Visual Novels

We've been working on a guide to help players on all major GNU/Linux distributions play visual novels for the past few weeks. This guide is designed to be used by both beginners and experts, with minimal need to touch the command line.

openSUSE wins the award for "never had to touch the terminal" and "simplest setup instructions", but Fedora is a close second.

While there are a few existing visual novel guides for GNU/Linux around, we've tried to fill in the gaps we noticed. We've put a lot of research into this guide and ensured it is accurate while remaining simple and approachable.

If you're interested, start here!

We have an extensive Troubleshooting section on our Problems page if you're having trouble getting visual novels to work, too.

I wrote this guide with a lot of help from two other people, including /u/neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space. It’s available on our community wiki, https://wiki.comfysnug.space. As with all pages on our wiki, it’s licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, meaning you’re free to share, remix, and build on the content as long as you credit us.

We also have some other pages you may find useful:

• If you're looking for something to play, check out our Recommendations page.
• If you want to know where and how to buy a visual novel you want to play, our comprehensive Buying page will help you out.
• And if you want to read a visual novel in Japanese, our Reading in Japanese page offers a lot of advice and points you to some useful software to make the process easier.

This one is in a slightly different format than the others but the symbols should actually be consistent somewhat.

All are welcome to join. I look forward to seeing you guys there~!

Mine:

Mayuri's ending in Steins;Gate My Darling's Embrace: As one of the rare Okabe/Mayuri shippers, finishing my S;G experience with this is one of the best story payoffs I experienced.

Tomoyo After true ending: Very heartbreaking and IMO much better than the canon After Story ending. If I have infinite money, I'll have an anime produced out of it.

Not actually 100% sure when this is from. pls gib sauce

2012 edition. It's quite interesting to see what visual novels were popular 10 years ago.

I also had the 2017 edition floating around, so I figured I'd upload it, too. There are 'some' differences between the 2015 and 2017 versions, after all.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/554575

Made a List for Physical collectors for the NS

MangaGamer announced several new titles at Anime Expo.

JAST made several new announcements and updated us on some existing projects at their panel.

Other news

Today I learned that Saiya-Saiga has a ディスクレス field for all the visual novels listed on the site. The field essentially labels whether the release is encumbered by DRM or not; whether it performs a check to ensure the disk is in the drive on first startup.

If the developer has provided a DRM-removal patch, as in the case of August with Aiyoku no Eustia, that is also listed with a link to download it.

This should be very useful for players looking for DRM-Free releases.

Anime has slowly grown into a global phenomenon, but visual novels are far more niche. Many visual novels remain untouched by localization companies, and sometimes the localizations we do get are…lackluster.

Often, the best way to experience a visual novel is in the original language—Japanese. Whether you’re already interested in learning Japanese, or want to learn Japanese purely to play visual novels in their original language, both motivations are perfectly valid. Visual novels are a great way to learn Japanese, because you get exposure to both the written and spoken language.

I've written a guide on how you can learn Japanese by playing visual novels with the help of a friend who made some suggestions to improve it, and it's available on our wiki, wiki.comfysnug.space. As with all pages on our wiki, it's licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0, meaning you're free to share and re-post the content.

If you're interested in learning Japanese or have already begun, I hope you find this guide useful. It isn't meant to be a dedicated guide on learning Japanese, but there are some tools you might not know about that will make your life easier.

If you have any additions or corrections to offer for this guide, or are interested in working on our other pages, you can sign up for the wiki here.

the novel is about 6 hours long according to VNDB

cross-posted from: https://burggit.moe/post/33788

Repost of an old meme for another community.

"The light adds 2.5 meters."

Title reference for those that don't get it.

Sources:

• Top panel: u/sumiredabestgirl's meme
• VN: Evenicle Apocrypha
• Original meme format by TerminalMontage

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/596930

anyone else here that used to be on r/visualnovels or r/otomegames? i'm playing through jack jeanne right now and having a blast. what VNs have you all been playing/reading lately?

Where would I go about looking for banner images in these relative form factors for visual novels in general? My lutris screen looks pretty ugly right now and I'd like to pretty it up some.

NIKITASHI releases today on Steam. Seems to review well it got 9/10 on Noisy Pixel. Seems to do decently on vndb too.

Looks a bit weird!

A guide to buying visual novels, particularly if you want to acquire them in the original japanese

an anon's journey to japanese literacy

a list of translated moege up to date as of april 2021 roughly

Just curious what the oldest game is that you've played, and whether you enjoyed it or not. I'm less interested in the technical experience, so you can use the original release date, even if you played a more modern implementation.

For me, Fate/stay night just barely beats Clannad, by a few months. Both were released in 2004, and both show their age a little bit (Clannad in its convoluted branching, Fate in its resolution options), but are perfectly playable. But of course both are super popular classics, so I wonder if you all had similar experiences with more obscure or older titles.

I'd like to see a DRM field in VNDB for every release, because I think it would be very useful in many player's purchasing decisions, so I've opened a thread asking for this feature. If I knew a VN wasn't encumbered by DRM, that would be a green light for me to make the purchase.

If any of you have thoughts on this subject or how it might be implemented, feel free to respond on VNDB.

Yorhel has told me:

If there's a good proposal and some discussion on the forums, I have no problems implementing such a feature.

Per https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/22200, I have gone and made a DokuWiki that we as a community can build together. I, unfortunately, know very little about what specifically I'm doing with wiki software, particularly when it comes to making things look pretty.

For now, the to-do list looks like:

• make sure others can sign up and contribute
• initialize visualnovels namespace with placeholder content
• pull in / rewrite content suggested in https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/comment/92413

I look forward to working together with all of you!

cross-posted from: https://preserve.games/post/61

Link does not contain any NSFW content at all, but tagging just in case, given that most of Visual Novel community relate it to +18 content, too.

Years ago, this file/folder database was created by someone who did work in collaboration with me, to track most of the visual novels that made it into the scene, mostly from Japanese P2P + Mikocon/2DJGAME and ScarletMoon chinese "BBS" site.

Just wanted to share this to let everyone know that this data was sorted by company name + using VNDB's API at same time.

**PS: **the site only shows text and filenames, as a reference to what we did manage to scrape from all the scene and keep a record of it, so it can be used as a reference for anyone that has any of those files (for example, if you happen to have a matching filename but want to know if does have different size than ours). Just to make clear there is no download links, while you can find for sure some, being shared at other known sites, or even at IA, since redump users have been working hard on that end to share dumps of old software in the recent years.

-rockleevk

A site that helps you figure out which visual novels you might be able to read in the native japanese.