Hacking [In-Progress] Fate/Extra CCC Translation Project

[cj_iwakura]

Well, macaronron said no, so that means we try to do it ourselves. If we can't find another translator, we drop the project. Oh well.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Well, what the hell, EsperKnight got this far, so he still wants to do it. If anyone's interested in translating this from scratch, hit me up.

 

[cj_iwakura]

The outpouring of support on twitter has been overwhelming. We have the script ready to be playable in game, so we either move forward with what we have or not. Neoxephon's roadblock has been overcome, so there's that.

 

[evening]

I'm grateful that you guys have not given up on CCC.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Someone I know from the Ougon Musou project has come forward offering to help. I'll make a new thread when it bears fruit. (Heh, this has to be some kind of record.)

 

[kaikaiser]

Very nice. You guy are awesome for doing this. This game should be Translated. The first was amazing, this one is sooooo much better

 

[Nikki1234]

So how is it going?

 

[Bubadangko]

You guys very awesome for making fate extra ccc english project

 

[Misterman4]

Agreed. Hope it won't take long for it to come out

 

[DragonofLife]

Just here to show my support for this project
Good job and good luck !

 

[alexcocoa]

I´m glad someone is translating this game thanks :3

 

[Deleted User]

Cheering you on!! Thank you for doing this

 

[team28079]

So this is still going on?
If it still do you have any donation for support u guys?

 

[Lycan911]

So this is still going on?

 

[Shizuka]

Also, CJ shared on GAF:

"Also, since I feel like the OP took a shot at our team, CCC will happen in a reasonable time. We have two translators dedicated just to the project."

 

[acedia]

But even if they finish translating the game, is it worth it if it isn't a quality translation?

Isn't this the guy who said, 'I don't care if your Japanese is actually any good; we need whatever help we can get' when recruiting translators for this project? If he's drawing from the Tsuki no Ura translation, then I can assure you that there are some serious mistranslations all the way to the most recent entries, and they aren't the kind of errors that are obvious just from reading the English.

And what I've seen of their translation of that Umineko fighting game has an almost slavish devotion to translating the だろうs and でしょうs and maintaining the original punctuation even when it results in dialogue that reads as awkward and obviously translated. So I'm just a bit worried that one of my favorite games is gonna get a very high profile but not exactly high quality release in English.

 

[Lycan911]

But even if they finish translating the game, is it worth it if it isn't a quality translation?

Isn't this the guy who said, 'I don't care if your Japanese is actually any good; we need whatever help we can get' when recruiting translators for this project? If he's drawing from the Tsuki no Ura translation, then I can assure you that there are some serious mistranslations all the way to the most recent entries, and they aren't the kind of errors that are obvious just from reading the English.

And what I've seen of their translation of that Umineko fighting game has an almost slavish devotion to translating the だろうs and でしょうs and maintaining the original punctuation even when it results in dialogue that reads as awkward and obviously translated. So I'm just a bit worried that one of my favorite games is gonna get a very high profile but not exactly high quality release in English.

There will most likely be proofreaders which will westernize the script before release. I doubt they'll just slap the literal translations in the final release, it'd be the same as using google translate.

 

[acedia]

A westernized script is not the same as a correct script.

Type-Moon has always been a hotbed of bad translations, from Claudia Ortensia's 'No, I love you' in Heaven's Feel to Shirou's infamous 'Just because you're correct doesn't mean you're right' in the recent UBW anime.

The script could be perfectly natural English and still be incorrect, and that's what I'm worried about most.

(And a literal translation is definitely not the same as Google Translate. One is actually coherent if a pain to read.)

 

[Deleted User]

Also, CJ shared on GAF:

"Also, since I feel like the OP took a shot at our team, CCC will happen in a reasonable time. We have two translators dedicated just to the project."

Really looking forward to it!

 

[cj_iwakura]

But even if they finish translating the game, is it worth it if it isn't a quality translation?

Isn't this the guy who said, 'I don't care if your Japanese is actually any good; we need whatever help we can get' when recruiting translators for this project? If he's drawing from the Tsuki no Ura translation, then I can assure you that there are some serious mistranslations all the way to the most recent entries, and they aren't the kind of errors that are obvious just from reading the English.

And what I've seen of their translation of that Umineko fighting game has an almost slavish devotion to translating the だろうs and でしょうs and maintaining the original punctuation even when it results in dialogue that reads as awkward and obviously translated. So I'm just a bit worried that one of my favorite games is gonna get a very high profile but not exactly high quality release in English.

We're not drawing from the Tsuki translation. We're redoing it, and I will be personally editing everything once the translation is complete. Also, the translator I worked with on Ougon is not doing this, if that matters, but I'm of the opinion that Cckerberos did a stellar job, and you're the first person I've seen to voice a complaint. Well, no one commented much at all, but hey.

If you want to show me some examples of the translation, I can look into it.


Also, when I made that APB, I was a little desperate for extra help since the previous translator wanted to take their ball and go home. It worked out. I didn't want anyone to be dissuaded because 'I don't know Japanese that well' or what not, which I hear all the time.