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Topic: Fan translation

	sociology - Translation
		A distinction is made between translation, which consists of transferring ideas expressed in writing from one language to another, from interpreting, which consists of transferring ideas expressed orally, or by the use of gestures (as in the case of sign language), from one language to another.
		Pedagogical translation is used to enrich (and to assess) the student's vocabulary in the second language, to help assimilate new syntactic structures and to verify the student's understanding.
		Cultural translation is a concept used in cultural studies to denote the process of transformation, linguistic or otherwise, in a given culture.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Translation (3329 words)

	SWET
		The fan translation done by fans of anime, manga, and video games for their own satisfaction and desire to share seeks to render the originals “authentically.” Trends and approaches from fan translation can influence “official” published translations and afford ideas for professional translators.
		In most cases fan translations are done merely for the sake of other fans who seek to enjoy and understand something that is originally in a language that they do not know.
		Although there are clearly some problems with fan translation, such as mistakes and distortions, it has become so widespread that some publishers have started adopting certain styles and practices from the fan translation world for their “officially” published works.
	www.swet.jp /index.php/newsletter/content/the_fan_quest_for_authenticity (2193 words)

	Accommodation in Translation
		Translation, in terms of methodology, may be literal translation or free translation, which used to be an irreconcilable dilemma in translation circles on which unfortunately no authoritative conclusion has been reached.
		Lu Xun, a well-known translator and man of letters, is a strong supporter of such a view and his translations co-authored with his brother evidently proved his idea, although their translations were accused by some as unnatural or even non-understandable (Chen Fukang: 2000).
		In English-Chinese translation, the translator would always make accommodations to soften the original tone, hoping not to offend the readers (as well as to escape censorship?), I do not wish to present my judgment here but wish to state a fact in translation practice when sex is involved.
	www.translationdirectory.com /article67.htm (1963 words)

	People v. Wang
		The court found that the failure to call the original translator to the witness stand denied the defendant the opportunity to cross-examine the translator regarding his or her qualifications and the accuracy of the translation, in violation of his right to confront witnesses.
		While a translation may be found suspect if, for example, the translator has a motive to shift blame away from himself or herself, the record before us does not suggest such a motivation here.
		Fan' s statement that Wang lacked authority to open the bank account was corroborated by Guan' s direct statement to the same effect.
	www.law.com /regionals/ca/opinions/supremecourt/appeal00/b139328.shtml (5158 words)

	ANIME DAMASII --Spirits of ANIME-- HIRAMEKI Community site - BBS->Visual Novel Discussion->Visual Novel Fan ...
		I know that there are a number of sites like www.insani.org that do fan translations of visual novels, and I was rather surprised by their zeal and dedication.
		The best way to get an idea of how fan translations go, without getting into the murkier waters of legality, would be to look at the free games that have been translated, in many cases with their authors' consent.
		At the moment, Hirameki's translation team consists of Laura (a recent addition) and Shimura-san (who of course speaks English) It is difficult to fully convey the beauty of the material being translated without the cooperation of native speakers of both the target language and original language.
	community.hirameki-int.com /modules/bluesbb/thread.php?thr=47&sty=1&num=l50 (3560 words)

	Gyakuten Saiban 3 translation project
		Everything in the case is translated except a few graphics (such as the title screen, and "Objection!") whose meaning should be clear from context.
		Two excellent translators have offered their help this holiday season and have been working hard on cases 1 and 4.
		The case is over halfway translated now; I'm hoping to release it in a month or two.
	comebackcourt.sourceforge.net (1168 words)

	Romhacking.net
		July 8: Famous fan translation group RPGe (responsible for the Final Fantasy V translation) was established around 8:43 PM EST on July 8 in the #ff5e channel, on the EsperNet IRC network.
		This was the first known fan translation for this platform to use a ROM image of an increased filesize over the original, long believed to be a near-impossible task for this console.
		This was the first known translation for the Famicom Disk System to be produced by dissembling the disk image into its component files, and then merging the modified files back together to form a new disk image.
	www.romhacking.net /transhistory (2649 words)

	Distraction - The Journal of Fanfiction Studies
		Carol O'Sullivan (editor) is a lecturer in Italian and translation at the University of Portsmouth in England.
		Her main research interests are in literary translation, but she also writes and researches on film, television and popular culture.
		She is particularly interested in slash fanfiction, fan translation and the relationship of fan writers to characters, and is currently working on fanfiction as textual afterlife.
	www.fanfiction-studies.net /contributors.htm (472 words)

	Fans Get Crackin' on Mother 3 Translation news from 1UP.com
		Technically, fans got what they wished for when Mother 3 was released in Japan earlier this year, but alas, no plans to bring the game to English-speaking shores ever surfaced.
		Both the crew at Starman.net and the similarly-minded folks at the Mother 3 Translation Project emphasize that you must have a legal copy of the game in order to use the patch that they'll ultimately be producing.
		Earthbound fans are atypically noisy, though, so it seems likely that Nintendo will find out about the translation efforts sooner or later, and the company's reaction, whatever it may be, will no doubt leave a lasting impression on its fans.
	www.1up.com /do/newsStory?cId=3155090 (841 words)

	Magic Knight Rayearth - About the Game
		Sometime during the late 90's, the fan translation group known as RPGe Translations released a complete English translation for this game, making it possible for us to be able to experience it in English.
		Dibz was nice enough to give me the dumped MKR script he had so I started to translate it immediately, after I had a few of the translation done I started wondering how this would get to be inside the rom and all those things related to hacking.
		We had a large amount of text translated and some inserted manually by the time a guy popped into #romhack claiming that he knew all about MKR and that it was easy for him to do all the hacking.
	www.fantasyanime.com /animerpgs/mkr_about.htm (1390 words)

	Otto Carius Translation
		The purpose of this translation is primarily as a resource for learning the Japanese language.
		Thus, the format of the translation resembles to some extent the format used in the now-defunct magazine Mangajin.
		The formatting is not as nice as for Episode 1, the English translation is an early draft, and the panel-guide images are not included, but there are furigana for the kanji.
	www.mv.com /users/ctwilkes/Carius2/otto_trans.html (338 words)

	manga_talk: Death Note: Offical vs Fan Translations, FIGHT!
		Official translators here will have an advantage over scanlators - the opportunity is there for them to read ahead a little and see if anything comes up that will influence their choices (though it's obvious not all official translators take that opportunity!) where fan translators are usually working from the very latest chapters.
		In fact, OT's translation is just as accurate if you consider that the sentence you pointed out follows directly from the previous one where Light says, "I cause heart attacks among those who deserve punishment." Like you said, it's not ambiguous at all that Light is the one responsible for everything.
		I prefer translations closer to what they were meant to be, but the Viz translations do make it easier for most English-speaking fans to relate to the story.
	community.livejournal.com /manga_talk/9367.html (5532 words)

	Chrono Trigger 2 : Radical Dreamers
		However, loading a savestate from a previous translation version might work, but you'll probably end up at a slightly different place than where you should be, and the game engine might get confused and crash.
		I could probably do this translation myself, but since there are most likely a lot of little nuances to the writing style that only a native speaker could understand, I'm not trying it.
		I can't offer you any money for this work since it's a fan translation, but you would be given credit for your work, and everybody who loves Chrono Cross will love you and throw parties for you and stuff.
	radicaldreamers.sourceforge.net (2213 words)

	Final Fantasy V - Final Fantasy Wiki
		As translator Ted Woolsey explained in a 1994 interview, "it's just not accessible enough to the average gamer." Plans were made to release the game in 1995 as Final Fantasy Extreme, targeting it at "the more experienced gamers who loved the complex character building".
		Some fans were unhappy with the dialogue translations, particularly Faris' 'pirate accent' which was not part of the original script.
		Aside from graphical tweaks and a new translation, four additional jobs (Cannoneer, Gladiator, Prophet, Necromancer), a bestiary, a quick save function, music player and a 30-floor dungeon were added.
	finalfantasy.wikia.com /wiki/Final_Fantasy_V (2283 words)

	Vulgar Ghost Daydream
		She "sees" another world that we don't, and can "talk" to us from the other side.
		Once they are ready to translate, I can do that.
		I personally think that the name Ghost Talker's Daydream is pretty lame, but at least it is being released.
	mangatranslation.com /vgd (447 words)

	Japanese ---> English
		"Don't you mean Culgan?" The answer is that many of Suikoden 2 fans here have "grown up" with the fan translation and are unhappy with Konami's translation, so they continue to use the fan translation on their own.
		Apparently this was one of the harder names to translate.
		Microtof is the most popular translation on japanese fanart pages.
	members.tripod.com /hix/name.html (275 words)

	Mother 3 fan translation nearly complete :: DESTRUCTOID :: Hardcore video game blog
		Luckily for us, there exists a motley band of holy crusaders putting together a fan translation as we speak.
		Where most translation projects consist of a second-year Japanese student and a guy who once hex-edited a PSX save, the Mother 3 Fan Translation Project has already completed the bulk of the difficult work -- namely, reworking the game to use variable-width fonts and dumping the entirety of the script.
		Once the translation is handed over, all that remains is to work in the variable tags (for character names, et cetera) and whip up some patches.
	www.destructoid.com /mother-3-fan-translation-nearly-complete-24915.phtml (472 words)

	The Binaltech story so far - TFans Transformers Community
		Fan to Fan translation (under "26 Sep 2003")
		Doug Dlin translation from BWTF (under "Birth of the Evil Binal-Tech!")
		Fan to Fan translationLagunaL8 translation from Ragnark: Logoff
	www.tfans.com /index.php?showtopic=15324 (2454 words)

	Mother 3 to stay lost in translation - Joystiq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They aren't expected to be perfect and they have no requirement to censor anything, yet will be smart enough to translate the jokes for English speakers as they are massive fans of the series.
		To avoid confusion, the game was dubbed EarthBound 0 by fan translator "NeoDemiforce", as Nintendo had since released the Super Nintendo sequel to Mother in America under the title EarthBound.
		The fans may desperately want the game to be released in the US and Europe, but there aren't enough of them to guarantee a return on the time, effort and money that would go into a localised version.
	www.joystiq.com /2006/11/06/mother-3-to-stay-lost-in-translation (2086 words)

	How To Count Fans For Case's Fair & Honest Mah Jong League
		Guía oficial para llevar la cuenta de fan de la Liga Justa y Honesta de Mahjong.
		Pong/Kong de viento de asiento = 1 fan
		Translation of Mah-jong- definitions from English to Norwegian.
	webpages.charter.net /countfan/countfan.htm (862 words)

	Empire Divided - Sanguo Zhi Biography Translation: Lu Fan (Ziheng) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There are notes that haven't been translated and portions of the original bio omitted.
		He used Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu, and Lu Fan to serve as generals.
		Translated from Chen Shou’s Records of the Three Kingdoms.
	www.empiredividedtk.net /rtk/sgz/sunquan.htm (9389 words)

	One Girl in All The World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		What I have here is a joint effort between me, Tim (owner of Megaman Network and Metroid HQ, a nice fellow whose name I don't have at the moment, and Nintendo of Japan's site.
		I was pleasantly surprised when Tim and the Nameless Nice Person translated them all.
		Since, the way I hear it, this manga is considered official, it's a must-read for Metroid fans, 'cause it gives us an idea of how Samus grew up.
	www.mechadrake.com /metroidmanga.html (242 words)

	The Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy V
		This game is available in two formats: the 'crappy' translation of Squaresoft's Final Fantasy Anthology, or the RPGE fan translation.
		I'll refer to the ROM translation in this review because it seems to be the more commonly played version.
		The storyline of Final Fantasy 5 is a little weak compared to those of Final Fantasy 4 and 6, but it is generally well done.
	www.thefinalfantasy.com /games/ff5 (848 words)

	Kitsune's Den
		I was hoping to release more than one patch this year, but it won't happen.
		Thanks to Hap, there will be an intro on at least one translation - Samurai Pizza Cats.
		I basically have the entire script translated, but I have to create some scripts for reinsertion (basically converting text files so a program called Atlas can inject the game with English dialogue), and that will take me a long time.
	vice.parodius.com (719 words)

	Boing Boing: Distributed fan-translation of Potter 5 into German
		A group of German Harry Potter enthusiasts are working to collectively translate the English text of Order of the Phoenix into Deustch.
		Over 1.000 HP fans want after the translation of HP, succeeded well, tape 4 also the new factory: "HP and the order OF Phoenix" translate together, because English actually so with difficulty at all is not.
		Everyone, which wants to go through, selects a section section (usually 5 pages), and mailt the own translation 1 to 4 weeks later to Harry up German community back; if the translation is useful, then one gets as thank-beautifully gradually the translations of the others Mituebersetzer inside zugemailt;
	www.boingboing.net /2003/07/06/distributed_fantrans.html (218 words)

	Starmen.Net » EarthBound / Mother 3: Do-It-Yourself Devotion
		The most amazing part of it, though, is that we've not only stuck around for 11 years waiting for a sequel, but we've managed to grow in numbers - on the day Mother 3 was released, Starmen.Net registered over a quarter million pageviews, and that doesn't include the Starmen.Net Forum (chalk up another 100,000).
		We English-speaking fans had high hopes; we (along with many industry workers and members of the press) thought that an English localization was a no-brainer.
		As Mother 3 was being released in early 2006, Tomato and King Darian worked hard to keep fans abreast of news from Shigesato Itoi's "WORLD OF MOTHER 3" website (1101.com/MOTHER3) by posting a complete World Of Mother 3 English Translation courtesy of Starmen.Net.
	starmen.net /devotion (1829 words)

	Mystery Fan Translation Group X (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Quarkboy volunteered to do the timing, and I also enlisted the help of HotondoNaNashi to check over the translation, so thanks to them this episode is both translated and timed more accurately.
		Episode 3 airs tomorrow, but unfortunately I won't have time to work on it over the next week, so the chances of it being out before episode 4 airs are close to zero.
		On a similar note, I planned to write some translation notes for the first two episodes and put them on here today, but they'll have to wait because this has already taken up a lot more of my time today than I intended.
	mftgx.blogspot.com (364 words)

	Siliconera » Policenauts fan translation in ‘07 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After five years of hard work the group at JunkerHQ.net announced that they have completed translating the text into English and a patch should be ready in the second half in 2007.
		With added light gun support for shooting segments (also similar to the Sega CD version of Snatcher), new cutscenes specifically designed for the game, and quite a few extra bonuses to boot, there’s no doubt that the Saturn version is superior in everyway.
		This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 at 7:36 am and is filed under Retro Revival, News, Japan, USA, Translation, Playstation, Policenauts.
	www.siliconera.com /index.php/2007/02/07/policenauts-fan-translation-in-07 (478 words)

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