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Hello everyone!
I'm still a bit tired so please excuse if I'm writing a bunch of garbage...
We have literally spent the whole last night going through the trial again and again, changing the wording of a couple of lines, fixing the last formatting mistakes and preparing everything for release.
I am really proud of the whole team! Good work everyone

Some things I'd like to mention:
A big "Thank You" to all of you who downloaded vol. 2 of the trial, as of today we got 113 unique hits, totalling 21GB in downloads!
I would also like to shout out to @DemonSabre, who helped me out a lot by finishing the release poster.

If you decide to download and play the trial we would appreciate it if you took 1 minute to give us a quick feedback (only 5 checkboxes):
5 is good, 1 is bad! http://redkeel.polldaddy.com/s/lover-able-trial-1-survey
We want to provide you with the best possible quality and this helps us to recognize what we have to improve.

But now, without further talking: Please enjoy vol. 1 of the Lover Able trial!

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Thanks to @DemonSabre for last minute help with the release poster!
Trial 1 features
Experience the full prologue! (~1200 lines) Bonus: Short excerpts from each heroine's everyday life Fully localized user interfaces and error messages Word wrapping (don't laugh, that was a lot of work!) Optional subbed game OP (another 70MB) Installation of trial 1
1. Download the trial
Mirror 1 (Official) Mirror 2 (Unofficial) Prepatched
2. Download the patch Skip this step if you are using the prepatched version
Latest Latest (Without OP) Other versions
3. Patch the game Skip this step if you are using the prepatched version
Extract the game files into an empty directory.
Copy LPatch.exe into the same folder and run it.
Click 'Patch' and wait for it to finish.
Note: The patcher requires the .NET framework to be installed.
If you have trouble patching your game, try using the prepatched version.
4. Change your Unicode system locale

If you don't do this the text will be messed up!
5. Play!
Start the game using the "Lover Able (English).exe" executable.
Known issues
For a comprehensive list of issues check our bug tracker.
If you encounter any problems with our patch, please let us know so we can fix it!
If you choose to change the player name from it's default "Aizawa Haruki", expect 3 or 4 lines to have improper word wrapping (the ones where the name appears) This is an inherent limitation of the yuka engine, as word wrapping is not supported at all.
We have implemented a workaround by adding spaces to push words into the next line but because this happens at compile time we can't possibly know how long your chosen name will be. If the character spacing is completely off you probably didn't set your unicode system locale to Japanese.
You have to restart Windows after the change.

Hey folks,
our editing & qc team (@AdventSign and @OutoftheBox in particular) have been working around the clock to get volume one of the trial finished this year!
That being said, after the first beta readthrough we have a total of 80 minor fixes to do until we are ready to release, but we are confident they will be done in time.
Therefore, look forward to next Saturday (the 31st) when trial 1 will be available for download!


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check your pm zalor, I'm explaining you why piracy is bad and how it hurts everyone in this business 
btw, if you really want to read the first "good" work from kataoka read White ～セツナサのカケラ～ not really that good but it's better than those fanfic he wrote about kanon and such. 

@littleshogun
First of all, thanks for the feedback!
Yes, the full version lets you choose between two hairstyles and two types of clothing for each heroine.
About trial 1: Even though this is a bit confusing, we decided to stick to the original naming scheme:
We released the second official trial first, the first volume is fully translated but incomplete in terms of TLC, edition and QC.
https://vndb.org/v5734
I hope that answers your questions
PS: While I'm at it, here is the current overall progress:

@Infernoplex the tildes were deliberately retained during translation

As far as I know they denote a prolonged sound at the end of a sentence, but don't take my word for it ^^

Yeah, @OutoftheBox mentioned it too, I forgot to remove that "Technical Stuff" folder when I compressed earlier, nevermind, just ignore it, I didn't know what all those tildas were for before I have heard today
 

*treading
"There's new clients" is grammatically incorrect. Now, sometimes people talk in grammatically incorrect ways. It's one of those things where when spoken in a confident tone, you may not even notice they're speaking incorrectly and they'll sound fine, but when you're reading it, the character comes off as stupid. There's a difference between slang where a character uses unusual words, and slang where they use improper grammar. If you want a character to sound casual you can utilize the former, but reserve the latter only for when you want them to sound stupid or thuggish or something.
"Client" is a weird word choice here, since it's describing people visiting a restaurant. "Customers" would be a much more normal way to describe them. I don't know anything about restaurant jargon though so maybe that's how staff talks about customers?
I was the one who wrote a huge multi-part response in the feedback section of the survey, btw. You can PM me if you have any further questions about that. Keep in mind the handful of basic Japanese issues I mentioned only come from the time I spent editing, and you should ask an actual translator if you want more detail than the surface-level stuff I addressed.

@Decay
Thanks a lot for taking the time, issues like the usage of Japanese quotation marks will be taken into consideration for our new tl / style guidelines!

Alright... now that we have evaluated most of the feedback for trial 1, translation is starting once again
We will let you know when the new style guide is finished!

SCA-JI a hack

You are 1.5 years late

Yep... even more pretentious than chuunige, and the worst of all was that the charage-style portions were the best part of the game, for the most part.  The last arc was annoying as hell.

It was yet another pretentious game with a lot of crap. I cannot phantom people actually like this stuff. 

It's a shame you're only including translated titles, especially given you didn't put that in the name. VA-11 Hall-A was easily the second-best VN released in the last year that I played, behind S;G 0, and while I haven't played a whole lot of the ones in your tournament, I know it's a heck of a lot better than all of the other VNs I did play on those brackets.

I once dreamed something about making a blood pact with a demoness. Does that count?
PS: It was H.

I once dreamed something about making a blood pact with a demoness. Does that count?
PS: It was H.

I once dreamed something about making a blood pact with a demoness. Does that count?
PS: It was H.

I am not sure what's the reason for it though, I never really had problems with posting screenshots on Fuwa but I am thinking that in this case maybe all the spoilers tags are giving it problems. But I am not eager to remove the spoilers because then I'd just make a long scrolling post that is really unneccesary. I will upload everything on Google drive later, for now this is enough. I will come back later Happy New Year everyone and good luck.

Wow, those are a lot of screenshots ^^
I'm having issues with images not loading correctly as well... My signature and the release poster for trial 1 are not always displayed correctly for some reason :/

@Infernoplex
First of all, thank you soo much!
We have received your survey submission along with 4 others a while ago and we are really grateful for the incredibly detailed feedback
Don't worry about being to harsh; we want to improve the quality of our patch as fas as possible, so even poining out seemingly minor details is helping a lot!
 
The reaction so far has been overwhelming in general: Not even a day has passed since the files went online and we already got 61 unique hits (8GB of downloads).
We greatly appreciate the honest feedback you guys took the time to leave. Around 3200 kind words in just a few hours!
Judging from the responses we've seen so far, grammar is the most prominent issue we need to improve, you have sent us a ton of suggestions and many useful references.
We are currently working on a revision of our internal translation and style guidelines to incorporate the requests, especially some rules to ensure a consistent reading experience.
 
Because the question has come up:
It is true that we do not have access to the development kit for the (unfortunately completely undocumented) yuka engine, but through extensive reverse engineering we have found a way to manipulate the game logic.
Right now this is a very tedious process, but I'm currently working on a de-/compiler to simplify that. (Just for reference: It took three days to add a single space between the last and first name of the protagonist).
We have tried to bypass some inherent limitations of the engine like missing support for word wrapping by automatically inserting the right amount of spaces at the time our custom tool repacks the game files.
The "Technical" category of our survey is meant to be the place to rate these features. It is also the preferred category to leave feedback for the patch tool itself.
 
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Sadly, Fuwanovel for some reason hates my screenshots so if you could manage yourself around, here is my photobucket with all the screenshots.
It should all be sorted in the right order of appearance, I am going to upload everything later on google drive, this is just for the examples mentioned in my post. Currently, Fuwa doesn't want to display these screenshots all in the right way so this is the only way to view them as of the moment.

The screenshots are broken ... Why does Fuwa don't like them

<3 u @Infernoplex.
Big thanks for your feedback!!