Mid video update and Q&A (September edition)

Konyanyachiwa! This months update is finally just about on time, despite everything that's happened since the Jisatsu video went live. And by that, I mean my old MacBook Pro, a 2019 model, managed to somehow cook itself to death. It was already on the fritz but I was really hoping I'd be able to push it for a long while. 

Alas, that thing is toast and gone, and in its place I have a 2018 model very very generously donated by a viewer, friend, and patron, and soon enough I'll have a gaming PC built, funded by selling off some music equipment I haven't used in a long while.

This will hopefully be a positive for the channel, as my last MacBook was struggling to run even simpler VNs under Windows. This made video capture an absolute headache sometimes. I was also struggling a lot for storage since my internal 512GB SSD was split between Windows and Mac -- this rig will have its own 1TB SSD, and this MacBook also has a 1TB SSD, so I won't have to constantly be deleting old footage only to find I actually needed that footage two videos down the line. Yay!

Also, I should note this did not affect video production *too bad* - I was able to use my roommates old laptop to capture footage for this upcoming video and continue my Rance 03 playthrough, and my video work is ALWAYS done from an external drive. I was pretty demoralized and sad for a bit, but things are good now, if not better than before.

Onto the updates!

Fushigi Densha: One of my Patrons, Victoria Vela, asked if I'd be doing more denpa games. Wish fulfilled! The next video is going to be all about this unhinged and utterly bizarre game that falls into that category - unlike Jisatsu though, this one isn't a horror game. It's just... really goddamn weird. Script is about half way done.

Rance & AliceSoft series: Same as before. I'm making a much more concerted push to get through 03 on my days off, so hopefully this will change soon and I can start work on the Toushin Toshi videos.

Weird 3DO shit: I got the 3DO, I am SUPER happy to own a 3DO, unfortunately said 3DO did not like reading burned discs and either because of my fault or just Tech Being Old, it's having trouble reading discs at all now. Plan is to drop in an ODE once a certain Patreon goal is met, or I reach $250 purely in Ko-Fi donations. THEN I can make this video.

Other projects: YU-NO will likely be pushed back until next year. PC-98 Magical Girl stuff is still planned for some time. I may start peering back into the world of Elf and other games in November with Isaku. Other than this, please leave me suggestions for short (sub-20 hour) VNs before 2003! Speaking of...

What About Newer Games & Sorta VNs?

This is something I've been thinking about for a bit and want some viewer feedback on how to handle. My plan is that starting next year, maybe after the YU-NO video as that does sort of branch the gap between 90s VNs and the modern route based structure, I'll start being open to looking at newer titles. I have a couple in mind I really want to take a look at. I also really want to start looking into games that, while not VNs, are narratively focused in a similar way to them; specifically, I want to look at RPG Maker games.

Would you all be interested in this? There's a lot of games I hear are fantastic (King Exit, Demons Roots, Azusa 999) that I would love to take a look at, and I think you all would enjoy too. 

As always, thank you so much for the support and continuing to help me and my channel out with kind comments and donations! If you have any questions you want in this videos Q&A segment, then please leave them here and I'll answer what I can. (´｡• ω •｡`)