Scanlation thread
Is there any etiquette about scanlating hentai raws? Should you ask the uploader whether you can use the raws first if they're an actual Japanese group, or does nobody really give a fuck? Wondering because all of the raws I usually work on are commercially available tanks or digital RAWs but I've been thinking about scanlating a doujin I want in English lately.
>Is there any etiquette about scanlating hentai raws?
No.
>Should you ask the uploader whether you can use the raws first if they're an actual Japanese group
Nobody gives a fuck. You can always credit the uploader in the description/credit page.
>Should you ask the uploader whether you can use the raws first
Yeah bud, and don't forget to get the actual mangaka's permission too.
Look, there's a thing such as etiquette among scanlators and I didn't feel like pissing anybody off unnecessarily, I didn't know if the Japs gave a shit. I probably should've just assumed they didn't, but meh.
thanks, got it
>there's a thing such as etiquette among scanlators
Hah, no there isn't.
Look, there's a thing such as etiquette among scanlators
It doesn't actually sound like you're in a position to say so, since you had to ask in the first place.
Fuck it feels nice to work on artist cgs. Unlike manga or doujinshi you barely have anything to redraw if at all.
Thank you for being scanlators.
Will it bother people if an ESL-kun like me tries to scanlate shit? Would like to try it out to train my nip.
Just get someone to proofread your shit.
Do it in your original language.
But I don't want to translate stuff for them, they have shittaste.
Hey what are some good fonts used for fucking?
I haven't done much hentai and have just been using DJB Carley Sue here but it's kinda boring.
Search for handwritting fonts on dafont, user.
>Is there any etiquette about scanlating hentai raws
Free for all internet bloodsports
On the middle of supervising a new shorts.
Coming soon.
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Why are you scanlating porn?
You are throwing away hours and hours of your time so that greasy anons can have a quick fap.
someone's gotta do it faggot
no, only the most autistic of autists gives two fucks and those two fucks quit ages ago
I’ve always wanted to scanlate for my own pleasure and I might as well make use of my moon knowledge, are there any good guides?
>tfw making a hobby out of fixing Google Translate subs
I barely speak basic Japanese, but it's easy to figure out in context with the translate subs, and the words that are still in Russian are usually meme words that I know from Sup Forums, so I can use the Japanese.
A lot of jap porn comics are funny as fuk
You're literally doing exactly the same thing 50-70% of the "translators" in the scanlation scene do.
Learn basic grammar rules and you're good enough for your shonen and hentai shit.
You know nipponese user?
can't tell much from 3 lines but your english seems good. if you really doubt it please please please find someone to proofread, do a search for Go-Toubun no Hanayome in the archives for the results of and reactions to translators with poor english
Yeah but it's anime.
What comes out of Google Translate may be completely different or the opposite of what is actually meant.
Just learn some more Japanese.
I will keep releasing my ESL translations and I will not be stopped
>beats his meat to the same shit he insults
Ahhhh yeaaaaah, uhhhhhhh
I'm an ESL, I'm scanlating shit, nobody gives a fuck. Granted, nobody gives a fuck about things I'm scanlating either. Go ahead.
I did manage to get a native editor for my latest project though.
>no textless upload
Y-yeah it sure feels great to work on CGI
You're welcome
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batoto will be gone in 2 days and I don't know where to go
Mangaupdates, blogs, Sup Forums, goddess, then whatever service the batoto discord puts up and/or whatever service pantsudev puts up.
Just make a wordpress blog for chapter updates and do a chapter dump here. And switch to the batoto alt once it's up and running.
>pantsudev
Is that speculation or has he announced something?
his updates say he's almost got something barebones working already
This is very much public and open source
github.com
fucking golang again
Whichever language would've been chosen, someone would have still come out and call it a meme language.
Where do you find editors? Is putting a credit page with the announcement good enough?
I found mine on Sup Forums in a thread for what I was translating.
Yeah but golang is actually shit.
Editors as in proofreaders or cleaners/redrawers
Why didn't people tell me debinding manga with a microwave was so much easier than the hairdryer technique?
It's easier but you have a higher chance of fucking things up since you have less control over it. Try microwaving glossy paper and see what happens.
No one will fall for that user.
The only time I did was with an iron and that was pretty easy so dunno.
you'll love it until you catch one on fire
What did Yotsuba see?
I should get off my ass and finish volume 2 before potato finally expires.
Different paper would be a no-go obviously, but normal paper seems to work just fine. However, I didn't just put it at full power and leave it for a few minutes, but rather used a lower setting in intervals so it doesn't get too hot/have a damp-ish feeling.
Can that happen?
I use a professional heat gun. It's much quicker because I can manually set the perfect temperature for different paper types. It doesn't overheat, so I can debind doujin for hours. I also use it for defrosting pipes in the winter and making my own audio cables. It's a very useful tool to have.
This, so much this. Then again native eops have just as much of shittaste. I think fellow but foreign esls are the best audience.
user exposing his penis to her.
No, seriously, am I the only one who just irons the side of a volume through a cloth to debind it?
you sound like you're being careful enough but yes, be especially watchful for stray staples
>2018
>Yotsuba
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I've heard of that, but how are the results? Is it quick?
Well I have nothing to compare to, but it took me about a minute.
Doesn't the steam deform the pages?
>Not exposing your penis to Yotsuba
Faggot
Didn't really have a problem with that, maybe mine doesn't produce much steam. The only issue was that the glue itself is very annoying.
You use the "no steam" setting and don't fill your iron's water tank.
That's what I do.
Draw them yourself.
At what point is it easier to just erase the entire background of the panel and draw your own from the start?
That pattern is so common that you can probably just copy it from another panel in the same chapter.
caf caf, motherfucker
Unfortunately, on every other panel in the entire volume with darkened textboxes the texcture is closer to this.
Tried that, there isn't enough material to get it to look decent. Even clone stamping ends up looking trash because of how the background is laid out.
Sharpen and burn it until it matches.
Gotta rev up those redrawing skills user.
screentones.deviantart.com
You can't match it, the patterns are flat-out different.
...the fuck? Hadn't even occurred to me the image would be out there, thanks.
Thanks again user, this is miles better than anything I'd have managed.
It looks good. You're welcome user.
These threads have been a great help for me. Over half done now.
It was basically me who helped you during the past week with the png compression, the jpeg artifacts and all other things.
thanks a fuckton mate. I really appreciate it.
A bit related, but with the current CPU bugs floating around which enables the user to read uncached memory, wouldn't this give us the opportunity to read the decryption keys for all Desktop reader programs?
Bookwalker, EBJ, etc. for example.
Gotta find someone who's into this kind of stuff.
Meltdown is already patched, Spectre is too much of a bitch to exploit in most cases and it's getting patched.
The real issue with the bugs wasn't the security hole, it was the performance hit it takes to close them anyways.
It's not like every user has installed the patches already. Guess it was just wishful thinking on my part.
There are already many tools to read another program's memory, that's how game trainers and such work. The OS lets you do it if you specifically want this. The problem with the bugs is that even JS code in a browser can do it, which is totally unsanctioned and a glaring security hole.
No.
These bugs are only helpful when you want to read memory of a privileged kernel process from an unprivileged one.
EBJ/Bookwalker desktop readers don't run in privileged space, nor do the browsers. Peering inside them is as easy as opening an x86 debugger, their whole memory is available (of course debugging browsers is pointless because you can just debug the JS code itself). Even if they were kernel mode, you'd just have to use a kernel mode debugger like Windbg.
Reversing desktop readers and JS browser ones is way easier than finding such bug or making use of it. Seriously, any JS code monkey could defeat the browser ones if they put enough effort into it. EBJ's desktop reader wasn't obfuscated last time I checked so you'd need someone who knows how to use IDA more or less. Now Bookwalker employs some .NET packers but they aren't that difficult either.
Basically, these bugs don't help defeating any DRM on PC because PCs are generally an open platform where you have access to whole memory space without needing to exploit anything.
So the only way, as usual, is reversing the key generation? That sucks. No wonder people keep these rippers private.
You beat your meat with one hand and operate the scanning machine with the other
D E L E T E
The book keys aren't generated, they are stored in the internal database, possibly encrypted with another key derived from your PC configuration (I guess you could call that second key generated).
Even if you could magically read decryption keys from reader processes you would still need to reverse the encryption scheme, and how images are extracted from book archives. Without knowing whether it's AES, RC4 or whatever, the key would be fucking useless.
I wouldn’t mind being a proofreader. I have degrees in literature and philosophy. Currently, I work as a “journalist,” but most of my work these days involve writing for social media products.
That sounds like a pain. Not really impossible but rather time consuming.
As a raw uploader I don't give a fuck. It's nice if they gave me a credit but I'm doing it because I want those staffs to being translated.
Whatever these readers employ isn't even half decent DRM in terms of complexity in my opinion. I'd estimate a week's worth of work at least and month's at most to develop a solution. Reversing is time consuming, but people in the know generally enjoy it.
Too bad they're reluctant about sharing the solutions.
The problem is they kept changing that shit. That's what killed the BW ripper.
Bookwalker is tricky because these faggots are always on the lookout. The main reason people don't like to share because it's more work to keep up to date with them every time they change something to fuck with you.
There is a BW ripper, though. Complete EPUB rips and all.
It's just kept secret because of the reason you mentioned.
Indeed. But it's been quite a while since BW did a completely mandatory update. I'm still using version 1.2.6 of their Desktop tool which is definitely over a year old by now.
