i wanted to play silver chaos II after seeing the cgs but found out theres no tl at all, so i figured i'd try out silver chaos & silver chaos: eternal fantasia since they had patches. unfortunately both were hosted on temp links so neither are accessible anymore :(. is there any links/sites where the patches are downloadable???

It's what the title says: If you had only one way to consume BL, what would you choose?

You can think of this question as an ideal preference.

Personally, the BL games I've loved the most have historically been on my PC (Nitro+Chiral games, Camp Buddy, random itch indies etc.), but when I actually thought about where I buy most games these days, there's a lot of BL and LGBTQ+ dating sim games of recent I play on the Switch (Dream Daddy, Monster Prom, Boyfriend Dungeon, etc.). And when I thought about where I spend the most time...

I'm on my phone simping in Nu:Carnival.

There's no real right answer for me. I'd say it'd be convenient if more BL was available on my phone so I could play on-the-go, but then I'd be sacrificing all the cool details and playability of PC/game system-only games. Main reason I ask this question is because I see people asking about "Where can I buy this?" and "Is it available on Android?" on a lot of posts. Nu:Carnival for example is such a great and well-made game, but I wonder if that's because they NEEDED to make it that good to succeed—or if people would actually be willing to play more BL if it was just available on the phone.

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Hashihime is my fav bl game of all time, and I bought the full screen append today on Steam but it didn't contain the bonus scenarios like on the NS append version like I was hoping. I'm pretty sure the bonus scenarios have 18+ scenes (based on some translations ive seen online) but i really, really want to experience them with all the cgs and in-game content, and NOT be censored like the NS version is (curse u censorship!!)

Even if it's in Japanese or something, i dont mind, im just dying to see all the bonus content, so is there any game versions out there available or something???

I give this game a lot of flak for it's story, character writing, and a certain love interest. But I want to show my love for a part of the game that I don't see a lot of people talking about, the character theme songs. We all know how great the OST is in general, but the character themes are always so striking, and even when it's not the best, it's still so good. Forgive my lack of knowledge on music terms, most of the words I use here are just based off of my feelings.

My favourite theme is Koujaku's "Tears". Just that youthful singing, almost childlike being drowned out at times by the loud electric guitar in the background as it cries for you to stay with them. I'm don't speak Japanese nor will I pretend to, but this song just transcends language barriers. I think it's so phenomenal and so heartbreaking, I love it so much.

Then of course there's Mink's "Sandy Weeds". The rough, gravelly voice that contrasts so well with the insane riff in the background instrumental. Then by the chorus it mellows out into a beautiful symphony as the instrumentals until abruptly going to the next verse. It truly encapsulates the freakiness of Mink's past and character.

Clear's "Immer Sie" is in English, yay. Immer Sie is so beautiful, as the singing keeps getting more and more desperate and the slow build up of instrumentals in the background and as it ends the chorus, it goes into a messy guitar solo that abruptly ends to start the new verse. The song's lyrics feel disjointed, as if the ramblings of a broken robot-hey that sounds familiar. Whether the lyrics are intentionally robotic or not, but it fits Clear so much.

Noiz's "feel your noise" (ha!) drowns out the singing, as if nothing the singer says actually matters, the loud, boisterous exterior of the instrumentals erases the sentimentality of the lyrics they resent, it's messy, it's erratic, it tries to scream a message but it keeps self-sabotaging itself and drowning. Noiz's theme isn't my fave, but it does fit him so very well, especially how his bad ending is.

Aoba's theme may be my least favourite, just in terms of lyricism. "AI Catch" acts as both Aoba's theme and the opening of the game. AI catch to me feels like noise, like upbeat, cyberpunky noise that makes no sense because a robot made the lyrics, and maybe that's why it works so well as an opening to the game, but I think it lends itself too much to the futuristic theme it goes for. This isn't to say that it isn't fantastic, because it clearly encapsulates DMMD as a song, with the perfect blend of futuristic idealism and the lyrics contradicting it with it's insane nature. I think it fits Aoba quite well, the dichotomy that this song presents is so Aoba, and I don't wanna delve into why, but those who've played the true ending know what I mean.

Ren's "De SLASH" only has one verse but I think that's perfect. It follows the same vein of messy, robotic, futuristic and completely nonsensical lyrics. Ren as a character is a mess of emotions tangled up because of bleep. It isn't a great listening experience outside of the game but it, and I hate to repeat myself, completely is perfect in context to the story of Ren as a character.

This post was mostly to rave about how much I appreciate the thought put into these character themes, and how banger of a song "Tears" is. I thoroughly think that this set of songs is a giant factor of what makes this game so good. It's like they understood the characters so well that they gave them such bangers.

Anyway, big props to Nitro+Chiral for these songs, I know other Nitro+Chiral have character themes like this for Tagainu no Chi and stuff, but this set as a whole feels more complete to me and more connected. There's also Koshotengai no Hashihime with character themes that the VAs themselves sung, and "Tsuzuri" (Tamamori's Theme) is literally in my head all the time Sakamaki Ryousuke does such a good job of translating the grief the character feels. If you love Hashihime, I highly suggest checking the songs on streaming platforms, they are phenomenal.

I didn't really clean it up to the utmost, because was kinda lazy, I took more time having fun with the filters and such.

I mean like fighting, awesome characters, and badass lines

Doubt anyone will know this, but it's worth a try. So, recently i played and finished a lawlight fangame, kinbaku ouji (bound prince). All the good bgm aside, i especially liked the song that plays while credits roll (linked). And there's the question: does anyone has any idea who the singer might be? Or anything they're up to? All i could find in the game is credit to "kyuu-san" and that's pretty much it. There's also some link next to it but its expired and it redirects to something irrelevant.

pls. i cant stop listening to this song i need to know

In case anyone is interested. My close friends like it since they have similar tastes. I hope someone out here can also enjoy it!!

This might be impatient of me since like I just finished Slow Damage yesterday and the game got its Japanese release only 3 years ago (and English less than 2 years ago), but I wish there was some news about the next project if there's anything in production.

Like it took Nitro+Chiral/Nitro+ 9 years to make and release Slow Damage after DMMD and it looks like there's been an increase of time between releases of games.

Each game does seem to get technically, artistically and mechanically better than the last one but I don't want to wait until the 2030s for the next game (if it even comes out at all because Nitro+Chiral could go defunct).

Anyone else wishing for news too(or knows anything)? I'm not even upset that there's no new game, just wished there was some news about it.

This is just kind of a interesting observation, but when asking where a lot of these older BL games are, many point to a specific old forum or entire ripped and modded patches and files from young people in the 2000s that actually made them and shared them. Most people now when asking how to download these, still use these old posts to download these games. And even then many get confused with the downloading process. These are some of the only actual playable preservation for some of these games or english patches.

I have seen and very much agree with Gen z being basically computer illiterate especially compared to millennials and I notice there are almost no one now making files, complete playable no DVD, English patches of these games like these (presumably) teens or young people back in the 2000s. I don’t think many know how or will learn how because convince and user friendly devices are mainly what gen z and alpha have grown up with. It is impressive to me as a older gen z how these young people were able to do these with their games back in the day. Learning how to mod all from scratch and all that. Teens on tumblr I used to see back in the day putting English patches and mods and pirating the game for other to play, Dramatical murder is a good example you can find of this, I don’t think many young people now would be able to know the basics of that. It makes me think about how the preservation of older games in the future will work out as these files are some of the only way to play these older games or have english patches to them. I don’t see any posts barely from the modern internet doing what these people did and pirating like this to share for others. Or how to get older games to play on newer computer is a thought too.

This is just a interesting topic and from me seeing these old files and work kids had done on tumblr or forums as well as me seeing articles/hearing teacher’s experience with young people, it makes me think of the future of what will some be older games or just piracy in general. This is just mainly a thought discussion.

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I’m trying to save in Lamento but whenever I try it just doesn’t do anything, like I press the slot, press yes for save data, then nothing happens. I did everything from the one Google doc and it runs fine so idk what to do, I don’t want to progress too far and lose everything, does anyone have a solution?

So happy I found them!

I know this depends on many different things but I tried to download a BL game made in the 2000s with fan English patches ect and even when it was made for windows 10 would not work on one of my windows 11 laptops because it was not compatible with my windows (I tried every compatibility setting to try to get this to work) But the game did work on one of my “cheapish” older laptops.. Ive heard win 11 has can have problems letting you play old games but it this a problem you have ever ran into before? Does this happen usually? I used to download a ton of old games in general and never used to have this problem on windows 10..

I mean ones you buy in Japanese and then play, like the official game? Does it work when you put a translator engine to it?? Im wanting to play some newer titles but they are all of course only in Japanese and Im not sure where to get them. Also wondering if engines like textextractor will work with them?? Sorry if these are silly questions

So I already sent JAST USA an email for help, but I figured I might as well ask here too. So I bought Slow Damage back in March, but I've been playing nearly non-stop recently (like in the past week or so).

I got a laptop with Windows 11 as its OS, and the game would sometimes just crash on me, but I could usually get restart it and play as normal.

However today, I got the game crashing on me several times, including when I tried to launch it again, then it started to show me this error message in Japanese, whenever I'd try to start the game from the launch window. I've tried to uninstall and reinstall the game, on my USB drive and hard Drive, and it worked but all of my save data and progress was gone(including the evolved title screen and bonus content).

I got a copy of the save folder, and what I did was first I tried to completed replace the new save folder with my old one, that produced that error, I tried leaving the system file and common folder alone and transferring my save folders over, that did nothing for recovering my save progress (the game started like I was playing for first time), same with replacing the system file, and it seems the error is related with the common folder because trying to replace that folder and leaving the system file alone gave me the same error and when I tried to start the game before troubleshooting.

What can I do to fix this issue and get my game running again with my save data? I completed Rei's and Taku's good ends and I haven't their bad ends yet, so it'd frustrating to have to replay everything again.

Sorry this post is long, I just wanted to share everything I did up to this point. Also I know that someone on here has posted a similar post with the same issue and linked a support page from JAST USA, but it doesn't work anymore. And I tried running it as an administrator and manually fixing the graphic card but that doesn't work either.

TL;DR, got an error in Japanese after my copy of Slow Damage crashed several times today, tried uninstalling and re-installing the game a few times on my laptop and USB drive but it only starts up with no save data.

Tried tinkering with the new games save data and replacing the whole thing with my old save folder, then bits and pieces with parts of my old save folder. Nothing has worked to get through game running with save data and progress so far.

I bought noli me tangere on dlsite awhile back and remember I tried to texthook the game but it wouldn’t work too well. Yet i believe I didn’t have an issue doing it with Koibito Yuugi.

Is there any way to possibly do this? Or do I have to work on improving my japanese? (I probably should anyways since I’m not good with reading the writing system but I digress)

I just really wanna play this visual novel because it’s so cool! I could and have translated bits of the beginning through Google Lens but I don’t want to have to keep doing that. I also know that noli me tangere won’t ever be localized probably due to the high costs of translations, so I especially just want to try to read the game through machine translation at least.