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Translation progress update for 21th: got to sprite 205 before stopping for an break/if not today. Smoother time today though uh....I am stopping due to sprite 205 as it's Warlord Tartarus and it seems only Google Translate can put any text they speak into readable English.....I can only presume it's because of how the text is written that it's hard to be recognized. e.g. マアイイヤ、テキハコロス! ワカラナイヤツモ、コロス!
25 Days remain to the self-imposed deadline, 278 sprites remain of the 483, 11 sprites a day to finish on time.
PS Would people prefer I make an new post for each progress update or just update one particular post? EDIT: Give Rixen 's post below an like if you would like me to do an new post every time. (Otherwise react to this post with an angry emoji to say to just edit the post)
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(If anyone knows how to embed it into the post let me know as iframe is banned)25 Days remain to the self-imposed deadline, 278 sprites remain of the 483, 11 sprites a day to finish on time.
PS Would people prefer I make an new post for each progress update or just update one particular post? EDIT: Give Rixen 's post below an like if you would like me to do an new post every time. (Otherwise react to this post with an angry emoji to say to just edit the post)
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The advantage of new post every time is that we get a ping that you posted something new, but editing an existing post doesn't do that.
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Translation progress update for 22th: Not done yet but had to post this because .... ONE HOUR AFTER STARTING I finally got this single sprite with 15 unique text entries done. I hope I never end up with another sprite of Warlord Tartarus to translate ..... I'm going to continue translating but oh boy .... what a speed-bump Tartarus in-game and translating. I also don't have much time left today and same goes for the next few days most likely. (ChatGPT uncensored helped me greatly otherwise I would have spent much longer)
EDIT: Stopped now at sprite 233 (in roughly 20-30 more sprites I can see the bottom of the list wuho) I found the text that appears to be in relation to controlling that crystal lizard knight in maybe debug or gallery mode...I can't recall ever finding it but I translated it regardless. Seems I'll meet the halfway point/sprite tomorrow, (241 ish) I hope that the second half is easier than the first.
24 Days remain to the self-imposed deadline, 250 sprites remain of the 483, 10 sprites a day to finish on time.
EDIT: Stopped now at sprite 233 (in roughly 20-30 more sprites I can see the bottom of the list wuho) I found the text that appears to be in relation to controlling that crystal lizard knight in maybe debug or gallery mode...I can't recall ever finding it but I translated it regardless. Seems I'll meet the halfway point/sprite tomorrow, (241 ish) I hope that the second half is easier than the first.
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Translation progress update for 23rd: I've made it to sprite 242 which is where I'm stopping...though more because I'm forced to since uh it's the green alien in the ship whom is an Arms dealer and they have a TON of text it seems as to just go through it all and copy and paste ONLY their name took 20 minutes to do.
From an quick count this sprite has roughly 188 text entries. Which is probably wins it the award of most entries so far for an specific sprite out of the 483 sprites I've translated so far. (It's easy to miss some entries since there's many other entries in between singular ones)
To be fair I was warned about this sprite as TragicSolitude (thank you) found the sprite and well seems like the Dev split up the text for the sprite between it's placement in the stage file and this commonly used sprite file which really doesn't make much sense. (Unless it's due to how player state varies text can only be done via the commonly used one) As they also talk it seems to your Mercs/followers depending on whom you have with you.
So yeah TLDR is that I think this is an few days job since as I said prior I won't have much time for the next few days. (this day included) I think I hear boss music playing...
23 Days remain to the self-imposed deadline, 242 sprites remain of the 483, 10.5 sprites a day to finish on time.
EDIT: Just incase it's not clear, next progress update won't come till I've moved on from this sprite since there's no point in saying what I'm finding out from this until after I've finished the sprite since when I did the first version of the translation I had to go back to starting text entries and redo them due to context the last few gave.
From an quick count this sprite has roughly 188 text entries. Which is probably wins it the award of most entries so far for an specific sprite out of the 483 sprites I've translated so far. (It's easy to miss some entries since there's many other entries in between singular ones)
To be fair I was warned about this sprite as TragicSolitude (thank you) found the sprite and well seems like the Dev split up the text for the sprite between it's placement in the stage file and this commonly used sprite file which really doesn't make much sense. (Unless it's due to how player state varies text can only be done via the commonly used one) As they also talk it seems to your Mercs/followers depending on whom you have with you.
So yeah TLDR is that I think this is an few days job since as I said prior I won't have much time for the next few days. (this day included) I think I hear boss music playing...
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(If anyone knows how to embed it into the post let me know as iframe is banned) also anyone know of any good looping boss music songs for me to listen to?23 Days remain to the self-imposed deadline, 242 sprites remain of the 483, 10.5 sprites a day to finish on time.
EDIT: Just incase it's not clear, next progress update won't come till I've moved on from this sprite since there's no point in saying what I'm finding out from this until after I've finished the sprite since when I did the first version of the translation I had to go back to starting text entries and redo them due to context the last few gave.
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I remember the Promised Consort Radahn theme, especially first phase, was in my head on repeat for I shit you not an entire month after SotE's launch. Someone made like a 1hr loop of the first phase on YT.
Gehrman's them is awesome, too. Honestly just most Fromsoft boss music...!
And if you need something more chill, the AC Shadows soundtrack is excellent especially when working on translating/modding Japanese games lol! Plus they're apparently releasing a lo-fi version on 27th Mar
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Translation progress update for 28th: I re-emerge from the depths.....victorious. The sprite has been defeated....also defeated the sprite for the KSG boss. Oh and got to sprite 286 which is Jackhammer's one. I did also not work at all on a few days since it seems like me saying "not have much time" meant I'll have 0 time at all to spend on translating which is why I only got to work again yesterday and today. (I was hoping to beat 242 yesterday but fell asleep during my break)
But hey I can finally see the bottom of the sprite list as I'm already roughly 10% of the way down it thanks to most of those above sprites being text-less ones for the KSG boss fight. (specifically it's parts that you can target and destroy)
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Translation progress update for 29th: Not much to really say about this except that I was late with getting this update out and even working on translating today. I do suspect that I've stopped just at the final boss of the game due to it's sprite. Oh I guess something I can say is that most of the sprites I've met today were filled with talking text that had little changes in it based on the general situation....though some are just straight up copy and pastes that I believe are due to something with the player's state (normal, horny and futa) so the text can't be just put into one entry.
Anyway here's an story very minor spoiler twist if your interested: Did you know that if you meet Jackhammer after beating AET (KSG's boss/president despite being an AI) he then becomes the remnants self-proclaimed boss? I didn't till now since it's very easy to meet him before you beat AET.
18 Days remain to the self-imposed deadline, 180 sprites remain of the 483, 10 sprites a day to finish on time.
Anyway here's an story very minor spoiler twist if your interested: Did you know that if you meet Jackhammer after beating AET (KSG's boss/president despite being an AI) he then becomes the remnants self-proclaimed boss? I didn't till now since it's very easy to meet him before you beat AET.
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Translation progress update for 30th: Well then....this was productive I'll say and also uh....I'm going to be mentioning two big things one is an story spoiler kind of so I'll say that last. That means I'm going to first report that I got to sprite 332 which is the Outlaw Merchant you see sometimes around and can purchase ammo and weapons from, their name is【Black Market Merchant Onyx】but sadly due to encountering them I decided to stop for today. As menu translating can be eerrghhh plus they have dialogue, BUT FINALLY I found where this guy lives in the game since during the first translation attempt I was bewildered by how I couldn't find this guy to translate...Black Market people certainly have their tricks eh? ;P
Anyway the rest of this is going to be spoilered so....bye and hello those who wish to know the story spoiler....just incase you didn't there's a second spoiler thing....because reasons.Alright so the spoiler is that the final boss of the game has unquie dialog if you have present the Blue Alien Follower/Merc Stront that you help significantly in his fight against Warlord Tartarus in the purple ship zone/area. It's been so long I can't remember if you just need to help them or they are actually an recruit-able Merc/Follower....but yeah I believe from their dialogue they are one of the intended Mercs/Followers your meant to have when to go to the final boss.
17 Days remain to the self-imposed deadline, 151 sprites remain of the 483, 8.8 sprites a day to finish on time.
Anyway the rest of this is going to be spoilered so....bye and hello those who wish to know the story spoiler....just incase you didn't there's a second spoiler thing....because reasons.Alright so the spoiler is that the final boss of the game has unquie dialog if you have present the Blue Alien Follower/Merc Stront that you help significantly in his fight against Warlord Tartarus in the purple ship zone/area. It's been so long I can't remember if you just need to help them or they are actually an recruit-able Merc/Follower....but yeah I believe from their dialogue they are one of the intended Mercs/Followers your meant to have when to go to the final boss.
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5498353155 had it on my to do list for several years.... just been constantly pulled away from it and also messed up a bit too with staying on it. (See this post for further context) You can see
EDIT: Apparently I started this 5 years 10 months and 8 days ago according to this website:
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Which I uh just realized I never posted about this deadline thing on there so I'm off to quickly post an update there.EDIT: Apparently I started this 5 years 10 months and 8 days ago according to this website:
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Translation progress update for 31st: So this is my first report/update where I say, I did not do that many sprites today that the count I need to do per day has increased as a result. But I have a good reason...that dang Onyx had over 54 entries with text in them and half of them were doubled up....and worst yet is that some were duplicates with slight changes in just a few letters. As a result even though I've spent more than double if not triple the time per day on him I barely got him done. (I think I've been doing roughly 2-4 hours on average per day) I did try to move onto those sprites with white letters on them (see my earlier post with screenshot) which uh....yeah I called it there when I realized after the first few they are sprites of characters scattered around with one time lines or you can talk to. The most fun characters to translate as I got no context and have to re-translate their names each time.
As a result, after I did a quick run through to the end of the list where I tried and copy and paste the talk text into all entries. I'm done for today at sprite 338....man am I glad I've built up/reduced the sprites I need to do per day by getting a lot more done earlier. But I'm also sad with myself that I don't think even if I came back to this after a break I can reach my daily minimum target.
One final thing, I won't be posting for the 1st of April because....well I would be tempted to then pull a prank that would be in bad taste. Also I have an personal thing that will likely mean I won't have the time to do much.
PS Warlord Tartarus still sucked more as Onyx was mostly copy and pasting after checking if the words changed.
16 Days remain to the self-imposed deadline, 145 sprites remain of the 483, 9 sprites a day to finish on time.
As a result, after I did a quick run through to the end of the list where I tried and copy and paste the talk text into all entries. I'm done for today at sprite 338....man am I glad I've built up/reduced the sprites I need to do per day by getting a lot more done earlier. But I'm also sad with myself that I don't think even if I came back to this after a break I can reach my daily minimum target.
One final thing, I won't be posting for the 1st of April because....well I would be tempted to then pull a prank that would be in bad taste. Also I have an personal thing that will likely mean I won't have the time to do much.
PS Warlord Tartarus still sucked more as Onyx was mostly copy and pasting after checking if the words changed.
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Translation progress update for 3rd: So I may have been kept busy that I also didn't do any translating on the 1st.....then I also got caught up with attempted catch up on the 2nd so today is why I am doing the update rather than yesterday. However I have made it to sprite 373 and as a result reduced my daily sprite requirement once again so made up for dang Onyx....although I stopped today as a few sprites before I had an very tricky and new character to translate for their name is Popo....no seriously, I was also confused. Problem is with this new character is that I have no idea if they are an early, mid or late game character you meet. I do know that you have a lot of chances to save them from enemies though which confused me further since I don't personally recall an purple haired cyborg (with green clothing) that I saved a ton. So uh if you happen to know/remember it would be useful to know since I two of their text entries could change massively depending on where they usually are.
Anyway nothing else really to say about that since well....now I have less than 2 weeks to finish before my deadline but less than half the sprites to do which some I suspect have no text to translate for. However once again that doesn't mean translation will be ready to release right after since I'll probably spend an week to check if I missed anything (which then I'll have to translate) and then start and test run/playthrough to see if it generally works. (Doing an comprehensive test would be painful since some text lines occur from the smallest of choices or routes you take to get around and avoid bosses or zones) It will reveal if I need to redo my work as it is extremely easy to delete entries and save it as I did so in the past once already.
No idea how long that will take especially as it will be the first run I'll ever have had to do of the game where I've had to read carefully....and I haven't played through the game for nearly 5 years.
I don't think it will take too long though. (Hey there future people, did I foreshadow it taking long?)
13 Days remain to the self-imposed deadline, 110 sprites remain of the 483, 8.4 sprites a day to finish on time.
Anyway nothing else really to say about that since well....now I have less than 2 weeks to finish before my deadline but less than half the sprites to do which some I suspect have no text to translate for. However once again that doesn't mean translation will be ready to release right after since I'll probably spend an week to check if I missed anything (which then I'll have to translate) and then start and test run/playthrough to see if it generally works. (Doing an comprehensive test would be painful since some text lines occur from the smallest of choices or routes you take to get around and avoid bosses or zones) It will reveal if I need to redo my work as it is extremely easy to delete entries and save it as I did so in the past once already.
No idea how long that will take especially as it will be the first run I'll ever have had to do of the game where I've had to read carefully....and I haven't played through the game for nearly 5 years.
I don't think it will take too long though. (Hey there future people, did I foreshadow it taking long?)
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13 Days remain to the self-imposed deadline, 110 sprites remain of the 483, 8.4 sprites a day to finish on time.
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Translation progress update for 4th: Today I pre-wrote most of this as I did work earlier than usual and may have time to do more later but need to now take a long break due in part to why (if I did nothing more past sprite 390) I have been slowed down and feeling roadblocked with trying to finish up this section of sprites with the white letter on them. They keep popping up with more and more NPC conversations with you ;-; so more translating of conversations and also and correction I had to redo to previous sprites. Since there's an sprite that was named as "Android Soldier 1/2" rather than "Pioneer Android" which was I used the first version for translating names of sprites so far till sprite 390 where makes it dead clear to me that it should be the second version. This is due to fact that there's been numerous android soldiers but they all have their affiliations clear in their pre-translated text, meanwhile this one has been constantly flip flopping to a degree (it isn't the only one) and it has finally clicked to me that with all other Pioneer units they've had their affiliation in their name alongside type so why should this be different....?
Anyway yeeep had to go back and redo more than a few text entries of an few sprites to switch the name over. I am hoping to complete sprite 390 as I think after doing so (and presuming there's no more text heavy sprites after it which I doubt) I'll finally get past sprite 400 so the remaining count goes to double digits.....wait a second...*does quick calculation that usually leaves to the end* oh shoot already in double digits now...
So uh...guess I'm going for reducing the number then instead as an stretch goal today? Which uh sadly I did not do much as I got to sprite 392 where I called it since it is an cutscene of finding the drone which I translated in the past and disliked doing so I recall.
12 Days remain to the self-imposed deadline, 91 sprites remain of the 483, 7.5 sprites a day to finish on time.
Anyway yeeep had to go back and redo more than a few text entries of an few sprites to switch the name over. I am hoping to complete sprite 390 as I think after doing so (and presuming there's no more text heavy sprites after it which I doubt) I'll finally get past sprite 400 so the remaining count goes to double digits.....wait a second...*does quick calculation that usually leaves to the end* oh shoot already in double digits now...
So uh...guess I'm going for reducing the number then instead as an stretch goal today? Which uh sadly I did not do much as I got to sprite 392 where I called it since it is an cutscene of finding the drone which I translated in the past and disliked doing so I recall.
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Translation progress update for 5th: Honestly short update since it's been translating short lines of various characters with them not really saying anything worthwhile.....though that cut-scene I did get to and stopped at yesterday is not for the start of the game but in fact it's the Volcano area.
EDIT: Just quickly editing in that I got to sprite 408 as I realize that I didn't mention that when I first wrote this. (Only noticed as I check for this when I'm checking sprite remaining numbers and such as I'm doing the next update post)
So I guess I'll extend this by saying if I got some quick calculations correct, my average sprite per day so far is apparently has been 20 but I'd argue it has been in the range I've been aiming for before of 16-18 since there's been more than a few days where my numbers were boosted thanks to textless sprites or just lock-on name ones. As a result an estimate ETA to finish these sprite is 3-5 days but that's if another massive text filled sprite like the weapon list appears or another Warlord Tartarus for that matter...
PS Onyx's bodyguard confirmed to be an grumpy boi that will just repeat lines if you keep trying to just say hi to him and ask him how his day is ;-;
11 Days remain to the self-imposed deadline, 75 sprites remain of the 483, 6.8 sprites a day to finish on time.
EDIT: Just quickly editing in that I got to sprite 408 as I realize that I didn't mention that when I first wrote this. (Only noticed as I check for this when I'm checking sprite remaining numbers and such as I'm doing the next update post)
So I guess I'll extend this by saying if I got some quick calculations correct, my average sprite per day so far is apparently has been 20 but I'd argue it has been in the range I've been aiming for before of 16-18 since there's been more than a few days where my numbers were boosted thanks to textless sprites or just lock-on name ones. As a result an estimate ETA to finish these sprite is 3-5 days but that's if another massive text filled sprite like the weapon list appears or another Warlord Tartarus for that matter...
PS Onyx's bodyguard confirmed to be an grumpy boi that will just repeat lines if you keep trying to just say hi to him and ask him how his day is ;-;
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Translation progress update for 6th: So before I write anything more I stopped at sprite 457 today as I forgot to mention where I stopped yesterday....oops. Anyway that's an massive amount of progress you might have noticed and well there's a good reason for that, a bunch of text-less sprites (mainly terrain and object) however I did call it because I did a bit after them where there was text filled sprites. (not heavy amounts)
But as a result now there's only 26 sprites left to do.....though I'm fairly sure 5 of them are text....heavy-ish or could be fidgety to deal with since some look to be Merc/Follower Sprites which have uh weird and very compact text to show their stats. (rather descriptively honestly) So I have to get creative with the words I choose since I usually have to switch or shorten words as Japanese words are generally shorter than their English counterparts. It has meant that I've been really pushing it with presuming that this and that will be understood as I hope it to be.
Anyway this jump has given me an massive amount of leeway in my deadline as you can see below, but as I said above I think what I have left now is mostly text filled sprites rather than text-less ones so finishing tomorrow is extremely unlikely I believe....finishing in 3 days though...that is on the cards for sure. (if Monday doesn't take up my personal time as it could easily it seems) Fun fact btw, I've had to setup my side mouse buttons to copy and paste since it doing it via keyboard is surprisingly easy to mess up or get cramps.
Edit: Look what I just found and posted below. (
10 Days remain to the self-imposed deadline, 26 sprites remain of the 483, 2.6 sprites a day to finish on time.
But as a result now there's only 26 sprites left to do.....though I'm fairly sure 5 of them are text....heavy-ish or could be fidgety to deal with since some look to be Merc/Follower Sprites which have uh weird and very compact text to show their stats. (rather descriptively honestly) So I have to get creative with the words I choose since I usually have to switch or shorten words as Japanese words are generally shorter than their English counterparts. It has meant that I've been really pushing it with presuming that this and that will be understood as I hope it to be.
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Anyway this jump has given me an massive amount of leeway in my deadline as you can see below, but as I said above I think what I have left now is mostly text filled sprites rather than text-less ones so finishing tomorrow is extremely unlikely I believe....finishing in 3 days though...that is on the cards for sure. (if Monday doesn't take up my personal time as it could easily it seems) Fun fact btw, I've had to setup my side mouse buttons to copy and paste since it doing it via keyboard is surprisingly easy to mess up or get cramps.
Edit: Look what I just found and posted below. (
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Just a heads up that ie (いえ) is highly contextual and doesn't always mean 'No' - it's often used as a form of 'don't mention it' (basically a more casual way of saying 'you're welcome'), and is a very common response to a thank you. It's also used in response to compliments, and it's also the word for house, funnily enough!
In this particular case the ChatGPT translation is actually pretty perfect, other than the 'No' which should be changed to fit the context above.
Getting text to fit in specific spaces is what's taking me longest with translating the new game as well, really does highlight how cumbersome our language is
idk if you've tried it already yet, but adjusting the X and Y coordinates for the text itself (the rightmost ones are pixel by pixel, as opposed to the leftmost which are tile by tile):
Has been a great help in fitting larger bodies of text which would've otherwise fallen off the bottom of the screen:
I haven't yet played Golden Planet so I'm sure you may be dealing with a tricker format / tighter space, but hopefully this may help somewhat!
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