True Story Behind Biohazard Translation Project

[Dot50Cal]

Ill get on Bjorn about to today, hopefully he isn't too busy. Sorry for the delays.

Edit: Hes working on POKEMON stuff (lol) for the time being, but he will begin work again. It seems he lost the Chapter 3 file he was working on, so He'll have to start from scratch on it.

[kevstah2004]

http://www.google.com/translate?u=ht...&hl=en&ie=UTF8

Should help original url http://tiger-w.hp.infoseek.co.jp/bio/chapter.htm if you want to translate it with something like babelfish.

[News Bot]

Like Dot said, machine translation pales in comparison to human translation. So I don't know why you even bothered to link two well-known and hardly accurate translation programs. =P

[kevstah2004]

Like Dot said, machine translation pales in comparison to human translation. So I don't know why you even bothered to link two well-known and hardly accurate translation programs. =P

Well maybe we can find some better online translators or software then fill in the gaps it's better than nothing at all at least you can get the jist of the story even if it's broken, ohh and I only linked to one translator I only mentioned babelfish http://tiger-w.hp.infoseek.co.jp/bio/chapter.htm contains the story typed in Japanese.

[chris26]

[Carnivol]

Long piece of something considered rude

While we ofcourse appreciate the thought of wanting to let people finish reading the book right away. I have to point out that posting this in here is something that can be considered very rude in many ways.

To some it might not be very easy to see this right away, but I'll list up a little ABC of why this is considered wrong:

A: You're posting someone else's translation effort without crediting the translator and/or source of this translation. For those unaware of it, this is a translation that has been available online for quite some time now.

B: You're posting it in the feature archive for the topic that is currently set-up for the ongoing translation project that has been funded by this very community (and members of other BioHazard/Resident Evil communities) to have a professional from-the-translation-industry translator handle the "from the ground and up" re-translation.

C: You're posting a very long wall-of-text post without any type of warning or indication of you doing so.

[chris26]

[Carnivol]

Well, if it's translated from a Chinese copy, then you're working with an intermediate language which is never really good unless there are alterations that for some reason are "worth it". (You know how localizations often fiddle around with content to better suit their local market. The thing people oddly enough often frown upon when a game is released in English, but seem to be perfectly fine with when happens between other languages...)


Anyway, the translation you posted there is of rather poor quality in several ways. :/

[Dot50Cal]

Chapter 3 will be hitting today. Its titled "Special Forces Unit STARS".

[Dot50Cal]

Chapter 3 is up now

[RE-Hiro]

wow!!!! awesome!!! yay THIA!!!!

[SeiyaKou]

Was waiting impatiently for this! Thank you!

[Stars_g36]

thanks a lot! awesome reading material!

[viper2]

That´s an awesome work. Thanks!

[LeonsBuddyDave]

How come I never noticed this feature before? Great work, quite an interesting read!

[chris26]

[Dot50Cal]

Well, Im not sure where you got your translation from, but Bjorn stands by his work as always. Do realize he is a professional translator who works for companies in the Manga / Anime business. I've showed him your post though, and here are some points hes addressed:

-If it indeed IS in the Chinese one they based it off, it's probably just some stuff the Chinese made as filler, since some of the pages have less text than others. There's not a single WORD in there describing Jill as being like a SECOND MOTHER to that random girl. It just says that the girl went over to "play" at Jill's place all the time, which sounded really stupid and I changed it to hang out instead. And there was absolutely NO MENTION of their parents.

"その少女が友だちとキヤンブに行った森のなかで惨殺されてしまったのだ。"

"That girl had gone camping in the forest with her friends, where she was slaughtered."

Her parents are not mentioned.

[chris26]

[Carnivol]

Chris26, time to learn the difference between FACT and FICTION.
(okay, bad choice of word considering how this entire book is a work of fiction),

Anyway: anything "extra" that may be present in the "Chinese version" of this book is a work of fiction spawned from the mind of whoever was in charge of the Chinese translation (or responsible for, in the case of the Chinese being an unofficial translation). The only way for things to be any different would be if the Japanese version was a product of a translation from the Chinese version. This would however still make the Japanese version the "correct/right" version, as this is the mass market release that has gone through Capcom.

[Dot50Cal]

Considering your past posts talking about a secret edition of RE1 for the Sega Saturn with special modes that only you have seen, I think I'll talk Bjorn's word on this.