Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu fan remake translation project.

OK this is both a translation project and a graphical upgrade for this wonderful fan remake.
Here is the game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuBjgele1Do

I guess I should explain for those who don't know
Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu is the Kunio Kun arena fighter that is a great party game, the original suffered from having only 2 Kunio Kun characters (Kunio and Riki who the fan translated rom named it for) and some slow down.
This remake fixes that and throws almost every Kunio character from bit parts to characters that shouldn't even be fighting! also its fan modable! It also has about 100 moves/passive skills and allows 8 person combat in either teams of 2 or free for all.

I spent hours combing through the Japanese fan mod files to pick and choose the upgraded graphics files that keep true to the spirit of the game while upgrading it with things like hair color (The original nes games had only black hair for everyone) and better font, I even took the sprites from a female conversion mod and made some of the female Nekketsu characters that take part in the fighting! After that I went about getting the menus translated.
After getting a screen shot translation guide made up I found out something, the cutscenes are simple .txt files and so are the character names, I then went to work on getting these translated.
What you see here is the work I have so far and sadly for now is all I will have for a while because my translators got scared off by the about 300 lines of text left to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8_-HFA0g1c&list=UU3bXG9gHHZ2wI1V9LR8_y9g&index=2&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlFQtkPySO0&list=UU3bXG9gHHZ2wI1V9LR8_y9g&index=1&feature=plcp
Note the typos and poor grammar have been fixed to the best of my ability since this video.

With this project I need help in two ways
One is a translator for the cutscene dialog, there is very little dialog compared to a commercial release but its still a good amount, good way to get your feet wet. I can localize and rewrite it so I really only need a literal translation.
Second I need a sprite artist to convert a 16 bit kunio sprite into a chibi 8 bit one. I could do this myself but I am damn burnt out and still have 8 more hair sets to make the "Been hit" sprites for and I really don't feel like making another from scratch.

And this isn't too important but I could use someone to figure out how the scripting engine works so I can change the delay between each line of dialog. for example I have one line on the screen for 5 to 10 seconds but another zips by in 3.
Am I allowed to post my beta build? Its not a patch but then again its a fan game. anyway contact me if you want to help and know that sooner or later I will find a translator so those who can't help but really want this to get finished fret not!

That youtube clip makes the game look pretty cool. I can help with translating Japanese -> English. Are there approx 300 lines? or more/less? If that's it then I can easily commit.

That youtube clip makes the game look pretty cool. I can help with translating Japanese -> English. Are there approx 300 lines? or more/less? If that's it then I can easily commit.

There are less actually. I just wanted to make sure I didn't go over. Let me post the links to pastebin

http://pastebin.com/R7RFnDkc
http://pastebin.com/jyGhMS0f
http://pastebin.com/pM9P66SK
http://pastebin.com/dX44bwJL
http://pastebin.com/vRwzTDvN
http://pastebin.com/D7p6ej2m
Its all hiragana too.
I can pm you a link to the game too if you want too.

I played a little of this game, but not enough to really understand who the characters are, particularly how many there are / who is grouped together / to what/to how many \N[3] and other control codes refer! Usually I had an idea of what was going on, but many times "I" could be "we" or things like that. Also, the line starting with "81" and with "121" are mysterious to me. Lastly, I think after the newline character, there is a random amount of spaces to compensate for the speaker's name being on the first line. I sometimes removed it, sometimes replaced with half-width spaces, sometimes left as full-width, so uh. Be careful?

With that disclaimer, here's your tls:

http://pastie.org/3316120    Tigerdemo2
http://pastie.org/3315699    Tigerdemo3
http://pastie.org/3316023    Misuzu
http://pastie.org/3316024    enddemo1
http://pastie.org/3316042    enddemo2
http://pastie.org/3316054    end1

the order might be different from yours. but here they are!

I played a little of this game, but not enough to really understand who the characters are, particularly how many there are / who is grouped together / to what/to how many \N[3] and other control codes refer! Usually I had an idea of what was going on, but many times "I" could be "we" or things like that. Also, the line starting with "81" and with "121" are mysterious to me. Lastly, I think after the newline character, there is a random amount of spaces to compensate for the speaker's name being on the first line. I sometimes removed it, sometimes replaced with half-width spaces, sometimes left as full-width, so uh. Be careful?

With that disclaimer, here's your first pasted section.

http://pastie.org/3315699

[will edit in the others later]

I have to edit it heavily to fit the character limit and such so no biggy. Just make sure they are all on the correct line.
These cutscenes are also event sensitive, one cutscene will have the dialog for 3 different cutscenes depending on how well you do in the game, what character you are playing as and which ending you and going for. So everything will seem disjointed don't worry about that.

Edit: I sent you a private message with the alpha of my translation.

I finished tling all the text you pasted. If there is more/anything else, let me know :O

edit: playing more, i see that this game is really friggin hard? I can't beat the tiger brothers... and I can't do any special moves maybe johnny is a weak character? i picked him because he was visually distinct so i could easily tell which character was mine.

I finished tling all the text you pasted. If there is more/anything else, let me know :O

edit: playing more, i see that this game is really friggin hard? I can't beat the tiger brothers... and I can't do any special moves maybe johnny is a weak character? i picked him because he was visually distinct so i could easily tell which character was mine.

There is a guide for moves online. Every character has 1 to 3 moves and you can open up the txt file to find out which they have.
http://www.freewebs.com/okonogi/kd_moves_list.txt
This is how to use everybodies moves just open the txt file to find out.
Here is a guide to making characters but it can also show you how to find the moves and stats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qun3aTcr7pI
You just have to master how each characters moves work to really get into it. Its fairly challenging but not too much so.

I also will be putting an updated guide into the release once I finish as well as a menu translation, speaking of which if anyone wishes to take a crack at hacking the menus there is an older release that no longer works on windows 7 and is mostly just a fan rewrite that has translated menus, I was thinking you could check out how they did it and apply it to this new release.

Update:
Note I have a case of chronic sinusitis so my eyes aren't functioning quite right due to pressure so this is on hold for about a month. I've been working on this far longer on and off so really there's no worry of this project dying. I will pass the translations to my old translator who will give me a second opinion (Tho these are looking quite good) and then get a guy I know to do sprite work to finish this up and all that's left is a rewrite session and then putting it in (Tedious because you have to copy it one word at a time with the type of font required)