Spriggan Mark 2 - Translation Discussion Thread

[Arjak]

In case you missed it in the Legend of Xanadu 2 translation thread, Malducci (known here as Bonknuts) has been working on an English Translation of Spriggan Mark 2. He recently put this video up on Youtube:

I felt it was time this project received its own thread, especially since it seems a lot of progress is being made on this. Keep up the good work, Malducci!

[NightWolve]

Ah, so it is still being worked on. I thought it fell by the wayside.

[Bonknuts]

It was never dead; only sleeping. I've had three translators on this project, since the beginning. SamIam took over and redid everything. He's pretty busy, but is taking the time to finalize the script/etc. I had to add a few last minute things to the string read routine and print routine as well.

 Next phase is the dubbing phase.

 I actually wanted to get the rights to the game, for the US region, to distribute the translation/dub. The game got released in Japan on Wii Virtual console, so some company is 'active' with the rights to the game. Even if there's no money to be made, it would be awesome to have an official release. One can dream

[Tatsujin]

great game. would be also fun to have a non dialogue version as well. 100% shewty from start to end.

[Bonknuts]

It's already in the options. Turn off voice/letter. It'll skip the cinemas as well as the in game dialog/text/whatever; pure shewty mode.

[Tatsujin]

ah lol you're such right. how could I forget about that. I had only in mind, that it switches off the interrupted dialouges. it's been too long I fired that one up. time to start over again!!

[deubeul]

Great news!

Would the japanese voices still be available in case of english dubbing (in case there's enough space)? Or is it all or nothing?

[Bonknuts]

Yes. The text translation will come out first, then the dub later on. I'm timing/syncing the text with the in-game voice audio for that very reason. But I'm not subtitling the cinemas, on the system side. Subtitling the cinemas (in game code) would be a fairly advance project, and I rather put that time and energy into the dub.

[Senshi]

 I actually wanted to get the rights to the game, for the US region, to distribute the translation/dub. The game got released in Japan on Wii Virtual console, so some company is 'active' with the rights to the game. Even if there's no money to be made, it would be awesome to have an official release. One can dream

How much does the rights to something like that usually cost?

[Bonknuts]

I'm really not sure. It's something we're looking into. If I would hazard a guess, I'd say anywhere from $3k to $25K, up front. If the number is low enough, I might be able to handle that with pre-orders. 

[Arjak]

If you can get the rights, would we be talking about an official English release on Super CD? Or would this be only for digital download services? I would absolutely buy an official Super CD copy in English.

[Bonknuts]

Official CD release.

[Keranu]

A dream of mine is to see all of those announced import games that never made it here to be fan translated and pressed onto real CDs, complete with authentic back-in-the-day style packaging. We're making great progress thus far as a community -- that's real fan devotion!

[Bardoly]

Official CD release.

Awesome!

I'm totally behind this.

[Punch]

I'd preorder 5 if it were to be an official release.

One thing to note is that they might be against releasing it for the TURBOGRAFX. Of course if it were for an old Nintendo platform it would have a 0% chance of success to try to obtain the license from the Spriggan IP holders (because it would hurt their relations with Nintendo BADLY to release an unlicensed game in their platform even if it is their 1st, 1980's one)... but what about Konami? Will they even care about it? Probably not but who knows.