General News V: The Empire Strikes Back?

[arkady18]

As for the game being "slightly legal", I'm pretty sure almost every fan translation is illegal.

I do know that. What I meant was that, if you want a port to be as much legal as possible, you should try to provide a tool that automatically or semi-automatically extracts and repack the resource from the original game to the new archives. So they shouldn't make users download for free all the resources of the game. But that's exactly what they plan to do.

Wait, are you saying all the game's CGs, music, sprites, etc are unarchived and the raw bmp, wav, mid files etc, are staring you right in the face when you open the game's folder? That's not good, they should try and put all the resources into several archived files, one for music, one for CG, etc.

[arkady18]

Well, I did not download their patch (and I don't plan to do something like that, nor I care about this game) so I don't know if they packed the images and all, but I understood they simply extracted all the resources and they offered them to the users like if they were the right holders of all that stuff. This is not how a port should be.

Anyways, if you look to what swiftnissity quoted, it seems they included maybe only CGs and sprites (dunno if they included all the CGs and all the sprites: just guessing here)

Shuffle!Essence+-Limited Edition- Partial NOW AVAILABLE!

Things that are not in the current version that are not issues:
No Voice
No SFX
No BGM
Limited Settings
Missing Options
Hilghtable Text
If you go to Load and you havn't saved yet and try and click "OK" at the bottem of the screen it will automaticly start a new game.
No Date in the top left hand corner
No Gallery
No Music Gallery
No Full Screen

[swiftnissity]

More info from VNDB: http://vndb.org/t2193

They seem to be obsessed with getting recognition and fairly...aggressive.

[appztetra]

Originally Posted by swiftnissity

More info from VNDB: http://vndb.org/t2193

They seem to be obsessed with getting recognition and fairly...aggressive.

lol this is funny...

Originally Posted by swiftnissity

More info from VNDB: http://vndb.org/t2193

They seem to be obsessed with getting recognition and fairly...aggressive.

They are nothing more than attention seeking trolls, and you mentioning their name here is just what they wanted. I went to congratulate them on youtube, and you know what their reply was?

Originally Posted by ProjectDawnCreations

Re: Grats on your release...

you know what SHUT THE FUCK UP.... leave me alone ass hole....

Those people are just jerks, not just on VNDB, they are jerks no matter where you encounter them. I can forward the email notification I got from YouTube as proof if anyone doesn't believe me, just PM me your email address.

[VDZ]

WARNING: The following code may be shocking. I am not responsible for any brain damage, loss of sanity, sudden depression, despair, loss of faith in humanity or suicidal urges that may be caused by viewing this code.

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[Magedark]

That code is so laughable and horribly inefficient from the looks of it.

[swiftnissity]

MG spoke out on Shuffle! Essence+
http://mangagamer.blackss.org/viewto...tart=20#p14583

Originally Posted by Kouryuu

This is something I've been wondering since I first saw their project page go up--Is this group really nothing more than people trolling? Is the translation quality as bad as everyone's saying it is? Are they serious about trying to complete the project?

If anyone here has actually spoken with them, I'd love to know how they feel towards the project and what quality of work they're actually putting out. Especially since we probably will have to start taking action soon one way or another if they're actually uploading material... but I'd hate to send a C&D to a group that is earnestly committed to seeing a project released and actually capable of producing good work.

[Pirkaf]

There has always been so much fuss about Shuffle and the game doesn't deserve a tenth of it..

[Stranger]

the wallets speak differently my son, the wallets speak differently.

although.... when are we going to get the physical package of Shuffle? I love the fact that MG's physical releases come without DRM, nice packaging, mini artbook and the sound track!

[fujifruit]

Originally Posted by Stranger

the wallets speak differently my son, the wallets speak differently.

although.... when are we going to get the physical package of Shuffle? I love the fact that MG's physical releases come without DRM, nice packaging, mini artbook and the sound track!

A DVD case is nice packaging? ;_;

[swiftnissity]

4 new Hard copies are coming soon from mangagamer
http://mangagamer.wordpress.com/2011...g-hard-copies/

1 is a Nukige
3 are story based titles. 1 of which wont be released till 2012.

Shuffle and Kara No Shoujo have issues and wont be getting hard copy releases at this time.

They elaborated even further here:
http://mangagamer.blackss.org/viewto...&t=1178#p14646
Sounds like Navel and Innocent Grey wont do non-DRM versions.

As for the hard copy releases we can generally assume what they are:

Go!Go!Nippon - was already confirmed as getting a hard copy release
DearDrops or Dengeki - They're aiming for a December release for Ef and Harukoi leaving these 2.
We Love Master! - They mention the Nukige as being released sometime this year and in the forum post Kouryuu says they wait atleast 2 months before considering hard copies which rules out 'Conquering the Queen' and 'Harem Party'.

[swiftnissity]

President Goes Golden Master!

The three most recent translations, as currently listed on the VNDB:

* Heartful Kareshi (full patch)
* Corpse Party: Blood Covered (PSN exclusive retail release)
* the seventh Sono Hanabira game, A Kiss For The Petals - Sweet Enchanting Kisses (full patch)