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Heartbeat...

- Rance IV script has been ported, I still need to translate the text exclusive to the PC-98 version. Fortunately, there are few lines.
- Alice's Cottage 2 now has half-width text working! Here are some recent screenshots (you might need to refresh the first one)

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Heartbeat...

- Rance IV now displays half-width characters natively, and the script is currently being reformatted and proofred (both to save space and to accomodate with the very different display space of the PC-98 version). There still are some technical roadblocks (battle messages and inventory are currently garbled, unfortunately).
- Alice's Cottage 2 CGs are 75% localized, text is 17% done. I'm currently finishing the fanfiction section (4 short stories, plus a joke one), then it's on to Policewoman DA.

Some screenshots...

Cottage 2

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Rance IV:

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Heartbeat. After a summer break, I've pushed a bit Rance IV reformating. I've done more or less 85% of the total script. There still are some annoying bugs (garbled text in fights and inventory) but everything appears to be playable without hassle. When I'm finished, I'll do a full playthrough to pinpoint everything else that goes wrong so we can debug it ^^
Alice's Cottage II is around 20% complete. I'm messing with some pretty annoying CGs atm, but things are slowly advancing.
 
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Just pushed a small update for "Amy". A scene hidden in scenario 2 was previously left untranslated, everything's fixed now.

As for ongoing projects, Alice's Cottage is at 33% now. Rance IV is mostly complete still needs some serious ASM fixes before being released.
 

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Heartbeat. Alice's Cottage 2 is about 70% complete. Alice Quizz, Alice History, Policewoman DA and return of Okayu Fever are fully done, as well as the developer talk. I still have two fanfictions, the event scenes of "Naguri Makuri Tower", the fanmade "Kumi-chan fight" ADV and a few CGs remaining. Hope to have everything sorted out for november.

Unfortunately, the technical issues for Rance IV aren't solved yet so you'll have to wait a bit longer. 4.1 and 4.2 should be a little easier as they're using a standardized System 3 engine, but we'll see when we get there.
 

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We just pushed a little update to Little Vampire that restores both the title screen and music (present in the game files but strangely left unused), and removes the row of numbers that was sitting on top of the interface. Available to download now :)
 
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Rance IV has been masterfully debugged by Alpharobo. I'm doing a last playthrough to iron out whatever derps remain, but we clearly are reaching the end of the project :)

Hopefully Rance IV should be released next month, and Cottage 2 in November.
 

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Rance IV is finished, but we need a bit more testing to make sure everything's ok. If you'd like to give us a hand in doing so (emulator or real hardware), please send me a DM.
 

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Just pushed a small update for "Amy". A scene hidden in scenario 2 was previously left untranslated, everything's fixed now.

As for ongoing projects, Alice's Cottage is at 33% now. Rance IV is mostly complete still needs some serious ASM fixes before being release
Thank you for patch for Ami to Yobanaide! The game works well with this patch in DOSBox-X.
As for me, characters in the game looks better, than in OVA.
 
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Rance 4.1 is basically finished. I'm doing the second pass in 4.2 and making sure things stay consistent between them. We'll probably release both patches in a couple weeks.

I'll resume work on Cottage 2 shortly afterwards, I have strong hopes in getting it ready for a November release.
 
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Don't worry for me, this is just a hobby among others... The day I become bored with it, I'll do something else :)
BTW that might surprise you, but I'm actually taking my time for these... Both 4.1 and 4.2 could be done in a couple weeks by someone with more time on their hands, I guess.
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It's done!
Rance 4.1
Rance 4.2

These are the last games covered by the AliceSoft porting project, until our toolset is updated to support Toushin Toshi 2 of course. In the meantime... enjoy!
 
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I'm currently doing the last 15% of so of Alice's Cottage 2 (needs multiple playthroughs for the Patton game). Afterwards, apart for a "secret" project that will be unveiled only when its instigator judges it's mature enough, I won't likely be doing any more PC-98 work until next year.
Fear not, there are some projects on other JPCs incoming... I'll tell you more when we have more concrete things to show :)
 

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