Type-0 Fan Translation, Completa!

One interesting project I’ve been suggested a lot of time, is the translation of the popular game “Final Fantasy Type-0″. There are quite a lot of fans asking for an official localization, but it’s been more than a year since the game was released in Japan, with no official word about an overseas release.

So last month I decided to post an article at GBATemp talking about the game’s data structure, and the possibility of a fan-translation. As I don’t speak Japanese, it would have been pretty much impossible for me alone to translate the entire game, but during this time, some skilled Japanese translators and image editors have joined me, making the whole project possible.

However, this kind of projects takes a lot of time so, in order to make everything easier, I merged both Final Fantasy Type-0 Discs into a single one.

In case you wanna have the whole game in a single ISO Image file, follow the directions in its project page. I hope I can bring news on the actual translation soon. In the meantime, have fun!

~Sky

Aggiornato il thread su GBATemp con degli screen per mostrare il font nei filmati. Il testo è farlocco, ma strappa dei sorrisi. Serve più che altro a dimostrare che le cutscene son facili da subbare e a ricevere feedback sul font.

PoC Video:

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H6NiBDBXlgU

We are trying to retain the original meaning of what the game wishes to convey. Honorifics will be discarded so it makes sense to the english language so stuff like "kun" and "chan" and other suffixes will likely not be present. As in english we don't use honorifics like that.

You guys can expect soon a new version of the UMD merging files, that:

-won't need CWCheat at all
-will combine both disc in a perfect single disc game
-will never ask for disc change
-will have the entire content of the game accessible

Ohh! And btw, there has been progress in the translation too...

~Sky

The community is sooo outdated on the the actual current state of the project, but since the last update caused some mixed opinions, I think it will remain like that for some time, and just release some useful stuff like new mergin files, sorry about that... Who knows, we might even have all the text from the game perfectly dumped...

So it won't be released in the near months to come?

Not a chance. Sorry!

Indeed, not only the project is huge, but also the team is pretty small right now. That's why I'd like to invite capable translators with enough free time and will to help translate the game.

To give an idea of the current state of the project, there are only 2 active translators in the team. The entire main scenario of the game (that is, the story text: cutscenes, NPC's, etc... Everything but menus) has been perfectly extraced to simple, editable and reinsertable TXT files.
There are 980 TXT files making a total of 3MB's of text.
If you do the maths, you'll find that, as it is right now, the entire project can take more than 2 years. That's why more help is needed.