General News 3: It Isn't Over Yet!

Originally Posted by pbsaffran

About the whole Manga Gamer deal...
Could anyone post a few screens (or better yet links to a few screens, so as to not clogger the boards) about, say, their 5 latest titles? Whenever I look for infos online, I read a lot about ppl bitching about the text, but those comments are from last year or so. Did they actually get any better?

Here's a couple screens from Kira Kira:
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1.../punkmusic.png
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...x/suitable.png
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...x/sadsmile.png
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...x/hopeless.png
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i136/VDZx/fuck-1.png
Note that these are slightly biased, though, as I only take screenshots of awesome moments, and these usually have completely correct grammar and spelling.
Generally, the Kira Kira translation is fine, but it has lots of small mistakes (no periods at end of sentences, "s at the end of non-quote sentences, 'skull' being spelled as 'scull', 'he smiles big', etc.). It doesn't distract too much, though.

[UBW]

Just happened to see this.
http://www.jastusa.com/2009/07/famil...t-is-complete/

We’ve heard back from the printers, and it’s official: the long-awaited Family Project ~Kazoku Keikaku~ is complete, and is headed back to our warehouse in San Diego! There’s still some packaging work left to be done, but we can now announce that the game will be shipping within the next week.

“The greatest visual novel of all time.”

Family Project is the story of Tsukasa, an independent young man who hates relying on anyone. When circumstances force him to band together with other equally solitary outcasts, he comes to find love and happiness in the unlikeliest of places. With writing from Yamada Hajime (Kana: Little Sister, Yume Miru Kusuri), music from I’ve Sound and Kotoko, and an all-star cast of anime voice actors, it’s no wonder that Japanese review site Erogamescape consistently ranks it as the greatest visual novel of all time.

While we’re making the final preparations to ship the game we’re leaving the preorder window open for a final day or two, so this is the very last chance you’ll have to order the game free of shipping costs. We’re also planning to bring as many copies with us to Otakon this coming weekend as we can – JAST USA president Peter Payne will be there, so it’s a great time to say hi and be among the first to pick up this great game! We’ll have more information on our activities at Otakon available here soon.

[NTX]

Greatest of all time, huh :|

[Asceai]

Originally Posted by VDZ

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i136/VDZx/fuck-1.png

Oh god, I loved this whole segment in the original. Hilarious stuff.

[Vatina]

Originally Posted by VDZ

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i136/VDZx/fuck-1.png

Lol this one screen is enough to almost make me want to try the game :P

[UBW]

Originally Posted by Vatina

Lol this one screen is enough to almost make me want to try the game :P

This scene is likely the funniest scene in any eroge that has been translated into English.

[GatoNegro]

i loved that scene waay to funny, i'm starting the 2 chapter, and i can already see where this is going!

[Moogy]

Hell yeah, I was laughing my ass for the duration of that scene. Definitely the funniest thing I've seen in any translated eroge.

[UBW]

I figure some of you guys may want to see this, transcript of the Jast surprise panel at Otakon. The Q&A section has the most new info.

http://bayoab.info/live/live2.php?panel=12.af01e1fa

23:51:42 <bay|Ota|JAST> we think that's a step up... these are more mainstreamy
23:51:50 <bay|Ota|JAST> obviously this year, we have some good news for the eroge industry
23:51:55 <bay|Ota|JAST> we're really happy with the warm news online
23:52:02 <bay|Ota|JAST> nitro+ is really happy to be represented by us in the US
23:52:09 <bay|Ota|JAST> they got like one of their pet project
23:53:02 <bay|Ota|JAST> they want to see Saya no Uta released as a movie..
23:52:32 <bay|Ota|JAST> but there will be an english american comic book for it that they want
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00:06:43 <bay|Ota|JAST> Q: fan companies?
00:07:00 <bay|Ota|JAST> A: we're willing to work with any groups that are willing to work professionally
00:07:05 <bay|Ota|JAST> we made the decision to embrace anything we can
00:07:41 <bay|Ota|JAST> anything that speeds up things for us, we are happy to embrace

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00:11:55 <bay|Ota|JAST> Q: any market in america for non-hentai VNs?
00:12:01 <bay|Ota|JAST> A: before nitro, i would have said im not so sure...
00:12:14 <bay|Ota|JAST> if we were to publish a game, we have the negatives as being an adult game publisher...
00:13:13 <bay|Ota|JAST> however, with the nitro+ games, i'd consider everything
00:13:15 <bay|Ota|JAST> however it depends what it will allow
00:13:28 <bay|Ota|JAST> they want to see good #s on demonbane before chaos;head i'm sure
00:13:34 <bay|Ota|JAST> we want to do 4 of their games per year

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00:21:13 <bay|Ota|JAST> Q: you guys have plan for releasing chaos;head
00:20:55 <bay|Ota|JAST> its one we would like to do
00:21:09 <bay|Ota|JAST> basically, its nitro+ and one other company.. .so we have no comment
00:21:09 <bay|Ota|JAST> its up to both of them
00:21:25 <bay|Ota|JAST> it's one of their crown jewels so i don't know if they would be open to it
00:22:08 <bay|Ota|JAST> one good thing about nitro+ is a lot of them have been animated
00:22:38 <bay|Ota|JAST> we'd love to do phantom of the inferno, but the original doesn't have original voice.. and in this day and age


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00:23:06 <bay|Ota|JAST> Q: what about nitro games... their BL line..
00:23:12 <bay|Ota|JAST> we haven't been too happy with the two BL games we brought out
00:23:37 <bay|Ota|JAST> we're not saying anything one way or another, but we're open to it
00:24:04 <bay|Ota|JAST> one thing we might do is have a "you have to preorder and we have to have a certain number of pre-orders"

[swiftnissity]

A patch has been released on the TLwiki that translates the Lamento Treasure Disc into English.

[BettiePage]

added panties and extra bras.

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/0...ensored-eroge/

think anyone will make a fan patch that will only replace the censored jast images with the mosaic jp images? mosaics better than extra clothing imo.

i never did buy x-change 3 due to the edit they had. i dont mind original censored jp games... or if a company wants to uncensor them (doesnt need to be 100%) but added additional censorship to a game or dropping characters/storylines? that i can not support or condone.

arent there characters under 18 in nitro+ games?

[jyuichi]

Originally Posted by BettiePage

added panties and extra bras.

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/0...ensored-eroge/

think anyone will make a fan patch that will only replace the censored jast images with the mosaic jp images? mosaics better than extra clothing imo.

i never did buy x-change 3 due to the edit they had. i dont mind original censored jp games... or if a company wants to uncensor them (doesnt need to be 100%) but added additional censorship to a game or dropping characters/storylines? that i can not support or condone.

arent there characters under 18 in nitro+ games?

Its sad they have to do this but I feel with the way US law is they didn't have a lot of choice. :(

Originally Posted by BettiePage

added panties and extra bras.
arent there characters under 18 in nitro+ games?

There aren't, not human at least. They're Lovecraftian horrors, robots, etc.

[Asceai]

Nitroplus is part of the CSA, so of course there aren't.

Some of the girls in Hello, World look awfully young, but that's mostly a product of the art style than their actual age within the context of the story.

[Fuku]

The only reason anyone cares is because they don't want Nitro+ games censored. Didn't Peter already comment that they weren't going to censor the Nitro+ games at either AX or Otakon?

In related news the Nitro+ USA website was updated on July 20th. http://www.nitroplususa.com/2009/07/...lay-at-otakon/