Cease and Desist!

http://www.tsukuru.info/tlwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

See this for yourself and guess what’s missing?

That’s right, Saya no Uta, Chaos;head and other Nitro+ related games are now missing.  and the reason why is:

“Support JAST USA’s official localizations of Nitro+ games”

Anyway, as a preventive measure from any legal issues, you could say that TLWiki has now removed all Nitro+ translation patches from the site, that means… everything that was made so far. So much for all the time spent on translating, editing and hacking each of the games.

In other words, no more English patches. It’s happened before, live with it. Honestly, it sucks, but whatever.

Honestly, I had hoped that Chaos;head was at least spared (it was barely Nitro+) but I guess that’s a no.

And another classic.

Ever since Amaterasu Translations picked up the oh-so-long dropped project CROSS+CHANNEL, I had an aching to play one of the games that made it popular, well, just for the rest of the world. If you’ve been in the internet for quite some time, you should’ve encountered playing this timeless classic of a flash game.

Or it’s just me.

Oh, and if you want to know more about that CROSS + CHANNEL, it’s an eroge that eventually spawned that flash game, not necessarily related, but you could say that most people knew it because of that accursed flash game.

Or it’s just me. Again. I’m sure it’s not though.

Anyway, that game. Just let Kurosu (the guy) reach as far as you can go while hitting on as much girls to boost your speed. Left+Clicking allows you to use certain AERIAL moves. You’ll figure it out, but then again I bet you’ve played this before too. Ages ago.

Lastly, CROSS+CHANNEL is progressing smoothly on translation, as what I can see. It’s a pity no one could get a hold of whoever was translating before but in this age of wikis, forums and Subversion-based projects, it’s not likely to happen. In other words, it’s finally getting translated.

Just quoting.

Got this from someone in /jp/. Anonymous (No. 2723819), obviously.

“All they do is take their CGs and slap some pans and zooms on them. Oh, and don’t forget the wacky transitions. All this to disguise the fact that there’s no actual fucking animation. God, this is fucking embarrassing shit. You could get a 5-year-old with Adobe Premiere to do your VN OPs and it would look exactly the same. The worst thing is that ALL VN OPs are like this. Play some cheesy song, have random PANS and ZOOMS that make no sense, along with BIZARRE CUTS AND TRANSITIONS. A million monkeys with typewriters are all facepalming right now because even they could do a better job. Fucking pans and zooms.”

QFFT.

Honestly though, nearly everybody does this.

School’s out!

Well, school’s out for DLSU. Everyone gets a 10-day vacation while the administration cleanses the place of any H1N1 virus traces.

So yeah, with all that time, I went there just to snap pictures of the place. Empty as a school at midnight, I say.

Pictures to be uploaded later. iPod touches don’t have cameras.

Fanboy Flamewars.

God, I swear, I hate it when people argue over shit that causes a damn flamewar.

Katawa Shoujo – Act I

Man, I can remember the threads when this was overly discussed. I never imagined it to actually turn to a reality. Anyway, to those who haven’t heard of the hype in the past few days, the people at Four Leaf (wink, wink) Studios just released a trial of their visual novel: Katawa Shoujo!

What makes this visual novel great is that:

1. It’s actually good, literary wise. I played it myself and it actually rolled out just like any other visual novel out there, with its own twists, interesting parts and anticipation
2. It’s based off on just a single page. Well, some doujin author made a omake page back then about a bunch of disabled girls with his concept about it. Then everything went ablaze after that.
3. It’s free, and in English. Hey, it’s one of those original English VNs created that’s actually quite good!

Well, all those points are spiked with my subjective opinion. I suggest you try it yourself.

It’s just a preview though. dubbed Act I. You can get it from their site. http://katawa-shoujo.com/

NicoNicoDouga, iPhone.

Guess what just made its way to the idevices…
Moontube!

K-ON! iPhone / iPod touch Themes

Well, the more I get bored, the more I do random stuff. This one is a byproduct of such boredom. Well, sure, I did loads of random stuff back then, but I never had the motivation to upload it. Mostly to the fact that it’s either silly or personal.

That aside, I made some K-ON! iPod touch / iPhone themes for everyone.

Holy Hell Weeks.

Not much to say, just a simple update for my own self.

So, holy week’s coming, plus hell week with college finals, and then heaven which is the usual summer break (OJT perhaps? maybe not, I’ll dive in at xcode+iPod development for now).

Speaking of xcode, I’ll probably spend my time at summer learning Cocoa development and Objective-C. I’ll be honest at the fact that the iPod touch is actually a great (if not, then interesting) gadget to play with, at least, it’s the only one I have right now that’s equipped with decent hardware.

Whee.

A Hackintosh experience.

Yeah, I just gave the OSX Tiger a shot through Hackintosh, a method of putting said OS to an unauthorized machine (”PC”)

So far, it’s not bad as I thought it was. In fact, I’d actually say that it’s great!

It’s not enough for me to shift from Windows to Macs though, for a couple of reasons.

(post will be updated soon.)