Hello! About remapping key combinations like that for Demon Returns (AFAIK you have to use the Y+X buttons but I haven't played through that mini-game in a little while), I am not sure how to go about that right now. Maybe if I poked around the code a bit... As for the enabling auto-fire in the ending credits, I think that may be possible, actually. I'll make a note of it and see if I can make that happen, but I would want that to be optional or a secondary patch separate from the main translation patch.
Got it, just making a suggestion. It's certanly not a big deal, but like I said, I was wondering if something like that could be done at some point of the translation if that particular quirk isn't a part of the in-game narrative (like young Arino asking/wondering about the need to use a third button to do a seperate action that could be accomplished just by holding down B or the ingame manual touting the awesomeness of having more buttons to press), since it's kinda making the gameplay a bit too inconvinient for the sake of a single joke, having to change your thumb position on a regular basis whenever you want to use the charged attack. It also could be that they mapped the move to a seperate button as an additional precaution since it's possible to use it by accident when you're standing on top of destroyable blocks over a pit and crouching down, but I'm not entirely sure how likely that is exactly since I haven't beaten that particular game yet and I haven't had that particular scenario happen often enough for it to be a major issue.
Or it could be that Arino pressed the "reset" combination when he was challenging the game during a DVD extra and they wanted to make it sure it wouldn't happen again in the second game if he ever challenged it during another DVD extra after the third game was released, beats me. Either way, make sure to change the graphic for "switch screens" button at some point.
One actual translation correction I noticed based on screenshots posted so far that I'm not sure if anyone pointed out yet is that the lower screen buttons taken from Retro Game Challenge aren't accurate anymore: pressing L+X or R+X during a game no longer switches screens or resets the game, presumably because Y and X are now used in actual gameplay in more than 1 game as a rapid fire button (in addition to the charged attack mentioned above, it's also the "piece hold" button in Triotos DX) and it's all the easier to press either combination by accident.
If you are interested in taking a peek at the translations for testing when I'm ready, I'm more than willing to let you have a look. You seem to have some insight into the Game Center CX background (TV series, characters, etc.) I'm familiar with the content but I wouldn't call myself an expert so I do want others more knowledgable to make sure I didn't blow away a reference inadvertantly or I passed up a chance to make some back-handed reference to something else.
Nah, I don't really know that much beyond watching the translated episodes, I'm having enough trouble just being able to tell the ADs apart and I only really know about the references that the show hammers over your head the most, like the squid jerky mentioned earlier in the thread. I appreciate the offer though.
Can you give any more accurate estimate at this point of the translation how close it is to completion? From what I can tell from your updates so far, it seems that most of the actual text has been translated and inserted and various graphics are in progress of being edited, but I'm not sure how time-consuming the bugfixes and text edits are for this particular game, at least from what I've heard so far it's not as prone to crashing if everything isn't in the right place like Mother 3, for example, assuming the 2 crashes you've reported about so far are the only ones you've run across up until now.
Ironically enough, the game that you'd think would have the least amount of overall text that needs translating seems to have by far the most when it comes graphics that need to be edited, what with the intro letters, titles and lower screen control explanation that Game Training Tool has.
