Almael

Happy Birthday JGZinv.

Well, where to begin?

It’s nice to have a team but when it comes down to old and no-longer popular titles you are likely left alone. I did have a dozen people over the years but sadly they all jumped off very soon. Recruiting is very difficult and bleak.

What you need are dedicated people willing to work it. It doesn’t matter how good they are as long as they do some work. Without dedication and commitment, forget it.

As to translation it’s not impossible to do it with machine translation but you need to learn a bit about the language. At least know roughly the kanas, the structure of the language, have some dictionaries at hand, a Kanji search engine, and a romanization engine. You should learn to recognize them after working for some time… You gotta look at the romanization rules; develope a feel for engrish. The japanese are very “flexible” here. You will always end up making a judgment call due to the fuzzyness, possible variations, typos, etc. Depending on the author’s style/fancyness half of the time it could be very easy or hard to decide… Tenchi is probably way easier than Seikai or KOR, I doubt it has multiple languages to deal with.

If you got the ocr version it’s more likely to get people to translate…but don’t get your hopes up.

Imho, Finereader and its japanese Yomkaku are the best programs. I use Yomikaku but it’s way too cumbersome if you don’t know japanese. I dunno about the new Finereader versions but it should do very well. I used to use it before. All programs have difficulties with changing background and colors so there are times when you gotta invest in preparing the images for OCR. Depending on image format or sources there are other cleanup tricks … often very complicated; too complicated to explain here.

For me the ocr version has a lot of advantages, especially with the Baronh. Search and replace makes it very easy. Of course you gotta have special markers to prevent replacing things you don’t want. Makes it easy to do Baronh corrections. Well, JGZInv got my detailed guides…

The perhaps most important trick with tranalation machine is to get rid of names/terms/places by translating them yourself first. Search and replace. That saves most of (google) machine confusion.

The japanese machines are smarter and force you to do it yourself anyway.

Backtrack sentence structure, japanese is reversed, and typical for asians compact and to the point.

Often connecting sub-sentences with the same “thing”(verbs) in mind… In a western language we would use a sentence for each part.

And of the latest ultimate etc. versions of the games, too. Just what I’m missing.