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Niché interests (which means damn near all interests) always gets this topic for some stupid reason, don't U understand that the mainstream is not desirable? I don't want to share my hobby with some of you people, because your end goal is to eliminate stuff that I like for the sake of popularity, you want to "drop the porn" and "drop lolicon", screw you, screw your "diversity", screw your ideals of ruining it for others. Freedom of choice should always win, and that's why the mainstream is not desirable to fans; it's incompatible with Japanese VNs. This does not stop you from reading, creating or promoting the VNs you like. The nature of what the medium is does not change just because a lot of Japanese VNs have porn in them. Go your own way and don't drag others down with you, please.

This. Short attention spans and the need for instant gratification are much more fundamental barriers facing VNs in the west than h-scenes, cultural attitudes or any of the other issues brought up in this thread. Trying to change VNs so that they appeal more to western sensibilities is an awful idea, it'll only serve to alienate the current fanbase in pursuit of a nonexistent market. The best we can hope for is to slowly expand the current niche fanbase so that the companies can sustain themselves and we can get more and bigger releases each year. 

This. Short attention spans and the need for instant gratification are much more fundamental barriers facing VNs in the west than h-scenes, cultural attitudes or any of the other issues brought up in this thread. Trying to change VNs so that they appeal more to western sensibilities is an awful idea, it'll only serve to alienate the current fanbase in pursuit of a nonexistent market. The best we can hope for is to slowly expand the current niche fanbase so that the companies can sustain themselves and we can get more and bigger releases each year. 

VNs missed the boat as they would have had to have taken off in the non-instant entertainment era. People don't read any more; that's why VNs will never be popular in the west.

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

Hmm.. Just opened that part and it played just fine. I think it's an issue with the DLC vs the Fakku release. I can't do anything about that at the moment because I don't have the DLC to test. Also, just figured out how to do all the .psb file stuff(hopefully?) so that should be in the next update. Keep in mind, it will be at or above 250mb. After that is voice repair.
 
If you run into any issues from the vanilla game that were not mentioned previously, please comment.

We hit the 50% mark   
50.1% TOTAL +0.1% 30632/61164 +84 87.2% Routes +0.3% 30.1% Side Stories 24.6% Training Routes 96.0% Common 98.4% Karin +2.0% 13.3% Ichigo 100.0% Mikan 100.0% Yuzu 100.0% Suika 100.0% Twins 100.0% Zakuro  
 
I answered the question earlier in this thread.
While the situation with the interface is a lot different today (new people and it's partially translated), the part about spoiling the story still stand.
 
Regarding injecting the translation, it does work and while I have fixed most issues, it's still not glitch free. I prefer to play it safe and injecting translated text was my first task before doing anything else at all. When switching to the HD version, the first thing I did was to make sure I could control the text ingame. I did that even before transferring the already translated text. It wouldn't be fun to finish the translation and then discover the VN engine refuse new text.

Common route: 14 030
Kotori: 9 728
Ageha: 8 919
Amane: 8 209
Twins: 9 991 (common part: 3 018, Asa: 2 773, Yoru: 4 200)
Total: 50 877
At least according to the random scrap of paper where I wrote down line counts for each script, that's still lying on my desk.

Something for today:

@TheAnimeExpert - Err, yeah, I am kinda not updating progress here, sorry. The thing is, I didn't make one of those "progress bars" like some other projects have. But I can tell you that the project is alive (come on, it has been only like a month, you can't expect something to die so fast, LOL! xD). I can assure you it's going to be finished since I am very motivated to see it through. Though, it might take a while since all people I have on the project aren't as free as I am. @Dergonu is the only main TLer so far (and maybe one more guy but I didn't hear anything from him in a while) and he already started working on some portions of one of the scripts. As for the porting, I finished some first 10 scripts so far (minor editing, going through and testing), and some 25 overall (not tested, just ported). The VN has almost 300 scripts I think so it's gonna take a while to finish it, but I am gonna have lots of free time now that the exams are done so I will most likely be able to go through it a little bit faster. As for other technical stuff, most of it is already done. I got @marcus-beta to hack me the .exe so I can use Tahoma font, which was one of the bigger stumbling blocks I had. Only stuff I yet didn't deal with are the launch menu and one small section of untranslated text in the game settings menu that I didn't yet find a way to deal with (but it's generally an unimportant section). As for decensoring (demosaicing) patch, @Helvetica Standard has been working on it and I can tell you right now that it looks pretty amazing from what he showed us .

A brief update this time. No less than 3 people managed to get ill, meaning two people (myself included) didn't do anything at all
47.0% TOTAL +0.4% 28758/61164 +230 82.1% Routes +0.8% 30.1% Side Stories 21.7% Training Routes 96.0% Common 62.8% Karin +5.6% 13.3% Ichigo 100.0% Mikan 100.0% Yuzu 100.0% Suika 100.0% Twins 100.0% Zakuro  

Ah right sorry, yes they're bitmaps, not the video but still not text in the game so they'd have to be graphic edited. Looking through the extracted bitmaps, they only did that on Manaka's route for some reason. Perhaps they felt they didn't give enough of a postscript in the video for her because of
Manaka's extra postscript:
 

That's because it's part of the video and not actual in game text. All the routes have something similar. I'll take a look when time permits and get back to you.

It's definitely not ignored, I keep checking back each week to see where it's at and I am sure many others do also. can't wait for the finished patch. Please keep up the good work your doing!