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Re: SC2 in Japanese
« Reply #30 on: January 27, 2006, 01:17:39 am »

As you can see, ZEX is barking orders at Sub-Commander DAX through most of the sequence. A good way to check the accuracy of your transcription is to compare it to the English text (comm/foo/foo.txt for race foo in the content directory/ZIP).

Agreed.  Actually, I really need to play through the game again just to refresh my memory on everything...  Smiley
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« Reply #31 on: January 27, 2007, 03:43:59 pm »

Sorry to go thread digging, but I just had to.

I would love to help put UQM into Japanese. At first I was going to post saying I'm willing to translate, but then I saw there was already a Japanese version of the 3DO SC2. I wonder if the UQM team has access to the physical text? If so, they could simply chuck it into UQM no hassles. If not, I would be more than willing to re-scribe the in-game script so that it may be easily inserted into UQM. Being a Japanese speaker (like the above poster) it would be easy for me to read the text and simply re-produce it into say, a .txt file.

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« Reply #32 on: January 27, 2007, 04:13:35 pm »

This is incredible, currently on the first page but, from what I hear, the Japanese dub is better than the American, and I bet they had less time to put it together too!

Maybe, if this were to be implemented into Ur-Quan Masters, we could have the option to have sub-titles in english? That'd be great Smiley.

Ok, read through it all, nooow...

The ZFP I like. I really do like them, the idea of them bickering like children appeals to me greatly.
I thought the ZEX dub was good, until the end bit with the guy making noises into a microphone, couldn't they have used a lions roar or something?

I wanna hear the Japanese Arilou say Faralarafali.

I also wanna hear the Orz more Cheesy.

Impressed with the Yehat and Pkunk voices too, the Yehat sound Samurai-ish whereas the Pkunk sound like Monks or something.

Another thing, did they edit Hayes at all? After all, he is a typical muscular Westerner, and that image doesn't exactly "sell" well to the Japanese, infact, how did the version do out there? Maybe there's a Japanese collective of fans too Cheesy.
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« Reply #33 on: January 27, 2007, 04:38:41 pm »

My impression is that the primary problems are:
  • As 3DO SC2 has speech but no text, no text version of the Japanese dialogue is available.
  • The copyright status of the Japanese dialogue is unclear (can we redistribute it?).
From a technical point of view, what needs to be done is:
  • Convert the 3DO speech to Ogg Vorbis (the tools made for the English version should work).
  • Transcribe the speech.
  • Produce timestamp files to synchronise text and speech.
  • Produce a Japanese voice package containing speech and timestamps.
The first and last steps are the easy ones. The middle steps require a bunch of Japanese-speaking volunteers.
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« Reply #34 on: January 27, 2007, 04:52:14 pm »

As with the English 3DO version, the Japanese 3DO version of UQM does not contain subtitles for the alien speech. So they'd need to be transcribed from the audio.
Also, there are no Japanese fonts for the alien speech.
The subtitles would also need to be synchronised to the audio.

We could use the fonts used for the captain's speech for the aliens (at least to start with), but transcribing the voice, and synching the subtitles to the voice is no small job, considering that there are 12 hours of speech. It sounds like something that is better done by a team, instead of by a single person.

As for subtitles in English, this is possible, but it isn't as easy as taking the English subtitles and playing them along with the Japanese speech. They would need to be synchronised for the Japanese speech, and there would also inevitably be differences in what is actually said.
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« Reply #35 on: January 27, 2007, 04:58:17 pm »

It seems that Novus was quicker. An additional remark:
I just sent an email to TFB asking about the copyright status of the Japanese stuff. Even if we don't have permission, we could still provide the subtitles and the tools for people who have the actual Japanese 3DO CD to create their own voice package.
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« Reply #36 on: January 27, 2007, 08:09:49 pm »

Well, we should do what every Western Comapny does to do well in Japan...

That's right. You know what...

We should anime-ize the com link pictures, that'll show them...
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« Reply #37 on: January 27, 2007, 08:29:52 pm »

Even if we don't have permission, we could still provide the subtitles and the tools for people who have the actual Japanese 3DO CD to create their own voice package.
Are you sure? The subtitles would be a derivative work of the Japanese speech, not (just) the original text.
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« Reply #38 on: January 27, 2007, 08:58:15 pm »

Hmm... good point. I don't know actually. And ofcourse, with any "is it allowed?" question, it depends on what country you're in.
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« Reply #39 on: January 29, 2007, 06:14:17 am »

Out of curiosity, does SC2j have a cast list, and if so, who did the voice work?
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« Reply #40 on: January 30, 2007, 12:53:52 am »

It probably has, but I can't read Japanese.
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« Reply #41 on: January 31, 2007, 06:51:27 am »

How long do you plan to wait for a response from TFB?  Are there any plans to release it if you don't hear from them by then?

A suggestion, Make the language option for voice and subtitles separate.  That way, you can release the JP voice track sooner (assuming the JP script is essentially identical to the EN script).  You can still release the subtitle script when it's done.

BTW, was 3DO SC2 released in any other languages?
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« Reply #42 on: January 31, 2007, 02:31:03 pm »

If I don't hear from TFB, I'd probably just let it go for now until there's an occasion to send them another mail. That is, unless there are people actually waiting on an answer to do the translations.
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« Reply #43 on: January 31, 2007, 02:59:04 pm »

A suggestion, Make the language option for voice and subtitles separate.  That way, you can release the JP voice track sooner (assuming the JP script is essentially identical to the EN script).  You can still release the subtitle script when it's done.
In the short term, at least, the Japanese content can be handled as an expansion package (like the UQM translations). Adding the voice data (and leaving the rest of the game in English) works fine as long as you don't want any subtitles. You can also have English subtitles if someone generates subtitle timestamp data (this basically involves listening to the speech and pressing a key when the subtitles should switch to the next line; several times to get it right). The tricky part is that the timestamp data depends on where the line breaks in the text are and on the timing of the speech; unlike a movie, SC2 doesn't require the translated speech to be timed to the on-screen action (the action is timed to the speech instead). Unless the Japanese text can be divided into screens at exactly the same points as the English text (possible if the Japanese font is small enough and the split points still make sense), the timestamp data would depend both on the speech you use and on the text you use.

It may be a good idea to ask TFB if they or anyone they know have the Japanese text lying around somewhere (I expect meep-eep has already done this). I doubt the Japanese voice team were improvising or reading the English text. Wink
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« Reply #44 on: January 31, 2007, 05:42:04 pm »

No, I haven't asked them whether they have the Japanese text lying around. These guys are notoriously bad in responding to email, so I try to improve my chances of a speedy reply by sticking to a few lines. Besides, I didn't think of it at the time.
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