(PSX) Brightis (English Translation)....maybe?

[Skripglow]

I saw this somewhere and it seems to be complete, although judging from a couple pics it has some bad English.

GitHub - WadoTranslations/ps1-brightis-english: English localization for the 1999 Japanese-only Playstation 1 game, Brightis

English localization for the 1999 Japanese-only Playstation 1 game, Brightis - WadoTranslations/ps1-brightis-english

github.com

 

[The Real Thing]

That is English done in an archaic style. It's meant to sound like how a Knight might speak. Nothing wrong with what is in those screenshots. I started the translated game and saw in the 'prologue words scroll' it said 'fount', which I was unaccustomed to, and thought maybe they meant 'font', as in 'font of magic'. But 'fount' is the more historically-accurate term, turns out!

That said, may have its rough parts, being a new translation v1.0 and all.

Edit: Point being: A more faithful translation approach in this case is to have that Knight style, rather than a strict 'by the book' translation, as shown by the 'discrepancy' examples at the bottom of your screenshots.

More info here: https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7639/

 

[Skripglow]

Well it might filter some people then lol. I think i would've liked a normal translation though like the japanese>english

 

[Boofytan]

Y'know, fount. Ie: I fount tree fiddy the other day.

 

[Sorion]

The game seems to take place on a medieval setting so the weird mannerisms and speech patterns seem to be a localization effort from the translator, I don't see anything wrong with that honestly. It's an artistic Choice.

 

[Deltamores]

"Built on the groundwork of the original fan-translation team"

Seems like a bad faith effort if the original translation team is still actively working on theirs.

(Reminder to teams to keep your repos private until release...)

 

[Prollo]

you know what....I'm going to fill i the blanks and gloss over any weird translation errors, I've been wanting to play this for a long time.

 

[otogirisou]

"Built on the groundwork of the original fan-translation team"

Seems like a bad faith effort if the original translation team is still actively working on theirs.

(Reminder to teams to keep your repos private until release...)

The original team posted a review on the romhacking page and they seem to be okay with this

Hi, posting this for awareness that this is unrelated to the original translation effort.

I go by tank120 here, but on other sites I go by Dick Debonair. I am currently unaware if I will be able to get in contact with Wado, who is certainly naming themselves after the main wizard in the intro of Brightis, about how they’ve made this translation based on old versions of our tools, but I do want to express that I am impressed they got it done. I know it couldn’t have been easy.

However, the original team has begun working on it again. And will have another translation to show for it soon!

 

[Cloudstrife7894]

Given that this game was developed by Shade, hopefully the granstream saga will see a retranslation one day.

 

[Hikaru1057]

Apparently, this release was forked from the early stages

https://twitter.com/x/status/2079304359775805534

 

[Valcrist]

Edit: Check other posts later in thread.

 

[Skripglow]

It also uses MTL. The github lists DeepL as their translation source.

huh? i don't see that

 

[Valcrist]

huh? i don't see that

Update: May not be using MTL after all.

 

[Skripglow]

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4th from the bottom.

??? thats the old one thats still in progress (or abandoned idk)

 

[Valcrist]

??? thats the old one thats still in progress (or abandoned idk)

Yes, that’s the source they forked for this. It is also incomplete.

Nobody wants Brightis more than I do. This just isn’t it.

 

[Super2]

I'm really glad someone came in and finished translating and coding Brightis.

This is an outstanding piece of technical work and is very welcome.

The translation is entirely new, and done from scratch, according to the Github thread, and seems to use none of the old code.

 

[Valcrist]

I'm really glad someone came in and finished translating and coding Brightis.

This is an outstanding piece of technical work and is very welcome.

The translation is entirely new, and done from scratch, according to the Github thread, and seems to use none of the old code:

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It says it's using the MTL source "retranslated". I'm assuming they just mean they edited the text to sound better. Similar was done with Trails from Zero/Azure and those both didn't turn out great until Geofront finally delivered quality.

 

[Super2]

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[Valcrist]

Please read again

"With your team's English." aka the source text from Dick Debonair.

https://bsky.app/profile/dickdebonair.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3mr4726rmdc2l

It's looking like they're claiming they didn't use MTL now though despite DeepL being under the list of tools used for the translation. Who really knows at this point anymore.

Either way, it is apparently very incomplete as DD says.

 

[Super2]

Source: https://github.com/WadoTranslations/ps1-brightis-english/issues/1

"On the script: I re-translated the game from the Japanese from scratch, with your team's English alongside as a reference while mining the text"

 

[Valcrist]

Source: https://github.com/WadoTranslations/ps1-brightis-english/issues/1

"On the script: I re-translated the game from the Japanese from scratch, with your team's English alongside as a reference while mining the text"

Edit: Forget it. -_-

 

[Super2]

In the translation page, Dickdebonair wrote this to the creator of the patch:

Source: https://github.com/WadoTranslations/ps1-brightis-english/issues/1

 

[Valcrist]

In the translation page, Dickdebonair wrote this to the creator of the patch:

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Source: https://github.com/WadoTranslations/ps1-brightis-english/issues/1

Yeah, with more information it looks like maybe it's either a mix or the guy used the text inputting? I'm playing it right now and it's pretty rough, but I don't know if it's MTL. I concede on the whole thing and I'll clean up my posts in here so people don't think something that may be incorrect.

Dick Debonair's posts made this confusing, but it's cool if this is fully this new guy's work given that I've been waiting for this forever. I'm a big Terranigma fan and I also loved The Granstream Saga. This one has the same faceless 3D models so that won't be jarring to me LOL.

Post automatically merged: Yesterday at 8:59 PM

Sounds like Dick Debonair said the DeepL stuff is old and he switched to human translators later. He says their translation will be out "soon" so I guess that's another option if people want to wait.