FinalChaos

I'm not going to make an exception just because they finally slapped some porn onto it.

Finished Katanagatari 
 
It was definitely a great anime. I have no complaints with how it ended. I was a bit worried about how they'll finish it but now I feel that it was done splendidly.

So those Steam nukige guys paid these for that translation

I'm bashing the anime, not the LN, though.
I'm pretty sure it's not entirely the LN's fault the anime was so shitty, even if the staff from season 1 was present in season 2 as well, someone definitely did drugs while writing the script for season 2.
The second season feels like the director and script writers didn't talk to the author and just spewed nonsense onto a script and animated it.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=503649142
 
What is Ona-Ken! -International-? Well, let's let Greenlight do the talking for us!

Hi everybody,
 
As some of you are aware, I've been living on the Caribbean island of Dominica doing medical research with a med school there until my next semester started. Tropical storm Erika has trashed the island: we went to bed on Wednesday having heard that the storm would be minor and pass before we woke up, but then the next morning we found our rented house flooded ~3 inches and the street outside had become a river.
 
I'm told that there has been some news coverage, so you may have seen some of the bridges collapse, etc. It's been a crazy, crazy few days. We were stranded in the middle of a canyon from Thursday to this morning without phone access, internet, or water. The power kept going off as -- I'm told -- the generators in Portsmouth didn't have enough fuel to work without a steady stream from the capitol (which was cut off due to bridge collapses).
 
Nobody was killed near us, but there's something crazy like 20 dead and >100 missing people across the island. I joked Thursday morning that the internet gods really didn't want me working on the site, apparently, but the situation escalated so quickly that it just doesn't seem as funny anymore. Fortunately we've got water and food enough to last a week or so, but there's a good chance that the Portsmouth generators will fail later this afternoon and, again, I'll be stranded without internet/phone/power/water.
 
I'll post pictures when I'm able. Just wanted to report in and let you know that I haven't died (yet). I've got something like 900 emails to go through (downloading them to my tablet so even if the power goes off I'll be able to read them), but I'm going to hit them all. If you have an urgent problem please email me. If there's a true emergency I'm willing to take your phone number and call you (one of the phone providers here should be able to work even if the power goes off) (not sure I believe it, though), tho that's probably a bit of overkill.
 
Thanks for your patience. Apologies to VNTS fans, maef, Nayleen, Decay, and others for waiting on my Fuwa work and no-doubt feeling frustrated when I didn't appear. 
 
- Tay

People often forget that erotica ≠ porn. You don't really need to (and actually shouldn't) show genitals, if you aim for a higher quality work that touches on the sexuality as one of it's subjects. It's what discerns sacrum from profanum. I'm not saying there's no place for good ol' eroge-style porn, but it's not the kind of content creators should actually focus on in case of story-driven visual novels.
 
What we need are games with meaningful erotic content - one where it happens not just to please the readers, but have some impact on both the story, characters and people who play those games; leave something behind. The only thing I am concerned about, is that we propably don't have enough good writers to tackle it. It's really easy to create porn and extremely difficult to turn it into a touching story; a valuable form of artistic expression.
 
In any way, I'm rooting for all the people, who are trying to change the way we perceive erotic content in entertainment. I hope this will open up Steam to allow more 18+ content and push creators to strive for better quality, even if it remains a bit forced ("You can't have straight porn, but if the story's good enough we might actually allow it"). If that succeeds, who knows what might the future hold for us all. In any way, it's an interesting situation to follow and I can't wait to see the results, whatever they may be.

Literally the only reason I hate the Sakura series is because it's porn pretending that it's not porn.
 
It's confusing mah dick!

i still have nightmares about that loving.

I would drive various VN developers crazy with whispers about them localizing games so they can get translated.

Is this the beginning of Tay's career as a camgirl?

Hi everyone,
 
I've got a whoppin' 16 hours blocked out for Fuwanovel work tomorrow. The morning will mostly be dedicated to back-end code work on the Reviews hub, and working (hopefully with maef for at least part of it) on the articles app. Other things I've got on the list: 
Q2 site financial report PMs backlog LC reports  Bugging Zaka Sending nohman a LC reports schedule for the next month and a half Sending Rooke jibes jokes Front site work Recruitment app Fixing problems with the donation system Jamming out hardcore to classic rock and Final Fantasy music (mostly VIII, VII, IX piano stuff, but also some of the Distant Worlds albums) Kicking the bloody senators in their collective rear-end I'll also try to make myself available on the chat app as well as on Skype.  
tl;dr: Tay is going to be working on the site all day tomorrow, so please prepare for all hell to break loose. It is suggested that each community member prepare at least one 72-hour-emergency-kit full of food, flashlights, solar blankets, rage, sass, and panic. I'll be available to chat if you need some bad jokes.
 
Thanks!
- Tay
 

Watched till episode 7.
 
The anime has definitely kept me interested and is still going strong.
I mostly had two episodes to comment on - the 4th and the 7th.
 
Ep 4


Sabi vs Shichika was a fight I was reaaaaaaly looking forward too, and was pretty damn surprised when they just skipped it. Though that Nanami scene was soo good that I had totally forgotten about Shichika's fight.
I still have a slight glimmer of hope that will show this fight later on as a flashback or something. Plus the fact that the PV at end of 3rd episode of that fight was so detailed that it feels impossible they put in such effort to only troll everyone.

 
Ep 7

And the logical conclusion from all this is that you should do the same? Reply in the same currency, why not? Has that ever gone wrong?
 
Indeed. Lots of people like it. Clearly terrible material right there.
 
 
I admit, certain fanbases, especially those which grow too large, can be obnoxious. However, I don't see that as a reason to preemptively decide the material which they are a fan of must not be good.
That may not be what you did, of course, but it comes across as such regardless.
 
Personally, I believe Majikoi is truly a great game, mostly because I'm a huge fan of comedy, and I couldn't possibly speak as highly of Majikoi S, since it had improvements in some areas and then just dedicated all its writing to H-Scenes, which I don't like much.
 
It makes me feel sad and even mad when people say it's not a good game or that its overhyped when I came to love it before I noticed the fanbase at all.

If you're basing the fanbase on youtube comments, I think I've found your problem.

I'm not sure I understand your point. I tend to agree with you, maji koi is far from a masterpiece, and I've often wondered why people consider it so. That said, it's certainly not a bad VN, and there's no reason to go around insulting those who like it. Maybe it's just me, but I've never seen anyone who gets attacked for pointing out the flaws. Hell, the entire translation team got annoyed at most of S(stupid poorly written H-scenes everywhere), and most of us dislike some/many of the characters. But overall, we like the VN, other people like the VN, so we wanted to make it so people could read it.
 
If it's not your cup of tea, that's one thing, but I don't see a reason to go around insulting those who do enjoy it.

If anyone has any questions or comments regarding the Majikoi A-1 Translation Project, feel free to post them here. Please stay on topic. The project can be found here.
 
Related: If anyone has an image similar to the one that is in the thread(for S) but for A-1, please post it here, so that I can swap it out.

*IMPORTANT!*
Any questions/comments regarding the project, go here. For the translation of the original Majikoi, go here. For the translation of S, go here.

Translation project for Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! A-1 ( or "Majikoi A-1," for short.)
By Maji Translations
 
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Team members/People involved in the process:
Dowolf - Translator
Pseudodiego - Primary/Mass Script Editor
Twdarkeh - Secondary Script Editor, Project Leader
NhKPaNdA - Installer Creator/Secondary Quality Checker.
CryingWestern - Primary Image Editor
Kardororororo - Testing
MikeRiddle - QC
Storyteller - Translator


We are QCing Sayaka, as well as retranslating Benkei(dowolf) and doing Azumi(storyteller).


Progress
Menus and UI: 100%
Sayaka: 100% TL, 100% QC
Benkei: 100% TL, 100% QC
Azumi 100% TL, 100%QC
(Translation quality will vary. Remember, this is fan made.)

Our English patch should be compatible with wairu's version of the game, as well as with the original base game.

Just beautiful.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ChAiSqyMA

After several months of research, testing and trying, I decided to collect all my information and post it here.
I guess there are many people who are interested in playing VN´s on different platforms, since some games are only on them, but their only problem is the lack of japanese. In this Guide I will help to this topic.
I don´t know why I nearly nowhere people talk about this topic, but correct me if I am wrong. I decided to write the "Ultimate Guide" for this topic "Hook text from emulators".
 
Some important notes before I begin:
Currently I only tested PSP and PS2 for myself and they work. GameCube and Wii are tested by VNR Wiki. PSX is tested by Don Dullian. And DS by MX-Futhark. I still try to gather information. But be aware that currently the methods I found only work to a certain extent. Until now there isn´t any method that will work nearly everywhere like on PC. Now the hooking of other platforms is still under work and not every game will work. A list with tested games will be here, so you can see results of others. You need to start everything as admin! Everytime you start all programms as admin because there are sometimes rights used by programms that extend the frame of normal users. To go sure that some errors won´t be because of that, start everything always as admin! You will find all links for the programms that are used here in the provided demonstration videos, and some useful links in this Google Docs list. If you want to use the hex method, you need to configure Cheat Engine before you start, sometimes it is required to do it, sometimes not, depends on the emulator after all. But do it to go sure, so the method won´t fail because of that: Go to Cheat Engine Go to Settings Go to Scan Settings Enable "MEM_MAPPED" Here is a list with all the information I know until now: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17oyxmyedaMGc7c2_-48XXdsJCR7FjftakH3MIysMILk/edit?pli=1#gid=0
 
~Example with the methods that work with several emulators on PSP Games~
Until now, after all my research on this topic, I found out that there are currently 3 methods:
VNR ITHVNR Hex PPSSPP/VNR
This is currently the most common way, because I think that many use VNR. Be aware that this method does have an avarage success rate.
Important: You can´t use "PPSSPPWindows64.exe". Use "PPSSPPWindows.exe", this is supported on every Windows.
For more information: http://sakuradite.com/wiki/en/VNR/PSP
 
Video Tutorial:
 
Written:
Programms you need:
PPSSPP v.0.9.8 or v.0.9.9 (Be aware that v.0.9.9.1 won´t hook text. And you should test always both revisions because the results can differ) VNR 1. Start PPSSPP and load the game. Continue until you can see the ingame text.
2. Start VNR and wait until it is fully loaded.
(Note: Sometimes you need to experiment. Start VNR first and then PPSSPP, but like I said earlier is recommended.)
3. Go to the magnifying glass in VNR.
4. "Select the process of running game." (Be aware that you must take this option.)
5. After finishing, go to "Text settings".
6. Play a bit and wait until some text will pop up. (Sometimes you must wait for a longer time or give up after you find only garbage or no text)
7. Save the current box as dialog and play like you do in VNR.
 
Ok, in this method it is like you would do in the normal VNR usage, it shouldn´t be something new for you guys.
 
Very important notes:
Never start PPSSPP from the VNR HUD! Never close VNR before you close PPSSPP. It will result in a crash! Do not use fast foreward! It will make the chance smaller that you find the text, because VNR will have trouble finding it. You need to redo all these steps for every game! And if you change the game, then restart all programms too!  
PPSSPP/ITHVNR
This is something for people who prefer the ITH interface instead of the VNR interface. ITHVNR is simply ITH with VNR Engine. Be aware that ITH won´t work!
Important: You can´t use "PPSSPPWindows64.exe". Use "PPSSPPWindows.exe", this is supported on every Windows.
For more information: http://sakuradite.com/wiki/en/VNR/PSP
 
Video Tutorial:
 
Written:
Programms you need:
PPSSPP v.0.9.8 or v.0.9.9 (Be aware that v.0.9.9.1 won´t hook text. And you should test always both revisions because the results can differ) ITHVNR 1. Start PPSSPP and load the game. Continue until you can see the ingame text.
2. Start ITHVNR.
3. "Process"->Attach "PPSSPPWindows.exe"
4. Play the game a bit and wait until ITHVNR will find threads.
5. After some time he should find the text.
(Note: Idolm@ster seems to be bugged and is not so easy to hook. Select "Pause when not focus" in PPSSPP. Here a video with a tutorial for the ITHVNR Method:)
 
Note: Because ITHVNR and VNR are based on the same hooking engine, the results of hooking text in Visual Novel will be the same! The exact same results will be displayed in both of them!
Even if it is bugged like Idolm@ster, it will work with VNR too. Just enable "Ignore infinite cyclic repetition in the text".
 
JPCSP/Hex
This is something diffent that you will know until now. But this is the best method until now to hook text. I had with this method the best success rate with emulators.
 
Video Tutorial:
 
Note: You can use anywhere, for example for PC Visual Novel that don´t work with current tools. Example: HapyMaher don´t work with any tools I tried. The game doen´t create a process and you can´t find the windows in taskmaneger. You will get a bunch of errors if you try the common way, so this can be more useful than you thought.
 
Written:
VNR (You don´t need VNR actually, you need "MODI OCR" that is a feature of VNR) JPCSP (I only tested v0.7 until now) Cheat Engine TA (It can be used, but it don´t feature UTF-8 itself. See the note for a better way.)  
1. Start VNR, JPCSP and Cheat Engine.
2. Play in JPCSP until you can see the ingame text.
3. Use "MODI OCR" that you can find in VNR. Default usage: "Shift"+"left mouse".
4. Select the text and wait until a box will appear.
5. If you are lucky, there will be the text you need, copy it. (Note: If it failed, try again. If you can´t japanese at all, this part is based on luck.)
6. Go to Cheat Engine and select "java.exe"
7. Select "Pause the game while scanning", select Value Type on "Array of byte" and finally check "Hex" near the Value Box.
8. Now you have 3 options, there will be 3 possibilities. Either it is SHIFT-JIS/SJIS or UTF-8 or UTF-16. You need to test yourself if you don´t know for sure.
(More information about that: http://sakuradite.com/wiki/en/VNR/Game_Engine )
9. Paste your encode in the value box and search, if it found something, you are lucky. If not, try the other decode or it simply won´t work with this method.
10. After you find around 5 threads I would assume, you need to find the right thread. Play a bit in the Emulator.
11. If something in the Emulator changed, to select that and "Browse this memory region".
12. Don´t dare to scroll, this is the text you can see now. Sometimes the text is 4 bytes earlier or simply is not at the start, don´t worry about it. If you got until here you can get the full dialog.
13. Select from the first line and until some zeros. (Like I said, sometimes you need to find the exact start.)
14. Now copy the text, convert it back with the encode you used and now you can translate it.
 
Note: MX-Futhark started to create HAT (Hook any Text), a plugin for Cheat Engine. It will copy and encode the selected region in Cheat Engine for you. You simply can open TA in the background and play it, the text will appear there. The good thing, it will do the copy and paste on his own. And the best thing, it does support UTF-8!
The thread: http://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/11298-i-made-a-prototype-of-text-hooker-for-emulated-games/
[Warning: It took me several weeks to find a solution to a problem I had in the past with HAT. http://imgur.com/7vEXDtn The solution, HAT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH CHEAT ENGINE 6.5! Use 6.4.]
 
And here the same method with a step by step guide and pictures: http://mx-futhark.github.io/hook-any-text/demos/demo01/presentation.html
Here another manual guide with more text: https://github.com/MX-Futhark/hook-any-text/wiki/User-Manual
(both by FX-Futermark)
 
Now to the other platfroms, but I don´t really know what I should really say. This 3 methods are currently always the same for every platform. It means, do these steps in the emulator you need and try to hook the text. I thought about to do videos soon, but it will be every time the same thing, the only thing that changes is, that you use a different emulator. More information in the Google Docs list.
 
Emulators tested:
JPCSP (Only v.0.7 tested) PPSSPP (Only v.0.9.8 and v0.9.9 will work with VNR/ITHVNR) PCSX (Only PCSX 1.2.1 tested) DeSmuMe PSXFIN ePSXe (Only v.1.9 tested) Dolphin (VNR Wiki said that only "≥ 4.0" will work.) Emulators that I want to test in the future (Yes, they are getting real, but nothing is running currently fine. Everything and everywhere is filled with bugs and gliches. But some Visual Novel are even currently playable.):
WIIU (Cemu) [Games are working good, need to test hooking] XBOX (Xenia/XQEMU) [Currently testing, 2 out of 2 tested games haven´t beem able to hook] 3DS (Cirtra) [Currently testing] http://imgur.com/NNwQmkL After the newest fix I was able to test ingame too, took a while to fix that blackscreen error for that game, it works with Pokemon. PS3 (RPCS3) [Currently testing] It is actually possible to get the hex method working with the emulator. Till now I wasn´t able to test much but the fact that it is actually working says that it should work for a bunch of games. If I will be able to test more with some Visual Novel games, I will show some more information. http://imgur.com/VkKKRAC Here 3 example videos for emulated PS3 Visual Novel, see yourself, the future is near for emulated games, I hope the hex method could work on them.
Rpcs3 WIP DX12 - GamePlay 60 fps - Shin Hayarigami Rpcs3 WIP DX12 - GamePlay 60 fps - Harem Tengoku Rpcs3 WIP DX12 - Ore No Imoto - GamePlay ~12 fps Now, my final note about this topic. I personally recommend to try the VNR or the ITHVNR method first, because I like that interface. If they will fail, try the Hex method. And if that fail too, your only hope is MODI OCR, but that will be painful, since it isn´t working that good sometimes.
 
If someone does know more about this topic, any help is appreciated. And if anybody planned to help me with the list, write me. I will add your hooking results and your name in that list. Do not copy this list and do not post it anywhere else! I worked hard to get all this information.
 
And a note to the people who will be so nice to help me. I will trust you, that means, that I won´t check your results in hooking if I will add them. I recommend to do the provided method with a game that I already tested and is in that list so you can get the feeling how anything will work. I personally tested my games like 10 times, so i can go sure. I won´t tell you what to do, but the best thing would be a small video or a picture, like Don Dullian did it for me. In that way I can go sure that the method failed, and not you, and write the notes on my own.
The only thing I want is: "Emulator (+Version)" "Name of the VN" "Hooking method" "Result (Working/Incompatible/Having Problems)" "Notes".
 
Note: I will try to keep this topic up to date.

It's always polite to ask first.

ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ raise your dongers ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ
AKA: Patch release

 
After several months of delay and real life making us busy, we're finally proud to present you with the full English translation for Lilium x Triangle.
 
While it took longer than we predicted it would take (by a few months) we could at least make sure that the quality was up to standards as much as possible. Everyone who worked on this went over the translation and hundreds of adjustments were made until we finally got to where we're at.
 
As the first visual novel translation project I ever started and went through with, I am really happy with the way things have come along and I have learned quite a great deal of things throughout the course of this journey which have definitely made me better in the translation field.
 
Today is my birthday but I'm happy to be giving everyone a present instead, which in itself is also something I wanted to see done so it works both ways here. And I swear I didn't attempt to time it, it was a coincidence~
 
I really appreciate the help everyone in the team gave, all of these people volunteered to help and offer their free time to make this project come true and without them it really wouldn't have been the same.
 
Enough with the rambling though, I'm sure you wanted the patch by now so here it is.
All the instructions and stuff are in the Patch Notes file.
If you find any problems in the patch somewhere, please do post it here so we can fix it.
 
Amazing people who worked on this:
Project Lead/Translator: Nosebleed Translation Checker: rainsismyfav Editor:  Ryechu Quality Control:  qt panzer Hacker:  binaryfail  
I hope you enjoy this short little yuri game, it's no masterpiece but I think it's charming enough for what it is and everyone who worked on it quite liked it, and maybe this will spark the interest in translating more yuri games, and hey at least we got this done in less than a year amirite?
 
So there you have it, maybe one day I'll start another translation project similar to this one, but for now it's time to focus on college and do something else.
 
And last but not least, Yuuna best gril.

Indeed.
Also, I'm kinda back, but not really. Just don't expect to see me more than once or twice a day.

I never knew Death Note was a racist anime.

Oh btw, this is the sequel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnZHbfSDKC0

This person. This person has won the internet. This person is my hero.
 
http://ask-aisha-elemental-master.tumblr.com/post/123881243095/ask-the-clumsy-shrine-maiden-let-me-ruin-ur
 
Hit play, and be amazed. I am in tears.