/nep/ - Hyperdimension Neptunia

>>8024
Honestly I loved 4GO in all its glitchy glory. I never tried the Canuck RPG but I heard it wasn't bad.

>>8855
woah she cute man but i know better than fall for such an obvious click bait!

>>8503
I gotta wonder how these games are releasing like this, did Nintendo refuse digital but not physical? I'd assume that any game card would need to be authorized by Nintendo, so I gotta wonder where the double standard comes from.

>>8764
Nintendo Of America vs Nintendo Of Asia (English)/Japan (Source of the Asian version). That's it, it's that simple.

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https://www.gematsu.com/2025/11/eastasiasoft-launches-online-store-alongside-american-subsidiary

Eastasiasoft just announced they're opening their own online storefront as well as an American publishing branch. They may start selling these games through their American branch to make them easier to purchase since they don't have to go through PlayAsia. Additionally, they're teasing the idea of selling physical PC games, which may be how they intend to distribute an uncensored version of Tokyo Clanpool since that game got screwed over by both Steam and GOG. At the least, they'll probably host the uncensor patch they've been holding onto through this storefront.

>>8764
Nintendo is pushing significantly different publishing standards for Japanese/Asian SKUs and global SKUs. The Neptunia Re;Birth games were cleared for a Japanese/Asian release but not for a release in the west. This game, Brave X Junction (second pic related), was also similarly release in the Japanese eshop but denied a western release with the reasoning laid out by the publisher as a semi-joke comic. This game released globally without issues on both Steam and Playstation (it's rated 7+ in Europe); only Nintendo is this restrictive with this reasoning. They've gone as far as to

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>>7784 (OP) 
Now they're releasing Hyperdevotion Noire. Worth noting that this one wasn't "officially" and directly blocked from a western release like the Re;Births were. Idea Factory International likely just saw how the Re;Births and Neptunia Riders fared and decided it wasn't worth trying. Which brings the question of just how many games there are like this, that weren't ACTUALLY blocked, but the publisher saw how hopeless the situation was and decided not to bother. Like the recent Chaos;Head Love Chu Chu Double Pack released last month which has yet to show any sign of being picked up for a western release despite the main Chaos;Head games being on Switch.

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>>8814
Turns out the speculation about them starting their own store to sell PC physicals was true. Tokyo Clanpool is now being distributed through a special edition USB stick, completely uncensored, in a collector's box limited to 1000 copies.
Lo behold, the extent one must go to release a Vita game in 2020+6.

https://shop.eastasiasoft.com/products/tokyo-clanpool-limited-edition-pc?variant=47988618330352

If you already bought the GOG version, they now offer an uncensor patch for that on their site as well.

https://www.eastasiasoft.com/tc/TokyoClanpool_PC_Patch.zip

I must say, though this took long enough to come to fruition, I respect Joshua French and Eastasiasoft's dedication here. It would've been easy to just leave this at the GOG patch, but they went the extra mile. And maybe, just maybe, this may be the way forward since every digital storefront is so up their own fucking asses now.

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Somehow, for some reason, God saw fit to bless me today because I run across a complete first-run copy of Macross Delta Scramble: Rune Pika Sound Edition at a local store that didn't know what it had and was selling it for ten Freedom Bucks. For those wondering why this is so "special", it's an exclusive "deluxe" edition of the game with an additional 30 songs from the entire Macross franchise.

>>8337
Neat! Have fun, Anon.  :)

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my second ps vita came in! thankfully, it's in decent condition. it's definitely preferable to my old one, that one looks like someone chewed on it...
it's the model 2000 this time, i already don't really care about oled vs lcd, and it doesn't help that the screen on the 1000 model was starting to burn out and yellow in places (though as an aside, playing games on the vita did make me appreciate oled a bit more; it easily has the best looking version of jet set radio, and it wouldn't surprise me if games like mary skelter were made with the screen in mind, i noticed it likes to contrast neons with blacks a lot).
speaking of, i got it in black + pink, because it reminded me of mary skelter, though i remember i was going back and forth on looking for one in white or white + blue, my vita case is miku-themed, so it would've fit better...
transferring the memory card over was also easier than i would've thought, though i think i have to reinstall homebrew on the 2000, none of the stuff i homebrew'd onto the memory card works. i'm hoping that's not too strenuous of a process.
i'm planning on just selling off the model 1000 (though i feel kind of bad, essentially selling off thoroughly used goods for someone else to deal with), but i need the money. i'm hoping i can get project diva and katamari after.
i'm also thinking about giving re;birth 1 and 2 another shot. i originally got into playstation partially for neptunia, but ended up feeling lukewarm towards re;birth 1, and the

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>Have an autism becase of how much I just fucking hate Western localization shenanigans
>Made it my job to go out of my way to specifically get Japanese versions of games
>Download the Japanese version of Digimon: Cyber Sluts - Hacker's Memory to my Vita
>Fire the game up
>Discover the main menu offering the "option" to play the first game
>Figure it's probably just some "Previously On..." option, like the digital comic in the PS3/WiiU versions of the Mass Effect sequels, of the catch-up videos seen in Tomb Raider Underworld
>No, it's the full fucking game!!!
>Wondering what's going on
>Decide to look it up online
>Turns out localizers managed to strike again
https://archive.ph/um6WH
<The story-select menu likely defaults to Hacker's Memory because this compilation actually was aimed towards people who played Cyber Sleuth first, at least initially (and the subsequent Switch and PC ports did nothing to change this). This game's history is a bit of a mess, but to break it down.....
<Cyber Sleuth releases on the Vita in Japan.
<Sony prematurely brushes the Vita off as a dead system in the west, causing Cyber Sleuth to be ported to the PS4 when it got localized (there was still a Vita localization, but it was digital-only). For a time, this PS4 port would be exclusive outside of Japan.
<Hacker's Memory is released in Japan for the PS4 and Vita, with Cyber Sleuth included as a compilation. With this, Japan gets the PS4 version of Cyber Sleuth for the first time, and players of the original Vita Cyber Sleuth could use cloud saving to transfer their old data (and the whole compilation comes off being geared towards those veteran players as a result).

Shame this board died, and shame Nep as a franchise died. Meganep was perfect, and they decided to sit on it with so many spinoffs. I really enjoyed Sisters Vs Sisters for the geimuplay, but the story was lackluster, and disappointing.

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It's been awhile, but if this post goes through then the data you can upload per post has been upped to 10.2MB (which has recently occurred site-wide).

EDIT: New internet situation so new ID.

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>>3565
And now it's even 12MB.

There's been a possible node failure with the site, posting here via mod console to see if that rezzes the board.

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And it did. Of course until /sudo/ adjusts the situation positively site-wide, I'll have to make posts in any thread that needs to be accessed probably via the console. So just list what threads you want to use here if this keeps up.

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Hello from your new neighbors at >>>/comfy/ . Pleased to meet you, /nep/ .  :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR, /NEP/

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>>9062
>AYN Thor
I've looked at that a few times recently. It's impressive how well it mimics the DS/3DS's form factor So much so that I'm surprised Nintendo hasn't sued. It seems like it's literally made for DS and 3DS emulation. But apparently Azahar is still a bitch to download and set up on it since you have to use Android's sideloading exploit (it's not on the PlayStore, probably out of fear of Nintendo), and then it still needs tweaking to run (including changing the file names/types of the ROMs). Overall quite a bit of hassle, but then hacking a 3DS requires setup too, and 3DS's are steadily shooting up in price on the secondhand market to the point they're more expensive than the Switch now. 
>>9064
When I said "native 4K support", that was accounting for mods for other games i.e., Neptastic. This is the first I've heard of Neptastic working with anything besides the Re;Birth games, though. Does it work with Neptunia U (locked to 60fps and 1080p) or especially Agarest Zero (locked to 30fps)?
>Modchip your Switch
No thanks. I do have a mod-compatible early Switch, but I have almost a decade's worth of playtime on the thing (with no cloud backup since I never got an online subscription) and I'd rather not do something that could risk breaking it. Blanc would kill me for it too, you know how the Goddesses are with this sort of business, and she's the worst of all of them. If I ever do it, it'd be after getting another Switch (probably an OLED) and transferring my data to it.
>>9065
>The games I have played did not need the touch screen functionality for anything mandatory. That said though, so far the only game I have played to the end was Deep Crimson.
That would explain it. Go ahead and try something like Pokemon Ranger or Mario and Luigi on an emulator. Those will push your touchscreen to the limit even on native hardware. In fact, I think I damaged at least one touchscreen on my DS playing Pokemon Ranger.
>I know you said they went back on it but if they were going to do that why bother making the emulator in the first place?
It was the .3ds file format, which they dropped support for in the beginning but recently readded support. Supposedly because it "has its roots in piracy".

https://azahar-emu.org/blog/game-loading-changes/

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>>9066
I noticed that just today. Pic related is what they wanted me to unblock. Seems to be some sort of data agency aimed at detecting and combating residential proxies (which to date have been the only proxies that work on 4Chan). It looks awfully like it glows in the dark, too. I suspect that one proxy shitposting frontend that has gone by several names as well as Mullvad's new proxy IP obfuscation drove them to this. Basically, it's an arms race between anonymizing tools and de-anonymizing ones that is just part of the greater-scale enshittification of the internet caused by bots and scrapers that has accelerated dramatically in the last few years. Frontends like Nitter, Invidious/Freetube, Libreddit/Redlib etc. have suffered greatly from sites taking increasing measures to harden themselves against these things. Almost every single "open source" frontend or privacy service uses Anubis if not Cloudlare, too. Even 8chan.moe had to implement their own DDoS protection tool.

>>9068
Good detective work, Anon. I'll just leave it at that lest I move /nep/ into /pol/-lite. We all know who is primarily behind such threats to privacy and why. Protip: who: they print most of the world's currency at will; why: they are the most-hated group on Earth today.

>>9067
>NepU
Runs on Tamsoft's engine. Incompatible.
>Agarest
I don't know. Neptastic works by detecting functions by their signatures, so if the engine is exactly the same as RB games it could work. Or it could still require some game specific work.
>spoiler
You could be right... I'm pretty sure every single Nep would throw me in jail for modding because they think "modifying a CPU's body is an inexcusable crime", to quote RB3. I'm not so sure any of them would care whether I use my mods for piracy or not.
>>9068
Here's hoping the AI bubble bursts and all the automated web crawlers perish without a trace.

>>9067
I wish I was blanc in the picture anon...

In recent board news, I'm fixing many of the oldest threads that have been broken by the site back end changing over time.

In series news since the last post, many new Nep games have come out. Nep 5 is rumored to be on the way, there's collaboration game with a Canadian company and there's also a Nep phone game (an SRPG) being made.

Also Tsunako left Compile Heart because her parents are sick and she's looking after them. But she's still working on the Nep games.

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I picked this up really cheap inna bargain bin. Worth it?

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>>5995
>Nep 5 is rumored to be on the way
This was all the way back in 2018? Fucking hell. I guess I can understand why Nepfags were/are so frustrated even if I really like what Compile Heart was focusing in during that period instead.
>>8810
Is this just a humblebrag? Of course it's worth it, it's arguably the best game in the series. I would recommend you play HDN PS3 or Re;Birth 3 first, though, as this one doesn't really set up the characters and setting like they do and mostly assumes you're already familiar with them.

>>8813
>Is this just a humblebrag? Of course it's worth it, it's arguably the best game in the series.
I'm more just asking because I fret about possibly getting in on a series when it's on #7. Because yeah, I don't know anything about this setting or characters.

>>8817
>when it's on #7
It's actually more like the fourth, being the fourth mainline game. It's called VII as a joke on it being the seventh game in all (counting the spinoffs) and being a direct sequel to the previous game which was titled V/Victory. It's properly read as V-2, not VII as in Seven.

i know this post is almost a decade old but fuck dicksword, it has killed so many communities by siphoning all of their users and turned forums and imageboards into deserted towns.

>>8767
This. The entire thing is probably a ((( gayop ))) designed to do just that.

>>8767
Not really, a lot of forums were already dead long before discuck, and reddit already did what you described before it anyways.

>>8772
It would be foolish to deny the truth, anon. Discock did far more damage to forums than Reddit ever could've hoped for.

>>8773
>It would be foolish to deny the truth, anon.
This. But that's presuming the individual you're talking with is an actual person, and not some niggerpilling kike, for instance.


>Discock did far more damage to forums than Reddit ever could've hoped for.
IMO there's no question that what you say is true. It's probable that it didn't even start out as a glownigger-funded gayop, but only became so after the kikes realized what a goldmine it could prove to be to lock away free discourse from the public eyes (while still leaving the entirety of it all under their ((( watchful eyes ))), ofc). Untold amounts of content have disappeared from the Internets via doxxcord, cloistered away in these little information tombs.

It's pure evil.

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Not in the picture is the U Purple Heart daki cover.