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Holy shit.

They may translate Clannad, duh, School Days or the Shuffle expansions too.
I'm hopinjg they DON'T translate Clannad, inserting the voices would be a real pain.

>>4976871
There is a full voice PC version of Clannad

I can't guess any of those, anyone?

罪囚 isn't very good.

>>4976874
I know that, I meant having a good and finished Clannad with voices.

4 teasers for one game or 1 teaser per game?

>>4976880
1 per.

>>4976848
Is this an alicesoft game?

Dammit, where have I seen this before...

I wish they'd translate Air of GSS, reading it is a pain.

>>4976918

Reminds me of Spirited Away..

>>4976918
I'm sure I saw it on /jp/, like year ago or so

>>4976899
lol what the fuck
no

Got nothing on either images with a reverse image search.

The first should be trivial to place to a game, one just needs to match it to it's source.

With the second, it will likely either be a concept (anyone know a game with a tunnel) or a location (like the city Air is located in).

For the audio, bug guys who have played these games in Japanese.

http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=24545

罪囚-The　Sin- is one of them then.

>>4976899
You shouldn't expect an Alicesoft to be officially localized in the US, much less Britain or the 3rd world shithole, Australia.

Why? Because in many games, many characters are not 18 years old, nor do they have consensual sex.

>>4976918
Hmm, I'm sure that's seen a lot in Sanae hentai...

>>4977115
Next thing you'll say is the blonde loli in Jewel Crusaders is actually 18

>>4977141
>released in 2004-05-12
We're not in 2004 anymore, there's moralfags out there who will be all over a game with underage+rape if they find out about it.

>>4977163
Fine, then.
Next thing you'll say Nekoko is actually 18.

http://www.erogereview.com/2007/12/25/zaishuu-the-sin/

>>4976871
Why would they bother with Clannad? There's a fan translation already

>>4977274
I wondered that too.
They should just do Air, though the Clannad fantranslation needs A LOT of TLC.

>>4977279
Yeah ok, agreed that the translation needs a lot of work, but still, you can't really beat free. I mean, given the choice between a free translation with a few errors and a commercial one that costs say 30€, I'd chose free.

In before
> hurr buyfags durr

>>4977260
So it sucks then. ;_;
Damn, and I thought it was an alicesoft game.

Anyway I think #4 might be from Eushully, perhaps Princess General or Himegari? It kinda sounds familiar.

>>4977115

Might as well give them loli titles to complain on. Else they'll just move on and ban hamburgers or sugar or anything else that hurts young women these days.

>>4977300
atleast it's not from genrin 2 or himegari, quickly skimmed trough their bgm modes and there wasnt that anywhere. so I doubt it would be from genrin 1 either.

Come on, where are the VN experts when you actually need them?

>>4976918
It's from D.C. II; it's the cave where they find Minatsu

Suspect one of the songs is battle music from Valkyrie Complex, but not sure.

>>4977253
I don't remember, but didn't it have one of those "All characters are over 18!" messages?

>>4977300
Not from Eushully.

>>4977659
>Suspect one of the songs is battle music from Valkyrie Complex, but not sure.

He did hint at a Circus game with gameplay, so wouldn't be surprised.

More interested in the 4th title though. A sex romp, Da Capo 2, and a Circus game with gameplay likely make up 3 hints. That leaves a forth.

Still looking for what the source of the fourth hint is.

No one has any idea what the last one is?

>>4980342
Still need confirmation on the Circus with gameplay track as well

For searching BGM, one can limit themselves to songs that are similar length as the two given.

Most likely games for a new license are
Circus games with GamePlay (hinted at recently that this will happen)
With Da Capo 2 (2nd hint) and a game with game play (earlier hint), it is unlikely that there would be 3 Circus titles here, so efforts should be limited solely to those with gameplay from Circus

Nexton Companies - Zaishuu -The SiN- was announced, no reason there couldn't be more

Shin Koihime † Musou - They have the original in the works now, so could be this, haven't checked it's soundtrack yet
Harukoi Otome - This should be checked as well, since this was mentioned in a past interview, and it is also Base Son

Outside of these, it is unlikely to be Navel (no recent contact and doesn't sound like shuffle sequel music), it would likely be something new. If it was Key, I'd like to think we would have identified it by now.

I hope Dear Drops doesn't end up behind all this other stuff.

>>4981426
>>4981426

Both of those music tracks sound rather RPG-ish.

The 1st music track sounds kinda shitty...

Ah well, I guess no sales/profits means more sub-par games from MangaGamer. At least their translations are better.

#4 might be Valkyrie Complex
No idea about #3

bump

I can do some comparisons of OSTs tonight but not before then. If anyone has the Valkyrie Complex OST, do a comparison of that.

>>4981775
>more sub-par games from MangaGamer
That's a problem. More sub-par games means less sales. Which leads to less money. Which leads to more sub-par games. Which leads to less sales. Until bankrupt.

I'll try comparing it against all shchara games. I doubt it's from them though.

>>4983614
JAST is proving the complete opposite: Sex romp sales > readan game sales

>>4983714
Can't comment on JAST, but can say that MG's sex romps sell FAR fewer than our story games do.

Now back to editing one of the four games you're all guessing at...

>>4983714

That's because JAST isn't getting the good story games. Typically, fap = pirate (actually dl the HCG), story = buy.

>>4984068
Hey, do you ever report the torrents and cracks n' shit that inevitably pop up within the first day of a MG release?

>>4984225
That's arguably Kouryuu's job - I'm just a lowly editor. He's certainly aware of them, but (off the record), it's a tough question of how to deal with it. You can never defeat piracy in full, and the cost of an international lawsuit is something that only the megacorps can really afford to push through.

That and, come on, we're not stupid. Suing your customers or intentionally causing them grief is bad press, bad business, and bad customer relations.

In an ideal world, of course, people would believe that we're putting out a product worth paying for, and really, all we can do is release something we're proud of and hope that it has a value to the fans that justifies parting with their hard-earned cash. We could have dumped out Koihime Musou by now, but having done edits on parts of it, I can say that neither Kouryuu nor I would actually have felt justified asking people to pay for it in the state it was in before we got our hands on it. I know that Kouryuu's pulling insane hours on getting it up to scratch, hopefully everyone'll appreciate it on release.

>>4984520
Do you have figures of all your games especially for Kira Kira and Higurashi?
I liked to know your top sellers.

>>4984520
Do you have sales figure of all your games?
I liked to know your top sellers.

>>4984573
I don't. Kouryuu does, but exact numbers aren't for publication. If you keep an eye on the MG website there's the best sellers for the previous week. If there's not a sale on you can usually get an idea of the patterns. =)

>>4984580
How many copies do you usually sold for a single game anyway? Hundreds? Tens? Thousands?

Why is MangaGamer so hated? I know it's because their English is bad but is that all? I can't even fathom that they have English errors like that.

>>4984617

First translations were god awful, not because they were wrong (as most of the people playing would never know) but ridden by grammatical errors and similar mistakes.

They gone better later.

>>4984520
Thank you for your hard work, guys. I'll definitely buy Curtain Call, and I can't wait for Dear Drops. I hope the release isn't pushed away further. Also do you have any idea of the time between the Japanese release and MangaGamer's?

>>4984617
You must be new around here.

>>4983602
It doesn't look like a Valkyrie Complex OST was ever released, but I checked the music mode in the game, and neither song is in there. So that's out.

Song 3 sounds so familiar, though...

>>4984637
tonberryking has been here since old /a/, so not really. He's a fag though.

>>4984842
>>4983602
Tried Eternal Fantasy?

2nd confirmed as Da Capo II
http://yakumo.over-blog.com/article-mangagamer-to-publish-da-capo-ii-in-english-49357162.html

Well I just finished checking all the games by shchara (except for the first 3, they're too old anyway) and didn't find both musics anywhere.

#4 sounds really familiar, I'm pretty sure I played that game. I think it might be Seinarukana.

Wouldn't they release Eternal Fantasia before Valkyrie Complex, since EF is the older game?

>>4985645
Yeah the fourth one sound familiar to me too, I'm sure I heard it before.
Kinda sound like something that could be in MuvLuv Alt, though I'm pretty sure there is no way this could be licensed.

>>4984068
>Can't comment on JAST, but can say that MG's sex romps sell FAR fewer than our story games do.

Says an anonymous poster on /jp/ without any proof of identification...

>>4985703
Then assuming he doesn't really work for mangagamer, what exactly would he gain by lying about something like that?

I swear, some people...

>>4984520
>That and, come on, we're not stupid. Suing your customers or intentionally causing them grief is bad press, bad business, and bad customer relations.

If they're pirating your games, they're not your customers.

>>4984617
I don't hate MG or anything, but I like JAST better because of no DRM and buriko porting.

And I see them as having basically the same stance on lolicon censorship now..."Anything's ok as long as she's 'technically' over 18."

>>4985645
Just checked, it's not from narukana. It has somewhat similar sounding bgm though. ;_;

Also checked Otome Renshin Prister and it's not from there too.

Damn it, where did I hear this song...

Eternal Fantasy is a very likely source if it's not Valkyrie Complex.

I can probably test Eternal Fantasy in a few hours, feel free to test is before then though if you have access.

>>4986888
Eternal Fantasy is really really horrible though. Even the Japanese thought it was bad and they slobber over everything Circus makes. Then again, maybe that means that MangaGamer could get it for really cheap.

>>4986927
>Eternal Fantasy is really really horrible though. Even the Japanese thought it was bad and they slobber over everything Circus makes. Then again, maybe that means that MangaGamer could get it for really cheap.

Well, seeing that they have access to most Circus stuff (outside of when they can't afford fees like VA royalities, see DC:IF), there is little reason to skip over Eternal Fantasy. Besides, it would be nice to identify one of the OSTs since there are 2, and yet in 36 hours we have not identify either.

Where Saishuu Shiken Kujira?

I want my fucking flying whale.

If all of Eternal Fantasy's song are like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwd0JdjIQwA
Its probably not it.

Hmm... based EGS Scores:
Valkyrie Complex - 45
Eternal Fantasy - 69

>>4984965
Yes, I checked the Eternal Fantasy OST first, and it isn't on there either.

>>4986927
If you think of Eternal Fantasy as an RPG game of any sort, then yes -- it's pretty horrible. If you treat as a regular visual novel, though, it isn't bad. In fact, you can turn off the entire battle system and just play in story mode. That being said, no matter how you play it, Eternal Fantasy is a *very* long game.

It may be a moot point anyway.

I'll be checking the Mai Hime game then.

Looks like they took down #4...

>>4988496
Just checked the Mai-HiME game; not there either. Maybe the other Circus game just isn't among these four.

>>4988428
4 still works for me

>>4988814
Err... reply fail. The other way around.

Anyone who has seen the clannad anime has probably already played through the vn if they were interested. And they're not going to buy and play through such a long vn again just because the translation might be a tad better.

>>4988913

In a word, nonsensical.

>>4988821
Damn, where the hell are those two songs from then?
I tried fingerprinting both songs and got no useful results.

#4 sounds like a last stage bgm music for some war eroge rpg.

If it's not from Circus, maybe it's from Leaf? Someone should go check Megiddo.

Other possible candidates:
Alicesoft (doubt it's from them, the music is too different)
Studio E.go (I'll go check the Izumo series)
Xuse (at least it's not aselia or seinarukana)
Eternal
ShChara (already checked all their games)
Eushully (haven't checked BG1,2,0,VERITA & Tayutau)
Anastasia
Gesen-18 (Let's pray it's not them, their games are QUALITY)

>>4988913
Yeah, but Clannad is, obviously, a very well received anime in the west. Despite the fan translation already being available, it still has the potential to be a big seller based on its name alone if they can get the word out. Shuffle! is their top seller by a long shot, from what I've heard, so I can see why they'd be interested in bringing over another popular property.

Little Busters or AIR might actually be the better idea, really, but that's risky due to lower popularity (little western awareness, if at all, for Little Busters), and ongoing fan translation projects for both of them. I get the feeling MangaGamer doesn't want to step on anyone's toes that are doing fan translations unless it will be a clearly worthwhile endeavor (i.e. JAST with Nitro+).

Just checked all the games in the Izumo series (0,1,2,2P,3) and it's not in it.

>>4990343
They should do Air, I'd buy it, the translation is so slow.

>>4990790
The translation was picked up by a more dedicated translator, but he has to basically retranslate it from scratch since the original scripts were so bad.

>>4990792
He's still advancing at least.

Also since LB was mentioned, Mio has a route in the original right?

>>4990343
I hope they do manage to do LB! EX, just so we can spit on the faces of those moralfags that are translating LB right now.

>>4990820
But Fluffy plan to do LB!EX too.

>>4990820
EX is longer, so they can just start with the shorter version, release it so everyone can play, then release the longer one.

>>4990800
I don't see Mio's:
# Komari's scenario: ~20±ε%
# Haruka's scenario: 0.03±ε%
# Kud's scenario: 0.03±ε%
# Kurugaya, Rin 1 + common route translated.

>>4990856

She does have a route in the original, yes.

I think they just haven't started translating her route yet because she's an awful character bundled with an awful story.

>>4990867
I know that, but still not even include it on translation progress of the whole thing...

>>4990868
Maybe because they haven't started translating her route yet?

>>4988913
Clannad isn't even good.
The only incentive to buy it is a physical product.. which MangaGamer doesn't do.

>>4991087
>Clannad isn't even good.
Japan says otehrwise.

>>4991087
Yeah and then if it's going to be physical product then the same people would complain about price, then complain about the translation quality etc. All the same shit.

>>4991087
>Clannad isn't even good.
Opinion. Opinion of the minority, I should add. I respect it, though. Enjoy your opinion.

Wait, when was it announced that they're doing CLANNAD?

>>4991104
Fuck you. Clannad is a fun comedy ride, and the drama is tear-inducing.

Also the best bro character.

>>4991143
clannad is a snooze

Has anyone checked other BaseSon games yet?

age

>>4991129
They only announced that they were in talks with Key.

age

So what have we conclude them not to be?

Hey, faggots. My name is Anonymous, and I'm going to age every single one of you.

So did everyone gave up finding what those last two games are?