I thought this was supposed to be the central hub for rom hacking where hacks can be found, not the rom hacking equivalent of OCRemix. Might as well get rid of incomplete translations as well and abolish anything not 100% because they're actually worse than a machine translation. This site hosts the dead, buggy, unplayable Record of Lodoss War patch and this isn't good enough? Horrible script insertions for the Wonderswan Final Fantasy games are also available. This is just off the top of my head, too.

From what I understand, trumisery has put forth a good honest effort and does not try to label his work as definitive. It IS, however, SOMETHING for those of us who can't speak a word of Japanese until something better comes along. In that respect, it's just as good if not better than those dead projects or hacked up insertions.

I'm not saying this because I'm going to miss out, it's just annoying to see cherry picking happening here and defeating the purpose of this site. Hey, I'm not staff so who am I to say what the purpose is, but I remember when I joined it was to house works in which effort has been put into. It's a silly decision that will continue to look so until either a: the patch is hosted or b: all the other hacks which probably aren't nearly as good are deleted and RHDN is pronounced as elite hacks only.

I won't lose sleep over the choice and neither should anyone else, but I figured I'd offer my two cents on the matter.

Yeah, I agree, but let us not forget that even making sense is relative. And I'm actually quoting the best person for demonstrating this, what a nice coincidence. Because Ryusui retranslated Breath of Fire II and we all know how the official English translation looked and “made sense”.

You exactly phrase what I hesitated to utter!
Because if this "translation" has the official right of existence, then... 

EDIT: I just had a hilarious thought, what if Capcom (or whoever has the official rights to BOF2) created a patch that turns the Japanese ROM into the official English version and decided to make it public domain. AND RHDN would refuse to host it due to crappy translation.  :laugh:

I see something along the lines of 80+% approval within this thread for accepting this translation on the site.

It was mentioned that a favorable response of this sort would change the stance of the moderators...

So.... Has the decision of whether to host the translation patch here changed ?
(re: Startling Odyssey 2 for PC Engine)

This is a romhacking website. The game was hacked and effort was put into hacking it. I think it should be allowed. I am okay with not hosting patches with minimal hacking such as palette hacking, but genuine hacking effort was put into this game. There are plenty of games here that have inaccurate or crappy translation, should we start removing those? Should we start monitoring the content of all translation hacks to see if they meet correct grammar standards and such.  What if I make a patch that changes the story of a game completely, but did this on purpose. Would it not be hosted because it does not have the exact story or content of the original game? As long as the hack makes note of where the translation came from it should be allow. If not, we should base all accepted hacks on the translators work and not the rom hackers and maybe change the name of the site to ROMTanslating dot net


I have seen the pictures for this game and read the text, the text is fine and not "babelfished" or Engrish, it is clear direct and even inspiring. Its not a squaresoft translation but jeez no one gets paid for doing this stuff.

Either way though I will be getting my patch when it comes out. I just feel like this should get put on here FOR OTHER PEOPLE that dont know where the patch WILL be posted and dont access the forums like we do they just browse the latest translations releases. I did that for years on here before i actually made an account months ago.

I do not see any broken english, do you?









Or were you reffering to another translation?

Hasn't Terminator taught us anything? When the machines take over, all hope for humanity will be lost or so the story goes.

Aside from that there are probably more pitfalls than positives with machine translators. I'd say it would be around the same level of quality of translating with absolutely no context and somebody translating with a very limited knowledge of the language. Warui Toransu comes to mind, which doesn't really help anyone.