Ok...Guessin he aint around anymore.

Romhacker's code...

I emailed Geechyguy asking if it was alright and if she could help out.

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Geechyguy = Male script editor
Unknown person = Female translator -- I doubt anyone has this person's contact info at this point


I hope this doesn't come off as offensive to Neil and co, but I really do feel that both of us could have done a much better job on DQ5. I regret forcing both of us to rush our releases, and I'd really like it if English speakers received a high-quality localization of DQ5, catering both to DQ and DW fans.

Regarding the existing translations, the script could've been more faithful and clear for both, but I'm referring to the hacking especially. An 8x8 variable-width battle font would be trivial to add; the dialogue window would greatly benefit from translucency, or even a gradient fade, auto formatting support, and some font shadowing; the game really needs a "true" title screen (not the tiny thing you see when you start a new game), maybe throw in one of those vocal songs that are all the rage these days; and most ambitiously, the graphics could really afford to be touched up a little, possibly from the DQ3r/6 versions (easier than it sounds, sure). Something like what d4s did for BoF2. DQ5 really deserves it. This is something I really want to go back and do one day, but it's quite unlikely it will ever happen, sadly.

As it stands, our best shot for the forseeable future is this PS2 translation, hence my concern over the translation. But you've already made up your mind, so I wish you luck with that goal.

A quick job? Maybe for testers, but certainly not for everyone and all eyes to see. I will admit that it was Greg's idea, but I know why he thought of it and it still isn't that half bad of an idea. I will say that it's not a rushed job, we both have deep feeling for this title and still do wish to make it feel like a remake of what WE played, right here in the states, what we know and love as a classic. We do not want the script to keep us from the work we have planned, so i see it as a stationary.

For example, if you needed to get across a stream to explore the other side immediately, or save someone's life we'll say. You wouldn't take the time out to build a bridge out of concrete steel and put time and effort into it right away. You'd post up a few logs or something real quick, and get on the other side and then build something more sturdy on your way back and for anyone else who needed to cross. That's how I see it anyway. I don't really know if thats what greg had in mind, but I'm sure it's something of that nature. We are prepared for things at the moment and we wanna take use of this moment before it passes up. Things happen, so we're prepared.

I'm not sure, but i think greg was going to leave garbage strings before Dark Force gave us his wonderful offer. So it's better we fill it with something understandable than some random sets of font prints on a dialogue window. When things all all said and done, we're still going to test out how the scripts work out in gameplay and re-write whatever according, so granted these strings have a high possibility of being altered. and we still have ALOT of ground to cover with an actual translator, far over half. Probably well over three quarters even. Not to mention Greg himself is quite fluent in Japanese.

I understand where you're all coming from, but I'm sure it's going to end up different than you would expect it to be at this point in time.

Ouch.

present company excluded.   :angel:

Gideon's spent years waiting for translated scripts.

Sometimes desperation isn't the best route to take.

I would like to interject here as a person who knows jack shit about ROM/game hacking/translation, but enjoys the fruits of the labor. I'm sure that with that first sentence, I have discredited anything else I'm going to say in this discussion, but I'm going to say it anyway.

DQ5 is one of my all-time favorite games. Since I have the opportunity now, thanks so much to Neil and byuu and everyone else who worked on the SNES translation. Even if you consider your own work sub-par, I am unendingly grateful and feel that the work you did was awesome.

Having said that, I'm very excited to see the PS2 version getting a translation(now I'm gonna need to find myself a Japanese copy of it and mod my PS2- but it will be SO worth it )! My own opinion on this is that before you knock what DaMarsMan is doing, you should remember that you're not him. See, I have my own little projects going(see my homepage for one of them), and I'm the type of person that if my projects don't see any largely visible progress for some time, I begin to lose motivation to work on them. Not a very good attribute for large projects, I know- but my point is, everyone has different ways of getting the job done and different things that motivate them. It seems that this thread is mostly filled with people actually discouraging  DaMarsMan from doing this his way, and I don't feel that's fair.

Don't get me wrong, I very much agree with this game getting a good quality translation. It's not like I'm speaking from experience or know all the history and details about what's going on here, but In my opinion this thread is less encouraging and supportive to DaMarsMan than it should be. So allow be to be the first in this thread to say this:

Thank you so much for your work so far, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing this translation. I can only imagine how much painstaking work this much take- I'm pretty sure I could never complete a project like this.  Here's to you, and the hope that you can