Visual Novel translation status (updated on October 20th 2013)

[Mana]

That retard who doesn't even know what train carriages are? I just read the Amagami posts and told him to fuck off.

[KoutoutekiSonzai]

The carriage thing was part of it, but the resulting posts quickly put the person in their place and I encourage showing that North American English is not the only type of English.  It was all the bickering over the translated sentence's structure that went on forever that I was talking about.  I'll be the first to admit that the sentence used awkward phrasing, but not to point that it required a flame war over proper usage of the subject->verb->object within the sentence.  If I was reading the VN, I would have just kept reading because the context would have made it clear anyway rather than rage over minor grammatical errors.

[Mana]

The people who complain about those things are the same ones that think that they are above what they criticize and end up doing nothing at all. I usually insult them and leave them talking by themselves.

[Green_Tea]

facepalm

[KoutoutekiSonzai]

http://boards.4chan.org/jp/res/8963860

A release this week for those who like otome games.

[Mana]

That's always welcome, in my book.

[Fiske]

Anyone got an idea what aroduc is working on this time?

[KoutoutekiSonzai]

There hasn't been a lot of discussion about it.  I've heard that it's either a long doujin game or something involving pachinko.  Either way, it's a lot smaller than Kamidori.  Chapter 3 of the project was finished recently, but I haven't been hearing any other hints.

[Fiske]

Thanks

Seems like you are the one to contact for information hehe

[Devmastuh]

"A tracker for these threads put together by Tinfoil: http://vntls.tindabox.net/"

Okay this site is freakin' awesome.

[KoutoutekiSonzai]

Yeah, it's good for viewing the history of progress or seeing what happened to dead/stalled projects.  There seems to be some confusion about the fact that guy that made that site is the VNTS guy, but it isn't.

[Mana]

Without the thread itself that clarifies several things about the projects, it's useless.

[KoutoutekiSonzai]

http://boards.4chan.org/jp/res/9002493

Progess has been good for several projects lately.

[KoutoutekiSonzai]

http://boards.4chan.org/jp/res/9037058

The good news:  The next F/HA patch came out.  The bad news:  It's machine translated.  This probably explains the slow progress.  Mind you, the project has always been slow, but, in this case, it likely has to do with editing the machine translated rubbish into proper English.  Must be hell on the editor.  The patch only goes up to 52%, since it only covers the fully edited material done so far.

[Fiske]

For how long have they been doing machine translation?