With not only increasing incidents of tampering with translations in fan projects, but now harassing everyone who doesn't, it's time to tackle this situation heads on.
This thread's goals:
1- Produce Japanese scripts from as much games as possible. This task will require people fluent in Japanese who can write down 500+ kanji from a low res image, as text data.
2- Produce English scripts from those game's official translations, or unofficial translations.
3- COMPARE the two, and catalog as much flawed changes changes as possible.
What constitutes flawed changes:
> Mistranslations - Miss the point of the original by 70%. For the sake of efficiency, please don't nitpick on minor stuff like honorifics, SOV order, and stuff that can be reasonably attributed to language changes. There's a TON of games to parse, and little time. For missing cultural references or puns or a newly inserted English cultural reference, do make a note.
> Clear deviations / omissions motivated by political correctness or ideologies
> Translator self-inserts / breaking the fourth wall / political rants any way, that were not in the original
4- EVALUATE which games are high priority for a partial retranslation, or full retranslation.
5- RETRANSLATE the flawed lines. Text length limitations will have to be considered, but in case it can't be inserted back in the game, or even if it can, an unabridged transcript of the full translation, if made, will be kept for the next steps.
6- Get second opinions by other Japanese fluent speakers. Try not to exceed 10 posts about the same line. You're not an easily distracted goldfish. We need to get things done. REVISE the new translation. What doesn't constitute flaws, as Tom (RIP) and his work showed you could get a "non-dry" AND "100% accurate" translation:
> Puns - if they're trying to achieve a similar effect as the original
> Minor Flavor, as long as the whole of the Japanese sentence meaning is kept intact AND it Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
