Quote from: technozombie on August 14, 2014, 10:01:46 PMQuote from: NightWolve on August 14, 2014, 09:22:45 PMQuote from: technozombie on August 14, 2014, 08:30:39 PMFinally beat Dawn of Ys today. Having now played Mask of the Sun and Dawn of Ys I can say that the PCE has the best iteration of Ys IV.Good, good techno... That's the right answer, well, if ya know what's good for ya 'round here... Only one real problem, the translation.....it was kind of....... It's alright, you can be honest with me. I know, it is kind of boring, dry, it lacks spirit, etc. Turns out that the criminal that I used to work with (AKA B.J.DeuceBag) never retranslated it and Shimarisu/Rachel's translation work remained (94%) for the script. The problem with her is she was a militant purist when it came to translating and would produce very literal translations, sometimes so bad that it was too hard to edit it into SVO English style like it's supposed to be.In 2009 as DeuceBag was conspiring with Lipschultz and his programmer behind my back, to my face he was talking about finally redoing the Ys IV script, just like he redid the script with Gideon Zhi for Mask of the Sun (Shimarisu was also the first translator for that). Well, things having worked out the way they did, me learning what he was up to, cheating me when it came to the X.X.XSEED commercializing deals, we be won't be working with each other again to say the least... If I had the financial resources and will power, I already would've filed the lawsuits to bring the bastard to justice, so yeah, things are very far from any old plans that were talked about...I offered the Ys IV script to SamIAm for retranslation, but he's not shown interest. After all, since it's already translated and competently enough, there's less motivation to work on something that's already done. I also offered esteban a shot at just rewriting the English to make it more fun, enjoyable, etc., but he never took me up on it... So nobody has come forward to either retranslate it from scratch or rewrite it Working Designs style...When I started fan translation work I always hoped I could get Working Designs type results in the final product, but I never met anyone that could do that or was willing. DeuceBag actually has the same kind of hate for WD as did Shimarisu. It was personal for Shimarisu, she learned to translate Japanese because she was in Victor Ireland's chatroom when he snapped one day at the complainers and told them if they don't like his translation work to go learn Japanese and translate themselves. Well, Shimarisu says she was somebody that "rose to the challenge" and learned Japanese to "teach him a lesson." As you can imagine, she went in the complete opposite direction in translation style as Victor and in a petty fashion was cheering when WD shutdown!I've talked about this before, you might've run into a post of mine here about it, but yeah... Anyway, so yeah, nobody has ever come to me to redo the script and I'm certainly willing!
Quote from: NightWolve on August 14, 2014, 09:22:45 PMQuote from: technozombie on August 14, 2014, 08:30:39 PMFinally beat Dawn of Ys today. Having now played Mask of the Sun and Dawn of Ys I can say that the PCE has the best iteration of Ys IV.Good, good techno... That's the right answer, well, if ya know what's good for ya 'round here... Only one real problem, the translation.....it was kind of.......
Quote from: technozombie on August 14, 2014, 08:30:39 PMFinally beat Dawn of Ys today. Having now played Mask of the Sun and Dawn of Ys I can say that the PCE has the best iteration of Ys IV.Good, good techno... That's the right answer, well, if ya know what's good for ya 'round here...
Finally beat Dawn of Ys today. Having now played Mask of the Sun and Dawn of Ys I can say that the PCE has the best iteration of Ys IV.
Finally beat Dawn of Ys today. Having now played Mask of the Sun and Dawn of Ys I can say that the PCE has the best iteration of Ys IV. MotS was much shorter for me at around 10hrs and around 17hrs for DoYs. DoYs was much more dynamic, better boss fights and better use of magic. DoYs did a better job of making the world feel connected, where MotS felt like a warp-fest.
I offered the Ys IV script to SamIAm for retranslation, but he's not shown interest. After all, since it's already translated and competently enough, there's less motivation to work on something that's already done. I also offered esteban a shot at just rewriting the English to make it more fun, enjoyable, etc., but he never took me up on it... So nobody has come forward to either retranslate it from scratch or rewrite it Working Designs style...
ALL OF THEM!!!!!1!!!! (just got my Everdrive)
Quote from: johnnymad on August 16, 2014, 10:37:45 AMALL OF THEM!!!!!1!!!! (just got my Everdrive)Completely love mine .. works flawlessly. Thinking I now need one for a number of other consoles also.
Quote from: technozombie on August 14, 2014, 08:30:39 PMFinally beat Dawn of Ys today. Having now played Mask of the Sun and Dawn of Ys I can say that the PCE has the best iteration of Ys IV. MotS was much shorter for me at around 10hrs and around 17hrs for DoYs. DoYs was much more dynamic, better boss fights and better use of magic. DoYs did a better job of making the world feel connected, where MotS felt like a warp-fest.Not that it's an unpopular opinion around here, but yeah I liked the PC Engine version more than the SNES version. Also more than the PS2 version; still want to play the Vita port.Quote from: NightWolve on August 14, 2014, 10:39:09 PMI offered the Ys IV script to SamIAm for retranslation, but he's not shown interest. After all, since it's already translated and competently enough, there's less motivation to work on something that's already done. I also offered esteban a shot at just rewriting the English to make it more fun, enjoyable, etc., but he never took me up on it... So nobody has come forward to either retranslate it from scratch or rewrite it Working Designs style...The non sequitur in Xak about being a Republican always kinda reminded me of a line from Lunar on PS1 that went "You think I'm the president? Then I guess that makes me Bill Clinton." or something like that. I don't recall the Dawn of Ys translation being bad by any means though...
I'm playing The Addams Family on Turbografx-CD. I know most of you probably don't care for that game; but it's actually pretty fun. Plus, it's the only Turbo CD game I have. lol. The game is really hard though. So far, I could only go past the first part of the mansion. I got to the part where you go down into the basement. The game really throws annoying enemies at you, and you barely ever get hearts to refill your health. Nothing like some old school difficulty.
