Touhou 12.8 The Great Fairy Wars English Patch

[Tengukami]

This thread is for the contribution of people who want to work on the English patch, and for eventual beta-testers to post findings.

I understand the manual has already been fully translated, so we're off to a great start already.

So then, who's in?

[Just a GBZero]

I'm in, but unfortunately all I can really do is beta test the patches

[Drake]

Here you go!

[nintendonut888]

So apparently this patch is gonna come out faster than any game before it? Good luck to you guys.

[Maav]

I'm in for beta testing if needed.

[Lord Phantasm Satori]

oh wow, already? man, you guys are awesome.

[Tengukami]

oh wow, already? man, you guys are awesome.

No, not already. Drake was just linking to his file extractions; not an actual English patch.

But yeah, we generally like to have a thread like this up shortly after a game is released.

[Shizumarashi Mayuzumi]

I'd love to pitch in, though I dunno what I could really do - aside from beta-testing which could be pretty much anyone, I think all I can really do is translate, and there's plenty of people around here who are way better at that than I am anyway. :ohdear: I was pitching in on spellcard names off of screenshots in IRC the other night and everyone else typed faster than me. :V

[vgperson]

Seeing as I just finished translating the entirety of the dialogue on Touhou Wiki, I figured I should at the very least say I did so here. So maybe I'd be up for helping with the ending translations or something.

I really suck at the game, though, so probably not a great beta tester.

[S. Nazerine]

Looks like everything's already done? Nice work, vgperson!

Just say if there's anything else that needs translating, and I can take care of it.

[Lord Phantasm Satori]

don't forget the HUD! I really need to know what all those %s are.  :V

[Drake]

Considering the entire game script is translated, the only things left are the in-game images, which I provided.

[Lord Phantasm Satori]

so... that means you didn't forget them? sweet.

[N-Forza]

One I get my Comiket orders sorted out, I'll look it over and make sure it looks good.

[Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin]

I just want to say that various people here are just awesome.

[Unassuming Squid]

That was fast.

I love you guys.

[S. Nazerine]

For the in-game screen?
The text at the top left is just "Great Fairy War"
The two across the top are "High score" and "Current score"
The ones on the right sidebar are "Bonuses," "Fighting Spirit," "Ice Power," "Perfect Freeze," and then at the bottom "Area Frozen"

The images, from Drake's rip (thanks much, Drake):
loading.png: "Fairies Are Fighting" "Now Loading"
medal00.png: "Victory with no ice!" "Victory with no misses!" "Just barely victory!"
face01/ename.png: "Light of the Shining Sun" "Sunny Milk"
face02/ename.png: "Light of the Peaceful Moon" "Luna Child"
face03/ename.png: "Light of the Falling Star" "Star Sapphire"
face04/ename.png: "The Magician Passing By" "Kirisame Marisa"
routeselect.png: "Where to next?" "Magic Forest" "Misty Lake" "Spring Path"
logo/logo_a1_1.png: "Stage A-1" "The Fun (sounds bad) and Bewitching Grove" "Freeze the enemy bullets with ice barriers!" "(Aimed Firing)[?]" "[same]"
logo/logo_a1_2.png: "Stage A1-2" "Twilight Citadel" "Misty Lake (Evening)" "You can't freeze burning danmaku! Be careful!" "[same]"
logo/logo_a1_3.png: "Stage A1-3" "Great Fairy Showdown" "Spring Path (Night)" "Lasers will break ice. Watch out for shards!" "[same]"
After the stage title, the text is the same for all logos of the same color.
logo/logo_a2_2.png: "Stage A2-2" "Fairy's Flower Arrangement" "Spring Path (Evening)"
logo/logo_a2_3.png: "Stage A2-3" "Starry Sky over the Water" "Misty Lake (Night)"
logo/logo_b1_1.png: "Stage B-1" "Non-negotiable(?) Demands" "Misty Lake"
logo/logo_b1_2.png: "Stage B1-2" "Where did the Light Fairy Go?" "Magic Forest (Evening)"
logo/logo_b1_3.png: "Stage B1-3" "Moonlight under the Midnight Cherries" "Spring Path (Night)"
logo/logo_b2_2.png: "Stage B2-2" "Journey of the Forgetful" "Spring Path (Evening)"
logo/logo_b2_3.png: "Stage B2-3" "Midnight Forest" "Magic Forest (Night)"
logo/logo_c1_1.png: "Stage C-1" "Whirling Cherry Petal Danmaku" "Spring Path"
logo/logo_c1_2.png: "Stage C1-2" "Three Fairies' Citadel" "Magic Forest (Evening)"
logo/logo_c1_3.png: "Stage C1-3" "Battle over the Lake" "Misty Lake (Night)"
logo/logo_c2_2.png: "Stage C2-2" "The Moon Rises on the Lake" "Misty Lake (Evening)"
logo/logo_c2_3.png: "Stage C2-3" "Fairies' Lively Night" "Magic Forest (Night)"
logo/logo_ex.png: "Stage EX" "After the Festival" "Wondrous Path of Midnight Cherries" "Be careful of beams which drain your fighting spirit!" "[same]"
logo/music00.png: "Refrain of the Cute War" "Stake your Life on a Prank" "Year-Round Absorbing Curiosity" "Midnight Fairy Dance" "Great Fairy War ~ Faily[sic] Wars" "Loose Rain/Reign?" "Meigast ( all I can think of is May+August) Night"

I'll work on the rest later, unless someone else wants to take care of them.

[hs08]

logo/music00.png: "Refrain of the Cute War" "Stake your Life on a Prank" "Year-Round Absorbing Curiosity" "Midnight Fairy Dance" "Great Fairy War ~ Faily[sic] Wars" "Loose Rain/Reign?" "Meigast ( all I can think of is May+August) Night"

_{I believe Meigast is supposed to be Magus. In reference to The Witches' Ball ~ Magus, perhaps?}

[Drake]

Faily Wars was likely put there on purpose, Lose Rain, and Magus Night.

[Prime 2.0]

Sure, I could beta-test. Assuming you don't already have people on that or a system to increase the size of the word bubbles, I could also help with the transcription.

[vgperson]

Okay, I've got the endings translated, unless there's an ending after Extra for some silly reason. Should I PM these to somebody or what?

(Also, I already translated the stage names on the wiki.)

[LinkedFate]

Here, have a English config.exe

All it took was a simple copy-paste of dialog from the UFO config_e.exe, so credit goes to whoever did the translation of UFO's config.exe

[N-Forza]

"Just barely victory!"

I'm not in translator/editor mode right now but this sounds weird.

[vgperson]

Yeah, I'd say "Narrow Victory!" And all of them should be in that format rather than "Victory with _": No-Ice Victory, No-Miss Victory.

I guess I'll also note that the in-game difficulty displays for Easy and Lunatic (and Extra, sorta) in front/front00.png aren't exactly those names; Easy is "Simple," Lunatic is "Maddening," and maybe Extra should be "Bonus" or something simply because it's not "ekisutora."

[Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin]

Yes, but it says "Easy," Lunatic," etc. in English on the difficulty-select screen.

[vgperson]

I know, it's not like I'm saying the difficulties should be renamed entirely or anything. I'm just pointing out that what it says on the HUD isn't a straight "EASY" "NORMAL" "HARD" "LUNATIC" like in MoF/SA/UFO, mostly because Cirno is Cirno. (Similar deal for "Loading Nau," "Ima Score," and I suppose in a way "Fairies are fighting...") If ZUN meant for them all to be translated as the basic difficulty names, he would've made them "Easy," "Lunatic," and "Extra" in katakana.

[HyperGumba]

I see, this thread has progressed faster than I thought it would. Is a beta tester still needed? I've got Vista Home Premium, Service Pack 2 included.  :3

[S. Nazerine]

@anyone volunteering for beta testing: there isn't a patch yet, as far as I know, so beta testers won't be needed for a while yet?unfortunately, I don't have any experience with that kind of hacking, or I'd see about cooking one up, but as it is, we'll need to wait for one of our wonderful patch-people to put this all together.

Hm. No one felt like taking a crack at those help files? Well, I've finished reading Umineko now, so looks like I'm back on the spot.

help_00.png:
01. Gameplay

? Story
The ice fairy Cirno, restless as always.
One night while she was away, someone destroyed her home.
When she returned, she found a strange flag in the ruins.
It bore a picture of some fairies she remembered...
Enraged, Cirno took the flag and declared war on its owners.
This was the beginning of the Fairy War.
(For more detail, see "The Fairy War" in Touhou Sangessei ~ Strange and Bright Nature Deity volume two.)

? Rules
Using Cirno, defeat the the fairies (Sunny Milk, Luna Child, and Star Sapphire).

Cirno can freeze enemy danmaku.
Use this to establish yourself as the strongest fairy!

help_01.png:
02. Controlling Cirno

? Up/Down/Right/Left -- Move Cirno
? Shoot Key (Z) -- Shoot
Hold down  -- Ice Barrier
*The shooting function is not continuous in this game
? Rapid Key (C or Ctrl) -- Rapid-fire
? Bomb Key (X) -- Perfect Freeze
? Slow Key (Shift) -- Move slowly
* You will move slowly even if you tap the shoot key
? Pause Key (Esc) -- Pause

help_02.png:
03. Reading the screen
? Fighting Spirit
Cirno's mood.
Miss and it will fall by 100%.
Miss with less than 99% and you lose.

? Ice Power
The power required to form ice barriers.
It will normally increase slowly.

? Perfect Freeze
You can't use Perfect Freeze unless it's at 100%.

? Area Frozen
Total area of frozen enemy danmaku.
It is directly connected to the power of your shots.
If you can freeze a lot, your shots will be that much stronger.

? Level Decrease
The level of your shots.
Increase your area frozen, and the level will go up.

help_03.png:
04. Freeze the enemy!
"Don't these enemies have a little bit too much danmaku for fairies?"
That's true.
*Just think of it as what the danmaku looks like to Cirno, a weaker character.

But! Cirno won't lose to that.
She has a secret weapon.
Her "Ice Barrier" charge shots.

Ice attacks will only hit bullets which are very close to you, but they will freeze all of them.
Even if you get hit by frozen bullets, you won't get hurt.
When they ice breaks, the bullets disappear!
Also, frozen bullets will freeze other bullets which get too close.

If you aim your ice attacks at high-concentration areas of bullets, you can cause a chain reaction and completely freeze the enemy's danmaku.

When you get caught in a corner, use your head for Cirno and find effective ways to make patterns out of frozen bullets!

help_04.png:
05. Ice Power!
You can't always release ice barriers at full power. Even idiots get tired.

You can only release them if your Ice Power (which slowly recharges) is above 30%.

If it is near 100%, your ice will last longer.
At 30%, it will only last an instant.

When you release an ice barrier, your Ice Power will drop to 0%.

Recharging your Ice Power:
? It will slowly recharge over time (slow)
? Hit bosses with your shots (hitting bosses is quite fast)
? Defeat small fairies (instantly recharges)
? Graze enemy bullets (difficult, but essential for metagamers[?])
? Continue to save up (faster recharge than normal) (?? really not sure what this means; someone who's played the game please help)

help_05.png:
]06. Watch out for special bullets!
"Don't chain reactions from ice barriers just mean an easy win?"

No, no, your enemies are idiots, too, but they do have countermeasures.
Beware of the attacks listed below!

?Burning bullets
These bullets cannot be frozen. They will pass through ice and come flying at you, so be careful.

? Lasers
They will break through ice!
When the ice breaks, shards will go flying, and if you get hit by these, it will count as a miss.
Make sure not to stand nearby when lasers break through ice!

help_06.png:
07. Ice is an area!
Rather than freezing lots of bullets around Cirno, it is better to freeze bullets spread out over a wide area.

When the game screen is completely covered, the percentage of bullets frozen because a bonus.
Rather than aiming for the instant when the bullets are released, letting them spread out for a while will result in a larger area frozen.

Total area frozen is your total starting from stage one.
If you break your record, your shot level will go up.

When bosses are hard to defeat, just freeze so that you cover the greatest area!

help_07.png:
08. Other things!
Raising your Fighting Spirit:
? freeze enemy bullets
? damage enemies
(Damage from ice will raise your Fighting Spirit more than damage from shots)
Each 100% is like having an extra life. The highest it can be is 1000%.

Raising your Perfect Freeze:
? Freeze enemy bullets
It won't go above 100%, so use it right away!

Perfect Freeze will freeze the entire screen.
It also can freeze flaming danmaku.
Make no mistake, it's perfect!

help_08.png:
09. I don't get it
What's with this game, it's too hard, I can't figure out the controls, the dialogue doesn't make sense, I don't get it.

What kind of walkthrough should I make this?
If it's not working, watch some demo playthroughs.
If you wait at the title screen, it will show demo playthroughs.

You can also see explanations of the controls on the boss screens of replays.

The dialogue doesn't make sense because they are fairies.
Once the war is over, they will probably forget everything they've said.

help_09.png appears to be from Double Spoiler.

[king of the shrooms]

the game hasn't been out for a week (i don't think so at least) and you guys already started on an english patch?!?!? 
you guys are the best ever!!!!!!

[S. Nazerine]

And with this, I believe, all the images will be translated. I think we need someone to edit the English text onto the images? Would be nice if that were done before work on the patch itself starts (which is to say, I don't want to do it myself).

rank00.png: Way easy! I said not to treat me like an idiot.
rank01.png: Pretty easy!
rank02.png: It's hard?but I'm not giving up!
rank03.png: This is crazy! I'll clean this up with ice! (not sure what "gekimuzu" means--maybe some sort of contraction of "撃難しい"? But that doesn't make much sense)
stage00.png: Magic Forest
stage01.png: Misty Lake
stage02.png: Spring Paths
stage03.png: "*fixed difficulty" "Wondrous Path of Midnight Cherries"
stage03b.png: Can't play here yet
title_ed.png: "Good work!" "With that, you've cleared the game! You're the stronges t!" "Portrait art: Hirasaka Makoto" "Game: ZUN"
title_logo.png: "Great Fairy War"
title06.png: [just the titles of the help images, in order]

?and that should be all the images. Off to play Folklore now--hopefully some kind soul will get this all into a patch soon!

edit: oooh, right, forgot to say. I'm not really paying attention to how this stuff sounds in English, so please do copy edit all this to your hearts' content.