It’s been a while since we released the Tomoyo After patch, and after a short break, things are moving again. Today, I have a few announcements to make.
- Team Fluffy (Little Busters! VN Team) will merge into the Doki VN Department. This will allow coders on both teams to collaborate to improve the hacking tools for the key visual novels. In addition, the merge should mean that projects will get finished quicker than originally planned. Clannad_Man has more details below.
- Delwack will succeed Clannad_Man as the head of the VN Department. I am sure Del will do a great job, so please give him your support!
- In order to ensure that future VN projects run smoothly, it will be necessary to recruit another dedicated VN translator.
Greetings, Doki Legion!
Thought you were rid of me? Ready to read another ‘brief’ wall of text? No? Alrighty then. I’ll make this brief. I have temporarily returned with the sole purpose of providing you with an important update.
Team Fluffy has agreed to merge into the Doki Visual Novel Department effective immediately. As part of the merger, the Little Busters! VN Translation Project has also been transferred to the Doki VN Dept. Any future updates & patches involving ‘Little Busters!’ & Little Busters! Ex’ will be released through Doki.
The rationale behind the merger is as follows: both groups have capabilities and resources which could be utilized by the other to enhance the quality and efficiency of their works. Members from both teams will collaborate to work on enhancing tools for use in the Memorial/CE/Ex translation patches of Tomoyo After, Little Busters!, and potentially Clannad as well. For the most part, those working on Tomoyo After (Orig. or ME) will continue doing so, as will those who have been working on Little Busters! Ex. As each VN being worked on is at a different stage of progress, there will be some crossover between group members who otherwise wouldn’t have much to do, including image editors, translation checkers, etc. As work on TA and LB! comes to a close, work will be redirected to Clannad. In this way, those involved feel the translation patches for Tomoyo After ME and Little Busters! Ex will be checked & released quicker than otherwise possible, in turn allowing Clannad’s final translation patch to be prepared quicker than otherwise possible. What happens beyond then… well, it’s too far in the future for anyone to tell, especially me.
One more time, on behalf of Doki Fansubs and the most passionate VN team in existence, I thank you for your continued support. Look forward to all the great things yet to come from the VN team, and be sure to give the new VN Division Head, Delwack, a proper show of support.
Peace!
– The Clannad Man
Translator Recruitment:
If you are interested, please send me an email at holo@doki.co. We’ll have a chat on IRC and I can give you more details and answer any questions that you may have.
Saturday 20th October 2012 
11:48 PM 
Is it just me or has literally nothing moved on the google document since it was posted?
Not sure when you mean by ‘since it was posted’, it used to move a bit, but lately (past few months), yeah, seems stalled, extremely slow. Maybe it’ll improve a bit over the summer.
Pretty sure there’s been updates for the editing recently on their twitter. The project most definitely isn’t dead.
I know Doki mainly working on Clannad right now. I also know that they could do whatever they want. But who’s agree for the sake of fans they you should do the voting thing on the front page. Which title we’d prefer them to focused on? Little Buster EX or Clannad? Also the line update counter thingy would be beneficent to ease our anxiety. Just a suggestion. Thx
-Narumi Kaya
We are working on LB EX+ME and Clannad simultaneously, not just Clannad and then LB EX+ME when we’re done with Clannad. And we’re not going to put one to the side for the sake of the other, so there’s not going to be a voting.
Oh ok, So question about the EXperimental Extra patch. Are we going to be able to apply it to the EX version? Eventually? Or is it impossible? It’ll be so nice and more fulfilling if we could do that.
The EXperimental EXtra patch just adds voice overs to the original version of the game. The EX version of the game already has voices, so there would be no point in applying the EXperimental EXtra patch to it.
can’t wait for the EX/ME patch :OOOOO, will it be available this summer?
That is unfortunately highly unlikely I think. I might provide a status update post later this summer though.
Fluffy + Doki VN = Win!
Longtime fan of Doki here.
Nice work, Clannad_Man.
And all hail Delwick!11
*Delwack*
😛
^^ Danke, Mr. Richard!
We’re all wishing Delwack amazing success!
Wow, what a tease. I showed up to Doki’s main page and saw a banner about Little Busters! and immediately thought back to when the Tomoyo After patch came out with all the banners.
I can sympathize… but to be fair, Doki’s 2 LB! banners have been up for several months!
I can’t believe I hadn’t noticed…
Mmm, the anticipation is so exciting! Even if looks like it will be years, it is definitely worth the wait.
Hey now, it’s moving at a quicker pace than that! XD
There isn’t an update of the translation in the google docs page. You are not translating it in the moment right. I know you guys will finish it eventually but I’m just curious if you are making any progress.
Thanks for working in it anyway e.e
Hi Irustua! Sometimes we’re just a little slow with updating the Doc. Translation progress is continuing on Little Busters without interruption. It would be going quicker if we had an extra TL/TLC to assist, but progress is being made regardless.
If you’re interested in visual novel updates, I would suggest checking back sometime over the next few days… 😉
ATTENTION!!!!!!
All questions, observations, or general posts related to Little Busters! should be posted here from now on: http://doki.co/2013/08/24/summer-2013-vn-division-update-ta-maclinux-v1-1-sasami-route-complete/#comments
I will no longer be monitoring activity in this thread, and comments will probably be closed some time in the near future.