War said:
@Benandanti: I don't want to be negative or say that's a bad idea, but I really don't see it happening. Jump Ultimate Stars improves everything from the previous games, adds lots of new characters, and the translation is already very very far. I really doubt someone would want to work on this because of the simple fact that they'll say "If there's already a translation of the second (better) game, why should we go back to the first game?"
It was the fact that a lot of work was put into the JUS translation that made me think that it'd be good if further use could be made from it. The Komas used are virtually identical (with the exception of Hikaru no Go, which is strangely omitted from JUS), and I'd suspect the character/series descriptions would be the same. The instructions would be similar as well, (with the exception of team-up attacks, also omitted from JUS) and the only real differences I could imagine that would need translating would be the story mode, which is basically a list of objectives. IIRC there's no quiz mode either.
It was the (and I mean no disrespect by this) relative straightforwardness of adapting significant portions of the Pokemon Diamond/Pearl english translation to Pokemon Platinum which made me think that the reverse could be true; that a previous game using the same engine could benefit from the successor's translation. (by the same token, it might be possible to use parts of the official Kira Kira Pop Princess translation with its sequel, 'Pinky Street Kira Kira - Music Night', though it may still get an official translation yet.)
That's to say that I assume that it uses the same engine, which I was basing my whole request on. I wouldn't have asked for it if it meant a full-scale project. If the tools and translations that already exist for JUS are incompatible with JSS then I'd gladly retract this suggestion; I just figured that if they already existed and were compatible, why not reuse them?
As for the "If there's already a translation of the second (better) game, why should we go back to the first game?" question.....well, why play Street Fighter II when you've got Super Street Fighter II Turbo? Even if there are 'improvements' with the newer ones, the older ones will still have their fans. Personally, I enjoyed abusing the 'Sanji + as many females as possible' deck in JSS, which they nerfed considerably in JUS, and could do without certain support characters that were added in JUS. (Saint Seiya in particular)
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