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This reminds me of the fan translation projects for games like Ace Attorney from Japanese -> Korean. They also found a way to extract the game strings and put t
by andrewzah 5y ago
This reminds me of the fan translation projects for games like Ace Attorney from Japanese -> Korean. They also found a way to extract the game strings and put them into a google doc. It was super cool.
So I went through all of the hassle of modding my 3ds to change its language to Korean (Nintendo only allows specific languages per 3ds region), and patching a romfile of Ace Attorney. Then Nintendo released Ace Attorney 1-3 on the switch and pc, so that was great timing. It's still annoying on the switch as the game supports Korean, but only if you set your system language to Korean; hardly ideal if anyone else uses it. At least with Steam it can be configured per-game.
- dclowd9901 5y agoYes, totally this. I really wish there was some way I could contribute to the project (they don’t accept donations). Such a nice community of people too.
- pkdpic_y9k 5y agome too, they had me at "japanese bookstore simulator"
- firexcy 5y agoThere were similar efforts in the Chinese fan-translators community, and Ace Attorney is distinguished by the huge amount of texts, not to mention the peculiar culture references that are borderline untranslatable. The time for grassroot game translations may have peaked with the introduction of official remasters in Chinese and the increasing barriers in dumping and reverse-engineering ROMs, but the contributors deserve to be celebrated for their creativeness and hardwork. They are practicing online collaborations before the era of online collaboration.