Ren Fujino 100% English Patch - Harakano!

Hello all.

Exactly two years ago as of tomorrow, I released a (negative) 100 percent English patch for SwanEye's HaraKano visual novel. It was an April Fool's joke, but no one really appreciated it, and actually got kinda miffed. Partially because of that, I decided to take on a REAL translation of HaraKano, in hopes of translating Marina Tachibana's, Ayana Seno's, and Ren Fujino's character routes.

Two years and over 70,000 lines of text and code later, it is finally done.

Ren Fujino 100% English patch is FINISHED. This patch translates 100 percent of Ren Fujino's route into english, along with her bonus mode epilogue. It has been translated, revised, and edited for better reading, description, and flow of English.

Download the patch HERE:

https://www.mediafire.com/?muy1s6yvv29j00l

To install, simply open the .zip archive, extract all the files/folders therein, then move them directly into the folder where you have HaraKano installed. Once done, launch the game. It should run.

IF IT DOESN'T: use the task manager to close every instance of Harakano.exe, go into the folder where HaraKano is installed, and find and delete the savedata folder. At times, something happens when HaraKano detects discrepancies between the text of the user's save files and the text of the English patch, so you have to delete your save data and start over to correct it.

Unfortunately, the patch does not translate any of the buttons or options for HaraKano. As such, I have prepared an imgur album with a guide for the screens and  buttons of HaraKano.

Check the guide out HERE:

http://imgur.com/a/FBzuU


For neat trivia and information about HaraKano and the translation choices I made for this project, check out the 'HaraKano Side Notes.txt' that I included with the english patch (it will be in the patches folder, alongside the actual game scripts - but be sure to turn on word wrap after you open it). Alternatively, check out some of the character specific notes HERE:

https://vndb.org/t7521


This completes the three school girl routes of HaraKano, and with it, all I planned to do for the HaraKano game.

Thank you to everyone who waited out these many months, waiting for me to make progress with this game, after the initial joke route two years ago (even if my joke harem end was more inclusive than the game's actual harem end). A special thanks to all the anons who showed their support and gave their support to LQT throughout this translation project. Thank you so very much; as always, I appreciate it.

Will I ever return to Harakano? Unfortunately, probably not. At least, not gratis. I happened to suffer appendicitis awhile back, and while fortunately I survived, unfortunately I survived in the United States, and the little insurance I had for the procedure did not of course cover the costs. As such, I am looking at roughly a 1,200 dollar bill to cover, which probably means needing to look for another job and means less time for translation. I am not against continuing HaraKano, but to do any other character route (or indeed do any character route of any Swan game I'm not already planning on doing), I would probably have to charge for it, and probably to the tune of two hundred dollars. If that sounds reasonable to anyone, by all means let me know; bills suck.

At any rate, thank you all for your continued support. I think out of the three school girls, Ren's route probably has the best story. I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed translating it (although, Ren's speaking... tendencies kinda proved, hard to... convey).

At any rate, thank you all again. Please enjoy Ren's route, and of course support the original release (SwanEye has recenlty been re-releasing all the SwanEye titles in low-price physical versions, and HaraKano should be next up after HaraMin comes out at the end of this April. Know an importer? You can get them all from Amazon.co.jp!)

Happy birthday to me~ Haramiko 100% Translated!

It's January, which means~ birthday time! Happy birthday to me, so here's a present for you:

Haramiko 100% English Patch!
I wanted to take care of a bit of my backlog, so I decided to finally finish Haramiko before starting on any other major length project. After days of work, hours of review, and more, I have finally completed it! The story of Haramiko is now 100% in English - the common route, Hazuki's route, Uzuki's route, and the Harem end. I even revised it, so hopefully there's more quality and fewer errors.

HaraMiko is a visual novel by SwanMania, released back in 2008, about Shrine maidens, spirits, and a little bit more~ Check out the vndb page for it at https://vndb.org/v2737.

Interested? Want to check it out? You can download the patch here:

https://www.mediafire.com/?199ygznvbpggs41

To install the patch, simply extract all the files and folders from the .zip archive and put them into Haramiko's install folder, same as every other SwanEye/Swanmania patch I've ever done.

There was pretty much no demand for this game, but it's actually probably my favorite Swan title, despite being a shorter nukige game. The UI is, as usual, untranslated (I don't have a patch for that), but in order to make it a little more accessible, I created an imgur album which contains image guides for the game. If you need it, feel free to check it out here:

HaraMiko UI Guides

As always, thank you for all your support. Another shot out is in order for the friendly anon ChPe who donated 10 dollars; it's definitely appreciated. If you feel like supporting LoeQuality Translations for this or any other work, feel free to check out the donate page at the right.

I hope everyone enjoys HaraMiko as much as I did, and I apologize to everyone waiting on Ren's route. It is, unfortunately, still in the works.

Thanks all~

-LQT

Second Experimental Patch

A little bit more progress on the Junketsu patch, but only through Tia's first time in the prologue.

If you have Junketsu installed, same story as before, download the file, put it in your Junketsu Megami-Sama folder, and see how well the text does and doesn't display, and what gets captured by various text hookers.

https://www.mediafire.com/?0p1qb545zjbgdvm

I was working on it over the holidays, so it doesn't really translate much (again, just through Tia's first time in the prologue), but it does translate the choice option and chapter titles in the prologue. If you, fair reader, are up to it, this means you can test it so I can see how well these things do and don't work with text hookers and if there will be any problems getting the english version to "work" on different operating systems. None of the changes have made the game crash on launch, at least - more than what I can say for Swaneye titles.

In other news, HaraKano is on Ren's route still. Haramiko is on Uzuki's route still. Maman still needs to be revised and rewritten. I'm finally getting back to Mahoyo, though at no quick space, but I'm not certain if I should try to continue from where McJon01 left off, or just do the entire thing. I'm leaning towards the latter, if only because I'll probably do it better that way.

As usual, special thanks to everyone who has donated, especially to one certain individual, LR, who has donated four times(!). I really appreciate it, and judging by how many times the laptop crashed while translating this little, I probably really need it. Thank you so much.

Merry belated Christmas if you celebrate that sort of thing, kick-ass awesome Kwanzaa if you celebrate that, superb Solstice, happy Hanukkah, and so on and so forth. Happy new year, when we get to it~

I'd draw you all some Holiday/New Year thank you art, but yeah, no.

Thanks all!

-LQT

Something to be thankful for? Experimental Patch.

Hello all,

Not much to say; I've been a bit busy with various things and various other things, not all of which have been fun. Harakano is, of course, still being worked on, as is Haramiko, and I hope to eventually get around to more of Mahoyo (though the first five chapters have already been translated thanks to the work of McJon01, and is available now for download. Check it out here).

In the meantime, though, it's Thanksgiving in the US, and the harvest time around much of the world. Usually a decent time to give thanks for what we have and show gratitude.

At some times, in some cultures, this thanks would be dedicated to certain gods and/or goddesses, ones that provided food, worked so the harvest would be plenty, and ensured the ongoing of life. Fertility gods/goddesses.

Relatedly, if anyone happens to have Junketsu Megami-sama installed, there's an experiment I would like some help with.

If you happen to have Junketsu installed and know your way around game engines and/or text hookers, you should download this patch:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/0p1qb545zjbgdvm/md_scr.med

Once downloaded, go to the folder where you have Junketsu Megami-sama installed (you might want to make a duplicate of it). Rename the original md_src.med file to something else , then move the downloaded md_src.med file into the game's folder.  You should still be able to run the game (if you can't, you should tell me about it).

What this is is an experimental patch to translate Junketsu Megami-sama. It is by no means complete (it only goes through the first scene or two of the introduction), and it doesn't display properly.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find some way to get the text to display right (provided, of course, that you have the skill working vn engines), or (if you don't have that skill) perhaps find the proper text hooker to run alongside the game so that the text hooker can hook the english text from the game and display it properly somehow (provided you know how to work modern text hookers).

Depending on how good or bad this goes (and the interest in it) I might try to take on all of Junketsu, and explore what other issues might come from creating an english translation for it (I only hope it doesn't have the savedata issues that Swan games have).

Other than that, Happy thanksgiving, happy harvest all!



Unrelatedly, if you happen to be feeling thankful for LQT's translations of varying quality and are capable of being generous, donations would certainly be appreciated, for some of the above mentioned less-than-fun things that have suddenly come up. I'd like to thank everyone who's supported LQT, enjoy my work, and have had the patience necessary to wait for said work to appear. I would like to give special shout out the eight anons who have donated a total of 142 dollars over the past year; your support is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

For reasons, I will not be posting any updates on Junketsu to the LQT twitter.

HaraKano - Ayana Seno's Route 100% English Patch

Hello all,

After weeks and weeks of working, hours and hours of revising, thousands and thousand of lines (14k), and tons and tons of car repairs and other annoying unexpected expenses, the English patch for Ayana Seno's route is finally completed!

Ayana is nice, semi-competant girl who happens to be a tomboy, and is probably my favorite heroine in all of HaraKano (but that's just, like, my opinion, man). Story wise, her route has a little more going on for it than Marina's does (though Yuichi remains as dense as ever for a lot of it), and hopefully you will find it as entertaining to read as I found it to translate. It was actually kinda fun.

The new patch translates 100% of Ayana's route, 100% of her epilogue, and has been revised from its initial translation for better flow in English. So, with this, the HaraKano english patch now features the common route, all of Marina's route (and epilogue) and all of Ayana's route (and epiloge) in full English.

You can download the patch from here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/muy1s6yvv29j00l/patch.zip

To install, just extract all the files/folders from the .zip archive onto your computer, then move them directly into the folder where you have HaraKano installed (overwrite any pre-existing files). Note that it works best when HaraKano is installed directly onto your C: drive somewhere.

Please be advised: since the patch updates the scripts in the game, there is a chance that if you have previous save files from HaraKano, they may not be compatible with the new patch and thus may not load anymore or might cause the game to crash upon launch (this is when the infamous script error box appears). If this happens, exit all the error messages, make sure Harakano's .exe is closed in the task manager, then delete the folder named "savedata" in the HaraKano game folder and relaunch the game. It should run now, and when you begin the story, it should be in English. This will erase all your progress, but is unfortunately the only way to get the game to work with the new patch (to make up lost progress, remember many computers let you hold down CTRL to skip through text in visual novels, including HaraKano).

Meanwhile, HaraKano is still not finished. I am planning on doing Ren's route as well, then may move on to other projects (such as MahoTsukai no Yoru, provided no one has finished it by then. People should really work on it.) I also still have Haramiko to finish (though no one seems to care about that game, unfortunately), along with more from Batta., so look forward to that, maybe.

I'd like to thank everyone for continuing to have patience with my (s)Loe Quality Translations, and would like to give special thanks to the few anons who have donated to LQT so far. It is extremely helpful. Extremely. If anyone reading would also like show their appreciation and donate, as said, it's extremely helpful, and you can find the links to the LQT donation page on the right bar (or just click here). Harakano fanart could also potentially be a cool way of showing appreciation.

At any rate, I hope everyone enjoys Ayana's route; Tomboys need more love.

Thank you all again,

-LQT

(Did you know, that once you download and install the English patch, if you look inside the 'patch' folder you can find a text file named HaraKano Side Notes which contains different facts, details, and notes on HaraKano, the characters, and the translation of their routes? Check it out, but be sure to enable word wrap!)

Mahou Tsukai no Yoru

Years and years and years ago, I was in Japan, wandering around a used game store. I had just acquired a Japanese ps2 and was looking for some games for it. I came across this 'Melty Blood: Act Cadenza' game, which I remembered hearing about from my Guilty Gear days, back in the US. I bought it, played it, and almost instantly became interested in this surprisingly nonchalant looking character, Aozaki Aoko. That was my first experience with anything Tsukihime.

Fast forward two or so years, during my second trip to Japan, I just so happened to be lucky enough to be in Akihabara when, after so much delay, pic related finally got released:

 As a dedicated Aoko main and poor saver of money, of course I couldn't just NOT get it; I bought it on the spot, to keep until I had the time to get around to reading it, which I never did. Then, much later (just some weeks ago from now) there was a Mahou Tsukai no Yoru thread on /a/. I posted the above pic asking for tech help to finally start a translation project for it, and lo' and behold, some days later a kindly anon emailed me and provided me the script files to the game.

So, long story short, I am translating Mahou Tsukai no Yoru.

I realize this has already been done (in theory) and there are a number of groups already working on this (in theory), but as I've yet to see any of these projects finish, I'm going to start anyway. I will be translating the game from the beginning, working at whatever pace I can manage. I welcome any and all help I can get on this (it deserves the extra care, after all), but I make no guarantees or estimates on when the translation will be finished, or even when a playable demo patch might exist (that's one of the problems I need help with).

If another group finishes before me, more power to them and I look forward to reading their finished work. If no group does, well that's a hell of a shame, but I hope my translation will be adequate. I believe there are around 200+ script files for the game in total, of which I have completed 2.2 of. So yeah, no completion estimates whatsoever. Thank you all for your support and interest

-Loe

HaraKano - Marina's Route 100% English Patch Released

Hello all,

After entirely too long of waiting, Marina's route is now finished, and available via the patch below! This patch translates the common route, Marina's route, and Marina's epilogue 100% in English, and has been read and revised for better flow of English.

Now you, too, can enjoy probably the most slice of life, moege-esque visual novel ever to be labelled a nukige! Watch Yuichi be dense, count the cliches, wait for the plot to never arrive! It's really, uh, quite something, though I feel like Marina's route might, in fact, be one of the least interesting to go through. Oh well~

Read it now, and decide for yourself!

To get the patch, simply download the .zip file from the following link:

https://www.mediafire.com/?muy1s6yvv29j00l

To install, extract the contents of the .zip archive directly into the folder where you have HaraKano installed, overwriting all files.

If you have any save files for HaraKano when you install the patch, before you starting the game, BE SURE TO DELETE YOUR SAVEDATA FOLDER. For some reason, the English patch does not work well with save files from the Japanese scripts or from prior iterations of the patch. If you have the game properly installed but get a script file error when you try to run the .exe after you install the patch, kill every HaraKano.exe with the task manager, delete the save files, THEN try to run the appropriate .exe to run the game.

As always, thanks to Bonzaimonkey for providing me the files necessary to create this patch, and thanks to all of you for being so patient for it (and for not minding the April Fools -100% patch way back when).

Feedback, of course, is always appreciated - LQT can be reached either here, or via the LQT Twitter: https://twitter.com/LoeQuality

Thank you all for your support and patience, and if anyone feels especially thankful, donations are also always appreciated via the donation section on the sidebar. Thank you all again, and my apologies for not releasing this nearly as quick as I had hoped. Things have been busy...

-LQT