Anonymous asked:

I am a noob who doesn't know anything about translating VN so I am genuinely asking even if this seems dumb.

I thought translators would just extract the text, translate it based on it, put it back into the game and call it a day. What is (roughly) your workflow? You said you can't listen to high pitch noises anymore, so I assume you listen to the vn while translating. Is it only for testing if what you wrote shows up at the right time or do you use voices for translating too since the tone might help understanding what they say better? Or do you just play it first so you know what happens?

You have to do multiple passes. This is my version:

Translation: I go through the script blind, and as I translate the lines, I leave notes for myself to follow up on. I don't have to care too much about phrasing at this stage, as it's only a rough draft.

Editing: I go through the translated script, looking for mistakes, adjusting phrasing, doing research for things I'm not familiar with, and dealing with issues such as untranslatable jokes, things which need a TL note, etc. During this, I refer to the audio files in a lot of cases, such as when there are slurred lines that are hard to decipher through text. I do an entire separate mini-passthrough for lines with transliterated "f" sounds, because there's no way of telling on paper whether they're supposed to be pronounced as "f" or "h", and this can affect character reactions. (e.g., Did that character exclaim "Fuah" in surprise, or did they sigh "Haah"? If it says "Fuaih", is that a squeal, or a slurred version of "Hai"?)

Proofreading: This is the last chance to catch problems, as well as the QA test where I make sure that lines aren't getting skipped, and the game doesn't crash. I play through the game/scene twice, trying to catch typos, errors, or phrasing which might be misleading to the reader. When lines do deviate from what's strictly in the script, this is usually the phase where I introduce those changes, to in some way facilitate readability.

My issues at the moment are that (a) my ear is reacting badly even from me typing small amounts of text, and (b) because I'm supposed to avoid noise at the moment, listening to all the high-pitched wailing is a really bad idea. At one point, I tried continuing the Asuka scene, and had to stop after three lines because it was triggering spasms.

Anonymous asked:

I may be wrong but didn't you prepare a patch in the past for koutetsu majo annerose to import animated scene from another game? Would it be alright to ask a link?

Yes.

Anonymous asked:

Are you feeling any better? Is your ear actively hurting? I hope a specialist can help you out soon.

Ears don't really heal, which means the best I can hope for is to wait (weeks and weeks) for it to stop being reactive and inflamed. It only hurts sometimes, when it's been exposed to too much noise, but there's no consistent pattern to what constitutes "too much", or what kind (pitch, volume, etc.). Fortunately, now that I've been able to get a high-frequency hearing test, I've determined that the only significant hearing damage is in an upper range, which I would have eventually lost with aging anyway. At one point, everything in that ear sounded like it was coming out of a broken drive-thru speaker, so things could have been a lot worse. But I've still got the percussion sensitivity, middle-ear muscle seizures and probably permanent tinnitus. So life is really fun right now.

Anonymous asked:

Have you played any of Pin-Point's games? Regardless if you have or not, do you have any interest in them?

I haven't, but I've been interested in some of them.

Anonymous asked:

Did they already offer MAID to you?

No, that would imply that I've been able to get medical help, which has proven unbelievably difficult. I don't have an opportunity to see an ENT who specializes in otology until the end of this month, which is way outside the treatment window. None of the walk-in doctors or emergency doctors considered my ear trauma to be an emergency. The doctor at my local hospital didn't know why I had turned up, and my audiologist was appalled when I told her this. I actually went to a hospital an hour away specifically because they had an ENT on standby in the emergency room, but the actual doctor I got refused to let me see them. All the memes about Canadian health care are real.