Dergonu

What about translation? Is it better or worse? Honorifics were kept intact as they should be? No westernized jokes and memes?

Well, if you say so.

Just came back to participate in the best (only?) Fuwa event there is.
Hat me up pls. I would like the 27 or 28 appends too, if they are like free dlc.

Don't mind the degenerate preview pic, this video will mostly have IRL me talking since it's hard to show consistent visuals with a topic like this.
 
 

She looks displeased with the result.

You character's headspace (or lack thereof) warrants an overhang, so you get spiky hat.

You're giving me very little real estate to work with, Dorg.

Merry Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve!
As always, it's time to add Santa hats to our avatars—by which I mean I add Santa hats to your avatars, because apparently you people are too lazy to do it yourselves.
In case you don't remember how this works: you select one of the numbered Santa hats below and I'll put it on your avatar. Optionally, you can also ask for one of the flourishes at the bottom. If you don't select a number, I'll choose one for you, which you may regret.

Rules (I'm copying and pasting these rules from last year, because I can rewrite the same thing with new prosaic flourish only so many times):
Make sure your current avatar hasn't already been Santified last year or a year before that. You can make a special request or ask for a Santa hat you found somewhere on the Interwebs, but it might be difficult to implement on your avatar. (Translation: I might be too lazy to accommodate your request.) Some avatars won't look very good with a Santa hat, either because the Santa hat is cut off from view or for other reasons. I probably won't be able to do animated avatars. If you get a Santa hat from me, I'll save your original avatar somewhere and @ you after Christmas to remind you that it's time to de-Santify your avatar. For every day beyond liturgical Christmas in which your Santa hat is still on your avatar, I will be mildly enraged.

I personally believe that locks were invented for the very purpose of giving weebs privacy when playing eroge.

I personally believe that locks were invented for the very purpose of giving weebs privacy when playing eroge.

Yes, it was a game I hoped I’d be able to translate myself one day, actually. Oh well. 
It’s cute and fun. Definitely has more substance than something like Sisterly Bliss, despite being about the same length. 
So yeah, it’s good stuff. 

Hm. Is this the stuff @Dergonu likes?
 

SaDistic BlooD was released today. It's the first ever Black Cyc VN to get translated, if you like to see more make sure to support them 🙂.
You can buy it here: https://jastusa.com/games/sadistic-blood

Yes, writing is actually super important for moege.
Charage is actually just moege with good writing, but people just call them charage because their ego does not allow them to like moege.

Welcome!

Hi, I just started to read Visual Novel recently, for about 3 weeks, and had read only 2 titles, both are Key's, Little Busters and Summer Pocket. Currently reading Ao no Kanata, and it'd great so far. I'm trying to support the dev as much as possible by bying game on Steam, and my goal is to buy all Key's product cause I'm technically a Key fag now. 

Nice to meet you, reader fellows

Shi ni Iku Kimi, Yakata ni Mebuku Zouo
- This project is currently on hiatus -

Translation Project by Dergonu

Welcome to the land of NikuNiku.

It happened without a warning.

In a world that was peaceful superior beings suddenly appeared.
They one-sidedly massacred humans and the world was swallowed by a whirlpool of chaos.

While our heroine Mia was shopping with her family, she also fell victim.
With her father, mother, and older sister dead, she desperately tried to escape, but before she could a different superior man appeared before her.
Falling into desperation and prepared to die Mia took up a knife and stabbed the man...

Read the rest of the summary and more information down below.
[VNDB] [Game Website] [Dergonu's review] [Game Opening]


After having worked on Tsui Yuri for quite some time, I have started to get a little bit tired of the constant stream of adorableness, and thought working on something completely different would be a breath of fresh air*. And so I started to look for some possible side projects, and thanks to Oystein constantly encouraging my posting of guro pictures in discord, I ended up choosing this game after he helped me get the scripts out. We already have some staff working on this, (specifically a TL, editor and hacker,) but we won't say no to a TLC and a QCer, so if you want to help out with that, send me a PM or post below.
* (I am NOT stopping the TL on Tsui Yuri, and this should not impact the progress much at all, so do not worry about that. I simply wanted something different to work on, and this is perfect for that. Neither project is very big, so it should be totally doable to work on both without impacting my current schedule much.)

Staff:

Translator(s)
Dergonu

Translation Checker(s)
KuroganeHomura

Editor(s)
EldritchCherub

Quality Controller(s)
CommittedMeat

Engineer(s)
BinaryFail
Dank memer and mascot
Oystein
 
Lazy hang around
Kawasumi

Latest Update:
Currently we have no website, twitter or anything dedicated for communication updates, so for now we will be using Fuwanovel as the main platform.

We got a line count out of the game finally, and it's 17417.

Take care!
Derg & The Bois

It does a decent job at rushing through the VN. It's not spectacular, but it covers the most important parts, whilst adding some original stuff here and there. If reading the VN just isn't on the table, then I'd recommend checking out the anime. But if you think you might read it sometime, don't watch the anime, as it will spoil a lot of the VN and take some of the enjoyment out when you do get to reading it. 

November 2021 message (I don't want to bump the thread):
Hey there, it's been a while. I came back and just read messages from october last year, lol.
There's been updates to the game but they've been somewhat trivial afaik, so I don't think it merits setting up again my whole setup for the project.
Also, I think I have spotted at least one instance of someone attributing the patch to someone called "trigger_segfault". I don't think this was done in bad faith or anything, probably the result of some innocent confusion, but I want to clarify that only me, "loam", made the patches here. In the scope of these projects, I don't go by any other names on social media.
That is all. Download numbers are low, but I hope someone out there enjoyed the patches. Thanks!
Linux port comment here: https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/23163-ao-no-kanata-no-four-rythm-linux-port-18-patch-for-nintendo-switch/?tab=comments#comment-522629
Aokana - EXTRA1 Linux Port: https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/23163-linux-port-now-released-ao-no-kanata-no-four-rythm-linux-port-18-patch-for-nintendo-switch/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-523833
Switch patch:
Hello, I made this patch some days ago out of pure boredom just to see if my hacked switch with Aokana installed on it would be able to handle R18 assets and I thought about releasing for other people who still haven't played the game and would like to on their hacked switch, but uncut, since otherwise it would be forever stuck for no reason on my hard drive as I already completed the game on PC.
Keep in mind this only works with a Hacked Switch with Atmosphere. If you want to see if you can hack your switch follow this guide: https://nh-server.github.io/. The zip is premade so that, provided that you're using Atmosphere CFW (which you will if you finish carefully the guide there), you only have to unzip the contents of the patch to your SD card's root folder.
For other CFW users (not necessary if you already have atmosphere/followed the guide I linked previously): It may work with other CFWs, provided they can patch romfs. Just make sure the path is the same (romfs/Data/StreamingAssets/patch.dat). Atmosphere is the most popular though, so I only tested there.
The H-Scene button in the gallery replay menu, although blank in this release, still works, so if you unlocked some of them just click it.
This works with the Base version + Update 1.01. I'm not sure if future updates will break this, so keep that in mind. To know if the mod works correctly, you'll see "1.01 SW (R18+PE)" on the bottom right corner when it's loaded (it's usually "SW 1.01" only).
Screenshot (WARNING: NSFW):
Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/yf86ywni65n6ki8/file
Some technical details in the making of this patch which may be or not interesting:
This VN is made on a custom C# VN engine on top of Unity, made by NekoNyan. It's visibly made for reusability in the future, and according to some announcements it will be reused in future projects of them. It's very nicely done so kudos to them. While .NET binaries in the PC are unobfuscated, the Switch port used IL2CPP, probably due to platform limitations. Despite being in Unity, this engine loads content from a custom format instead of using Unity itself for them (not that it's a necessarily bad thing to do). It has some custom simple encryption, with the keys of the files themselves being inside of the archive. Other than that, it's just an archive with files and folders inside of it. They slightly changed the encryption algorithm for the Switch version. While the PC format was easily readable by looking at decompiled C# code about how the PC version itself loads it, it was trickier to see how the switch loaded it because of the game being compiled to C++. That said, this cool tool helped me to locate the encryption function for the Switch, which turned out to be a simple 2 lines change. This change doesn't affect size nor performance so I can only imagine why they did this.... With that figured out, I had to make an (re/un)packer for this game to pack the R18 assets since it needed to use the switch format for it to work. I can release the source code and binaries if anybody's interested, just hit me up here or by email. The switch version prefers different formats of its assets: swp (some Switch image format?) instead of webp, ogg vorbis instead of ogg opus, and some others. Even so, it supports loading all formats of the PC version. The switch version contains voices for H-Scenes on the base game (except for the Perfect Edition H-Scenes), even though they go completely unused. This effectively lowers the size of this patch. Some trivial metadata for the replay gallery is still there, but goes unused because you never unlock any H-Scenes. The binary as well as bs5 scripts (aokana's script format) still contains lots of code that handle R18 assets and scenes, if they somehow (heh) were to be available to the game, which facilitated this patch by a lot. This engine made by NekoNyan is very well done and I hope to see more VNs localized by them on it If you find a problem just let me know here or by email ([email protected]).
I hope you enjoy it! I know Nintendo won't....

A belated happy birthday to @NowItsAngeTime! 

I did!
I ended up reading a lot of the fantransltation of Sky Full of Stars Fine Days on my bday.

Pretty often. I like going back to read specific scenes of games I like. Really nifty feature. 

If the backer status is no longer a thing, maybe we could make this a post count goal, similar to custom titles. Incentivize people to post more to get the cool stuff. 

Tay please fix Fuwanovel's Google+ page, that's what's holding us back.

Hi everybody. My name is Tay. I’m the site admin, and I’m writing this post to share a few thoughts and to apologize for what has been a very difficult period for the site (and many of us in the real world, myself included). Please note that I am actively working on the site today (01:26 update: currently waiting on Nayleen’s help on a mysql issue that I don’t know how to solve) and will be available in this thread and on Discord throughout the day.
 
Why did you disappear?
I was overwhelmed by real-world responsibilities and the real-world issues affecting the site. I feel deeply that it’s my responsibility to keep an appropriate baseline amount of support (server, forums fees, forums UI theme subscriptions, front site plugin subscriptions), and have mostly done so, but not being here in a full, active manner means that I was unaware of even large issues, such as Invision losing my auto-pay details. I feel really bad, guys. I'm sorry.
 
Why didn’t you more proactively pass along the keys to other community members instead of just ghosting us?
Dropping torrents caused hundreds of real-world issues that made a site hand-off – even partially – unconscionable until resolved. It makes me happy that they feel like an ancient memory to most of you, but they have been my lived reality for a long time. Only this summer did that chapter fully come to a close. Fuwa is in the clear, for what it’s worth, and for the first time I feel like I have options.
 
What the &$% is going on with site/forums updates?
I’m working to fix some issues in how I access the various databases on the server. Once that’s fixed everything will be updated and troubleshooted. It’s going to be another Fuwapocalypse. But it’s gotta be done. I give you my word that, so long as I can get @Nayleen’s help, this will be done by week’s end.
As regards the forms, specifically, Invision, the software company who made our forums software, deleted the auto-pay credentials I’d given them and the software license lapsed for several months. It’s been renewed and everything will be updated as soon as I get Nay’s assistance and make a bunch of meticulous backups.
 
What is your plan for Fuwanovel going forward?
It may not be appropriate for that to be my call. I need to touch base with all the core users still active and sort out what’s best. I love Fuwanovel. It’s been a work of love spanning more than ten thousand hours (and much more than that in dollars). But my focus and passion -- help bring visual novels into the wider gaming community – has been realized.  I’ve been fortunate enough to facilitate or be part of some major, tectonic shifts in the industry. It’s a different world and I am likely not the best equipped to pick a direction. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think so.
What I’m confident about, however, is that the way I went about building Fuwa, while successful, is unsustainable. Palas put it incredibly well last month:
 
“It’s like running a business, but without, well, the business.” Perfectly said. For better or worse, I’m wholly or largely responsible for the projects he highlights: enormous and technical VNTS posts which took two people 5 or so hours to do every Friday night, an ambitious reviews hub scouring VN reviews from across the net, a VN reviews team, forums projects, etc.
A lot of what I did on Fuwa amounted to spending ungodly amounts of time watching trends in both the industry and site traffic and building ideas around what I thought would bring interest to the community and the VN player base. It worked well: we had huge traffic and played an important role in bringing VNs out of obscurity. But the lived reality was often me researching, designing and proposing these projects, and asking others to step up and either run or contribute to them without compensation. We’d have people putting in 20 hours a week, some weeks, on top of core admin staff working 30-40 hours weekly, and it STILL wasn’t enough. Most pitched in because we liked the cause, and liked hanging out with each other, and liked the dopamine rush of user engagement. Some did it because I asked them. And some did it because they felt like they had to. I’m still working on pulling apart my feelings on this issue.
I don’t know how to fix this part of being a fan site. I do know that it is wrong to ask so much of members without paying them. Fuwa has never made money and I was never able to pay for help. This isn’t going to change anytime soon, so any new site reality is going to have to take into account the need for a lessened human cost.
 
Anything else you want to say?
Tons. But that’s good for now. I’m spamming Nayleen on all the usual channels and mostly just want to get the site fully updated. We can chew on the site’s existential questions in the meantime.