Anearth Fantasy Stories - Translation Project Thread

[SamIAm]

March 5th: 90 minutes. swordsman scenario dialogue.

[SamIAm]

March 7th: Two hours. Finishing up second town stuff

[whisper2053]

Definitely looking like a lot of progress being made!

Granted, I don't know *anything* about the translation/hacking process, but it certainly looks good on 'paper' though

[Necromancer]

Nice steady progress, unlike anything I do that sits for months between activity.

[SamIAm]

March 10th. One hour or so. First major dungeon and nearby village stuff.

[Opethian]

Nice steady progress, unlike anything I do that sits for months between activity.

*cough*motteke*cough*



nice job sam I never played through this one cant wait to see the final product!

[SamIAm]

March 14th: 90 minutes. Not translating, but combing through the savestate library for undumped stuff.

We're actually quite close to having it all dumped.

[esteban]

March 14th: 90 minutes. Not translating, but combing through the savestate library for undumped stuff.

We're actually quite close to having it all dumped.

Take a break and play some Virtual Boy boxing.

[SamIAm]

Take a break and play some Virtual Boy boxing.

Yes, sir!

Actually, I just did a quick 20 minutes of translating. I often have down time at work, and I want to stay in the habit of using it to translate.

The only current problem with the script dump is that there are some special words in the game that are highlighted yellow, then are followed by a symbol. Almost every item of importance is displayed this way, even when brought up during normal conversations. Apparently, the game uses a weird sort of dictionary for these, but I don't know the details.

Anyway, in the dump, these are not only missing, but any remaining conversation that follows one of these is missing, so it adds up to being quite a lot. The scenes tend to be important, too.

Regardless, I'd estimate the dump to be about 70% complete, and the first draft of the translation is currently at 1/3 of the current dump. When this problem gets fixed, I think we'll have 90-95% of the script.

[m1savage]

All the magic scrolls, gear and special items are shown that way in the game (yellow text followed by a picture of said item) so yep, very important. Carry on!

[seieienbu]

Perhaps this is a dumb question, but do you play through the game before trying to translate dumped text?  Just curious;  I would imagine that doing so would help you see what text goes where and what text is missing.

[SamIAm]

Perhaps this is a dumb question, but do you play through the game before trying to translate dumped text?  Just curious;  I would imagine that doing so would help you see what text goes where and what text is missing.

Oh yeah, I've played this before. But it's a lot harder to remember every scene than you might imagine...especially when the script dump doesn't even include the names of the characters speaking the lines, which is the case here.

Also, there are minor differences between the scenarios depending on which of the four characters you chose to play as, and I haven't (and likely won't) play all four scenarios. I don't have that kind of time at home, sadly.

[pnauts]

Nice project, thanks a lot for doing it !

[SamIAm]

March 22nd: 90-ish minutes. I think I've got everything for the first three towns and the first dungeon area done.

[SamIAm]

March 24th. 30 minutes. Not much, but I am into the 4th town now. It's the port town, for those of you who know the game.