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Hi, fellow VN hackers, Some of you might remember that I wrote the first part of visual novel reverse engineering guide a while ago. And now, lo and behold, today's the day that I've published the second part of reverse engineering tutorial - this time, I'm discussing the approaches to reverse engineer the script, find out what are the part it consists of, and extracting the Japanese text (to pass it to the translators, if you run a VN translation project). Feel free to ask any questions. Cheers

Tokyo Babel is more action-oriented and prettier overall. However, Ayakashibito has a somewhat deeper story and a varied cast of characters. Edit: Also, Tokyo Babel has a focus on Christian mythology, whereas Ayakashibito is Japanese mythology.

Ayakashibito, because...

Or Re;Zero too, i feel like you're all too pessimistic, it's true, i don't like that much Re;Zero, but that doesn't mean it's bad, on the contrary. Look at this year, what did we got? One punch man, a fresh breath and a cool anime. Boku dake ga inai machi, a really cool anime, the ending didn't disappoint me because, unlike you, i'm not attracted by a 10 years old girl, and the message of Errased was quite beautiful. We got Boku no hero academia, the very first shounen i appreciate since...Asura's wrath. We got Re;Zero, while i don't like the extremely boring and cliché isekai genre, was quite interesting to watch. And at the same time, we have side stuff really cool, like Orange and Ookami shoujo to kuroi ouji, 2 excellent shoujo anime, we got experimental stuff like Ajin, a 3D anime, right, but a really cool 3D anime, we still have those interesting and a bit edgy stuff like Arslan senki, Joker Game...etc And even this season, we're getting shuumatsu no izetta, a yuri WW 2 anime, and historically accurate (poor France, still get conquered, i just love how they showed how France was separated, the German zone and the Vichy regime zone) and even more Ajin stuff. Why you feel like that is simple : you're getting old, that's all, you grew up with stuff, and of course, the more you'll grow up, the more you'll think modern anime are shit, when if you think about it, in the past, there were some really shitty stuff, like ultra shitty (Milky Holmes? Chaos;Head?). Even in the past, you always quote one or 2 anime from one season, it's interesting how 2011 is known for steins;gate and Madoka, nothing more, if i look at the anichart of 2011, there were some dumb shit, the same can be said for the 2007, or 2005, or 2001...etc

Looks like I'm not beating this one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Welcome, welcome

Maji de Watashi ni Koishinasai: Kara no Shoujo: Tokyo Babel: Grisaia: Steins;Gate: I'll stop here for now because I'm getting tired . Too many characters to add still

The Venus Blood games.

I'm gradually unpacking the loot from my last trip to Japan. Just set up 2 new wall scrolls by Cle Masahiro:

That's a really nice logo you did there. I don't think anything's missing, it's propably more a matter of composition. Try relocating the elements around a bit, check slightly different fonts, try italics or bold text and other font options, like increasing kerning, height or width of characters.

I'm guessing the keyword is "asked" because otherwise you'd have said "I got a raise for the first time! "

It's going to be used for a law magazine, "xxx" is a term used in law (in my country at least) to use the first 2 hours of the day to present judicial application... is like you are barely making it with the time to present it, so you are literally running against time. , it cannot have anything related to lady of justice/iustitia etc (like the balance scales) or the gavel (the wooden "hammer") here is my lousy attempt of a logo xD PS:Sorry my law terminology/vocabulary in english is very scarce and limited

To be quite honest, I haven't and don't plan to do an in-depth comparison of the Japanese text from the original, the steam release and the vita port. If you've seen their two failed Kickstarts you should know, NextNinja is kinda sketchy. So i wouldn't be surprised if they stole parts of the Vita version / were heavily 'inspired' by it. Fact however is, they didn't add the new scenes or audio from the vita version to fill the gaps the cutting of the sex scenes left. Like you said the story is untouched and ChuSinGura being a story-rich game, it can probably be enjoyed as is. Nonetheless as far as an all-ages version goes, the vita version would be far superior with smoother transitions, whereas the Steam version is done rather lazily. I haven't played or even touched the "butchered" version of IMHHW, so I am not familiar with. But as Toranth already mentioned the story of ChuSinGura has been left intact. Personally I would never play a "cut" game unless I have played the complete game first. But I doubt you speak Japanese, so that might not be an option, unless someone releases a fantranslation/restauration patch. As the full game has only been released for a few days i would suggest waiting a few weeks or months to see if someone intends to do a patch. If you just want to enjoy the story, the cut perverted scenes with boobs showing etc might not be necessary. The important thing about sex scenes is giving yourself to your partner, emotional borders being broken down, the characters getting closer and so on. So in my opinion just cutting those scenes leaves a gap in the progression of the relationship. You should at least know sex happened. Another option would be to play the original and the steam version side by side, so you don't miss out on the sex scenes. If you put both of them on auto with one muted and stop the steam version once a sex scene comes up that shouldn't be a problem. (understanding sex scenes is possible even with very limited knowledge of Japanese) If you want to know wether you should buy the game on steam. Go ahead, it's on sale atm and I have dozens of games on steam I will never play...

Grasia No kajutsu: Michuru Clannad: Nagisa, Fuuko, Sanae, Akio and my favorite (Clannad spoiler) Katawa Shoujo: Hanako, Rin

The makers of the mobage say it is based on the Vita version. The makers of the Steam release said it was based off the mobage version. The assets of the Steam release DO NOT MATCH the original PC - not even the Japanese text of the Steam release, and the English doesn't match either version. It is obvious where the English was changed as part of the release (to remove references to sex or nudity). However, the Japanese text (taken from the mobage) also removes references to things like menstruation, wetting oneself, using the toilet / indigestion, or minors with alcohol. Unless you think that NextNinja did a Japanese re-write for this release, the text is clearly NOT taken from the original PC version. And no, Nier, the game was not "butchered". Please stop saying that. The adult content DID NOT ADD ANYTHING to the game, and removing it did not hurt the game. Hyperbole like yours is why it is difficult for people to get a good idea of the actual quality of products. I suppose you think the original Japanese release of games like Wagamama High-Spec were "butchered" because the naked sprites pack wasn't included in the game? And yet, that's about the same level of fanservice and meaning that the adult content added to ChuSinGura.

TBH this thread has become far more than I wanted it to. While I appreciate the great feedback here on the VN as a recommendation, I do not like the spoilers.

The mobage port is a pay to win version of the PC game where you play like 1 minute of the game and then need to buy scenario tickets to see the next 5 lines. It`s not build off the vita version. They got the assets from Inre and made a mobage out of it, nothing to do with the Vita version.

Whew,absolutly not my field of compétences,but i Will give it à try !

They have stated they don't have the rights to the Vita version several times. Where do you people get such exclusive info? The PSV version added new scenes and recorded new lines to make the up for the gaps caused by the removal of sex scenes. The Steam version redrew some CGs, but that's it. The sexy just got cut.

You know who doesn't finish prematurely? Rance.

You do realize that Go Go Nippon was originally written in Japanese, then translated into English? And that it was made by a Japanese developer. It's not an OELVN. I'm all in favor on VN on Steam, personally. Increased visibility and profitability has encouraged more Japanese developers to enter the English-language market.

^ I demand a free KEY Gratz to Amuzie

I'm not completely sure why you would want to read a machine translated version when an official English release of Steins;gate 0 is coming out very soon.

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.

i took some screenshots of the original game and this one. Some of the screenshots from the original game are obviously nsfw. They changed quite a few things apart from just censoring. Please refer to the spoiler.