Phantasy Star Nova Translation [We need your help!]

Deleted User · Aug 13, 2018

Really enjoying this! Thank you for all your hard work and not giving up on it!

Nicc0 · Aug 17, 2018

synthsy said:
We have resumed work on this once more! Many changes have been done, also thinking of moving away from using MEGA.

I'm very happy to ear this,SEGA did a huge damage to PS Vita by not localizing this game for western players,it could have been a killer application and boosted the hardware selling but they decided that some of theyr games aren't for the west.
You are doing a big gift to PS Vita community,even more big now that more consoles can be modded,take your time but please don't give up.

synthsy · Aug 21, 2018

Nicc0 said:
I'm very happy to ear this,SEGA did a huge damage to PS Vita by not localizing this game for western players,it could have been a killer application and boosted the hardware selling but they decided that some of theyr games aren't for the west.

Don't fault this on SEGA. This is due to very poor sales of Nova that they felt that if their own audience disliked it, then there's definitely no chance of it surviving overseas. You can find Nova in most bargain bin sales for the vita in Japan.

Hurtz007 · Aug 21, 2018

Regarding string limits on PS Nova... Why not do what I did for my (yet to be released) Gundam 00 DS patch which restricted me to 2 letters per JP character... Do roundabout translations... Aka inaccurate but general translation. Like instead of ex: "The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" just "the fox jumps over the dog"

Nicc0 · Aug 23, 2018

synthsy said:
Don't fault this on SEGA. This is due to very poor sales of Nova that they felt that if their own audience disliked it, then there's definitely no chance of it surviving overseas. You can find Nova in most bargain bin sales for the vita in Japan.

I think that a western release would have done good sales,Vita western players really like the genre and PSN has also very good graphics and the overall style can be liked by a broad playerbase,they should have took the chance but SEGA isn't anymore the company that takes chances,now they go always on safe.

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Hurtz007 said:
Regarding string limits on PS Nova... Why not do what I did for my (yet to be released) Gundam 00 DS patch which restricted me to 2 letters per JP character... Do roundabout translations... Aka inaccurate but general translation. Like instead of ex: "The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" just "the fox jumps over the dog"

This is a very good idea,the important thing here is to make the game playable and the story understandable,no need to strees too much on semantics.

geekboy1011 · Sep 16, 2018

~~Any progress on this?~~ Did you ever find someone to do the patching work?[
Just saw the github repo, Awesome!

synthsy · Sep 27, 2018

Hurtz007 said:
Regarding string limits on PS Nova... Why not do what I did for my (yet to be released) Gundam 00 DS patch which restricted me to 2 letters per JP character... Do roundabout translations... Aka inaccurate but general translation. Like instead of ex: "The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" just "the fox jumps over the dog"

That's not something we can do. Not because of standards, but the text limits are pretty serve. We'd have something like "The fox jumps over".

tutruong16 · Dec 31, 2018

AIDA said:
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Patch updated! See http://arks-layer.com/nova.php for the latest version and help on installing it.

Current status of Nova translation:

- Game dumped, modification possible ✔
- CPK file successfully repacked ✔
- Files modified, patching possible! ✔
- Proof of concept created! LET'S GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD! ✔
- Finish with our new fontmap tool so we can do a proper textdump and find out where all these strings are hiding! ✔

To do:

- Translate stuff! \ o /

Feel free to join our discord channel: https://discord.gg/PSO2

Thanks for reading, and here's to more vita games being translated! o/

How much of it is translated so far?

True Echo · Jan 1, 2019

I would guess 5-8% max, even all tutorials arent translated.

Xandiavis · Feb 24, 2019

Is this still on going?
I just wanted to know if it is still being translated or not..

MDashK · Feb 24, 2019

Xandiavis said:
Is this still on going?
I just wanted to know if it is still being translated or not..

Yes, but more active over here:
http://discord.gg/pso2

Check "vita-psnova" section.

Xandiavis · Feb 24, 2019

Thanks man

Thanos3212 · Mar 30, 2020

https://www.siliconera.com/phantasy-star-online-2-to-end-playstation-vita-support-in-japan/

Now that PS02 is about to die on vita. Will the team finally resume work on Nova?

synthsy · Feb 18, 2022

Sorry for the incredible lack of updates, we got busy with PSO2 junk and now New Genesis. Thanks to a user in our Discord server by the name of kamenest21, the story translation is done. It's currently being proofread by volunteers, and is available to download in our Discord.

We're currently trying to get the cinematic cutscenes translated. They're being rather stubborn as we can shove them back into the game fairly easy, but then the sound on them cuts out no matter what audio encoding we do on them. We've even tried demuxing and muxing the old audio with our hard subbed cutscene video.

EDIT: I figured it out, using this ffmpeg command.

Code:

ffmpeg -y -i INPUTFILE.mp4 -flags +bitexact -vcodec libx264 -profile:v baseline -level 4.0 -s 960x544 -r 29.97 -acodec aac -b:a 96k -ar 48000 -f psp -strict -2 OUTPUTFILE.mp4

Downloads will be available in our Discord.

https://discord.gg/pso2

EDIT 2: Translation isn't "done" but rather at a good point where one could get the story done. DLCs aren't touched and there's some dialog bits that do need to be translated. Once we're ready for a final release, AIDA will update the main post with links and instructions.

Tsukiru · Feb 18, 2022

Oh, cool! I remember trying this out when I first got my Vita. Will be sure to check it out!

Nicc0 · Aug 11, 2022

synthsy said:
Sorry for the incredible lack of updates, we got busy with PSO2 junk and now New Genesis. Thanks to a user in our Discord server by the name of kamenest21, the story translation is done. It's currently being proofread by volunteers, and is available to download in our Discord.

We're currently trying to get the cinematic cutscenes translated. They're being rather stubborn as we can shove them back into the game fairly easy, but then the sound on them cuts out no matter what audio encoding we do on them. We've even tried demuxing and muxing the old audio with our hard subbed cutscene video.

EDIT: I figured it out, using this ffmpeg command.

Code:

ffmpeg -y -i INPUTFILE.mp4 -flags +bitexact -vcodec libx264 -profile:v baseline -level 4.0 -s 960x544 -r 29.97 -acodec aac -b:a 96k -ar 48000 -f psp -strict -2 OUTPUTFILE.mp4

Downloads will be available in our Discord.

EDIT 2: Translation isn't "done" but rather at a good point where one could get the story done. DLCs aren't touched and there's some dialog bits that do need to be translated. Once we're ready for a final release, AIDA will update the main post with links and instructions.

Why the download on discord? I can't find it.

nahucirujano · Aug 11, 2022

Nicc0 said:
Why the download on discord? I can't find it.

Me neither. Which is the Nova dedicated channel?

k7ra · Aug 12, 2022

nahucirujano said:
Me neither. Which is the Nova dedicated channel?

Nicc0 said:
Why the download on discord? I can't find it.

https://discord.com/invite/pso2

Downloads
Downloads are available at our Discord in the #jp-nova channel (appropriate channel roles to see our Japanese section are required).

Nicc0 · Aug 12, 2022

nahucirujano said:
Me neither. Which is the Nova dedicated channel?

Gatekeeping at best. anyway I managed to get through all the unnecessary stuff and finally got the patch after a lot of wasted time.
You need to register a discord account,then register to their server,then click on a tiny sushi icon at the bottom of a wall of text in the section "rules and roles" ,then click the JP nova channel and finally going to the pin icon on the top of the page to open a pinned post where the actual download link lies well stowed away from unworthy eyes.

nahucirujano · Aug 12, 2022

Nicc0 said:
Gatekeeping at best. anyway I managed to get through all the unnecessary stuff and finally got the patch after a lot of wasted time.
You need to register a discord account,then register to their server,then click on a tiny sushi icon at the bottom of a wall of text in the section "rules and roles" ,then click the JP nova channel and finally going to the pin icon on the top of the page to open a pinned post where the actual download link lies well stowed away from unworthy eyes.

Oh, I see. I joined the server yesterday and clicked on the EN reaction icon, but not the JP (I thought it was Japanese speaking server). Just now I'm actually seeing the warning at the end of that pinned post: both channels speak English, just different versiones of the online game, lol. My bad.
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