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Thanks! I have two of those new Frontwing titles (Kinsenka and KANADE) on my radar, as well as Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete, so it's good to hear they're decent

Great Whatever the case - get someone for proofreading and possibly editing. It's very difficult to find errors in your own text - even the obvious ones, the kind which you'd facepalm at after someone points them out

Good luck, it's indeed nice title! I think 5 months estimate might be too optimistic, but maybe you're really that fast But I think you have to be ready for some slow-downs along the road, since they're almost inevitable.

I just finished Time Leap I approached it without big expectations, but it turned out to be quite good While it features time travel as a major part of the setting, it doesn't approach it "scientifically" - it's just a magical plot device more related to "KEY magic" - but I'm okay with that, if only it gives me nice tale It will be a very slight spoiler, but without it it's difficult to talk about the plot at all, so let's just say that one thing that all people subjected to "Time Leap" have in common is some very strong feeling that makes them want to escape from the reality. There are five routes, of which two are unlockable. My favorite girl - and first route I did - was definitely Ayumu (the "current" one ). I seem to have soft spot for this kind of fiery redheads and/or osananajimi tsunderes (well, technically she's MC's adoptive sister, but whatever ). I also think that her route was most fleshed out among the three "basic" ones. And remember - never think lightly of her deadly round-kick Completing Ayumu's route unlocks Ayu (younger version of Ayumu that appeared because of "Time Leap"). But, sensing that Ayu's might be kind of "true route" (considering the premise) I saved her for the last playthrough, so the next route I got was Yuu - imouto-style heroine While I really liked her as a character, her route seemed to lack some impact compared to Ayumu. But I appreciate, that her (as well as Haruka's) route also was somewhat related to the "Time Leap" phenomenon - intially I thought that it will apply only to both Ayumu's versions. Completing Yuu's route unlocks Haruka - the oldest sister, who currently works as a teacher in local higschool, where MC, Ayumu and Yuu attend. I really love her look with her hair down: That route was interesting, and a bit of emotional rollercoaster. There was also quite a plot twist. Then there is kind of side-heroine, Komomo. She's Hisamitsu's (the town's rich idiot kid) maid, and a ball of cuteness While her route doesn't involve Time Leap directly, it still has themes of past memories etc (my favorite). And did I already say that Komomo is cute? And finally Ayu - the Ayumu from 4 years ago. Violent but cute, and her story has quite balanced mix of comedy and drama. However, heroine routes are one thing, but the very important part of the VN is family as a whole. They all play important part in every route, which created very pleasant, wholesome atmosphere - in no small way thanks to the great side characters duo - the youngest children - Fuuta and Sakura. If I had to point out weak points of this title, there would be mainly two: a bit unsatisfying (too short!) epilogues I'd like to see more CGs (or rather, in case of this title) "CG-like" scenes. PC version has some scenes done as 2d movies (with voiced MC) but console port has everything rendered using ingame engine. I still prefer PS3 version from technical point of view, since PC version lacks almost any UI, apart from black text box at the bottom of the screen. Also, console version has somewhat expanded scenario, as a replacement for removed H-scenes. All in all I really enjoyed this VN. While nothing groundbreaking, it's solid. Fully animated characters are nice feature, making scenes much more lively. So it ends up with my standard score for not-outstanding-but-good titles - 7.5/10

Yep, I know about Luna, and experienced firsthand that Defender detected it as malware While I feel it's too bloated for normal use, I someties find it useful to find H-code that I then could put into Textractor Unfortunately it seems that older versions aren't available anymore. And scripts based on D-CODE and _ExecutionWatch indeed crash in current version - I just tried my script for Time Leap, and it didn't work So it seems that currently the only option for getting script for yet unsupported game is to ask on their discord and hope that someone makes it...

There was a tutorial for the older version of Agent, about finding so-called "D-CODE" - and I used that method. https://github.com/0xDC00/agent/wiki/Finding-D-CODE-(Deprecated) It seems that ExecutionWatch script in latest version of Agent(0.1.4) is a little broken, and doesn't catch shift-jis encoded strings properly, so I'm using Agent v0.1. Currently it seems that it's recommended to write custom scripts from scratch, but that requires more programming and inner workings of a given game/console knowledge, so it's a bit above my level

So far I finished 3 out of 5 routes in Time Leap - and it's quite good (At last!) While nothing outstanding in terms of plot or romance, I find it very enjoayble - there's some good comedy, a bit of drama and lots of heartwarming family moments I'll write more once I complete it.

Damn, is this forum completely dead already? Anyway, as predicted, I couldn't be bothered to continue Kimi ni Steady Instead, yesterday I started Frontwing's Time Leap. Today I entered first route. So far I'm liking it - it plays many of my favorite tropes, like childhood memories with a bit of supernatural mystery. It's also quite good looking despite using cell-shaded 3d models instead of sprites. The positive side of that is the dialogues feel much more lively. I'm playing PS3 version - it works flawlessly with current version of RPCS3, and can be hooked using Agent after some tinkering

I think I won't finish Kimi ni Steady While I love character design of some heroines, I liked the one route I finished, and I'd like to see some of the other heroines' routes - the dating sim gameplay is sooo tedious. What's worse, there's no clear walkthrough, conditions to trigger routes can be tricky, and the only guide that's available online for this game seems to have mistakes (or the game is partially random)... So I'm on the verge of dropping it.

FWIW, When I played AIR long time ago with fan translation patch, I still used Takafumi's patch to turn the sex scenes off

... and I haven't seen any news about it https://store.steampowered.com/app/2983250/AIR/ Might check it out later, since I don't have any official AIR release. And this one has both original and translated text included, not to mention it's ported for modern systems, got HD treatment and includes voices which previously were available only on console or via unnoficial patch. Nice

I liked it. I also really enjoyed its "sequel" - Ano Hi no Tabibito, Fureau Mirai, but it's still untranslated. Perhaps "Adventure of a Lifetime" didn't sell well enough on Steam? (Even though I remember the translation being not bad for a PULLTOP )

When there's will, there's a way (yeah, I know I'm sick ) I managed to run bloody thing using WinXP virtual machine running in VirtualBox, and then hooking text with Cheat Engine The only downside is that the japanese font in WinXP is kinda ugly But it works

Yeah, that was funny - but the scenes were so over the top

Wait, when did it get that title? Anyway, it was quite nice game as far as I remember. I read it back in 2019, when the translation got released. I think I was disappointed with H-scenes (as usual ), and the romance felt underdeveloped, but I enjoyed all that rocket plot. ***************** Now I'm trying to decide what to read next. I'm kinda in a mood for another ancient moege, like You & I that I read last summer. And so I stumbled upon similar title - Kimi ni Steady. But I have really hard time choosing between the PC and PS1 versions. The problem is that PS1 version, due to graphic hardware limitations has really bad quality low-res sprites, like this: But it's hookable with CheatEngine and has really nice animated OP. The PC version looks much better (and I really dig that character design)... ...but from technical point of view it's a hot mess - it runs only in fullscreen, in Win98 compatibility mode. Can be windowed using app like DxWnd, but it still behaves like it was fullscreen - you have to Alt-Tab out of it to use desktop. The engine itself has even less features than You & I , which already was pretty bare-bones. I couldn't find a way to enter any kind of options or save menu once the game started (and I read through two days on prologue) - there are icons, but they are all greyed out And when the game is wrapped via DxWnd, text hookers don't seem to see it So I'm quite stuck. I think I will go with console version and suffer inferior graphics, just because it's less of a bother to run and hook... **************************************** Okay, I clicked through PC version until options became active, and maybe I should rethink my game choice, since this seems to be genuine dating sim, with map movement, presents, searching for date spots etc - and I often find such systems rather bothersome