ROM Hack [Project] The Great Ace Attorney (Dai Gyakuten Saiban) Fan Translation

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I suppose it depends one whether or not they'll want to translate DGS2.

At first I was wondering if the Japanese characters would use honorifles like calling Holmes "Holmes-san" but I got over that really quickly.
 
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Is the translation going well? I was just wondering because its nearly been a year since this thread started.
This is a hobby for us. We have jobs or go to school.

Now why would you say this in regards to DGS2? This may just be me but it seems like you have everything you need for it and it will be easier now that you did this. So I'm just curious if this is a direct no or a maybe. Do you mind clarifying @Uwabami ?
I don't know how you could interpret that as a "no". I said I can't speak for every team member and I haven't really taken a poll for it - so I can't tell you for sure if everyone is on board. I'm sure at least some are - I for one look forward to digging into the files of DGS2 and I'll order it as soon as it's listed on play asia. And yes, I'm sure most of our tools should work with DGS2 as well - we'll see.

At first I was wondering if the Japanese characters would use honorifles like calling Holmes "Holmes-san" but I got over that really quickly.
Yeah, we won't have honorifics - they sound silly in English and DGS is not some weeb-y dating sim :ha:
 

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and I heard that the game is racist in some aspects and CAPCOM EEUU didn't like that...
I specifically heard that the game has a number of instances of casual racism towards the Japanese characters and I heard in a Did You Know Gaming video that some have speculated that this may have played a part in why the game has yet to leave Japan because Capcom may be concerned that people will get upset at this and accuse the developers of having a problem with the Japanese.

Like I haven't seen the entirety of the game yet but I've heard of and seen instances like apparently one character says all Japanese people look the same, the same or a different character calls Ryuunosuke a yellow devil and accuses him of using oriental black magic, and in a subbed video I saw, Ryuunosuke asks Susato what exactly a closing argument is and Baron Van Zieks shakes his head and says something along the lines of "Asserting a right despite not knowing what it is. How indeed like Japanese people."

Which to be honest seems to me like a bit of a stupid accusation to make seeing as this is a game made by Japanese people. -_-
 
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I specifically heard that the game has a number of instances of casual racism towards the Japanese characters and I heard in a Did You Know Gaming video that some have speculated that this may have played a part in why the game has yet to leave Japan because Capcom may be concerned that people will get upset at this and accuse the developers of having a problem with the Japanese.

Like I haven't seen the entirety of the game yet but I've heard of and seen instances like apparently one character says all Japanese people look the same, the same or a different character calls Ryuunosuke a yellow devil and accuses him of using oriental black magic, and in a subbed video I saw, Ryuunosuke asks Susato what exactly a closing argument is and Baron Van Zieks shakes his head and says something along the lines of "Asserting a right despite not knowing what it is. How indeed like Japanese people."

Which to be honest seems to me like a bit of a stupid accusation to make seeing as this is a game made by Japanese people. -_-
That just seems stupid. A lot of people hate other people. It's nothing new. It probably won't go away until all the people die... I guess it's sort of like self-hating Jew thing. http://www.newsweek.com/sarah-silverman-jew-israel-gop-self-hating-575370
 

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I specifically heard that the game has a number of instances of casual racism towards the Japanese characters and I heard in a Did You Know Gaming video that some have speculated that this may have played a part in why the game has yet to leave Japan because Capcom may be concerned that people will get upset at this and accuse the developers of having a problem with the Japanese.

Like I haven't seen the entirety of the game yet but I've heard of and seen instances like apparently one character says all Japanese people look the same, the same or a different character calls Ryuunosuke a yellow devil and accuses him of using oriental black magic, and in a subbed video I saw, Ryuunosuke asks Susato what exactly a closing argument is and Baron Van Zieks shakes his head and says something along the lines of "Asserting a right despite not knowing what it is. How indeed like Japanese people."

Which to be honest seems to me like a bit of a stupid accusation to make seeing as this is a game made by Japanese people. -_-
Have you ever heard of SJWs? Yeah, they don't care about historic accuracy (which imho the game is regarding racism) or that the game was made by Japanese people in a Japanese company. Remember Resident Even 5? Capcom probably does...

That just seems stupid. A lot of people hate other people. It's nothing new. It probably won't go away until all the people die... I guess it's sort of like self-hating Jew thing. http://www.newsweek.com/sarah-silverman-jew-israel-gop-self-hating-575370
No, that's different. It's an accurate portrayal of people's attitude at that time. It doesn't have anything to do with self-hatred or critism.

Just curious, how do you guys work on the translation? Do you all know each other in real life and meet up to work on stuff or is it all online and you have a sort of shared folder that all of the team members can use and edit?
We have a Discord server and a git repository. I think only very few of us know other team members IRL.
 

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Have you ever heard of SJWs? Yeah, they don't care about historic accuracy (which imho the game is regarding racism) or that the game was made by Japanese people in a Japanese company. Remember Resident Even 5? Capcom probably does...
I swear, if it did turn out that this was the reason we haven't got an official localisation of the game, because some idiots can't seem to grasp the concept of historical accuracy considering this game takes place at the end of the 19th century (The year 1899 I believe?) when stuff like casual racism was unfortunately a lot more common, I will die a little bit inside from the sheer ridiculousness.
Even if it turned out to be the copyright stuff with Sherlock Holmes I'd understand because that at least makes sense.
 

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I swear, if it did turn out that this was the reason we haven't got an official localisation of the game, because some idiots can't seem to grasp the concept of historical accuracy considering this game takes place at the end of the 19th century (The year 1899 I believe?) when stuff like casual racism was unfortunately a lot more common, I will die a little bit inside from the sheer ridiculousness.
Even if it turned out to be the copyright stuff with Sherlock Holmes I'd understand because that at least makes sense.
Why does it have to be one reason? They probably made a list of pros and cons and decided against it.

Pro:
* Make a niche fanbase happy

Con:
* Probably lose money after localization / marketing and maybe licensing (Doyle Estate) costs due to low projected sales (AA and VN in general don't do as well in the west)
* Doyle Estate keeps on claiming they own Sherlock Holmes despite the Copyright being expired for quite a while now. Means legal trouble if they refuse to license Holmes despite him being public domain now
* Either piss off SJW or purists by keeping or removing racism

They looked at the list (that I made up, they may have had other points) and made a decision based on it. So risking losing money, getting bad PR and legal trouble outweigted the fuzzy warm feeling of making their fans happy.

This is my guess, mind you. I don't know CAPCOM's real reasons.

If you want to show them they're wrong, import the game! They know how many copies are sold through play asia & co. - money talks!
 
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Touche.
There's probably a reason for it that I'm just failing to notice, I have no idea what working in a company is like after all, but I don't get why Capcom haven't said anything about why they're unable to release the game elsewhere beyond "Certain circumstances are kind of getting in the way."
Because now I'm just left wondering what exactly these circumstances are.
 

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Touche.
There's probably a reason for it that I'm just failing to notice, I have no idea what working in a company is like after all, but I don't get why Capcom haven't said anything about why they're unable to release the game elsewhere beyond "Certain circumstances are kind of getting in the way."
Because now I'm just left wondering what exactly these circumstances are.
Again: low sales projections, legal risk and PR trouble.

As to why they won't outright tell us: ask Koei Tecmo how complete honesty worked out for them when they told fans why Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 won't come to the west. Not that I'd compare DGS to a cheap soft-porn game... :ha:

Edit: Oh, and I won't rule out completely that a sleazy rag like Kotaku would rip DGS for its content. The difference between us and CAPCOM here is: we don't care, since we don't sell anything.
 
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If Nintendo haven't region locked 3DS, I would consider it. I'm not importing to show Nintendo their decision sucked. Voting with my wallet.
Well, the same hacks that make our translation possible also disable the region lock. And how is that decision CAPCOM's fault? Don't expect support from us if you plan on stealing the game.
 

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Well, the same hacks that make our translation possible also disable the region lock. And how is that decision CAPCOM's fault? Don't expect support from us if you plan on stealing the game.
They and other publishers could have demanded Nintendo make their console region free or wouldn't support development on it. They could still do it, not that it would matter much at this point. Anyone who really wants region free already has it.

I wouldn't be asking support for pirated game. I'm sure someone will share a pre-patched CIA and 3DS on the internet and provide support for people that need it. There are whole sites full of pirates. Not that I'm saying I would pirate it or any one else should. I don't think I'm the target demographic. After looking into it, I think this is a game that I might buy from the bargain bin. I'm going to stop now since it's getting off-topic.
 

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They and other publishers could have demanded Nintendo make their console region free or wouldn't support development on it. They could still do it, not that it would matter much at this point. Anyone who really wants region free already has it.

I wouldn't be asking support for pirated game. I'm sure someone will share a pre-patched CIA and 3DS on the internet and provide support for people that need it. There are whole sites full of pirates. Not that I'm saying I would pirate it or any one else should. I don't think I'm the target demographic. After looking into it, I think this is a game that I might buy from the bargain bin. I'm going to stop now since it's getting off-topic.
Piracy is not allowed on this site and we don't support it either. Nobody "needs" to steal a game - if you don't like the game or don't appreciate our work - why comment in this thread? If you don't have any questions or anything constructive to share, please leave.
 

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I know DGS2 isn't even finished and you're far from finished on this, but just out of sheer curiosity, on the off chance that any of you did decide to translate DGS2 do you think you would keep the number in the title or make a different title like the fan translation team for Investigations 2 did?
 

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