Translation into Other Languages « MOTHER 3 Fan Translation Blog Spillover « Forum

Tomato
Translator & PK h4x0r

This topic can now be a general purpose topic for other-language translations.

FWIW, poik007’s gonna be heading the French translation, and TurboNess will be doing the Spain Spanish version I think.

Like I mentioned in the Spanish topic, it would help us a lot if there was only one main translator for each translation, and we would interact with that person. Said person could have people help out, but me and Jeff would only interact with the main translator. Does that make sense?

NOTE: These other translations will begin after the English patch is out!

Cianci

Well, I can't say I disagree with you Mato. The translations would probably be much more organized if you guys communicated only with one translator. The interaction would be quicker and much more incisive.

I'd like to volunteer myself as a translator/main translator if that was the case. I play videogames since I was a child, and here in Brazil I had to learn english, so I could understand the games' stories. As I said in the blog, I already worked on some fan-translated mangas, and I have enough free time.I'm really eager to help as a fan of the Mother series.

Pango.PD

Yes, Mato, I think you are right.

Putting too many people in one ranslation would create a lot of contradictions.

But, if the Brazilian Portuguese needs help in translating the text, ?I'm willing to help.

P.s.: I'm Gustavo.

dr.mario

Is there a topic for the French translation? I couldn't find one, but I'm willing to proofread, grammar-check, or do whatever to back up poik007. It's my job in real life, and I'm pretty darn good at it. I wouldn't have too much free time to translate, but I could do a second pass to make sure there are no errors. I'd love to help speed up the French work here if the help is needed.

Cianci

Well, after spending some more time thinking about this "one translator to communicate with Mato and Jeff" thing, my opinion got pretty divided...

I mean, I think it's somewhat essencial for the translation decisions (like puns to be translated) to be taken by more than one person... So, even though only one person should interact with you, Mato, don't you think it's good to have more than one person discussing about the translations?

Just a thought...

Tomato
Translator & PK h4x0r

Yes, that's what I said. There should be one main person. If that person wants some people to help him/her, then that's fine. But the main person is the main person, and will be the person we communicate with.

starman_373

I hope I can help poik with the French translation. There's been a lot of guys expressing interest in it and I don't know how many people he has already signed up

Tomato
Translator & PK h4x0r

You'll want to talk to poik007 when the time comes.

starman_373

Well I just sent him a PM, heh. I hope he's not too busy with something else now to think about the French translation.

nightshade

Well, I wouldn't mind helping out with the French translation but I don't think I have the time to be a main translator (unless you want to get the translation done by 2012 <.<;)

dracoofdragonheart

-- I`d love to help too !!! Getting on vacations right now, maybe Cianci, Gustavo, me and who ones else can talk with MSN, solving problems and improving the text as a group here... I can help with any kind of stuff.

-- I`m mother/earthbound series fan, never worked with serious translation before but it doesn't means a big problem, I did 7 year of English but got some years without speaking too much... I have lots of U.S. friends who can help me online with expressions and etc ... so, I`m here for whatever you want ...

-- Just tell me what you have defined, ok ?! My email is dracoofdragonheart@yahoo.com.br (or @hotmail.com --btw add me Ciani and Gustavo ^{^), or pedrofelipemp@yahoo.com.br}

--I think I said everything... anything else just call me ok ? (lol, it looks like a job interview xD)

PS: I`m DracoOfDragonheart in the blog ----My best wishes for you all, DRACO ^.=.

TragicManner

Hey guys, I'm also interested in being involved in the Portuguese (Br) translation. On MSN I'm Iguana2867@hotmail.com. We should definitely chat and get to talking about the project.

Also, I've been translating Earthbound into Portuguese and wouldn't mind a little help with that if someone has the time.

millhouse

I offer my services as german translator. I always loved earthbound, and I would be honored to work on such a project. I have excellent german skills, I am both fluent in speech and know the tacks and hacks of spoken german, I have quite a lot of free time to dedicate to this translation, and I promise I'll try to keep the quirkyness and so called earthbound-y-ness (pun intended) of the game, also finding a fitting and still accurate translation for things like figures of speech or haikus, that are used.

please contact me, even if you decline my services. please email me at Max.wagner01@yahoo.de, if you'd like an msn address, just tell me

Dan XVIII

Hello Mato, I would be really glad to translate Mother 3 in Italian.

I'm an HUGE fan of the Mother series, and I've already got romhacking experience behind my back. Gemini probably remembers me from the good ol' times in the Italian romhacking scene. Back then, I had a Romhacking group, so I'm pretty used to lead projects and coordinating translators.

I've already posted sometimes in the M3 translation blog, under different nicknames (mainly Lol), so you might remember me from there

If you want to ask me anything, please send me a PM or a Mail.

Thanks for your time

viniciuskps

OK, I really want to help translating the game to Brazilian Portuguese, Mato. Count me in!

Mostly, I have lots of free time on my hands. I'll try to keep with everything once it's started.

I've worked before in one EarthBound translation to Brazilian Portuguese (which is on hold for now), along with I am the Will, Koopser, Flicky, and Lou.mds. The Kirby was the hacker of the project.

The way we worked on the translation was the following:

The Kirby would come with some line for us to translate.
Each one of the translators would translate the lines the way they wanted.
We would discuss not for too long, and finally have a line that everyone liked, and proceed to the next one.

Cianci

It's very nice to see so many brazilians interested in Mother. =] My msn is donaldverdugo@hotmail.com I already added TragicManner and Dracoofdragonheart, who wants to, can add me too. It'll probably be our main chat line in the project.

See ya \o

Purity

Wow! There are so many people wanting to translate it to Brazilian Portuguese!

I came here to offer my services as a Portuguese(really from Portugal) translator! As I said in the blog, I'm taking translation at university, and I would LOVE to translate this to Portuguese...

Seeing as "Brazilian" annoys most portuguese people, I'm sure this translation would make more people play it here in Portugal.. On the other hand, Portugal is a really small country, and EarthBound isn't really popular in Europe, so I doubt I'd get more than 100 guys playing my translation! XD

Even so, I'm willing to do it, if you think it's worth it, as I have too much free time in my hands at the moment!

Tomato
Translator & PK h4x0r

Yeah, I don't mind there being two Portuguese translations. I also don't mind there being two Spanish translations.

But so many people wanting to help = me not knowing what to do. So if you people could organize yourselves, that would help a LOT.

Pango.PD

In Brazil, Orkut is very used, diffrently from other countries, that at least by what I know, have very few Orkut users. So, I think that for Brazil, Orkut would be a good way to keep contact and to organize ourselves. Should we make a community?

...But, I think it should be only temporary, cuz’ I don’t think Orkut is good for this kind of thing, maybe we should use Orkut until everything is defined and we have a website or blog os something else.

BreakingOrder

Purity, please let me help you with anything! It’s obvious your translating skills are superior than mine, since you’re taking translation at university, but I still can do work on this, and I would love to. I’ve been bringing this subject many times on the blog, but not even one compatriot replied. Made me wonder if Portugal even had any Mother fans… Oh, and Mato, about European Portuguese, don’t worry about organization, since it looks like with only two of them around, it will be easy. Some languages DO need that sort of thing though. Let’s just hope they can all get to an agreement.

viniciuskps

Maybe… we could just do it via MSN. I personally think it’s better. People who are going to work on this, please add me viniciuskps@hotmail.com. We create a chat-room and… decide stuff!

Thanks! =)

Pango.PD

I alredy added:

Viniciuskps Dracodragonheart Cianci and Tragic Manner

my msn is: panguinho-coelhosuicida@hotmail.com

Yeah, I know it is a pretty strange e-mail adress, but it is right, that is my e-mail.

Hahaha I didn’t read this comic.

Of course Dr Mario, you can be my bulletproof checker

If anyone else wants to help me, please post here, I’ll have no problem working with 1-5 people to get this done

Pango.PD

Poik 007, you are working in which translation?

Taikun

I can translate it to german too! i really love earthbound and mother and it would be a honor if i could help translating it to german, with millhouse for example! (I am german/polish and can speak english very good)

just send a mail if i can help : stude@web.de

(Oh, i am also new here so hello everyone!^^)

dracoofdragonheart

Ok Mato … We`ll try to organize things here, don`t worry … replying to you when things get done, ok ?

TragicManner

Alright Mato, I think the Brazilian Portuguese team is coming together. We have met and I’m going to try and organize our Earthbound translation efforts so we can get ready for the Mother 3 translation. Exciting stuff!

Pango.PD

Hehehe

Everything is coming together I think everything will go just fine with the Earthbound translation, and this will be a good training and warm-up for all of us.

Also, this project is gonna be fun.

Bruknar

I would not mind helping out on the french translation. I’m not sure where the Poik 007 and the other french users who offered help are from, but I’m from Quebec, so if you’re looking into making the translation into a more international french, I’d be glad to help!

Email and MSN is cpas18@hotmail.com

thanius

I’m on for a Swedish translation, if the seat’s not taken. I’ve been working with different translations for personal use, but I’ve got one from english up here: http://www.opensubtitles.com/sv/subtitles/110646/thumb-wars-the-phantom-cuticle-sv

Cheers! thanius@thanius.com

Luna is not my goddess.

Bruknar: poik’s Québécois too, so his translation is probably going to be Québec-centric.

dr.mario

OK, Poik007, consider me your bulletproof checker =) . It’ll be great to work on this project; it will give me something fun to look forward to! Bruknar, I grew up in the U.S., but I’ve dedicated a ridiculous portion of my life to mastering French… lived in France for years, worked as an editor, studied linguistics / French in school… so, yeah

dedede

I offer my services to European Portuguese Team!

“Bem-vindo ao mundo de Mother 3”

(Purity, i sent you an PM )

Purity

Yeah, added you dedede!

and BreakingOrder, sent you a pm with my mail!

heh, I certainly wasn’t expecting to see two other portugueses around here! Mother is bigger than I thought ;o

Andreas

I am Italian,so i can translate Mother 3 in italian!

“Benvenuto nel mondo di Mother 3”

Red-Blue

Hey, I wouldn’t mind translating this into Dutch. I’d even be happy to. If it’s anything I can do, I’m totally in. (1-man team ftw.)

millhouse

so, as of now, we already have teams (even be it one man teams…) for following languages:

english german french (france and quebec? or will there only be one?) italian spanish (spain and mexico) portuguese (portugal and brazil) dutch swedish

did I forget any? oh yeah, there’s still lolcat, klingon and 1337speak… XD if this works for all those (serious) languages, we (mostly mato, jeffman, and the team, due to their hacking) really have accomplished something. was there anything like this before? I mean, in the history of nintendo games? that fans all over the world began to take upon themselves to translate a japan-exclusive game into their languages?

PS. why isn’t there a Mr-Saturn translation yet? ZOOM!

dedede

But there is, a Mr. Saturn imported a “Mother 3” to their planet from japan and they already started to translate the game.

But im not sure if they gona upload the patch here, because of MIB and Porky

Pango.PD

People from all over the world, coming together to translate and bring to as many places as possible a Japan-only game, whose prequels marked so many peoples lives…..

I almost cried.

Come on, MIB wouldn’t stop the Mr. Saturn to put the patch online, the Mr. Saturn CONTROL MIB! They control 6% of all the money in the world, and they alredy captured the state of Acre in Brazil!

Wait…You never heard of Acre? ....Exactly.

fireknight

I can help out with some spanish translations as longyou don’t mind I won’t include the letter “ñ”; my home country is El Salvador wich has spanish as its 1st language, so I guess it would not be too hard to help out in what I can like

“Bienvenido al mundo de Mother 3”

and stuff like that

KraftWerk

Being a hardcore Earthbound-fan, and having studied english and norwegian litterature and language, I’d be more than qualified to translate Mother3 to norwegian. I’d like to play through the game first, though, so this won’t happen any time soon. I can’t imagine many people needing, or even wanting to play the game, or any game really, in norwegian. But it would be a fun spare time activity. If anyone else in Norway wants to do this, I’m certainly available to help out, and if nothing has begun after I’ve finished the game, then I’ll roll up my sleeves.

millhouse

Oh, yeah, right… in general, when should the translations take place? I bet there’s a lot of people who haven’t played the game yet and who don’t want to get spoiled before having played through the game first (me included, logically, otherwise we wouldn’t be here, right? an english trnalsaiton wouldn’t be interesting for us if we all speak japanese…)

so will the other language packs appears as a follow up of the initial english translation, or will they launch alongside with the english patch?

I want to keep away form spoilers as far as I possibly can, but of course, if I am going to help translate the whole script to another language, then there won’t be much surprise to the game for me…

what do you think? translate alongside of the english version of after completion?

(PS: if we are to translate alongside of the english verison, I’d kindly ask for more help for the german translation, preferrably from someone who doesn’t care about being spoiled, or who has already played through the game in japanese… so someone else can take the big part of the spoiler text… I’d limit myself to detail work. if there’s no one willing to take that job, I’ll of course do it myself and ignore spoilers…)

Tomato
Translator & PK h4x0r

The other translations won’t start until at LEAST the day the English patch is released. I assume translators will want to play the game in English at least once too

Tomato
Translator & PK h4x0r

Oh, I should mention that the translation tools are Windows-only, so the main translator for each group will probably need to have Windows XP or better.

Foffano

(Third try… Hope that time works…)

Wow… There are so many brazilians in here and i didn’t have the idea…

Er… I’m from Brazil and I was the one who translated that sign in the screenshot into Brazilian Portuguese… I knew some would don’t like the “pisotear” word, but I’ve translated it that way because I think it’s more MOTHERish than “pisar” in our language.

I translate some mangas for a group called Fanservice, and if you see my works you going to understand I don’t like translating the dialogues literally. I like to adequate the language to the thing, and I like the MOTHERs’ happy inocent humour.

Well… If you want contact me:

MSN: [ sr_foffano @ hotmail . com ] Email: Same as MSN or [ foffano @ gmail . com ]

Thanks.

millhouse

tomato, tell me, are the tools 64-bit tested or even compatible? I’m running on a 64-bit vista, (it sucks, don’t install vista), but I still have an old installation (which is cramped full of junk) of the regular 32-bit XP on my HDD… I’d like to use vista, since my XP is (hard to imagine, but yes…) less stable than my vista installation, and I’d have to do some major deleting and moving prior to having a usable XP…

oh, and you don’t know how glad I am that you don’t expect us to start translating right off the hook. I really want to enjoy this game in all its beautiful english earthboundyness

jjolli

Mato, have you already decided who is going to translate it into german? And how are you going to send the tools to the translators? Private Message or E-mail?

gabitafm

I’d love to participate in the mexican project spanish translation, I already posted something in the Spanish thread, hope I can help in the project, as I told there I’ll try my best for this, I’m a really familiarized with the Mother series and about translations, hope u can have me in mind, thanks : )

contact: gabitafm@hotmail.com

Tomato
Translator & PK h4x0r

jjolli: I’m hoping that people HERE will organize themselves, since I don’t really have time to interview everyone and see who has the most free time, the most skill, the least likely to start internet drama, etc.

These other translations won’t start until after the English patch is out, so I don’t know the details yet.

KraftWerk

I suppose this kind of extended project could benefit from some sort of Wiki. It would be a logical way of tracking progress and keeping tabs on who is doing what and when. More organized and immediately informative than a forum thread, at least! Still, making a wiki at this point would be of little help. I suppose that we need to wait for the official unofficial translation to be completed so we can enjoy the game, and then we can start looking at the script and translation tools and size the thing up into manageable blocks. At this point, a wiki will be of great help. I’m mostly just talking aloud to myself here – so I’m not intending to just point out the obvious and try to seem smart. But as Tomato says, we will have to organize ourselves in some way at some point.

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