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Japanese Translation

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2023 20:04:17 No.1357187 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1357191 >>1357219 >>1357222 >>1357616

How bad is DeepL in regards to English-to-Japanese translation?

I'm making a game exclusively for the Japanese (no English) but I don't understand a word of Japanese, and I'm using DeepL. What's the worst that can happen?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2023 20:11:08 No.1357191 Report

Quoted By: >>1357217

>>1357187
Any machine translation sucks. It's better than google, that's all I can say.
Why would you make it a nip exclusive?
Most projects I've seen without the resources to do translations open them up to the community, and have basically repos on github where people can update the translation files. But doing it in one lang seems kinda weird...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2023 21:06:43 No.1357217 Report

Quoted By: >>1357226

>>1357191
I know it's very weird as you said, but I'm trying to do it as an experiment to see how far someone can go using only translation software and I don't want English traffic to muddy the results because I don't know how to actually read the results (analytics) and I don't know what I'm doing hah

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2023 21:08:42 No.1357219 Report

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>>1357187

I talk with Japanese using DeepL/Google Translate, as long as you don't use slangs or word with double meaning (for example it might translate right as the direction instead of "correct") it's good enough

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 29 May 2023 21:10:47 No.1357220 Report

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I wanna play some idle/incremental games, suggest me some

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2023 21:15:50 No.1357222 Report

Quoted By: >>1357224

>>1357187
Yikes, please don't do that.
The quality of machine translation is nowhere near good enough to include it in a product. It's the same feeling you get when you play JP game with English MT. People will never play a game like that. Either learn Japanese or pay someone a fuckton of money to translate it for you.
Even if I'm interested in a game, if it has machine translation, into the trash it goes. I have played and enjoyed Chinese games with subpar translation, but it was definitely done by a human, so it was okay.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2023 21:20:58 No.1357224 Report

Quoted By: >>1357236

>>1357222
So it's going to be awful? Awesome lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2023 21:23:00 No.1357226 Report

Quoted By: >>1357233

>>1357217
Just don't put any dialog in or buttons with text. It doesn't really preclude a story or a game with depth, you'll just have to be creative.
I forget the name of it, but there is a very successful youtube channel that has no dialog at all, it's all acted out in a very obvious way to tell the story.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2023 21:52:28 No.1357233 Report

Quoted By: >>1357236

>>1357226
It is a story-driven game with a lot of character dialouge, lol. Guess I should prepare for some negative japanese review kino

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2023 22:01:39 No.1357236 Report

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>>1357233
>>1357224
It not going to be awful in a "this shit is jank as fuck but that's what's charming about it" sense but it's going to be awful in a "yeah this garbage looks machine translated, not giving this one a try ww" sense, so I don't think it'll receive a lot of reviews.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2023 22:39:49 No.1357241 Report

Quoted By: >>1357260

why the fuck are you doing that

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2023 23:44:44 No.1357254 Report

Quoted By: >>1357388

Why exclusively Japanese? Not doing your own language is pretty retarded. Like, weird weeaboo retarded.
Firstly, you're intentionally missing out on a free market share that's at least twice as large as the Japanese market, but more importantly having English automatically gives you a great excuse for your MTL: "I don't know Japanese but I really wanted to make my game accessible to everyone. I'm sorry for the bad translations. I hope you can still find the game enjoyable." And if your game IS good, bilingual fans might actually offer to retranslate heinous parts of your game dialog for free.

But that could only happen if you include what you actually want to say in an English-language option. So... WHY lol?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2023 01:06:23 No.1357260 Report

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>>1357241
for funny

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2023 01:08:37 No.1357261 Report

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Okay, so what I gather from this thread is that DeepL's capabilities are even worse than I was expecting. The problem is that I am already 30% into the development of the game lol and have been deleting my original english lines as I go, so I don't know what the other stuff is supposed to say unless I go back and un-translate each line lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2023 11:56:59 No.1357388 Report

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>>1357254
>Not doing your own language is pretty retarded
I disagree with that. Literally no third-world language matters at all. The only languages which matter are English, Japanese, and Chinese. If you don't target any of these, don't even bother.
Targeting a Japanese audience is not a bad idea. If you know what you're doing, you could build a fanbase without worrying about baizuo westoids trying to cancel you for literally anything you say. But if you don't speak Japanese, then this is not an option.
English is the way to go. It gives you a greater reach, and you can create a Japanese version later if you think it would be successful. There are western indie games which have been translated to Japanese by fans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2023 15:50:23 No.1357449 Report

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Good luck with your loli VN

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 May 2023 00:07:25 No.1357616 Report

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>>1357187
>I'm making a game exclusively for the Japanese (no English) but I don't understand a word of Japanese
You are retarded.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 May 2023 00:21:42 No.1357625 Report

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op is a faggot

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