[Persona-sama]

Just a thought, but have you considered visiting the Futaba Channel and asking them?

But that would require knowing Japanese, of course. Maybe you can get one of your partners to give it a try?
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[Broco]

Well I really don't think your "yellow" thing is right (Flag F6 = FF6 is a huge stretch, among other problems) but what I wrote above isn't right either since, in light of the original Japanese text, the "user friendly" business is not sarcastic. Honestly I can't make sense of the passage. It may not make a whole lot of sense in the first place; remember that videogame text tends to be quickly tossed-together, and they probably spent only a fraction of the time writing it that you spent obsessing over its translation. It's no use looking for elaborate Nabokovian allusions here.

[Adilegian]

Back on here with a response. Like I think I wrote in another thread, my internet access is a little more spare these days.

[Takashi]

[Adilegian]

[Broco]

Yeah they mostly get spam from non-Japanese sources. It is still a pretty asshole move, but no one ever accused the Japanese of not being isolationist.

Anyway, if you do find a way to post, don't post on the general games board, that's too general. Try http://game12.2ch.net/game90/ , which is dedicated to the PS1, Saturn, Dreamcast and a few other systems of the same era (a search for セガガガ turned up a post in this board).

[Tokyo Rude]

I am in Japan.

[Persona-sama]

Most people use proxies to post on Futaba and such.

Here's a list you could use, try using a Japanese one:
http://proxy.org/proxies_sorted.shtml
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[Persona-sama]

Man, I was listening to this live performance of the Segagaga March and it filled me with such Sega pride. Also, I'm curious as to how the project is going.

How is it going, Adilegian?

Also, if you need any Photoshoppery for this project, let me know. I can handle pretty much anything in the name of Sega!
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[Persona-sama]

Yes, yes, please do so. I think I remember what scene you're talking about, though hell if I had any idea what was going on at the time.

SEGAGAGAGAGAGA!!
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[Adilegian]

Well. It seems as though we are once again in need of a programmer to get our work onto anyone's TV screen.

HELP WANTED AD: http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8555790&publicUserId=5772603

For the love of God, if you know someone who knows someone who can help us at least get what we've finished OUT there, let me know. Under other circumstances, I'd slog through the technical stuff myself, but I just don't have the time or the resources.

For glory?
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[Adilegian]

RESURRECTION [/Gill]

I'm cross-posting this from DCemu's forums. I haven't gotten a response from them yet, and I figured that someone might be able to contribute a suggestion (or pass along the plea to another kind soul) given all the software savvy folks that post here.

[crosspost]

Dear gentlefolks,

This is James Howell, project manager for the public domain localization of Segagaga. ("Public domain localization" might sound like a fancy way of getting around the rubric "fan translation," but there actually are legitimate reasons why it doesn't wholly qualify as a fan translation that I can't get into here.)

Anyway! Our programming cohorts are currently busy with their own projects and are unavailable at the moment, so I turn to the homebrew community with my plea.

We're trying to localize enough, for now, that would make the first R&D Lab area of Segagaga playable. However, to fully localize the material, we need access to the texture image files since several of the textures (such as background images) feature Japanese writing and could be amended to make the English language experience more comprehensive.

The problem is that I am unsure how to access these texture images. My research has pointed to .PVR as the usual format for texture images, and I've downloaded the appropriate utilities to convert .PVR files into more standard formats. However, the .PVR files that exist do not contain any meaningful image data, and I'm not sure where else to look to extract these images.

Can anyone direct me to a DC development utility that would enable me to extract these images for localization editing?

If anyone could offer direct support in this problem, I'd be triply grateful. My strengths lie in linguistics rather than in coding or programming.

Thanks!

[/crosspost]
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[Rud31]

I'M REVIVING THIS THREAD BECAUSE I'M PLAYING THE GAME, PLEASE DO NOT BOTHER ADI ABOUT THE TRANSLATION

I'm playing it in Japanese. Also this project has been going on for like 4 years, if you REALLY wanted to play the game you could have learned the language in that time. end asshole/considerate.

I really really didn't expect it to exceed my expectations. This shit is fucking great.

There are so so so many jokes and references that are impentratable to me on top of the kanji I don't understand.

You attack with words. Your female counterpart SHOOTS PEOPLE WITH HER UZI.

Holy shit there are so many references. Good job Adi you chose a translation nightmare. Do you keep all the jokes and references the same? Do you change them into western game references. Just god damn buried.

Amazing game will continue playing. Man. I'd want to see the text dump again just see all the miles of hidden content.
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[Persona mobile]

How far did you get in the game? And if you beat it, what ending did you get?
What games did you end up developing?

I don't think I was ever able to develop anything better than Master System games in my run :/
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[Rud31]

I just started. Looking over the FAQ it's pretty short?

I misread an option and let whoever the first digitized guy you meet go. ;_;
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[Persona mobile]

My first time playing the game I didn't realize those dialogue choices after a battle was to argue hiring conditions and just promised really shitty employees huuuuge salaries. About halfway through I realized why my budgets were gigantic and fired all those suckers but by then I was already pretty poor and Sega fell to Dogma... just like in real life.
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[Rud31]

In SegaGaga, Hatsune Miku works for the rival company and asks Otaku to destroy Dreamcasts for Moe~Moe~
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[Rud31]

In other words this is this insider-y non-masturbation masturbation game ever and I love it.
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[Swarm]

Rudie keep an eye out for the scene where they make fun of Kenji Eno

You can also develop a game called Eの食卓 with Eno's blurred out face on it.

[Rud31]

Maybe I already missed it. I just finished up C Team. Now to start making games! Moe~ Moe~

I think of Arino screaming Moe everytime I see that word now.
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[Tulpa]

which episode did arino shout Moe? I want to watch that
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[Rud31]

15:50
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[thestage]

on a scale of nintendont to segadoes, just how fucking weird is it that this game exists?

[Persona mobile]

[Rud31]

I know it's not Miku just you know, it's Miku.
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[Rud31]

Also holy shit about the Ferrari = Shrimp thing.
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[thestage]

[Persona mobile]

[Rud31]

I totally screwed up the first dungeon by exiting 3-4 times. Which pretty much screwed me over the game development section. I've restarted. Sorry Buttlord and Catherine you failed to save Sega. Now it's up to Jostar and *female sign*.
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[Adilegian]

Finishing translating this might be a possibility if there ever exists anyone who ever worked on a Japanese Dreamcast game and has the ability to retro-decrypt the game's archive format.

That no one has this wherewithal is 2x weird since it's apparently just an idiosyncratic variation of the barebones standard archival format.

But yeah endsum is that I'm not doing any more work on this unless someone has the interest/knowhow to actually make a patch/testhacked ISO possible because I have projects with forseeable ends to attend to in the meanwhile. After petitioning The Internet for several years for this help, I'm tired of barking up a tree that falls in the woods that no one hears.

That's the state of an unusually well-informed translation of a super unique game. A tragedy, really.
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[Persona mobile]

That's a damn shame. Maybe I can drum up interest and find someone wanting to take on this decryption challenge somewhere.
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[Adilegian]

[Cynic]

[Persona mobile]

Truly a gentleman and scholar. What file format is .mht though?
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[Cynic]

MHTML, it can be opened by default in Opera and IE, and in Firefox with the maf extension.

[Teflon]

[Rud31]

The shrimp screaming free is a reference to F.R.E.E. also why Studio B is a dojo/rural japan/etc.

This game is so nuts.

Also actually laughed at one of the attacks is "Stop wearing socks with sandals!"
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[Rud31]

Somehow my 2nd game ended up even worse off than the first. I went back to Buttlord, made 2 teams, fired everyone else (including C-man) and managed to put out House of the Dead and Fantasy Zone.

Also I think the FAQ available is wrong. Then again, my Japanese isn't exactly good enough to figure out everything myself.

Oh man you can only do the shooting bit if you do really well? ;_;
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[Persona mobile]

Yeah, I've never played the shooting bit either. :/
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[Rud31]

Man this game is kind of hard if you are only half-fluent in Japanese. Is probably still pretty hard.

I'm going to rest on it for a few days. I ended up not having good directors with Buttlord and just didn't have the time to finish games before getting demolished.

Next time for chapters 2 and 3, Kane and Lynch, are getting the cheapest crappiest people to make games.
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