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There were a few official English announcements and releases, but mostly a bunch of fantranslations or patches.

(UPDATED ON APRIL 22ND 2020 INCLUDING MY OC DESIGNS FOR USE IN MY VISUAL NOVEL PROJECT ) Currently, I am longing so much to play a VN with a Black Male Protagonist, so since I can't wait any more longer for any companies from America or Japan to make it happen, I now want to take matters into my own hands and solve the lack of a commercial VN product with this setting by making it myself. The problem is, I currently now lack funds, resources, expertise, personnel and many other factors that would be necessary into turning it into at least a B or A-class ranked commercial VN product. It doesn't have to be triple A class rivalling some Japanese VN eroges like Grisaia or Sorcery Jokers, but something like this >>> So, of course I have now come to the realization that I can't do this alone, so I want to recruit at first volunteers to work and cooperate with me in our VN project that'll star a Black Male Protagonist. If any of you guys here are interested or know anyone that you think could help me get men for my project, can you please reply here ? By the way, while I'd like to be the Lead Project Director that'll make key decisions in the game's story and setting after discussing and getting some important suggestions from other experts in the project members list, here are staff members I'm recruiting for : 1. Investor(s) Making a proper VN that'll be a great commercial product takes a lot of money, especially if we want to hire music composers, background artists, theme researchers and technical experts on some fields related to the game's story and settings, programmers, etc, so I could use a few investors willing to contribute a collective amount of at least a minimum of $25,000. 2. Music Composer Music is an important part in any game, especially for a VN that relies only on a non-playable reading aspect, so the music has to be good to draw you in to the story and make it memorable. For that I need the services of an experienced professional music composer. 3. Writer I need a very experienced professional writer to write the dialogues and overall plot of my VN's story and characters. I am aiming for a very long and gripping main plot involving conspiracies surrounding the main antagonist, all in a fantasy setting with a magic academy, so I want at least a total playtime of 50 hours if one aims to play all 5 Romanceable Heroine routes plus the Common Route. 4. Expert Field Researchers Any story element thought of by the writer that contains specialized information of specific fields like in scientific terms/knowledge and the like requires for it to be based on true facts, so some experts in that field can be recruited for my project for him to check and confirm the authenticity of the Writer's points in the facts written of those specific elements. 5. Background Artist and Character Artwork Illustrator ( UPDATED ON 22ND APRIL 2021 ) While I can draw my art is still not Pro-Level yet, so require the services of a pro illustrator for my project. He needs to be able to draw cute Heroines in anime Moe-style design, as well as being able to draw character artwork for my Black Male Protagonist, which must have curly hair, very dark skin, wears glasses and looks like an intelligent nerd who can fight well(Think of a Black and slightly muscular version of Bleach's Uryuu Ishida)and with Black facial features(His face can look somewhat similar to that one Black character named Hermes from Square Enix's Front Mission 4). Among my 5 Romanceable Heroines, 3 of them will be White or European-looking girls(since my target consumer audience would be Americans and Europeans, as well as Japanese who would be interested since I'll be adding Japanese language version too only for the text ). Of the remaining 2, one of them would be a Black or dark-skinned girl, and the remaining would look like a Japanese girl with fiery red eyes, black hair and long ponytail wielding a Katana and wearing pitch-black tights with her school uniform's mini skirt. As for the 3 White Heroines, one of them would be an Ara-Ara type elder Senpai kind of girl who's older than the MC and loves to tease and flirt with the MC sexually, and she would have a hairstyle with braids tied around her head with long wavy hair flowing down to her butt. I'll tentatively name her Christine here. I have just finished the character design of one of the 3 "White" romanceable heroines in this VN project of mine that features a Black-looking Protagonist who is an individual from one of the fictional races in my VN's fantasy world, and this art was drawn using my own amateur art skills drawn with a mouse. She's not Christine but the Main Heroine, whose name is Mary Garson which you can see below. The story is set in a Magic Academy and Mary's primary weapon is her small size staff here which she can use like a wand to cast magic.At close ranges, she can also fight hand-to-hand in unarmed martial arts and specializes in kicking techniques, which are useful when the enemy closes in on her. She is the sole daughter of Duke Carius Garson and heiress of the House of Garson.As for her personality, she is the stoic and quiet type and rarely smiles, but very diligent in her studies at the Landhurst Royal Magic Academy. She also feels somewhat of a huge pressure to perform well since her father demands of it as she would succeed her family's leadership position one day as a member of a noble house.Therefore, once you as the player enters her Heroine Route, I would like to give players a huge catharsis once your relationship with her is that close to the point you can enjoy her smiles to you. She rarely smiles to anyone except those closest to her like her parents, so once you she falls in love with the player you will finally get to see her cute and refreshing smile more often. She is 17 years old and is a first-year student at the Academy, which has up to 3 years of curricular material before graduating. After graduating they'll get a certificate of sorts which would allow them to get employed as a recruit in the Royal Mage Forces of the Landia Kingdom. Depending on their score upon graduation and their magic skills, they can easily rise up to officer level within just a few weeks upon enlisting. The Landian Kingdom is embroiled in territorial disputes with 2 neighbouring kingdoms, and has "Phantasmic Beasts" monsters to worry about, so they need all the mages they can muster for national defense.Finally, I'd like to mention that I drew this one with a mouse so it looks a bit stiff the pose and the sketching process was quite slow, but I will try harder next time : ) https://www.artstation.com/artwork/WK5kZ3 This is another illustration of my OC, Mary Garson in a scene I want to write in my VN where she fights against the Protagonist in a duel. I have yet to give my Protagonist a name, character design or background yet as I'll save that for later as it's harder for me to draw male characters at my current skill. I intend for this scene to take place around the time the Protag attends the Landhurt Royal Magic Academy during the first day. He was rushing to the school as he got up late, and when he was running through what at first seemed a deserted path leading to the academy gates, he saw that there's also one girl who turned up late to walk to the school in front. She seemed to walk at a slow and almost nonchalant pace, so the Protag slowed down a bit to approach and greet her, but suddenly, he felt like as if someone pushed him from behind. Pushed by the invisible and undetectable "person", he unintentionally tripped and pushed Mary to the ground with which one of his hands accidentally grabbed her chest. Of course, the Protag tried to explain, but Mary being one of the daugthers of noble houses felt that her dignity as a lady has been defiled even by that accident, so she challenges him to a duel so she can have an excuse to beat him up real good to feel compensated for the accidental "hand on her....chest". She also felt somewhat irked that the protagonist who groped her chest inadvertently in that accident seems like a commoner from one of the minority ethnicities of the kingdom, from the Kun'yapeh race, and while she doesn't feel any particular discriminatory feelings towards minorities nor care too much about differences of skin colors, she does feel somewhat bothered that a commoner regardless of his/her race would touch her in her private areas considering that she has not even had a male fiance from another equal noble house touching her yet. So accident or not, she just wants to set the record straight and teach MC a lesson in a duel. The plot point of who was the one who pushed the protagonist while invisible, would be revealed later as the story progresses. I changed her uniform to include long sleeves and other details. Since I have to draw with a mouse it really limits the speed and accuracy of my lines during the sketching process, so I am still unsatisfied of my stiff drawings. For this pose, I drew on my own using imagination as it is hard to find a relevant image that matches this one, and I also don't have a phone or recording device to capture myself doing this pose for reference. 6. Lead Project Adviser This position will help give me advice on specific details that need tweaking from all efforts made by the other staff members. 7. Voice Actresses for all 5 Heroines and several other male characters. That is all I can think of for now. For Return On Investment ROI profits, I aim for it to be sold on Steam at a price of $60, and aim to sell a lot to break even and still earn so much profits beyond that, so the story and characters has to be that damn good to generate massive interest and publicity around it. The investors can take most of the profits along with the rest of all the staff members, and I am content to enjoy only around 5 percent of the total earnings.

Hello everyone, i am translating a game name "Kami-sama no You na Kimi e" (VNDB) But the script was encoded with Shift-JIS so all Unicode letter i put in (á, ơ, ứ, ồ,...) become "??" How can I put the unicode characters into the Script? And does it have anything to do with the font? Thank you all! *Sorry for my bad English*

On the other hand it makes for a great reason to read the vn if you get hooked and want to see the different routes:D

Hi, I'm Nenor, and I love VNs very much and hope for more innovation in this industry! I hope Americans and Europeans too would emulate Japan to make more VN-like games in the future so we can make stories tailor-made to fit our own interests and cultures! : )

Reading the English Steam version is definitely a safer bet then. If you want to delve into the console arcs later, all you need to play them on PC is a copy of Chapter 4.

That might work, yeah. I haven't actually gotten started on the console arcs myself yet, since I want to read them all in one go. Most of them are available in English on PC by now, but there are a few still in the pipeline.

Sadly, most of console versions newer than PS3 are no good for me. I don't own any console (and I'm not ready to go without text hooking yet since I have to look up lot of words), so I have to rely on emulators. PS4 isn't emulated yet, so that version is out of question. As for Switch - there's an emu, and I managed to play World End Syndrome with it, but the performance was far from stellar, and I'm not sure how hook-friendly Switch emulation is But then maybe I should try my luck with PS3 version? It looks like I could get it (used) from amazon for ¥4400 (incl. shipping). Just have to check if it's hookable beforehand, since some VN engines are weird, and don't have separate memory area for textbox contents. In those cases, or when the game uses non-standard text encoding, hooking is impossible.

Too bad you don't own a Switch, or you could've picked up that version for a measly ¥3960. It's, to my knowledge, the only release that includes the story in its (current) entirety ("all 19 console arcs, the drama cd arc, Hajisarashi-hen, plus the three Hou exclusive arcs", to quote VNDb). That's some serious bang for the buck. (Dunno if you're at the point where you can read Japanese without a text hooker though, so maybe it wouldn't help you even if you had the console.) EDIT: I just noticed that the Switch version was apparently later ported to PS4, so maybe that's an option for you.

I think you'd be fine with Higurashi then, so give it a whirl!

Hmm... apart from fucked-up h-content, I guess I'm also not good with too depressing mindfuck stuff, like death games etc. (Those two combined rule out things like Euphoria ) To give an example - I know that it's rather mild (and I think a talked about it once here), but I got severely disturbed by watching "The Cube" in the highschool (I think I was 16 back then). Not because of the gory bits, but more because back then I found the overall message kind of depressing. Mystery, violence etc are all fine, as long as it doesn't all spiral down into "All people are monsters, world is fucked-up beyond repair, no hope, no future, no love and it's best to die anyway" kind of stuff Basically - no hard utsuge please. It's just that after reading WES and finding out that I enjoyed its mystery part, I kind of started to warm-up to the idea of tackling Higurashi one day

Looks like TLC for the Eustia route is at 100%, exciting! Very impressive speed! As usual, thanks for the hard work.

To unlock the true end for the original Eiyuu Senki, all you needed to do was occupy all territories and unlock all heroes. However, what are the true end requirements for Eiyuu Senki Gold, if any? In Gold, challenge missions occupy their own "territory", rather than just a dungeon, but are they necessary for the true end?

I would seriously recommend starting as small as possible, especially if you've never done anything like this before. There are tons of great and successful visual novels that were made by small teams. Trying to make a game of that scale when you don't have a shit ton of experience is a recipe for disaster. As someone who is biracial, I would love to see a VN like that someday, but please start small I'm begging you.

Well, you say "something like this", as if it meant a relatively small-scale project, but you point to one of the highest-budget EVNs ever made. Also, take into consideration that even that game, or something like Love in Space's Shining Song Starnova with its tons of content and JP seiyuus, do not ask for $60. Bah, the Sorcery Jokers and Grisaia, which you mention at the beginning of your post, don't try to sell for $60 in the West despite the licensing and translation costs being likely comparable to producing a smaller VN from scratch. Not saying this to hate on your idea or to discourage you, but realistically speaking, there are 2-3 studios in the West doing VN projects of this scale: PixelFade, Love in Space and Studio Elan. All three rely on years of experience and a loyal fanbase, along with regular crowdfunding to make it viable. VNs are still a very niche market and while a project this ambitious could work... It could just as easily turn into a disaster. particularly if you don't have experience in project management and a very good feel of the market. Be careful with this, particularly with the scale and associated costs, ambition tends to quickly run ahead of skills and resources at hand.

Let's say you get chance to become translator or get chance to join translator group. Which few or more VN do you want to translate? feel free to provide information about VN and show VN you want to translate and why you want to translate it? Should i become translator or join translator group, here it's few VN i want to translate. 1. Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka ( I have watch anime and i simple feel in love with anime and i have always dream to play VN and it have beautiful story. 2. Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi ( same with Akeneiro and i love rivalty in anime) 3. D.C. Girl's Symphony ~Da Capo Girl's Symphony~( it sems to have great story and i wonder how game it's differnt from other Da Capo games) 4. Mashiro Iro Symphony(I just love this anime of it more than Akeneiro and Hoshizora, it have beautiful story with great romance and rivalty) 5.Memories Off(Memories off seems to have great plot with drama and romance, i wonder how other memories off serie are)

Definitely Sakura no Uta, Dekinai Watashi ga, Kurikaesu ( read that it was a real tearjerker) and Re:lief.

It's strange that Mashiro Iro Symphony wasn't translated yet. We got SakuSaku and almost the whole 9-nine series from Palette, so the absence of Mashiro Iro Symphony is a bit weird.

I've been doing some translation work on Jinki Resurrection for my own personal use (I'm no mean proficient in Japanese despite taking 3 years of Japanese classes during HS. I'm just using a machine translation and using dictionaries like Jisho to find the meanings for Kanji and other stuff). However, the translated sentences gets too long compared to the Japanese original. The in-game text thats in English usually goes out of the actual dialogue box. The in-game text scripts are in .AST however the functionality side of the game are all coded in Lua. I was wondering if there is anyway to adjust the font size so the full sentences fit inside the dialogue box or something on that line. If the answer is that I have to make a custom code to do so, then it'll be hard for me as I have no prior knowledge of coding. Note: I was also wondering if the translated english sentence gets too long that it breaks the game (I usually do some translations then test the game to see if it runs properly, I ran into some issues where the game crashes and I checked any issues for syntax errors or misplacing. Nothing seems to be out of place but I'll make sure to double check once I wake up. Note: JINKI RESURRECTION runs on the Artemis Engine.

I get that this is not strictly on topic, but... It's perfectly fine to learn things as you go! My philosophy is to never wait around for something until you're "good enough to do it" under some arbitrary measure, because then you're wasting time, and time is the most precious resource of all. Additionally, I firmly believe that hands-on work is the fastest way to learn practically anything. Of course it helps if you can be realistic about where you are skill-wise and what you need to do to grow (i.e. you're past the first Dunning-Kruger peak), but there's no reason not to start whatever it is you want to do right now. Now, if your work is atrocious, people will tell you for sure, but very few are actually malicious enough to fault you for trying. You can safely ignore those few and try again or keep going. Coincidentally, I'm translating Manakashi no Yuri wa Akaku Somaru. Why that one? Meh, no particular reason, really.

To Heart 2 Xrated (https://vndb.org/v20) Game Description Following her graduation from middle school, Konomi Yuzuhara enters the same high school as Takaaki Kouno, her childhood friend. As the new school year begins, they meet their childhood frien Tamaki Kosaka, as well as well as many accquaintaces. Unbeknownst to the group, their encounters with each other will soon lead to many memorable adventures. Ending Guide This walkthrough covers the PC version of the game, that has a total of 9 routes (not including bad ending). There's a total of 9. 6 from the start, 2 unlockables after 1 route completed and 1 unlockable after 2 routes completed. The game has a map system that shows you where the girls (and Yuuji) are. If you want to enter a route you'll need to (basically) stalk the girl you're after. Individual Route Guide The names for places are in JAP so I had to figure out how to name them. Help with this is appreciated. Sentences in " signs are choices. Yuzuhara Konomi Kosaka Tamaki Komaki Manaka Tonami Yuma Sasamori Karin Kusakabe Yuki Lucy Maria Misora Himeyuri Sango/Himeyuri Ruri Kusugawa Sasara Bad End - Kosaka Yuuji Last Words Huge thanks to ittaku for translating this almost 100k lines beast and for the Lucy section. The rest was done by me, through trial-save-error-load from save-repeat proccess ( ) Edit August 29: It was discovered that you need to clear 1 route to unlock Lucy and the Twins. Thanks to ittaku for the help in ensuring this. Enjoy