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Tidbit: Dengeki Stryker coming out on June 22

zalas — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:00:33 +0000

MangaGamer has posted the product page and opened pre-orders for their English localization of OVERDRIVE’s super hero eroge Dengeki Stryker. The game is expected to be released on June 22, and a trial version and opening movie are both available for download. Pre-orders will come with a 10% discount and works by sending the buyer the serial code first. A post on the blog describes the game in more detail.

Tidbit: JAST USA talks about School Days Collector’s Edition

zalas — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:33:40 +0000

The official JAST USA Twitter account discussed plans to offer a “Collector’s Edition” for the upcoming release of 0verflow’s School Days HQ. The Collector’s Edition will include a “special” mousepad as well as a keychain. Pricing for the Collector’s Edition hasn’t been set yet, but customers who have already preordered School Days HQ will be able to upgrade to the Collector’s Edition. According to Sekai Project, the unofficial-turned-official translation team for the game, there are only “a few more things” remaining for edits on their end.

MangaGamer goes retro with EVE burst error

zalas — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:39:15 +0000

According to a post on the official blog, MangaGamer happened to run into the owner of Himeya Soft and received permission to sell their old releases, the first of which being the story-focused mystery adventure game EVE burst error. While the original PC-98 version of the game had adult content, there were many subsequent all-ages releases, one of which being the English-localized release. Unfortunately, Himeya Soft could only provide MangaGamer with a copy of the finished product instead of the original materials, and thus no textual or visual changes could be made to the release. The game will remain all-ages and is now available for 9.95 EUR without DRM from MangaGamer’s site.

MangaGamer adds ef to online catalog

zalas — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:08:50 +0000

MangaGamer has now added an entry for minori’s ef – the first tale. to their online catalog at 24.95 EUR. The listing also links to a download for the opening movie. Surprisingly, this game is tagged with “Reduced Mosaics”, instead of “with Mosaics” or “without Mosaics” like previous games. For ef – the first tale., mosaics aren’t entirely removed, but the pixelation and coverage of these mosaic patterns have been reduced. MangaGamer has posted a detailed message from minori concerning the issue on their blog, as well as comparison images showing the Japanese release and the upcoming English release. In the message, which was apparently written in November of last year, minori states two points. First, according to minori, they pursued an official release because MangaGamer agreed to bear any ethical issues arising from distribution of an English version, whereas a fan translation would not be able to provide that. Second, they wished to retain the mosaics in the English release due to fear of “some inconsiderate person” reinserting images from the English release back into the Japanese release, given the ongoing availability of tools to do so. However, minori said that they looked over some (adult) manga and video releases in Japan and decided that scaling the mosaics down for an English release would be acceptable even if the images made it back to Japan. The game is currently “waiting on a few final, minor changes” and no release date has been set yet.

Hoshizora no Memoria Fan Translation Released

dan88 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:37:14 +0000

At the beginning of this month Staircase Subs released a complete fan translation patch for Favorite’s Hoshizora no Memoria. Since then, they have released an update patch to correct some lines from their initial release as well as improve or fix a couple other minor things. Looking forward, Staircase Subs is currently trying to get tools to work on Yuzusoft’s newly released Dracu-Riot, and in the event that they are unable to the plan is to pick up a different title instead.

In order to install the patch, one needs to first install the official patch released by Favorite before applying the translation patch released by the group. This official patch is available on the group’s website along side the translation patch. The 1.1 update patch, which improves 253 lines of the script as well as including a couple other minor improvements and corrections, needs to be applied after the group’s 1.0 patch is installed. The group also includes a separate download for a subbed version of the opening movie on their website.

Hoshizora no Memoria is an 18+ visual novel released by Favorite in 2009. The story begins with the protagonist moving back to his hometown, which he left seven years prior to the start of the game. Staircase Subs picked up the project in 2010, and recieved a cease and desist notice which the group disregarded shortly afterwards/

Tidbit: MangaGamer News Roundup

zalas — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:36:32 +0000

MangaGamer has now released SCORE’s sexromp Magical Teacher: My Teacher’s a Mage?. In other news, translated song lyric sheets were accidentally left out of MangaGamer’s release of DEARDROPS and are now correctly included with the game downloads. For people who already installed the game, the lyric sheets can be downloaded separately from their blog. Dengeki Stryker is currently in testing, and both Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru and Eroge are currently in translation, with the latter at 13/60 H-scenes translated.

Tidbit: Voices added back into Koihime Musou

zalas — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:14:04 +0000

Tidbit: Majikoi partial patch featuring Wanko released

zalas — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:49:45 +0000

DEARDROPS Downloading

zalas — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:06:40 +0000

MangaGamer has now released OVERDRIVE’s DEARDROPS, a story of a rock band united by expired drinks from an old vending machine. It is available as a download from MangaGamer at 34.95 EUR and comes as two zip archives, one 764 MiB and one 1.07 GiB in size. In other related news, according to a series of tweets, Tamiyasu Tomoe, who ~~may or may not have voiced a character in DEARDROPS~~ is probably most well-known for playing the role of Riki, Rin and Sasami from Key’s Little Busters!, is planning on coming to Anime Expo 2012 with bamboo, but not in an official business capacity. However, she is open to gig requests from companies and organizations.

A full fan translation for Kamidori

dan88 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:19:25 +0000

After keeping the title of his active translation project under wraps for months, Aroduc has released a complete fan translation for Eushully’s Kamidori Alchemy Meister earlier this morning, along with a large collection of cat pictures in a separate download. He has been giving out the patch to those few who dared to challenge him to a Melty Blood match since Saturday night, where he won the majority of his matches (although he gave everyone who played him the patch, win or lose). This patch was leaked to the newly formed /vg/ board of 4chan last night. In order to install the patch, one needs to have all three of the official append discs released by Eushully since the original release installed, along with the original game of course. Aroduc has been releasing translations of text heavy games for some time, best known for his releases of Battle Moon Wars, Big Bang Age, and the original Galaxy Angel trilogy. He is now working on another unrevealed title, which is listed as having 22804 lines.

On the forums, Aroduc has included a wealth of information, along with a number of tips, tricks and answers to some common questions. Another thread details a number of bugs which are present in the original Japanese release, and thus still present while playing using the translation patch. As to new issues introduced with the English patch, there are a couple minor cosmetic bugs, however more seriously there is the slight chance of a save failing to load on certain lines. For those who already had the patch before this morning’s release, there is a text update patch available that fixes a problem where some untranslated text was introduced because of one of the append discs.

Kamidori is a massive text heavy SRPG/eroge that was released by Eushully last year. There is a focus on item creation, while the battle system is what you would expect in a SRPG. The game is quite long and for a player just aiming for completion of the game Aroduc estimates that one would take roughly 60 hours of play and hit half the dungeons. There is an extensive new game plus available upon completion of a play through. The story focuses on a newly licensed alchemist taking over his parents shop, and this is broken up into three routes that each focus on one of the main heroines.