The Last Melody Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 (edited) Yeah. Translating Fortune Arterial from scratch where the previous project left off. Website: http://honyakusho.rip (amateur stuff) Can't be arsed to maintain About the game: Hasekura Kouhei transfers into Shuchikan Academy, a prestigious public school in the style of an English six-year school encompassing junior-high and high school students. The school is on an island named Tamatsu Island off-shore from mainland Japan, and the only way to get there is by boat. Soon after transferring, he discovers that Sendou Erika, one of the students in the class next to his, is in fact a type of vampire. EDIT: On 25/11/2016 at 4:03 PM, The Last Melody said: Before any talk of releasing patches, I need to figure out how they work, also, work is nearly stalled at this point, certain elements have found my ear, so I will place it on hold until I know more. EDIT2: I am pretty much out of this at this point. Fraiziar is now the guy you go to. On 19/01/2017 at 4:46 AM, Fraiziar said: https://sites.google.com/site/fraiziartranslations/fortune-arterial-translation For those interested, I'm hosting the updates because I think it needs a dedicated site rather than just a forum post. Also feel free to contact me via my discord if you want to help or just want to talk or something https://discord.gg/G3naj6w Edited May 10, 2017 by The Last Melody jetpack003, Aizen-Sama, ianarcher33 and 3 others 6
Aizen-Sama Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 You should probably do a more detailed post talking about the game and everything related to what exactly are you guys doing, if you have a website, blah blah blah. Other than that, I hope you can find that TLC. Good luck.
Yuuko Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 Is there any particular reason why you are translating the game from scratch? The old translation is trash?
Mr Poltroon Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 5 minutes ago, Kiriririri said: Is there any particular reason why you are translating the game from scratch? The old translation is trash? From what I've played of it (everything the partial patch covered), the old translation did not seem of particular lesser quality to other fan translations on the market. If it was badly translated, it certainly didn't cause much issue with me.
Novel21 Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 Hurra somebody are translating Fortune Arterial again and I'm become very happy since it's my fav VN Thank you for translating this VN and good luck with to find TLC
The Last Melody Posted August 15, 2016 Author Posted August 15, 2016 Well, the previous translation wasn't bad, but there's multiple reasons for doing it all over, one of them being translation coherency. Since, well, I may translate something differently than he did and not notice. And that's only one of the reasons. EDIT: The other reasons are more on my side, nothing really wrong with his TL.
Yuuko Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 8 minutes ago, The Last Melody said: Well, the previous translation wasn't bad, but there's multiple reasons for doing it all over, one of them being translation coherency. Since, well, I may translate something differently than he did and not notice. And that's only one of the reasons. EDIT: The other reasons are more on my side, nothing really wrong with his TL. I see. That is of course okay. Just wanted to know what the reason is because it is possible to gain the scripts that contain 3/5 routes translated by simply contacting the old team.
The Last Melody Posted August 15, 2016 Author Posted August 15, 2016 Team? Wasn't it one man who was doing the TL before? And that's actually a good idea, so I could use them for reference. EDIT: I'm now enlightened. Thought it was Frank alone for some reason...
havoc Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 Very nice to see this vn picked up again. I hope everything will go well. Edit: any idea yet in which order you will be translating, or are you starting with the parts that were left untranslated by the previous team?
The Last Melody Posted August 15, 2016 Author Posted August 15, 2016 I started on the common route some time ago. So I am going from that side at first. Have asked old team for scripts and stuff, but who knows.
sanahtlig Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 32 minutes ago, The Last Melody said: Well, the previous translation wasn't bad, but there's multiple reasons for doing it all over, one of them being translation coherency. Since, well, I may translate something differently than he did and not notice. And that's only one of the reasons. EDIT: The other reasons are more on my side, nothing really wrong with his TL. VN translation projects are a tremendous amount of work. Take every break you can get. I suggest using the old translation as a base, finishing the untranslated parts, THEN deciding if you still want to re-translate the older parts after that. That strategy will increase the odds that the project will meet its most important goal: producing a full translation of the game. You've been gifted with the opportunity to do a fraction of the work and still achieve a useful goal. Most projects never get that opportunity. havoc 1
The Last Melody Posted August 15, 2016 Author Posted August 15, 2016 Hmmm, haven't thought about that, will take it into consideration.
Deep Blue Posted August 15, 2016 Posted August 15, 2016 30-50 hours of translation, you have a lot of work ahead of you A LOT, I will tell you the same thing as sana. Good luck with the project!
The Last Melody Posted August 15, 2016 Author Posted August 15, 2016 Only 30-50? I would expect closer to the 300-500s...
littleshogun Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 I knew that this VN had translation project before finally stalled because the translator had some sort of health issue (Terminal sickness or not I didn't know though). Good luck with the project here and hope it'll be finished later. If you made some progress I'll definitely keep my eyes on this project here, and hopefully you could announce the staffs soon.
DharmaFreedom Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 Good luck with the project mate. If you need help and advice i'm sure you could also ask for them here. Alot of helpful people from what i noticed . cheers
frc_ Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 19 hours ago, The Last Melody said: Only 30-50? I would expect closer to the 300-500s... That would be the time it takes to play the VN, not translate it. A VN that you can translate in a few days would be very short indeed
Noumi Kudryavka Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 It seems the August curse is really being lifted! Huzzah! Good luck finding a TLC, and good luck with the project! Thank you soooooooo much!
The Last Melody Posted August 16, 2016 Author Posted August 16, 2016 The curse is holding strong, as I've yet to find a TLC ;-)
Deep Blue Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 23 hours ago, The Last Melody said: Only 30-50? I would expect closer to the 300-500s... what I meant is translate a vn of that length, I translated a few vns and they took me a lot of time (weeks) and the longest one was narcissu 1st
Kirashi Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 Are you really planning to translate the whole game from scratch? If you ask Frank, maybe he'll share with you the missing % files. It will be shorter and more convenient that way, or worst case scenario, just the 2 routes? Edit: If there is really something you would translate differently, you can still edit the old translation and release your patch once the full translation is done. Nier 1
The Last Melody Posted August 17, 2016 Author Posted August 17, 2016 Tried to contact Frank a looooong time ago. No answer. Have tried to contact the one who was managing the forum posts, but no answer so far.
Frank Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 Hello and nice to meet you. A friend of mine pointed me to this thread so I thought I'd drop by. First of all, I'm still online regularly, but I haven't been checking any notifications, not even from my emails. I'm really sorry for not replying sooner. I didn't actually do everything alone, maybe just translating 2-3 routes, and when the team was reduced to one man, it became so taxing that I stopped my hands before I knew it. I also would like to see this game 100% translated. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know. I can provide you with the already translated files, but it will take quite some time for me to find. I suggest you just extract all the needed files from our latest patch. Mr Poltroon, SpecterZ, The Last Melody and 4 others 7
The Last Melody Posted August 17, 2016 Author Posted August 17, 2016 9 hours ago, Frank said: Hello and nice to meet you. A friend of mine pointed me to this thread so I thought I'd drop by. First of all, I'm still online regularly, but I haven't been checking any notifications, not even from my emails. I'm really sorry for not replying sooner. I didn't actually do everything alone, maybe just translating 2-3 routes, and when the team was reduced to one man, it became so taxing that I stopped my hands before I knew it. I also would like to see this game 100% translated. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know. I can provide you with the already translated files, but it will take quite some time for me to find. I suggest you just extract all the needed files from our latest patch. Hello there, Frank. Well, to be frank (no pun intended), I tried to contact you years ago, literal years. As for extracting the current files, the hacker disappeared on us and the rest of the internet :/ (I still have faith in his return) How good are you in moonrunes? Would you be willing to TLC and handle questions about moonrunes from my noob ass?
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