/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

Visual Novel translation status

11eyes - 2nd partial patch out, 2092 lines left to translate and 7444 lines left to edit before the third partial patch
Air - New team working on it from the beginning
Aiyoku no Eustia - "translation for the first chapter is almost finished"
Akai Ito- Yumei's route released, Nozomi route fully inserted,Uzuki route 40% inserted, 14300/21674 (65.98%) overall inserted, last untranslated arc being translated by original translator
Amaranto - Trial released
Apathy Midnight Collection - fully translated, one arc left to edit
Ayakashibito - ~60% translated, tonya's route translated, stalled while looking for a new translator to continue
Baldr Sky - Translation ongoing
Cartagra - Initial translation complete, future is unknown
Concerto Note - C&D, continuing, translation at 38%, editing at 18%
Daiteikoku - 30% translated partial patch out
DraKoi- Initial translation complete
Fate/Hollow Ataraxia- 73.1% translated, second partial patch out
Fortune Arterial- "the translation of Kiriha route is about 99% complete now!"
>Hadaka Shitsuji - 2.3% translated
>Hakuisei Renai Shoukougun - 3 scripts translated
>Hanahira - 14 of 50 scripts translated
>Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni - 6317 / 7817 (80.81%) lines translated
Higurashi Daybreak - being translated
Hinomaru- 24% translated, main arc editing
Honey Coming- Prologue 100% translated, common route 80% translated. Yuma Shichiri's route 5% translated
>Hoshizora no Memoria - prologue patch out, common route fully translated, Isuzu's patch released, overall 48200/55183 (87.36%) translated
Hunks Workshop - ~25% rough translation
Ikusa Megami Zero - Project alive again, 5205 lines translated
Imouto Paradise - 5% translated

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

>Irotoridori no Sekai - 16,827/51,100 (32.93%) lines translated, full common route translated, prologue patch released
Kawakaburi No Cherry - "Meanwhile I am working on it, should be out in a few weeks."
Koitate - Ren and Yukino’s route patch released
Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content
>Majikoi- Yukie + Chris + Momoyo + teacher route patch released, Wanko route TL: 100%, now working on Wanko After Story
M&M Enchanting Magic & Sweet Charms- 92%
Mahoutsukai no Yoru, aka Mahoyo - Translation of trial ongoing
Milky Holmes - Being translated
Mirai no Uta to Tsunagaru Hitomi - Translation planned
>Monster Girl Quest II - 50180/109279 (45.9%) lines translated
Muv-Luv Chronicles - Work being done on The Day After 00 + 01
>Never 7 - all 113 scripts and 64 of 111 tips through initial translation, 32/113 scripts through final translation
Nursery Rhyme - 9049/34410 lines (26.3%) translated
Ore no Imouto - 9.4% (28/299) scripts translated
>Period- All image/UI editing complete, game total translation: 83.61% complete, Miyu + Rin + Aoi + Kohane + Tsuzumi' patches released
Princess Lover - 10% translated
Princess Maker 5- 43% translated
Princess Nightmare - Translator said the project is still active, but very slow, nearly 50% translated
Pure Pure The Story of Ears and Tails- Sachi Patch released, 81.69% translated
Rance 3 - 75% translated
Rance 4 - 20% translated
>Rance Quest - 2% translated + some more, work actively being done
Real Imouto ga Iru - translation: 4330/16108 (27%) editing: 3910/16108 (24%), demo up
Rewrite - Ixrec's upcoming project, expected to take 6-7 months after starting

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

>Sapphism no Gensou - 45 scripts translated
Sensei Da-isuki 2- roughly 25% translated, still active
Serifu de Kanjite! Seiyuu Doushi: Total: 185/5400 translated
Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo - Fully translated, someone has gone through all the scripts for editing
Sin- 65% of episode 1 translated
>Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 8- 3 scripts translated
Sorairo - 2755/48557 (6%) lines translated
Suihensei Made Nan Mile - 32% translated, plans to get a patch out "soon"
Tenshi No Inai 12-Gatsu-"Maho route fixed"
Tenshin Ranman - 2% translated
The Second Reproduction - Fully translated, image editing
Togainu No Chi- 77% translated, partial patch out
To Heart2- 63% translated- "The final product is still years away unless I get more help. ", new alpha patch released
Tomoyo After - Partial patch released
Toradora Portable - Being translated
Touka Gettan: translation status: ~40% translated
Under The Moon- 6% translated/checked/programmed, still active
Welcome to Pia Carrot 2 - 1st draft translation 35%, as it was found much of the script was originally not dumped
Yandere - 24.9% translated
>Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 10% edited
Yosuga no Sora - Roughly 40% translated, goal for greater than 50% patch around mid-to-late february

>Aroduc has been working on something new, though has yet to reveal the title ~71096/76522 lines translated, two routes done
>Aroduc has a second project at 366/6004 lines translated

[Anonymous No.]

>Hadaka Shitsuji - 2.3% translated
Something fun being translated, color me surprised.

[Anonymous No.]

People love translating shit games

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

Official work

MangaGamer:
Dear Drops - Beta testing finished, trial out, end Feb or early March 2012 planned
Ef - Scripts with NNL right now, final movies with NNL
Harukoi Otome - 4 scripts left to translate, latter half of 2012 release expected
Unannounced title from Nexton planned for Q2 2012
Dengeki Strykers - Translation and editing complete, expected to be out for AX
Sexy magic title from Score- finished testing
Da Capo III - Mentioned at AX
Innocent Grey would also like to bring over an upcoming title related to Kara no Shoujo
Negotiations with age still ongoing
Negotiations for Oretsuba are still ongoing
Two games which they might be getting, the first with a trap, and the second with a hint of "How much blood would you shed to stay alive?"
Games from Denbonosu - "Hopefully in the future with MangaGamer, I can do something in the US too."[president of Denbonosu]
Negotiations ongoing with Clochette, would like to bring over Kamikaze Explorers
Picked up a Circus title with gameplay

JAST
Yumina the Ethereal - Final QC/post production, couple thousand more images to translate, before AX 2012, website online
Moero Downhill Night Blaze- Early 2012
School Days HQ - April/May 2012, editing through 25% of chapter 5, porting though 30% of the final chapter
Saya no Uta - Solo release planned
Hanachirasu - Solo release planned
Django: Couple more months of translation
Kikokugai - Working out issues
Sumaga- Spring goal, demo soon, got new staff
Seinarukana- picked up, ~35% translated
Starless - Work ongoing
Starry Sky- negotations with voice actors
Muramasa - Common route complete, 2 of 5 chapters towards true end translated, uncertain what will come from the project
>Steins;Gate - 167/175 scripts translated, rough patch out, Jast may pick up the project


Other
LUDESIA- English release planned
Hakuoki - Feb 14th, 2012
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486659
More like something disgusting

[Insemination No.]

>>8486662
And they love to drop them just as much.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486667
Bullying butlers is the funniest thing ever.

[Anonymous No.]

Thank you as always.

[Anonymous No.]

F/ha not in green? What the heck?

[Anonymous No.]

is Majikoi S a fan disk or a whole new game?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486696
It is 7.1GB, what do you think?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486701
Confirmed for FD.
The routes are more like side routes and it's only 1/3 of the original script wise.
the size is mostly poorly compressed animated scenes.

[Anonymous No.]

2 new projects?

[Anonymous No.]

>Never 7 - all 113 scripts and 64 of 111 tips through initial translation, 32/113 scripts through final translation
It's getting closer..
I'm still cheering for you, GundamAce.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486667
>More like something disgusting
Checked VNDB page
8 out of 10 censored
Click
...
I'm out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486702
Plus there are something like 54 H scenes. It's like 30% fucking.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486716
I like yaoi myself, but gay bestiality.. I'll still give it a go.

I am very much looking forward to The Second Reproduction.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486733
It's just one scene in the whole game.
the alternate is having him behaving like a dog, but doesn't deliver his true end.

[Anonymous No.]

Hey, Baldr Force is finally gone.

[Anonymous No.]

>Majikoi- Yukie + Chris + Momoyo + teacher route patch released, Wanko route TL: 100%, now working on Wanko After Story
Is wanko the last route? Is translation complete after this?

[Anonymous No.]

How much of Tomoyo After is translated?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486773
1/3

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486758
still has to do Miyako

[Insemination No.]

>>8486773
Go ask doki.

>Real Imouto ga Iru - translation: 4330/16108 (27%) editing: 3910/16108 (24%), demo up
>Sorairo - 2755/48557 (6%) lines translated
Pretty sure these two are dead considering they're being done by the same retard.

[Anonymous No.]

Is the /jp/ ftp still working?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486758
Still miyako+True route and some short semi routes

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486788
darn

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486777

Is the main route translated?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486793
That's sad. I was looking forward to Real Imouto.

[Anonymous No.]

I wonder what will happen with Princess Maker. It seemed to go along so fine before.
Are they still working on it even though the status isn't updated regularly?

[Sakura !RAILgUnr8s No.]

>>8486816
Main route...? Tomoyo After is a Tomoyo fandisc. I'm pretty sure there is only the main route, aside from maybe a couple endings.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486840

I mean does it go all the way to the main end and skip the side endings or does it just stop at an ending halfway?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486863
it doesnt reach any ending,it just stop halfway

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486814
So was I, deeply.

;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486716

You don't understand, man, this shit is fucking hilarious.

[Anonymous No.]

The best thread of the week is here again!

[Anonymous No.]

Sure is gay week.
And I couldn't be happier.

[Anonymous No.]

>What is Aroduc translating?
Weekly Dose

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487314
Akatsuki no Amaneka to Aoi Kyoshin ~Pashiate Bunmei Kenkyuu kai Koubouki~
TWilight refrAIN

[Anonymous No.]

>Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 10% edited

Cool.

Incidental - am I the only one who wonders why translation projects always seem to start their editing only after completely finishing translation? This project seems to have 5 different editors. Why wouldn't you be editing alongside translation?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486793
Dude overstretched himself. He's a fulltime college student that isn't fully proficient in the language to begin with, that was working on a number of translation projects, along with fansubbing some shit for CoalGuys.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487364
Not all do. Just the bad ones.

[Anonymous No.]

Ayakashibito - ~60% translated, tonya's route translated, stalled while looking for a new translator to continue
Baldr Sky - Translation ongoing
DraKoi- Initial translation complete
Ikusa Megami Zero - Project alive again, 5205 lines translated
Every VN I look forward to ends up stalled, don't even get me started on JAST.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487314
Kamidori Alchemy Meister as everyone says and we have got one more proof now.Kamidori have 3 routes at total,And Aroduc's secret project had two route with 5000 ~ lines each other and now there's only 5000 ~ lines left,so there's only one route remain.And this means aroduc's project have 3 routes too,which confirms our theory.

[Anonymous No.]

>Ayakashibito - ~60% translated, tonya's route translated, stalled while looking for a new translator to continue
>Baldr Sky - Translation ongoing
>DraKoi- Initial translation complete
>Ikusa Megami Zero - Project alive again, 5205 lines translated

Every VN I look forward to ends up stalled, don't even get me started on JAST.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487410
Shit, I'd be more then pleased if it was Kamidori.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487413
there isnt any other game which have Gameplay & three route at total & loved by aroduc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487364
> Why wouldn't you be editing alongside translation?

I've only just started working on VNs, but it seems like a lot of newbie TLs like to skip around in the script (I'm not talking skipping by scenes, I mean like, only TLing every other or even every like 3rd or 5th line) because they can only understand the "easy" lines so editing would be next to impossible.

Also a lot of TLs just straight up suck requiring scripts to be heavily TLC'd or even completely retranslated before you can edit effectively. Somehow it seems like it takes twice as long to clean up an incompetent TL's script than it would to just translate it from scratch (I'm glad the idiots on the team I joined only got like 100 lines into the game before I signed on, because just fixing that much was extremely unpleasant).

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487416
I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem like much TLCing even goes on with translation projects.

[Anonymous No.]

Hope to see F/HA back in green next week.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487519

Yeah, that's not surprising. It's pretty unfortunate though, considering how it doesn't seem like many VN projects have any standards for hiring translators in the first place. I mean, most fansub groups at least have a TL test.

[Anonymous No.]

3 games out of this whole shitty list will actually get translated

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487519
There aren't. It's hard enough to get one actual translator on a project and going over all your work multiple times is a quick way to burn yourself out. Translators also have their own styles, especially good ones that translate tone and style of scenes instead of what's literally written. The best you can usually hope for are editors with a passing familiarity with Japanese to catch the worst errors. Everybody makes stupid mistakes now and then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487554
An entire season of fansubbing one show will be somewhere in the range of 3000 VN lines and they also use tone and context instead of words in text file. A VN translator that does 3000 lines over 3 months is probably working on FHA.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487571

Man, 3k lines is nothing. There is no reason that should take 3 weeks, let alone 3 months, unless we're talking the most needlessly verbose, overcomplicated shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487586
Yes, FHA is slow. That was the joke.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486662
The only real parallel that can be seen from anime fansubbing to most VN fantranslations would be something like the group that did LoGH

You are translating something that is extremely long, complete so the full magnitude of the title is looking at you, and even if you finish, no matter how good your work is or how good the title is, because of the much smaller audience you won't get tons of attention.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487617

I know, but, just, you should still have *some* standards for TL quality. I've seen some shit that's barely better than something run through Google Translate passed off as a "translation."

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486662
The only real parallel that can be seen from anime fansubbing to most VN fantranslations would be something like the group that did LoGH

You are translating something that is extremely long, complete so the full magnitude of the title is looking at you, and even if you finish, no matter how good your work is or how good the title is, because of the much smaller audience for such a title compared to translating something airing currently, you won't get tons of attention.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487571


The only real parallel that can be seen from anime fansubbing to most VN fantranslations would be something like the group that did LoGH

You are translating something that is extremely long, complete so the full magnitude of the title is looking at you, and even if you finish, no matter how good your work is or how good the title is, because of the much smaller audience for such a title compared to translating something airing currently, you won't get tons of attention.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487627
Sometimes not even that. Poor Flyable Heart.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487640
A significant portion is mental too. Fansubbing is an hour's worth once a week (per show) for a quick hit of e-penis. Even a tiny VN is a month+ of work for maybe a week or two of attention, much of which won't be positive anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

Having TLCs for VN projects would imply that there is an abundance of competent translators with a ton of time on their hands. This, of course, is not the case. Most VN projects are someone saying, "Hey, I like this game, I should try translating it for others!"

You can't really expect that much from most of them.

[Insemination No.]

>>8487554
>hiring translators
Hiring a translator is easy. Hiring one that a) knows what they're doing and b) doesn't disappear in two weeks is not.

Also, I'm fairly certain most completed projects had one dedicated translator. A project without a translator shouldn't even exist in the first place. On the other hand, projects looking for multiple translators are prettty much destined to fail. Why? They're looking for fallback plans in case their translator disappears. A translator would only start thinking about having backup once they realise they'll never complete a game by themselves.

I mean, why else would want to share the glory and e-peen of translating a game with someone else?

>>8487416
TLCs are for translators who attempt something beyond their level. If one selects a game wisely (based on their level of proficiency), a TLC would be a redundant job. It also follows that if your TL is a complete amateur, your TLC would probably end up doing most of the translating anyway...

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487680

Yeah, I mean, it seems like it's more successful when a translator starts a project that they picked because they liked the game and it was within their skill level, but I've seen several where one enthusiastic person goes HEY LETS TRANSLATE THIS VN! and takes any volunteer to start translating even if they're clearly in over their head. Though, then again maybe this is just a particular problem in the fangirl community which does seem to have an more enthusiasm than skill in most cases.

As far as TLCs go, I feel like it can be useful if there's an issue of specialization (ex. the primary TL can't into kansai-ben or something), but generally, yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

Rance Quest back in action again, eh?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487410
It's Baldr Sky Dive 1. The line counts are just a red herring, similar to what NNL did with Swells.

[Strato !!+hnDdse66Pg No.]

>>8487739
No, it's not.

[Sakura !RAILgUnr8s No.]

>>8487749
Yes. Significantly.

[Anonymous No.]

Is Kamidori better than Koihime Musou?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487749
Anything is better than Koihime Musou

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487739
I would be the happiest man in the world if this was true, but I would also be more than surprised.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487752
Ok, cool. I will continue cheering Aroduc on from the sidelines...
>>8487755
It wasn't really that bad. Sure, it didn't really do anything spectacular, but it was a decent diversion to pass a few drunken afternoons.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487739
What if Swells was Baldr Sky?

[Anonymous No.]

Kamidori's an awesome game but please dear god do not expect anyting from the story. It's probably the worst story that Eushully's done in a decade. That's not much of an insult, I'm aware.

[Anonymous No.]

Kichikuou Rance... ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487781
I'm just looking forward to the gameplay and visuals.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487809
What about the pegging?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487807
Yeah, why would they work on Rance Quest when they could translate Kichikuou?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487887
Yeah, the translation is done, just finishing up editing and putting a few finishing touches on it. Expect a release some time next week.

[Anonymous No.]

Has the oreimo guy left any updates on status at all?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487889
>Expect a release some time next week.
Going well until this. 2/10

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487781
Gameplay is the main reason I waited for Kamidori to get translated before touching it, anyway.

Before I heard that it was Aroduc's project (and thus thinking no one had picked it up), I was thinking about playing it untranslated but wasn't too keen on the idea. Gameplay-heavy stuff always has so much image-based text that I can't hook (and is sometimes in fonts that make it a bitch to read even if I should know the kanji). God I had such a hard time with the Aselia fandisc and its tiny gameplay text resulting from cramming so much info into a 640x480 screen

[Anonymous No.]

Moogy-heika-dono-sama-san-sensei has been jerking all over Dies Irae lately. Which means someone has to pick it up about now, lest we infuriate our kind lord.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487896
Moogy hasn't really been an important figure in the translation scene ever since he was humiliated by GipFace.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487896
I don't know if /jp/ can appreciate the wonders of chuuni.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487902
Who cares about /jp/-chan, we're talking about Moogy-dono here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487901
Pic?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487894
>image-based text that I can't hook (and is sometimes in fonts that make it a bitch to read even if I should know the kanji).
That's how you truly determine your powerlevel

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487902
I know I would.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487928
I was interested in the game before knowing it was chuu2 shit.

Now I have mixed feelings about it, because I'm both kind of disappointed and oddly intrigued.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm hella sad, /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487941
What did you think it was? It's a high-budget FSN with nazis, Nietzsche and za warudo. What could it possibly be other than chuuni?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8488040
I tend to research little of the games I'm interested in to avoid spoilers, so I only could manage from the art and OP that it had quite the budget.

And it's not that chuu2 was completely unexpected or unwanted either, it's just that it being the first thing that comes to mind when you talk about the damn game isn't such a good omen. And Moogy-kun isn't helping things either...

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487946
Why?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487889
Obviously I don't expect it to be done. I just want to know if he has even said anything to show the project is alive in any way at all. Which I doubt anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8488054
>Anime cash-in game has some fanboy say he's going to translate it
>Everybody stops giving a shit approximately 60 seconds after show finishes airing
>Fanboy disappears and project dies

What a twist!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487946
どしたのアビン君？

>>8488054
The project was hosted on TLWiki, if you can't find it there, it means it's most likely dead.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8488054
http://tlwiki.tsukuru.info/index.php?title=Ore_no_Imouto_ga_Konna_ni_Kawaii_Wake_ga_Nai_Portable
Lots of progress, as you can see.

[Anonymous No.]

From http://www.sekaiproject.net/news/


"School Days HQ Milestone Reached

January 10, 2012 - Kanna

Happy new year everyone. I come with good news! I'm happy to report that all scripts have been translated and ported including all the new content for SDHQ. Chapter 3 (Episode 4) has finished editing and is being converted at the moment. On top of that, the font and subtitle spec has been finalised. Lots of work has been going on these past few months and we will begin testing the game soon."

How many episodes/chapters are there in School Days HQ again?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487640
IIRC, Central Anime hired a paid translator for that one

[Anonymous No.]

>>8488490
If I recall correctly, there are roughly 6

[Anonymous No.]

>>8489335
There are 6, but there are more and more branches of every chapter, sequentially.

That is, there is one version of Chapter 1, something like 3 or 4 of Chapter 2, something like 12 or 15 of ch3, etc. etc.
Essentially, Chapter 6 contains half the game's content on its own. Hence, it should take much longer to test and edit.

[Anonymous No.]

>Steins;Gate - 167/175 scripts translated, rough patch out, Jast may pick up the project
w8 i still don't get it...i played English translation of S;G in fucking August, 100% complete and never noticed anything out of order (like random jp, or strange translation)...and day after day i encounter ppl saying they are w8ting for full translation...sure tips weren't translated...but its not like they are interesting they are just some explanation of some hard words...like www .... or http...

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486649
>Fate/Hollow Ataraxia- 73.1% translated, second partial patch out
No progress in two weeks.
It's confirmed for being finished next millennium

[Anonymous No.]

>>8490108
That should be retranslated, instead of translated

The Steins;Gate guy decided to do a 2 pass translation, saying he feels it is improving the translation quality by going through a second time.

[Anonymous No.]

witch on the holy night :3

[Anonymous No.]

>>8490940
Is that the guy who was rewriting it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486670

I know, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8491575
>If you want me to rape you, come to my room tonight.
Fucking rape, how does it work?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8491586

Yeah, there's a lot of that in this game. Part of the reason it's so fucking hilarious.

[Y10NRDY !kxh.1oTAkU No.]

>>8488490
Now, I'm usually not one to bitch about slow translations. I suffer in silence, but...

>March 1, 2011
>We're all aiming to have a finished game for you by the end of this year.

>9 months later...
>Chapter 3 (Episode 4) has finished editing and is being converted at the moment.

There's six chapters? JAST is already taking preorders. What the fuck is up with these people? You'd kinda think if they decided to go Hollywood and do an official English translation they'd give the shit a bit more priority.

Well, I suppose they're not getting paid jack shit so they still have to devote time to other things but... COME ON.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8491665
not sure i understand what your problem is

[Y10NRDY !kxh.1oTAkU No.]

>>8491715
Again, I don't mean to be a bitch but OK, lemme break it down for you. I've been following this translation for 4 years, right?

This thing has progressed at a rate of a little less than an episode a year since its inception. They're on Episode 4, still. 2 chapters to go? Projected release date of 2012.

See the problem?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8491715
At this rate, the game will be released in two years. But preorders are already open.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8491763
okay. wait. so. like. they had to redo everything because sdhq is on a different engine and now they only have one chapter left to edit. and the game according to you will be released in two years.
where is the logic

>>8491751
>See the problem?
no?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8491830
Let me break it down. They've progressed at one episode a year. There are two episodes to go. Their projected release date is under a year.
Let's make it more complex. Each progressive episode is LARGER than the previous. The last two chapters are much MUCH larger than the first three or so.
Are the numbers beginning to become clear?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8492213
No, because translating != editing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8492213
>They've progressed at one episode a year
yea. on original sd
>There are two episodes to go
one. one chapter
>Their projected release date is under a year
yah
>Are the numbers beginning to become clear?
you mean 'two years' thing? no

[Anonymous No.]

>>8490506
That doesn't mean no progress was made. Maybe next week it'll jump up by 10%

[Anonymous No.]

Baldr Sky Dive 1 translation is out, on Aroduc's site.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493073
Why do you do this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493073
Delete your post, man. I want to wait a little longer before the floodgates open and all the /a/ and /v/ assholes come out of the woodwork.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493073
its fucking kamidori,Ixrec said that he asked to aroduc because he want to translate after rewrite and it seems aroduc doesnt have any interest in baldr sky. So try a little harder please.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493073
Link to site and torrent of the full game. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493214
Wait, what? Ixrec actually said he intends on translating it after rewrite? I thought this was just an irrational hope that a lot of people had.

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>>8493219
http://games.seiha.org/viewforum.php?f=11&sid=7a86f97868e9dae711018bc4c980a632

get the torrent yourself

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493214
Fun fact. Aroduc and Ixrec are getting married in the spring.

[Anonymous No.]

By the way, thanks to whoever replied to my query about the no. of chapters/episodes in School Days HQ.

>>8493218
[02:00] <Ixrec> yeah, I'm aware everyone is super hyped for Baldr
[02:00] <Ixrec> that was the case on staff too
[02:00] <Ixrec> people won't believe me but Baldr is high on my list
[02:00] <Ixrec> it's just that everything I need to do is really long
[02:01] <Ixrec> so being in, say, 2nd or 3rd place still means "maybe next year"


You should talk to Ixrec directly on IRC if you have any questions or want to thank him. He's a great guy!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8491665

JAST being JAST, like ever.

I would really like them to die somehow.

[Anonymous No.]

>You do not have the required permissions to read topics within this forum.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493291
............................

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>>8493285
Yeah, I could, but I have the feeling he gets asked this all the time, so I don't want to bother him.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493291
(´＿ゝ｀）

[Anonymous No.]

>Irotoridori no Sekai - 16,827/51,100 (32.93%) lines translated, full common route translated, prologue patch released
oh what the fuck.
i really need to check these threads more often
if it wasn't in the op picture i probably wouldn't have, damnit

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493292
he's just trolling,translation reached 71k 2 days ago how the hell could he finish 5.000 lines in 2 days please dont accept evey shit in front of you

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>>8493350
He could if he was Ixrec.

[Insemination No.]

>>8493285
Sup Ixrec.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493351
if he could translate 2.500 lines per day he could finish muvluv extra + unlimited + alternative in 45 days so its pretty impossible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493285
>He's a great guy!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493363
This shit was right after the Alternative patch was leaked, though. The whole team got kind of dickish for a while after that, because they were upset and disappointed, Ixrec especially.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't know why someone doesn't just doctor up some screenshots of Sky if they really want to put effort into trolling. Tools have been finished for it and posted on Google code since early 2010.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493372
Because he doesnt even put effort into trolling,He just said "oh look guys baldr sky dive 1 Translated!" and every faggot jumped into it,its all.

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>>8493350

I know, I know. But I found amusing they decided to name that subforum "Karnov's Revenge" and couldn't see what's inside.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493375
Who are you calling faggot, faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493384
the name of subforum changing every update,so it doesnt mean anything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493398
It's almost like a really bad joke.

[Anonymous No.]

What if Aroduc's project turns out to be Muv-Luv Alternative?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493408
What if it isn't?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493409
And what if it is nerd?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493383
I dont see any other faggots except those idiots who trolled with such an obvious lie,of course.and it seems you're one of them too,good for you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493412
>I fell for a lazy trolling attempt, now I'm going to show everybody how mad I am!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493412
Oh look at the little mad nerd. Muv Luv Alternative is next, you mad?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493372
You mean like this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493418
Now we're trolling in style.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493418
What game is this? I don't recognize it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493363
Oh god this is so stupid! All these "sup moogy", "sup Ixrec" and so on posts. Do you even think they browse 4chan? I honestly can't understand why people are such big morons.
moron = A person of subnormal intelligence
>>8493354
Oh, right. Have you contributed anything to the VN community? Have you translated a VN, be it short or long? Have you written a guide to help people learn Japanese? Or... have you ever done anything?
Go on, I'm all ears.

And to be honest, there was nothing in that screenshot that made me think low of Ammy or Ixrec. I don't care about kvin. He's/She's a retard for me.
Also if you have spare time why don't you look around on the ammy forums, vndb, tlwiki's forums, #tlwiki and look up the posts of Moogy, herkz, tatari, izmos and whoever. They are real nice guys who have contributed more to the community than one can ever fathom. Am I right?

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>>8493418
What the fuck did they do? Did they replaced the font with a color palette?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493429
What? Giga's engine has used a color tinged palette for fonts since Baldr Bullet I think.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493426
Don't listen to the haters Ixrec. Any news on Baldr Sky Dive 1 bro?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493426
Sup Sheeta.

[Anonymous No.]

Same font as Giga always uses.

[Anonymous No.]

I can understand hating on Moogy, because the guy is a huge douchebag, but why hate on Ixrec, who is one of the hardest working translators in the community? Does that really make any sense at all? I'm not saying you all have to shower him with praise or suck his dick or whatever, or even like the guy, but this whole knee-jerk reaction whenever his name is so much as mentioned is just ridiculous. Especially considering most of you have probably made use of his translations at one point or another, unless you're fluent in moon, in which case what the fuck are you doing paying attention to translations in the first place?

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>>8493443
Someone wasn't around for the MLA debacle.

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>>8493449
He actually didn't want to see that's all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493443
Ixrec's true goal is to spoil every good eroge in existence for Japanese-speaking master race by producing medicore, rushed and half-assed translations so that they can be defiled by English-only peasants and their retarded, uneducated opinions.

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>>8493363
Those lines by kVin are actually pretty humorous. Sheeta is a big fat sand vagina though.

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>>8493433
Did you not read my post? - >>8493285
I talked to Ixrec on January the 14th. Here, proof:
Session Start: Sat Jan 14 17:31:04 2012

P.S I am not Ixrec >_>

>>8493436
Ahahaha, you are a funny man.

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>>8493426
Moogy and Ixrec occasionally do browse /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493449
I was, but I'm willing to forgive it somewhat because of the fact that we got the thing anyway a day or so after it was finished being translated, and it was his translation in the first place.
>>8493461
Mediocre translations compared to who? The guy makes mistakes, and I think he bit off more than he could chew with Cross Channel, but otherwise they don't seem too bad as far as fan translations are concerned.

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>>8493426
kVin is just a funny autist, but izmos and Moogy are legit douchebags.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493476
Mediocre compared to Makoto.

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>>8493443
This. It has been a good day today. Seeing people with their sanity intact. Good post bro!

>>8493461
Hey, why don't you backup your claims with evidence? Go on, give me some excerpts from the works he has translated and then go ahead and give us your superlative translation/adaptation of them?
(I really like how people come and bitch about how Ixrec's translations are bad but they don't ever backup their claims.)

>>8493463
>Those lines by kVin are actually pretty humorous.
Your sense of humour is bad. Very bad.
>Sheeta is a big fat sand vagina though.
-_- Spoken like a true prick! No wonder /jp/ has a bad reputation. /jp/ has the most inane people posting inane bullshit.

P.S I am not Sheeta or anyone from Ammy or anything like that. Spare me that bullshit. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

Ixrec is better off translating stuff like MLA where the prose is of less importance than Romeo or Liar-soft games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493481
Yeah you're probably from /a/, judging your from your purple spanked butt and usage of emoticons.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493481
You are hands down the biggest homosexual I've seen on this board, and this is a board that has regularly threads about cock sucking tips.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493481
But you are Aaeru. Ixrec not a douchbag? He's a bigger douche than Izmo and Moogy combined.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493418
am I doin it rite?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493520
Suck my cock dude. You're clearly a big enough faggot to do so.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493530
Aaah. This will keep me entertained for weeks.
Interestingly, the same tools work to disassemble Material Brave's trial, but don't reassemble correctly nor handle the script bin files correctly. That's not too unusual though. Alicesoft is still using the same graphical packaging and format system that they have since 2001 I think.

[Anonymous No.]

how do i access the in game menu in school days?

any help appreciated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493530
By the way, if you don't want to mess with the System.pac, any files you put into Update.pac will be used instead of their counterparts elsewhere. It's how Giga's engine patches.

[Insemination No.]

>>8493426
>I suck Ixrec-sama's cock so you should too
Haha. No.

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>>8493418
>>8493530
I'm posting this against my better judgement, but eh.

I was the guy who put that image up and my intention was not to troll (I only put it up because there was someone else in that thread who had messed around with the tools before), though I see it has been interpreted as trolling.

I went on IRC after that to get a project started, but I got told to fuck off and come back when I had a significant portion of the script translated. Understandable, considering I'm a complete no-name in this scene and the game being what it is. So I'm working towards that. You're free to believe what you want, but I'm deadly serious about it and this is happening, regardless of what you choose.

If there actually is someone still working on it, and they've gotten a sizeable amount of work done already, I'd appreciate it if I was told, because I don't want to waste my time.

So yeah, that's about it. You'll hear from me when I finish Rain's route.

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>>8493543
He really is a nice guy, you guys are so fucking deluded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493568
Sheeta has staff powers.
Ixrec doesn't care what she does.

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>>8493426
The guy you're talking to in >>8493354 happens to be the translator for Hoshizora no Memoria.

>>8493568
You're trying to talk sense into people who are negative about everything. Good luck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493575
Dat pic

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493552
Go for it.

As someone who adores the game, I welcome the idea of 'not Ixrec' translating it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493552
Go for it, I'm expecting to see your work anon!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493552
Go for it, and get a tripcode so we can keep track of you more easily both live and in the archive, this is the kind of thing that tripcodes are a proper use for.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493552
>If there actually is someone still working on it, and they've gotten a sizeable amount of work done already, I'd appreciate it if I was told, because I don't want to waste my time.
The only thing we know for sure is that Strato started work on it in 2008, and by 2011 only had something like 6% done, so we can effectively consider his effort dead.

[Anonymous No.]

This again... I always found the anti-Ixrec fans' hate unnecessary and ridiculous. He contribute a lot to the VN community, his translations range from solid to good on average, and more importantly, he's the anti NNL and Moogy in terms of translation and behavior, which is a good thing.

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>>8493604
Fuck! That means that the Hoshizora translator was the one thanking me for the breakdown of school days... but there's a problem: I'm the weekly shitposter! /jp/ is a circlejerk.

[Anonymous No.]

Sure is fascinating ITT.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8494207
Spoonfeedmesir.

What's the name of this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8494586
Name is プリズマティックプリンセス☆ユニゾンスターズ

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>>8494155

It's because of the infamous poll and because of the MLA debacle. When he just shuts up and translates what he wants to instead of doing stupid bullshit, he's excellent.

Also, Moogy has never actually translated anything, ever.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8493604
>The guy you're talking to in >>8493354 happens to be the translator for Hoshizora no Memoria.
So in other words, nobody who has contributed anything?

I don't mean to discriminate here though. I consider myself an equal opportunity hater. I think all of the people in question are faggots in their own way.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8494690
Drakoi. Too bad ero is literally holding it back.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8494690
What are you talking about? He translated this masterpiece.
Don't tell me it was someone else?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8494729

He didn't actually translate any of that; he only claimed that he did.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487889

This will be considered a troll post until I see the patch or a post of some sort on the person's site/blog/whatever saying the same.

[Anonymous No.]

Speaking of PSP VN translations. Is there a working link to the Alpha 0.2 patch of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yakusoku? Only link I can find while crawling the web is a dead Mediafire link.

[Anonymous No.]

Goddammit, it looks like everyone in this thread is either a retard that sucks a dildo shaped like Ixrec's dick on an hourly basis, or a retard that hates his guts because he happens to be more productive than they'll ever hope to be.

Worse, it's not even usual /jp/ autism, the whole thread has descended to /v/ level shitposting. I seriously hope everyone is just trolling.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8494879

I tried looking for more. There's the dead mediafire link and there's a torrent on Bitgamer IIRC but they're both unfinished and it seems like the translator dropped off the planet.

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>>8494901
Just lurking until I see this post.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8494901
How about this: I respect how much work he's put into translating but he acts like a huge faggot sometimes. Maybe it's inevitable when you have a persistent identity on the internet, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8494928
I don't care if people hate him, love him or want to fuck him, my point is that there's no reason to act like retarded manchildren in this thread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8494936
That was.. defensive.

>>8494901
I think it was only about three people samefagging, but that's just me.

captcha: lowseme

[Anonymous No.]

>>8494901
How new are you?
The VNTS thread is a soap opera with a new episode every week.

If you don't like that, just read the first four posts then hide the thread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8494981
Not him, but have you not seen some of the posts in this thread? Those were not translation drama, those were translation drama written by 12yr olds.

In any case, let's drop the needless meta.

Question: has any of the games by Team Baldrhead ever been translated? And what others are good besides Baldr Sky and Duel Savior?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495012
Baldr Force EXE is good, and got a Chinese translation, no English translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495017
>got a Chinese translation
That feel when you know a little of Japanese and a little of Japanese but can't read either of them.

I understand that every game by them has gameplay, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495012
Xross Scramble (Duel Savior's noncanonical fandisk) was translated, but it's buggy. The Savior engine apparently uses some crazy format that hackers can't figure out how to put back together right, so DS will never be translated. ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

Good to see School Days is nearly finished.
Might actually be a rare occasion where I actually TRY to get a bad end… wwwwwwww

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495029
That feel when you project being fluent in Japanese around the time Baldr Sky would be translated.

In a way, it's good because I'll read it whatever happens, but on the other hand, I'll lose my number 1 motivation for learning it if I don't manage by then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495052
See, posts like this make me feel bad. For years I've been saying, "Oh cool, [Interesting Game] comes out in a couple of years. I'm sure I can learn enough Japanese by then!"
Over six years later and I still can't be bothered to memorize even hiragana or katakana.

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>>8495043
The problem as I understand it is that everything is indexed somehow, bytecode maybe, within the scripts. If the text changes, then all the references have to be updated too or it'll break the first time there's any kind of flag or goto statement. Xross Scramble is completely linear, so as long as it starts at the right part of the script, it won't 'notice' that everything inside it is in what it thinks is the wrong place. Duel Savior is very much not.

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>>8495043
Please don't spread such misinformation. The engine is from a transition period between the old and new engine that Giga uses making a mixture of the two. There's nothing impossible about it that can't be figured out.

>>8495085
That is pretty much the basics of any bytecoded scripting system and is something that has been handled millions of times in the past.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495056
You can do ir anon-kun!

I learned hiragana and katakana 3 years ago and never bothered with kanji and procrastinated the whole time. I picked it up again 2 months ago and it turned out to be easier than expected, so about 2.5 years should be plenty to be able to read Baldr Sky.

I even tried the Material Brave demo, and while 80% of stuff flew over my head, I at least understood the casual interactions between the characters (so far). If you've been watching anime this whole time, you should manage.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495094
I'll do it tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495043
Can't people pay a hacker fulltime for it until he figures it out? I doubt is is impossible.

>>8495085
Heh, non-cannonical sounded to me like doujin game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495094
You found kanji easier than expected? Did you remember it by learning what stroke actually means for each character? They teach that shit a lot in Chinese classes, but never in Japanese classes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495107
>Can't people pay a hacker fulltime for it until he figures it out? I doubt is is impossible.

And who is going to pay for that shit? Aroduc himself?
I agree that it can be solved though. Would be nice to roll around translated DS.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495107
It's noncanonical like Melty Blood. It follows some kind of non-ending with a few characters having completely different roles. Also, there's the part where characters from about 8 other Giga games are also in it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495125
Maybe that's why Chinese find it easier to learn Japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495127
I'd donate if Aroduc started a donation. Or you could just ask around for a hacker willing to pull through for free, specially someone who really wants to play the game but can't into moon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495127
Considering Dark Translations could pull together hundreds of dollars of donations in exchange for translating, it can be done.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495125
Yes. Mostly the Kohii mnemonics, but only at the beginning. It's pretty cool when you forget the mnemonics but retain the kanji meaning and recall it instantly. That feeling is probably what keeps me cramming kanji everyday.

[Anonymous No.]

Ixrec should open a donation. I'm sure he'd get lots of money.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495227
He's said he doesn't want it and we're not talking about him, fuck off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495239
But I want to start another shit storm by mentioning him again.

[Anonymous No.]

If someone's interested in trying to fix it, I'm pretty sure the Baldr Force tools on TLWiki disassemble it correctly.
http://tlwiki.tsukuru.info/images/8/85/BaldrTools.rar

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495251
>Saying that line with a straight face

[Anonymous No.]

Is Aroduc a masochist? From his reviews he doesn't seem like he has such a shitty taste, but even then he purposely watches shitty anime and doesn't blog the actually good ones.

And why are so many of his commenters retarded? How did they get there?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495267
Who are you quoting with that greentext there, pal?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495271
Arudoc a shit, seriously I hate him so much

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495278
The one being quoted.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495288
I didn't find ">Saying that line with a straight face" anywhere in his post.

[Anonymous No.]

>quoting
>greentext
>who
>you
>pal
>are
Who am I quoting?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495302
You are quoting this man here
>>8495278

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495297
Not meant to be a quote. Anyway...

>>8495286
This is getting ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495310
Oh! Thanks, bro.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495317
For what it's worth, we don't do the whole "greentext" thing here.

Have some pointless links:
http://www.4chan.org/faq#quote
http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3676#section-4.5

Remember: always lurk before you post. Saves you making a fool out of yourself.

[Anonymous No.]

For fuck's sake, I leave the tread a few minutes and it goes back to meta bullshit.

>>8495263
I have the time and disposition, but I'm still a beginner. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495359
So, everyone agrees that 2009 is awesome, but nothing from that year is translated? And only two of the top 10 actually have projects?

Why.jpg

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495271

Chances are anything you consider a 'good anime' is something he hates. He's a contrarian.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495411
To be fair, the Rance 2 remake on Alice 2010 was translated. And there's 4 other games from that year that are actively being worked on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495411
baldr sky, muramasa, hoshizora, majikoi all have a project and that's 5 games. Himegari you're getting Kamidori that is basically a clone. No idea about the other two except Dies Irae and Oretsuba, but translating those is an headache
are people getting way too spoiled or what

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495444
>baldr sky
Haha.
>hoshizora, majikoi
I did say two.
>muramasa
Baldr Sky will probably be translated before this is released, also >it's uncertain what will become of this project.

And Oretsuba is pretty much the one I want to play the most besides BS and Muramasa. By the way, I'm not complaining, just trying to change the topic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495411
I don't want DI translated. God the fanbase would be as annoying as TM.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495470
Now I want to see it translated just for that reason.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495444
死神の接吻は別離の味 is being translated and JAST is doing shit with Yumina.

>>8495411
I wasn't aware that Baldr Sky counted.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495411
Seeing that list, I remember I have to download BALDR SKY.
I'll see if I can find a torr- Holy Hell, how is this even possible? [pic related]

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495513
Japanese people, I assume.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495483
why wouldn't Baldr Sky count?

>>8495513
it's popular and has gameplay so some more normal people could still download it, but that still seems to be bit too high

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495513
I downloaded it 12000 times, just in case.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495526
Gee I dunno, maybe because there hasn't been any sign of life from the translator in years?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495539
did you read the thread?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495539
New anon who just quit his job and will have no commitments for at least the next year or so decided to translate Baldr Sky. Started on January 18th and has finished about two and a half chapters since then. Will not be creating a blog or other dedicated site in order to avoid getting served with a C&D by Giga. Will occasionally post updates on /jp/ or /a/ under Futsuu !!QDZ7jtjNPvp.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495545
Some random unknown guy comes around claiming to be translating Baldr Sky? Definitely seems credible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495539
Are you sure you didn't misquote on that post? Nobody is counting Baldr Sky on that post aside from implying is one of the things that made 2009 awesome.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495557
All his posts combined sounded credible enough, and anyway at this point we're not even really putting our hopes up until he comes out with something concrete.

[Anonymous No.]

What made 2009 so awesome?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495557
well I atleast believe in him

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495572
You, man.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495572
An incredible amount of great to awesome titles.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495556
>>8495557
>>8495569
>>8495576
Wait What? This is the first time I'm hearing about this? What are the possibilities it will end up completed?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495572
Muramasa
Baldr Sky
Oretsuba
Dies Irae
Hoshizora no Memoria
Comyu
Asairo
Natsu no Ame
Yumina
Natsuyume Nagisa
Himegari
Majikoi
Trample on "Schatten"
Steins;Gate
Sakura Sakura

For all the big titles.
Literally half of my top 10 was released in 2009.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495591
>spoonfeeding
At least give him the Japanese tittle.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495586
He apparently only told people about it today.
http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/60646562/#60650170

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495586
Aside from his post here, he posted a little more in this /a/ thread. http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/60646562

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495591
I got 4, such a good year...

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495586
http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/60646562
He seems love the game and have the motivation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495601
The /jp/ archive has moved to http://fuuka.warosu.org/jp/.. Please update your bookmarks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495591
Oh yeah forgot Bengarachou even though I love it.
And Hateshinaku FV + Atori

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495603
I was linking to an /a/ archived thread, you know.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495576
>>8495569
Welcome to the world of visual novel translations. Please do not let it sting too badly when the random people who pop up saying they want to translate something disappear without releasing anything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495603
Autism~

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495614
My apologies. Go about your business.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495627
Already been there and done that, it's not as if I'm new to this specific kind of disappointment. All I'm saying is there's no reason to deliberately say anything bad about him.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495591
What the fuck is Sakura Sakura?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495635
Nobody is saying anything bad about him. People just shouldn't be so quick to believe a nobody either. People who have been around long enough tend to default to "we'll see what happens" instead of "seems enough credible to me!".

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495636
A romance eroge, it got quite a bit when it was released
It's also pretty great which help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvOxi44FeqE

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495569
>all his posts sounded credible enough
Yeah, well, so did those guys who said they'd have Muv-Luv TDA done by Christmas 2011.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495566
My bad, I got the numbers swapped in >>8495483

[Anonymous No.]

If Baldr Sky guy really translated about 4000 lines so far (I believe thats what his post said) we should see Dive1 in about 15 weeks if he keeps up the pace. But we all know that wont happen, expect it in like 25 weeks or so.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495670
There's always hacking properly, editing and all the boring stuff.

[Anonymous No.]

Just wondering about the fan translation scene. How many of these TLs, both VN or anime fansub, actually have an academic background in English composition?

90% of translations reads like something out of a shitty newspaper. Not grammatically incorrect, but dull. If there's no problem with the actual J-E translation itself, there always seems to be some critical English pacing problems.

Is it just a matter of how literal the translations are? Are the editors just being lazy? Or do these guys simply not have adequate skill in composition, nevermind the actual translation theory?

Not hating on them or anything. Just genuinely curious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495676
no translator has studied japanese as a major.

they are all amateurs.

we get shitty translations and usually the meaning is lost in the tl/edit phase.

also go back to /a/ or wherever you came from

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495670
>25 weeks
Nope, we're not seeing it released in less than a year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495676
TakaJun was a Japanese highschooler when he translated Fate.

Ixrec is self-taught in Japanese.

One of the guys working on Fate/hollow ataraxia, memwarno I think, is an employee of Atlus USA as a translator.

So really we have something of a spectrum for translators.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495684
TakaJun is Japanese? Really?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495684
>memwarno
It's mewarmo. Some of his behind-the-scenes obscure hints at what he's working on at Atlus can be pretty intriguing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495676
Sometimes you get kind of fun things, like how gp32 [Narcissu] was a med student, and how Blick [Steins;Gate] is a biomed engineering student.

I think Makoto's one of the few actual Japanese majors.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495684

>is an employee of Atlus USA as a translator

I can't imagine a professional translator actually doing free translations on the side, unless it's only like a PT job. He must be a really boring person.

I think translation is even more mind numbing and autistic than programming for fun.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495684
>Atlus employee
So we can expect professional-grade translation for Hollow Ataraxia?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495691
It's a part-time job apparently. He's posted pics of some free old stuff that he got from Atlus when they moved offices and cleared out the storeroom or something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495689
You can major a language? Damn, I would have loved to do that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495697

>You can major a language?

Wat. How can you not know that English majors exist?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495699
I'm not American, or European for that matter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495692
No. Fate/Hollow has like 5-6 translations that were all thrown together.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495692

"Professional grade" doesn't necessarily mean it's good, especially if it's not done in-house. A lot of times the translators are just given the script to translate, and not the actual source.

Not sure about how it is now, but 10-15 years ago professional translations were very poor, like localized Konami games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495689
I don't know if Makoto was a Japanese major; he just said he's studied it at Berkeley.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495684
But Ixrec's translations are still pretty accurate despite the self-teaching?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495686
His limited English vocabulary really comes out in some of the lines from Fate. Back when they were subbing KnK gg commented that his translations needed some pretty major editing to make them flow well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495713
http://hardcoregaming101.net/metalgear/agnesskaku.htm

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495714

I'd say your output language skill is more important. Reading comprehension for the most part is easi(er) in light genres like VN and anime.

Anybody can look up the dictionary to find the meaning of some obscure Japanese line, but it takes more than a thesaurus to make your English lines flower.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495719

I was talking about Suikoden I and II

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495723
It takes confidence too. A lot of the time, a proper translation should have next to nothing in common with the words actually written so the same thing can be conveyed in a way natural to the target language. Translation, especially of stories where presentation and style is vital, is an art, not a science.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495718
Well, if the Mahoyo trial is written in the same style in Japanese as Fate, the Empty Boundaries guy definitely has a better command of English than TakaJun. Though I'm not sure what to make of his KnK translations, on the one hand it flows very well, on the other hand the atmosphere feels... loose? Can't say much about his choice of terminology compared to what was already accepted by Aniplex and the fanbase though.

[Anonymous No.]

why are people saying izmos is a douche?
granted I haven't been in IRC for well over a year so he might have very well become an ass, but when I knew him he was a cool as fuck dude that tried a lot of vn's and gave a straight opinion and I read many vn's on his recommendation, or his dislike of them just to see if they were as bad as he said they were, like that one about angels with guns from nitro+ where some dude cleans his katana with a girl's vaginal fluids.

that was amazing

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495676
From an editor's perspective, it's a combination of being lazy and not having a formal collegiate education in what we do. Of the editors I know, only Sheeta from Amaterasu is pursuing some English language degree.

All I have going for me in terms of formal requirements and experience is a high school level background in journalism and publishing, content mill writing, and three visual novels. I read contemporary-ish novels in between projects, and one of them is translated from Ukranian, which makes me feel better about how I'm doing.

Most fan translators for Visual Novels and related material (anime, light novels, etc) are self-taught or minimally educated in Japanese. There are exceptions like Takajun and Makoto, of course, but there isn't enough demonstrated money or interest in English-translated VNs to attract any degree-holding giants.

[蝌蚪 (゜゜)～ !!x+mnmrU0sW+ No.]

>>8495723
>Anybody can look up the dictionary to find the meaning of some obscure Japanese line
Anybody can look up the individual words. People still manage to fuck up when trying to figure out where they go (or sometimes don't go) in the English sentence.

[Anonymous No.]

>not listening to the Gulty Crown OST
YSHYGDDT

[Anonymous No.]

Fuck NNL for going commercial.

We could still be having some glorious TLwiki vs NNL battles to this day. Oh god the hilarity.

Hopefully NNL comes back after ef is released or whatever, but i doubt it.
It would be nice to see them fuck with moogy like before.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495843
That feel when you sage a thread in autosage.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495843

NNL threatening no release of EF if VNDB wouldn't change their entry for the game still makes laugh. Good times.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8487378

While that's mostly true, the real problem is he has no fucking dedication and jumps from project to project on a whim. Also, LoL.

[Anonymous No.]

誰かここに未だいるかな。
もしもし？

[Anonymous No.]

>>8496395
How can the thread be doomed to death, when it's only monday?
The talkers ruined this thread for everyone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8496497
This is funny in more ways than one.

[Insemination No.]

>>8496529
But it's Tuesday for me, Anon-kun.

>>8494981
Most of the time, the first four posts are just OP thanking himself. Just sayin'.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8496586
When was I talking about days?

And no, it isn't yet Tuesday for the timezones that matter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486649
Woah, someone is translating Milky Holmes? Great news ^_^

I just hope it finishes unlike all those other PSP projects...

[Anonymous No.]

>>8497175
But cudder, you know that already xD

[Anonymous No.]

>>No.8495411
2009 is the standout year for the medium, which has been on a downhill slide since subahibi's release. why none of those titles have complete translations yet is absolutely ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8497194
Why did you copy the number instead of clicking...?

In any case, yeah, that has bugged me since some anon started talking about translating White Album just days after its release, while so few of those even have active translation projects.

[thoughtless celestial No.]

Why is it so slow???
WHY????
;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>8495745
Mahoyo trial translation finished on Thursday. Some enterprising Russian chap inserted all the text into the trial and released it today: emptyboundaries.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/mahoyo-in-english-in-the-actual-game/

[Anonymous No.]

>>8497223
Ok, first of all - WA2 is awesome and would be a good project

Second of all, Muramasa and Yumina have official projects, Baldr Sky is being worked on, as is Hoshi Memoria, Majikoi is almost done, Steins;Gate is finished... I don't even know what you're talking about

[Anonymous No.]

>>8497374
I'm not in any way implying WA2 shouldn't be translated, mind you.

And we had that talk already. Official works are to be stalled for eternity, and Baldr Sky has barely started if it's even true that that anon picked it up. And nobody is working on OreTsuba or Dies Irae.
HoshiMemo and Majikoi are the only two eroges from that year with a release in sight.

And again, I'm not complaining, I'm just amused.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8497386
Dies Irae had kusoge status initially.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8497504
Whatever you call it, it's never going to be translated. The difficulty of the translation would be very high because of the dense japanese, and it just doesn't have enough interest to inspire that level of effort

[Anonymous No.]

>>8497374
>Muramasa
>Official project
Choose one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8497504
I originally withhold playing Dies Irae because of the threads here calling it shit, I remember one guy in particular who dropped it during Kei's route calling it the shittiest eroge he ever did.
Not very promising so I just thought it was another chuuni shit like 11eyes.

Then I finally did it recently due to the release of KKK and it ended up being fucking awesome, really well written, paced, with great action scenes, great characters and an interesting if crazy setting and plot.
Fucking Kei's route was really intense and awesome too.
This should be a good lesson that I shouldn't listen to some random faggots next time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8498265

Well to be fair the original 2007 Dies Irae was extremely shitty, it basically wasn't even the same eroge, so maybe he was talking about that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8498368
No it was Acta est fabula.
Kei's route only exist in that version

[Anonymous No.]

>>8498368

I did like Marie route in the original though, even if acta est fabula is much better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8498449
What was the difference?

And here I thought all the script changes were improvements.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8490506
It was only one week. also you need to look at their tl interface now - three tenths of a percent in one day. At the rate this game is going that's fairly major.