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I was wondering whether this is of interest - NANEL (Non-Asian Non-English Language) versions of visual novels / dating sims (finished ones) - in essence games which are available in other than English, Japanese and Korean or Chinese.

I know for instance that there are a few Russian translations of commercial VNs, although I don't have an idea which ones . I have generated a HTML from my list that I casually keep to show what I know so far.

My question is whether it is an interesting subject - or whether it's not really important to track.

Anyway...

By my book, any information is worth tracking (for the sake of completion, this is certainly interesting enough). Nevertheless, this subject sounds rather difficult to cover.

I find it interesting, bordering on useful. If I knew more of those languages and my English skills weren't as good as they are, I would find it a lot more useful.

Not really useful for me, since I'm not really looking for foreign language VN, but I guess it's worth keeping track of for archival reasons. However, if you don't have the time, then I don't think it'll be a big loss if you drop it.

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You can grill WinKi-san about this, as he is a translator, so he might know something.
His works: http://www.dsp2003.narod.ru/

And yes, it is definitely a great idea!!!

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Well this is interesting. I see 2 french versions out of 3 I don't know o_O... now a clickable version would be interesting :3

Wow, I didn't expect that much interest, but it's great!

The thing is, for the English list I keep (see sig), I add this NANEL info about completed translations whenever I have it - but it's really possible only casually, when someone points this out or when the information is alongside the information about an English version, like here. Because I think it's unrealistic to specifically actively look for NANEL versions the same way I do for English (well, I am on the lookout for CZE and SVK, since that's the languages I am okay with, and to be honest the CZ and SK speaking sites are relatively easy to monitor, they are not really that many)

But anyway, thanks to 000, now I know there is a Russian translation of Red Shift (those 2 years learning Russian came in handy though don't know whether that translation was authorized or not - I'm guessing no.)

monele >> good guess, but I added a legend anyway now... as for the the HTML version, that contains those small flag pictures, and I don't want to upload that to a site - I can theoretically upload it as a zipped file here, but it's really not a huge list, so a picture is quicker.

I have a more girly template now, see first post