exsion Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 I saw the term, "pre-patched" come up a few times. I was wondering if anyone can clarify what that meant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosebleed Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 It means that there is a piece of software that is already patched. I.e you don't have to get the original software and patch it yourself. In the visual novel world, it usually means a game that already comes with the translation patch installed so you wouldn't have to do it yourself. I.e Clannad pre-patched means Clannad already in English Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IieSenpai Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 VNs that come prepatched with problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakamutt Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 ^ In general, ultimately the best way to do it is to patch yourself. However, this depends on your technical savvy, and for a decent few releaes, there's really no issue with pre-patching. One of the problems is patch updates, where bugs and typos are fixed etc. These require updates to the pre-patched release on behalf of the distributor, which might not be done as it's a decent bit more of a pain than just applying a new patch. One example of the latter would be the no-longer-available-on-Fuwanovel release of Ikikoi, which had an annoying out-of-sync-voices bug until you donloaded a fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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