Anearth Fantasy Stories - Translation Development Blog

[seieienbu]

Thanks for the update.  It's pretty much exactly what I expected.  Also, given how far along the Xanadu translations are, it's exactly what I'd want too.

[DigiDigi]

Interested in any outside help at this stage? I'm a kind of knower of Japanese. (Don't really know where to place my level.) A couple years ago I discovered this gem for myself and gained an interest in hacking it.

I mined google for information and reproduced a python LZSS decompresser based on Tomaitheous's notes. Wasn't sure whether there was an ongoing project so I ended my explorations there.

More recently I wrote some not-too-well-informed CD patching scripts. Looking at the amount of work accomplished here though, I was clearly out of my depth. But well done on all the progress so far!

[elmer]

Interested in any outside help at this stage? I'm a kind of knower of Japanese. (Don't really know where to place my level.)

Thanks for the kind offer, but I'd really prefer to wait for SamIAm to have the time to work on it.

It's not just a question of translating the words themselves, it's a question of making the translated language sound good to read on the page, and giving the characters their own personalities with your choice of words.

I know that SamIAm has both the translating, and story-telling skills to do that.

You have no idea just how much time we spent on the LoX translations/scripts tweaking the lines to try to give each character their own "voice".

I don't know how well we succeeded ... but I don't really want to approach Anearth with any less care and attention.

[DigiDigi]

Quite fair. Sounds like Anearth is getting a very good treatment! Good luck to you.