I know that some of you want a Japanese -> English translation, and have rightly pointed out that an originally butchered translation can make its way into quite a few other languages, thus preserving the butchery.  But then again, what about the case where the translation is quite solid?  In that case, I don't see any harm at all in doing a translation from the French to English, especially considering translating between those two languages is a much, much easier task than the Japanese to English.  If the job was done right in the first place (and I realize a lot is contingent on that), the hardest part of the translation is already done.

Hope a spanish version comes out, the spanish ROM hackers dont mind tranlsating other translations.

The languages aren't THAT different, despite English not being a Romance language.

I guess it's just a matter of opinion, I suppose.  I personally see no harm in translating a good Japanese->French translation to English.  It's a heck of a lot easier than the jump from Japanese to...  well, pretty much any of the European languages.

Who cares? People just want to play it in english, those who care about hyper-accurate translations are just a tiny but vocal minority. Most of us are happy if it makes sense and is reasonably well written. If french speakers say it's a good translation then french->english will be fine by 90% of the people who play these.

It's not about it being hyper-accurate. It's about it being accurate at all. We're far past the age of where anything will be accepted as long as it's in English. You want something like that, go throw the script in Babelfish. =P

~DS

Send me the french script I will translate it with the upmost accuracy.

I am fluent in english and french and have studied French, Italian, Protugese & some latin.

I agree with DS about the translation from F to E being a bad idea.

To me, it's a matter of principle: I think it's usually best to translate from the original text whenever possible. We all know that a lot of nuance, etc. gets lost in translation, even when the translation is performed by a highly skilled translator. Translating via an intermediate language increases the risk of things getting lost.

Sure, to people who speak multiple western/European languages, a translation from F to E would be easier than a translation from J to E. But to someone like me (and possibly others), who knows (a lot) more Japanese than French, a J to E translation would be far easier than one from F to E. In either case we're relying on the skill of the translator(s) to determine the outcome of the final product, but again, in the case of J to F to E, more information and nuance will naturally be missing from the final product.

Has anybody contacted the people who did the translation? I'm guessing that translating the script was the least difficult part of translating the game. If they've got scripts, tools and stuff, people who want to do translations (F to E or J to E) can do them if they want. Plus, I don't think there's any rule that says there can be only one English translation. If there are two, people can just use which one the prefer.

My two cents.