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[Translation Request] Devils were tempted by ballad of anima...
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Well, for one, the game developer writes paragraphs, not
To put that in perspective, a JP->EN translator runs at $0.02~$0.03 per character. So you can imagine the level of work that is, from cost alone.
To put that in another perspective, if we assume 2:1 JP->EN character to word count, being it comes out to 90K English words, it'd be HALF as long The Fellowship of the Ring.
For the other, any EN translations have to be managed by hand due to the engine. There exists ONE tool I've ever heard of to pull text and put in different text. And that was made for Korean, but would probably only work for that or similar types of languages therein. (It can do English, but we would get text overlap issues fast.)
Because the engine was built for Japanese, and only with Japanese in mind, text run off/overlap is commonplace if not managed carefully. And if not FORCED to work in weird, wacky ways. See this example of Explorer of the Golden Planet, which I'm helping to update, finish, and clean up through no small means. And which highlights the overlap issue I'm talking about.
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Most people don't exactly want to tussle with the muscle of this engine. Not that I can blame them.
When you start looking under the hood, shit starts getting really funky.
Shop screens like the one I've shown above manage where the arrow cursor is by it having SP. Which is just one dev's way of doing it.
tl;dr: Engine is made for Japanese. Nothing else. English work has to be done the long and slow way.
And I'm currently dedicated to pushing out Explorer of the Golden Planet atm.
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
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Maybe? I recall vaguely some people getting some tools to work, but I don't recall which/when.
You can always try, though. I honestly haven't used those tools in an age so it's not something I usually think about.
This is wrong place but I have no idea where to ask. Does anyone have 100% save of this game? I can't find the last f*ng symbol.
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Just a teaser since I've swapped gears to back here for the moment.
Anyway, memes aside, it won't be ready for a while. But I'm chipping back away at this.
The whorehouse scenes are fucking slogs though. SO MUCH text.
I'm hoping once I finish up here, it'll be a bit faster work past that. (But I'm not holding my breath.)
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Anyway, memes aside, it won't be ready for a while. But I'm chipping back away at this.
The whorehouse scenes are fucking slogs though. SO MUCH text.
I'm hoping once I finish up here, it'll be a bit faster work past that. (But I'm not holding my breath.)
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lmao that's hilarious
and nice to see you working on this
i have a question, how long is the story text? like h-scenes aside
just curious
and nice to see you working on this
i have a question, how long is the story text? like h-scenes aside
just curious
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Hard to say without going through all of my documents again.
The author isn't shy about writing, but a lot of it does come from the h-scenes. If I had to guess, the overall character count might be 60/40 h-scenes/story of how much I said there was before (180k characters total).
You have a lot of scenes pre or post boss-fights, in towns, etc. But there's also a lot of text around losing in specific areas, so it's hard to just guess blindly lol.