[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/jp/ - Otaku Culture

View post   
  [?]In ghost mode, only threads with non-archived posts will be shown
File: 37 KB, 256x354, e17 usa boxart.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2241312 No.2241312 [Reply] [Original]

Why was a supposedly "professional" translation vastly inferior to the average fan-translation patch? (I mean, seriously, "Naturally, I knows the hacker"? "Tooling test"? Using a blatantly obvious find-and-replace that occasionally turned "you that" into "Kidat"?) I guess I applaud Hirameki (or at least its dead, rotting corpse) for trying to get VNs to English-speaking audiences, but if all their work was like this...no wonder they went bankrupt.

More relevantly...is anyone working on making it better? Or hell, even translating the other Infinity games?

>> No.2241313
File: 318 KB, 800x600, stupids.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2241313

>> No.2241325

YOUR STUPID

>> No.2241332

Wait, there are OTHER Infinity games?

>> No.2241333

>>2241325
YOU'RE FACE IS STUPID

>> No.2241335

Ever17, not so good.

>> No.2241331

>>2241312
Because, in the end, everyone is human. Both the fan-translators and the "professionals".

>> No.2241342

But honestly, more people should be paid for
translating untranslated VNs and eroge in America.

>> No.2241349

>>2241332

Never7: The End of Infinity
Remember11: The Age of Infinity
and 12RIVEN, which doesn't have "infinity" in the title but apparently is part of the series anyway.

>> No.2241350

>>2241335
Ever 17: It sucks to infinity

>> No.2241354

not worth buying

>> No.2241358

>>2241335
>>2241350
>>2241354

Fuck off, ever17 is a masterpiece.

>> No.2241368

>>2241358
Welcome newfriend, enjoy your stay.

>> No.2241376
File: 15 KB, 400x400, Buzz-Lightyear.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2241376

>>2241350

And beyond!

>> No.2241389

>>2241368
I support his opinion.

You can go fuck yourself, "newfriend".

>> No.2241400

Even though I raged at "tooling test", I don't really blame Hirameki for making such a blatant mistake.

Unless you're into SF or study CS, you're not gonna be able to figure out WTF is チューリングテスト by the phonetics.

But then again, they could have just fucking googled it.

>> No.2241401

>>2241389

ITT: Newfriends don't realize when other newfriends are being told that they're being trolled...

>> No.2241402

>>2241389
He's a newfag because he's responding to a blatant, ENDLESSLY recycled troll post that has appeared in basically every Ever17 thread ever made in /jp/.

>> No.2241422

It's not like you payed for it anyway.

>> No.2241440

>>2241312

I tried editing the script file to see if I could proofread it, but it crashes if you don't keep the same string length.

Yeah.

Best bet would be to port it to a different engine and then work from there. A lot of work though.

>> No.2241452

I don't understand how the fuck they can let errors like that go. All it takes is ONE intelligent person speed reading through the novel to find all the mistakes like that.

>> No.2241458

>>2241422
But I actually did p
I actually did p
I did p
I pppppp

I used money to buy the game.

>> No.2241471

>>2241325
>YOU'RE
>>2241333
>YOUR

>> No.2241491

>>2241331
What?

>> No.2241515

hey guys lets use kokoro instead of cocoro even though its that way in the op, menu, cg, official materials and movie that appears every other fucking scene

>> No.2241545

>>2241331
This is beyond that though. I agree with >>2241452 It's like they didn't even QC the thing at all.

>> No.2241546
File: 50 KB, 429x321, EVER17img82_ytb070401.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2241546

>>2241312
>>no wonder they went bankrupt.

Hirameki was just far too ahead of its time. These games came out in English 4-6 years ago, and no one really cared about translated VNs back then.

Ever17 came out in America in 2005. It took them almost two years to break even with the game.

>> No.2241599

>>2241546 no one really cared about translated VNs back then.

I think you're deluding yourself a bit if you think anyone (besides, you know, raging weeaboos like us) cares about them now. How many people do you know who would be willing to spend time on their computer (or hell, even their PSP) clicking through hours and hours of text when they could be playing Halo? I mean, even MGS4 had a few minutes of gameplay in between the story sequences.

VNs will never sell in the West. Ever. It's a shame, really, but it's true.

>> No.2241605

>>2241599
except for porn VNs

>> No.2241616

>>2241599
I wouldn't say that VNs will never sell in the West. The fanbase is growing, just very slowly. It will certainly be awhile before it's a viable business though.

>> No.2241648

>>2241599
>clicking through hours and hours of text

automode nigga

>> No.2241656
File: 251 KB, 430x607, ever524861.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2241656

>>2241599

Well, I'm mostly concerned about the Western anime fandom. VNs are a lot more popular with this crowd now than they were a few years ago. Even /a/ level Bleach and Naruto fans are aware of things like Fate/stay Night.

>>VNs will never sell in the West. Ever. It's a shame, really, but it's true.

I think VNs are currently at the same place manga was in the 90's. Back then people thought that manga would only be an extremely niche thing in America, but look at it now!

>> No.2241673

Phoenix Wright sold well enough to delay PW4's release so that the other games could be translated.

>> No.2241678

The guy who translated Ever17 into Russian said he'd make a grammar fix or at least provide the tools to do so.

>> No.2241690

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6417882
PSP opening.

>> No.2241967

>>2241349
12R is amazing

>> No.2241987

>>2241673
Phoenix Wright has more gameplay than an average VN though.

>>
Reply to thread [?]Don't expect anything heroic. Your post will not be uploaded to the original board.
Name
E-mail
Subject
Comment
Action