Okay folks, here's the deal.
I spent a decent amount of this afternoon working on the first part of Chapter 00's script. For the most part, the translation is easy and fun, but VERY slow going, because I spend a lot of time looking stuff up. It's going to take me a long time to get all the way through the Chapter with my level of Japanese.
BUT...
I'm willing to keep working on this chapter if we can get other people working on the translation as well. All 9 chapters are roughly the same amount of text with the exception of 05 and 07, the latter of which is a BEAST at 265KB. The other two sections Logue (I'm assuming the Prologue) and Trial are only about a 1/3 of the size of the chapters, so I began working on Trial as well. Probably about an 1/8 of the way through that since it's mainly "No~!" "Please stop!" "Do not want!" and the like. Only thing that makes it take time is mixing it up a little bit so it doesn't get stale.
So core of what we will need is A BUNCH of other folks working on translation. My contribution to this will be "Chapter 00" and the "Trial" folder, but I need other Japanese speakers to step up and do whatever work you can on the rest of the game. That's Chapters 01-08 and the "Logue" folder.
After that we need people who can put this text into the game, so we can see how it looks. I know next to nothing about rom hacking, so I won't be of any help in this area. Perhaps we can start by putting in the text I've uploaded, and seeing how it works. For all I know, it may have to be formatted differently.
Finally, we also need some people to get to work on the graphics, because I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of them in the game.
Time for some linkage:
This .rar file contains all the files I worked on today. Some of the translations are incomplete, but that's because I got frustrated and moved on to something else, or I didn't have enough time to finish them today.
These are the script files I was working off of today. Credit goes to Joystick for posting them earlier in this thread. I assume they're complete.
These are the names I was using in my translation today, although I also routinely cross-checked with
wikipedia!. Credit for this translation goes to Noitora earlier in the thread.
I have been using
emeditor for my translation thus far and will continue to do so, unless someone tells me that another program is better. Feel free to make recommendations, as long as it won't screw up what I've done so far.
Questions? Comments? Want to help out? (Say yes to the last one please) Drop a comment here or send me a message, so we can all be a little organized about this. Thanks!
EDIT: Oh, and one more thing:
Bad Translation of the Day
Just out of curiosity I stuck "???????????." into
babelfish. It's supposed to mean something to the effect of "You're not going to stop, are you," but babelfish decided that a better translation was "It does not stop, it is with the shank"
