Tidbits
| 2010–03–18 | New Symphonic Rain beta patch released |
| 2010–03–18 | New Sharin no Kuni patch released |
| 2010–03–18 | MangaGamer hops on Twitter |
| 2010–03–14 | Swan Song poll result posted |
| 2010–03–12 | MangaGamer requests feedback on translation style |
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Assorted MangaGamer news
February 19th, 2010, by in Release, Translation
MangaGamer has now released their latest title Cosplay Alien according to
planschedule. The fandisk Edelweiss Eiden Fantasia has also been assigned a release date of March 20, according to a post on the official staff blog. There will be plans to offer a bundle package for those who have not purchased the original game, Edelweiss. We also had a chance to talk to someone from MangaGamer, and they’ve indicated that they’ve now picked a new font and it should start appearing in games once the programming to incorporate the new font is completed. However, currently unreleased games that are mostly finished will probably not get the new font. -
Valentine’s Day Kiss
February 14th, 2010, by in Release, Translation
CountPacula has released a complete patch for doujin game maker fuguriya’s Sono Hanabira ni Kuchidzuke o. This short game tells of a comedic romance between two girls going to a Catholic all-girls school, with plenty of “detailed” scenes. The patch comes in two parts — a graphics patch and a script patch and can be downloaded from the links in the original author’s post. There is also a post with frequently asked questions from the translator. Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Eroge With Translation Patches and Their Sales
February 13th, 2010, by in Feature
As can be seen at the Translation Library, there is now a sizable number of completed translation patches for visual novels and related types of games. Has this impacted imports of Japanese games at all? We had a chat over e-mail with Peter Payne of J-List and also took a look at some stats from ErogeShop.com.
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Loli killer learns kung-fu
February 7th, 2010, by in Release, Translation
Today a translation patch was released for Kikokugai -The Cyber Slayer-, an adult mystery visual novel released in March 2002 by Nitro+. Being created by the same writer, character designer and musician as Saya no Uta, the game might be considered a predecessor to the famous Lovecraftian horror novel from late 2003. It was translated by Makoto, known for his translations of several other Nitro+ games on TLWiki including Saya no Uta.
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Muv-Luv project announced
February 2nd, 2010, by in Translation
Amaterasu translator Ixrec has posted an announcement about their next project: a translation of âge’s Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative. According to the post, he plans to translate at least 20kB of scripts a day, and while an exact text count for the entirety of the scripts hasn’t been determined yet, some of the staff have estimated this to take roughly a year or two.