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Title: Resource for translated PCE manuals?
Post by: Gentlegamer on January 16, 2015, 01:36:00 PM: I just received a couple PCE games from the BlueBMW bonanza. They are both shooters and fairly easy to figure out without reading Japanese, but it makes me wonder if there is a resource out there with translated PC Engine manuals.

Does anything like that exist?
Title: Re: Resource for translated PCE manuals?
Post by: roflmao on January 16, 2015, 02:34:43 PM: I've been meaning to check this out: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/hallo-hola-ola-more-powerful-translate.html
Title: Resource for translated PCE manuals?
Post by: esteban on January 17, 2015, 02:23:08 AM: Quote from: Gentlegamer on January 16, 2015, 01:36:00 PM
I just received a couple PCE games from the BlueBMW bonanza. They are both shooters and fairly easy to figure out without reading Japanese, but it makes me wonder if there is a resource out there with translated PC Engine manuals.

Does anything like that exist?

I will be happy to make a home for all the translated manuals (not many exist) that we can find/create.

I know I include two translated manuals (Ys IV and Crest of Gaia) in the following list:

http://archives.tg-16.com/magazine_database.htm?col=pub&val=man

I can easily tag the manuals so that you could sort/filter the table by "English translation available"
Title: Re: Resource for translated PCE manuals?
Post by: Gentlegamer on January 17, 2015, 04:51:38 AM: That's awesome, esteban!

And I was thinking it doesn't need to be literally translated pdfs, it could be a nice html pages for each game using the illustrations from the manual with translated text.
Title: Resource for translated PCE manuals?
Post by: esteban on January 17, 2015, 05:38:33 AM: Quote from: Gentlegamer on January 17, 2015, 04:51:38 AM
That's awesome, esteban!

And I was thinking it doesn't need to be literally translated pdfs, it could be a nice html pages for each game using the illustrations from the manual with translated text.

I see...that is very doable. We wouldn't have to translate entire manuals, but rather the "vital pages" of each manual...

That's a very good idea.
Title: Re: Resource for translated PCE manuals?
Post by: Gentlegamer on January 17, 2015, 07:32:01 AM: It would also be great if it were formatted to be tablet/phone friendly, for easy reference while playing.

Heck, that would be good to have for every game.
Title: Re: Resource for translated PCE manuals?
Post by: Ayce on January 17, 2015, 03:42:57 PM: Yeah I've run into an issue with translations. I wanted to have been done with a manual, tray, and CD by now... but no luck. Those translating apps for images don't work the best on paragraphs, but on single words or phrases it does just fine.
Title: Re: Resource for translated PCE manuals?
Post by: m1savage on January 19, 2015, 05:59:50 AM: Been tried in the past. Almost impossible to find anyone who can/will take the time to actually do the translating.
Title: Re: Resource for translated PCE manuals?
Post by: ClodBuster on January 19, 2015, 07:58:24 AM: I still need a translated manual for Dragon Half. I could provide scans of the original manual if needed. But seriously, even a crude guide for how to beat the game would win my day.
Title: Re: Resource for translated PCE manuals?
Post by: esteban on January 20, 2015, 05:41:17 AM: Quote from: ClodBuster on January 19, 2015, 07:58:24 AM
I still need a translated manual for Dragon Half. I could provide scans of the original manual if needed. But seriously, even a crude guide for how to beat the game would win my day.

The problem has always been finding folks willing to translate materials.

Good luck finding someone :)