Tay

(In case Kendjin wants a new avatar, here's a close-up from the swimsuit shot: )

How do I change my computer to Japanese Encoding?
If you use Windows 10:
1. Go to the Control Panel
2. Click on Region
3. Click on the Administrative tab
4. Click on Change System Locale
5. Select Japanese (Japan) from the drop-down
If you use Windows 8:
1. Go to the Control Panel
2. Click on Clock, Language and Region then Region
3. Click on the Administrative tab
4. Click on Change System Locale
5. Select Japan (Japanese) from the drop-down

If you use Windows 7:
1. Go to the Control Panel
2. Click on Clock, Language and Regions
3. Click the Administrative tab and under “Language for Non-Unicode Programs", hit the Change System Locale button then select Japanese from the drop-down menu.
4. Click OK. You should be prompted to Restart your computer once done.

If you use Windows XP, you’ll need the operating system CD:
1. Go to the Control Panel
2. Click on Regional and Language Options
3. Click the Advanced tab and under the “Language for non-Unicode Programs", select Japanese from the drop-down menu.
5. Click OK. You’ll get a prompt asking whether to use existing files or to install from your OS CD. If this is your first time doing this you probably don’t already have the files so you’ll need to install them. From there just follow the instructions on the screen.

Announcing


FuwaSims - Fuwanovel's First Sims 3 Story




Come one, come all -- this is the chance of a lifetime, the chance you've been waiting for! I am about to produce a short Sims 3 story, and I'm looking for volunteers to put their names onto the characters! If you're interested in naming (or putting your own name) on a character, let me know via response!

How the Game/Story Works:
I will generate a few Sims randomly using the randomize buttons and play with as much of a hands-off approach as is possible. Any interaction on my end will occur only if it's agreeing with a sim's current desires, needs. Where this'll go, nobody knows!

What I need from You:
If you want to name/put your name on a Sim, let me know! If you have any other ideas for setting/etc. or if you have a particular challenge, please let me know!

(Just posting to let y'all know that images now resize in spoiler tags!)

(Just posting to let y'all know that images now resize in spoiler tags!)

Two quick things --

1) There's a lot of chatter about global warming in this topic. I'll pipe in that as someone who has studied global warming at university, done actual data collection and research in the field, and regularly reads scientific literature about it -- the points made in many of the above links are oversimplified or disingenuous. Global warming isn't a simple matter, but a lot of the data is absolutely real.

2) The topic of inclusion of government literature into Visual Novels is a very interesting topic. I'd like to see more examples of where people have seen this. I personally haven't noticed many, or have attributed them to the cultural zeitgeist. For the sake of an interesting topic, let's stay on topic.

(Just posting to let y'all know that images now resize in spoiler tags!)

(Just posting to let y'all know that images now resize in spoiler tags!)

I'll give it a quick reformat, but can't talk about routes as I've yet to leave the common route - too busy with the site.
-- Done, below is the code for usage on the forum / for anyone who wants to extend it.

Don't use width: 100% because it would force any image to 100%, even if they're smaller. Use max-width: 100% instead, it's supported in every relevant browser.

The example above wouldn't work since it's not an ID (and neither should it be anyway). Opening the forum's source reveals the CSS selector for spoiler content, so it should be editable somewhere:


div.bbc_spoiler_content { } Search for that and add the following CSS code in the line following it: div.bbc_spoiler_content img {max-width: 100%; width: auto}

In the order that they appear in the thread:
As said by Steve, it might be easier to look for Takoyaki's works by searching "Kogemashita" instead.

Steve's First Post
1) Miku art done by Akiba Hideki
2) Art done by Takoyaki
3) Rikka character design by Ikeda Kazumi
4) Mare art done by Shida Kazuhiro
5) Relm Arrowny art (Can't find the artists name but lets just say he does a lot of explicit fan art of Final Fantasy characters)
6) Hello Kitty as a magical girl done by Fujima Takuya
7) Shirokuma Wallpaper made by the company that produced Hatsuyuki Sakura, Saga Planets
Rosemary Fontbrune art from a trading card called Aquarian Age. Done by Fujima Takuya
9) Lilte from a PSP adventure game called Project Witch (It honestly doesn't look like adventure but they tagged it as such)
10) Art that can be found in ViVid Color artbook done by Fujima Takuya
11) Art that can be found in ViVid Color artbook done by Fujima Takuya (Not a copy paste error)
12) Art of a girl that can be found in ViVid Color artbook done by Fujima Takuya
13) CG from Princess Strike! (I can't confirm this but based on where I found this, this seems to be the case)
14) CG from Princess Strike! (I can't confirm this but based on where I found this, this seems to be the case)
15) CG from Princess Strike! (I can't confirm this but based on where I found this, this seems to be the case)
16) CG from Princess Strike! (I can't confirm this but based on where I found this, this seems to be the case)
17) CG from Princess Strike! (I can't confirm this but based on where I found this, this seems to be the case)
18) Okita Hiromi from Reincarnation ☆ Shinsengumi!
19) Art done by Meito
20) CG from an Eroge titled Zettai Saikyou ☆ Oppai Sensou!! ~Kyonyuu Oukoku vs Hinnyuu Oukoku~
(Translated as: Absolute Best Tits ☆ The Boobs War ~Kingdom of Big Tits vs Kingdom of Small Tits~ Just felt like mentioning this! =P)
21) "Yuki Miku" done by an artist called Mani
22) Girls from Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha found in ViVid Color artbook done by Fujima Takuya
(Didn't want to bother looking up the names)
23) Girls from Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha found in ViVid Color artbook done by Fujima Takuya
(Didn't want to bother looking up the names)
24) Art done my Muririn
25) Remilia Scarlet and Flandre Scarlet from the Touhou Project (Can't find the artist)

Steve's Second Post
26) Art done by Takoyaki
27) Can't find any information on this one
28) Art done by Takoyaki
29) Art from Doujinshi about Rikka x Yuuta
30) Art of Kagamine Rin by Mille
31) Kunihiro Hajime and Amae Koromo from Saki (Mahjong Anime)
32) Art done by Ryunnu (I shouldn't need to say who she is)
33) Cross over art of Mare and Nikaidou Shinku from Hoshizora no Memoria and Irotoridori no Sekai respectively by Shida Kazuhiro
34) Art by Naruse Hirofumi
35) Art that can be found in ViVid Color artbook done by Fujima Takuya
36) Yuuna and Maina Asakura from the Visual Novel Nanami to Konomi no Oshiete ABC (Please teach me ABC)
37) Art that can be found in ViVid Color artbook done by Fujima Takuya
38) Art done by Takoyaki
39) Art done by Takoyaki
40) Art of Shizuru by Fujima Takuya
41) Art done by Takoyaki
42) Art done that can be found in ViVid Color artbook done by Fujima Takuya

NSFW Pics
43) Can't find anything
44) Art by Ryunnu
45) Art of Nekomiya Nono and Yoshioka Nanoha from Yotsunoha and Sakura Sakura respectively done by Hiide
46) Art of Yukari Yakumo from the Touhou project done by ke-ta
47) Girls from Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha found in ViVid Color artbook done by Fujima Takuya
(Didn't want to bother looking up the names)
48) Art from a doujin about Flandre and Remilia
49) Relm Arrowny art (Can't find the artists name but lets just say he does a lot of explicit fan art of Final Fantasy characters)
50) Art of Mare by Shida Kazuhiro

Steve's Third Post
51) Art by Tinkle
52) Art by Tinkle
53) Art by Tinkle
54) Art by Tinkle from Visual Novel Cafe Little Wish
55) Can't find the artist but she's Maho Misawa from Ro-Kyu-bu!

SakuraFreak's Post
56) Art done by Sakurazawa Izumi
57) Art by Munyu
58) Yuuna Asakura from the Visual Novel Nanami to Konomi no Oshiete ABC (Please teach me ABC)
59) Konomi Nishimura from the Visual Novel Nanami to Konomi no Oshiete ABC (Please teach me ABC)
60) Nanami Nishimura and Konomi Nishimura from the Visual Novel Nanami to Konomi no Oshiete ABC (Please teach me ABC)
61) Mikan from the eroge Musumaker
62) Akino Momiji, Kiriyama Sakura, and Sera Karen from the Visual Novel Sakura Musubi done by Gayarou
63) Mizuki Saori and Mizuki Shiori from the eroge Hajimete no Orusuban
64) Mirai Sakuragawa from the eroge Naisho no Yorimichi

Steve's Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Posts

65) I can't find any information from the artist but at least we know its Mare
66) Art by Shida Kazuhiro
67) Art of Pacifica from the Trading Card Game Vanguard done by Fujima Takuya
68) Says right on the picture
69) Art by ryo (I wish I knew more information but that's all I got)
70) Art of Hachikuji Mayoi done by Gum (Vivid Garden)

(Posting this now so I won't lose my work if browser dies or something, will be editing more and more in.)
As of 4:00pm PST today, I've spent 3 hours doing this. Clearly I have nothing better to do...

"Everything starting point has 3 main choices and every choice has 3 branches." -Sparkker (Bored)

Meaning:
Your choice can either be a positive, negative and a to-be decided choice. If you imagine Kagari's life theory, the two branches going to the side are the positive and negative, while the middle one is the to-be decided one. A to-be decided choice always align to a positive, negative or neutral. If it doesn't, then your story will never end. Although, it doesn't necessarily mean that the 3rd choice is always there. The 3rd choice is the neutral chain bringer that brings the possibility of going a new kind of positive.

To better Clarify: I'll give you a mini-game for you to have fun with. If you want to play it.





Chose B:



Chose B:




Chose C:




If you chose B:




Chose B:



Chose C:




If you chose C:




~ How bored I really am

I will also have a copy of Borderlands 1 Game of the Year Edition to give away, I'll not run them both at the same time, but I was interested if anyone is interested in the first one anyhow.

If I know, I can think of some ideas.

So my friends, its that time again, where I get my hands on a copy of a game I already own and so I will share the spoils.

Today its a copy of Borderlands 2.

I thought about, what could we do to decide a winner. So I'll make it simple.

Post a demotivational poster (anime/VN/Manga) from an image you like and add a tagline in to do with it. We'll have a vote later to decide which wins.

Any ones made not by yourself will be removed from play and I will not let you join future giveaways.

Please use: http://www.fakeposters.com/generator/

and post below.

Others may enter, but if they do not want to prize, simply state this


Maximum Entries: Three






ps: thanks for pin





VOTE FOR "ALL" YOU LIKE!

Hey everyone! It's been a little while since we last talked about Rin's Mysteries, the visual novel project being headed up by Tay. If you need a quick refresher of our announcement post, have a look at our developers blog.

Now then, what has been going on the past month or two? Well, due to various circumstances (that totally did not relate to me unplugging all the computers and deleting things for fun), we have experienced various delays that will more than likely mean we won't be able to make our original release date for Christmas of 2013.

Our new release goal is now set for April 2014

Now for some other quick tidbits. We will be updating the developers blog on a regular basis now, so be sure to subscribe to it to get all the juicy, riveting updates as well as some behind the scene glimpses into the development of Rin's Mysteries.

Second bit of news. It has come to our attention that our previous thread for letting you guys submit mystery ideas was too vague as the ideas, while good, can't be re-worked into the story. A new, more specific post will go up later today detailing what we are looking for and giving your more information so that you can contribute to this project.

We are all very excited about where we are heading for this project and we look forward to sharing more information in the future!



Project Rin Studios Development Blog



Project Members
Tay: Project Leader, Writer
Ryoji: Writer
Down: Writer
solidbatman: Writer, Justice
mooingmage: Art Work

Oh my (/u\)~

I wanted to experiment with putting 2D art over a real life photo this time (may come to use in a future project). Here's Kurumi waiting in Time Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong B)/>:

Luckily I didn't know about the fanbase, but the show is way over hyped. I will admit that the movie is pretty damn good though and makes the show look bad.


Happy 700th Post to meeeee!

Because it seems a few people care about stats:

http://www.uhhhhh.com/fuwanovel.html




Probably post here if you want a picture there too.

Thank you everyone I think I'll be able to finish it by this weekend.
I've been listening to Carnation, Love Song, Love Letter, and its remixes as I working on this; it's not tiring to listen to them this long XD

I've been reading F/SN's Fate route but decided to take a break and work on art today and yesterday.
Here's what I have so far:

My OC and Shizuru~ I hope those ugly flowers look like carnations OTL

So- I’ve been here for about one month and a half now, and I thought it’d be nice to say what I thought of fuwan until now.

I’ll begin with the “main” focus (I really don’t like the term “main” here, still I couldn’t find any better one) which is VN distribution.

If we’re only talking about numbers, fuwanovel certainly has less VNs than you can find on other places- I myself have about 10-20 VNs on my pc which you can’t find here. However, whenever I can I try to download stuff from here- This is most probably due to the fact that while I’m certainly a VN fan, I’m also a noob with computers, and often installing patches, extra stories and such lead to mistakes which I can’t quite understand.

I think it’s incredibly good that you guys usually put pre-patched stuff, which helps quite a lot some people who don’t have knowledge about pcs in general. While I can use daemon tools and I don’t end up having beginner mistakes (problem with locale, files set to read-only, etc.) It still proves hard to me to install patches with confusing instructions and mostly sloppy and hard to understand writing.

I’ll go straight to my impressions on tech support now- And I have to say I had errors with stuff from fuwanovel 3 times until now- And all of them weren’t common errors. Yet in all of the three times, in less than 5 hours I got a solution. (Thanks Zakamutt, Mephisto, Kendjin and Luch for helping by the way). This really left a good impression, as I already had to experience waiting for days for help with errors and often not even getting it, leading me to delete the VN from my pc without even reading it. Overall, I have a great impression on fuwan help with VN issues until now.

I don’t have much to say about fuwanovel’s position on copyright in general- I couldn’t agree more with it. While I could argue about why here, you guys already did such a great job in defending your position that I really have nothing to say- It’d be pretty much a repetition of arguments I’ve heard from other members, so I really won’t bother.

I’ll say a bit about the people as well- to me this is undoubtedly the best point of fuwan until now. People are actually friendly towards each other, and I don’t have to constantly worry about getting crap whenever I say something. It’s a sad truth, but in most places I’ve seen that talk about visual novels (or arguably, internet in general) have a really bad atmosphere. People seem to love hating, and that bothers me to no end. I usually don’t feel like I can say “I like this” without getting poisonous feedback from a great number of people- And having people who like the same things answering them in a poisonous way as well.

You can definitely argue about fuwanovel being small- I’ve only really talked with 10-20 members, and these talks mostly happened on the IRC, and I can say that compared to most VN related sites, fuwan doesn’t seem to have all that much activity- However, I can also say that even if there aren’t much people talking at all, the benefits of having no haters are certainly worth it. And even non-serious, silly stuff like a cup noodles thread can get surprisingly enjoying if there’s no one trying to ruin the fun.

I’ve found myself laughing at nonsensical conversations with members I didn’t knew all that well (My first line to solidbatman was something amongst the lines of “You shall be my imouto from now on!” since he greeted me with “welcome back, onii-chan”) without having to worry about being treated in a bad manner by people there. I could probably keep talking by hours about the IRC interactions I had- like the nicknaming trend I created, kuu and ryouuuuu-sempai unparalled Osu skills, the yuri story I’m making about fuwanovel (actually, thanks for the feedback. The next chapter is probably coming out this week), Archer (Kendjin) grief with frodo’s death and a lot more I’m not going to write here.

This also applies to serious conversations. Even when talking about polemic stuff, people are always nice and respectful towards each other, which I personally think it’s great. Even when someone makes a mistake, there’s just and educated warning with no bad intentions explaining the error. This is the biggest reason of my activity on the forums, since if I ever screw up, I’m sure I won’t get a load of insults from everyone.

This is also why I can believe that whenever I talk to a member I’m yet to know, I’m going to have an amiable chat, instead of hatred spam. And also the reason I encourage every other newcomer like me to try and talk to people here. You’ll definitely not regret it XD

Gah, I somehow feel like I’m making propaganda now. Uuuh… That’s not my intention, though…

Anyway! This is my honest impression of fuwanovel until now. While it may be incomplete, it touches on every major point I wanted to talk about- And I can say that I’m really glad of taking part on the forums now

I seriously hope fuwan grows, and that it never loses its friendly atmosphere. I really like the forums now, and seeing people work hard for spreading Visual Novels is really a pleasure. I also hope someday I can take part of this as well.
Thanks for all the members that showed me how fun it can be to be part of this.

Fate/Stay Night
The Holy Grail War. That hellish, great ritual that offers the ultimate prize for the one who claims it: a wish. There are two conditions to participate: one must be a magus (magic user), and one must be chosen by the Holy Grail to participate.
There are seven chosen Masters, and seven classes of Servants. Only one master may seize the grail.
This is the story of a boy who wanted to be a superhero. It's the story of three warring families. It's the story of an ultimate prize and ultimate sacrifice.


OVERALL ENDING GUIDE *(Read!)*
 
Fate Route Ending Guide

Unlimited Blade Works Route Ending Guide
 
Heaven's Feel Route Ending Guide

 
Individual Walkthroughs
PROLOGUE
 

FATE ROUTE

 
 

UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS - "TRUE" ROUTE
UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS - "GOOD" ROUTE
 
 

 
HEAVEN'S FEEL - "TRUE" / "NORMAL 1" / "NORMAL 2" ROUTES
 
This walkthrough was heavily based on Mirror Moon's amazing Flowchart.pdf walkthrough packaged with the English patch. A huge thank you for their amazing work. The VN community is made more for it.
 
Thanks!

As long as it stays in a single thread...
Although chatting there instead of chatting in IRC seems kinda pointless?

So what is this "IRC" thing you might hear people go on about in some places on the gigantic network of tubes you might be wondering. It stands for "Internet Relay Chat" and I'm not going to go into a gigantic history, that's what google and wikipedia are for.

Why would you use a client? So you can customize how it looks, and you can join a lot more channels and networks easier than using it in your browser. Also, it allows you to set notices for when someone sends you a message, depending on the client. There's dozens of other things you can do with a client, but first you need to actually get connected to a network before it's of any use to you!



First thing's first, download HexChat here; its free and all of that nice stuff (no nagware or screens asking you to donate coffee), so no viruses or anything: http://hexchat.org/downloads.html

Assuming you're on Windows, you can use either the 32 or 64bit version, I recommend using x64 unless you're running a old computer with Windows XP still (why would you be doing that?)
After you have that installed, on first run you'll hopefully get this dialog box:



What you'll want to do here is:

-Scroll down and find "Rizon" and highlight it by clicking on it once
-Click "Favor" on the right, "Rizon" will turn bold

-Check the 2 boxes under the list

"Skip network list on startup" does what it says, you're not bombarded with the list every time you start HexChat; "Show favorites only" keeps you from having to scroll through the list should you need to open it back up, be mindful that if you ever need to join another network, unchecking this will show the entire list. Alternately, you can add it yourself


"Nick name" is what you want to be shown as in the channel, but be mindful that someone else on the network might already have the name you want to use, so enter a few different ones you'd like as alternatives (or just add a suffix like "_" or "2" to the one you want to use) for "2nd choice" and "3rd choice". "User name" is for if/when you've registered to Nickserv on Rizon's server, this can be pretty much anything you want it to be as it isn't normally visible (and I recommend doing this so others won't take your nick when you're offline). After you've done that, click on edit and you'll get a new dialog window:



As far as this dialog box goes, you won't have to do much aside from adding in "#fuwanovel" to favorite channels, this will join any channels you put in this box upon connection to the server. The only other box you might need to worry about here is "Nickserv password", and this is for if you decide to register your nick so no one else can use it. The rest of them are for more "advanced" networks (usually used on private tracker IRCs). Go ahead and click Close when your screen matches this one. You'll be returned to dialog box above and from there. Click on Connect, and you'll have this hopefully:








And you're done!

Of course, you can change how the program looks, this is just a default after all (at least as far as I know), or you can choose to leave it as it is. Go ahead and poke around the program and explore the settings and chat with everyone else in the channel as you do so~ You can always bug me in the channel if you need help with something.




I'll add other things under this as required/when I'm in the mood to.

i actually find it hard to believe that there are no bullies. when these forums started 12months ago, the VN community was only bullies. the only place where it wasnt bully-infested, was craneanime.com (but their forums didnt start until much later) and nihonomaru.com and maybe some of hongfire.com?

so apparently the new trick to keeping out 4chan scum, is to make it so holy the bastards wont touch it with a mile-long stick?