Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20190924170649

Probably just a different mindset. It's quite easy to find "Mint in box" or "sealed" over in the west, people tend to see some value in it. Doesn't look to me like the Japanese do, probably same idea with the shops. Makes sense it's sold out, the games are 10+ years now. Should've looked a bit harder there.

I assume that by "YA" you either mean yahoo auctions or Suruga-ya. The one I previously mentioned, White Rabbit Express, states that they can buy mature doujinshi from Yahoo auctions. I assume they mean porn, so games should be fine. It might be Worth a shot. They also do Surugaya if you meant that one, no mention of adult items there though. Understandable reason for buying new, but also extra expensive. At some point you'll probably have to bite the bullet though, Alicesoft is 30 years old (not counting Championsoft) and they're a "smaller" company. Most of the truly new stuff is gone.

Probably stuck in a warehouse or post office then. Scalpers clearly exist in every culture, one of the drama discs I got was being sold for around €30 (original price was 2800 yen), already expensive for what it is considering it was just a jewel case with booklet and disc. I bought that and a day later a different guy was selling his for €60 Obviously you collect the stuff in Japanese, but what about any of Mangagamer's hardcopies? They have a Rance 5D+6 and Evenicle hardcopy. Though the Evenicle one is tagged with steamkey, so I'm afraid the disc might just be a steam installer at this point.

I haven't really played the SR release by them yet, but it's certainly a more complete localization. Adds some QoL changes as well. The translation gets debated on, odd choice of wording or replacement gags and such. Doesn't seem that bad to me and replacing some gags would be a wise choice from a localization perspective. Keep in mind Alicesoft themselves put in some shitty memes at times, Bernard in 03 referencing "taking an arrow to the knee" is a good example. There's probably more, but not being able to read Japanese limits my ability to find 'em.