Hopefully LuminousCat isnt just posting his videos here for fun and views and are actually going to let you guys use the translation otherwise whats the point in him posting his videos in this thread.
I mean i thought his videos where the translated update progress you guys where doing on this so wouldn't be very nice if he didnt let you guys use the translation after using you guys tools for his videos imo.
You've got it completely wrong, but I don't blame you, since that's how it might seem to someone who's not paying attention to everything that was happening around this translation for the last 2,5 years.
To be honest, I'd rather keep the low profile and avoid dramas, but now I feel I need to defend myself and clear some misunderstandings.
First of all, I started my translation, because I wanted to finally play this game and the officially-fan-translated first 11 chapters of the game were not made public back then. The project's leader, Micah, helped me to do the first steps in getting the Japanese text out of rom. And no matter what was happening with the offical project, I kept doing my thing and releasing a new video almost every week to show my current progress. To be honest, the amount of views I get would never justify the amount of time I'm putting into this, even if it's "only" corrected machine translation. But I'm always happy when I see that someone finds my work useful.
You should also know, that Micah never accepted my work, because I can't read Japanese and I'm not an English native speaker either. I respected his decision, because I also think that the quality of the translation is important.
But I kept doing my translation and I tried to help in the rom translation as much as I could (this part of the story is documented pretty nicely in this forum thread, so anyone can read it if he/she wants).
And I'm not using "
their" tools to put the English text into the rom. I'm using
Plasturion's tools who made them all by himself and was kind enough to make them public. And if you want to know, it was me who asked Plasturion for help in this project after seeing he's a skilled romhacker from the same country as me. You can ask him and he will confirm it or just read the credits in his tools.
And Plasturion was never a member of this team, but he decided to help the new/active members (Asakura and Jaumander) in their efforts to translate the rest of the game's graphics in the last two months.
In the meantime, I suggested that it might be a good idea to create a discord server to keep the project alive, gather more members and discuss the issues. I didn't want to be seen as an power-usurper and create it myself, so I left that up to Micah.
When some new potential translators showed up on that discord, I helped them make their first steps and shared all the files I had translated up to that point (they are probably still on that discord if noone deleted them, but I doubt anyone ever used them).
Unfortunately, one year ago I got involved in a discord personal/world-view drama with the current main translator, Rina.
I got my fair amount of backlash, learned my lesson and decided not to partake in the official project any longer, even as an outsider-supporter.
One year later, there is almost no progress in the official fan-translation of the story, while I kept translating this whole time.
That's why Micah started thinking about using edited machine translation, even though he always rejected it.
In the last two months, the graphic editors
Jaumander and
Asakura translated all the game graphics which weren't previously translated by the original invisionfree translator Yukiwa-kun.
But after seeing that there is close to zero progress in the story translation and after having similar experiences with Rina as I had a year ago, they decided to leave the project. And since they didn't want all of their hard work to go to waste, they entrusted it to me as someone showing an actual progress.
That's why I will do my best not to disappoint them and to release a fully-translated rom as soon as possible and make the translation as good as possible.
I hope that this post gives anyone interested a picture about the current state of affairs.