What's this? P-p-p-progress!? Spooky...

I think I'm in the running for creating the translation community's ugliest text font, but what's killing it is the game's image stretching filter, which seems to be applied even to images that aren't stretched for animations. It really plays hell with thin lettering. Might look into disabling it later and see what happens.

We're still looking for more translation help, of course! We got a miraculous injection of help from Reinofhearts recently, but the more the merrier!

Here's a bit of a belated holiday gift for everyone who's been watching the project and patiently awaiting progress:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReWhOmuTr-0

Thanks again to reinofhearts for the translation work shown. Can't wait to show off Sandslice's in-battle translations once I get more inserted. As always, we would graciously accept more translation help! 

Thanks, I'm just lucky Dragon Force II ended up being pretty friendly to work with, and that the Saturn's memory management was so well documented at the Yabause wiki. Still gotta figure out a few odds and ends, but it looks to be pretty smooth sailing from here on out. When we finish will depend most on how many translators we can get on board now.

Currently I'm trading off between Dragon Force II and script editing for a seriously, seriously awesome Chinese-to-English translation project. Whereas I'm foolishly intent on pushing through Dragon Force II with sheer elbow grease on the technical side, the second project has been going much more smoothly thanks to Magil coding text injection and image compression utilities, not to mention connecting with the game's huge source language fanbase. I'm waiting to reveal the second project until we've got some really snazzy preview videos. It's not a Saturn game, but nevertheless, look forward to Chinese New Year.  :beer:  I hope it'll encourage more interest in Chinese-to-English projects, because there are some serious overlooked gems out there, just as there are on the Saturn.

On that note, and at the risk of going too far off topic, I never thought to ask here at RH.net: anyone know of forums where lots of bilingual Chinese/English videogame fans gather? We've been blessed with the amount of help we've received from the game's already existing fanbase, but I suspect we can interest a few more translators once the preview samples are done.

Thanks Starscream! kongming.net/the-scholars.com was on my list of places to visit but I didn't realize its connection to previous translation projects -- beautiful! I'll check out the Hongfire forum too.

Fairly certain it's a brand-new project, as the game has below average exposure in the West (compare to, say, Legend of Sword and Fairy, which is pretty well known judging from its own fan translation efforts). It doesn't even have a common English-language title beyond the nickname of its installation folder; I have a feeling finalizing the title might end up being the most difficult part of the project, at least on the translation side.

Yee-hawww, check your PMs Luca!  :crazy:

Whew, recruitment for the project has been on a roll lately.

In case anyone happens through here and is curious about how difficult the game's Japanese text is, reinofhearts suggested a sample that should give people a pretty good idea.