Tidbits
| 2010–07–31 | minori reduces foreign facing page |
| 2010–07–27 | Dote Up a Cat partial patch released |
| 2010–07–27 | Ikusa Megami Zero project gets a C&D |
| 2010–07–21 | JAST USA answers some questions at ComicCon |
| 2010–07–21 | Patch for trial version of Katahane released |
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MangaGamer announces release date estimates
July 30th, 2010, by in Translation
At a panel on visual novels at Otakon, MangaGamer translator Kouryuu announced slightly more concrete release date estimates for their announced titles. Da Capo Innocent Finale and Da Capo II are now slated for winter and Koihime Musou is now slated for fall, with a trial version release aimed at August 10. Da Capo Innocent Finale will use the same voice actors as the original Da Capo game, as opposed to the voice actors for the consumer port. The panel was concluded with a subtle remark and a “Good night!”
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Visual Art’s fires off a couple C&D notices
July 30th, 2010, by in Translation
Visual Art’s, a company best known for their Key brand of visual novels, has sent out two cease and desist notices at fan translation groups that were translating their games. The first of these was Dote up a cat that was released under VisualArt’s 13cm brand and was being fan translated by Tengu Translations. The second cease and desist notice was supposedly for the well known visual novel AIR that was released under Visual Art’s Key brand and was being translated by the fan translation group Enter the Wired. A lookup of the IP address found in the header of these cease and desist notices indicates that the address belongs to Visual Art’s. While these two titles were being translated by two different translation groups, the same individual manages both of these fan translation groups and was the recipient of both cease and desist notices.
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First two arcs of Higurashi available on iTunes App Store
July 29th, 2010, by in Release, Translation
An English version of the first two arcs of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni has just been released by SEAMS on the iTunes App Store and runs on the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. The first arc is free to download and the second arc is priced at $3.99. Both apps are classified as “Books” on the iTunes App Store. These apps are ports of the MangaGamer releases of the games and the idea to port the game to iPhone was initiated by HOBIBOX, who handled the licensing aspects of Higurashi for MangaGamer and also publishes cell-phone ports of games in Japan. The Japanese version of Higurashi has been available as an iPhone App of the first arc that is free to download, but arcs after the first one are in-app downloads at 600 yen each.
UPDATE: The current pricing for the first two arcs appears to be promotional pricing until August 15.
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Panel with MangaGamer to be held at Otakon
July 29th, 2010, by in Conventions, Translation
MangaGamer will be present at Otakon this year selling goods at their booth in the exhibition hall and participating in a panel Friday night/Saturday morning at 12:30am. Details can be found on their blog post. There will be a live transcript courtesy of bayoab.
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Another doujin game maker allows fan translation
July 27th, 2010, by in Translation
According to an addendum on the Dote Up a Cat release post, the project leader received an email from the doujin game circle #define allowing the project group to create and distribute an English patch for one of its games, Niji no Kanata ni, as long as the patch was free and that the original doujin circle takes no responsibilities for problems resulting from the patch. The project group has decided to tackle this game after they finish Dote Up a Cat.