Sunday, April 14, 2019

Progress Update

Hey everyone, mako here. It's been a while so I felt a progress update was in order. Both Risae and I have been super busy with irl stuff lately, so overall progress has been really slow. 

Getting the prologue script out of the way was a pretty big step for the project, as it had the most branching routes in the game. That means since the Growlanser Realm script followed only a single playthrough, I had to manually translate all the other dialogue options, and then test them repeatedly after every edit. There are at least 3 lines that remain unedited as I was unable to trigger the scenarios in game, so I have no context for them. If anyone finds them, take a screenshot and let us know. I've probably played through the prologue over 20 times by now so naturally I got a bit burnt out. 

After taking a few days off from the project, I've now begun working on the item descriptions. This is another script that needs a ton of manual translation (probably even more than the prologue script), and testing won't be as easy either, as we don't have all the items in the save file we're using. Once this and the accessory descriptions are done, there's not much else left to do, which means we should be able to jump into gameplay and start grabbing the Japanese dialogue text using an OCR program in order to translate the rest of the script very soon.

So yeah, just wanted to let ya'll know that we're still alive and working on the project, and that everything is going exactly according to plan. Thankfully we haven't hit any major roadblocks yet, nor are we expecting any ahead, so everything should be fine.

12 comments:

  1. Just wanted to say good luck with this as I just saw it was a thing looking forward to it. Still sad there's no ps1 translation yet but at least we will have 2-6 when you finish this.

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  2. Thank you for the work you put in the project keep being awesome.

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  3. I just found this, can't believe someone finally took up the job! Thanks for everything, will be watching with baited breath!

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  4. yesssssssss , plz finish this , for all fans of this incredible jrpg

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  5. Was randomly googling about the game. Really hope to see it out someday. Good luck with the projec.

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  6. No updates = ded? probably die of a heart attack or cirrhosis before this is out lul

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  7. hooooly crap just found out about this today! Good luck and thanks for all the hard work! I don't understand this stuff at all and have no idea how others manage haha.

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  8. Glad to see this exists; been wanting to play this game for over a decade (b^w^)b

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  9. Looking forward to more progress on this thanks so much for taking your time to work on this game for us.

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  10. Oh man, this is really cool! Been looking forward to a translation for this game for years! I wish you guys luck!

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  11. Thanks for your hard work and good luck!

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