aprilia1k

Thanks for the your input and the threads you've linked.
To be honest, it's not really something I've considered given the fact that it wouldn't be a donation for the translation, but a gift as an acknowledgment of a personal goal being met, but I take your point seriously.
Perhaps it would be safe to put it this way: I will not be giving any money for this project whatsoever, that being said I'm happy for eplipswich to message me and I'll offer my strong words of congratulations once it's all done. No cause for complaint if we're doing it that way.

I'll see your 100.  With sincere respect to those involved - don't wish to insult with paltry "bribes"; so, even if it's later... I'm in.

The visual novel is 10 to 30 hours long according to vndb, there appears to be only 3 h-scenes per route.
imho it's a very good visual novel, already rated it a 10 on vndb.

@adamstan Thanks for the input. Sorry. I think I've read this discussion before, but somehow I've forgotten about it. Figures. It has been a while ago xD
As for my stance on the matter... I don't think of sex as "cherry on top", even in teenage romances. I mean, we live in a sex-driven world. Even teenagers have sex, especially in this day and age when in all developed countries sex is considered a normal thing. For me, sex in this type of VNs is like a "deeping of the relationship". Granted, the execution of these aren't always flawless, but that doesn't make them any less important in my eyes. Some people will disagree with me here, but I honestly don't feel like VNs that have their H-scenes cut are much better that way. I've seen a fair amount of people that think so, but I really can't agree with that. What's more, I believe in this even more strongly now after I finished reading Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort. I am 100% confident I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much had it not been for the sex. It's objectively a lot weaker romance-wise than Miazora, but I still enjoyed it a lot due to the fun setting and some heroines that I liked. On the other hand, I enjoyed Umikana a lot as well, but at the end, I felt that the lack of an ending H-scenes for each heroine weakened the experience for me a little, despite liking everything about the setting, the cast, and the plot. I still rated it how I would if it had H-scenes, though.

Yes well you see i consider every work which got something cut or deleted as butchered. Because it is interfering with author vision of his work It's like having a cake without cherry on the top. If i'm paying for full cake i expect for this cake to have everything in it even the cherry. Because the person who maked this cake wanted this cherry to be there and i want to go with the author interpretation rather than translator vision who thinks that he knows better. You can take my opinion as nitpicking but i just love complete works with everything without censorship. Cause that's how it was intended to be. If people won't give a damn about such treatment soon tm we will get everything censored like that, to appease normies. And we will still be taken as minors even if we are over 18.

You really should have bought it from FAKKU instead.
No one should be supporting visual novels on Steam, buy them elsewhere.

Oops. This is awkward. I actually got really, really, really lucky and survived. So, I felt obligated to say something/give closure.

I now have a new favorite hobby (reading VNs) that synergies great with the other things I enjoy (learning Japanese, watching anime).  VNs are the best thing I got out of the near death experience.  So, still, and again, thanks for the list.  You contributed to the creation of a new lifelong VN reader.  Thanks!  

Can't wait to get the bad ending first try because I'm too much of a coward to confess. Just like in real life. 

Welp, some two months after I started playing it, I finally finished Hapymaher. I liked the overarching plot quite a bit. This was a way better game than Chrono Clock in terms of both having an interesting premise and, more importantly, really getting a lot of mileage out of it. The Christmas arc was my favorite by far, and the true ending was predictable but still good. If every arc had had something as batshit crazy as the Christmas arc, but distinct, this game would have been an absolute legend for me. As it was, the common route was too long and the heroine routes were too short. I would've liked more distinct content. Though, that said, the game is still a far cry from something like, say, 11eyes, which has hardly any route differentiation. At any rate, even just that one Christmas chapter being so good was more than enough to make me consider it a great game. Art and music were both solid, too. Not my favorite or anything, but very good.
It's a real shame the translation read like absolute ass.
Talk about phoning it in. I can't decide if this was worse than Magical Marriage Lunatics or not, but it's at least the same level of low-effort mediocrity. Constant bad translationisms, frequent absolute nonsense, shitty English, the works.
Don't know why MG keeps doing shoddy work on relatively big-name titles like this one. Oh well, at least Evenicle and Sorcery Jokers got good TLs, among MG releases I played this year. I just wish they'd focus more on consistent quality for titles like this, especially since this one happened to be so firmly up my alley.

Finished Hapymaher and it was a bit of a so-so experience. Not exactly unexpected though, considering Chrono Clock had its fair share of problems too.
But the first half of Hapymaher was actually pretty good. The dream world scenes had a sense of mystery and danger, while the real world scenes were more light and slice of life oriented. The iteration between both worlds was decently paced and kept things interesting without neglecting the lighter moe parts. And the heroines were not only very likable, but also contributing to the plot, with Maia being the highlight as the mischievous loli-villain of the dream world. Until that point the VN was scratching on an 8 rating in my book. Unfortunately, the second half couldn't keep up wih that quality.
The VN teases Alice in Wonderland in the first half, and just when you're about to tumble down the rabbit hole and experience a world of wonder and mysteries... you get stuck in the entrance and can't move forth or back anymore. This was just about the time when the endless dream starts with the party, christmas and gender-change events. Instead of giving you an interesting sub-plot in a fascinating meta world, the VN just throws the whole plot overboard and tortures you with slice-of-life and bogus events of almost unparalleled boredom. I had to heavily abuse the skip button to make it through that mess with a healthy mind. And the routes weren't much better. Yayoi's didn't fit at all to her personality, Maia's did barely exist and Alice had so many personality changes in her route that I hardly knew who she was at the end. Saki's was probably the 'less worst' since it at least followed the main plot around Maia, but the revelations were still very minor. And the so called true-route was just the continuation of Alice's apruptly ending half-route. Still enough to ridicule all other routes, including the actual main plot around Maia and let you end up with a girl you hardly know or care about. So yeah, the plot was certainly not developing the way I wanted. 
The VN has still some rather good points. The heroines are all very likable, especially Yayoi, Maia and Alice. Saki was the only one that didn't really click with me. She was a bit of a bitch and I didn't like her voice that much. In contrast to her Maia was just fantastic. Hapymaher was good when she was on the screen and unfortunately she didn't have much screen time in the second half. Her seiyuu also did a marvelous job in making her mischievous, dramatic and mysterious. And Yayoi was just gorgeous. 
The art is certainly one of the strongest points of the VN - it's certainly one of the most pretty VN's I know. The music is also pretty decent, offering good tracks for both slice of life and dramatic scenes, even if the tracks get a bit repetitive after a while.
Heroine rating: Yayoi = Maia > Alice > Keiko >> Saki
Overall rating: 7/10 (The plot certainly wouldn't justify that rating, but it gets lots of bonus points for art, music and heroines)
Some personal observations:
I played Hapymaher at the same time like Fatal Twelve and it gave me some comparison material why HapyMaher's plot failed and the one of Fatal Twelve succeeded. Fatal Twelve has about 15 character sprites, 60 event CG's and lots of background locations just for the plot and it's a medium length VN. HapyMaher has just about 10 character sprites, and despite its 75 event CG's only 20 - 30 are relevant to the plot - the rest are H-scenes. There's also a severe lack of background locations with almost the whole dream world consisting of 'plantified' real world locations. Add to that a long length VN and it's getting clear why it's difficult to make a good story out of that. Although the H-scenes in Hapymaher are certainly gorgeous, they sacrificed too much for it.

Never mind, looks like the file host the OP is using is now requiring you to have premium in order to download, I doubt that was intentional, @HoplessHiro you might want to fix this sooner than later.  Now I see, it's requiring premium because the free use period has expired.  My guess is the other downloads have expired as well.
 
I'll provide a OneDrive link with read only access (allowing you to download it only) once it finishes uploading to my OneDrive.
@janevn Here is the OneDrive link to the same file, it is virus free (just scanned it with Windows Defender on Windows 10, no threats found) just so you know this is a direct download and clicking on the following link will start downloading the 7z file instantly: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ahu1U0RbQuKJgqomlOnBiyrlsjaJWg

My bad, my bad - humble apologies.   So - did you get the rest of the demosaic and whatnot all working properly anyway?   I thought it was pretty cool of HopelessHiro to dig until he got those working - it'd be a shame if slight variances in config or something broke them.
I _bet_ it wouldn't be that difficult to port the band-aid removal... hmmmmmmm..  I haven't seen the band-aid'd version - I was assuming that it's just like the Bathhouse scenes, with towels removed. It's a handful of scenes, but only a few of them, iirc, would even show the "band-aid area".  Let me know - I've been looking at the work that these patches entailed (but, clearly I don't have that "other" version, lol..).  If it's worth it - I'll go over what HH did for the Steam patch, see what a band-aid removal would entail.

This VN - I've been working on a backlog for like, a year - but this Maitetsu - once I got used to it (the Freemote animations) it is probably the best looking VN I've ever seen.  Really beautiful game - and the MC is actually decent, ahem, except when he's not, heh.

Man... he's not talking about an actual virus, but steams policies and drm.

You really don't know what you're talking about at all, there are games on Steam you can't get anywhere else (Island for an example), it is really sickening when people go out of their way to give out false information or hate on Steam for no reason at all, Steam is not a bad platform at all plus they're changing how they handle content: Steam Blog - Progress Update.

First - I mean no critcism, no offense.  Purely curiousity.
Do you have access to Fakku?  I just wonder why so many people use Steam... I mean, those who are _not_ offended by 18+ content.   The idea of buying from Steam and then DL'ing an 18+ patch seems crazy to me.  I don't understand why anyone - other than under-18 or... repressed, judgemental prudes... would support Steam? They are and have always been an unnecessary middle-man for games...  Injecting their binaries to monitor and control one's access to titles, etc...  If you want the original, 18+ content, then just -stay away from Steam- entirely.   If you have no access to other re-sellers, I'm surprised.

I don't think the band-aid removal is intended for the Steam Version - but... HH has been pretty awesome to even work so hard to get a Steam solution.  I personally would encourage people to avoid Steam like the plague.  For me, they represent either censorship or "Big Brother" - both are bad ;-)  Just imho...
 
 
 
 
 

Works for me, even better than no dick. Quick and dirty edit was great.

Maybe transparent dicks? as no dicks would be a little weird in most scenes.

Face, meet palm...

like minds...  :-)
It's no wonder ittaku is aprilia1k's favorite translator...

Happy to have no dicks too.

I liked 3 better by far, so HH - you're not alone.
2 is too bright, and also somewhat crude in  a way (crude drawing I mean... not anything about morality lol)
Perhaps people want more realism added to 3?...

Honestly, I'd opt for an "invisible" option...  dicks be ugly man, fact.  if it's got to be seen, don't make it absurdly large like yer fisting a girl and... well - opinion is just opinion, but I just prefer the major eye-catcher to be the girl's nice parts, and not the guy's ...  definitely,well - imho.

I liked 3 better by far, so HH - you're not alone.
2 is too bright, and also somewhat crude in  a way (crude drawing I mean... not anything about morality lol)
Perhaps people want more realism added to 3?...

Honestly, I'd opt for an "invisible" option...  dicks be ugly man, fact.  if it's got to be seen, don't make it absurdly large like yer fisting a girl and... well - opinion is just opinion, but I just prefer the major eye-catcher to be the girl's nice parts, and not the guy's ...  definitely,well - imho.

Well, not what you expect but here and there will be adding modifications in the polishing phase can't tell for sure when it is going to be done. You are going to have options (outside the game... for inside the game don't know how to make it possible ) through an install wizard. It will be mostly minor modifications like alternative clothing options, nothing major!, maybe (but just maybe) pubic hair off/on, i still need to learn how to draw hair.
So for example:
"Makura, why  are you walking around in a micro bikini, lol!"

 

Could you possibly make me like you any more ? CD+ is my all time favourite Moe/Charage and I regularly go back to um 'relive scenes.' You would be most welcome to decensor though I'll be much more critical checking every scene very carefully

Hi, HH -  First, I apologize for this, considering you've worked so hard and answered so many questions already.
One thing I would like to clarify - I highlighted the line in your post that I am referring to.  From what I have read (and I read all the posts, for the most part) - Heliosaurus patch works on older release and newer, Fakku release; your patch works only on the newer, Fakku release.  I have read a couple times and this is what was stated.  SO - IF I don't want the "bandaids" version (meaning I want your patch) - I _must_ have the newer, Fakku release first.  Is this correct? (No bandaids only possible with newer, Fakku edition).

THANKS very very much for all your efforts.  If I get a chance, I will happily buy you a large coffee drink :-)

Cheers,
 
aprilia1k