Infernoplex

Thanks for the words of encouragement
And as for progress report - today I checked chapters 10 & 11, so that means 85% done.

This is only natural. Just don't think about it too much. I struggle with it myself sometimes, but I don't let that discourage me.

This is only natural. Just don't think about it too much. I struggle with it myself sometimes, but I don't let that discourage me.

So, after quite a long break, today I finally had another proofreading/TLC session, and so I reached 60% mark, going over most of the 8th chapter.

I see. Yeah, if it's a Korean TL, then that makes sense. Anyway, for Siglus, I think some fanTL groups worked with it before, so you may want to contact those.

The projects look nice 😤 Good luck with them!

Thanks!
Actually we're working in two related projects. The first one is a software to create visual novels and publish it as iOS apps. It's called Boken Engine and is available here. The other is a visual novel app using the former tool and we're still in the first steps. Its name is The Ikkai Saga, curse of blood, and is also available here. Feel free to take a look and provide feedback if you want.
Thanks again for the warm welcome!

Hello and welcome
What's your project, by the way?

And don't ask too many people because your learning workload will massively increase for each person you ask for tips

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So, as expected, now I'm progressing much faster with a TLC - even though I can't do it everyday, I already reached 42% (finished 7th chapter)

Today I reached 23% mark on TLC. I think that from now on, as I go on, I should be able to gradually go faster, because it was the beginning chapters that were the biggest mess.

Today I resumed my TLC work, pushing progress counter from 7 to 10%

Sadly I got interrupted by life again... But I'll try to get back to it as soon as possible.

Well, since Marko is MIA, it's up to me to do the updates. And get back on the project I guess. Anyway...
As you might have noticed, someone uploaded a restoration patch for the Vita version of the game. Initially we were planning on cooperating with him to port said patch to the PC version. However it came to light that this patch used machine translation, thus we will not use it on this project. It was too good to be true, I guess.
Regarding the project itself: Yuuki's H-scenes are 100% translated and edited, and the patch was supposed to drop this month. However, we found a bug present in all H-scenes, and the hacker is too busy with IRL stuff to fix it, so we decided to shift it to next month.
MANY thanks to NTRanon who translated Yuuki's H-scenes, he's a saint and we don't deserve him.

1) I have no hard feelings about this either way, as long as it's consistent throughout the translation of the work. So if the TLer decided to keep honorifics, they better stay there till the end.
2) Same opinion as with the honorifics. No hard feelings either way, as long as it's consistent and matches the tone of the character who's speaking it.
3) Depends on context. In some works, you can get creative about this. I guess "tsundere" would be fine to keep, but where does one draw the line? At "mayadere"? "Coodere"? Luckily, I don't think I've seen these rarer ones appear in dialogue or narration of some VN, but personally, I'm not sure I'd keep these if I worked on a VN where they appear. Some of these "dere" variants aren't as well known as "tsundere".
4) I prefer western order, for reasons.
5) Definitely something that doesn't need to be always TLed literally, except in cases where it makes sense for the character to speak that way (which rarely happens, really). Not saying one can't use "it can't be helped" for it, but I usually rewrite around it if I see it.
6) Same as with "shouganai/shikata ga nai".
7) Definitely 100% liberal. And it's the number one reason I hate puns in Japanese. They're the hardest to carry over in translation. You really need to find something in English that would work in a similar way. I'm not a fan of TL notes, so I'd rather see an English pun here instead.

1) I have no hard feelings about this either way, as long as it's consistent throughout the translation of the work. So if the TLer decided to keep honorifics, they better stay there till the end.
2) Same opinion as with the honorifics. No hard feelings either way, as long as it's consistent and matches the tone of the character who's speaking it.
3) Depends on context. In some works, you can get creative about this. I guess "tsundere" would be fine to keep, but where does one draw the line? At "mayadere"? "Coodere"? Luckily, I don't think I've seen these rarer ones appear in dialogue or narration of some VN, but personally, I'm not sure I'd keep these if I worked on a VN where they appear. Some of these "dere" variants aren't as well known as "tsundere".
4) I prefer western order, for reasons.
5) Definitely something that doesn't need to be always TLed literally, except in cases where it makes sense for the character to speak that way (which rarely happens, really). Not saying one can't use "it can't be helped" for it, but I usually rewrite around it if I see it.
6) Same as with "shouganai/shikata ga nai".
7) Definitely 100% liberal. And it's the number one reason I hate puns in Japanese. They're the hardest to carry over in translation. You really need to find something in English that would work in a similar way. I'm not a fan of TL notes, so I'd rather see an English pun here instead.

1) I have no hard feelings about this either way, as long as it's consistent throughout the translation of the work. So if the TLer decided to keep honorifics, they better stay there till the end.
2) Same opinion as with the honorifics. No hard feelings either way, as long as it's consistent and matches the tone of the character who's speaking it.
3) Depends on context. In some works, you can get creative about this. I guess "tsundere" would be fine to keep, but where does one draw the line? At "mayadere"? "Coodere"? Luckily, I don't think I've seen these rarer ones appear in dialogue or narration of some VN, but personally, I'm not sure I'd keep these if I worked on a VN where they appear. Some of these "dere" variants aren't as well known as "tsundere".
4) I prefer western order, for reasons.
5) Definitely something that doesn't need to be always TLed literally, except in cases where it makes sense for the character to speak that way (which rarely happens, really). Not saying one can't use "it can't be helped" for it, but I usually rewrite around it if I see it.
6) Same as with "shouganai/shikata ga nai".
7) Definitely 100% liberal. And it's the number one reason I hate puns in Japanese. They're the hardest to carry over in translation. You really need to find something in English that would work in a similar way. I'm not a fan of TL notes, so I'd rather see an English pun here instead.

Big news!
Today I reached the end of the script, and that means, that first retranslation phase is completed .

Now I'd like to check first few chapters once more, and then hand it over to the editor. @Plk_Lesiak - would you like to try editing it?
In the meantime I'll try to insert Japanese text into Renpy thus making JP Renpy version. And then, when English text is completed, I'll add it.
Also, I'll try once more to make upscaled/smoothed set of images, but this time I'll do this manually, just recoloring them pixel by pixel - in order to retain original's pixel art feeling. Those automatically smoothed images I showed earlier aren't good enough. And sometimes they're outright ugly.

Today I did two scenes - Shouko's which is perhaps the lamest one in the game, and Ruri's, which is the best one (as well as whole Ruri's route). 96% done.

And Aki's H-scene is done. 97%
Now what is left is Seia's and Meimi's h-scenes, and short epilogues that accompany final CGs, right before credits.
I don't like Seia's h-scene too much - it's perhaps at 7th place out of 8 - with the last place belonging to Shouko
It feels like this scene exists only to satisfy readers with nun fetish I mean, the scene itself isn't that much different from all the others, and it even features some nice interactions, but the whole "fucking girl wearing nun robes in abandoned church" setting turns me off.

Today I did Mio's h-scene. I think it's one of the better sex scenes in this VN (together with Ruri's), but translating h-scenes is nightmare in general. I feel sorry for whoever will have to edit that
Thankfully, scenes in this game are short, and just one per heroine.

Today I did Reiko's and Kiyomi's H-scenes, which brings us to 92%.

Another progress report. It seems that I get to work on this project around the actual Season of Sakura
Whatever, today I finished all four confession scenes in Chapter 12.

So now we're at 90%
Now all that remains are actual endings. ~1500 lines left to go.
 

Recently I didn't have much time, so there was looong break. But I hate the thought of abandoning this project. Today finally I managed to go over some 300 lines, thus finishing retranslating Chapter 11 (Valentine's Day) and bringing completion counter up to the 85% Now what's left is Chapter 12 (White Day - Shuuji's reply to girls' confessions), and endings. Around 2200 lines.