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Translations of wapanese games

Great Deceiver

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Not sure if it's been discussed here, but even though it's old news, I finally gave Retroarch's auto translation feature (OCR->text) a go, and it's pretty fucking amazing. Of course, it's broken English most of the time, but you can make out things well enough and to have that running in realtime with a touch of a button is just incredible.

edit: spekkio RetroArch 1.7.8 – AI Service – How To Set It Up – Libretro
 
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Grauken

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Great Deceiver said:
Not sure if it's been discussed here, but even though it's old news, I finally gave Retroarch's auto translation feature (OCR->text) a go, and it's pretty fucking amazing. Of course, it's broken English most of the time, but you can make out things well enough and to have that running in realtime with a touch of a button is just incredible.
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DRPG Book introduced me to the feature, he uses it when he tries out various jap crawlers, kinda amazing where the tech already is and where it will be in a couple of years
 
Lord of Riva

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Great Deceiver said:
Not sure if it's been discussed here, but even though it's old news, I finally gave Retroarch's auto translation feature (OCR->text) a go, and it's pretty fucking amazing. Of course, it's broken English most of the time, but you can make out things well enough and to have that running in realtime with a touch of a button is just incredible.

edit: spekkio RetroArch 1.7.8 – AI Service – How To Set It Up – Libretro
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I did not know such a thing existed, so that post was worth it for me thanks for the headsup!
 
Jinn

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Damn, they tore through that project. Tom and DDS have been absolute beasts lately. Really excited to try this one out. Looks super unique.
 
Siveon

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HG101 assblasted them for literally translating a Japanese slur for trans people (afaik it was reclaimed by them in Japan but hey, get mad at them anyway).
 
lightbane

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That's the same group behind the translation? I thought the translator retired because he was fed up with having to deal with death threats from trannies and such.
 
Siveon

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That's the same group behind the translation? I thought the translator retired because he was fed up with having to deal with death threats from trannies and such.
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He came back afterward. Took a while but he's finished like 4 games counting this one since he came back.

I don't know if any trans people in particular sent him virtriol, but any hate buzz aimed at him pretty much ceased immediately. The programmer had little/no such hate, and they've been working fine.
 
Gastrick

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Siveon said:
HG101 assblasted them for literally translating a Japanese slur for trans people (afaik it was reclaimed by them in Japan but hey, get mad at them anyway).
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And I thought being mad at someone for saying nigger regardless of context was bad...
 
spekkio

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The result of Cirosan’s rewrites is a full localization of Mizzurna Falls that helps dialogue sound more natural and conversational, in addition to altering certain characters and elements to be more effective with Western audiences.
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AdamReith

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spekkio said:
The result of Cirosan’s rewrites is a full localization of Mizzurna Falls that helps dialogue sound more natural and conversational, in addition to altering certain characters and elements to be more effective with Western audiences.
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To be honest I'm okay with this as long as they are explicit about being a rewrite rather than a translation. Helps me know to stay the fuck away from it.
 
Duraframe300

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spekkio said:
The result of Cirosan’s rewrites is a full localization of Mizzurna Falls that helps dialogue sound more natural and conversational, in addition to altering certain characters and elements to be more effective with Western audiences.
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That would be a red flag, but could in the best case just be localization dependant changes.

The problem is twofold here though:

A: The setting is america to begin with. So, I really doubt there were cultural references and such that needed localization.

B: Even worse, the readme is barebones and doesn't mention the changes, so no way to get your own opinion.

I do want to play Mizzurna Falls sometimes, but will only do so when A: the changes are made official or B: theres an addendum correcting these changes.

FFS modders.
 
Morpheus Kitami

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So what is the deal with the translations of Mizzurna Falls? There's this thing, apparently there was a different full translation before. Both of which are interesting to me, since I was under the impression that the game was a pain in the ass to translate, because I have a v0.8 translation of the game, because I was also under the impression that the one team doing anything about it had some kind of horrible drama go on between themselves.
 
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