Community translation update and information thread -- READ IF YOU WANT TO HELP

[Cless]

Download the Best version from here. Then use the reprint patch.

[hp]

i finally got it to work, but i just realized that only the menu is in english  , guess I'll have to wait for the full eng version, too bad i don't know any jap. Thanks anyways for all the hard work

[stahn]

WOW wonderfull job ; it plays so much diffrent with items translated. It's like whole new game can't wait to full translated version.

And the font in skill screen even a bit small it is readable on my TV.

Any way SUGOI !!! Great job Cless LETS PLAY OWWW JEEEAAAAAA 

[Aikoto]

First time poster here. I finally got the flip mod for my PS2 this weekend and I can now play the ToD2 my brother bought me for Christmas!

I tried it last night and though I can understand most of what they say, reading it is more challenging since I have to look up the Kanji. The hard part is that my kids keep making noise making it hard for me to hear them so I was thrilled to find your project!

I can't wait to try it out and see how much is translated. If I run into Japanese that hasn't been translated yet and I translate it, should I just submit it to you somehow?

And last point, can you ban anyone who asks for English dubs? Seriously. People actually ASK for that? That's like saying "hey, you know what would be really cool right now? A ROOT CANAL! But only if they use a rusty drill. Man... that would be sweet"

Ugh.

[Kajitani-Eizan]

seriously?? i love english dubs. good english dubs > japanese audio any day of the week. final fantasy xii and tales of the abyss being the more obvious recent favorites i can think of.

emphasis on good. which, unfortunately, isn't as commonplace as i'd like, yet.

[Aikoto]

i love english dubs. good english dubs > japanese audio any day of the week.

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. Of course, I realized you didn't mean for everything and are talking about games which ~generally~ have decent dubs compared to Anime.

I agree that FF12 was good and so was X (my favorite game of all the series), but the Japanese is still better. They emote with more force and devotion. The dubbers always sound like they're afraid to be too loud indoors and hold back. It's embarassing.

For a comparison, just check out youtube for various scenese in both english and then Japanese.

[Cless]

A number of regulars on this forum prefer or are at least indifferent to English dubbing and complete localization. Myself included. I wish I could provide at least a half-decent dub option for my projects, but if you have that kind of money, you might as well try to bribe the official companies with it.

What I don't want here is the tired, never-ending sub vs. dub argument.

[Aikoto]

A number of regulars on this forum prefer or are at least indifferent to English dubbing and complete localization. Myself included. I wish I could provide at least a half-decent dub option for my projects, but if you have that kind of money, you might as well try to bribe the official companies with it.

What I don't want here is the tired, never-ending sub vs. dub argument.

No argument intended. Either way, I'm just as happy with the original Japanese so great job I can't try the mod out yet, but I look forward to doing so.

[JusPlayin]

Download the Best version from here. Then use the reprint patch.

Hey Cless.  I want the patch and I was just about to buy this game off the website, but then I read that you guys aren't going to deal w/ the Mega Hits version on the other thread.  Could you tell me which version to get (another link) because I don't want to buy a game and then find out I might need to buy another because the final patch is only released for one version.  Thanks again for the translation.  I want more Tales of games and I hoping fansubs like you guys and Absolute Zero crew can churn out some of these awesome Tales of games (Rebirth and Destiny Remake esp and ToD2 remake).

[Cless]

You must have read something incredibly old or misunderstood something because we have released patches for, and ARE supporting both the original and reprint versions of ToD2. What we aren't supporting are versions that aren't in Japanese.

[JusPlayin]

Sweet.  Thanks for the quick reply.

EDIT:  Also this might be really stupid and annoying thing to ask, but I will anyways.  Are there plans to do other Tales of games as well (mainly Rebirth and Destiny Remake DC).  I know it's stupid to ask but I just want to know as I am already pretty psyched about how the ToD2 translation looks already.  Thanks.

[Kooper]

Sadly, I don't known Japanese, but I have a mastery of the English language if I do say so myself! I just wanted to say that when I get the chance, I'd love to look over all those level 4, 5, and maybe some level 3 files. As for my background, I've been working as an English tutor at my local university for about two years now. The majority of my time is spent with proofreading and grammar issues, which I hope will be helpful to this project. Although with the current school year starting up I may have less time, but I still would like to try and contribute. Of course the context may be an issue, in which case I really should try out that patch, but I need to mod my new slim PS2 before I can try it out.

Well, just wanted to introduce myself for the most part. Hopefully I'll be able to make some sort of contribution~

[KBTKaiser]

You must have read something incredibly old or misunderstood something because we have released patches for, and ARE supporting both the original and reprint versions of ToD2. What we aren't supporting are versions that aren't in Japanese.

Speaking of versions, Cless, I just checked my copy of ToD2 and it's an original print "copy" since I picked it up in taiwan, but it's an original since it has the venus and braves preview.  I suppose I can be guinea pig for something?

[Cless]

Speaking of versions, Cless, I just checked my copy of ToD2 and it's an original print "copy" since I picked it up in taiwan, but it's an original since it has the venus and braves preview.  I suppose I can be guinea pig for something?

I don't think so. The current patch is slightly outdated, that's about it.

Sadly, I don't known Japanese, but I have a mastery of the English language if I do say so myself! I just wanted to say that when I get the chance, I'd love to look over all those level 4, 5, and maybe some level 3 files. As for my background, I've been working as an English tutor at my local university for about two years now. The majority of my time is spent with proofreading and grammar issues, which I hope will be helpful to this project. Although with the current school year starting up I may have less time, but I still would like to try and contribute. Of course the context may be an issue, in which case I really should try out that patch, but I need to mod my new slim PS2 before I can try it out.

Well, just wanted to introduce myself for the most part. Hopefully I'll be able to make some sort of contribution~

That would be awesome to the max if you can get around to it. We've not had many editors try to find issues to clean up. There's still a number of them. If you've also got some creativity, that would be another big plus. Some of the descriptions could probably use a creative rewrite to sound better, too.

[Fujibayashi_Lord]

mind if i jump in and help if its not too late?

[ph0king2o6]

do i download the menu text files and the patch? or do i just need one?? what do i do after i download them? put them both in a directory with the iso?