/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status


12Riven- 38.5/72 scripts translated, 3/75 scripts edited
Ace Attorney Investigations 2 - translation: 100%, editing 75%, case 1, 2, and 3 released
Air (Project 1)- Released 2nd Beta patch and 70% edited
Amaenbo - Being translated
Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "475/1966 original edition scenario scripts translated (24.1%)"
Anniversary no Kuni no Alice - 49% translated, 27% edited
Aoiro Rinne - "Translation progress: roughly 53% (588 KB of 1.12 MB)"
Cannonball - 33313/36902 (90.27%) lines translated
Chichi Miko - Fully translated, 25% edited
Chichi Miko Plus 1 - Fully translated and edited
>Clover Day - 284/1296 KB of the common route translated
>Cocoro Function - 13109/53644 (24.44%) lines translated
>Comyu - 42742/51433 (83.1%) lines translated, Second partial patch out
Fate/Hollow Ataraxia- 100% translated, script 74.6% validated, third partial patch out
Flyable Heart- 14.61% 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.
Galzoo Island - Being translated
Grisaia no Meikyuu - 208/2797 (7.44%) KB translated, 140/2797 (5.00%) edited
Haruka Na Sora - Sora 11.29% translated, Kozue 23.73% translated
Hatsuyuki Sakura - 19.4% (7525/38793) lines translated
>Kichikuou Rance - 61.2% translated and edited
Killer Queen: 55/72 scripts translated and 20/72 scripts edited, plans also include translating Secret Game and Rebellion

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

>Koi iro Chu Lips - partial patch out, 85.32% translated
Koichoco- 390/397 files translated, 208/397 files edited, Common/Chisato/Satsuki/Michiru routes fully translated, Common + Chisato patch released
Koiken Otome - 69.70% translated, 30.46% edited, prologue patch released
>Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort - 4895/36312 (13.48%) lines translated
Kourin no Machi - 18361/36959 (49.6%) lines translated
Kud Wafter - 11415/33132 (34.45%) lines translated
Kurukuru Fanatic - 53.7% translated
Lamune - Common route fully translated, Nanami's route 3714 / 4771 lines translated
Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content, now a joint project with Doki. Sasami/Kanata routes fully translated
Mahoutsukai no Yoru - Fully translated, in TLC
Muv-Luv Altered Fable - 65% partial patch released
Muv-Luv TDA00 - 33% partial patch released
>Muv-Luv TDA01 - released
>Oreimo PSP - 285/299 scripts translated, 158/299 through TLC+Editing, 155/299 scripts finalized, Kirino + Ayase partial patch released
Oreimo Tsuzuku - Youtube based project, Kirino part 26, Ayase part 23
PersonA - 36% translated
Princess Maker 5- 91.4% translated, 37.1% finalized
Pure Pure- Fully translated, 77.26% edited, 64.60% ready for testing

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

>Rance Quest - 5.30% messages and 26.75% strings translated
Rose Guns Days 3 - 60% translated and edited
Sayonara wo Oshiete - 3341/14309 (23.3%) lines translated
>Seitenkan - 83.7% translated, 2 scenes and the omake remain, 3nd partial patch released
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 9- Fully translated and edited
Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 10- 17/18 scripts translated
SubaHibi - Down the Rabbit Hole I patch released, 46141/53562 (86.1%) lines translated and 40597/53562 (75.8%) lines edited
>Sukisho! - First Limit - 70.31% translated
Supreme Candy - ~13600/43261 (~31.4%) lines translated
>Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen - 6431/19648 = 32.73% lines translated
Tenshin Ranman - Prologue patch released, 1829.2/4560 (40.1%) translated
To Heart2- 67% translated- "The final product is still years away unless I get more help. ", new alpha patch released
Walkure Romanze - 4,268/8037 lines of the prologue translated
Witch's Garden - 1824/67202 (2.71%) lines translated
>White Album 2 - Opening chapter fully translated with a "rough patch", Closing Chapter: 2221/35275 (6.29%) lines translated
Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated and edited, 54% QC, partial patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 59.21%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 73.62%, Motoka 29.63%, 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

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

Official work

MangaGamer
Really? Really! - finalizing beta testing, Demo version complete
D2B vs Deardrops - In scripting
Imouto Paradise - In Beta
Princess Evangile - Fully translated and edited, in scripting
Cartagra - editing complete, in scripting
>Kara no Shoujo 2 - 1% translated
Armored Warrior Iris - In Beta
>Space Pirate Sara - Fully translated, 53% edited
Free Friends - Fully translated and edited
Free Friends 2 - 16% translated, 16% edited
Bokuten - 13% translated, 10% edited
>Da Capo 3 - Prologue fully translated, Chapter 0: 55% translated, 14.1% translated overall
Higurashi (retranslation) - 6% of Watanagashi TL, 74% of Onikakushi edited
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed


JAST
Hanachirasu - 99% complete, next from Jast
Django - Couple more months of translation
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Seinarukana- Mostly translated
Starless - In translation
Trample on Schatten- In translation
Romanesque - In translation
Shiny Days - Translation finished
Osadai fandisc - Fully translated, 94.48% edited
Raidy III - TL finished, in insertion
Sweet Home - In translation
Sumeragi Ryoko - Picked up

Other
Danganronpa 2 - Picked up
Moenovel is working on another title
Liar Soft would like to bring Steampunk titles over
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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.]

first

[Anonymous No.]

Should also point out there there is currently no longer a Rance 5D or a Rance VI translation project

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ecchi-mery-and-the-perils-of-the-cosmic-shrine#home

Thought this should at least mentioned here once.

[Anonymous No.]

I had a dream that you removed all the dead and machine translated projects and so this was only two posts long.

And then you took the time to actually update everything.

But obviously none of that is ever going to happen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092484
Oh? Did Ludo finally admit that he never did jack shit and doesn't know Japanese? Is the Rance thread still sucking him off regardless?

[Anonymous No.]

I heard the tda translation was cudder tier. can anyone confirm?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092528
It got confirmed it was trash pretty on, fuwanovel user machine translated. Don't know if it's changed since though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092528
it's a machine translation

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092485
>Cipangu

It looks like a super generic RPGmaker game, and it probably is

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092473
>I just finished Alternative after putting it off for 2 years

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092528
>>>/m/10763895
Yeah, it's complete trash, doesn't seem like English is his first language either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092528
It's bad, but it's readable. It just needs some heavy editing.

I feel that I can read any trash after reading through WA2 IC though. I am a changed man.

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>>12092550
It has voice acting and a Chrono Trigger battle system, that's all I know.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092491
I had a dream you stopped spreading FUD every week.

And then you took the time to learn how to enjoy things.

But obviously none of that is ever going to happen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092631
Yeah, who doesn't enjoy reading broken English and the complete wrong things in a translation. What a loser that guy is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092636
So VNTS should personally quality check every project before posting updates? Why not just post everything that gets an update and let the community be the judge?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092700
And when the community has pointed out that it's utter garbage, completely ignore them.

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>>12092708
So which of us has the rights to speak for the whole community?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092545
I was really thinking they would have given up by now instead of still pooping everywhere.

I almost feel responsible.

[Anonymous No.]

>Space Pirate Sara - Fully translated, 53% edited
Nice
>Starless - In translation
I'll probably have time to start and finish another two year vn reading hiatus before this is released.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092562
can you post some screenshots with backlog?

[Anonymous No.]

I've only always seen people say that the translation of X is bad.

I've never seen anyone say that the translation of Y is good.

To me it seems you just aren't happy with anything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092971
If nobody talks about how bad the translation is, it's either good or a vn nobody cares about.

[Anonymous No.]

when will we get a real muvluv anime.

[Anonymous No.]

http://forums.fuwanovel.org/index.php?/topic/4603-muv-luv-alternative-chronicles-02-patch/
>fuwanovel
>dolan

can it get any worse?

[Anonymous No.]

Muv Luv, flavour of the year never to be fully translated.

[Anonymous No.]

for lazy anons, ML pack
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=torrentinfo&tid=382824&showfiles=1

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>>12093059
Judging by his post and vndb history he's a blatant EOP
>friend and I translated
Okay

[Anonymous No.]

>>12093059
It's almost as if the worst people like Muv Luv.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12093199
Nah, that would be Maijkoi.

[Anonymous No.]

Ded thread.
Ded board.
Ded scene.
Weekly reminder.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12093577
You should post Moogy's twitter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12093577
Size 6 text.

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>>12093602
He writes too much. I was too lazy to make 2 screens and glue them together this time. Be glad I took out the retweet.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12093591
Moogy was never a translator

[Anonymous No.]

>Moenovel is working on another title

Shit, how many games they're going to castrate?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12093031
Probably see a Schwartzmarken anime to advertise the coming VN again end of this year or some time.

>>12093059
>Thinks Rewrite is one of the best translated VNs there is.
People liked that trash?


KimiNozo translation when?

[Anonymous No.]

<Sheeta> You don’t need to know Japanese to edit
<Sheeta> in fact, knowing Japanese can sometimes be a hinderence

[Anonymous No.]

Just do your reps everyone! After you start reading in jap you'll never go back. It's just not as interesting.

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>>12094063
You know one thing I've always wondered, is the TE VN just an adaptation of the anime or is is completely different?

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>>12094255
Neither. Do some research.

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>>12094281
If i knew jap i would. Just tell me if they are the same shit or not.

[Anonymous No.]

I would like to request the translation of a very weird horror RPG game in a lot of senses.

It's title is "The Abaddon Princess Sleeping in the Rotten World" (腐界に眠る王女のアバドーン) by the company Sakuraprin (さくらぷりん), done with RPGMaker XP.
http://vndb.org/v13066

It features a retro layout reminiscent of the NES classic "Sweet Home" with PC-98 era CGs (which can optionally be seen as regular CGs). It's a small and short game with a very contorted plot.

What may put off potential translators is that it features lots of yuri and yaoi (which can be turned off, by the way), gore and NTR thrown in all directions. The CG pack can be seen at sad panda and the whole game (which weighs around 300 MB) can be downloaded at sukebe nyaa.

Would any of you be interested in translating such project?

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>>12094402
I'll get right on it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12094407
...wow!! really?? It would be very appreaciated by a lot of people, I believe.

Thank you very much for showing interest.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12092492
Before retiring he actually did a stream to prove he did shit.
And he also has a website that's essentially a translated version of the japanese Rance wiki.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12094425
I guess that answers his second question.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12094402
>>12094407
>>12094415

Don't toy with our emotions, anon ;_;

I would in fact want to see that game translated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12094106
Assuming you have someone competent counter-edit you that does know Japanese I agree with her. There's nothing wrong with one person solely focused on parsing the text into attractive English without being tethered to the original text, as long as someone else comes back to make sure it didn't stray too far afterwards.

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>>12094402
Dude the game JUST came out. Not even AAA high profile eroge get day one translation projects (or week one...or month one...) let alone a doujin RPGMaker game. And no one's ever translated an eroge because someone else asked them to, unless you count Ixrec being pussywhipped by Sheeta.

I'm telling you these things because you seem to be new to all this and it's better for you to learn the harsh realities upfront so you can start doing your reps.

[None !!x+mnmrU0sW+ No.]

>>12094471
Why not just get a translator with an enormous English vocabulary and beautiful prose writing skills?

Like the Subahibi translator, for instance.

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>>12094625
But Moogy only translated a few lines.

[None !!x+mnmrU0sW+ No.]

>>12094630
But weren't those 77 lines really amazing?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12094655
They were beautiful. Scaji should have just hired Moogy to write Sakura no Uta for him.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12094625
Yeah, too bad about his editor, though.

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>>12094106
>hinderence
Oh, the irony.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12095034
You dont knead to no english to edit
in fact noing english can sometimes be a hinderince

[Anonymous No.]

>>12094402
>yuri
Fine.
>yaoi
OK.
>gore
Sure.
>NTR
Sorry.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12095108

Why are you nerds such babies about NTR?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12095126
They are just new.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12095126
Because Kuroneko > Kirino

[Anonymous No.]

>>12095203
Kuroneko > Ayase >>> Kanako > Kirino >>> Saori > Sena = Horse shit >>>>>> Manami

Also, http://exhentai.org/g/620126/ce6aaaf214/ is the best OreImo doujin.

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>>12095316
At least you got Manami right I guess.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12095341
butthurt kirino fan detected

[Anonymous No.]

>>12095362
Why would I be butthurt?
She won.

[Mangagamer Dev No.]

Buy the games

[Mangagamer Dev No.]

http://www.doddlercon.com/video.php?f=1040.flv
nice video

[Anonymous No.]

>>12095373
>She won.
Exactly. That means you got NTR'ed by some shitty, generic protagonist.
YOU lost.
Meanwhile, I was gleaming with joy when he rejected Ayase. And when Kuroneko dumped him? Oh my, that was the happiest day of my life!

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>>12095316
But KanaKana was literally the best girl unless you're an anime only fag where she got no development.

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>>>/a/
Seems like a few of you are lost

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>>12096347
Nope. /jp/ is the place to discuss about LNs.
If you don't like it, filter out this thread.

[Anonymous No.]

What's the one with the chubby chicks with HUGE boobs called?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12096858
>light novels without an animated adaptation

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>>12096892
That doesn't mean that once a LN series is adapted it all becomes off-topic. It means that we can only discuss books or parts from the LNs that haven't been adapted.

[Anonymous No.]

Does the Muv-Luv patch include the Beta scene?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12096955
Only the leaked BETA patch does

[Anonymous No.]

>>12096858
This doesn't look like an LN thread to me.

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php/429812-Ikusa-Megami-Zero-english-and-interface-patch

Is it worth trying???

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>>12098396
Its MTL mixed with trolling.
You will get better results with plain TA+Atlas.

[Anonymous No.]

Bizarrely, Fruitbat Factory got Eiyuu Senki

http://fruitbatfactory.com/eiyuusenki/

[Anonymous No.]

>>12098476
Whoa, their biggest game to date. Wondered how that happened since their other games were small indie games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12098476
Aren't they all-ages company? I hope they don't go MoeNovel on it.

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>>12098476
Warmly waiting for PS3-to-PC backport of English translation, both me and my PS3 with CFW just in case.

>>12098499
It's a PS3 version, it has been moenovel'd from the start.

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>>12098510
>>12098499
Yeah, I don't mind a company deciding to localize the all ages version.

I don't have a PS3 though, I hope they localize the Vita version eventually.

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>>12098476
>Eiyuu Senki without H-Scenes
At least if the Ps3 version had better/improved graphics... How disappointing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12098476
Compared to their previous releases...that's a pretty big jump.

At least we finally get the damn game though, I'm not too picky at this point.

[Anonymous No.]

ToHeart2 seems to be forever fugged.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12098476
How the hell did they manage to license something as big as Eiyuu Senki? And what price are used PS3s going for nowadays?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12098806
40/70$

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>>12098510
Are you fucking kidding me..

[Anonymous No.]

Why is Air not updated? A complete patch is already done... is this some sort of epic new elitism?

[Anonymous No.]

>Osadai fandisc - Fully translated, 94.48% edited

This is a dream, life can't be this good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12099696
it better have alien loli pussy

i got blue balled so hard man

[Anonymous No.]

>>12099113
There are two separate Air projects.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12099101
sure

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>>12098806
Is Eiyuu Senki big? I thought it was mid-tier for eroge and I imagine lower for a PS3 game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12099113
Why can't you go after Haruka in Air?

[Anonymous No.]

Is World end Economica actually any good? Forgot which site it was that does VN rankings every year so I can't find out, but since it's the S&W author it looks like he's doing his usual bullshit of confusing the reader with economics to make up for the shit writing.

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>>12101233
The economics in S&W are extremely simple, but okay.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12101363
They were incredibly simple in S&W as well, but he used it to waste time instead of actually developing the plot.

[Anonymous No.]

Is Cudder still alive?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12101550
God save us if he is.

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>>12101550
The latest Mangagamer nukige hasn't been hacked for too long or what?
If her MTL Intl. Enterprise Solutions Co., Ltd. hasn't been sanctioned to death, she should be alive (but not necessarily active) as well.
The spiritual successor has effectively rendered her obsolete though, except that Fuwanovel can't really into hacking.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12098600
Yeah, this. Only good part aside from the porn was Nyaruko-chan.

[Anonymous No.]

With Eiyuu Senki being picked up by Fruitbat Factory, it seems that 5pb is now on board with Western releases beyond Steins;Gate, which could put Oretsuba back into play with MangaGamer, or allow other of their versions of titles to get brought over for PS3 and/or Steam releases

[Anonymous No.]

>Fate/Hollow Ataraxia- 100% translated, script 74.6% validated, third partial patch out
>.5% more translated and .2% more validated than in January
Why the fuck is VNTLing so fucking dead
Why the fuck are the vast majority of vntl groups absolute shit at getting things done

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>>12101664
He has plenty of devoted followers, like recent er0gamr guy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12102197
That is assuming that:
a) 5pb trusts MangaGamer with their titles; and
b) That MangaGamer wants to release Oretsuba (while they could just release cheap nukige that sell better instead)

[Anonymous No.]

>>12102847
mangagamer's the biggest licensor atm, though

[Anonymous No.]

>>12102240
It's a cakewalk to translate an anime episode or a manga chapter (I'm not talking about timing, typesetting, and so forth), but to translate an entire medium-length visual novel is nothing to sneer at.
Unlike anime or manga, visual novels require their translators to not only have a vast understanding of both L1 and L2, but also to be able to construct literary and stylized sentences in L2.
It's not a hodgepodge of utterances, screams, short thoughts and pieces of banal narrative — it's prose proper (however low may its quality be) and has to be approached as such.
Now let's assume an average visual novel to be 40k-line long (though Clannad reaches 100k and 仏蘭西少女 is almost 150k). That gives us 830 A4 sheets without any spaces between lines (38 lines a page). Converted to a novel format it could easily reach about 1200 pages. That's a whole damn lot.
People who translate vns lack any sort of background knowledge enabling them to tackle the task effectively. They either have insufficient skills or their motivation is short-lived.

Translating a vn is a very long process that requires a number of people to devote a significant chunk of their time each day, week, month. After several weeks they might just burn out and either start plodding very slowly or drop their project entirely.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12103180
You clearly know your shit instead of spouting whatever thing first comes to mind. What are you doing in this thread? Not like anybody here actually wants to learn anything about reality.

[Anonymous No.]

Also, just for comparison sake — average Azimov novel size in his Foundation cycle is 400kb-700kb, and thats in fb2 format, including tons of internal stuff.
Pure size of VN scripts, with nametags and other misc stuff cleaned out:
Rewrite: 5.5 mb
Genrin no Kishougun 1 and 2: 4.4 mb
MLA: 3.8 mb
Cocoro@Function: 3.9 mb

Average VN is same size as whole Foundation series together. And it took years to translate each of Foundation books for professional translator, who actually graduated as translator and had some writing background.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12102240
They had one guy who was editing the translation for fucking ages, and he seems to priorities life over it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12103839
There's no way I will believe that your average VN has as many words as the Foundation series. Or even half as many.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12103882
do the math yourself then

[Anonymous No.]

>>12103804
I translate for a living myself and know exactly how arduous can translating novels get. I'm not defending picking up a project and dropping it a month later, but it's fans for fans. I'd never translate a 200-page novel pro bono, just to bring joy to a number of people who can't be bothered to learn the language. Even for what I regard as decent money I can't sometimes bring myself to push on and keep my deadlines. It's a chore, it's a pain, and a single joke can sometimes keep you awake at night. And a vn the length of a rather voluminous fantasy trilogy? No fucking way.

That's why I'm overawed by people like Ixrec (my English and Japanese are not good enough for judging his translation skills, so I won't act out an adjudicator). The amount of text he translated is insane. And he did all that for free. And so did many others. You got to read a translation that someone had spent several months of their life to bring to you. And they did that for free. They deserve your gratitude.

And so to what I'm doing here... well, I'd like to eventually translate some short vn to my mother tongue. Translating things is a great way to improve the skills in two languages simultaneously, and my Japanese really needs some enhancing.

>>12103882
It's not about whether you believe it or not. The Foundation series as raw text estimates to about 70% of MLA's volume.

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>>12103839
You also need to take into account how the text is encoded when talking about script sizes. Azimov wrote in English, and roman characters are usually encoded in a single byte, while most Japanese characters tend to be encoded in two bytes. After that, you need to take into account that it takes a different number of characters to write things in Japanese than it does in English. Lots of porn games are a lot longer than your average novel, but it would probably be a really bad idea to only compare their lengths on a basis of script size. Also, your numbers look really off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12103931
>It's a chore, it's a pain

This is the essence of translating.

No one likes translating. Maybe the final result, but the act of translating in itself is pure torture. Most people don't want to understand this though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12103931
Ixrec is a weirdo for a lot of reasons, basically he gets through so much text by not thinking about it at all.

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>>12103988

Well, it shows.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12103988
But he does. And the final product is both understandable and of decent quality. There are errors and flaws that you notice even when English is your fourth language, sure, but imagine translating several thousand pages in the span of a few years. If I could achieve such speed while maintaining his works' quality by merely not thinking about the text, well, I'd sure love it.

>>12103985
The final result is worth it. The process may be grueling, but seeing something you translated in bookstores, or being thanked for the effort by people on the internet is worth it. But were it not for the money it fetches me, I wouldn't bother with it.
Most people see you reaching the ending line, not the run that brought you there. And while sad, it's perfectly understandable.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12102847

Mangagamer may be too small for 5pb to care about, however as to the latter point, Bamboo confirmed in one of his broadcasts that they were negotiating for Oretsuba, and we know that last year they were denied a title because of 5pb which it is reasonable to believe was Oretsuba

[Anonymous No.]

>>12103960
Well, you also have to remember that it usually takes significantly more characters to represent the same idea in English than it does in Japanese. Either way, he's right that VNs contain ungodly amounts of text.

Here, this is a fun list:
http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_longest_video_game_scripts

LB! EX: 1.3 million words
The Bible: 1 million words

[Anonymous No.]

>>12104645
Rewrite doesn't even have that much text compared to the truly ungodly long games like that one Koihime game that has like 7MB of text.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12104054
The problem is that from the start he has never put much thought or effort into the details and as a result, despite all his reading, his Japanese is very poor because he doesn't care about details to improve it. This results in many translation errors caused not by his haste in translation, but by not actually knowing or caring about the meaning of the text in the first place.

[Anonymous No.]

New rumor: http://vndb.org/t5300#25
So not only is Eiyuu*Senki is getting a PS3 release, but also a PC release? Interesting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12104780
If those guys aren't as stupidly stubborn(stubbornly stupid) as MoeNovel, their PS3 release will be followed by Steam port first and by (sublicensed to third party) uncensored game/DLC/patch second, with in-between hinting that the next step won't happen unless the previous step generates enough profits.

See, it's not that difficult to start a rumor.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12103839

It's easier to go by line/word count:
Koiiro's ~27k lines, with ~10 words/line (ero scenes makes that statistic a little wonky, but it's close). This makes koiiro ~270,000 words, which is about 3 times the length of an average romance novel. (http://www.literaryrejections.com/word-count/))

That's roughly 2 Catch-22's, 3 To Kill A Mockingbirds, or 2 Twilights (http://www.literaryrejections.com/word-count/)) to use more familiar examples.

And that's -medium- length.

I'm not going to defend poor quality because of it though, simply wish that more 'translators' would appreciate the magnitude of the work involved before they try to do it.

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>>12104967

Also helps if I get my links right:
http://indefeasible.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/great-novels-and-word-count/
(5 Lord of the Flies, half of War and Peace....)

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>>12104054
> of decent quality
No, its not, and it was proven in these threads many, many times.
Well, he doesn't know either Japanese or English, so its only natural that result is shit.

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>>12103839
Why do you list some of the longest VNs and then call them "average"? I also think some of your numbers are wrong, or at least they don't match up with the ones on TLWiki.

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>>12105778
My numbers come from scripts I've extracted myself and can upload if you doubt them.
I did this to about 60 different VNs including nukiges, and yes, 2.5-3mb is average.

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>>12105784
Please do upload them.

I'd like a laugh.

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>>12105789
Which one you doubt and which size you believe is correct? Lets shame you all the way.

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>>12105793
Let's see how you turned Rewrite's 3.5 mb into 5.5.

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>>12105798
Here you go, rewrite.txt 5545673 https://mega.co.nz/#!igYljZ6S!6S57-0FnlHK12dr_fSwJSvr2UKxis0csbk-7ybnb8aA
Although real script was a bit bigger, I've removed duplicate lines from it as well as nametags and some other shit I didn't need.

Only complete retard like you would believe anything stated on tlwiki.

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>>12105806
>wrong encoding

Solved your mystery, chief.

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>>12105812
You seem confused, unicode via utf8 is only real encoding. "Wrong" is your sjis shit, its 21th century already.

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>>12105806

Do a character count instead next time so you don't embarrass yourself. It's harder to fuck up.

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>>12105822
So you are trying to tell me that 5.5 mb file is not 5.5 mb file? Just admit that you are retard and don't understand what "byte" even means, its pointless for you to keep struggling.

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>>12105806
A lot of tlwiki numbers are at least roughly corroborated by Japanese sites, and looking at those Japanese sites will still not yield an average script size of 2.5-3MB, more like 1.5-2MB.

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>>12105829
He's nearly doubling his size by converting shift-jis scripts to utf8 for god only knows what reason. Stupidity most likely. All of his numbers are going to be massively inflated.

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>>12105836
If you change the encoding of the script he posted back to its native shift-jis, it goes right back to 3.55, which is the TLWiki and Japanese number for it.

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>>12105826
Why don't you pad it with whitespace and call it a 20mb file while you're at it? Not like you could come off as a bigger retard than you do now.

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>>12105900
Yep, thanks for proving you don't understand even basics. Go go CIS 101 and then I could explain you what is "byte" and "information".

[Anonymous No.]

Sorry if I am at the wrong board but I would like somebody to help me out. I am trying to translate something but I cannot understand this phrase: 「水着の上からしか見たことなかった」

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>>12105907
How about you go look up "encoding" and "data storage" instead.

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>>12105921
You should stop "translating" if you don't understand it. Its N5-grade japanese.

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>>12105921
"Was not that it was only seen from the top of the swimsuit"

You're welcome.

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>>12092971
Uh, they're two different versions of the same Pokemon game. Not much difference in their translations, dude. Plus I'd say Nintendo did pretty well.

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>>12095316
>>12096208
It figures that someone dumb enough to like Oreimo would have awful enough taste to also like Ayase. I'm disgusted that the series is even being discussed. Re-evaluate your life if that character somehow appeals to you. Maybe then you'll be able to do something worthwhile with it.

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>>12105928
How do you know that if you can't translate it?

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>>12105921
What about I couldn't see it except from the the top of the swimsuit?
What's the context?

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>>12106017
Well yea, but nintendo localizes (americanizes) it's games instead of just translating them. I really don't like that.

On an unrelated note, Ash really needs a Misty route.

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>>12106239
Ha! Shows what EOPs know. All those jokes and references, such as "My body is ready." are exactly the same in the original version.

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>>12106302
I doubt that all the western cultural refences are in the original versions. Can you prove it somehow to a pathetic EOP like me

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>>12106384
Yes.

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>>12106384
lol get a load of this idiot.
Oooh, Pokemon so spooky.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12106406
Does your mom know how mean you are on the internet?

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>>12106681
Yeah, I brag to her about it all the time and we high five and shit.

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>>12094402
>>12094415
>>12094504

This guy got lucky.

Kira, from Memories of Fear translations has announced that he will translate The Abaddon Princess Sleeping in the Rotten World as a side project after they finish their current project. He will open a TLwiki page and a Tumblr to report updates and he will first translate the trial.

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>>12107127
>Tumblr
Ummm... What?

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>>12107135
Yeah, yeah. However, at times it is better to give visibility to project regardless of preconceptions and elitist thoughts.

Some tumblrs covering translation projects reach a wide audience so I believe that if the product has quality, it does not matter the social network which uses to inform about updates.

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>>12107148
So he wants attention for his translation? Does he also create accounts on every other social networking site? And host reddit interviews? And email kota- and sankaku?

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>>12107157
As long as I get to play the game in English, honestly, who cares.

I am way more inclined to support a translator than to criticize a person who is producing a patch I am looking forward to.

/jp/ is to take it easy!

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>>12098476
Well that was unexpected. Wasn't 天狐 supposed to hate gaijins or something?

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>Muv-Luv TDA01 - released
wait where can i find this?
how was this translated?

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>>12092473
wait is the same person doing Muv-Luv TDA01 and 02 or are they different people? where they both machine translated? why would they do such a thing? now we will never get a decent translation of 1 and 2..

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>>12098476
wait is this a engilsh company? when did this happen?

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>>12108169
People should really worry about getting something like Kiminozo translated instead to start with.

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>>12108167
>wait where can i find this?
On the Internet.
>how was this translated?
With Google Translate.

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>>12108167
>>12108169
Anyone? im confused. this came out of nowhere. Why would he waste his time on this if he didnt know japanese? this is just a fucking big waste.

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>>12108173
>>12108174
Well this fucking sucks, now well never see a decent muv-luv translation again.
Also about Eiyuu Senki, how censored will it be? was the ps3 version in japan just without the sex scenes? why would they do the ps3 version? I hope nothing will be censored..

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Autist please

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>>12108184
Im just a little behind i haven't checked these threads and ive been in my own little world for a bit. I check back today and it feels like madness to me. Im really fucking mad at the machine translated muv-luv games, i thought we were over that horrible age. Don't people understand how terrible machine translations are? I don't understand why the people that bother to do it when they know they arent really translating it bother. they are just ruining it for everyone who will actual read it. Why cant they fucking understand you need to know a fucking language to actually translate? why are the people on his form or whatever not telling him to stop? I mean i just hope these games will get a real translation now because of this guy fucking everything up. maybe someone with actual japanese skills will get mad and do something?

besides that how far was the ps3 version of Eiyuu Senki censored for the ps3? was it just the sex scenes? will this company not censor anything? can we trust them?

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>>12108091
I'm guessing people assumed that because they block gaijin IPs on their website, but so do a lot of eroge companies and it's usually more for their own protection than out of hate for others.

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>>12108193
That TDA patch is on same level as ixwreck's ML/MLA.

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>>12108195
No its not, don't. start. with. that. shit. at 3 am in the morning or i will fucking just leave. Not in the fucking mood for your shit /jp/ at all. This is the fucking worse thing that could of happened. I hope this fucking guy gets at least some sort of back lash.

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Fuck it i give up on life, Ill just go back to being an empty shell again in my own little world. because this shit is not worth my sanity. I was happier not knowing this and retardedly playing old snes and ds rpgs. even though after a while it feels like i need something with actual plot in my life i come back here to this. I still need to read ayakasbitio and grisaia anyway but this just ruined my whole fucking week.

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>>12108202
>i will fucking just leave
Please do.
Well, you already promised to leave and never come back several times in past months, so I don't have high hopes you will actually follow through your words, but still.

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>>12108194
Uhh no. The Tenco guys are the Littlewitch guys, i.e. the same guys who said their games were made for nips only.

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>>12108211
Just learn Japanese and stop whining, nerd.

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>>12108281
He is not nerd, he is autist.

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>>12108267
>the same guys who said their games were made for nips only.
Again, a lot of eroge companies say things like this because they don't want their games getting outside of Japan and becoming the next Rapelay.

I mean I don't know the exact context so maybe they really did say something like "white pigs are inferior and don't deserve glorious Nippon eroge" but nearly every time I see people accuse eroge makers of racism it's just them interpreting things in a way to fit their narrative of "all Japanese are xenophobic."

Either way, clearly if Tenco are allowing an official English release of their game they don't think the games are only for Japanese and they must not hate gaijin that much.

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>>12108349
The thing is, Tenco has sent an e-mail to a translator specifically stating that if you want to play their games you have to live in Japan.

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>>12108529
And several months later hired that translator to release official translation.

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>>12108174
>Google Translate

I hate it whenever this comes up, because I cannot tell whether people are serious or just overly criticizing the translation.

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>>12108798

Sadly, in most cases it's true.

You can bet it's machine translated if it comes from Hongfire or Fuwanovel.

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>>12108281
This is the translation thread, retard. Why would you learn Japanese to read translations?

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>>12109880
Because you like the works and get sick of them being ruined by shoddy translations?

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>>12108543
That was JAST, and I recall someone mentioning how they were pissed off at the translator regardless.

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>>12109884
Go to bed moogy.

[Anonymous No.]

Did baldr sky ever get translated?

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>>12110079
No. Learn japanese.

[tripfags everywhere !LvxlojWmsQ No.]

Are there any horror titles being translated?

Just finished ikinari anata ni koishiteru and got nothing to read

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>>12109691
I don't get it.

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>>12110132
>windows vista
>evaluation copy watermark
>firefox 29
>private mode
All this comedy gold.