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Because they are either lying about hiring a 3rd party Chiinese TL company, or because the 3rd party Chinese TL company is lying to them, or because they simply have no fucking idea what they are doing and don't know who to hire to do the job. I'd bet on the first option, that they are lying. They are saving costs and just doing MTL + maybe an English editor (who, as expected, can't fix the MTL mess).

With the kind of money they are throwing around, they could have easily bought out a couple of fanTLers who would do a better job than any Chinese 3rd party translation company.

As I am reading it now, it'll take me a bit to reach them all. I am using the "Japanese + English" mode, reading both in JP and ENG at the same time (which means I am being rather slow with my progress on Noratoto, but I am having a blast readnig this VN). That said, I took a look inside the voice options and this is how they showed the characters' names: This should be helpful for you, I think.

@marcus-beta For the old engine .dat file, the hacker who made tools for Tsujidou left some notes saying: "Currently it supports only Tsujidou-san no Junai Road, but it shouldn't be too difficult to add support for other games - it should boil down to changing constants inside archiver and using different filenames.lst file." I don't know what he meant by that, but maybe you'll be able to figure it out. What I do know is that it shouldn't be impossible. Also, there's code for extracting in GARBro. If you could analyze that, maybe you'll be able to make a reverse algorithm for it. @Blooming Sakura 1. Past Tense narration was used 2. I didn't meet all the heroines yet, but I'll check 3. No, they dropped honorifics.

@marcus-beta - Could you share your tools with Sakura? Or at least help out with the tech side of things? As for MTL, I agree with Sakura. It'd just be a hindrance to his speed and progress. @Blooming Sakura - Thank you so much! I can't stress enough how much this is gonna mean for the community as a whole! If you need someone to proofread/edit/give feedback or anything like that later down the line, I'd be glad to help ^^

8k of lines. @Blooming Sakura - Will you be able to handle such a long project?

I only have the raw script files. They can be opened with a text editor, but can't make sheets out of them. Perhaps Marcus would be of more help for that.

I meant fans who will be working on the patch xD Not those who will reap the benefits of the work at the end

Yeah, I understand you. It's not really an ideal solution. And there's not much anyone can do about it. It's a lot of work for just a bunch of fans.

I actually wanted to PM you and ask you to make an MTL patch like you did for Miazora. But I didn't want to bother you too much. Also, if it's any help, Noratoto's JP release was done in Whale engine. The only tools for Whale I know so far are https://github.com/vn-tools/whale-tools I am gonna test those now to see if they work on the JP release, but yeah, it's not an ideal solution, whatever we do.

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I looked now into the JP release. It's a totally different engine. They ported the game to Kirikiri for the ENG release, but the JP release was in some other engine. And that means that whoever (if anyone ever decides to) picks up the H-scenes restoration project would have to do a lot of work on the technical side of things (if they want to combine the release into the most complete one). So yeah, now that I discovered this, I think H-scenes restoration project is even less likely. Just read it with the "good" all-ages translation it has now, and check the CGs on the net for H-scenes. I have no hopes a better solution will ever come up.

I forgot about the joker hint. Maybe, yeah. In any case, Sakura no Mori is indeed a very likely announcement, either this AX, or later this year.

From the first 500 lines or so that I've read, I wasn't impressed with the editing. The TL could have been better. It's not terrible or anything, just nothing amazing. Someone like Dergonu might be more competent to talk about accuracy of it (the game does have an option to turn on both English and Japanese subtitles at the same time), but other than that, I think I'll leave this one for when I learn Japanese. With the way it was handled, I don't expect they did the jokes translations right. This VN deserved a more skilled set of people to work on it.

I remember one of the hints from last year's roundly blog post or so was "Sakura". And they didn't announce any titles yet with the "Sakura" hint. So yeah, Sakura no Uta/Sakura no Mori are still possible announcements for this AX. Seeing how there's only 1 title listed now for AX, it could be either of those two.

That's why I asked which release is the most complete one. I was thinking there may be one that has everything included, but... turns out you either play the original Japanese release with H-scenes, or you play the all-ages one without H-scenes, but some other additional content. RIP. Huge RIP. You would need a great hacker to add back in the H-scenes into the all-ages release ...Guess I'll just go for the original Japanese release with H-scenes anyway.

Any proofs for this leak? Again, proofs, guys! Don't get me so hyped without proof! XDDDD

You have a point. When I tried to play it with MTL on my end, the animations were bugged, running at higher speeds than they should be. So yeah, it's not a good solution. That said... I could make a fanpatch without that bug if I were to just toss the H scripts into MTL and put them in the game manually like that. I was contemplating about doing this in the beginning, but it's such a lazy work, I'd rather do a proper job on it later when I learn enough Japanese.

I've only seen one for the bath scenes. I didn't hear of any patch to restore H-scenes. Also... does anyone here know which release is the most complete one for Noratoto? Say, if I were to pick up the original PC 18+ release from Japan, what would I be missing, content-wise? Some bonus scenarios perhaps?

You and me too, brother

Why are they doing this to ussssssssssssss, aaaaaaaaa!!!! :sad_face: I hate when they do this, I hate it Noratoto 18+ probably never too.

Don't wait, as I already said in my thread. It's quite unlikely it'll ever be finished (unless a random TLer one day translates it himself). There's a way to play the game with MTLed H-scenes, which is your best bet at the moment if you really need to play those H-scenes. I may or may not finish it one day, but for now, the project is for all intents and purposes dead.

Sorry, I was quite sleepy when I read his post earlier. You're right, I probably misunderstood. RIP. I already hated Moenovel. I have no sympathy for companies that are trying to replicate their model.

Wait, so it was censored beyond just H-scenes at the end? RIP. Huge RIP.

Gin'haru by the same developer, but you'll have to wait for someone to translate it one day xD