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Hi, fellow VN explorers, I've just published an article on basic reverse engineering of unknown file formats of visual novels. It requires little technical knowledge (actually, everything except for the optional latest part can be done without programming) and it tackles the basic process of discovering information about simple container format and exploring its structure to extract files from a game archive. Hope it would be useful Feel free to ask any questions.

Koiken Otome English Translation Patch (by Flying Pantsu) Summary A long time ago, unknown beings known as Kotona invaded Earth in search of food. Humans were unable to repel them until after a few years, some people gained special abilities known as ‘douryoku’ which allowed them to exterminate the Kotona and return peace to the world. Now, Seiichi attends the super-elite Kashinomori Academy which trains people with douryoku in preparation for another attack by the Kotona. However, even though he has great power, he doesn’t have the ability to manifest it, leading to him being labelled as ‘most useless one’. The rest of the students in his class all had great skill, but in particular one girl caught his attention. Akane had average powers even though she came from a distinguished family, so she trained hard daily to improve her skills. Watching her, he can’t help but want to help her and that was when his ‘Amplifier’ ability awakened. It is an unidentified power which greatly boosts the abilities of people who believe in one another. As a result, he was greatly sought after not only in the school, but in the world. Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order There are four heroines: Akane, Touko, Yuzu, and Yves. You may play in any order you like . Some of Touko's route is spoiled by other routes, so you may want to play hers earlier. I'm personally going Akane -> Touko -> Yves -> Yuzu. Route Guideline Yasukuni Akane Kamishiro Touko Someya Yuzu Yves Elaine Austin Attribution This walkthrough was created by me with information obtained on seiya-sega.com Flying Pantsu

Kokoro in normal clothes She's always cute as fuck though.

Why is this summer so good? So many theoretically great stuff coming out, and here we have the third entry of the Danganronpa series. If you're unfamiliar with Danganronpa, it's a murder mystery battle royale classroom debates type of deal, and this particular anime is set right after or before the first two games, so there will most likely be spoilers, beware! The Future volume which is airing now is a sequel to the Danganronpa 1 (and 2 I guess?) Whereas the Despair volume which will begin airing on the 14th is a prequel to Danganronpa 2 (and 1 I guess >.>). ~~ Future Ep 1 comments:

Got some good news I've desperately been waiting for. Cannot believe how much weight is now off my shoulders.

When two methods mean the same thing but one simply sounds better, there is absolutely nothing wrong with switching to the better sounding alternative, even if the previous version was already fine. I'm glad that the translation team is being so comprehensive in their methodology here. This conversation is so freaking ridiculous though. I can't believe you're raising a fuss over something so trivial.

Beats me, stupid seems more British to me and idiot more American. Then again i live in a 6 meter deep hole below sea level, so what the hell do i know What bothers me is that people are freaking out because some changed idiot into stupid. Why would that matter, it means the same bloody thing and has no substantial impact on the translation whatsoever.

Wow, I'm really conflicted about Austin now. At first, I marked her off completely as a dumb bitch, but that cafe scene... I'm seriously considering it... I feel awful for being influenced so easily. Curse you, ! EDIT: Literally unplayable

Indeed, but on a smaller scale, Zodai is one of my players in fact. It's actually going really well. It's less about do's and don'ts and more about improving my abilities with narration and coming up with different scenarios. I've got pretty much all of the basics down, I want help with advanced stuff now.

Confession: My pokemon go stopped working as I was coming back from from my walk, so I was forced to walk the last 2 kilometers of my 7 km walk without catching pokemon or incubating eggs. Confession 2: My legs hurt Confession 3: My everything hurts

So waaaay back when I was still a new guy here I made this edit for @Dergonu it's super shitty and cringey but I'm still fond of it for it was the first one I made and that got me into learning PS and other things to better myself. Beware the shittiest edit you'll ever see, if you can even call it that: It's embarrassing so I wanted to show it before re-making it Feel free to make fun of it if you so desire, I'm aware of how bad it is. Senpai was actually the first person I spoke to in here, been a long while since then.

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We have a thread with character traits you like on your characters and a thread for your most attractive characters In this thread I want you to talk about the traits you dislike the most For me that would be glasses wearing characters(meganekko) and milfs(older women)

Hi everyone ! I have already played Chichi Miko!! and Hotel Bazooka, and i'm looking for other stuffs wich have huuuuuge breasts. I know some people think this is disgusting, because of the disproportion, but i truly appreciate this a lot lol. Well, if you have any suggestion, don't hesitate to tell me ! Thanks a lot ! Have a good day !

Last time I talked about trade-offs in editing and high-level motifs; macro-scale stuff. This time, I want to talk about a micro-scale topic: how to make an individual line better. As before, I'll be demonstrating this with examples drawn from recent editing experience. Before writing this post, I went around looking for other people talking about similar things, and I found this reference: http://kristensguide.com/Writing/powerful_sentences.asp. Frankly, it's great; probably better than what I have, especially in terms of breadth of topics. Give it a read and get your editing learning on. For this post, I'm going to deep dive into one single topic mentioned there, though, for which I've been saving up examples: putting the first and last words of your sentence to good use. The first and last words of a sentence are powerful. They're memorable. Forgetting the middle of a sentence is natural, so put a word at the end of a sentence when you really, really want that one word to be remembered. Okay, so what did you get from that last paragraph. I hope it was "first", "powerful", "memorable", "forgetting", and "remembered", because that's the point of this blog post. Anyway, let's look at some examples from my recent edits to Majo Koi Nikki, some to the prologue patch we're about to release, and some later. I'll point out other things that I changed as well and why, but this one point is going to be the running theme. Original: Looking in the mirror, she pondered for a second and answered with a shy smile on her face. Potential problems: - "on her face" is extraneous - that extraneous phrase is squatting on valuable real estate at the end of the sentence. Mine: Looking in the mirror, she pondered for a second, and then she answered with a shy smile. Changes: - drop "on her face" (for both reasons above - it's less verbose, and now I get "smile" as the last word in the sentence, which is great) - the comma after "she ponders for a second" is intended to give the reader that same mental pause as "she" has, to better set up the last part - "then she" somehow pushes you out of that mental pause and into the most important part: that shy smile, lingering at the end of the sentence. Original: Tokeizaka-san irritatedly flips through the book, but her hand stops suddenly. Potential problems: - With the benefit of spell-check, "irritatedly" => irritably - "suddenly" is often overused I actually really like the original; if you left it alone, aside from the spell-check correction, I wouldn't fault you for it. The verbs are great, "irritably" is a good use of a modifier, and the sentence communicates multiple events very concisely. But there's always room for improvement. Mine: Irritated, Tokeizaka-san flips through the book, until her hand suddenly stops. Changes: - Drop "suddenly." "Stops" is strong enough to carry that feeling of suddenness on its own, so "suddenly" is only making things weaker. I've also noticed a tendency for raw JP translations to overuse "suddenly", which makes me especially biased to remove it. It's the typical problem of overuse: if everything is happening suddenly, it might as well all be happening normally. - Move those good words, "irritably" and "stops" to the memorable points of the sentence. "Stops" we got for free, "irritably" requires a small bit of juggling. Unfortunately, Tokeizaka-san's family name is a bit unwieldy at best; better to bury it in the middle of the sentence and let the nice, emotive words take pride of place. - Swapping "but" for "until" made for a clearer plot to the sentence, I thought. Original: - The colorful beauty article are displayed neatly. Potential problems: - Engrish - Passive voice - Not flashy enough Mine: - Iridescent beauty products dot the shelves, arranged with flawless precision. On that last potential problem: normally my style is pretty spare. My typical goal is to drop adjectives and adverbs, and make verbs and nouns stronger to carry the weight of description, without going overboard on vocabulary. More often than not, I'm trying to make long sentences shorter and punchier. I didn't do that here. For context on why, it would help for you to hear the ridiculously high-brow BGM accompanying this scene and see the gorgeous background art. So, here: Background: BGM: Equally important for context, you need to know about the surrounding narration: basically, the narrator is currently marveling at just how amazing this beauty parlor is. One of the benefits of generally being spare with your adjectives and adverbs is that they then work a lot better when you actually do pull them out. A good mental model is that you have a budget: don't spend your nice words if you don't need to. Only pull them out when you're going for the razzle dazzle. The analogy breaks down fast, but basically, if you're constantly using flowery language and overdecorating the ordinary scenes, nobody's going to be impressed when something extraordinary happens, just like the overuse of "suddenly" I mentioned earlier. Since this actually is an extraordinary moment for our narrator, I'm spending a few nice words now. And again, I want to call attention to the first and last words of the sentence. Those are strong places in a sentence (or, especially in the case of a VN, a line). Previously there were pretty weak words there ("The colorful" and "neatly"); now we've got "iridescent" and "precision". Good words in good places. One last thing to mention. I wrote each of these up in the middle of editing, and then later edited that up into a blog post. I made changes to the edited line itself in the process of writing all this stuff up, which made it better. In fact, I even noticed a problem while writing up this blog post and further refined the line. You'll never know what it was (probably). The point being, simply spending time reflecting on an edit, and especially writing down your observations and motivations for certain choices, will help you do better work. You don't have to be this thorough all the time (I certainly am not), but every time you do an exercise like that, you'll learn from it, and then you can write up your own blog post and teach me something.

Oh, no doubt. Finished a few hours ago, and I'm still going through one of my classic post-masterpiece story depressions. Don't think I'll be able to concentrate much on any VN/game for 1-2 days as I mourn having finished VA-11 Hall-A, since it's a solid 9/10 on my book. The few flaws being how extremely short and open-ended it is, and the difficulty of replayability. (Yeah, finishing great stories, be it books or games, hit me extremely hard, since I'm a pretty empathetic person and get super invested in the characters).

Okay, I have to give some props here, because the Touko date was perfectly written. No big spoilers here; it was simple, but basically exactly how a kuudere date should go. I am more pleased by these 5 minutes of text than I ever would've expected. Not bad, not bad at all.

So I was playing with Bluestacks today on this game (no jailbreak required and works for iOS and Android, just search it on youtube). Put my character on Disney World where there are a ton of variety pokemon and pokestops (like over 50 of them in there!) Holy shit, this game is so fun when you are not limited by location. Just make sure not to "teleport" your character into unrealistic distances while the game is up, otherwise you get a temp ban. Hopefully, this is a solution for those living in a rural area, areas where the game isn't out yet, or you are unable to walk long distances or at all. If you are an able bodied person, please still go out there and capture some pokemons. The summer is always nice and people wear less clothing which is always an eye candy.

Well, the race has started and Fuwa has spoken. The majority of people are rooting for Kaguya's Minion, (Eclipsed) with 16 votes against The Yuri Fag's (me) 8 votes. Who will come out victorious? As of right now, I have personally done the prologue, common + Akane route. Not sure where Eclipsed is at the moment. Now, for those of you thinking, "wait, this was serious? I thought this was just some stupid thing you guys would forget about after 2 minutes." Well, (I actually just wanted to post that picture. For all I know, Eclipsed might already have forgotten about the race )

Thanks, I really appreciate it! This week's new free tracks are: "Defending the Princess Haunted" v001 and 002 http://soundimage.org/epic-battle/ "A Long Journey for a Little Bot" on the Sci-Fi 5 page http://soundimage.org/sci-fi-5/ "Retro Frantic_v001_Looping" on the Action Page http://soundimage.org/action/ "Magic Clock Shop_Looping" on the Fantasy 6 Page http://soundimage.org/fantasy-6/ "Clippity Clop_Looping" on the Fantasy Page http://soundimage.org/fantasywonder/ I hope they are helpful. Daily updates, as always, are here: https://twitter.com/EricMatyas https://www.facebook.com/soundimage.org Have a great weekend! Eric

*cries* @DarkZedge It was too shoooooooooooooooooort. In more ways than one, Jill.

Eye don't know what you're talking about.

Thanks for the interest! I'm still experimenting with the idea of user-generated content, but if it can be implemented then hopefully people will be interested in creating their own components. Hopefully as development progresses, it will slowly change from something you'd consider to something you'll use! As a side note, release 0.1.2 is finally out. You can read the changelog here, or find out things to come in 0.1.3 in our Trello.

This anime is the sequel to Goodbye Despair. Absolutely do not watch it until you've played that. As for the anime adaptation of the first game, it really makes no difference either way. It is just an adaptation of the first game and brings nothing new to the table. It's also not particularly popular as it skimps out on the investigation segments.

Which doesn't invalidate a translator's personal bias. If he thinks 'stupid' is the best translation, and they mean the same bloody thing, he really would have no reason to hold back. What I think should be the real question here is how "stupid" is more American than "idiot".

TFW you discover an awesome artist on Pixiv. http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=1752240&from_sid=1785498900

A tsundere with glasses would send me to the Asylum for sure.

Personally I don't mind their decision with Yuzu's speech patterns. I find it quite endearing in her case, with her it actually works when most of the time it's just annoying. Still working on the common route but so far Touko's best girl and the route I'm saving for last.

Himederes and tsunderes Just no a hundred times over

Milf and yandere. I don't mind if a character goes yan from time to time for comedic purpose, but a real yan? I will just nope the hell out of here.

Comyu.

Future Ep1 spoiler

Huh. It's better than the cup. 6.5/10.

Episode 2: ✓Akane's FPS ✓Paper clip charm ✓Guardian Shikigami Tomoko fully animated, date request, and RIP within 3 minutes ✓Lucia's hot sauce parfait + Lucia's Kotarou KO punch ✓Shizuru ✓Nishijukou-sensei catches Shizuru ✓Touch Akane's boobs deal if find proof of supernatural occult stuff (LOL I FORGOT ABOUT THIS) ✓Akane's theme "Anthurium" finally plays midway ✓More FPS in background ✓WTF DAT KOTAROU->AKANE MASSAGE, STOP SEXUALIZING HER ✓More fully animated newspaper gal Inoue ✓Shizuru actually says what Kotarou tells her to say when she's talking on the phone with Lucia<333333333333333 + Lucia's Kotarou KO punch#2 (yes I'll keep track) ✓Entire heroine cast signed up for Occult Club + emphasis that this was all due to Akane's boobs deal Let the haters hate and be lost by the ridiculous pacing, I'm enjoying this accelerated recapanimation

A bit late but better late than never. Happy birthday Mr.Crunchy, behave alright?

Mangagamer is VERY open to publishing/selling OEVN's. They have more now than before.

Hm, certain things make you contemplate and see things from a different perspective

Bear in mind that the downloadable version of a game sometimes has a different technical makeup from the retail version. Thus, the English patch may or may not work with the downloadable version. You might want to contact the group about that.

ゴゴゴゴゴゴ　だが断る！ゴゴゴゴゴゴ

DROP EVERY THING NAO, MEET IN THE KOIKEN OTOME, KISS ME ON THE SIDEWALK~ @Dergonu, prepare to get rektteddedededdddDED

You can read the review for the visual novel by clicking this link. Comments, discussions and general typing goes below.

I'm slowly falling to madness because of this game's engine insists on me continuosly writing code to according to hex editing Why is this engine such a bitch?

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I'll be In Tokyo from the 28th to 31st, will you still be chilling in Tokyo when I will be there? I'm doing an internship else where in Japan currently (Niigata), so that is the earliest I can come to Tokyo, since my internship ends the 27th of this month. On topic though. If your not interested in the cultural stuff, I can't help you out much. Since coming to Japan, I've spent basically all my time in a small town in Niigata since that is where my internship is located. Niigata is great for skiing, its rice, and some other traditional stuff and that's around it. So basically its most marketable aspects are its traditional aspects, and its winters; both things you stated you were not interested in. ;p Edit: Although Niigata does have this really cool place that this video elaborates on: Japanese Sake Vending Machines

Hey, he doesn't visit the forums anymore, but if you'd like, I can try to get Ren to PM you some pointers. He was always super enthusiastic to tell us on Teamspeak what it was like, and some of the differences. I'm sure he'd be more than happy to give you some pointers.

i guess yahtzee19. people may know him for making zero punctuation videos. theres also jontron.

Soon™ We'll see what happens along the line

This has officially turned into the most entertaining thread of the week.