[Release][Alpha] Nora and the Time Studio: The Witch of the Misty Forest - Translation Project

Notes

Hello,

This is a personal translation project for the Nora to Toki no Koubou: Kiri no Mori no Majo game, I've been working on it for a few weeks and I wanted to share a demo (alpha) version with you.

As a disclaimer I have to mention that this is my first attempt to translate a game, I'm not a romhacker and I'm not a graphic artist. And also you should know that my level of Japanese is very basic, for that reason your feedback is more than welcome.
Also I should mention that none of the terminology is final and changes may be made in future releases.
If you want to know more about what has been translated you can visit the link in the changelog section. Keep in mind that this is an alpha release.​

Game description

Screenshots

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Spoiler: More screenshots

Download

GitLab Project:
https://gitlab.com/nora-project/nora-translation-project

How to patch

https://gitlab.com/nora-project/nora-translation-project#usage

Changelog

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• v0.1-alpha

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  https://gitlab.com/nora-project/nora-translation-project#v01a-2020-03-27
  

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Credits

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• Credits

• 
  https://gitlab.com/nora-project/nora-translation-project#credits
  

• Tinke (Graphics Un/packer) https://github.com/pleonex/tinke
• Swiss File Knife (Command Line Tools) https://sourceforge.net/projects/swissfileknife/
• Crystal Tile 2 (Graphics De/compressor and more) https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/818/
• Aseprite (Sprite Editor) https://www.aseprite.org/
• HxD (Hex Editor) https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

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Enjoy~​

 

Thank you, I'll keep it in mind. Someone with a more advanced level of Japanese would speed up the translation process by a lot.

 

I'm not actively looking for a translator. But if someone were to be enough interested in helping to translate this particular game as to contact me, then I'd be interested in their help. I already opened a thread in the RHDN Personal Projects section, but I'd keep in mind your suggestion to post in the Help Wanted section, thanks.

 

Thank you, is good to know that there are people interested in this game

 

Hi, that's great, I'll contact you via PM to discuss how you would like to contribute to the translation project; or if you prefer to use a different contact method just let me know. Have a nice day!

 

Hi everyone, this is a quick update to announce the state of the project. I must mention that through the past year the project didn't progress very much, due to several circumstances I wasn't actively working in the project, IRL matters. But my translator partner translated a lot of the project files, mostly all of the non-story event scripts have been translated and inserted.
Regarding the story scripts, the bad thing is that not much progress had been made in terms of quantity, the good thing is that all of the story scripts are inserted following the same process, this means that these can be inserted into the game right after they're translated.
Also, I managed to translate/edit many more of the graphic assets, including a few problematic ones; the rest of the yet untranslated assets had been identified in their majority, except a couple sign board images. I should also mention that among those untranslated images there are several graphics heavily artistic (?), most of them contain places names and board signs, like this. I'd try to get some help to edit these images and try to mimic the font used, as this goes beyond my images editor amateurish level.

This list includes most of the new advancements:

Graphics

• All the main menu buttons
• Save/Load screen
• Shopkeeper menus and windows
• 51/67 character name labels
• Item icons have been modified
• Extras section labels and windows
• Some of the Requests windows and labels have been modified
• Garden harvest/reap floating buttons
• Forest touch buttons (Go Home, Collect more, To Hinterlands)

Spoiler: Screenshots

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Text scripts

Common:

• Monsters file (enemies list)
• Monster BA (Enemies descriptions)
• Skill (names of the skills and their affects in battle)
• Skills BA (Skills descriptions)
• Chara (characters names)
• Chara book (characters descriptions)
• Collect (names of the places where you can collect items)
• Feature (messages used when collecting items)
• Item (list of items)
• Item book (descriptions of the items)
• List BGM (Playable BGM list)
• List Ending (Playable Endings)
• List BG (Background list)
• Map Link I (Places/nodes you can visit in town 1)
• Map Link T (Places/nodes you can visit in town 2)
• Map Link W (Places/nodes you can visit in the overworld map)
• Request event (Messages used when completing requests)
• NPC Messages (well...)
• Text Data Screen Shop (Shops strings and dialogues)
• Doukoku (Alchemy strings and dialogues)
• Text Data Screen Request (dialogues used when doing requests)
• Text Data Screen R Map (collecting items messages)
• Text Data Screen Sai (messages used when collecting items in the forest)
• Text Data Screen W Map (collecting items in the world map)

Event dialogues:

• 3-20
• 849-851
• 860-870
• 875, 888, 890
• 1173
• 1253-1256

Spoiler: Screenshots

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Thanks!
Don't worry about it, thank you for trying to help .
Well, I think all the graphics yet to edit have some degree of font (not pixel art as the one I linked to, just normal fonts or small fonts).

At the moment I can't remember if there are any graphics that I could ask you for help with, but if you were to identify any element in the screenshots that you might like to retouch, just leave a message and we can discuss it. For example, I still don't know/ haven't done my research on how to insert a translation team logo screen, yet I have in mind to design one, your help might come in handy with that.
Cheers