Dogshit Localizations

[Oyster Sauce]

Sword World, a Japanese TTRPG, has received a fan translation



And a fan translation for the Mega Man Legends 2 prologue comes out tomorrow

[Faceless_Sentinel]

Sword World, a Japanese TTRPG, has received a fan translation

By the way, do you have some place where you collect good translations, either fan or not?

[Oyster Sauce]

Sword World, a Japanese TTRPG, has received a fan translation

By the way, do you have some place where you collect good translations, either fan or not?

I don't. It's one of those things where if the translator does an amazing job nobody will care/notice. ROMhack sites that host fan translations normally have a section for reviews, but I find they're not very active.
That said, you can often just ask yourself if the 57 year old Japanese man writing the game used the word "farthead" and filter out the worst localizations.

[gerey]

It used to be that fan translations were pretty faithful to the source material, since only someone truly passionate about the game would devote so much of their free time to translate it.

More recently the usual suspects have begun shitting out butchered translations laced with their politics.

[LemonDemonGirl]

Wow, I didn't know they fucked Animal Crossing: New Horizons that hard (except for the Girl and Boy thing).

Also I'm sorry but adding
"I love going on message boards and complaining about games I've never played!"
to the English version of Paper Mario is pretty funny lol

[Faceless_Sentinel]

@Oyster Sauce I think this can be useful for you https://archive.org/details/square-enix_202404/mode/2up

[Nooneatall]

So weeb shit is made extra cringe by redditor translators, good to know. I always just thought the Japanese were a race of cringe lords

[Segata]

[Faceless_Sentinel]

I hope this isn't real transitions.

[Oyster Sauce]

this one is breaking my heart. i've been waiting years for this game.

From what I've read, all of the dialogue for Eiyuden Chronicle is easy to export, edit, and import back. Someone has already started an AI translation project, and I've seen others who actually speak Japanese interested in doing a proper translation. Seems likely the script will be fixed relatively soonish if you don't mind waiting.

[rusty_shackleford]

this one is breaking my heart. i've been waiting years for this game.

From what I've read, all of the dialogue for Eiyuden Chronicle is easy to export, edit, and import back. Someone has already started an AI translation project, and I've seen others who actually speak Japanese interested in doing a proper translation. Seems likely the script will be fixed relatively soonish if you don't mind waiting.

Why can't they just hire some weeb dork like @WhiteShark who cares about the source material and speaks nipponese?

[Oyster Sauce]

this one is breaking my heart. i've been waiting years for this game.

From what I've read, all of the dialogue for Eiyuden Chronicle is easy to export, edit, and import back. Someone has already started an AI translation project, and I've seen others who actually speak Japanese interested in doing a proper translation. Seems likely the script will be fixed relatively soonish if you don't mind waiting.

Why can't they just hire some weeb dork like @WhiteShark who cares about the source material and speaks nipponese?

Who's "they"? The cabal of Twitter xe/xems who exclusively hire and run damage control for each other?

[rusty_shackleford]

From what I've read, all of the dialogue for Eiyuden Chronicle is easy to export, edit, and import back. Someone has already started an AI translation project, and I've seen others who actually speak Japanese interested in doing a proper translation. Seems likely the script will be fixed relatively soonish if you don't mind waiting.

Why can't they just hire some weeb dork like @WhiteShark who cares about the source material and speaks nipponese?

Who's "they"? The cabal of Twitter xe/xems who exclusively hire and run damage control for each other?

The japs.
Just send unsolicited emails, I do it all the time.

[Segata]

[LemonDemonGirl]

I heard they really fucked up TTYD. How bad is it?

[Oyster Sauce]

I heard they really fucked up TTYD. How bad is it?

I know nothing about this character but I'm assuming he's wrong

[Acrux]

So, even in their self-inserts their families hate them, huh?

[WhiteShark]

I know nothing about this character but I'm assuming he's wrong

Unfortunately, he's more or less correct.

ビビアンは「カゲ三姉妹」と名乗ったがマジョリンは「あんた オトコじゃないかい!!!!!!」と激昂、ここで初めてビビアンの性別が明らかになる。
Vivian calls their group the 'Three Shadow Sisters', but Majorin <EN: Marilyn> responds in a fury, "Aren't you a man!!!!!!"; here Vivian's sex becomes clear for the first time.

It's even more explicit in his in-game description:

Was one of the Shadow Trio
Seems like a girl but in truth is a boy

[A Chinese opium den]

I know nothing about this character but I'm assuming he's wrong

Unfortunately, he's more or less correct.

ビビアンは「カゲ三姉妹」と名乗ったがマジョリンは「あんた オトコじゃないかい!!!!!!」と激昂、ここで初めてビビアンの性別が明らかになる。
Vivian calls their group the 'Three Shadow Sisters', but Majorin <EN: Marilyn> responds in a fury, "Aren't you a man!!!!!!"; here Vivian's sex becomes clear for the first time.

It's even more explicit in his in-game description:

Was one of the Shadow Trio
Seems like a girl but in truth is a boy

If their major win is saying that a man who cross-dresses and is made fun of for trying to act like a woman when everyone else knows on sight he is a man is a tranny then congrats I guess lol.

[WhiteShark]

If their major win is saying that a man who cross-dresses and is made fun of for trying to act like a woman when everyone else knows on sight he is a man is a tranny then congrats I guess lol.

It's not obvious in-universe. The character who got mad at him in the quote above is his sister. Goombella mistakes him for a girl when she first meets him:

A little sister who is bullied by a cruel older sister... that's the feeling I get.

[rusty_shackleford]

I know nothing about this character but I'm assuming he's wrong

Unfortunately, he's more or less correct.

ビビアンは「カゲ三姉妹」と名乗ったがマジョリンは「あんた オトコじゃないかい!!!!!!」と激昂、ここで初めてビビアンの性別が明らかになる。
Vivian calls their group the 'Three Shadow Sisters', but Majorin <EN: Marilyn> responds in a fury, "Aren't you a man!!!!!!"; here Vivian's sex becomes clear for the first time.

It's even more explicit in his in-game description:

Was one of the Shadow Trio
Seems like a girl but in truth is a boy

If their major win is saying that a man who cross-dresses and is made fun of for trying to act like a woman when everyone else knows on sight he is a man is a tranny then congrats I guess lol.

It's not obvious in-universe. The character who got mad at him in the quote above is his sister. Goombella mistakes him for a girl when she first meets him:

A little sister who is bullied by a cruel older sister... that's the feeling I get.

Wow, based japs being 30 years ahead of the west in representing trannies in games!

[Nooneatall]

I know nothing about this character but I'm assuming he's wrong

Unfortunately, he's more or less correct.

ビビアンは「カゲ三姉妹」と名乗ったがマジョリンは「あんた オトコじゃないかい!!!!!!」と激昂、ここで初めてビビアンの性別が明らかになる。
Vivian calls their group the 'Three Shadow Sisters', but Majorin <EN: Marilyn> responds in a fury, "Aren't you a man!!!!!!"; here Vivian's sex becomes clear for the first time.

It's even more explicit in his in-game description:

Was one of the Shadow Trio
Seems like a girl but in truth is a boy

If their major win is saying that a man who cross-dresses and is made fun of for trying to act like a woman when everyone else knows on sight he is a man is a tranny then congrats I guess lol.

It's not obvious in-universe. The character who got mad at him in the quote above is his sister. Goombella mistakes him for a girl when she first meets him:

A little sister who is bullied by a cruel older sister... that's the feeling I get.

Wow, based japs being 30 years ahead of the west in representing trannies in games!

Japan is weird as shit. Remember that remna 1/2 comic or whatever.
Americans were puritans so at some point as a society we wouldn't have accepted that. The weirdest societal thing we had was bugs bunny cross dressing for comedy.

[GhostCow]

Japan is weird as shit. Remember that remna 1/2 comic or whatever.
Americans were puritans so at some point as a society we wouldn't have accepted that. The weirdest societal thing we had was bugs bunny cross dressing for comedy.

This is the same thing. They weren't doing it for tranny representation.

[Oyster Sauce]

Japan is weird as shit. Remember that remna 1/2 comic or whatever.
Americans were puritans so at some point as a society we wouldn't have accepted that. The weirdest societal thing we had was bugs bunny cross dressing for comedy.

This is the same thing. They weren't doing it for tranny representation.

Bugs bunny was boomer humor. Japs just really love jerking off to crossdressing children.

[Oyster Sauce]

I heard they really fucked up TTYD. How bad is it?

I know nothing about this character but I'm assuming he's wrong

Forgot to mention the Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door localizer, Niko Ferryn Lennox, is a gay polyamorous diaperfur cub agender

[LemonDemonGirl]

I know nothing about this character but I'm assuming he's wrong

Motherfucker I knew they'd do this....

[gerey]

Forgot to mention the Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door localizer, Niko Ferryn Lennox, is a gay polyamorous diaperfur cub agender

I keep repeating myself like a broken record - if bullying was still socially acceptable, this thing would have roped itself before it got out of high school.

I bet this freak doesn't even know a word of Japanese.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

Thanks God I never spent a penny on Nintendo games. Now we know who prepare children to be groomed into woke subhuman.

[Oyster Sauce]

Https://www.nexusmods.com/eiyudenchronicle/mods/1

Fixes errors (internet slang) and grammar mistakes in the translation of Eiyuden Chronicles Hundred Heroes! (English Version Only)

No idea how comprehensive this is, but it exists.

[rusty_shackleford]

@Oyster Sauce that link doesn't work