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Topic: What are some good untranslated PS1 games that require voice work? (Read 1520 times)
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Rai
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« on: November 08, 2006, 07:41:56 am » |
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I'm looking to do a translation that requires dubbing the voices, but I don't know of any Japanese PS1 games off my head that require voicework. Don't worry, I won't be doing the dubbing, HOWEVER, I'll be recruiting people from a very good unprofessional voice acting site.
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KaioShin
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« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2006, 07:53:36 am » |
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Besides of Kamrai I don't know ANY untranslated PS1 games besides some semi crappy Anime games, voiced or not  \. I know there are many, but somehow I all missed them. It would be cool if there was a site collecting these games so one get's an overview what's there to translate on that system in general. |
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froid_san
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« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2006, 08:35:01 am » |
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how about evangelion geirlfriend of steel? or some marcross game
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Rai
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« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2006, 09:48:37 am » |
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how about evangelion geirlfriend of steel? or some marcross game
Granted I could find those, I could definitely attempt them. Evangelion's popular too, so it's probably not going to be a big problem finding people to audition. |
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Gemini
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« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2006, 10:15:15 am » |
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Dragonball Z: Idainaru Dragonball Densetsu. It's a nice game with loads of dubbed dialogues!
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Kitsune Sniper
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« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2006, 11:13:31 am » |
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Rai, I'm not saying this to piss you off. Just listen.  Attempting a translation that has lots of voiced dialogue can be a pain in the ass. You have to consider these problems: * The voices are stored in XA files, which are a bitch to distribute; * The voices are stored in a propietary, game specific format, which may be hell to reverse engineer, and you've already shown that you have next to no experience with -advanced- console hacking; And then there's the getting the actors themselves bit... I'm just saying, don't bite off more than you can chew. Mmmkay? Sorry. |
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Starscream
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« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2006, 05:22:21 pm » |
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Of the top of my head, device reign is one candidate. Whether it's really good..well it seemed like a decent SRPG too me when I tried it. You need to see for yourself.
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Rai
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« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2006, 05:56:55 pm » |
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Rai, I'm not saying this to piss you off. Just listen. Attempting a translation that has lots of voiced dialogue can be a pain in the ass. You have to consider these problems: * The voices are stored in XA files, which are a bitch to distribute; * The voices are stored in a propietary, game specific format, which may be hell to reverse engineer, and you've already shown that you have next to no experience with -advanced- console hacking; And then there's the getting the actors themselves bit... I'm just saying, don't bite off more than you can chew. Mmmkay? Sorry. You're right on the first 2 points, however, I do know a good, active forum for recruiting amateur voice actors. |
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Metal Knuckles
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« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2006, 10:27:49 pm » |
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I just don't think it would be a good idea to re-dub Girlfriend of Steel, if you were to choose a game. I'm moderately sure that a good chunk of the community feels sub > dub when it comes to NGE (most likely due to gunshot-slaps and pudding brainsplosions), and the visualization novels are no exception. Plus, you would have to take into account that you'd probably have to re-translate the entire game on your own, so as not to be stealing other people's work. Just work with redubbing one of your current projects at hand. And release both a dubbed and un-dubbed version, so all crowds can be appeased. |
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Nightcrawler
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« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2006, 08:50:23 am » |
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Knowing the translation community and how OCD fickle they are with this subject, I would NEVER even THINK about a vocal dub. No matter how good it is, people are going to shoot you down like a lame dog. Look at the modern video game scene. Are there ANY games that have come out that everybody agrees has good voice acting? Hardly any. People are do damn fickle and the Japanese purists will always shoot down the 'inferior' English dubbing. Being armature rather than a professional studio just makes the bullseye even larger.
I just wouldn't even bother. Subtitles will agree with everyone, dubbing will just get you alot of abuse most likely.
This topic has been discussed to death over the years. Subtitles win every time.
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Rai
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« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2006, 09:32:18 am » |
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Simple solution: a translated patch with dubs, and a translated patch without dubs. Personally, I wouldn't care if no one downloaded the dubbed patch, I'd just do the dubbed patch because I want to see how it turns out. And believe it or not, there are actually people out there who do enjoy dubs.
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« Last Edit: November 09, 2006, 09:47:53 am by Rai »
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Gideon Zhi
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« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2006, 11:29:39 am » |
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You also have to consider that voice data is extremely heavy. Alpha Gaiden's voice track, for instance, is a full 300 megabytes - releasing a dub of that would be an absolute nightmare.
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Kitsune Sniper
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« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2006, 11:07:01 am » |
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You also have to consider that voice data is extremely heavy. Alpha Gaiden's voice track, for instance, is a full 300 megabytes - releasing a dub of that would be an absolute nightmare.
Hence my "Distributing will be a bitch" comment. |
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Guadozoku
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« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2006, 12:47:01 pm » |
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You could do Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius. You can even do it for SNES if you want and save yourself the "bitch of distributing."
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froid_san
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« Reply #14 on: November 11, 2006, 12:16:31 am » |
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just remembered this one
echo night 2 for the psx needs some voice work, since it has an eghlish setting and characters it wouldn't be that bad dubding it than anime based games
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