ยป Being one man’s adventures in Japanese-English translation.
Sliver X recently released his Valis (NES) projects to which I contributed the English translation. The project was two-fold; there’s a straight-up translation of Valis, and there’s also an alternate patch named Valis++ which features a whole bunch of hacking work to make playing the game less masochistic. (You really want to play Valis++ unless you are some kind of loopy diehard.)
Drop by Sliver X’s site and check it out.
Umihara Kawase was my very first contribution to the translation scene, and it’s very nostalgic for me.
Click here to download Umihara Kawase translation v0.90
However, I also produced the original translation when I was an embarassing highschool kid, and it ended up being that I couldn’t think back on it without cringing in embarassment because of the way I’d done things.
The main thing that bothered me was that I had altered the TNN logo graphic at the start of the game to a short message, and another thing was the really crappy hand-written “The End!” on the Game Over screen. I decided I couldn’t put this embarassing work on my current site without fixing this, and I thought maybe I could at least get this out there so that eventually only a few people will know that I was a dumb highschool kid once. Aside from removing the idiocy and improving the Game Over graphic text, the patch remains the same, but I would very much appreciate it if any sites carrying the patch would update it with this release.
