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And I'm pretty sure foxes have been made in several VNs.

The President of the United States (of Nippon). CHECK.

Too bad the hatoful pun will be lost in translation. hato = pigeon, haato = heart.

By the way if you don't find any savefile and want a Japanese walkthrough search for game-title in Japanese + 攻略 (capture), since it's called a capturing guide in Japanese

Some sites upload 100% save-files (I've seen it, but can be tricky to find). Download one of these and go directly to the H gallery

That's perfectly normal my friend.

Perhaps I misused the bayesian terminology, sorry. I meant that every user has a bias weight calculated from his average deviation on the length estimates. And then the resulting estimate is the average of vote*weight. Of course it won't correct bad estimates made on just one user making that estimate (no other estimates by that user and no one else estimating that VN). But this problem exists already today, since the length estimate currently is the estimate one person makes. Zakamutt has a good point that we'll get more unexperienced estimators if it becomes easier to estimate. Perhaps the weighted length estimate can live parallel with the old estimate, like the ratings.

Perhaps they should do like they do with the Bayesian rating. Let people write their length-estimations and those that on average rates the same VNs as longer than others will have their length-estimates weighted downwards. This is an well-behaving statistical estimate that is widely used, as long as enough users write length-estimates it will work without using even more statistical "magic".

Why use number of words? number of characters and weighted with some language factor seems easier to calculate and more applicable to Japanese. If they now want to make some reliable length estimate.

Well it's good to have some reference about the length, I prefer medium and longer because I honestly feel many shorter ones are either rushed or contain too little story and development. Of course there are exceptions to this. I don't use vndb that much for choosing VNs, but it's good as reference once you find something interesting, primarily the tags. When I see Very Long I used to expect a length like a VN with long common-route and more than five long character-routes. With medium I used to expect like an average linear-plot one with around five side routes. Or a long common route with shorter character routes. Today I don't expect anything from it.

I take the length thing on VNDB with a pinch of salt. I can't find how for example Clover Day's is regarded as Very Long and then Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai is only Long. Wouldn't it be faster and more accurate to measure the length of the text scripts than using the auto-function, or is it a problem with separating the text from the game? The file size should be a good approximation if same encoding is used, if the game doesn't use stupid character-caching, I've seriously only seen one VN doing that shit.

ADV player HD is a media player program, and CCCP is a codec-pack. My guess is that it crashes when a video should start, that can explain why they suggest to uninstall a media-player and codecs. Perhaps they are incompatible. Good luck!

ｆｕｗａｎｏｖｅｌへようこそ！ I'm actually also reading cocoro@function at the moment. The Grisaia series is probably the best out of what I have managed to read up to today. If you haven't read the sequels I highly encourage you to do so. Lastly, enjoy your stay here.

Welcome to fuwanovel! It seems you already know the good atmosphere of this place, so feel free to start out posting and discussing about VNs or related things. Enjoy your stay as member.

Hi, welcome to fuwanovel! Well I've read VNs for years (I read untranslated ones), so I'm quite accustomed to the cultural differences that show up in them. I've read some of the VNs in your list you posted here and I am interested in reading many of the rest. Well, enjoy your stay here.

That H doesn't affect the story might be true for some or many VNs. However not all, and it's a subjective opinion that will split the audience. We know how it went for the selective translation of Kono Oozora, quite a few felt the left-out H scenes mattered.

I'm starting to doubt the "general" in the topic title here...

A VM running a Japanese edition of Windows. Never had any problems running VNs under that! The super-killer solution, it even solves the overseas-protection some VNs have.

Have you tried seeing if the text is plain-text using a hex-editor and eventual encoding? Japanese text can be encoded in a multitude of ways. For checking up encoding: http://freaka.freehostia.com/charset.php?hex= I like your "I try to learn it by doing it by myself" attitude by the way.

I've been pondering on this questing for a couple of days. Which was the first VN to be released with an opening movie? And as a bonus question which do you think was most "revolutionary" for its time? I've dug up some pre millennium ones (very incomplete list). 1996 Jan 26 Shizuku PC98 (Kizuato op included in video) 1997 May 23 To Heart PC http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22863985 (Sorry no youtube found of original PC OP) 1998 May 1 White Album PC June 26 One kagayaku kisetsu he PC 1999 June 4 Kanon PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSHrwX3Ug1k June 25 Kana imouto PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khet3t60k_o I leave no guarantees I'm 100% correct on everything.

This is a gold mine! But I feel a lack of Clover Days. Fixed!

MSWord documents are not simple text documents, they contain advanced proprietary formatting that no VN's will accept. Use a simple but good text-editor (notepad++, sublime or similar).

The only thing that pops up in my mind is Himawari. Main heroines is Aries, she fell from the sky. I haven't read it (yet) so no guarantees. PS. I forgot Irotoridori no Sekai it seems to have astrology elements like the previous game from the same company I'm sure you know of hoshizora no memoria (but I'm not sure about the astrology thing).

Normally .ccd files are linked to an .img and a .sub file. If these are not in the same directory, the image cannot be mounted.

A little late welcome to fuwanovel. Keep reading great VNs and enjoy your stay here!