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VNR now have a new server, so it's fully functional again!!!! Here's some instructions: - Go here http://vnr.aniclan.com/ and make a new account if you want to upload subs and terms (I think it works better logged in than as a guest). You can synch it with your old sakuradite account so you can keep your language preferences and things uploaded. - After that, you can upload your subtitles files stored in VNRfolder/Cache/Subtitles/xml/(important!) and upload the terms dict (if you didn't add anything private, you can skip this). Since it is a new server, it's pretty much empty until someone adds something into it. - The VNR compatible with the new server can be downloaded here: http://vnr.aniclan.com/upload/Visual_Novel_Reader(EN).rar (latest version) - You have to add all games with the wizard for it to recognize. However, if you didn't delete your old VNR, it will open with all your games already in the springboard. - Just one time while I was testing it ramdomly crashed, so it seems to be a stable version. Have fun, people! UPDATE: Based on people's questions: - Want to login in aniclan? Use your new name and password. Want to login in VNR? Use your sakuradite name and password. (For now, Dangetsu may change it in the futute) - Can you read logged as guest? Yes, you can. Can you add things in the shared dictionary logged as guest? I don't think so (Never worked for me, needs more testing) - VNR says it's a unknown game? You'll need to manually select the right text thread before you can use it. After that, it will work normally. Usually, the default option isn't UTF16, so if no subs are showing, select UTF16 right away! (UTF16 is the most common, but if it doesn't work, try UTF8)

I just completed my first ever visual novel. To be fair, it was recommended to me about six years ago and yes, it's taken me this long to finally read it. I had the game and played through about 3/4 of Tsugumi's route before I switched to a written LP (complete with music links of course) due to a couple of different reasons, but I found it to be an amazing experience! I played 999, VLR and I am working on ZTD. This genre is something I eat right up. I'm going to play Remember 11 next, and maybe Never 7 one day. Honestly, the first two routes (Sora & Tsugumi) while they had their bright points, the slice of life aspect of things completely bored me. And I'm one who loves Slice of Life usually! It was just so badly written, imo, and cringeworthy. I'm sorry, but I hated the 'kick the can' scenes, after reading it once I largely just skimmed it. I was considering stopping it, because I read rave reviews online but it was just so ...dry. God, am I glad I continued. Once I got to You's route, it totally picked up. From that point onward, I could not stop reading! I love twists, learning about Jungian psychology and philosophical dilemmas in the way that Uchikoshi always includes these little tidbits in his games. I would just HIGHLY recommend this game to anyone who liked the Zero Escape series. Get through the first two Takeshi routes and do everything else as the Kid and it will be supremely enjoyable. Now I'm here because when I googled Ever 17 discourse, it took me to this forum most of the time. Since I am planning on reading a lot more VNs, I figure it'd be a good idea to join up! Because this topic hasn't really accomplished anything, I'll ask this: Who is your favorite Ever 17 character and why? When I first started, it was Tsugumi. Then it quickly jumped to Sora, (I have a soft spot for AIs) but really, I think the most interesting character was You. They are definitely my top three! I love tsunderes and mysterious characters, so Tsugumi was a shoe-in right away. Sora is just so cute, and I absolutely love AI characters so much and I think their supposed "inability" to experience love is so tragic. But You (starting with her route) just engaged me so much, and I learned to really love her. Also I loved all that third-eye stuff. I love occult discourse.

Hello, I am Bukacain and I'm an artist! I mostly draw NSFW art. : D I'm also working with a friend on making a visual novel currently. I'm looking forward to chatting with you all~ (...and also looking forward to finding new VNs to play~!)

VNR is back online guys, more about it here: https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/17714-vnr-is-back-online/ Buuut it's always nice to have a backup plan. Who knows when it will go offline again. So, I looked at this gamedict.xml (Thank you @Codesterz for the tips!) and I figured out more stuff! For userId, you can use the number "4". I think that is the Id for guest, so you will not put it under another person's ID. special is marked as true when the term is a "series specific" term. And for gameId, you can check it in the VNR dict. Even if it's not working/connected, the unsaved entry will be there, along with your gameId. Just copy it and put in the code! But seriously, I hope we don't need to do this anymore! XD

Well, I'm not trying to trample on anyones hobby of collecting boxed games. I just can't help think that there is a slight disconnect between the perceived value and the actual one. But that's true of all things deemed collectible, right?

>"holy shit Smough is fucking down Ornstein solo doesn't sound that b-" > > >

So, yeah, this shit's wild, guys. Got really hooked. Just reached Ornstein & Smough. Doesn't seem THAT bad from my only try... got Ornstein's HP down by around 25%, really not bad for a first go.

ｐｌｓ. He may be in Finlando, but he has already becum Japan itself.

Hoshimemo's plot is just too deep for you gaijins to understand.

Don't get me wrong, I've dropped games, and I have games stalled, like Noble Works (I played Koichoco instead, and it was okay, Noble Works is just pretty insipid for me). If you don't like or enjoy the majority of the routes, either the game is bad or it isn't your thing. There are games like Period, with a whopping 8 routes, that have filler routes, sadly. I consider this a mistake. Filler routes shouldn't exist.

Since Palas recommend some charage there, maybe I should add both of HatsuKoi and Noble Works. Both works were character based and I think you should find one heroine that you'll like. Hope it'll be help.

Well, probably. Your average moege is a mixed bag. Since, in fact, every route has different feel and probably is aimed to different people. No wonder you don't (probably can't) like them all. I still feel the urge to "collect them all", Pokémon style

I am now the happiest person alive I haven't actually tested if VNReader will accept new entries yet, but I don't see why it wouldn't. You can easily open and edit the xml with this free software http://www.firstobject.com/dn_editor.htm After opening the file you will want to click 'Tools' then 'Indent' to make it more readable. Otherwise it's just an unreadable cluster of text. Below is a random entry I copied from the gamedic.xml file. <term id="152974" type="output"> <gameId>33067</gameId> <userId>4</userId> <userHash>1982435318</userHash> <sourceLanguage>ja</sourceLanguage> <language>ko</language> <timestamp>1446214815</timestamp> <updateTimestamp>1446307178</updateTimestamp> <updateUserId>3422</updateUserId> <hentai>true</hentai> <special>true</special> <pattern>해신</pattern> <text>카이신</text> <comment>name</comment> </term> I'm no expert programmer so most of what I'm gonna say is just guess work from me. For each new entry you want to add you'll essentially need to make a modified version of one of these. term id - you will want a number that isn't being used by another entry. The highest number entry in my xml file is 214368 so I will be using numbers higher than this one. Just scroll to the last entry to see what the highest id is in your xml file. type - if you go to create a new shared dictionary term in VNReader you will see all the different types you can use for type. trans for translation. For the rest just type in the actual word for the type you want. gameId - this is where I've run into some issues. You can't make the entry work on a specific game only as the gameId is on the now dead vnreader servers. I believe if you just remove this line of code it will apply the translation to all games. userId - I believe you can just leave this entry alone. From what I've seen all terms have this entry so I don't know if there will be issues if you remove this line of code. It just represents the user that originally submitted the entry to the shared dictionary. userHash - This line of code is unnecessary so you can just remove it. sourceLanguage - The language the VN you are reading is. Don't write the full language name. If you go to text settings in VNReader for the VN you are reading and click down on the 'Game language' option you will see the shortened text you use for each of the languages. language - Same as above except the language you are translating to instead Read above entry for language entries. timestamp - From what I can tell all entries have this line of code so just leave it at whatever it is. I don't know if removing this line of code will cause issues. updateTimestamp - This line of code is unnecessary so you can just remove it. updateUserId - This line of code is also unnecessary so you can just remove it. hentai - I have no idea how this line affects anything. It isn't a required line of code so you can remove it. I believe it somehow relates to the 'Enable hentai translation rules for H-scene' in the shared dictionary preferences. special - I'm not sure what this is for. There are other entries without this line of code so you should be fine removing it. pattern - This is the actual text you are looking to translate. So whatever word/name/etc you are looking to translate put here. text - This is what your pattern will be translated to. So put your translation here. comment - This just adds a comment in the shared dictionary. This line of code is unnecessary so you can just remove it. host - Not shown in the above code, but this is used if you want only a specific machine translator to be affected by your added translation entry. Such as using <host>google</host> would cause the translation to only affect the google translator for VNReader. context - Not a required line of code and will default to all if you don't use the code. It can otherwise be set to dialog, name, window, or other. It causes the translation to occur only under certain contexts. As to how VNReader goes about this I have no idea. private - Not a required line of code but it can be made true by putting <private>true</private>. I'm not sure if this has any use with VNReader being in its current state, but I figured I would mention that it is a possible line of code that may be useful for some reason or another. Make sure all new entries you add have the </term> at the end of them otherwise issues will occur. If anyone else can figure out anything else it would be much appreciated.

I wonder if the cost difference is really that much in this day and age? If it's something that can be mass produced overseas then the greatest cost is probably just designing the thing. Certainly there would be a difference but I'm thinking it's not in the 10's of dollars range? Dunno. Though the problem might ultimately be the volume. If they aren't making enough to fill a few shipping containers the cost per unit might go up significantly. Not that I know. Just my gut feeling after seeing some of the needlessly complex packaging PC parts sometimes come in. Either there really isn't much cost in such things or they're really desperate to differentiate themselves from the competition. Which seems kinda silly since most people buy parts online these days and I doubt the packaging even enters into their consideration.

With funding at over 85% and us approaching the final week of the campaign, we updated the stretch goals (making the event CG rewards cheaper) and revealed the remaining stretch goals, including funding for an all-new side story Chuusotsu - 1.5th Graduation: The Moving Castle. We also already unlocked one free event CG from the Thunderclap campaign, and if we can get 70 more Supporters there in the next 6 days, a second CG will be added too. Quite a few of our backers have said they come from Fuwa, so... thank you all

English masses will finally be able to appreciate how bad Hoshimemo is.

Wow, this image truly represents what I believe more protagonists should be like. Instead of narrating stuff they don't know the first thing about as if they were professionals, they make sure to note that their eyes are those of an amateur.

Announcing Marina kinda proves my hypothesis that Mangagamer isn't really interested in bringing NTR eroge to the west. They are only interested in bringing cuckold nukige (meaning consensual adultery aka the most boring subgenre of NTR) since that is a porn genre already established here and normies are familiar with the concept. But NTR games with actual drama, meaningful relationship problems, suspense, angst ... you know, all the good stuff? Eh, probably not.

Welcome to the forums Fuwan, and studying the Japanese language for 3 years already? Nice one, barely on 2 on my end.

Welcome to Fuwan. o/

Suika A.S.+ Licensed by MangaGamer Summary This is a collection of mysterious love stories that occurred in the summer in Tokiwa village, which is a silent village far from the cities. (Description from VNDB) Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order The game is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1, Chapter 2 (Contains an alternate route after you complete chapter 4), Chapter 3, Chapter 4 and chapter 0. There's also two small side-stories at the end (these contain no choices). Please note that choices made in an early chapter might influence events in one of the later chapters. Chapter 1 only has one ending Chapter 2 has four endings, if you count those added in the alternate route. Chapter 3 has two endings Chapter 4 has six different endings, partly depending on the choices you made in the previous three chapters. Chapter 0 has two endings that are independant from the others The side-stories only have a single ending each. Route Guideline Chapter 1 Minase Itsuki Chapter 2 Shirakawa Sayaka Good ending Bad ending Alternate ending (Must complete chapter 4 to access) Wakabayashi Mie Mie ending (Must complete chapter 4 to access) Chapter 3 Kyouya Touko Touko ending (counts as the "good" ending) Masaki Akane Akane end (counts as the "bad" ending) Chapter 4 Nameless girl (Oujo) Bad ending Normal ending (must have gotten at least one bad ending in either chapter 2 or 3. A good indication that you will get the normal ending is that the background is blurry on the "Chapter select" screen.) Good ending (can only be achieved if the background is fully colored on the "chapter select screen" and that you got no Bad Endings for chapter 2 and 3) True ending (must have gotten Oujo's good ending) Inaba Chitose Good ending Bad ending Chapter 0 This Chapter only has a Bad and a normal ending Normal Ending Bad ending Original walkthrough can be found here.

If My Heart Had Wings Licensed by MoeNovel Link to Purchase Restoration Patch (Restores Sex Scenes and Story) Thank you to rusanon for the walkthrough! Aoi returned to his hometown of Kazegaura, where a gentle breeze blows through the streets, having lost his direction in life. On the hill lined with windmills, he met a wheelchair girl Kotori and watched the gliders overhead in awe. With his childhood friend Ageha in tow, they resurrect the soaring club in order to fulfill a childhood dream: to fly on a glider plane. Endings Guides **The second choice listed for each route is only available once Kotori's route has been cleared Kotori Amane (Kotori clear needed) Ageha Asa Yoru (needs Asa cleared) Bad End