[Locked] Maitetsu patch does not replace all-age cgs

Depending on their licensing agreement, Sekai may absolutely be required to go through Lose for things like the 18+ common route assets, script changes, or general bug fixes. It's not uncommon for visual novels to be stuck waiting for the Japanese developers because they have contractually required that any changes to the engine including script insertion be done by them. Peter Payne discussed some of this during the JAST panel at AX2018 explaining that long delays with their initial Nitroplus titles were due to Nitroplus' exhaustive rounds of testing after bugs and corrected scripts were submitted to them. Other of JAST's Nitroplus titles like Sumaga and Django are held up because Nitroplus does not want to expend programming resources on these titles in favor of other more promising games (their own and JAST's). Another example includes Hemoimo which was rescued from the jaws of SakuraGame by Fakku in December 2017 and would "soon be released." In May, the translator of Hemoimo revealed that they are still waiting on the beta build from the Japanese developer.

Yes, other visual novel publishers have been able to do their own in house engine work (Doddler's blog posts on his Unity ports of Mangagamer's Navel games are an interesting read), but this is based on what their contract allows and what in house resources they have, if any.

While we don't have the actual contract in front of us, Dovac, Sekai Project's ex-CEO who was assigned to this game, wrote in a statement posted on Google Drive, "Our agreement with the developers is that we do not touch any of the game and only with the text related to the English translation." Whether or not you believe him is up to you, but as I've pointed out above, this is not an uncommon thing in contracts with Japanese VN companies.

Regarding your last comment, the use of the console non-18+ assets may still produce bugs like the removed voice lines/untranslated text you referenced if they were introduced in the translated scripts that were replaced by Sekai Project. A simple cut and past or a bad find/replace pattern could delete or remove the tag needed to play a voice file.

Honestly, I think you should reconsider that. There's a fairly large number of good titles they've put out. Given you're on Fakku, you should definitely look into the Nekopara series at least (top quality pr0n :P), if not Clannad (though that might be divisive). Not deep into the Sekai Project Drama, but from what I gather it's mostly related to kickstarter complaints (delays, overpromising, giving higher priority to newer projects over extremely old ones). Had complaints with the Clannad kickstarter, but their translations and releases seem fine for the most part.



The impression I got was that they used the all-ages version given to them by Lose and just messed up the patch. Supposedly the all-ages version has content not in the original, so they didn't intentionally censor, just messed up putting it back in.

And then they fuck up the releases like this, what an amazing company.

Damn, looked up Tenshin Ranman and didn't realize it was Yuzusoft. That definitely sucks butt. Sorry man, don't know about the cease and desists there, but they do seem somewhat amiable to fan translations considering how the people that worked on the Dracu Riot fan translation seem to be working with Sekai Project on the English release. From what I can tell, Tenshin Ranman doesn't run on Windows 10 so that might be holding things up. I definitely understand being pissed off there though. Reminds me of how the people working on the Little Busters fan translation quit working on the Ecstacy patch because of an impending English release and were able to work on the official English version. But Ecstacy is still going to remain untranslated and not available for purchase....



I guess we won't know for sure until the Pure-Station version is released, but I imagine there's a good chance the PC and PS4 version will be identical outside of the PSVR tie-in. The google doc from Dovac already mentions they were working from the console branch, so I think the all-ages version they were working on was directly from Lose. Seeing as how the PS4 version releases in less than two weeks, I imagine the voiced lines and re-written scenes were done awhile ago and the majority of the time was spent developing for the PS4 version. As for releasing Pure-Station on PC, the version on steam already has Japanese language support so it really does depend on whether it has other extra content. VNDB says Monobeno never got an all-ages version on PC though, so who knows.

Things are happening, bois. Please be patient :^)

Can't help but notice Maitetsu's been removed from Sekai Project's Trello...

Here's the archived trello card. The status was on track, but it was past its due date. The last question posted before it was archived was asking why the 18+ version was censored. Sekai Project didn't respond...