/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status


12Riven- 29/72 scripts translated
Ace Attorney Investigations 2 - translation: 90%, editing 65%
>Air - One project released Beta patch and 60% edited, other 74.97% translated
Akatsuki no Goei - Prologue patch released, 8610 lines translated, 10/157 files edited
Amaenbo - Being translated
>Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "420/1966 original edition scenario scripts translated (~21.4%)"
Anniversary no Kuni no Alice - 31% translated
Aoiro Rinne - "Translation progress: "47% (579 KB of 1.24 MB)", 16/78 scripts edited
Ayakashibito - Fully translated, 36956/50995 (72.47%) lines edited, Touko route done
>Cannonball - 20856/36902 (56.52%) lines translated
>Comyu - 26403/51433 (51.33%) lines translated, common/Benio route partial patch out
Concerto Note - "Wakana, Shirayuki, Sayori route done"
>Cross Channel - Final check finished
Dote up a Cat - 32.2% translated
Dracu-Riot - partial patch released, 43233/53707 (80.50%) lines translated, 2 routes + common route fully translated
DRAMAtical Murder re:connect - 95%
Fate/Hollow Ataraxia- 97.3% translated, third partial patch out
Flyable Heart- 4673/47192 (9.9%) lines translated in new translation project
Fortune Arterial- Prologue completly translated, patches for Shiro, Kiriha and Kanade routes released. Erika route 65% done. Haruna route 80% done.
Gensou no Avatar - ~15% translated
Haruka Na Sora - Sora 11.29% translated, Yahiro 4.99% translated, Kozue 20.85% translated
Hatsuyuki Sakura - 8850/38943 (22.7%) lines translated, 7.29% edited
Higanbana 2 - Fully translated, in editing
Hinomaru- 51% translated, common route patch released

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>I/O - All scripts and 212/256 tips translated. 110/249 scripts edited
Ikikoi - Fully translated, 2 active editors working on it
Irotoridori no Sekai - 43,365/51,100 (84.86%) lines translated, going through revision, partial patch going through chapter 6 planned
>Killer Queen: New translation started from scratch, 32/72 scripts translated and 18/72 scripts edited
Koichoco- 188/397 files translated, 129/397 files edited, Common/Chisato routes fully translated
>Koiken Otome - 39.00% translated
Kono Mama ja, Ane to SEX Shite Shimau - 14.4%
Kourin no Machi - 9356/36959 (25.3%) lines translated
Kud Wafter - 9836/33132 (29.69%) lines translated
>Kurukuru Fanatic - 34.3% translated
Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content, now a joint project with Doki. Sasami/Kanata routes fully translated
Majikoi- Yukie + Chris + Momoyo + Wanko + teacher route patch released, Miyako route 85% translated
Majikoi A- Sayaka patch released, Benkei 40% translated
Majikoi S- Monshiro, Margit, Kokoro, and Tsubame routes patch out, Momoyo 44% translated, 44% edited
Mahoutsukai no Yoru - 830.20/1221.01 (67.99%) kb translated
Maman Kyoushitsu - Saera Kanzaki, Honoka Mizushima, and Mimeri routes patch released, ~8 scenes left in Emiko route
Mashiro Iro Symphony - Common route 93.98% Translated
>Monster Girl Quest 3 - 64116/131806 (48.6%) lines translated, 37% partial patch released
Muv-Luv Altered Fable - 65% partial patch released
Muv-Luv Alternative TDA 00 - Patch out covering Chicken Diver
Nursery Rhyme - 13465/34410 (39.13%) translated
Oreimo PSP - 249/299 scripts translated, 98/299 through TLC+Editing
Oreimo Tsuzuku - Youtube based project, part 23 out
PersonA - 36% translated
Princess Maker 5- ~90%, translation progress stalled while putting together a beta patch
Pure Pure- Fully translated, 77.26% edited

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>Rance 4 - Released
>Rance 4.1 - 5% translated
Rance 5D- 85% complete, awaiting engine tools
Rance 6 - 53% Complete
Real Imouto - 7294/16108 (45.28%) translated
Rose Guns Days 2 - 95% translated
Sayonara wo Oshiete - 3341/14309 (23.3%) lines translated
Shinigami no Kiss wa Wakare no Aji - Fully translated, 1 route of editing and technical problems remain
Shuukaku no Juunigatsu winter - 80% translated, 42% edited, trial version out
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 9- Fully translated and edited
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 10- 13/18 scripts translated
SubaHibi - Down the Rabbit Hole I patch released, 39760/53562 (74.2%) lines translated and 39267/53562 (73.3%) lines edited
>Sukisho! - First Limit - 51% translated
>Supreme Candy - 4343/43261 (10.0%) lines translated
Tenshin Ranman - Prologue patch released, 1037.4/4560 (22.75%) translated
To Heart2- 65% translated- "The final product is still years away unless I get more help. ", new alpha patch released
>Toradora PSP - 73.2% translated
>Toushin Toshi II - 76.6% translated
Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 54% edited, partial patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 19.76%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 57.47%, Motoka 23.08%, Common and Kazuha fully edited
Your Diary- Prologue patch released, common route fully translated, 11/19 scripts translated for Yua's route, 1/10 scrpts translated of Kanade's route

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Official work

MangaGamer
Eroge - Demo out, 9/13 release
Ef: The Latter Tale - "Second Beta complete, waiting on final bug fix and image edits."
Bukkake Ranch: In beta
Touma Kojirou no Tantei File - 100% translated, in Scripting
Chou Dengeki Stryker - In scripting
D2B vs Deardrops - In scripting
Really? Really! - In scripting
Demon Master Chris - Demo released, fully TL, in editing
Milles - 37% translated
Imouto Paradise - 71% translated, 39% edited
Princess Evangile - 27% translated, 24% edited
Ruby Striker - Release ready
Warrior Princess Asuka - Editing complete
Boob Wars 2 - Translation and editing complete
Cartagra - Initial TL going through revision
Kara no Shoujo 2 - picked up
Armored Warrior Iris - 38% translated
Valkyrie Svia - 4% translated
Space Pirate Sara - In Translation
Free Friends - Picked up
Free Friends 2 - Picked up
Da Capo 3 - Picked up both R and R ~X Rated~


JAST
Steins;Gate - Picked up, top priority to release
Hanachirasu - 99% complete
Django - Couple more months of translation
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Seinarukana- Being translated by Aroduc
Starless - In translation
Trample on Schatten- In translation
Romanesque - In translation
Shiny Days - Sekai project to do the TL
Osadai fandisc - In Translation
Raidy III - TL finished, in insertion
Sweet Home - In translation
Sumeragi Ryoko - Picked up

Other
Danganronpa - NISA in early 2014
Liar Soft would like to bring Steampunk titles over
The Night of Kamaitachi - release planned
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread
A tracker for these threads put together by Tinfoil: http://vntls.org/

[Anonymous No.]

Look at that.

Ignored again.

At least it's consistent.

[Anonymous No.]

Fo' shizzle, it's the BEST THREAD OF THE WEEK!

[Anonymous No.]

>I/O - All scripts and 212/256 tips translated. 110/249 scripts edited
So close.
Also any place to get rance 4?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11393958
It's on erogedownload like everything else that gets translated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11393958

Rance general in >>/vg/ or rancetranslation.wordpress.com

[Anonymous No.]

>>11393935
I don't usually read the VN translation thread because I mostly read untranslated nukige but

>Imouto Paradise

HOLY FUCK that'll be fun to read in English.

[Anonymous No.]

Dow is the rance 4 translation? And whats the gameplay like? I didn't play 1-3, do i need too?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11393975
You could read the digests of 1 and 2 that they just translated, it gives you the full plot without the gameplay so the two of them together would only take like an hour.

[Anonymous No.]

>Dracu-Riot - partial patch released, 43233/53707 (80.50%) lines translated, 2 routes + common route fully translated

Say goodbye to Dracu-Riot:

http://staircasesubs.com/2013/09/08/in-pursuit-of-greater-pleasures/

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>>11393990
So i need to play 3 and where are the digests?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11393998
3 is pretty good now that the bugfixed version is out.

Get whatever you want here probably.
http://pastebin.com/iJJWsprT

[Anonymous No.]

>>11393994
Oh no. A meme filled unedited J->C->E troll might be quitting. I'm sure this is both real and a bad thing.

[Anonymous No.]

I wonder how Eroge will do for MG compared to their normal bottom of the barrel nukige

[Anonymous No.]

>Rance 4 is translated

yes fucks yes

[Anonymous No.]

>>11393958
nah man that aint close

you're looking at 1 year + of editing hell

[Anonymous No.]

The best thing about Rance 4 being out, is that we are one game closer to Rance 6.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11394064
And two farther now that they've decided to do 4.1 and 4.2.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11394064
Isn't that the only thing good about Rance 4 being out?

Well, and that someone will finally call Ludo out on all his bullshit over the last year and a half.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11394086
Don't believe their lies.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11394072
But 4.1 and VI are being translated by different people.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11394086
All 3 of them are working on VI.

[Anonymous No.]

Suikogaiden Vol 2 was also translated yesterday.
http://ramsus-kun.webs.com/Suikogaiden/Home.htm
That makes both are completed now. If you're a fan of VNs and the first two/three Suikoden games, they're worth looking into.

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>>11394092
That's only a good thing if you're a helpless addict who'll accept anything for your next hit.

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>>11394099
I never said anything about it good or bad, I'm just refuting >>11394086's implication that 4.1 being translated has no impact on the release of Rance VI.

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>>11394143
But... The person translating 4.1 has never been working on VI.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11394149
Isn't Maria doing 4.1? She openly talked about how she's done work on VI like a week ago.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11394006
What gives you the impression that it's J->C->E?

In his farewell post he writes, "It has been a good run. Going from not being able to understand a word of Japanese in anime to being actively involved in making Japanese media more accessible to West, I feel that I’ve come a long way."

Doesn't that mean he knows Japanese?

Regardless, I couldn't help find it funny that he wrote such a long farewell post, making it seem like he had been at it for years, but then I looked at their project list, and they've only released about 1 VN and a few anime OVAs.

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>>11394201
>What gives you the impression that it's J->C->E?
That he's a J->C->E translator and has openly said so.

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>>11393994

Insem becoming a normalfag? Wow, color me surprised （　´_ゝ`）

[Anonymous No.]

>>11394253
Nothing of value was lost.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11393927
>Pure Pure- Fully translated, 77.26% edited

WHEN, and WHERE!

That novel brings back memories for me.

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>>11393994
>"Whilst work on the game has stalled indefinitely, I will not retire without knowing that the game is in good hands."
Assuming this isn't an emtpy promise, I guess he's passing translation on to someone else. If that's the case, will the new translator just pick up where Insem left off, or retranslate the VN entirely?

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>>11394296
If it's a translator that gives a shit about the quality of the work their name is attached to, they won't use Insem's translation.

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>>11394290
>I am being requested to become a translator for an anime convention, so now I believe is the time to come back and finish this. Supposedly going through 4 courses of Japanese should help, so please post on my page or something where I can get back in touch with you (IRC I guess? It's been such a long ass time shit). My programming skills are a little rusty, but I think I can get back into this and finally finish this project since people have been hounding me to finish it ever since I went to that damn eroge panel and accidentally blurted out that I was the translator FFS. --Furyoftheskies (talk) 21:26, 11 August 2013 (EDT)

Basically it's in editing hell until we get an actual progress update.

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>>11393994
That's pretty disappointing.

What a shitdick sellout bitch. At least finish the fucking project then bow out of the scene.

No class and no character. I can't wait until his hambeast girlfriend gets caught getting spitroasted by Alpha-Phi-Alpha and he runs back to the 2D world cryin' and buttbleedin' out.

Butt it will be too late. RIP you faggot.

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>>11394320

[Anonymous No.]

HEY INSEM PUT THIS SHIT ON YOUR RESUME YOU FAGGOT.

[Anonymous No.]

Is Aroduc working on anything?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11394360
No.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11394360

Seinarakukana for Jast.
Since Yumina just released recently, you can expect it sometime in 2015.

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>>11394360
He's doing Romanesque.

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>>11394335
> No class and no character.

My sides.

[Anonymous No.]

Was there ever a translation project for 炎の孕ませおっぱい乳同級生? (Honoo no Haramase Oppai Nyuu Doukyuusei)

I ask because I couldn't find one, yet there was tools on the TLwiki specifically mentioning the series.
http://tlwiki.org/index.php?title=Tools#EAGLS_SYSTEM

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>>11394571
Nope. There are all kinds of tools listed on there. The games are just games whose engines those tools have been shown to work on; it doesn't mean there's a project for those or ever has been.

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>>11394571
Yes. There were 15.

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>>11394596
Okay, thank you. I'm thinking of playing with that one once I finish my current project. I didn't want to step on anyone's toes.

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>>11393924
>Cross Channel - Final check finished
So where the fuck is the patch?

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>>11394794
you'll get it on the 26th

[Anonymous No.]

http://vntls.org/news/now-recruiting-news-staff/

Anyone Interested???

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>>11395102
I suppose I'm interested in what could come of it, not interested in applying though.

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>>11395102
Kinda, but as non-native speaker I probably couldn't offer too much to the site. And not really sure what kind of news would be appropriate, since actual weekly weekly reports make note of finished, new or dropped projects.

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>No changes for Sumaga
Why is S;G top priority? I need sumaga ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>Ace Attorney Investigations 2 - translation: 90%, editing 65%
Whoah whoah, when did this get added? I remember a couple years ago they said "we'll be done when we are", saying they'd never give a progress update.

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>>11394097

Great news, I wasn't expecting it so early given how long it took to translate vol 1. Does save import from Suikoden 1 and 2 actually matters for this vol or just changes few names like in the first one?

[Anonymous No.]

Are you guys ready for some motherfucking... LOGIC?

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>>11395102
I kinda am but I just can't really see there being that much news in the vn fan translation community.

So basically there would be like 4 types of articles. Project announcements, releases, cancellations, and then of course drama.

Guess there could be brief reviews of gameplay vns to show off how it plays or something?

Maybe interviews with "famous" tlers who can describe the process. But I figure anyone interested in this kind of stuff already knows how it goes. Then again I worked as a QC so maybe thats just me.

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>>11394296
I pray to God that it will be so and we will see Miu route before F/HA is released.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm sure there will be a f/ha update soon, r-right? Or m-maybe it'll be the best christmas present and they'll just give it to us translated and edited and everything out of nowhere!

[Anonymous No.]

http://joat-translation.webs.com/sukisho

Anyone interested in BL???

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>>11395803
I don't particularly like it, but I have to say, some of those character designs are actually kind of cute.

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>>11395803
There is no need to advertise your homoshit here, gaylord.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11395803
BL that's good, sure.

Which your link, suffice to say, is not.

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>>11395805
do your reps and this wont be a problem!

besides you don't want to read that abortion which consists of tls by like ten different people

[Anonymous No.]

Why is nobody translation beat blades haruka, it has been out for ages

and where is Rance Quest?? who cares about rance 1-6, stop translating those

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>>11396112
A lot of people care about those. Also Rance 6 is regarded as one of the best in the series.

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So, how do you guys deal with translating the ero scenes? Like, I could translate them in a more literal sense, but there're only so many ways to say 'dick'.

I don't actually read most of the ero in VNs, so I don't have much of a reference. Do you like it if all the moaning in the Japanese version is carried over into the English? The incessant rambling about how it feels good? I'm going to try to avoid 'her hips moving on their own', but it seems like there're a lot of other pitfalls for the ero....

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>>11396144
just copy what some other game did and insert it word for word

literally no one reads the ero scenes

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>>11396144
Someone gave me the idea to use "meaty phallus" whenever they say 肉棒, but I probably won't end up leaving it like that come time to release it.

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>>11396168

lol, maybe if it was something more from Alicesoft I would.

[Anonymous No.]

so many out there.. it has been a while since I partook in this noble hobby of enticing fictional maidens. Is there any blog or such that reviews the best of them?

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>>11396325

Is probably as close to a review as you'll see here.

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>>11396356
>checking out that list
>feel my backlog exploding
>heart beating faster
>see g-senjou
>S
>5 stars in writing
Jesus Christ, almost had me there

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>>11396356
Got any more of these? I already have a few like this and I love me some charts.

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>>11396394
>S
>5 stars in writing
>Jesus Christ, almost had me there
I thought I was the only one who cringed at this.
I liked Maou but come the fuck on.

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>>11396394
Edgy

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>>11396112
Rance Quest has lots of characters from earlier games, much of stuff would be lost to you without playing the stuff that came before.

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>>11396394
>>11396529

He asked for someone's opinion. I don't guarantee the quality of any of these, just that someone reviewed one of these once and this is apparently what they thought.

Seeing Sharin and G-Senjou rated highly means I personally wouldn't like what this person recommended, but that's their own thing.

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>>11396609
>Edgy

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>>11395803
Not in shitty BL.

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>>11395495
You and me both.

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>>11396618
Yeah. It's like how nobody could play Sengoku Rance because so much was lost.

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>>11396746
Sengoku actually works fairly well as a standalone game

Rance Quest doesn't

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>>11396748
Because of that deep ongoing plot and how important every single character is to it, right?

I mean nobody could understand Kanami or Maria at all in Sengoku, right? Everyone just saw them and went into paroxysms because they didn't know any of the backstory to these deep and involved characters.

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>>11396763
I'm agreeing with you. Sengoku Rance was unplayable if you hadn't played Rance 1-6.

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>>11396758
Are you actually daft, or only pretending to be stupid?

[Anonymous No.]

>want to make jp content avaible for en audiences
>help out typesetting h-manga/doujin
>want to do more
>start working as an editor for a vn translation
>pic related my brain after working for an hour

I thought editing the translation to readable english was a lowtier entry job in the process of translating VNs, holy shit was I wrong. Some sentences are "has anyone ever been more decided as to what look like"-tier.
The translator gets the jist of whats going on and you can understand what's supposed to happen, but if you were to use those lines unedited it would be finest Duwang quality.

Trigger alarm

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>>11396767
Your translator is complete shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11396767
Do your best anon :)

[Anonymous No.]

>I/O - All scripts and 212/256 tips translated. 110/249 scripts edited
So this should be out really soon?
Anybody have a torrent of the revision 2 version of I/0?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11396787
>110/249 scripts edited
>should be out really soon?

not in your dreams

[Anonymous No.]

>>11396767
Translators would get better if they actually bothered read what the corrections their editors made, but sadly they'd rather die than start learning how to write intelligible English.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11396793
Do you know just how fast they are going?

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>>11396799
Maybe there's somewhere that tracks that.

Some kind of tracker that keeps track of status.

Too bad we don't live in a futuristic world with something like that.

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>>11396805
im saying they are going fucking fast, they will be done by next month.

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>>11396810
Oh, so it's "I'm really bad at math" thing.

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>>11396767


You're just dealing with shit-teir translators.

If they cant' speak English, they have no business translating into it.

[Anonymous No.]

Air Beta 2 just released with improved Kano and redone TL for the wonky day of the common route.

http://gaogaotranslation.wordpress.com/

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>>11396837
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I failed you again. My hands are shaking. I'm typoing everywhere.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11396837
and by Kano I meant Misuzu. Nihaha.

Gao Gao has also provided both their patches' progress sheets if you have questions.

Beta patch 1: http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/4432/efnb.png
Beta patch 2: http://imageshack.us/a/img59/6272/r1f.png

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>>11396778
This. I'll never understand why people tolerate awful translators who put all the work on their editors. Might as well just use Google Translate at that point.

Also, I was poking around on the FHA page on TLwiki, do people really prefer the 「」 over " "?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11396961
>do people really prefer the 「」 over " "
Yes. Brackets are cool.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11396961
Sometimes brackets are hardcoded into the engine and can't be easily changed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11396961
It breaks a wall for me when I see quotes since brackets are standard. Brackets I don't even notice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11396961
I do. I can live with either, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11396988
>>11396980
Ah, noted.

Additionally, no wonder the project is stalled on FHA.
>Translate remaining map popup hints (mapmenumanager.tjs?): may need to change a bit of code

That not only sounds boring as fuck, but when I tried to work on it anyway, the translation interface was down. I'm not going to download the entire game for what's probably a 20kb file.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11395587
There's some stuff that's not in those 4 categories, like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK-fkYc9tWA
Unless that counts as "Drama"

[Anonymous No.]

>>11396837
>>11396854
How is the translation overall id it as good as the kanon,one and clannad translation at least? should i wait till this is out of beta? its not machine translated right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11396394
It's a pretty old list and not even half is actually translated. I even counted the ones that will probably finish being translated like Little Busters Ecstasy or Yosuga no Sora. I agree with you that the ratings are nonsense though. For example, Kira Kira gets the same overall score as Ever17?

[Anonymous No.]

Recently, my only deciding factor as to whether or not it was a good week or a bad week is whether Kirby did anything.

[None !!x+mnmrU0sW+ No.]

>>11397681
I did 80 lines of Super Chibi yesterday, if it makes you feel any better. I'm trying to find time to fit some of my otaku shit into my schedule with college and all, but my life is really hectic right now because all of a sudden I'm a normalfag instead of a NEET. And I wasn't even doing much work when I didn't have all this other shit to deal with.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11396112

Rance 6 is better than Quest, anon.

[Anonymous No.]

c'mon pure pure!!!

[Anonymous No.]

>>11394794
Wait for the final final check.

>>11396144
H-scenes are always terrible in non-nukige and a lot of people (including me) skip them. Translation will inevitably make it even worse as H-scene writing doesn't carry over well to English, but I don't think there's many people reading VN H-scenes for the beautiful prose.

>>11396767
I hope your edited VN text doesn't look anything like your post. QC can do a lot, but not THAT much.

Also,
-Greentexting
-Reaction image
-Spoiler used for non-spoiler, SFW image
-Meme from other boards
Not sure what 'trigger alarm' means, but I assume it's also something from other boards.

Please, at least TRY to fit in, anon.

>>11396787
Back in May, Lemnisca asked on their Twitter whether people would be interested in a partial patch for ABCD routes. Not sure whether they're actually planning to release one soon or if they decided against it.

On the one hand, I'm really looking forward to I/O. On the other hand, I'm already reading several great VNs (currently juggling Grisaia and Konosora, have Sharnoth temporarily stalled) and I know I'll stall everything else the moment any I/O patch is released.

As for the torrent, any PC version is 'revision II' (that's just the name of the PC version). It's on the FTP, I can't help you with a torrent though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11397610
>For example, Kira Kira gets the same overall score as Ever17?
Now, I'm not defending the list, nor saying Kira Kira is better than Ever17 (I disagree), but it must be noted that apparently Kira Kira has great writing in Japanese. They're both pretty badly translated, but if they were well-translated there would be a noticeable difference in writing quality. EGS puts them pretty close together, with Ever17 rated 92/89 and Kira Kira rated 85/84.

>>11397205
Don't worry, if you can't tell the difference in quality of the Kanon and One translations and the Clannad translation, you won't notice anything regardless of quality.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11398472
That's not very close for egs. Only a handful of games get above 90 (not counting ones with few votes) whereas mid-80's is a lot more common.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11398442
>I don't think there's many people reading VN H-scenes for the beautiful prose.

And that's the problem. You didn't think.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11398087
>Rance 6 is better than Quest, anon.

Have never played it, perhaps the game mechanics are good(?) but the graphics seem so bad that I would not play it as H-game

maybe my taste is bad, but H-games that seem to have decent graphics have been sengoku rance and big bang age (perhaps daiteikoku, but the gameplay there was too awful).

beat blade haruka also looks good so can't understand why it is not translated

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Why is Cross Channel getting a new translation?

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>>11399633
It's first Ixrec project and apparently it's very difficult to translate. Even he was considering retranslation.

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>>11399742
His first was Moon

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>>11399756
You can't call that a translation.

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>>11399527
Pretty pictures have nothing to do with whether a game is translated or not. If it did, there wouldn't be so many Sei Shoujo games left in moon runes.

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>>11400579
I'm an independent translator and I only work on games that have good art. Why bother putting in effort on something that isn't going to be arousing in the end anyway?

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>>11400809

what if it has a stand-alone good story that's well written with interesting characters and moral dilemmas that cause the characters to learn and grow and develop in a highly entertaining way?

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I heard a Dracuriot's partial patch is out, and that the main translator will probably won't translate the rest, is it true?

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>>11400851
I translate nukige only. Not literature. Sorry.

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>>11400852
I heard there are people who post in a 130-replies thread without actually reading the thread or even skimming the thread, is it true?

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>>11400809

Seconded. although the definition of 'pretty' varies wildly between translators.

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Speaking of crappy translations, anybody interested in being translator for Hatsuyuki Sakura? The current translator hasn't done anything since May, and what he has done is so awkward and error-filled that I'm having to re-translate half of it.

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>>11401147

Ouch.

Sorry man, gotta finish my stuff first. It'll only take 1.5 years at the current rate.....

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>>11401147
why even bother tling shit for eops?

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>>11400852
>>11401041
It's true.

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>>11394204
So basically me a year and a half ago.

Not like he cut me any slack back then. Oh well, what's done is done.

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>>11394253
So basically me a year and a half ago.

Not like he cut me any slack back then. Oh well, what's done is done.

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>>11401147
Hm, I get the feeling there's something wrong with the translation (accuracy-wise), but I'm not fluent enough to be able to tell what exactly is wrong with it. ('It is strange' and 'I want to meet you right now' don't look right, but I can't tell what the text does say.)

But one thing is clear even to me: this guy leaves all connotations out of his translation; the stuff the editor has to make clear is left out entirely, making it impossible for the editor to do a decent job on that. '今日は寒いね。' is not a statement 'Today is cold.'. It has that meaning, but it's more like 'It's cold today, huh?'. It's up to the editor to write that in a way that doesn't sound as retarded as when I write it, but if the translator translates it as 'Today is cold' the editor has nothing to work with.

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>>11401300

Please stop.

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>>11401305
Are you ok buddy?

You gonna make it?

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>>11401308
none of us are gonna make it at this rate

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>phantom of inferno partial patch
Download where?

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>>11401147
It seems that translator-kun doesn't understand the first sentence is making a reference to mass hypnosis, so his translation doesn't reflect that connotation at all.

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>>11401337
Or maybe it's mass hysteria.

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>>11401337
mass suggestion

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>>11401320
Never heard of this, unless you mean the Russian patch.

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>>11401195
Know anybody who's free at the moment?

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>>11401565
Insemination.

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>>11401604
Meanie.

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>>11401565
I'm on it bro. Just let me finish translating White Album 2 and Muramasa first.

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>>11401643
Godspeed.

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>>11401504
Thanks.

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>>11401565

No, but let me if I can offer some advice about your current situation:

Some basic assumptions:
1) You can still talk to your translator. Nothing's going to get better if you can't talk to him.her
2) They're willing to listen to feedback. And by feedback I means that they're willing to work with you to better improve themselves (and vice versa), not dictation of what they should be doing 'because you said so'.
3) They fluently speak English, and not as the ESL type. If they aren't fluent in the language they're translating into, then they have no business translating.

So, those withstanding,:
1) Are they well rested and not translating at odd hours? From experience translation quality severely declines the closer one is to falling asleep. There is a notable difference between things translated at say, 7 PM versus midnight. If your translator, like me, is translating after they get home from work, make sure they're not translating -so- late that it's impairing their quality.

2) How fast are they translating? Lines/day? Translating takes time, a lot more time than people give it credit for. Unless they are a wizard (which they are not given what was posted earlier), they're going to need a lot of time to translate something correctly. For example, I get through 60 lines/day on average, with a standard deviation of 20 lines. If they're trying to do significantly more than this, it's very possible they're rushing and thus mistranslating.

Translation is a long, thankless process. If they're not doing this for themselves, they're setting things up to go poorly. They need to be ready to commit 2-4 YEARS for translating, working every day for hours on end. But, if you can work through some of the things I mentioned here you're more likely to see some success with your project.

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>>11402130
What's wrong with her hand?

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>>11401147
>The time of class is also approaching it's end.

Wow...

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I/0
123/249 (49.4%)
Almost 50% edited. i really cant wait. I miss reading a vn with a plot. It reminds me some of the better times when i could actually read a whole vn for hours and not close it every 5 minutes. Sadly the most recent vns translated kinda fucking sucked, i couldn't finish little busters,rewrite, or Grisaia. Im still waiting on steins gate, where the fuck is it jast?

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>>11402130
I lucked out and found somebody who was interesting in translating the game. They even have experience as a translator on a completed project. Fortune smiles.

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>>11404364
> i couldn't finish little busters,rewrite, or Grisaia.
Must be hard to be EOP with shit taste, eh?

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>>11405097
enjoy your moe garbage

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>>11405097
To be fair, LB and Rewrite were shit.

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>>11405097
>wasting your time learning a language that's gonna be dead in 20 years
Yeah okay faggot.

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>>11405555
>Wasting your time shitposting about a faggot that's gonna be dead in 20 years

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>>11405097
>>11405555
>>11405564
>Wasting your time replying to a post that's gonna be dead in 20 years

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Any thoughts thoughts on JAST no longer printing hardcopies for mangagamer?

Their own hard copies setup isn't going to be done until the end of the month and rightstuf has just pulled mangagamer stuff because they no longer have any product to sell. I imagine in two weeks, other retailers probably will too.

Course' this could also means that if other retailers temporarily don't have any of their games for sale and mangagamer does get it's hard copies sales up, more people would be buying directly through them.

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>>11402130
>For example, I get through 60 lines/day on average, with a standard deviation of 20 lines.

Damn. I try to do that much in an hour. Although I work on nukige, and really simple nukige at that.

>>11406380
If I wanted a hard copy of nukige I'd order it from Japan. If I want to buy a translated nukige I just want it as cheap as possible, it's not like I'm going to collect it and put it on my otaku shelf or anything.

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>>11406410

Unfortunately, I only get 3-4 hours to work on a given day at best. Also, English is my language of fluency, so I have to spend a good deal of time making sense to the sentence and then blending it into the overall story. For example (msg tags removed due to character limits):

;//私もね？　今まで、いいなぁって思った男の人、全然いなかったわけじゃないの
I've also known a few men that I found to be really attractive.

;//だけど、それだけ……。好きになったりお付き合いしたいって思ったことないのね
But, that's all it was.... I was more interested in the idea of dating someone than actually building a relationship with them.

;//そう、先生の頭の中には、ずっとずっと、あの男がいた。そこだけ、俺と違うところだ。
I can only imagine she's referring to her old Sensei.

;//俺は漠然と誰かと付き合いたいって思ったことはあっても、先生ほど真剣に誰かを好きになったことってないと思う……。
That obsessive, yet passive, feeling of chasing someone, wanting someone... is completely different from what a real relationship feels like.

;//俺、今だから白状しますけど、先生を追いかけようって思った切っ掛けが……
To be honest.... there is something that I should tell you....

;//例の郁哉との恋人勝負のことを話した。そして、花恋の手助け……色々なアイテムを使ったことも。
This girlfriend challenge, using Karen's items.....

;//先生を好きになった切っ掛けがあまりにいい加減で……自分でも情けない。というより――。
Although it was no longer the case, I had been blindly chasing Sensei in the manner we just described.

;//ごめんなさい。こんないい加減な動機だったんですよ
Or rather, I owe you an apology: That way of thinking was my initial motive for starting all of this.

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>>11406410

But, that said, if you can handle stuff like that and at a good pace, the VN community would love to have you.

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>>11406728

Wow, that is atrocious.

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>>11406728
You need to stop.

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>>11406729
Eh, I've already been dropped from a group because I'm very inconsistent. Sometimes I'm free for weeks, sometimes I'm busy for weeks. But you're pretty good. I like your prose.

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>>11406728
You're not writing Engrish but you need to brush up on reading comprehension.

;//そう、先生の頭の中には、ずっとずっと、あの男がいた。そこだけ、俺と違うところだ。
I can only imagine she's referring to her old Sensei.
>She has always been in love with that man. That was the only part about her that was different from me.


;//俺は漠然と誰かと付き合いたいって思ったことはあっても、先生ほど真剣に誰かを好きになったことってないと思う……。
That obsessive, yet passive, feeling of chasing someone, wanting someone... is completely different from what a real relationship feels like.
>I had entertained the idea of going out with someone else before, but I had never thought about seriously loving someone else like my teacher.

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>>11407014

> English is my language of fluency
I generally get lost when they start ことing about everything and have to bs from there.

There's also some context missing in what I posted; I opted for the 'obsessive' line because MC had already said the actual translation slightly before the text I posted. From a reader's perspective, reading nearly the exact same text over and over is pretty boring, and it wasn't written in a style of reoccurring emphasis.

That said, my translation is a bit rough, and could use work in places, especially like these. Thanks for the tip~.

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>>11407077
>recurring emphasis
I know right, it's annoying. I feel like rewriting the lines sometimes myself, occasionally I did.

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>>11407077
>I generally get lost when they start ことing about everything and have to bs from there.

Maybe you fucking suck at japanese and should study a bit more.

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>>11407091

It can be. I understand that it's an aspect of Japanese minimalism; the revisiting of phrases and ideas as the persons involved come to understand them.

It doesn't translate over very well because it's a cultural thing. Unfortunately the translators who don't understand that tend to write repetitive lines that completely miss the point, and thus ruin the whole thing.

So, don't feel too obliged to keep the literal version, especially in cases where a literal translation destroys the meaning.

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>>11407077
maybe you shouldnt translate japanese if you dont actually know japanese

not that I give a shit eops can have your terrible fucking abortion of a tl all they want

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>>11407077
Not trying to mean, but when you essentially have to make up stuff because you can't grasp the meaning of the Japanese, shouldn't that be a sign to hit the books and work on your language skills, rather than trying to translate at all?

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How much knowledge of Japanese is required to become an editor?

I don't know much Japanese, but I really am an excellent editor.

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>>11407240
you should be mean. that dude is fucking retarded

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>>11407258
You sound extremely confused.

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>>11407240
B-but studying won't increase my e-peen!

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>>11407258
>>11407258
None if your translator writes in intelligible English. If your translator has really been far even as decided to look more like, then you'll need to know basic Japanese grammar.

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>>11407268
...I should probably go to sleep.

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>>11407258

the more the better.

Ideally, you'd want know the language better than the TL who did it such that you could keep as many of the quirks and styles of the original writer as you go through and translate it yourself with those exceptional editorial skills working at the same time.

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>>11407284
What's the point of a translator if he can't translate basic Japanese grammar into readable, intelligible English to the point in which the editor has to do it for you?

Basically, no if you actually have to look at the JAPANESE to figure out what the translator is trying to express in ENGLISH then it isn't worth it to work with him for another second.

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>>11407292
Wouldn't you be the translator then?

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>>11407304
I know what you mean but reality hurts.
There are even native English speakers who write gibberish when they start translating.
We get what we get.

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>>11407258
Editors don't really need to know much about Japanese at all, the translator should answer all those questions. Editors need to be really good at English, to make sentences flow better and fix grammar issues.

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The more you people argue, the more I'm convinced that I could be a translator, and I can't even watch anime without subs. Just let me get out my dictionary tools and I'm good to go.

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>>11407316
Until you start writing gibberish like everyone else.

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>>11407316

have fun learning the nuances of stroke order in the IME kanji finder.

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>>11407320
It'll read just fine. My command of the English language is impeccable.

If you know enough Japanese to figure out that the translation is secretly garbage then you shouldn't have been reading my translation anyway. QED.

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All this talk of editors makes me curious; where does one find projects to edit? Is there some sort f secret club that introduces editors/translators to the fine, but secret art of translating/editing VNs?

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>>11407328
That's a brilliant idea.

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>>11407316
Go for it man, that's what I'm doing. With online tools it's pretty easy to translate if you understand Japanese grammar.

>>11407331
>Is there some sort f secret club that introduces editors/translators to the fine, but secret art of translating/editing VNs?
Sometimes I wonder this too. Even just translating in general. There's no general guides to translation that I can find on the internet.

>>11407333
Why not just get a text extractor and copy paste into jisho.org?

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>>11407331
If you aren't buddies with people who manage projects/translators who could draft you when a project is created you typically check various translation projects until you find one that says LOOKING FOR EDITORS APPLY HERE, then you apply and wait for the translator's reply

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>I know a bit of Japanese I guess I should translate something. My English sucks though
Jesus fucking Christ, these people.

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>>11406380
>Any thoughts thoughts on JAST no longer printing hardcopies for mangagamer?
MangaGamer let itself become financially dependent on a competitor that has a history of suddenly releasing better products to outcompete any competitors that happen to pop up, and which is the only other major company in the market. Now JAST pulls the rug from under MangaGamer's feet, what a surprise. I totally did not see this coming, not at all.

I warned them about this like two years ago when they first started cooperating with JAST. But I don't really care about MangaGamer anymore anyways, so what will happen will happen. Let's hope MoeNovel starts improving like 2008/2009 MangaGamer, otherwise we'll never see JAST releases anymore.

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Anyone ever going to translate Alice to Eternal and/or Wrigglui?

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>>11408396

Theoretically they could be fine if they can get their own hardcopy printing up in a timely manner. They're certainly doing well when it comes to exposure

ex: Observe the number of JAST releases that ignorant people attribute to mangagamer, because mangagamer actually releases games.

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>>11393994
A follow-up, something useful for a change
http://staircasesubs.com/2013/09/09/dracu-riot-partial-patch/

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>>11409209
Old news...

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>>11407331

>but secret art of translating/editing VNs?

Basically, you become familiar enough with Japanese culture and general language that you can mostly understand the text with the help of a dictionary.

Then you occasionally post some snippets online, hope someone can review them for you, and go from there.

A perfect translator is one fluent in both languages, but you can get away with being mediocre in the original language and fluent in the translated one. As long as you can make it sound good in the end language most readers won't care. It's not like they actually understand the source anyways.

Importantly, you have to be willing to put in the time to smooth your translation so the glitches aren't apparent to a non-native speaker.

Just remember, if you're doing this for anyone other than yourself, don't bother.

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Can anyone give me advice on extracting and reinserting text?

Normally I would just start translating and then ask around for someone willing to hack the game. However, the game I'm planning to work on is a shitty nukige, and I'd rather not waste someone's time on something so trivial.

The game is Harama Santa no Nakadashi Merry Christmas!! (http://vndb.org/v5766).). And the game data is packed in a file named data.xp3.

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>>11409654

http://tlwiki.org/index.php?title=Tools#KiriKiri2.2FKAG3

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>>11409654

http://tlwiki.org/images/6/6d/KiriKiri_Official_Tools_English_Translation.zip

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>>11409666
If he doesn't know enough japanese to use the untranslated tools, he shouldn't be translating.

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>>11411144
If you don't know how to hook up with girls, have sex and procreate you shouldn't be breathing.

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>>11409665
>>11409666
Thanks for the help.

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>>11409666
>>11409665
I found those tools really didn't help me very much. I found better tools by googling. If you wait something like 36 hours or so I can post them, but I'm away from my main computer right now.

I remember they were called something like ExtractData and xp3tools. And there was a third one for decrypting encrypted xp3 files.

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>>11413669
You're quite the idiot.

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>Lemnisca Trans ‏@lemnis_ca 2h
>Due to a miscount, translation ended 3 TIPs sooner than expected. I/O is 100% TL'd: Story, Images, TIPs, Timeline, Videos. -BW
Patch (even if partial) when?

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>>11415646
After editing, second translation, second editing, patch creation, patch editing, and final check.

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>>11415646
Time for JAST to announce they've picked up I/O.

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>>11415711
What makes you think we care?

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I wonder if there's anyway MoeNovel would hire me as an editor? They clearly need one.

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>>11413669
Yeah it's ExtractData, xp3tools, and Crass GUI. The latter for encrypted data files.