Project page and development diary for the unofficial English translation of Sono Hanabira Ni Kuchiduke Wo.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Slowly but surely...

Just to put everyone's minds at ease: any rumours of the project's death or cancelation have been greatly exagerated. While I haven't had as much time to spend on it as I'd like, be assured that the project is still slowly but surely being working on toward completion.

This is the least glamourous and yet in ways the most important phase of development. The long, agonizingly slow grind of going over the scripts again and again and again and again. Finding new errors each time through. Trying to find every last error - knowing it's impossible to get them all, but trying nevertheless. Finally passing the scripts on to someone else to double-check. Having the scripts handed back with so many new errors found that it seems like you're starting all over again. And so on and so on...

Still though - slowly but surely - we're getting there.

- CountPacula - rose-at-sonohanabira-dot-countpacula-dot-com

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posted by CountPacula @ 1:25 PM  

49 Comments:

  • At May 26, 2009 6:46 PM , Blogger about said...

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  • At May 26, 2009 11:52 PM , Blogger Artemis said...

    Glad to hear things are still working. I bet it's rough, as an author and editor I get a ton of that. That makes the final piece that much more amazing. Keep it up! <3

     

  • At May 27, 2009 8:52 AM , Blogger Otaku-Sama said...

    Awesome, can't wait. I got the game just because of seeing this project page (and screenshots, I suppose).

    Good luck, and persevere! :]

     

  • At May 27, 2009 10:28 AM , Blogger Yukiiko said...

    Holy fuck, you ARE alive.
    You really need to update more.

     

  • At May 27, 2009 3:49 PM , Blogger H said...

    Glad to hear that the project is still going on. If there's anything that we can help you with please do tell us.

     

  • At May 28, 2009 2:24 AM , Blogger Barry said...

    amazing, thanks for your hard work and updates :) hopefully we'll see the completed work this year eh ^^

     

  • At May 28, 2009 9:12 AM , Blogger MaZAX said...

    great! the project still breathes!
    we are all grateful for you doing this,
    i'm dreading downloading though, i don't know if its this part of England but DAMN! do i get a shitty download speed.

     

  • At May 28, 2009 10:20 AM , OpenID saberfangecchi said...

    I knew it wasn't dead! Excellent job, Pacula-sama! We GREATLY appreciate all the agonizingly hard work you've put in until now. You are truly dedicated.

     

  • At May 28, 2009 10:31 AM , Blogger Daniel said...

    Yay...sort of

     

  • At May 28, 2009 10:44 PM , Blogger Matt said...

    Glad to hear it. Here I was starting to get worried. I'm looking forward to this.

     

  • At May 30, 2009 6:00 AM , Blogger Holly said...

    I'm really glad too see things are alright, as long as the project isn't dropped then slowly is fine by me. =)

     

  • At May 31, 2009 4:17 AM , Blogger RES said...

    Slow is good, glad your still working on this :D

    Cant wait to see/play the finished project. Thanks

     

  • At May 31, 2009 10:01 PM , Blogger Bonnie M said...

    I'm happy to see that this project is still going on. Looking forward to the patch. Thanks for the update.

     

  • At June 3, 2009 11:19 PM , Blogger Michael said...

    We love you.

    You should call more often.

     

  • At June 6, 2009 9:23 AM , Blogger Krenson said...

    Very intresting project. Author, please contact me sometime (ICQ 354688452).

     

  • At June 14, 2009 8:45 AM , OpenID listlessink said...

    Glad to see it's still coming along.
    ^^

     

  • At July 1, 2009 9:39 PM , OpenID lukafanboy said...

    I don't care about errors at this point. Release a beta patch or something. I wanna play teh game.

     

  • At July 17, 2009 12:01 AM , Blogger Digitbig said...

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  • At July 19, 2009 10:17 AM , Blogger laureruy said...

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  • At July 23, 2009 2:00 PM , Blogger Patrick said...

    So...that means it will be another two years until it's done? Apparently you've been working on the draft translation for that long, so seriously, what's the point if you take THAT long to translate ONE GAME?

     

  • At July 24, 2009 3:25 AM , Blogger aoi_azzura said...

    Glad to hear this. We're waiting patiently here.... *waku-waku*

     

  • At July 25, 2009 11:26 PM , Blogger sleekie said...

    Well, that made my day to hear.

    I'm a QC for a scanlation group, I always feel bad handing back a piece that needs a shedload of work doing, even though we want things to be their best.

    @Patrick: 2/10, ur a faget.

     

  • At August 1, 2009 9:45 PM , Blogger Pastare said...

    sleeki, still he has a point, he just didn't really word it well ^^;.
    There is no way a translation that's finished takes this long to be "injected" into the game. It takes at most a night of 2 or 3 hours for a visual novel of decent size.
    10 seconds if you made a handy program to inject the data in the right file if you have someone bored with the right skills around.
    But it has now been almost a year since the translation is suposedly finished...
    Injecting the translation in the game is (when done manually) the most painfull process, but it's certainly the first time I see it taking longer than the actual translation.

    I have been visiting from time to time the website to check on any news. But there is almost no doubt left in my mind that we will never see the light of this translation released. Which is too bad really.

     

  • At August 2, 2009 10:02 PM , Blogger October said...

    Given that the last two posts were roughly 3 months separate, there's still hope. Regardless, for me, I'll stick around and check everyday.

     

  • At August 5, 2009 8:30 PM , Blogger GyuTheKuma said...

    Maybe is a stupid question but... Pacula-san, you are translating a single episode of the saga or all? I never understood... (Sorry for the bad english)

     

  • At August 6, 2009 12:43 PM , Blogger Holly said...

    @Pastare

    CountPacula didn't mention injecting, but proofreading which I know takes a lot of time.

    And of course there is always real life issues that can delay things a lot.

    Try not to be so negative.

     

  • At August 8, 2009 5:33 AM , OpenID lukafanboy said...

    The problem with this situation is that this clearly was nothing more than a side project done simply to pass the time.

    As it's been pointed out, these stages are annoying and tough but they do not take this long. Once the translation was completed and two or so rereading edits were made, normal groups would have released a beta patch, and a final patch about a month later.

    The fact that we have gone months only ever hearing simple "well, it's not dead but... you know..." posts has me firmly believing this project is only ever worked during random nights when there is nothing else to do.

    From what I understand, it isn't even that large or complex of a game. Think of the work that was put into something like the Fate/stay night translation or whoever translated Clannad.

    A lot of people here are still holding out a very pitiful hope that we will get this.... you might as well end your hope right now. It does you no good.

     

  • At August 8, 2009 7:58 AM , Blogger Holly said...

    @lukafanboy

    Well put it this way, are you doing anything to translate this game? Does it really take much effort to open up this blog from favorites?

    We really have nothing to lose because no one else has expressed interest in translating any of these games.

    But look at it this way, even if this project doesn't get finished, it's generating more interest in the series, so it will be a lot more likely there might be a english translation one day.

     

  • At August 8, 2009 4:21 PM , Blogger Renata said...

    i always saw images from this game but yesterday i've decided to look for it... i discovered the name and went looking for the game ... when i only find it in japanese i wanted to kill myself XD(kidding) today i was going to search a little more and found this site, it gives me hope that some day it'll have a english translation. if i knew japanese i would help.... but i suck in english imagine japanese XD

     

  • At August 14, 2009 10:09 AM , Blogger Lina said...

    waaaah it's taking so long...T_T Heh...i gave up waiting and started learning japanese a couple of months ago...xD and you wouldn't believe how much fun it is when you translate it yourself...:P

     

  • At September 11, 2009 5:46 AM , Blogger akino_saila said...

    hey,where can i get this game?do i have to buy it somewhere?is it free or what?i desperately want some right now!!

     

  • At September 11, 2009 9:12 PM , OpenID saberfangecchi said...

    @akino_salla: You can easily find the games from megaupload.com, whether seperately or all together. Although they're free downloads, the problems are: one, they're huge, more than 200MB, and two, most of the downloads I found give you the game, but not the "complete" version of it. All of my series end half way through the story, and I know they're not complete, because I haven't unlocked all the screenshots yet.

     

  • At September 13, 2009 4:12 AM , Blogger Holly said...

    @akino_saila

    You can buy a digital copy pretty cheaply at eng.dlsite.com

    Or buy retail threw a proxy like I have.


    @saberfangecchi

    If there around 200MB then they are complete, I don't know why you can't access all the content, my retail and digital copies work fine and my digital copies are around 200MB

     

  • At September 14, 2009 3:28 PM , Blogger Kelsey said...

    @saberfangecchi
    It sounds like you might be getting the 'bad' endings. Have you tried picking the first answer to all the questions?

     

  • At September 20, 2009 12:47 PM , Blogger Vodoka said...

    Pacula, have you considred getting some people to help with the work for the other games in the series(that is, if you even plan to do them)?
    Letting others handle the hacking/editing/other stuff would surely make things easier for you.

     

  • At September 21, 2009 10:28 AM , Blogger Yukiiko said...

    See, this is what happens when you only have 1 person on a translation team. I don't know why he just doesn't put the script up for download and let someone else finish it off, or at least help him. It's being going on for far too long.

    http://www.countpacula.com/2008/07/not-repeating-mistakes-of-past.html
    Not repeating past mistakes, eh...?

    Seriously, Pac. Let someone else give you a hand.

     

  • At September 23, 2009 8:49 PM , Blogger tornado261 said...

    Ok, I know I'm opening myself to a hell of a lot of flaming here, and I'm sure that if CountPacula is nearly finished, s/he'll be very insulted by this, but it needs to be said.

    Noticable connection to gamepatch's ever elusive Shuffle patch, or the To heart 2 patch?

    PRE-RELEASE (or real release, since you've been sitting on the supposed complete translation for over a year now) OR BE ACCUSED OF BEING A HOAX

    That is all

     

  • At October 10, 2009 9:14 AM , Blogger I-ray said...

    found the games themselves kind of boring but the script might make things interesting

    looking forward to dis

     

  • At October 11, 2009 12:32 PM , Blogger odinfan said...

    Hmm, I hear that a lot from people who have never touched an ADV/VN before, or ones that have little experience with them.

    Honestly, if you don't like to read, they're not for you. It's not all about pretty pictures and moving images....(that just makes it more engaging). To have an interest, you need to have patience, and like good stories.

    They usually do build up and get better as they go on, that's the appeal of this genre.

    You can call it a game if you want, but that's sort of a misconception.

     

  • At October 22, 2009 10:04 AM , Blogger Ignas said...

    Congratulations, you've been gamepatched!

     

  • At November 15, 2009 8:52 AM , Blogger Nana Osaki said...

    Are you still working on this? :)

     

  • At November 21, 2009 11:37 PM , Blogger Artemis said...

    I hope there's another update soon. The entry was reassuring at first, but that was about six months ago. >.> <.<; It looks like it's pretty far progress-wise... here's to hoping it gets finished.

     

  • At December 28, 2009 1:31 PM , Blogger singleyuri said...

    Hi, Merry Christmas to you!
    I've been waiting for the translation too, it's true that the last new about this was updated long enough to start thinking, what happening with this project? I don't want to put pressure on anyone, I just only need a newer post telling us that the translation project is still working.
    Thank you CountPacula for all your effort.
    Keep it up! bye

     

  • At January 3, 2010 3:39 AM , Blogger Alfredo said...

    Six months ago I entered this page and I was very sure that the project would be dropped just by the time is taking. I think we should resign. I'll be back in half a year again just for curiosity

     

  • At January 4, 2010 8:48 AM , Blogger PleZa said...

    It seems this project has started long ago and now it's the new year, 2010. Does it nearly finished? Hope you still want to get this project done and still have willing to do it. bless for you.

     

  • At January 7, 2010 2:59 AM , Blogger The_Internet said...

    Is this project still happening? please post an update or something so we know whats happening.

     

  • At January 8, 2010 1:36 PM , Blogger tornado261 said...

    It's DEAD or a HOAX. I don't know and I don't care which (but I've got my money on the latter). That is all.

     

  • At January 15, 2010 8:20 PM , Blogger LE said...

    He made a thread on /u/ today with some new screenshots, saying it would be released on Valentine's Day. Looks like he's still alive.
    Though, Count Pac, if you're reading this, would you consider switching to TLWiki or just working with more people and making the project's progress more open to the public for your next project(s)? It would really help with both the slowness and the uncertainty that was in this project.

     

  • At January 16, 2010 4:49 PM , Blogger Xalathal said...

    Indeed, http://boards.4chan.org/u/res/691109 is the thread, but we shouldn't get our hopes up, it may be a troll or whatever..

     

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