Evangelion - Endless Summer Booklet [RAW SCAN]

Bought and scanned this myself. Saw it go off and back on bid like 6 times so I bought it when I got really cheap. Anyway, there's a couple of neat things in this, but nothing mind-blowing. Still, check it out. See ya!

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Ayanami Raising Project with Asuka Artbook (Better Resolution)

I found a batter resolution scan of this before but it was missing the guide section. However, I encountered the guy who scanned that on 4chan not too long ago and asked him to scan that section if he still had it, and he did. So, I added that in with the rest and uploaded the complete version of this. Enjoy.

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My Plan for 2016

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Now, as those who come on here may know, I recently finished up work on GOS Special Edition and in a couple of days will finish the final chapter of Rain Hard which will leave me with free time to work on other things next year. What will they be may you ask? Well, first off there's Terra Formars Gaiden Asimov and Keiji and then there's my own personal list that I've got as well. You can see what they are and everything else below.

• Definite
• Terra Formars Gaiden: Asimov
• Terra Formars Gaiden: Keiji
• Neo Devilman (What's left)
• Saikano Gaiden
• Ishi no Hana
• Maybe
• Evangelion: Ayanami Raising Project (PC) - VNs are a drag, don't feel like it right now
• Devilman Saga - Scans are shite. Would have to edit them first.
• Infection - See below
• Cancelled
• Dead of the Brain - Was on my to-do list but some asshole has recently started on it. Tried to talk to him about it but he just was a dick and more or less told me to fuck off.

Now, that's my personal list. It's small but I'm not interested in much at the moment. Also, those Vietnamese guys I've been working with on Kyochuu Rettou have also asked me if I wanted to translate a new series that they will be releasing soon called Infection. However, the first chapter is about 60 pages long and I really don't want to translate it because of that. That, it's weekly (I think) and it doesn't look very good. Still, I'll keep it on a to-do list if nobody else takes it on. That said, I'm also open to suggestions so if you want you can mention something below and if it interests me (something that I require), I might translate it. Other than that, I'll see you next time. See ya!

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel Special Edition English Translation 1.0

Yippee! It's finally done! Thank fuck! Visual novel translating is a real drag. Anyway, for those who may not know, the Special Edition of Girlfriend of Steel features new scenes, a new ending, the ability to customise the games running resolution up to 1080p, and much much more. The latter being something that the original 97 release never had so that's a feature to come back and read the story again for. Hee hee.

Translated the setup screen so you can customize it before launching

Now, that said, what I did over the past months was retranslate the game line by line and fix everything up. However, that's not to say lines from the original weren't accurate for the most part, just the wording of things so there will be some similarities between my TL and the original seeing how it was spot on for the most part. Furthermore, I did cover some mistranslations the original team did in my progress reports so check them out for more info on that.

Game gave errors when I had commas and such so had to remove them

Moving on. Now, I'll leave clear instructions on how to patch the game files to get the translation running. It's the same procedure as GOS2 for the most part, but there's also a few other things that I want to run by you guys first before that. First, make sure you have Japanese language codec installed and the app locale stuff. That's basic stuff for running JP games. Second, Microsoft released an update the windows this year which turned off a specific driver that was used to run some old games and GOSSE is one of those that was affected. However, check out this thread on fuwanovel on how to get the driver back online and working.

That said, patch instruction time. Sweat baby sweat baby sex is a Texas drought, me and you do the kind of stuff that only Prince would sing about, so put your hands down my pants and I'll bet you'll feel nuts, yes I'm Siskel, yes I'm Ebert and you're getting two thumbs up. Oh, sorry.

1. Dump all the files in the "Files to dump" folder into the games directory and overwrite
2. Open the "Files to patch" folder and patch each file like below
• Use the included xdeltaUI program to apply the graphics patch:
• Launch program
• Select patch file (example: event.xdelta)
• Select file to be patched (example: event.lb5, the original in game directory)
• Select where to output the file and make sure to name it for example "event.lb5"
• Select the patched file and replace the original games with it in the games directory
3. Do that for all 3 files that need to be patched
• event.lb5
• eve1024.lb5
• eve2048.lb5
4. Do it like they do it on the discovery channel
5. Play the game.

Now, I hope all of you can follow those instructions and enjoy the story. I put a lot of effort, time and pain into translating, playtesting and oh god don't get me started on bug fixing or the many problems that I encountered so it better pay off. All in all, enjoy this Christmas present from me and have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Dr Jones signing off!

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Credits
Pearse Hillock                   - Translator/Proofreader/Production/Playtesting & Bugfixing
MarcoL from Team GOS  - For help with GOSSE Tools
Fansubs of Steel                - Original Translation Team

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I translated what in-game text and images that I could find in the games files and script but some of it I couldn't find anywhere and others were locked in different file types than the tools I had could decompress. A pity, but what JP you see in the menu's unfortunately stays. Also, I didn't bother to translate the credits this time round again. When you get to the end of translating a big project like this you feel relieved but when you see another huge wall of text to TL it honestly puts you off from translating it.

Update - 20th December - Updated DL Link
Since the graphics side of the patch unfortunately didn't work, I just decided to upload the translation with the edited files. Meaning, you just have to dump the files and that's that. Have fun!

Update - 12th January 2016
Thanks to a friendly email, a bug was reported but I got on that about a week later since I completely forgot. My bad. Anyway, it's just a two small files that had to be edited so you can find the link with the rest above. Just dump them in the games directory and replace.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel Special Edition (PC)

Just to be make this post clear, no, this is not the translation, but the game itself so you guys can download it ahead of my English TL release. Anyway, I would just like to mention that the only source I found on the net for this was on the Russian Evangelion community so naturally they made a custom installer which is in Russian and there is no disc image, sadly. Now, do not worry, installing the game is simple enough. Just click through the screens and select where you want to install the game and that's that. I'll drop the download link below. Enjoy.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel Special Edition Progress Update - 29th November 2015

Meh. It has been a while since I last did a progress update for GOSSE so I might as well get off my ass and do one. Now, I'll try not to bore on forever so I'll do my best to keep this short. That said, you'll be happy to hear that I finished translating the games main script not long ago, and also near finished bug fixing and play testing most of the game as well. Neat stuff, because there's not much left to do other than to translate the 2/3 of the new scenes and new ending that's left to do and the rest of the fixing and play testing. Yippee! At my current rate, I should have it out by Christmas.

At any rate, there's also a few TL things that I'd like to mention. First, the previous TL team translated "child soldier" as "junior member" for some reason even though the JP says child soldier. What went wrong there? Anyway, I'll leave the line below so you can see the difference. Original above and mine below.

I'm a junior member of the military assigned to observe the daily life of Shinji Ikari, the pilot of Eva Unit 01.
I'm a child soldier of the military assigned to observe the everyday life of Ikari Shinji, the pilot of Eva Unit-01.

Lastly, they TL'd Cozy Corner as Koji Corner. But, I guess they listened to the dialogue and couldn't understand what Asuka was really saying. It was in English and the Japanese aren't very good at speaking it so that's understandable. Also, FYI, Cozy Corner is a pastry shop in Japan so that scene was kinda a reference of sorts to it, and them getting it wrong kinda took away from that. Just sayin'. Now, there hasn't been much stuff they got wrong for the most part since it's more of a play on words and the like. And that's more or less all I want to say for now. See ya!

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel Special Edition Graphics Rip (PC)

Okay, I have had this ripped for over a month now, but I kinda forgot to upload it like all those Eva games I keep forgetting to. Anyhow, you'll find most (some were compressed differently) of the assets in the download in the varying resolutions that the game supports. I really like how they included 1080p support as all the graphics are in (or near) that resolution, and that's a real good thing seeing how the original was released like back in 97 or 98. Also, there was a few sketches hidden in the game files which I posted on Evageeks and the sketches from the hidden in the regular 97/98 games files some time ago so you might be interested in those. Other than that, you can find the DL below so have a nice day and I hope you enjoy the rip. See ya!

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Review: Mazinger Z (Manga)

Hmm. I might as well get off my ass and write a review of Mazinger Z seeing how I read that, too, about a month or more ago. Probably multiple months back now that I think of it. Anyway, overall the story of Mazinger Z isn't hard to follow. The monster of the week formula and all that. However, that's exactly where things go wrong because having that formula doesn't allow for a more focused story which I think is exactly what Mazinger Z was missing. It just jumps from one bad guy to another without leaving much of an impression or allowing for character development making Mazinger Z overall rather mediocre and unejoyable. That's not to say it's bad or anything, just not very good or entertaining and more on the mediocre side of things. 

However, setting all that aside, the main thing to take away from it is the impact and influence it had on essentially every single mech manga and anime that came after. It set the tropes, the formulas, everything, and that's why we should appreciate it. All said and done, there isn't really much to say about Mazinger Z other than it's not very good, but it was influential, and that some of the violence which came out of nowhere was uncalled for. I mean, it's pretty much happy go lucky for the most part all the way through: beat the bad guy, save the day. But then people get violently blown apart, shot, killed and smushed to pieces out of nowhere. Though that is very Nagai. He does that a lot. Still, very unnecessary, I'd say.

Anyway, just to point out a few things about it's influences from something I've actually saw myself, Evangelion. Now, yes, I know it essentially rips off every single thing that came before it, but! I just want to mention a few things that I noticed in it that came from Mazinger Z. First off, Eva-01 goes berserk in the same fashion as Mazinger Z. Crashing around, uncontrollable by the pilot and all that jazz. Second, the way Eva-01 and the other Eva's are positioned and shown through camera angles and such are very similar to Mazinger Z sitting in the original lab in the first volume. Third, there's already a pilot before Shinji like Mazinger Z, and both become or are injured, and used as the backup pilot. Fourth, they all attend the same high school, and people in the class publically know they are the pilots of the mecha. The bully boss man guy and others being jealous of 'em similar to Kensuke and such. However, Mazinger Z one ups Evangelion by actually having that guy get his own mech. Fifth, both Eva and Mazinger Z are known to be "alive", however the latter is more "implied" than stated. Still, just for the record, Mazinger Z is alive. Sixth, they are both "thought" or considered to be "demons".

Now, you could say that these are all just coincidences ("maybe" some), but the thing is that Mazinger Z is the original manga which near enough all of what we know and all of what we see today is pulled from. And again, that's what I'd say about Mazinger Z which I like and appreciate it for, not its story or character, but the influence it has had on the industry. Anyway, I don't really have anything else to add so I think I'll end things here. Thank you all for reading, and I'll see you next time.

P.S. - I was super lazy this time so I didn't bother to add any images. How sad.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel Special Edition Progress Update - 15th October 2015

Gack! Time has flown by and man o man has it been over two weeks already since I last worked on GOSSE. Phew. Well, I did have the first chapter of Kyochuu Rettou to do and then 140 of Terra Formars came up so there have been more important things which needed by attention. Anyhow, when I did stop around two weeks ago I had about half of the game completely translated so a great deal of progress has been done. However, I'm gonna put GOSSE off for a while and work on it on the side after I get the first chapter of Terra Formars Rain Hard out since, you know, that's more important to me and to you. That said, back when I was working on GOSSE I was testing out a few things like higher resolutions and such so I have another video uploaded if any of you are interested. I'll link it below. See ya! 

P.S. - On the translating side, I noticed that the previous TL among other things had gotten Misato's rank wrong. It's Major, not Captain. How did that happen? Sheesh.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel Special Edition English Translation Announcement

The greatest love story ever told

Heh heh. Yes, now I have my eyes set on the special edition of the very first Girlfriend of Steel. And while I know that there are only a few new scenes added and that everything else was translated back in 2003, I'm still gonna go ahead and check over the entire game's script to fix things up to become more literal and accurate to the Japanese script, fix those literacy errors, and make it more my own overall. In other words, it's a retranslation for the most part. However, that's not to say that you won't see some similar things seeing how aspects of the previous TL was pretty spot on for the most part, but only for the most part. Here's a few examples. The original TL is the above and my new retranslation is the below.

Don't go inside, you'll get scolded by the policeman.
If you go inside, you'll get scolded by a policeman.

With such a clear physical evidence, they still call it "a mysterious moving object."
Despite such clear physical evidence, they still call it "a mysterious moving object."

I don't want to be late so I'll go ahead.
Since we are late, I'll go ahead. 

Hey you, honor student! Where are you going!?
Hey, honor student! Where are you going!?

You're... Ikari-kun?
Ikari-kun... right?

It's pretty.
Beautiful, isn't it?

Now, while I know that more literal doesn't exactly mean better, I still think that it should be preferred rather than rewriting/rewording lines, and wording here and there. Here's a few more examples. Note how the previous TL is not totally off, but off by a bit. Furthermore, there is a complete lack of "ne" at the end of a shitton of sentences and that's a major glaring issue, as well as adding in questions despite the sentences being used don't have a "ka" or any related particle. Though the TL is from 2003 so I shouldn't be as harsh. Still, the comparisons are below, and note how Asuka is suspecting the new transfer student and not calling her strange. How did that happen? It's totally off.

Must be a strange person.
I'm quite curious, aren't you?

A new classmate is transferring in today.
A new classmate has come to change schools today.

Let's make friends with her.
Try to get along, okay?

I guess I'll have to give her a greeting.
Well then, guess I'll have to give my greetings.

If you don't mind, could you tell me your first name, Ikari-kun?
If you don't mind, tell me your first name, Ikari-kun.

In addition, note how they mention that the transfer student is a girl despite not actually knowing that. Kinda weird, huh? Well, that's because they don't say "her" since Japanese a lot of the time is like that and it's left up to interpretation in a translation. Anyhow, enough of me picking on the original TL. Mine won't exactly be God-Tier, but it'll be an improvement for the most part, or at least I hope. Now, I uploaded a short video to Youtube the other day as a test, but please take note that I will be making changes since I was working off a script and didn't exactly have visuals or context while I was translating.

The misc JP lies elsewhere and not in the exe, FYI.

Moving on. I also translated the setup utility so you too can also fiddle around with the settings beforehand. I hope people appreciate that. Anyway, what excites me about the special edition is that the game can go up to 1920x1080 and it actually looks pretty good, aside from the subtitle cut off that is. However, I fiddled around and found the best option for a widescreen monitor supporting 1920x1080 and the like is the 1680x1050 option. There is room for the subtitles if you use that setting. However, please take note that any or most lower resolution settings in windowed mode shouldn't have that problem. Furthermore, a recent Microsoft security updates disabled an old driver from Windows Server 2003 that allowed the game and many others to not run, and that is a major problem. However, I posted on fuwanovel and got an email from somebody not from that site who noticed my post and ran into the same problem not long after I posted informing me about the solution and what caused it since I had no clue why the game stopped running. Anyhow, that's just for reference since I know more people will run into that problem. Lastly, have a Mana, and I hope you are excited to replay the game with an updated translation, new scenes, and the game in general in higher resolution. See ya! Bye!

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Ayanami Raising Project - How to Unlock Asuka (NDS)

Noticed some people asking how to unlock Asuka in those Evangelion Blu-Rei threads on /a/ recently, so I thought that I should get off my butt and put out a guide. Though I really should have done this when I released ARP way back last year. Anyhow, there are two options open to players who want to unlock Asuka. I'll provide both options below so choose your fancy and get to it.

Number 1 - The old fashioned way by fulfilling these specific requirements which in fact pops up with a simple Google search, so I'll dump that below which is from here.

• Unlocking Asuka: For those of you who want to unlock everyone's favourite semi-demonic redhead, here's what to do: 
• 7/3: Send Rei to school on this day, and you get the 'Asuka transfer' event. 
• 11/27-12/1: 'Shinji's recovery' event. 
• 12/11: Send Rei to school, and you get the 'Quarrel between husband and wife' event. 
• 3/29: Rei's 'Kaworu' event.

Number 2 - Just simply enter this cheat code using action replay in an emulator. Tested with NO$GBA, the best emulator to play Ayanami Raising Project on.

• 02121918 0000001F (Unlock Asuka)

Now, if you have any questions or need further instructions, then please do not hesitate to ask. And lastly, here is a document which features all the other cheat codes available for the game, albeit in Japanese since that's where I found them. Have fun! See ya!

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel 2nd TL Notes

My bad. I actually added to this in the progress of translating GOS2 but forgot to upload it when I finished the TL. Anyway, it's here now. That said, it's just a collection of terms used in the game and relevant links for those who may not understand what they are or are just plain interested. You'll find the link to the document below. Enjoy!

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Misc GB and SNES Porn Slideshows

Average Evangelion Fan

Now, this is a rather weird thing since somebody back in the 90's I presume must have created these Evangelion porn slideshows and shoved them on carts, which further I presume to have been sold under the counter or some other means. Or, they were created not when the show came out but when people were able to create their own retro hacks and such online, and then somebody just put them on the net. Who knows the real story, though. Anyhow, if you're a fan of old style pixel porn then I guess you'll enjoy what you find in the slideshows. The first is a slideshow with some text and no porn dedicated solely to Rei for the Game Boy (the only one) so get yourself an emulator and make sure you do the same for the following as well, the second is dedicated solely to Asuka except this time there is porn though not all of it is, the third is pics from the show slapped on a cart and no porn, and last but not least the fourth Slideshow E is actual porn of most the female cast with some nasty looking crotch hair for the most part. Now, the images which I have dropped below are just some examples from the slideshows that aren't too pervy (the Misato one is for the nasty scar, or is it?) so check the actual thing out itself for the real porn if you're interested. All said and done, who really knows when these things were made so I just put 199X for the date, and yes, that is a Fist of the North Star reference. Umm, bye! Enjoy your porn! Or not seeing how not all of it is porn, but whatever. Umm, bye again!

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P.S. - I doubt much people even known that these porn/slideshow carts even exist outside of the Russian Evangelion community where I found them. Neat stuff if you ask me. Not the porn, just the act that they exist.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel Graphics Rip (PC)

I already know the game was ripped many years ago way back in 2003 or somewhat, but I always prefer to do it myself if possible since I want to keep them in their "original format" and not recompressed by some asshole. That said, I separated everything into their respective folder so you should find what you're looking for easily. Also, I'll drop some images of interest below since the first is flashed very quickly so you don't really get to see it, and the second and third are rough sketches of a background scene and Shinji's face. Both are used in the game (the finished result, not the sketches), but it was nice to see that these drawings were left behind in the games files. All said and done, enjoy the rip. Bye!

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel (PC English Download)

I really gotta start uploading and building my Evangelion games archive. I meant to start doing it like last year but I got totally sidetracked with a ton of shit and completely forgot. However, I'll start doing that now and begin to add download links for all the games available, starting with this. Enjoy! It's the English patched version since that's all I could find but I'll try and locate the Japanese version sooner or later. Anyhow, that's all folks. See ya!

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: ORENOGELION Q (Doujin)

Just noticed this cool looking Evangelion doujin  artbook of sorts. It's got all kinds of designs based on other shows (I think), and even a Persona one so check it out if you're interested. Also, you may remember EVA FIX Abnormals in Dairy Life, this one is much like that. Bye!

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel 2nd Kaworu-kun Ending Patch

Since the developers themselves never bothered to actually include a Kaworu ending, I decided to add one in myself. It's an edited version of another scene with dialogue also taken from other parts of the game, so I hope the end result is good enough for fans. Enjoy. Or you can just alternately just watch the Youtube video of it that I uploaded. Either or, just make sure that you already have the English translation applied before you dump the files into the games directory since this is a patch. See ya!

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P.S. - Yes, I did pick the dialogue like that on purpose, FYI. laughingelfman.jpg

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel Disc Bonus

I played the first GOS2 recently and it was rather mediocre to say the least. Anyway, that's not exactly the point of this post so let's continue. After I played the game, I then checked around the disc to see if there was anything, and there was. Scans of the manual could be found and also a folder of images and some artwork. Neat stuff if you ask me. Though since viewing them means downloading the actual game, I think I'll just upload them separately for you guys to see, too. Have fun! The link is below.

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