utf and play without needing to encrypt it again, so just forget about nsdec and nscript.dat from now on. Next is the font, the file called default.ttf which can be replaced with something else. Here's what it looks like with Arial. (PS: the "pointers" you mentioned are called accents. Shift-JIS can't encode them, so we needed unicode.)

Rolled everything back. Will wait for theme updates. You're safe for now, Fuwa.

Thank you! We have some amazing fans, definitely! We plan on opening the pre-order store some time after the KS ends, where you will be able to purchase the add-ons after the Kickstarter ends for a limited period of time (VBFI's pre-order store was open for a few months, but we aren't sure how long we will leave it open for VBHI)! Some add-ons are time-limited though, and may be removed from the pre-order store early before it officially closes, so do keep that in mind if you are aiming for those specific add-ons! (time limited add-ons and those that aren't are both listed on the Kickstarter page) However, apart from the shikishis, most if not all of the physical goods should be available for purchase from the pre-order store, so do give that a look if you are interested but do not have funds in time for the KS!