Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:4748:E497:3815:287C:BFC2:2D7D-20200911064934

Been a while already.

Is it even "mint" then? I mean, seems like mint is below "new" when looking at the definitions. The only exception is "MISB: Mint In Sealed Box" which would apply here. Apparently "mint" generally refers to pre-owned goods and mine are either directly from Alicesoft, from retailers or private inidividuals. Only in the latter case "mint" would apply, I guess? Oh well, don't really care about the terminology, as long as it's new, haha.

I have used that translation request button before...although for my language, rather than English, hehe. Not much point in that though, DLSite itself is only available in English after all, so other European languages are out of luck and you won't find people there who prefer their own language. Most definitely. Apparently it is still worth it, despite the tons of releases each day. Makes me wonder who even consumes all of that. Well, I have my three games on DLSite and that was just to support the developers for something that I enjoyed. And yes, you are right with the artwork. After all, on the PC-98, several people used to work on a single image (one for the outlines, one for shading etc). I highly doubt that is the case today.

They have mobile games now for their profits...so :P Soon they will be like Type-Moon and forget everything else. I kinda hope Steam blocks everything and they push either English DLSite or some alternative for uncensored eroge. DRM-free and uncensored (or censored as an option if you want) is where it should be at. So if they are decently successful, we might get one. Still, Alicesoft lacks a lot of competency, so I also kinda doubt it will ever happen (in a good way).

Yep, I saw that one. It's not really something for me, as I'm not into the fat/big-breasted characters at all (to the point where I steered into lolicon territory a long time ago, despite only wanting "normal"(which I guess is "small" in hentai) breasts which Japan doesn't really provide. Add to that weird ears etc, also not for me. I guess I'm just straight vanilla, and yuri is also good of course...meaning, Japan is just too fetishist for me, haha. Ah, and it's digitial only which is also a big no-no from me. Seems like you can pre-order Dohna Dohna now. I wondered whether I should do that (would be my first one ever), since I'm gonna buy it ever. But the pre-order boni don't seem worth it at all. Also, on their new official webstore (FANZA), the game is less expensive than on Amazon.jp. Maybe they changed the prices now but when I looked, with taxes included etc and it being the pre-order versions, FANZA was over 1000 Yen cheaper than Amazon.jp. Though, they have high shipping costs but even with those, it would still be like 800 Yen cheaper IIRC.

They did that, maybe. I wouldn't know since I didn't get any message at all and tracking had no information either. Looks that way, the quality really seems to vary, same with how much is inside (manuals, registration cards, game cards etc). I'm also looking for specific things...it's just that those specific things include a lot *cough* I also expanded the games (PC-98) I'm looking for by a bit over 100 titles. It's mostly gameplay VNs with some notable exceptions like Yuno or some murder mystery games. Basically, I collect games which I want to play. Still, it's a collector's disease, I guess, that once you get close to your goal, you expand on it, so that you can continue to collect T_T Anyway, shipping from Japan has gone down. It used to be once a week but starting in August, it decreased to once every two weeks. And since I can't ship two packages at the same time since customs would add their values for some reason, I can only send one package per two weeks then. At least some stuff did arrive. I got the FM Towns version of Alice no Yakata (CD) which is different from the PC-98 one and also includes Crescent Moon Girl and Intruder. Got the Toushin Toshi II and Kichikuou Rance guide book. Got some Hanihons. This is by far the best one: I got a new version of Alice no Yakata 456 with the shrinkwrap being in excellent condition, despite the box being weirdly shaped (That still leaves Rance IV, 4.1, 4.2 and Kichikuou Rance as the highest priority targets for games sold as new.) Then I got two PC-98 games (Necronomicon and some raising game). Ah, and I shipped that heavy book package a while ago...via surface. So it will take months to get here. I also got some other games I was interested in recently but I will have to wait a while until they get here. One of those is a new PC-98 Falcom game (since I don't care about new when it comes to PC-98 games with floppies, I didn't mind that the shrinkwrap is in pretty meh condition). I also got a new Alicesoft game from the late 90s. But well, gotta wait. I hope they increase shipments again soon. My proxy service decreased storage days again to normal levels which is pretty annoying when you consider the wait times. I have like 19 items there, waiting to be shipped and the package that went back to Japan is on the way to me again...well, it's waiting at the airport now for yet another 7 days.