[Spooniest]

I'm a bit on the other side of sober, so to speak, so I hope your mouths won't immediately curl into ironic smirks when I say, "ON! ON! To the completion of the project! And God be with you!"

Heh heh. 

[Burnt Lasagna]

I just played Stage 2' today (PSP version) and his two quotes are

"Thy destination awaits."

And after the screen transition:

"Art thou prepared?"

Alright, here's those screens I promised for anyone who want's to try there own take on the translation. 

[DarknessSavior]

いいところへ案内しよう - I'll take you to a nice place.

覚悟はよいかの - Are you prepared?

~DS

[tomaitheous]

I have ferryman stage 2' finished, but there's an alignment problem.  "Are you prepared?" is 17 characters long. I can modify the SAT for that many chars, but if you decide something different  - I'll have to rehack it again.

 Edit: PM'd patch.

[Burnt Lasagna]

I have ferryman stage 2' finished, but there's an alignment problem.  "Are you prepared?" is 17 characters long. I can modify the SAT for that many chars, but if you decide something different  - I'll have to rehack it again.

...I don't notice any alignment problem?


If it is there, then it's very slight. I personally think it looks good as it is but if you want to fix this then that's fine with me. 

The one thing I do have a problem with though is the fact that he's now saying "I'll take you to a nice place.".
In the other patch you sent me he said "Allow me to take you across." which I think sounded better and he's supposed to be saying the same thing in both scenes.

   

[tomaitheous]

The alignment thing isn't visible per se. But, instead of the text box being two rows of 16 characters - it's now a top row of 18 and a bottom row of 14 (so I could get the "?" on the same line in the next screen). I can change it as needed. "Allow me to take you across" and "Be on your guard, traveller!". Or "Ready yourself, traveller" or "Prepare yourself, traveller!". Etc (yeah, I used the British spelling of the word). I dunno.

 Also, I see you had a bit of trouble getting to the ferryman -


 Edit: Oh, I forgot. The second phrase as less room for text(string space) than all the others for the ferryman. So you don't have a total of 32 chars like normal. Might be best to leave it as "Are you prepared?".

 Edit2: Yeah, "Are you prepared?" or "Be on your guard." are about what fits for the second screen.
 

[Burnt Lasagna]

Um, I just found a game breaking bug. When you get to the ferryman as Richter the game freezes. I don't know if it does this with the ferryman in stage4' ( I haven't tried it with Richter yet).

Edit2: Yeah, "Are you prepared?" or "Be on your guard." are about what fits for the second screen.

I think "Be on your guard." sounds the best.

Also, I see you had a bit of trouble getting to the ferryman -

Friggin crows!

[tomaitheous]

Um, I just found a game braking bug. When you get to the ferryman as Richter the game freezes.

 Hahahaha. So I see.

[DarknessSavior]

"Be on your guard" is an acceptable translation for that. Though, it changes it from a question (with a slightly flair of old, sage-like Japanese) to a statement.

You could also say, for the first one, "I'll take you somewhere nice.", if you need space.

~DS

[tomaitheous]

Ok, I figured out the problem and fixed it. But before I send the patch, we should figure out the text (since it's now hack-isk ascii because of space constraints). The question "Are you ready?" seems out of place. Especially since it's a whole 'nother screen (screen change) before he asks it. Nothing that happens before it, gives it any sort of context. There's no pause or in-game event preceding it that gives hint. I guess it's a forewarning of sorts, as a question. But it just seems odd. "Be on your guard" or "Be on your guard..." seems to fit fine. Although the "..." is probably way overused, it seems to fit here IMO.

 As for the first string, it doesn't necessarily have to be the same as stage 4. The ferryman in stage 2' skips you to stage 3, completely avoiding the boss in stage 2'.   I mean, he's actually taking you somewhere different. Unlike the one in stage 4' who only takes you across.

 

[Burnt Lasagna]

"Be on your guard" or "Be on your guard..." seems to fit fine. Although the "..." is probably way overused, it seems to fit here IMO.

"Be on your guard " without the "..." seems to fit nicely.
 

As for the first string, it doesn't necessarily have to be the same as stage 4. The ferryman in stage 2' skips you to stage 3, completely avoiding the boss in stage 2'.   I mean, he's actually taking you somewhere different. Unlike the one in stage 4' who only takes you across.

That's a good point.
How about "I will guide you somewhere new"?

[tomaitheous]

PM'd patch.

[pemdawg]

Whats this freezing issue?

[tomaitheous]

It has to do with how the game loads sections of the level from the CD. I originally had it coded and tested with Maria, and the main call hook as still there for Richter, but the receiving end of the hook wasn't there on Richter's section. So the game just crashed. And since Richter's SAT sheets are bigger than Maria's, I couldn't just replicate the hook routine in the same spot/sector for his data/chunk. So I moved it somewhere else that has no tie to either of them. It's fixed now.

[Burnt Lasagna]

Yup I can confirm that it is fixed now 
Here's proof.


I've been talking with cubanraul about ways of organizing the text for the intro and I can say that's on the merge of completion as well.

I hope you guys have your ovens per-heated because this lasagna is about to get burnt!
 

[Vanya]

Sweet! Can't wait to try.

[Valkyrie_Ace]

Yup I can confirm that it is fixed now 
Here's proof.

No punctuation?  Even a period would do fine here, it looks a bit odd as is (the same holds true for "Be on your guard" without the ellipsis).  By the way, is it not possible to have the bottom row of text centered below the top row for all of the ferryman dialogue?  Perhaps there is a technical limitation, but I ask anyway because it looks more natural to the eyes.

[tomaitheous]

Hmm. I thought I'd left off ending punctuation for the other ferryman and was doing the same for consistency, but that appears to be incorrect. I'll add it in (there's room for it).

 But the center alignment just seems strange to me for some standard dialogue. Other games don't do normal in game text boxes with center alignment (that I'm aware of off hand, though I'm sure there are exceptions. And probably good reasons for the exceptions). At least, for direct dialogue. And especially for only two lines of text. If there were no ending punctuation, I guess then center alignment would look a little more appropriate.


Edit:
 I ripped the SJIS directly from the ISO for the end credits:

リヒター・ベルモンド
堀川　仁
マリア・ラーネッド
鉄炮塚　葉子
アネット
本田　あつ子
テラ
村田　博美
イリス
安田　亜紀江
ドラキュラ伯爵
石丸　博也
ハンス・ギニター・クラウド
あきろぴと
地獄車中村
Ｓａｎｏｐｐｉ
メタルユウキ
Ｒｙｕｉｃｈｉ
ＡＫＴ
ＮＯＲ
さうしらう
バビット・Ｋ
ＯＰＡ
古川もとあき
いもほれいまい
大沢事務所
ＡＣクリエイト株式会社
スタジオ・音のメルヘン屋
ＣｏＣｏスタジオ
いぬまり
( http://www.pcedev.net/rondo_translation/credit_list.sjs )

[DarknessSavior]

I was able to get these names off the Japanese wikipedia. I'm terrible at name kanji.

Richter Belmond - Horikawa Jin
Maria Renard - Youko Teppouzuka
Anette Renard - Atsuko Honda
Iris - Akie Yasuda
Tara - Hiromi Murata
Count Dracula - Hiroya Ishimaru

~DS

[pemdawg]

Those Credits will need to be changed to be in line with the audio tracks taken from the PSP version, including the new German narration. I'll check the DX Chronicles manual to see if they are in there, otherwise I will ned to borrow my brothers PSP and try to beat the game to get the new roll.