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My post was part in jest, part serious. I know it's unlikely to happen, but given how they randomly decided to release the 18+ version for Lovekami Healing Harem, I wouldn't be surprised if they suddenly recast the VAs for Umikana and introduced the H-scenes xD

Hakuoki, maybe?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Took 'em a while, LOL. Can't wait for my 18+ Umikana. Sasuga, PULLTOP.

The Manakashi fanTL group/pantsudev also have their discord server. Edit: Another fanTL group, Daybreak Translations (AkaGoei project), also have their discord server.

Abandon all hope, ya mere mortal... for Reallive is not a beast to be taken lightly. But now seriously, you'll go mad with anything running on Reallive. I know. I've been there. Though if you're lucky, someone might come and help you solve some technical problems (not all mind you, but some are solvable... probably). Edit: A certain person comes to mind. You may want to ring at Takafumi's door.

Enthusiasm is always nice

Happy New Year

Tough luck. You're gonna see it both on PC and fanTLed (no idea what kind of TL it's going to be) xD

If they do get it, then they're likely to announce it sometime after Kinkoi, yes. Didn't know about the connection with Dracu riot, but it's interesting to hear, so thanks for sharing that xD Kakenuke is more likely to happen than Natsunagi definitely xD No idea if NN would go after it, but they certainly can.

Natsunagi's too old. I'd be surprised if anyone ever picks it up (officially). There's also the fact that old VNs don't really sell well, unless they're really famous (and even then, it doesn't really work out in the end). But NN may pick up Hatsusaku. That one's considered the best work by Saga Planets, and is still modern enough for localization purposes (despite being old too).

@yumi - Well, when you put it that way, that's understandable. Sadly, it's not an optimal situation. You're in the same position I was when I was doing Miagete Goran Restoration project. Finding and getting TLers to help ain't easy. Also, it doesn't help that the fanTLer pool has kinda been dwindling with most of the folks going official these days. So yeah... you wouldn't have much choice, so I understand where you're coming from.

I'm not a fan of projects where you put the burden of good prose writing all on editors. Sure, editors are there to improve the flow of text and the overall reading experience. That's true. But I'm of the opinion that your TLer already needs to be at least somewhat versed in good prose writing (including flowery descriptions, etc.).

If I did know that, I'd probably ask the same person to help me out xD

If you are trying to do a project for a VN that uses YU-RIS engine, my advice is to get a proper hacker. Otherwise, you won't have any luck. I tried my hand at YU-RIS before, and that engine's not noob friendly. You won't get far with it on your own.

Well, there's a partial patch for A5 out at least:

Merry Majikoi Christmas

That's under the assumption that they were removed in the first place. But if they weren't...

Well, in the end, I guess I did it for Onee-san X Shuffle, ahahaha

Oh, I see... That's a good approach, I think. Though it's going to be lots of tech work, I suppose. Oh yeah, sorry, my bad. I didn't answer your original request. I'd help with the savedata stuff, but sadly, I'm busy with something right now, so can't find the time to make those save states you need. I'd need to grab the VNs too, which I don't have either.

I see. Interesting. Looks quite ambitious. But you have my good luck wishes. It's about time someone translated an Atelier Kaguya VN. Btw, you may want to keep it under wraps before release. From what I gather now, it seems you're porting the entire VNs to Unity. It won't be like a fanpatch release, but a whole game once you're done. I'm not sure if the dev would care about it (they certainly don't seem interested in the western market), but better be safe than sorry.

Did you manage to figure it out yet? I recall most of those old VNs could only be translated through hex editing. Not sure how the situation is with old Kirikiri VNs, though.

Someone must know. Did you try asking in VNR's discord server? I really remember seeing some people showing screens of it and claiming it's from DeepL. It's probably legit, unless it was all bullshit. I'll PM it to you in a sec.

I recall extracting the script from https://vndb.org/v25719 back earlier, but I can't remember if I managed to make the game not break after script reinsertion. In any case, I can send you the tool I used for it, but no promises it's going to work for you. AdvHD can be a bit of a pain in the ass sometimes. Btw, did you try VNR's built-in MTL feature? I see you mentioned DeepL, but I think there's a way to make that work with VNR, and even make the text display right inside the game's textbox. At least I recall seeing it being done by some people.

For what VN? Extracting the script and editing it is the easy part. What's not so easy is that when you recompile them back, it can break the game after the game's OP (there are some technical issues why that happens). This is true for all AdvHD VNs.