Tales of Destiny Translation?

[Cless]

Well.

Most likely I'd be keeping all the localized character names, town names, and storyline terminology (Aeropolis, Ae'ther Wars, Eye of Atamoni, etc and whatever else there was).

Everything else on a case by case basis. Most of the legacy stuff will follow recent Tales localization standards.

[LJkAze]

Oh god!!!!!! "Missle sword" dont bring back that shitty translation that PSX had, it makes me puke. Espically Indignation "Holy Wraith"

[supersonic1453]

You know I was kidding, right?  Even though I'm used to the names, most of them are bad translations.

[Kogahazan]

Most likely I'd be keeping all the localized character names

You are going to at least call him Johnny and not Karyl, right? Bruiser/Kongman and Garr/Woodrow I don't mind, but Johnny was a big messup. I don't see how they could confuse him with a girl when even his piano has his name on it.

[supersonic1453]

Bruiser Khang and Garr are all sorts of better than Mighty Kongman and Woodrow.  I'm on the fence with Johnny/Karyl.  I don't think that they though he was a girl, but rather they were trying to make a bad pun with his attack style (Karyl = carol, as in a type of song).

[Kogahazan]

Hmmm... I forgot about the word carol... I guess that makes sense now, but I would think it would still confuse less informed players into thinking he was a girl. I don't even really remember the American version specifically refering to him as a he or a she.

[supersonic1453]

Maybe not, but they did mention that he was involved with a girl, and she died or was the person you rescue in that castle.  I don't remember his backstory.  Wow, I need to replay Destiny now.

[Zappa]

I prefer japanese names(Johnny, Stan, Lion, Kongman, Woodrow...) ^^"

[supersonic1453]

Stan doesn't emphasize the way it's supposed to be pronounced
People unfamiliar with the game will think Lion is pronounced like the cat from Africa
I just don't like Kongman.  Bruiser sound so much more badass.
I just don't like Woodrow either.  IMO, Garr sounds better.

Well the last two are opinion, but whatever.

[rootbeerking]

It doesn't really matter what the names are cause theres always the rename... unless this game doesn't allow rename...(I don't have the game yet but it will be here tomorrow morning! yay! I can't wait!) and also theres voice acting so even if people don't know how to pronounce the names they just have to listen to the voice acting and they'll know.

Anyways if a translation happens I'd much rather have the original names rather then the US names... But like I said doesn't matter what the choice is cause one can just rename the characters how they wish

[Cless]

Well, the only problem technically is that you can't rename characters with 7 letters, at least to their Japanese originals.

I can make the characters default with 7 or more letters (up to 12? maybe more...) in their name by naming them with half-width ASCII.

I can attempt to add half width letters to the renaming menu but I can't guarantee they'll work properly from there.

[Azu]

By the way, have you be able to find the music files? Also, i think there are some TIMs in DAT.BIN file. I used PSicutre and it found like 20, but it wouldn't read them....

[Zappa]

I can make the characters default with 7 or more letters

Please
Make it... ^_^

[throughhim413]

So in other words, even if you made it so you could input 12 characters on the naming screen, it might not display correctly in the game itself?  Or am I misunderstanding?

[Cless]

No. I can make the character have a default name of up to 12+ letters in length by using half width letters. But if you change the name through the menu you're still limited to inputting 6.

The game just treats half-width characters in the renaming menu a bit awkwardly because the game wasn't programmed to use them there properly.

At the risk of being called a tease again...

[throughhim413]

Oh, I see.  Thanks for explaining that.  And don't worry about being a tease, you know everyone is eating it up anyway. 

On a side note, if my copy of ToDr doesn't get here soon I'm going to cry.  I got the message that it shipped on November 30th, so I guess it hasn't been that long... but still, I want it so bad.