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Currently reading Devils Devel Concept. It's hard to read, so this will be a somewhat long time reading project of mine. Also a enjoyble (frustrating) change from the easier read novels. As for the VN itself, it's interesting. I haven't read much yet, but the characters personality and setting makes you think. Also this novel is pretty grim lol. But I like it.

1. and 2. You can use this guide to know how to set it up and use VNR 1. Basically you use a small window and input the translation and it get's saved to the cloud server for everyone to see and access. -> 2. The translation is auto input for other to see and you. Though, about number 2 question. It seems you are missunderstanding something I think. You can't actually input the translation into the actucal game text window. That would require hacking. VNR bypasses this by putting an extra window overlay over the game display. Hacking is ofc ideal, but it's takes time and experience and not always possible. As far as I know the 3rd one is currently not possible.

Merry Christmas!~~

Essensially for me it's a day were I spend most of the day with my family. Visiting the grandparents and such, making food, talking, eating, drinking boose, more talking and tv, then dessert, then opening presents 1 at a time. We have a real christmas tree each year. Stockings and Rice porridge (Risgrøt). A enjoyble day with boose, great food and presents pretty much. (With some annoyences tho)

Welcome to the fuwa abyss~~

I knew where he had posted them so luckely didn't take too long. All hail Clephas! I prefer written guides so I used this one you posted elsewhere cryofrzd: http://sakimichi.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/translating-visual-novels-without-hacking/ Some playing around my impression of it is. Actually VNR is suprisingly good. It has loads of features. You can even use it as a substitue for ITH. It actually managed to hook the right text out when ITH failed for me. Works the same as ITH if you take away the VNR text field and make it paste the text into clipboard. Then just read with TA. Also a very useful feature is that you can use it as overlay over the game screen. If you use a laptop with a low res or just have a low res monitor you don't need to worry about needing space for TA and the game window. Basically If you monitor is 1366 x 768 and the game is 1280 x 720 res you are fucked with TA. But with VNR not a problem. -Some games you can make the game window smaller dispite the high res. Usually this makes the game kinda funky and blurry. Imo that's ugly so I tend not to do that. Additonally it has access to other peoples translations by cloud and such.

You can buy it from Mangagamer and download it from there. I am guessing it's highly unlikely that they use torrents... I don't see a problem with patching it afterwards. Should work fine. Though I haven't really tried it.

As it might be a admin problem try changing both ITH and DRA.exe to run under administrator. -Just right click on the exe, properties, compabillity, admin right's "checked". Other than that. Having the latest ITH might help, which version do you have? The latest version is ITH 3.0 (2012.05.05) Get it here. The lateset one should be "ITH_UpdaterV3.rar"

I'll add some more resources here: Learning methods Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners It's a guide how to learn japanese by plowing through anki cards in a effective manner. It's made by a community member at Koohi forums. (I'd like to mention you can learn vocab very fast with this method and keep it in memory. But you learn without alot of context, which has it's negative sides.) Practice Material WWWJDIC Dictionary site. (great site) -As for reccommended vn's I'll just quote a few of Clephas posts. Relatively easy language for a story-focused VN. A big list of Visual novels to read if you are confident enough you can read JPTL 2 Also great post made Down!

For the love of GOD, I will say this. Hatsuyuki Sakura is awesome, I love the pace, jokes, art, music and characters. Suprisingly good O_O Only completed the prologue so far, but yes! It's awesome.

Nisemonogatari episode 4 was the best. xD

You could put windows 8.1 on a flashdrive and install it from there. WinToFlash I've found good before for that use.

You should ask Clephas for a vn or check his posts out. With my experience with vn's I recommend choosing a vn that you find interesting -making you want to read it. Choosing a vn you don't really want to read is worse choice compared to choosing a hard VN imo. Also it should be moderatly hard for you. Hook the vn up with TA + ITH. Also you should know atleast some grammar. If you got almost no knowledge beforehand I'd recommend you read Ixrec's guide, it's very short and highly compact.

First I am thinking about the current market for visual novels here in the west. So mangagamer, jast and moenovel. The thing I am really questioning is how much making the DRM free will affect the sales. Considering the market is already heavy loaded pirates. If you search on the web you will likely find lots of different research and opinions on what's best. Imo it's more of a case by case basis. Similar to piracy it affects sales, but to which extent and negative or positive is not. It is more a case by case basis how it affects. As for my personal experience with DRM was just an example of a DRM actually stopping the user from using the product. That's how far companies can go to "protect" their products. Ofc there are different DRM's, most of them are not that troublesome for the user tho. Regardless of that. I find it doubtful that japanese companies would agree to making their english releases DRM free.

Steam is less of an DRM and more a everything else. And besides, people can crack the steam games as well. Imo DRM is useful for big games companies, but it goes against it's purpose when it makes the product harder to use than it should. I remember I wanted to play my paid for version of Sam and max games on my laptop while in a place I had no internet connection. I had to vertify the game with internet connection to be able to play it. Ridiculous. I think the VN's should be DRM free because they will mostly be pirated anyway. That way more ease of access. Though on the other hand. I remember hearing once of a vn that got a translation and offical english release (mangagamer I think). Most likely it had a lot of sales on that title because no one had made a crack for it for a few weeks after it got released.

I'd love to read comments about the games, also Linguistically how hard they are to read from 1-10.

I completed the RTK so I tell you my experience on this. Depends on how you want to continue to learn japanese after RTK really. But if you intend to read JP vn's raw afterwards with ITH and TA you will learn the kanji's by immersion. You will see the kanji, read the furigana (reading) and after doing that multiple times you will remember it. Rather than through anki, you will have an entire sentence, maybe voice, story context, pictures etc. Alot more easy to connect the words imo atleast. Usually how I go on about learning new words is: If I see a interesting word or a word that pops up often I will look at it. And try to make a logical connection between each kanji or I make a wierd connection as long as it sticks it works. Example a word that keeps popping up in my current VN is: 吸血鬼 - きゅうけつき (vampire). I see it as 吸(suck) 血(blood)鬼(devil). This one is rather easy to connect really, hardly all words are like that though. I vocalize it in my mind and read it each time I see it. After after a while it's stuck. Similar to anki, but with more fun. Some words just stick without effort. Like 存在 -そんざい (existence/being). So basically you will naturally learn the words as you read with some effort. Yeah people seem to pop up sometimes and say RTK is bad because it doesn't completely learn you the kanji. But that's neither it's purpose and also exactly the reason why it works so well.

Looking forwards to it. I honestly thought for a moment that you would read all those titles in a month xD that would be insane. Well you already are.. But still

I love vn's because it's a combination of media together with a book. The music, visuals and voice make the stories so much easier to get into and immerse myself in. Also the stories and characters are often anime or manga like with a better and longer story. It fits me perfectly. *Rant on* Mainstream games are imo just getting worse all the time. This is especially said for bigger companies. (But also smaller ones) Multiple great video games series have been RUINED imo by making them "mainstream". Splinter Cell an awesome stealth game series. They even had put 1 year of planning into making it even more awesome open and such. I was realy looking forewards to that. But noooo, the big bosses on top didn't want that. So we instead of Splinter Cell: Conviction! Suddenly now you control a Bionic superman who can climp and run and shoot insanely fast. wtfffff. Ghost recon. Awesome series with a long past. I liked the last games also GRAW 1 and 2. They were great imo. Easier to play but still good. Then, let's make it "mainstream". I raged when I saw the trailer first for the next title. Ghost recon: future soldier. omfhg, you can't be serious. I don't even know where to start on this one. It's just so much wrong.... Assasins creed, first game was very well done. Rough in the edges but interesting plot and world. It made you think and wonder about right and wrong, the creed etc. Long conversations with your master about retoric etc. It was truly something new. The next games in comperisation was like. He must die kill him. You say: "Okay". The last game that has come out is supposedly good, but... Yeah... *Rant off*

Hm, I have only read the grand route of the game, aka yuuji's route. I found it highly enjoyble, it's most likely the best route in the game. (So you might want to take that last) Plus that you got the 5 after stories, 1 h-scence collection and 1 other route not sure what the last one is? I tried to read Sachi's route, but i just couldn't get into it. Besides the grand route and it's continuation with the 3rd game in the series are a lot better imo. Also when you can read whatever vn you want in jp. You have the possibility to choose what interests you, and just drop the rest. Back to your orginal question though. No I don't know what order is best to read the routes sadly. But I don't think the after routes are that connected. So it shouldn't matter. Only guessing here tho...

Completed all of the routes of Grisaia no Rakuen. They weren't as fun as the main route. But they were still good. As for the next vn I shall read. I am not completely sure yet. Either it will be Tokyo Babel or Draculius. Maybe both at the same time? Not sure. hmm. I am tempted to start konakana, but I think I will get back to that vn later. Damnnnn, I really want to read Subarashiki Hibi..... No doubt later...

Thanks Nayleen! Glad you made the site very quickly back up again

Yup I got confused. No doubt about it.

Also you always got a feeling Ougi might show up again. Tho he promised not to come back the the town. So I am unsure in what conditions he will show up.

I watched the latest episodes.... About CR subs. As others have stated they are rather mediocre. If you compare them to commie or some other high standard subs. They consistently translates and rewrites the japanese into good english. If you haven't watched way too much anime or know some japanese it's not a problem. I took a long while before I noticed it. But nowdays, bad translations are like a nails scratching on my squishy brain scalp.