Translations: "Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream" English translation released

[RHDNBot]

Update By: Cargodin

"This is the story of Porch Arsia, a young girl who was mistakenly taken to the afterlife by a novice spirit guide named Straynap. If Porch is going to leave Napple World, she'll have to tap into the power of the world's mysterious residents and collect her six petals. Can Porch gather all of the petals that escaped her body and return to Real World in one piece?

From the team that brought you Terra Phantastica, with a 70+ song soundtrack by legendary composer, Yoko Kanno, and vocal performances by Maaya Sakamoto, welcome to Napple Tale!"

Just after its 19th anniversary, Cargodin and Esperknight's English patch for this Dreamcast action-platforming classic has finally been released!

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[Delirious17]

I am absolutely lost on how to patch this...??  (I have my game files ready to patch but the .bat says they are invalid whichever 2 formats I try using...??)

[akualung]

Thanks a lot for this new translation! Didn't know almost anything about this game, I'm intrigued to know how it is. I hope my Core 2 duo is able to handle Demul.

[xnamkcor]

I am absolutely lost on how to patch this...??  (I have my game files ready to patch but the .bat says they are invalid whichever 2 formats I try using...??)

When I dragged a CDI it seemed to work.

But a CDI isn't an actual ROM. It's just some hacky format the community invented so they could burn DC games onto CDs.

As much as I like that it makes it more straightforward for me to burn a CD of this Translation and play on my real DC, I'd rather they made a patch for the actual GDI.

[Rolly]

It should be applied to the CDI image, preferably for the DCCM group release avaialble on web.
You will find all the important information in the Readme file.
Only Discjuggler CDI image is supported, not work on GDI or other rips (es. Redump). CDI is universal image to all emulators (like Redream, Flycast, NullDC, Demul) and real console.

[Pennywise]

It seems to me that translating a disc image that has been modified to work on emulators is akin to translating an (S)NES ROM that has been hacked to work on Nesticle or ZSNES.

Seems to me that it's completely unnecessary given the advancements in DC hardware modding. AFAIK, you can replace the GDROM with a SD card reader to play on hardware.

Anyhow the problem is that technology advances and eventually your hacks become unnecessarily archaic and obsolete.

[xnamkcor]

It should be applied to the CDI image, preferably for the DCCM group release avaialble on web.
You will find all the important information in the Readme file.
Only Discjuggler CDI image is supported, not work on GDI or other rips (es. Redump). CDI is universal image to all emulators (like Redream, Flycast, NullDC, Demul) and real console.

The ReadMe is missing File Size Expected and any Hash values. It also doesn't say to use a CDI. And the batch file even says to use an ISO file, which isn't the actual file type you're supposed to use.

[butane bob]

This has been on my "to play one day" list for years. Thanks for your hard work. But unfortunately being .cdi only I won't be playing it any time soon.

[xnamkcor]

This has been on my "to play one day" list for years. Thanks for your hard work. But unfortunately being .cdi only I won't be playing it any time soon.

Couldn't you recompile the GDI from the CDI after it's translated?

Burned it to a disc and it didn't boot. Oh well...

[SCO]

Converting from cdi back to gdi is not that easy apparently.

If people manage that could a concerted effort be made to turn the few dreamcast translations that exist into redump compatible patches? I don't like the current progression of things where every patch uses a cdi base from ancient pirate dumps apparently.

I guess it's because some DC fanatics have a hardware attachment to read cdi or read a cdrom burned from cdi, but that's not a good reason imo.

[xnamkcor]

I use hardware because It was easier to just buy a Dreamcast for 35 USD than it was to buy the computer parts needed to run an emulator well enough.

[Malias]

I just finished the game and I really enjoyed the translation.  I did notice a couple of things that were distracting.

• After I check Porch's Memo once and check it again, all the text disappears.
• None of the text in the Pamera Room was translated

Otherwise, this was a pretty quality translation.

[anotherswitchanon]

Is it possible to provide the files so whoever wants to patch their gdi image they can?

I prefer to have gdi so I can have an organized collection of chd for Dreamcast emulation.

[Sessh]

I just finished the game and I really enjoyed the translation.  I did notice a couple of things that were distracting.

• After I check Porch's Memo once and check it again, all the text disappears.
• None of the text in the Pamera Room was translated

Otherwise, this was a pretty quality translation.

This. The first thing makes the memo unusable. It seems to load fine when I first load the game from VMU, but any time after that and all the text disappears except for random times the memo will be correctly populated with useful checklists and stuff. Quite annoying.

(Edit: It is entirely possible that this is an emulator issue that can be fixed.)

There's quite a few spots where there is untranslated text to the point that it's surprising none of the people who tested the patch saw it. It makes me think no one tested it at all at least not thoroughly.

- during the tutorial about how to use the stuff in the machine room, there's untranslated text.
- after remixing a Paffet, the text is untranslated most of the time especially at the beginning of the game though later on, it's translated.
- when you give the planter to Mrs Willy, there's one word in the text that is untranslated.
- Porch frequently has spoken dialogue (when first arriving in a stage, when viewing the card collection at Ice 13, after certain conversations/events, when loading a game, when starting a new game, when collecting a health item etc..) that has no translation as to what she's saying.

I'm still playing through it and I love the game/translation overall, but it is definitely not a full translation. I imagine the memo bug may be CDI related as it's a hacked format created by removing data from the image to make it fit on a CD. I will echo the sentiment of others here; there should be a way to patch GDI versions of this game. Also, dragging a CDI onto the patcher doesn't work for me at all and no GDI version exists. It's about time we got rid of the hacky CDI formats really especially with translated games.

Hopefully, we can get a v1.1 version eventually with the translation finished and hopefully the memo bug fixed if possible. I don't imagine that bug would exist in a GDI/CHD patched version, but maybe something in the translation messed it up. Either way, it should probably be sorted. I have no idea how several people could have tested this patch and not seen all these issues. Oh well, I still love the game so far!

[Cargodin]

This. The first thing makes the memo unusable. It seems to load fine when I first load the game from VMU, but any time after that and all the text disappears except for random times the memo will be correctly populated with useful checklists and stuff. Quite annoying.

(Edit: It is entirely possible that this is an emulator issue that can be fixed.)

I'm still playing through it and I love the game/translation overall, but it is definitely not a full translation. I imagine the memo bug may be CDI related as it's a hacked format created by removing data from the image to make it fit on a CD. I will echo the sentiment of others here; there should be a way to patch GDI versions of this game. Also, dragging a CDI onto the patcher doesn't work for me at all and no GDI version exists. It's about time we got rid of the hacky CDI formats really especially with translated games.

Thanks for pointing these out! I've been watching people play on streams, and I haven't seen all* of those issues, but I'm very aware of certain fixes that need to be made. Something that happens on and off between patches is that, at times, not all of the documents will swap properly. It's been the finicky nature of Esper's reinsertion tools, but I'm putting together a list of instances where that's going on. (For example, Kiye's Great Bridge should be Klein's Great Bridge in the final draft--> think Klein bottles). The pamera room also didn't swap properly, but I can assure that the text is 100% translated and ready to go.
Simply a technical issue that's been a pain in the butt for all involved.

Still, glad you're enjoying it! Everyone's been a bit busy lately, but hopefully when the new year rolls in we can pick back up and provide a GDI patch.

[Sessh]

Hey, man. Good to get a reply right from you and good to know those issues are known. I think there was another place this happened, but I can't recall now. I wish I would have kept better track, but I listed most of them. If I see any other instances, I'll let you know.

Also, is there any chance you will add subs for things Porch says when there's no text box?

About the Memo being blank issue, this only happens when using a patched CDI and occurs for me in both NullDC and Redream. If I use the GDI I have, the memo loads fine every time no matter how much I go in and out of the menu. It seems to be limited to the patched CDI version only as far as I can tell.



This is also true for the "missing platforms" glitch you mention in the documentation for your patch. In the Japanese GDI, the platforms (in the Once Summer level, for example) appear fine in the same emulator that they don't appear in with the CDI. So, being able to use a GDI would also eliminate that issue as well with some emulators. If I use the CDI with NullDC's most recent version, the Radar doesn't load properly. It's just an outline instead. You can see that in the second image below where the platforms do show, but in Redream they don't. However, using the GDI in Redream, the platforms are there plus the radar works.

Redream (CDI)


NullDC (CDI) (Image is cropped a bit, but you can see the radar is just an outline with a black triangle in it)


An interesting note about this glitch is that it's possible to use Bridgino to cross the gap and complete the level even without the platforms there, but the bridge has to just barely be touching the platform Porch is standing on to get the most length.

I also notice other little glitches with the CDI such as Porch getting stuck on the curbs that line the pathways in Napple Town when trying to walk over them though it's easy enough to break free of it. I couldn't get this to happen using the GDI.

I hope you had a good holiday and that a GDI patcher will be available soon! Again, great work by you and your team on this patch.

I took a screenshot of the Mrs Winky Japanese characters and other little oddities:
(I won't bother taking screenshots of the paffet room since you're already aware of that.)

Shadows show through the text boxes. Is this supposed to happen? Makes it slightly harder to read the text at times.



Mrs Winky Japanese Characters:



Little spelling error: "Harpischord" should be "Harpsichord".



Typo here with "the" appearing twice.



Typo in the Memo (first viewing, of course.. so it's populated) missing a space between "Littlemoney's" and "mansion" in the description box.



More Japanese characters.



"Dextirity" should be "Dexterity"

[Sessh]

Thanks for pointing these out!

That's all the corrections I found in my first playthrough. I decided to put them all in one message, but there were events that did not trigger for me in game and so I couldn't complete everything. Maybe I just didn't do things at the right time, I don't know. I will play again.

Events that didn't trigger for me:

- Gomes and Garg never kidnapped Booster even after I remixed Cageum for him. None of the events related to this happened either which means Jackson never asked for the milk maker.
- Ralph never needed any help, so Wananan was never requested. None of the events with Ralph happened. Cole also never requested the Grandfather Clock or the Weathervane.
- I wasn't able to "bring back" Lewis from his dream state. Jill was not in any of the Summer levels and Oliver never helped me remix Gehtorin.
- Straynap never requested the signboard (Kambii?) for Ice 13.
- Mokumokun was never requested by Barnes
- Never figured out what Pumpernel wanted.
- Never figured out the Summer ice cream flavor despite getting all chests in all levels.

At any rate, I can see why you loved the game enough to translate it. I really enjoyed it and your translation. I will continue adding things to here as I play through a second time. I hope that I can help to make v1.1/GDI patch as good as it can possibly be! Great work again!

Also, in the beginning song, the word "tail" appears several times, but is it possible that you mean "tale" there? I would assume "tale" meant "story" like in the title?
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I think "pull her punches" is the correct term you're looking for here.



Typo here with "she's" appearing twice.



"Here, here" should be "hear, hear" as this term is just a shortened version of "hear him/her, hear him/her".



The plural of "ego" is "egos", not "egoes."



Here is the Japanese characters in the tutorial for the remixer I mentioned before. I would say Japanese characters appear about 50% of the time in the text that follows a successful remix of a paffet.



Is "brusted" intentional? Maybe "busted"? Also, "Melle" be "Mele" if it's referring to the NPC Mele in the game.



"Make" appears twice here.



"Embarassed" should be "embarrassed", forgot an R there.



Is "the every sun" what you intended? It doesn't seem to make grammatical sense and I'm not sure what he means by "the every sun." I'm assuming you meant to say "see the sun every once in awhile."



More Japanese characters (I triggered the Booster theft this time. This is talking to Jackson while looking for him. The dialogue also ends with "It went down" and there's nothing else after it not even a period. Is this an incomplete line? Actually, it looks like the lines are just scrambled all up. It looks like it should read "Then that means... Ah-hah! It went down (Japanese characters) St.!)



More Japanese characters again when talking with Jackson this time while getting dirt on Gomes.



More repeating dialogue this time "to the Cattle Bar" appears twice.



More Japanese characters this time after Gomes drinks the golden milk.



There's an extra space here between "make" and "the"



"Why" should be "What" here.



I'm working on figuring out how to trigger all the things I missed the first time and now triggered saving Lewis. In the scene with him and Jill, it looks like one of Lewis's lines is being spoken by Jill. I will post that line and the line immediately after it. I think the first line should be spoken by Lewis, but it's attributed to Jill instead.





More Japanese characters this time while about to give Wortelpuff (chimney) to Bellowood (fireplace) in Barnes' house:



More Japanese characters when giving Sitene (chair) to T'blitella (table) in Barnes' house:




*Update about missing platforms glitch*

So, I actually figured out what's going on. It's not that these platforms aren't loading. They load normally. You can see this for yourself by entering the bonus level in the area. When you exit the bonus level, the platforms are there as normal. Also, if you just haul ass to the end, they will be there as well.

These platforms would normally follow a pattern: Protrude out of the waterfall so Porch can land on them, stop for a second or two, then retract back into the waterfall and repeats indefinitely.

What's actually happening is if you sit there long enough (a minute or two) and watch them, the protruding part doesn't stop for a second or two. They just keep going and float away into the foreground and vanish. It's weird. Also, this doesn't occur using an unpatched CDI. Additionally, neither does the Memo bug. It seems the patch may be having some other undesirable effects in addition to the Japanese characters and repeating dialog in some areas.

Red platforms appearing normally to the upper right and left of Porch (hauled ass to the end of the level before they float away, red platforms below the platform I'm standing on are not affected by this.)



Red platform to the upper right is already off the screen and red platform to the left is almost off the screen way in the foreground. It comes out of the waterfall (protruding), but doesn't stop coming out and just keeps going until it's off the screen and gone.



Porch standing on the platform as it goes off the screen. Porch is being pushed off of it by the edge of the level.



Japanese characters again in the Cattle Bar



In the credits, it says "Ale'ssandro Verrecchia (Faggot)" .. second line from the top. Is it supposed to say that? I checked to see if an obscure instrument had that name, but couldn't find anything.

[Sessh]

Thanks for pointing these out!

Okay there, Cargodin. I think that's about all I can find. I hope all that helps you improve the next patch. This is truly a fun game that I'll probably play a few more times since I play on doing a video for it eventually. Also in the paffet room, I was going to list all the ones that had Japanese characters after remixing them. However, it seems just about all of them do. Furniture paffets do if they weren't requested by anyone at the time of remixing, but if they are requested, it usually displays english.

Thanks again for your efforts! Look forward to the next patch!

[arromdee]

In the screenshot used above to point out the word "brusted", the sentence "it sprolls past a swallow on its way" appears.  My dictionary does not include the word "sprolls".  Maybe "rolls"?

[FCandChill]

In the credits, it says "Ale'ssandro Verrecchia (Faggot)" .. second line from the top. Is it supposed to say that? I checked to see if an obscure instrument had that name, but couldn't find anything.

It should be spelled "fagott" or "fagotto"... "Faggot" is simply a homophobic slur. But if it were me, I would use the more innocuous name for the instrument, the "bassoon"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassoon