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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: Need quick help from a Japanese reader

« on: August 14, 2011, 05:46:43 pm »

Just curious, what game is this?

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: Kimagure Orange Road Stuff

« on: July 19, 2011, 10:33:57 pm »

The one dialogue with Master is one of the instances when you call him on the phone and he talks to you. Generally, you're asking him about what's going on with Madoka.

Thanks for the Romeo & Juliet reference; would not have caught that without you guys.
July 26, 2011, 07:45:55 pm - (Auto Merged - Double Posts are not allowed before 7 days.)

『能力のことなんか、マスターに相談できるわけがなく・・・』

Something about not being able to talk about "The Power" with Master. I'm wondering what purpose "なんか" and "がなく" are filling, though.

*Note: 能力 is usually translated as "The Power" in the manga; it's the term used for Kyosuke's ESP

おじいちゃん「うぐっ・・・ま、まあ　それはさておき、恭介、おまえは予知夢を知っておるじゃろう。今までわしは、特にその予知夢ははずれたことがないのじゃ。昨夜ご先祖さまが現れての、そのことをわしに告げられたのじゃよ

Grandpa:Ugh... well, setting that aside. Kyosuke, you know about the ability to see a foresight dream, don't you. Until now, I haven't had the experience of a foresight dream. Last night, your honored ancestor appeared and informed me of this.

おじいちゃん「ばかものっ！　信用せんのか！　あ～なさけない。隆、お前からも言ってやってくれ。」

Grandpa: Idiot! (?)! Ah, how deplorable.  (?).

おじいちゃん「そういうことじゃ。恭介、お前はどう思う？」

Grandpa: Well, with this information. What do you think, Kyosuke?

おじいちゃん「みなのもの、よく聞くんじゃ。ここからが大事なんじゃ・・・実はただひ\nとつ、能力を消さない方法があるんじゃよ。」

おじいちゃん「ゴホッゴホッ・・・う～む、むせってしまったわい。」　ガクッ

おじいちゃん「・・・そ、それは・・・一刻も早く子孫を作ることじゃぁ～っ！！」

おじいちゃん「よいか、期限はこの夏休み中じゃ。それまでに嫁っこを決めるのじゃぞ。・・・まちがってもふたりはダメじゃぞ。

おじいちゃん「恭介、ひかるちゃんとデートできなくて残念じゃったの。おっと、わしはこれから用があったんじゃ。」

Having a lot of trouble with the Grandfather's type of speech.  All of these are from the same conversation except the last one. Also wondering how to render an equivalent "old man"-type of speech in English.

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Kimagure Orange Road Stuff

« on: July 19, 2011, 12:19:55 pm »

Working with Esperknight on a translation of the Kimagure Orange Road game for PC98. Have a few passages so far that need a second look.

今日から待望の夏休み。思いきりハネをのばしたいところなのですが・・・。

From today, the long-awaited summer vacation.  The spot where I can extend my wings with all my strength...

広瀬さゆり。かわいさを武器に、美男子（ハンサム）ハンターが趣味というとんでもない超ブリッコタイプの女の子。恭介のことで、まどかに対抗意識を燃やしている。

Sayuri Hirose. Her cuteness is a weapon, her appearance hides her terrible hobby as the "handsome hunter". Has a burning feeling of rivalry with Madoka because of Kyosuke.

父　　「おまえももう高校生だろう。いくら夏休みだからといっても、やることがあるだろう。」

Dad: You're also already a high school student. (???)

マスター「電話でも言ったけど、元気出さないと、まどかくんが悲しむぞ。」

Master: I talked on the phone, (?), Madoka is sad(?)

馬　男　「ああ、牛子さん。あなたはなぜ、牛子さんなんだ・・・」
牛　子　「馬男さん、あなたこそ、どーして馬男さんなの？」

Umao: Ah, Ushiko. Why, why are you
Ushiko: Umao, you, why are you?
(The joke in the Anime is that these characters always are saying the same romantic stock phases. Any thoughts toward a good substituteas opposed to a straight translation? This doesn't feel quite right somehow.)



Also, the main character's sisters call him おにーちゃん fairly often. To me, translating this as "brother" all the time seems a bit weird; I think it works better if they call him by his name. Thoughts?

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: The Screamer stuff

« on: May 19, 2011, 12:49:22 am »

Well, it's been a while since I've worked on this, but I'm getting back to work on it. I hate leaving a promising project like this dangling, and this should help me practice Japanese over the summer. Just one piece of text right now, it's one of the messages from the owner of the weapons store:

...なんか　いりようかい？　まあ、じっくりえらんでいってくれ。

The use of なんか is what has me confused here.

I currently have this translated as "Whadaya need? Well, make your choice carefully." It doesn't seem quite right, though.

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News Submissions / Re: Translations: Yugekitai: Saikyou Kami Fukkatsu Yuki Kan translation complete

« on: June 30, 2010, 10:38:00 am »

You get a little bit of extra dialog if you beat Arai, otherwise winning or losing the other fights don't change anything; you can't lose the game. I wouldn't say that's a bad thing; in the original PC88 version and the sequels, these minigame sequences had a more annoying format; and you couldn't advance in the plot until you won at them.

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News Submissions / Re: Translations: Yugekitai: Saikyou Kami Fukkatsu Yuki Kan translation complete

« on: June 30, 2010, 06:39:38 am »

There isn't a save system, unfortunately, and Anex86 doesn't support save-states. It's not a huge issue because the game is pretty short, and you can't ever lose.

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: The Screamer stuff

« on: November 07, 2009, 12:57:07 pm »

Hmm, Junkie is the name of one of the monsters, I still don't think that sentence makes any sense, though.

How should I deal with the backwards text, then?

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: The Screamer stuff

« on: November 07, 2009, 02:50:39 am »

I can't help out much with the context, most of these seem to be part of the conversations between the player and the other Screamers. I haven't seen very much of this text in-game so I don't know what actions will show which pieces of text or which character the text belongs to. I plan on inserting the rough translations for the time being and then testing the conversations extensively, and note which instances of text don't make any sense.

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: The Screamer stuff

« on: November 06, 2009, 12:34:16 pm »

Hmm, even with that there still isn't enough room to fit that all in.

There are a few passages that my translator had trouble with, and several more that I need help editing down.

1ついいこと
おしえてやるよ。5Fのと(のと might also be ID in Latin Encoding)
すてました。
I'll tell you of something good. 5F's ID was resigned(?).

いなずもを　かけぬける
You dodge a lightning.

ビーストに　きた　ほうこうは
From the direction where the Beast came from(connects to something else)

ペンダントは　でんせつを　よんだ
The Pendant read a legend.

ジャンキーは　そとに　だしてくれる
Junkie helps you leave(Junkie might be referring to the character named Junks, no idea here)

だんこりろ　は　ちまりそ
Conclusion is it's bloody(My translator guessed on this one, and says it sounded unnatural)

サムライは　あかい　かざりを....
Samurai is putting on some red decoration...(the word decoration seems weird here)

The next few need to be cut down to fit into the game.

ジゴク(Not sure on Katakana there)は　てんごくに　ある
There is Hell in Heaven

たたみデ　しにたい
I want to die on a tatami mat

もうだめだ....かげに　きおつける
Don't do that... Be careful of the shadows

かえりだよーーーー
It's time to come back...

カポリスは　りんぐにより　はなす
Caprice(?) is talking about the Ring.

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ROM Hacking Discussion / Re: Japanese games with content cut for the USA versions

« on: November 03, 2009, 10:42:03 pm »

There's this obscure PSX flight sim called Wing Over that was localised with "improved" dialogue and names and a "better" title screen background, and was "purified" of the scenario mode. They even swapped your starting plane with that of another pilot because it was Japanese. It's a shame, because the game is actually pretty interesting (though the AI is fairly basic).

How does this game compare other PS1 flight sims? I thought I had played all the other flight sims on PS1, but this title seems to have escaped me because it was Japan and Europe only, I think.

And back to the main topic,  Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari got Americanized when it became River City Ransom, and one of the 2-player modes was removed.

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: The Screamer stuff

« on: October 28, 2009, 09:10:49 am »

Okay, I need help cutting down some text here.

ナチにやると　よろこぶぜ。
Dealing with Nazi makes me happy.

I have room for 22 characters in this spot, so I can only fit in "Dealing with Nazi make" and I can't think of a good way to shorten this sentence but keep the meaning. Any thoughts?

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Personal Projects / Re: nonme345's Translation Projects

« on: October 21, 2009, 11:22:46 am »

Thanks. Are you using Windhex to display the text, because I haven't been able to get text to show up properly. More important, does this encoding support single-byte text?

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Personal Projects / Re: nonme345's Translation Projects

« on: October 20, 2009, 09:24:32 pm »

I noticed that you were working on Atata Meccha Special by TKO Soft and I was wondering how you were able to view the Japanese text. I've been looking through other TKO Soft games and I noticed that they were coded in Basic but the code where text is supposed to be displayed seems to use Latin characters instead of Japanese characters, depending on the game. How did Atata Meccha's text show up?

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: The Screamer stuff

« on: September 28, 2009, 10:45:07 am »

You're right, I wrote it wrong. Thanks.

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: The Screamer stuff

« on: September 27, 2009, 08:49:48 pm »

It seems that no one noticed these two passages. I have someone working on the script now, but it would be nice if anyone could translate these two sentences for me.

きょうも　あつとめ かい？
kyoomo atsutomekai?

まいど　ごくろうなこたが、　まあ、　しっかりかせでくるんだな。
maido gokuroonakotaga, maa shikkarikosedekurunda na.

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: The Screamer stuff

« on: September 11, 2009, 10:41:59 pm »

I thought it would be something similar, so thanks for clearing that up.
Now, I have made an attempt at transliterating all the monster names. Not 100% on any of these, so I have uploaded them.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=21KPJ6BK

Can anyone double-check these? Thanks in advance.

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: The Screamer stuff

« on: September 11, 2009, 10:01:54 pm »

Well, I didn't have enough space for the last part, so the whole section is "There's a lotta crazy people out there, you know".

I'm going through the in-game menus right now, and there are two weird options in the Weapons store:

か　う
ka u
う　る
u ru

What are these supposed to mean?

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: The Screamer stuff

« on: September 11, 2009, 07:52:46 am »

Thank you very much, sir.

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: The Screamer stuff(Recent edit)

« on: September 10, 2009, 01:12:52 pm »

Ah ha. I realized where I screwed up. I got confused and thought that those passages were part of narration instead of being dialogue of a character. Thanks for that.

Edit:
Okay, a few more sentences here. I think I have the first two but I'm not sure. The last 3 I have no idea on.

OK,　かくにんした。
OK, kakuninshita
OK, confirmed(?)

おまえ を　とうろくずみの SCREAMER として　みとめる。
omae o toorokuzumi no SCREAMER toshite mitomeru
Your Screamer registration has been recognized(?)

とおっていいぞ。
tootteiizo

こんど,　いっしょに　さけでも　のもうや!
kando, isshoni sakedemo nomouyo

まあ, おたがい いきていたらの はなしだが..
Ima, otagai ikiteera no hanashi da ka

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Script Help and Language Discussion / The Screamer stuff

« on: September 10, 2009, 10:24:36 am »

My Japanese has improved considerably lately, and I've been getting back to work on this game. I'm working on getting the first menu translated.
Right now, there is a passage on the first screen that has been troublesome.

なにせ いのちしらずが おおくてね,
Nanise inochishirazu ga ookute ne

かおを  おぼえきれないのさ
kao wa oboekirenainosa

Can anyone help with this? Thanks.