Visual Novels

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/432866

This feature proposal from the VNDB beta has made it into the live site! We can now start tagging VNs known to have DRM:

Alrighty, still not really polished or finished yet, but it doesn't look like the main data model or guidelines will change much so I've pushed it live now.

If you want to filter for DRM-free visual novel releases, you can do that now.

I consider this mission accomplished. \o/

The wording "Digital Restrictions Management" was almost snuck into the guidelines proposal, and unfortunately I can't claim to have had anything to do with that :)

The official guidelines are available here. Interestingly, the final wording is:

Some releases have DRM (Digital Rights Management or, more accurately, Restrictions Management)

Now for the fun part: documenting which releases are encumbered with DRM. If you know one of the VNs you've purchased has DRM or is DRM-free, please help by editing the VNDB releases entry to reflect this!

Hopefully, we'll all be able to make more informed purchasing decisions now.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/138679

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/[email protected]. 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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/138241

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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/119094

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.comfysnug.space/post/93825

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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/88408

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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/79947

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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/77652

Over 200 games are discounted until July 9th on the JAST storefront.

• All releases are DRM-Free
• Reminder that you can filter by Japanese support; 29 games with Japanese support are currently discounted

Includes a lot of nukige, but also some plot-focused ones like:

• Hanachirasu
• Aokana
• Flowers series
• Muramasa

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/72101

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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/43368

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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/33556

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://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/25430

a useful resource for self-directed japanese studies

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/22200

What realistic options do we have for making a copy of this wiki here on lemmy? Am I going to have to spin up a DokiWiki? Repurpose my WordPress blog to post some of these articles? I'm open to suggestions, too.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/10537

For me, Yume Miru Kusuri was my first visual novel. I don't even remember why I played it, but I liked it so much that I'm here forever now.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/5060

What steps, if any, do you guys take on the linux distribution of your choice to play visual novels?

I, personally, set the following in my .bashrc

alias vn='env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine start '

so I can just type vn gameExecutable.exe and usually just have the game work.

For the games I've had for a while, I have .desktop entries in my $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications directory with more specific commands as needed.

If you guys have any other tricks up your sleeves, please feel free to share them here.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/17140

from: https://old.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/wiki/recommendations