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17 hours ago, littleshogun said:

Dorei Himekishi to Dorei Jijo to no Slow Life - 2023 release

Nice! I was aware of the existence of this title for a while and was hoping somebody would pick it up for a translation effort! Better yet, vndb.org does NOT list rape as any of the tags!

Is this also in the original Japanese? Is it a shameless plug by NekoNyan, the translator/publisher of the English version? Or is it the sole reason why NekoNyan translated and published this title in the first place?

I'm glad to see proof of life on Gin'iro Haruka.

Quoted from the vndb.org description for the VN "Anonymous Code:

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Every computer on Earth overflowed past the maximum limit of the 4,294,967,295 seconds granted within the Digital Standard Clock that had been ticking away since 1900, leading to the worst-case scenario: all Defense-Attack Systems throughout the world majorly malfunctioning. Military satellites roared like Hammers of God as they showered instant devastation upon the world's major cities.

This blatantly fails the Suspension of Disbelieve test. No scientifically advanced nation cable of mounting orbital weapons worth the name would let such an obvious technological shortcoming cause such a catastrophe, let alone ALL of them. They would have patched this problem out of existences years if not decades in advance, or at the very least, issued a shut down/disarm command before the problem occurred.

I'm about 2.5 routes through Walkure Romanze and it just occurred to me that I find the use of Japanese honorifics to be suspect in this instance, not just in the translation, but in the original Japanese version* as well. The setting is in a fictional (<-- I think) European city. Europeans would not be using Japanese honorifics. As such, the only time they potentially should be showing up in the dialogue is when either the protagonist or Akane are speaking as their characters are actually Japanese. Even then, the use of Japanese honorifics could still be viewed as suspect. Neither character is actually speaking Japanese in the internal logic of the story even if the text on screen you the player is reading is in Japanese and the protagonist has been living in the country already for several years. As such the protagonist at least should be reasonably fluent in and used to the linguistic conventions of whatever language they are actually speaking, although Akane might have been living there for a far shorter time, so it's understandable that Japanese honorifics slip regularly into her speech.

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*I'm assuming the original Japanese version used honorifics based on the fact that one of the two version of the English patch "keeps" the Japanese honorifics.

I can no longer access the Fuwanovel Forum thread for the Aiyoku No Eustia translation project. To date, i've just been following the link supplied on the vndb.org page (posted here for convenience: https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/16982-aiyoku-no-eustia-translation-project/) but now I just get a "You do not have permission to view this topic" message. I tried approaching from the front door of the Fuwanovel website so-to-speak and can not even find it.

Does anybody know what happened? Is the project even still live?

I have the game, purchased from steam and patched from nekonyan, but I haven't played it yet. I've been busy with Walkure Romanze. I probably won't being switching to clover days anytime soon. Once I do start playing it, I will let you know if I encounter the problem.

First, thank you littleshogun for that link. I've got the VN up and running.

As an FYI to anyone else who uses that link to get that VN, although it comes pre-patched with the version that includes Japanese honorifics (the -sans, -kuns, and -samas at the end of names), I still recommend you download the actual patch file (link sourced from vndb.org). It has all the needed information and resources to apply the other version of the patch that utilizes pure 100% English. It also mentions that for people running Windows 10 and possibly 11 the need to replace a single file that is generated on your hard drive when you first start the game with a file provided alongside the patch files in order to fix some sort of minor text bug at decision prompts.

Does anybody know of a safe source for Walkure Romanze? As it's a fan translation and not an actual English release, It's not like I can just hop over to steam and shell out the cash, and Ivan doesn't seem likely to return anytime soon.

I'm trolling the description as written on vndb.org for Blood Stained Flowers:

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...a place hidden in the woods where 10 years ago was known for a forced group suicide to have occured.

How does one "force" a suicide out of another. Suicide the action of voluntarily taking one's own life. If it was not voluntarily self-inflicted, then it's murder.

I've been looking for reliable information on NekoNyan projects without success. Where are you getting your information on Nekonyan? Their website isn't posting anything that I could find and their twitter feed, excuse me, there "X" feed seems to have been royally ****ed by the transition and subsequently abandoned.

@littleshogun

FYI, I think you linked to the wrong vndb.org page for Nope Nope Nope Nope Nurses. The link you used (as of when I wrote this), links to what I think is the first VN in the series. I think this is the link you actually wanted: https://vndb.org/v36663

On the slight chance you aren't a spam bot, given that your comments actually seem to cognizant of the subject you are responding to, you do realize that this thread is only a few months shy of being a decade old since the last time anyone said anything?

You need to pay attention to those little details, or your going to get your account deleted for being a spam bot.

Ugh, ANOTHER cake shop setting VN with probably (who am I kidding, CERTAINLY) not quite legal heroines and a diabetes inducing sweet story line. Oh, and one of the heroines is named Chocolat because of COURSE she is. Can we get a little bit of variety and originality please? Oh, and heroines that aren't clearly 100% off limits in the age department?

In case you have figured out which title I'm kvetching about: Sugar Sweet Temptation

Also, aside from the WAY too young factor, I'm not actually saying there's anything wrong with the story premise, just that we reached market saturation on it way too long ago. Ninty-five percent of all the cakes have to be dumped in the garbage for want of people to eat them.

Morito Aira is the only character listed on the vndb.org character list page who looks like she might pass muster on the age scale, and she's apparently a side character with out a route.

Can't comment to littleshogun's absence.

As for the bots, the site's creator, Ivan, is also it's sole admin/moderator and he is apparently taking an extended break from the site. No one else has moderator privileges (that I'm aware of). His profile page does say he logged in on June 14th, but I think that is the first time he has done so since February. I'm hoping he eventually starts up again, but I don't know if he actually plans to do so.

@HYBRID BEING

Ivan, the sites only admin, has (hopefully temporally) disappeared. Although I just literally now checked and his profile page says he logged in just last wednesday, quite possibly the first time he has down so since mid February. Until he come back or appoints somebody with moderator privileges there's nothing we can do.

Sorry, I didn't realize that "Dieselmine" was the develpoer/publisher and didn't spot that on the vndb.org page. I thought it was a series name, and was only paying attention to "Relations" section on vndb.org.

vndb.org indicates there are other titles in the same series.

https://vndb.org/v8473

If they don't have an English translation, you won't find them on this site, but you MIGHT (VERY SMALL chance) find them on https://erogedownload.com/

Ivan, the sites creator and administrator, last logged in February 1st. He hasn't shown up again since. Before he disappeared completely he did drop a few comments he was busy with IRL stuff, so I'm personally holding out hope he'll come back eventually, but for the time being, this site is effectively dead.

As for safe alternatives, if you find any please share.

Has anybody heard from Ivan? Is he planning on coming back eventually and uploading more content, or has he officially washed his hand of this site? According to the site, the last time Ivan logged in was February 1st, 2023.

Wait. I'm (once again) confused. I thought White Album already released and not too long ago at that.

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Ivan, your last official activity as reported by the website was February 1st. Are you still planning on maintaining this website, or you have decided to quit uploading content? I'm not trying to rush you, you do this on your own time and your own money and I'm grateful. I just would like to know if you're still around at all. Like the thread title says, I'm just looking for proof of life.

*Pulls out a stethoscope and starts listening for a heart beat.*

Next best option I can offer you is

https://images.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl

You can drag the image onto the search bar to perform a "reverse image search" and see what you get for results.

I can't promise any results but it would be helpful if you included what show/game/etc it is from. You could then try a google search to the effect of "<Game Name> artists".