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Welcome back to Tokimeki Memorial! This is a continuation of a Let's Play that was started nearly 4 years ago, and has spent about 2 years in deep slumber for mostly personal reasons. To see the old thread in the archives, which covers Tokimeki Memorial, TM2, TM3, TM Girl's Side, and half of TMGS2, refer to Let's Play Tokimeki Memorial - I'll refer back to this old thread more than a few times. Table of Contents, part 1: Reposts Let's Play Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 2: Rubbing Boys the Wrong Way Meet the Cast, part 1: The girls! Meet the Cast, Part 2: The boys! Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 1: Uncle Sheepy, could you read us a bedtime story? Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 1.1: You can get with this Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 1.2: Or you can get with that Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 2: We're not the same 'cause we don't know the game Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 3: Us kids are gonna make some mistakes Interlude: A future of trolling Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 4: It was all a dream Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 5: The fuse is lit and I'm about to go Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 6: Let's show the guys that we know Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 7: Your mouth's moving fast, and your brain's moving slow Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 8: Tell me the last time that love bought you clothes Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 9: Return of the Mack Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 10: That's all right 'cause I get things cookin' Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 11: Give me that funk that sweet that funky stuff Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 12: Being the hunted one is no fun Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 13: You, you got what I need Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 14: That's how the playettes got to be Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 15: Yo world, I hope you're ready for me Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 16: Just another case about the wrong path Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 17: Okay, Smarty, go to a party Table of Contents part 2: New stuff Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 18: Back to the lecture at hand Sheep, you've been away for years, what've you been doing? I would like to say that I took that 20-30 hours a week I spent on the old LP and did something productive with my life. But really, aside from some side excursions into games like Splatoon 2 and Persona 5, I was mostly playing Granblue Fantasy on my phone, and shitposting on Twitter. What made you come back? Today, Konami Digital Entertainment announced Tokimeki Idol, the next game in the Tokimeki Memorial series. By all indications, it's an idol rhythm game, made to compete in the space currently occupied by Aikatsu, Love Live: School Idol Festival, iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage, Show By Rock, THE iDOLM@STER SideM LIVE ON ST@GE, and (kind of) Bang Dream.  This rustled my jimmies. The Tokimemo series had its last iteration with Girl's Side 3 in 2010, and in 2015, the producer and character designer of that game resigned from Konami because they couldn't make the game they wanted anymore. Konami said that they were still working on Tokimemo and LovePlus, which made people really nervous... And the result of those 2 years of development is yet another idol rhythm game that is going to be thrown into the vast ocean of idol rhythm games. After some ranting and shouting, I decided to go back to playing the versions of these games that I found fun and endearing. I'll go back into the heart of the series and rediscover why I used to love it so much. I'll make it through Tokimeki Memorial 4 so I can show you goons how goofy and silly it is. But before I can do that, I have to finish out Girl's Side 2, which fell to the wayside in 2015. So how is this gonna go? First things first, I'm going to restore my Girl's Side 2 save and finish the Teru path. However, I'm 2 years out of practice, so I'm going to need to retrain myself in how I used to write and translate, get all my capture and scripting back in shape, and more. I'll try to maintain my old pace of a post a week, but it's going to take a while to get back up to speed, since I've gotten all-new equipment and tools since the last time I did this. vibratingsheep fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Just paste them all in the sslp test poster and link them in the table of contents. That way it's all in one place and not in the archives. Looking forward to this.
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Sep 15, 2017 08:40
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I'm glad to see this LP back in action. Shame it's not under better circumstances. I don't know about you, but I've been constantly lying awake at night asking myself, "What would a Tokimeki Memorial game look like in 2017, and how can you do it in a socially-responsible way?", so this announcement hurts me on a deep and personal level.
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Sep 15, 2017 09:27
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Oh man, I was just about to muddle through Tokimeki 4 with minimial understanding of Japanese. Good to see you're getting back to it! I like the test poster suggestion. Man, Teru was great. 
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Sep 15, 2017 10:45
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Man, i got linked to that old thread long after you were gone and thanks to strong endorsement started reading it, despite having zero interest in dating sims and every fiber of my body telling me it's a mistake and a waste of time. To my massive surprise, it was not. Not at all. Not that i'd ever play a game like this myself now, but you presented it in a very interesting fashion and all the additional knowledge you sprinkled in made for an entertaining read. So i'm really glad to see i might get to see the end now.
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Sep 15, 2017 11:56
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This thread coming back is one of the best things to happen this year.SystemLogoff posted:Just paste them all in the sslp test poster and link them in the table of contents. That way it's all in one place and not in the archives. That and send them over to Baldurk for archiving up to GS2, probably best to ask for them to be partitioned per-game. Not everyone has archive access and these LPs were so good they need to be kept accessible. HenryEx posted:Not that i'd ever play a game like this myself now, but you presented it in a very interesting fashion and all the additional knowledge you sprinkled in made for an entertaining read. So i'm really glad to see i might get to see the end now. 
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Sep 15, 2017 12:27
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Holy poo poo this LP's alive! Gonna nth the suggestion of throwing the old thread at Baldurk and getting the completed games up on the archive while throwing your old posts into the SSLP test poster for here.
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Sep 15, 2017 14:26
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Hey, welcome back! I've been interested in these games since I fell down the VN-dating sim rabbit hole a few years ago, and I liked all of the information about the culture and references made during the game... so glad this is picking up again! PS: Yuina best girl
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Sep 15, 2017 14:57
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Hmm, I can't edit the old posts to grab the old BBCode, should I just do a massive C+P and recode them for the SSLP test poster? Please treat me like I am an old man coming out of a coma, be gentle and take care not to frighten me with your information-age technology. Message sent to Baldurk for lparchive transfer, thanks for the reminder on that one. I've slept on the new Tokimeki Idol, and I'm still annoyed at its existence. Reason #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bENaFc6rEPQ Their first track is named Dreaming-ing. Dreaming-ing. Who does that?! My jimmies are rustled all over again.
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Sep 15, 2017 15:15
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Holy poo poo, you're back! The thread is back! Welcome back! 
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Sep 15, 2017 15:38
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Ayyyyyy, welcome back!  Can't wait for more hilarious romcom dating action  Re: the old posts, maybe you could ask a forum mod to grab the bbcode off the posts for you? I dunno if they're able to do that after a thread's been locked, but it wouldn't hurt to ask.
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Sep 15, 2017 16:38
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It's happening! Oh my god! Aaaa! So stoked
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Sep 15, 2017 17:39
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It's the miracle of early Halloween. Glad you came back and yeah, I say archive completed games on baldurk and link old posts via sslp too.
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Sep 15, 2017 17:40
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Oh my god I only just finished reading the old tokimemi thread a couple months ago and was sad there was no more. This is great!
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Sep 15, 2017 17:49
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Oh hell yes. Gotta read through it all again to refresh my memory. e: oh Jesus Christ I only just now remembered TM3 and Serika. Oh man. Terper fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Sep 15, 2017 |
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Sep 15, 2017 17:57
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DENOoiDtOvw
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Sep 15, 2017 18:51
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SHEEEEEEEEEEP!  You live...
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Sep 15, 2017 18:53
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vibratingsheep posted:Hmm, I can't edit the old posts to grab the old BBCode, should I just do a massive C+P and recode them for the SSLP test poster? Please treat me like I am an old man coming out of a coma, be gentle and take care not to frighten me with your information-age technology. You can view the page source and copy the HTML, then do some find/replace to make it easier. There is probably a HTML to bbcode converter out there too.
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Sep 15, 2017 19:35
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whaddup sheep you are doing god's work my guy also lol @ konami screwing up yet another franchise. seriously, i do not understand how it's so hard to not gently caress up functioning IPs. clearly the old designer needs to launch a kickstarter.
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Sep 15, 2017 20:11
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SystemLogoff posted:You can view the page source and copy the HTML, then do some find/replace to make it easier. This is a great idea, and will be a good project to start with tonight while I
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Sep 15, 2017 21:04
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Terper posted:Oh hell yes. Gotta read through it all again to refresh my memory. Serika is still best girl and I refuse to consider anyone else (Homura was also great though) Anyway, happy to have you back as our guide into the world of Japanese rom-coms sheep.
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Sep 15, 2017 23:18
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vibratingsheep posted:I've slept on the new Tokimeki Idol, and I'm still annoyed at its existence. Reason #2: e: though the Idolmaster I played didn't have any foreigns in it
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Sep 16, 2017 00:43
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Great to see this being continued. About the new Tokimeki all I have to say is that rhythm games were a mistake.
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Sep 16, 2017 17:53
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I'm very glad this thread is coming back! Definitely gonna read through all the older games again when they make it up onto the archive.
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Sep 16, 2017 20:43
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I thought the main appeal of tokimeki games is how normie it is; same with love plus. I don't really get what tokimeki can do with another idol game.
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Sep 18, 2017 07:49
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in the godless hellscape that is 2017 at least we can take solace in the return of the tokimeki LP
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Sep 18, 2017 09:06
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Welcome back! I'm almost sorry to inform you that there kind of was another Tokimemo spinoff between GS3 and Idol, released before the split between Uchida and Konami, because it's not much better. Meet Tokimeki Restaurant, a game too late for the social media restaurant game craze, but that didn't stop Konami from doing it anyway. The premise is that you (female) run a restaurant frequented by two boybands, and you want to run a successful business and earn their affections by cooking their favorite dishes. I didn't say it was a good game. But it somehow still exists and is getting an anime movie next year.
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Sep 18, 2017 09:24
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Kimitsu posted:Welcome back!
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Sep 18, 2017 14:59
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Kimitsu posted:Welcome back! I'd totally forgotten about Tokimeki Restaurant. It died in the same corner of my memory that contains Tokimeki Memorial Online and Tokimeki Memorial Only Love.
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Sep 20, 2017 01:24
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...An idol game? Really? Oh, well. It got this LP back, and that's what counts!
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Sep 20, 2017 01:47
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D3m3 posted:...An idol game? Really? Oh, well. It got this LP back, and that's what counts! In an alternate reality, similar to but distinct from our own, the Tokimeki Idol game delays Berserk. In another alternate reality, Granblue crosses over with Tokimeki and Castlevania instead of Cinderella Girls and Tales of.
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Sep 20, 2017 03:59
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Managed a couple of by-hand conversions tonight. It's... not very fun. I'm going to try an HTML to BBcode scraper next, but for now, here are the first couple of reposts: Let's Play Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 2: Rubbing Boys the Wrong Way Meet the Cast, part 1: The girls! Meet the Cast, Part 2: The boys! Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 1: Uncle Sheepy, could you read us a bedtime story? Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 1.1: You can get with this Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 1.2: Or you can get with that Tokimemo GS 2, Chapter 2: We're not the same 'cause we don't know the game e: The HTML to BBcode scraper worked like a charm and took 10 seconds. Alright then. The entirety of GS 2 is back up thanks to the SSLP test post generator, and I'll try and get back to new content this week. vibratingsheep fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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Sep 20, 2017 04:24
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Good to see you back! I really enjoyed your last LP, it was a dose of sweetness and light in a time of my life that was honestly pretty lovely. I'll be eagerly looking forward to this one.
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Sep 20, 2017 20:39
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Tokimeki Restaurant is celebrating 4.5 years of existence. Tokimeki Idol is going to be introduced at 10:30 JST on the 24th.quote:10:30 – Tokimeki Idol on Stage: “Try to Star!!” – Featuring the voice actors that make up the character voices and songs of Tokimeki Idol, this special stage will introduce the appeal of the game. Featuring Natsumi Hioka, Minori Suzuki, Yu Wakui, and MCs Icchou Mori and Miyu Watanabe. Please stop this ride, I want to get off. (I should be streaming and trying to pick up where I left GS2 off tonight, by the way. Gonna try and get at least a preliminary post up by Friday.)
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Sep 22, 2017 01:22
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Aww yeah, ground floor!
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Sep 22, 2017 02:56
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what's the point of tokimeki if you don't get the chance to make yourself a god in anime school
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Sep 22, 2017 07:55
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I can't believe this LP is loving Tired Moritz posted:what's the point of tokimeki if you don't get the chance to make yourself a god in anime school
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Sep 22, 2017 08:21
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Old Man Yells At Konami: That's my friend Pocky, who agreed to take that picture for me. Thanks, man. I will photoshop you into a Simpsons newspaper later. e: 
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Sep 22, 2017 16:24
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I spent the last two weeks rummaging through my save files trying to find where I left off for chapter 13... when I realized that I'd posted up through 17. Okay. Starting work on chapter 18 tonight...
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Oh dammit. I did not know you finished reposting them all. Time to spend some time reading.
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