Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - ARC-V Tag Force Special - re-translating the story

[grandosegood]

Hey everyone,

As some of you may know, the story for this game has slurs and profanities and straight-up fake translation. The team that translated this game already did everything else, but I'd like to fix the story parts if possible. My plan was to run the japanese script through AI, and see if i can find some translators to help with the project. does anyone have any tips for a complete n00b to get started? Thanks.

 

[YuseiFD]

Hey everyone,

As some of you may know, the story for this game has slurs and profanities and straight-up fake translation. The team that translated this game already did everything else, but I'd like to fix the story parts if possible. My plan was to run the japanese script through AI, and see if i can find some translators to help with the project. does anyone have any tips for a complete n00b to get started? Thanks.

I am already on it, DM me your discord and we'll see what we can do If this works, we can also go for in duel subtitles for Tag Force 6 as they are horrendously "Translated"

 

[chrisfand]

Hey grandosegood, please DM me your Discord as well.
I have a fully translated TFS ISO as well (including duel texts, shop, profiles, etc.) and am hoping to begin playtesting the story for errors soon with YuseiFD.
I finished translating every file in the game a bit over a week ago, just need to finish editing a few GIMs before I hand out the ISO.

Thinking of making a shared folder with subfolder for each story, then screenshotting bugs as we play. Afterwards we can go one by one through the screenshots and fix up the script.

 

[LeANon]

I lack the skills to help in any substantial way I'd imagine, but I wish you the best of luck. I'd love to be able to play TFS without the horribly offensive and abridged dialogue.

 

[Ghaleb]

Hey grandosegood, please DM me your Discord as well.
I have a fully translated TFS ISO as well (including duel texts, shop, profiles, etc.) and am hoping to begin playtesting the story for errors soon with YuseiFD.
I finished translating every file in the game a bit over a week ago, just need to finish editing a few GIMs before I hand out the ISO.

Thinking of making a shared folder with subfolder for each story, then screenshotting bugs as we play. Afterwards we can go one by one through the screenshots and fix up the script.

That is wonderfull to hear! I wish you guys the best of luck. When is this ISO expected to finish?, because i'm craving to play this game again, you know... without the insults and bad humor and such.

 

[legbot124]

That is wonderfull to hear! I wish you guys the best of luck. When is this ISO expected to finish?, because i'm craving to play this game again, you know... without the insults and bad humor and such.

 

[Lol_Cakes]

Hey grandosegood, please DM me your Discord as well.
I have a fully translated TFS ISO as well (including duel texts, shop, profiles, etc.) and am hoping to begin playtesting the story for errors soon with YuseiFD.
I finished translating every file in the game a bit over a week ago, just need to finish editing a few GIMs before I hand out the ISO.

Thinking of making a shared folder with subfolder for each story, then screenshotting bugs as we play. Afterwards we can go one by one through the screenshots and fix up the script.

Thank you so much for your efforts ! Myself and many other fans have wished for a much better fan-translation of the game!

Is there a planned released date for the iso ?

 

[chrisfand]

Hey, my bad for not posting an update here.

Since my last post, I have updated all card names to use latest English errata, remade the original GIM card images (same style yugioh font AND correct color rarity) so they all have English names rather than a mix of JP and EN cards, and am currently finishing up (90% done) the lengthy process of replacing all 25 character voices (~3000-4000 audio files) to English using Duel Links and cleaned anime voice rips (will be optional for people who prefer sub voices).

Once that's done, I'll be skimming through my already translated story script to fix mistakes and a handful of duel subtitles for generic characters. Then, release time.

 

[Ghaleb]

Hey, my bad for not posting an update here.

Since my last post, I have updated all card names to use latest English errata, remade the original GIM card images (same style yugioh font AND correct color rarity) so they all have English names rather than a mix of JP and EN cards, and am currently finishing up (90% done) the lengthy process of replacing all 25 character voices (~3000-4000 audio files) to English using Duel Links and cleaned anime voice rips (will be optional for people who prefer sub voices).

Once that's done, I'll be skimming through my already translated story script to fix mistakes and a handful of duel subtitles for generic characters. Then, release time.

Thank you very much for the update and your work on the game, the fact that you'll be adding English voices (as long as it's optional) is awesome, wish you the best.

 

[KnivezOfficial]

Hey, my bad for not posting an update here.

Since my last post, I have updated all card names to use latest English errata, remade the original GIM card images (same style yugioh font AND correct color rarity) so they all have English names rather than a mix of JP and EN cards, and am currently finishing up (90% done) the lengthy process of replacing all 25 character voices (~3000-4000 audio files) to English using Duel Links and cleaned anime voice rips (will be optional for people who prefer sub voices).

Once that's done, I'll be skimming through my already translated story script to fix mistakes and a handful of duel subtitles for generic characters. Then, release time.

Good day, Chris. I am also working with the Tag force special and I am replacing the system, duel and background music effects with the official sounds from the online yugioh game Master Duel, ripped from the game. I finished replacing 90% of the system and duel sound effects and the Bgm is 100% complete. And I arranged carefully to match the atmosphere of the story but I am missing some parts because there is no title in the iso. It's full of track numbers and I have to listen for each one to replace the sound effect and my problem is some sound effects are hard to trace. Maybe you can help me or do you have a list of titles of the sounds of system and duels. Can I add you on discord?

 

[chrisfand]

Good day, Chris. I am also working with the Tag force special and I am replacing the system, duel and background music effects with the official sounds from the online yugioh game Master Duel, ripped from the game. I finished replacing 90% of the system and duel sound effects and the Bgm is 100% complete. And I arranged carefully to match the atmosphere of the story but I am missing some parts because there is no title in the iso. It's full of track numbers and I have to listen for each one to replace the sound effect and my problem is some sound effects are hard to trace. Maybe you can help me or do you have a list of titles of the sounds of system and duels. Can I add you on discord?

Sure, it's the same as my name on GBAtemp

 

[saintspete]

I just wanted to thank you for your efforts. I loved the Tag Force and World Championship series and I was sad when they stopped. When I heard about Tag Force special I got my hopes up but after every year I became sadden as the cruel truth dawn on me that we most likely never see an official release in English. Then recently looking online for an update online. After seeing that Konami had plans to release some of the older games for the 25 anniversary. I was sad to realize the Tag Force was not one of them but this lead me to find your post of making a high quality English release. I wanted to thank everyone involved in this project. This era of cards was my favorite and was my childhood. Thank you for giving this price of history the proper respect it deserves.

 

[Purple_Heart]

good i am half japaese but.....i hate to read it....my eyes just hurt xD this is perfect. i own the game but need it in english. xD

 

[WedaSan]

Or re-translating some cards would be good idea. Since some cards are not in TCG names like alternate version of Signer dragons.

 

[seikosantana]

Hi, is the effort still going? I'd like to follow or contribute if possible.

 

[Ivvilon]

I'm curious about this as well. I just tried playing it with the existing fan-translation and cringed into deleting it off of my computer. If you're needing someone to help with script translation I can assist.

 

[chrisfand]

Or re-translating some cards would be good idea. Since some cards are not in TCG names like alternate version of Signer dragons.

Yup, proper TCG names for everything. Also includes some game-original cards that got official translations in Duel Links.

Hi, is the effort still going? I'd like to follow or contribute if possible.

I'm curious about this as well. I just tried playing it with the existing fan-translation and cringed into deleting it off of my computer. If you're needing someone to help with script translation I can assist.

It's still ongoing with story checking left. I've just been working on a texture pack to have ready for the release too and to help with the tedium of going through the story script. The pack is basically done already and better than my old texture pack too.

If you are willing to help with checking the story script, please DM me. I plan on splitting the character stories into text files, so I could get this done quick with some people helping.

 

[Ghaleb]

Yup, proper TCG names for everything. Also includes some game-original cards that got official translations in Duel Links.



It's still ongoing with story checking left. I've just been working on a texture pack to have ready for the release too and to help with the tedium of going through the story script. The pack is basically done already and better than my old texture pack too.

If you are willing to help with checking the story script, please DM me. I plan on splitting the character stories into text files, so I could get this done quick with some people helping.

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It's great hearing from you about this, I have my hopes up.
I want to ask you about the texture pack, the old one had inconstant art in places, like Monster Reborn having TCG art on the left, while having OCG art in hand and field, now I don't care much which one you choose (though an option for both would be nice), I just want consistency.
Also some images that would load in Deck Edit wouldn't load in duel in the old pack, so hope that can get fixed too.
Lastly, I know it's a bit early for this, but thank you to you and anyone helping you with this, I can't wait!.

 

[chrisfand]

It's great hearing from you about this, I have my hopes up.
I want to ask you about the texture pack, the old one had inconstant art in places, like Monster Reborn having TCG art on the left, while having OCG art in hand and field, now I don't care much which one you choose (though an option for both would be nice), I just want consistency.
Also some images that would load in Deck Edit wouldn't load in duel in the old pack, so hope that can get fixed too.
Lastly, I know it's a bit early for this, but thank you to you and anyone helping you with this, I can't wait!.

Yeah that's all fixed. I was a bit unorganized back then while making packs for all the games.

It's gonna be all OCG with the exception of a few that cards that just had english text in the art instead of being censored, like Fake Trap (I kept the horn in the artwork). Though I'll make a TCG option with my preferences for a few like Exodia and Monster Reborn among others.