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Oops, wrong kind of tender. The kind we need here is big, long, hard and full of liquid intended to be sprayed into the chamber where all the hot steamy action takes place. Also it apparently comes in different colors depending on age and place of origin. Furthermore it looks like the biggest sizes only come in black.

Original Fakku forum release:
 
Thanks to the help from a kind benefactor, I acquired the Steam release. Steam users can now y o r o k o b e.
Figuring out how the Steam release worked was such a damn pain. 
Not much was updated, apart from a few thousand scene seek thumbnails. Mainly giving Steam users some love.
 
 
MAITETSU 18+ RESTORATION PATCH v1.3    7-10-2018
 
MAITETSU 18+ STEAM RESTORATION PATCH v1.3   7-10-2018
 
Maitetsu WIP Decensor patch thread
 

The main issues I was dealing with while making that patch that most certainly limited how much I can do are:
1. KrkrExtract just doesn't want to cooperate majority of the time when extracting XP3's.
2. When it does, it doesn't even extract the stuff I needed.
3. Repairing the sprites requires my being able to repack EMote .pbs files with edited .bmp images. Not hard at all to do, just repacking is the issue AFAIK
4. The data.xp3 is encrypted. About half of it KrkrExtract can get done, but the half that i'd need to fully repair the "filesystem" I guess you can say into something usable is.
5. God help me TJS2 bytecode is one of the most disgusting atrocities I have seen.  
Bless based nihongo tools
 
If there is anyone out there who knows the KiriKiriZ engine or EMote engine, your input is always welcome.

Suzu ga besto desu

Well, I like different flavors. Too many to pinpoint one.
If I had to buy one right now, I'd probably go with chocolate.
... and now I want an ice cream.

+1
I mean, in which way was that an unexpected result?

Yeah it's a leadership problem, not a problem with a specific low level worker. Considering he has the steam version, it's quite possible he did QA/QC on the steam version only and that version isn't affected, or rather it's intentionally affected. In other words you can't blame quality testing of the steam version at all.
What you can blame is how fast the 18+ was made, which is a leadership decision. Somewhere a leader made the decision to make the 18+ version in a single day or something like that, including testing. Even if the worker in question wants to make it perfect, there simply isn't enough time to catch issues if you don't have the required number of days. In other words it looks like it's a cost cutting issue with the leadership, which backfired. Imagine if all the non-H scenes were identical, then they would have skipped out on paying for testing and nobody would have noticed.
Playing the blame game gets us nowhere. That's kind of like knocking over a trashcan and then blame each other for days instead of cleaning up. Right now the case is very simple. SP messed up as a company and SP has to take responsibility and fix it. If one person screwed up, leadership made a bad decision, their internal structure is screwed or whatever. It doesn't really matter to anybody other than SP. Even if it happens to be the QC guy, who failed, the problem is still elsewhere for allowing a structure, which can ship such a blunder due to a single point of failure. Also it should have been fixed prior to QC meaning if QC is to blame, somebody else is also to blame.
Personally I don't care who did what to lead to this problem. Just fix it ASAP and get it right this time.
 
EDIT: Japan has already revealed the outcome of the blame game. At some point in time, the media bashed all doctors whenever a single doctor made one mistake. As a result, young people stopped wanting to study medicine because such people are all horrible and are on public display for being bad. Now people are dying due to hospitals being understaffed because more doctors retire than new are trained. It might have improved today as this is a few years old, but the idea is the same. If you are always bashed for having anything to do with a translation project even if you do everything right, you might quit or not start at all, effectively kill off the localization of VNs.

Lesson learned: do not go on vacations. They are a sure way to get everything to break.

Translation: we based the translation on the console version and added the H scenes to the 18+ release. We didn't bother to check if there are other differences between those two versions than just the presence of H scenes. When we put the versions together, nobody playtested the translated 18+ version and compared it to the Japanese original.
Ok, it will be patched (presumably) and hopefully everything will be fine. You could argue that most of the VN is ok, but remember either you buy the more expensive 18+ version or you buy the $15 18+ DLC. In other words you pay $15 for nudity and then they forgot to add a significant part of the nudity. That's just not ok at all.
I guess I have to keep waiting. I don't feel like either paying for or playing an unfinished VN.

Yeah it's a leadership problem, not a problem with a specific low level worker. Considering he has the steam version, it's quite possible he did QA/QC on the steam version only and that version isn't affected, or rather it's intentionally affected. In other words you can't blame quality testing of the steam version at all.
What you can blame is how fast the 18+ was made, which is a leadership decision. Somewhere a leader made the decision to make the 18+ version in a single day or something like that, including testing. Even if the worker in question wants to make it perfect, there simply isn't enough time to catch issues if you don't have the required number of days. In other words it looks like it's a cost cutting issue with the leadership, which backfired. Imagine if all the non-H scenes were identical, then they would have skipped out on paying for testing and nobody would have noticed.
Playing the blame game gets us nowhere. That's kind of like knocking over a trashcan and then blame each other for days instead of cleaning up. Right now the case is very simple. SP messed up as a company and SP has to take responsibility and fix it. If one person screwed up, leadership made a bad decision, their internal structure is screwed or whatever. It doesn't really matter to anybody other than SP. Even if it happens to be the QC guy, who failed, the problem is still elsewhere for allowing a structure, which can ship such a blunder due to a single point of failure. Also it should have been fixed prior to QC meaning if QC is to blame, somebody else is also to blame.
Personally I don't care who did what to lead to this problem. Just fix it ASAP and get it right this time.
 
EDIT: Japan has already revealed the outcome of the blame game. At some point in time, the media bashed all doctors whenever a single doctor made one mistake. As a result, young people stopped wanting to study medicine because such people are all horrible and are on public display for being bad. Now people are dying due to hospitals being understaffed because more doctors retire than new are trained. It might have improved today as this is a few years old, but the idea is the same. If you are always bashed for having anything to do with a translation project even if you do everything right, you might quit or not start at all, effectively kill off the localization of VNs.

Yeah it's a leadership problem, not a problem with a specific low level worker. Considering he has the steam version, it's quite possible he did QA/QC on the steam version only and that version isn't affected, or rather it's intentionally affected. In other words you can't blame quality testing of the steam version at all.
What you can blame is how fast the 18+ was made, which is a leadership decision. Somewhere a leader made the decision to make the 18+ version in a single day or something like that, including testing. Even if the worker in question wants to make it perfect, there simply isn't enough time to catch issues if you don't have the required number of days. In other words it looks like it's a cost cutting issue with the leadership, which backfired. Imagine if all the non-H scenes were identical, then they would have skipped out on paying for testing and nobody would have noticed.
Playing the blame game gets us nowhere. That's kind of like knocking over a trashcan and then blame each other for days instead of cleaning up. Right now the case is very simple. SP messed up as a company and SP has to take responsibility and fix it. If one person screwed up, leadership made a bad decision, their internal structure is screwed or whatever. It doesn't really matter to anybody other than SP. Even if it happens to be the QC guy, who failed, the problem is still elsewhere for allowing a structure, which can ship such a blunder due to a single point of failure. Also it should have been fixed prior to QC meaning if QC is to blame, somebody else is also to blame.
Personally I don't care who did what to lead to this problem. Just fix it ASAP and get it right this time.
 
EDIT: Japan has already revealed the outcome of the blame game. At some point in time, the media bashed all doctors whenever a single doctor made one mistake. As a result, young people stopped wanting to study medicine because such people are all horrible and are on public display for being bad. Now people are dying due to hospitals being understaffed because more doctors retire than new are trained. It might have improved today as this is a few years old, but the idea is the same. If you are always bashed for having anything to do with a translation project even if you do everything right, you might quit or not start at all, effectively kill off the localization of VNs.

Another reason is to be prepared for the unexpected. Even if you don't drive regularly, you never know if you suddenly need to drive. I once got ill while driving and a passenger took over and drove me home. We would be stuck if he didn't have a license despite not owning a car. Another reason is to get a government issued picture ID, another item you might need when you least expect it.
Last, but not least you live in the country where General Motors have been buying public transportation companies with the intension of shutting them down. They were convicted and fined back in the 50s, but that haven't recreated the severely damaged public transport system. Now you pretty much have the choice between driving or go hikkomori.

Another reason is to be prepared for the unexpected. Even if you don't drive regularly, you never know if you suddenly need to drive. I once got ill while driving and a passenger took over and drove me home. We would be stuck if he didn't have a license despite not owning a car. Another reason is to get a government issued picture ID, another item you might need when you least expect it.
Last, but not least you live in the country where General Motors have been buying public transportation companies with the intension of shutting them down. They were convicted and fined back in the 50s, but that haven't recreated the severely damaged public transport system. Now you pretty much have the choice between driving or go hikkomori.

Confession: I didn't see that. I didn't log in until it was fixed. That gave me a day off from Fuwa

Yeah it's a leadership problem, not a problem with a specific low level worker. Considering he has the steam version, it's quite possible he did QA/QC on the steam version only and that version isn't affected, or rather it's intentionally affected. In other words you can't blame quality testing of the steam version at all.
What you can blame is how fast the 18+ was made, which is a leadership decision. Somewhere a leader made the decision to make the 18+ version in a single day or something like that, including testing. Even if the worker in question wants to make it perfect, there simply isn't enough time to catch issues if you don't have the required number of days. In other words it looks like it's a cost cutting issue with the leadership, which backfired. Imagine if all the non-H scenes were identical, then they would have skipped out on paying for testing and nobody would have noticed.
Playing the blame game gets us nowhere. That's kind of like knocking over a trashcan and then blame each other for days instead of cleaning up. Right now the case is very simple. SP messed up as a company and SP has to take responsibility and fix it. If one person screwed up, leadership made a bad decision, their internal structure is screwed or whatever. It doesn't really matter to anybody other than SP. Even if it happens to be the QC guy, who failed, the problem is still elsewhere for allowing a structure, which can ship such a blunder due to a single point of failure. Also it should have been fixed prior to QC meaning if QC is to blame, somebody else is also to blame.
Personally I don't care who did what to lead to this problem. Just fix it ASAP and get it right this time.
 
EDIT: Japan has already revealed the outcome of the blame game. At some point in time, the media bashed all doctors whenever a single doctor made one mistake. As a result, young people stopped wanting to study medicine because such people are all horrible and are on public display for being bad. Now people are dying due to hospitals being understaffed because more doctors retire than new are trained. It might have improved today as this is a few years old, but the idea is the same. If you are always bashed for having anything to do with a translation project even if you do everything right, you might quit or not start at all, effectively kill off the localization of VNs.

The sea contains dangers much more sinister than "safe if you can reach the bottom". You need to know about rip tides and how they can affect the beach you are at. To put it simple, when high tide ends, the water has to go somewhere and it's out into the ocean. If the bottom acts as a wall, the water will flow out through holes in the barrier. This can create currents so strong that no human can swim against them and if you are caught, you are flushed out. If that happens, you need to try to circle around it and see if you can get in next to it rather than through it. If this is caused by rock formations, they can be fairly predictable. Sand on the other hand moves around and a rip tide might not be at the same location two days in a row.
There are other dangers as well. For instance boats and ships. Apart from the obvious getting hit by reckless tiny boats near the beach, big ships can be an issue as well. A ship creates waves. One at the front where it pushes water to both sides, essentially plowing through the water and one from the rear where the propeller is active. Those two waves can travel for several minutes before hitting a beach where they will be noticed as two waves, which are noteworthy stronger than the other waves. There are actually speed restrictions for ships in place in order to protect beaches from this issue. Once in a while a ship is caught speeding.
 
When the wind goes towards land, all the water will flow inwards. However it doesn't stack up on the beach, meaning it has to go out again. In some cases it will do this at the bottom, meaning if you stick your legs too deep, they can be caught in a current flowing outwards despite the water visibly flowing inwards.
 
Does this mean entering the water is reckless? I will compare it to driving a car. There are dangers, but if you know them and know how to avoid them, then it's not a huge issue. If you don't know about the dangers or rules and just do something, it can become unacceptably dangerous. A quick google search tells that in California, 58k were rescued and 60 drowned. It doesn't explicitly say how long it took to make those statistics, but numbers I have seen earlier indicates that it's likely in a single year. Australia had 74 who drowned in 2016 while taking a recreational swim.
 
If you plan to get into the water, I recommend you do some research on rip tides first.

Translation: we based the translation on the console version and added the H scenes to the 18+ release. We didn't bother to check if there are other differences between those two versions than just the presence of H scenes. When we put the versions together, nobody playtested the translated 18+ version and compared it to the Japanese original.
Ok, it will be patched (presumably) and hopefully everything will be fine. You could argue that most of the VN is ok, but remember either you buy the more expensive 18+ version or you buy the $15 18+ DLC. In other words you pay $15 for nudity and then they forgot to add a significant part of the nudity. That's just not ok at all.
I guess I have to keep waiting. I don't feel like either paying for or playing an unfinished VN.

Translation: we based the translation on the console version and added the H scenes to the 18+ release. We didn't bother to check if there are other differences between those two versions than just the presence of H scenes. When we put the versions together, nobody playtested the translated 18+ version and compared it to the Japanese original.
Ok, it will be patched (presumably) and hopefully everything will be fine. You could argue that most of the VN is ok, but remember either you buy the more expensive 18+ version or you buy the $15 18+ DLC. In other words you pay $15 for nudity and then they forgot to add a significant part of the nudity. That's just not ok at all.
I guess I have to keep waiting. I don't feel like either paying for or playing an unfinished VN.

Makes sense. We are dealing with a water chasing heroine after all. I did a background check. She seems to be 8620. I can't find water capacity or consumption directly, but based on the other numbers available, my estimate is something like 10 tons/hour at full load and 20 ton capacity, which would make the engine require water stops every second hour. Even with a fair amount of uncertaincy in those numbers, I would say we likely have the most water loving/consuming heroine ever.
 
Another thing. My research has uncovered the next otaku gathering point: Ome Railway Park (青梅鉄道公園) in Tokyo.
 

What I hate most is text. Not all text, but rather text, which can be removed or rewritten to be less than 1/4 of the length without losing any contents or storyline. This is particularly true for H scenes, but all age scenes often does this as well. I don't mind long VNs if they have contents to justify the length. Getting the feeling somebody missed a line quota in a scene and then quickly fixed with no contents is not a nice reading experience.

Koko the gorilla who learned sign language and spoke to our hearts is dead. It feels like we just lost a worldwide treasure. First Snooty the manatee and now Koko is dead. We are running out of beloved animals. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/06/21/koko-the-beloved-gorilla-that-learned-to-communicate-using-sign-language-has-died/?utm_term=.4e3dcaa20d30
 



“Her impact has been profound and what she has taught us about the emotional capacity of gorillas and their cognitive abilities will continue to shape the world.”

Here, have some tears.
 

Friendship ended with Kiri

Good point. However I will hesitate a bit in calling Musumaker a raising sim. I view raising sims as something different than VNs and they tend to be hybrid games. When mentioning a hybrid game, people tend to think of something like Sengoku Rance where the VN parts exist, but it wouldn't be a great VN without the other parts. Musumaker is different than that. It is by far primarily a VN. You need to go through 3k lines before even reach anything, which isn't pure VN and it takes almost another 1k lines before it has unlocked all the raising sim features. Cutting non-VN contents would result in a VN, which works as a VN. In fact it would still be a good VN. This is despite the fact that the VN and non-VN elements work well together.
In other words I feel that calling Musumaker a raising sim is the same as claiming worse VN quality than it really is. Because of this, I don't think Musumaker as a raising sim, more like a VN, which happens to have some raising sim elements.

Just a quick post to say that this project is still active and a lot of stuff is going on behind the scenes.

the forums break when you look at them funny. Best not to anger them 

Nope, it really doesn't. I paid attention and it does something other than "get votes for user on date x". Something is going on, which can't be explained by timezones.

The fact that he called me retarded and "your poor brain" would contradict your statement.
I was specifically saying that about an NVL on such a tiny screen. To get readable text on such a small monitor is a challenge. If you want to put CG behind the text and keep the text readable, you will likely lose the ability to watch the CG, particularly considering the quality and brightness of some of them. I question if it is a VN if it displays text and CG, but not at the same time.