I CAN TRANSLATE AND SPELLCHECK YOUR GAMES (FRENCH & ENGLISH)

Hi, if you are reading this, chances are linguistics isn't your thing and/or you want your games to be translated so that more people can enjoy them. I'm new here on RMN and I think that improving other people's works would be a good start. I will only accept requests for already submitted games. If I get too much requests, I'll give priority to completed games.

If you want to know about me, take a look at my topic in the Introductions forum here.

I've set my own default rules when translating a game. You may ask me to change them, however, to better suit your needs.

Character Names

I won't translate them. For example, if there are characters named John, Jack and Edward; I won't translate them into Jean, Jacques and Édouard respectively, they will keep their original names.

Location, Item, Class and Monster Names

I will translate common nouns but not proper ones. For example, I won't touch names such as Cambridge, Palamecia and Porkington; but I will change Lost Woods, Rune Field and Flower Park into Bois Perdus, Champs de Rune and Parc Fleuri.

Slang and Regional Dialect

I will use an international language when translating. However, if there are certain characters in the game who stand out because they use a different dialect, I will translate them accordingly. The kind of dialect I will use is up to me, but I will try to match the same styles.

Foreign Dialect

If your English games has French dialects in it, I will either translate them in English or use a regional dialect. For example, if a character speaks French in an English game and he/she doesn't seem to represent a particular regional stereotype (for example a Parisian wearing a white and black striped shirt and a beret), he/she will speak English instead. If the character is indeed a stereotype, I will make him/her stand out from the others by giving him/her a regional dialect. If there are already other characters using a regional dialect, I will give a much more extreme form of regional dialect to the foreign character in order to make him/her stand out from the crowd.

Puns and World Play

This is where giving me some directives come in handy. I may not always understand the meaning of puns for several reasons. Usually, I may only be looking at the game text without actually playing it so I may miss how some enemies look like for example. I may also fail to understand a pun because I don't know about its roots that may be coming from very obscure words I never heard of. Let's take an enemy called "Ashroom" for example. What do you think it looks like? One could see some kind of anti-washing machine (washroom) that actually dirties (ash) everything it touches. What if I tell you that it's actually some kind of mushroom on fire? If I had to translate this one, it would be Chaupignon, made from the words "chaud" (hot) and "champignon" (mushroom).

author=Creation
Nah, not really, let's not generalize here.

I was talking about Quebecers who don't consider themselves Canadians. If you ever meet one, do not call him/her a French Canadian or he/she might feel insulted.

author=kentona
And, to elaborate on this, everyone outside of Quebec think of Quebecers as French Canadians. (and not as an insult - just as simple logic: they speak french and they are Canadian).

That's fine but don't say that directly to a proud Quebecer. You may say they live in Canada but not that they're Canadians, it may sound weird to you but it's really logic in his/her mind.

author=Creation
Dreamaker extracts texts from RPG Maker games. You can then translate the text in wordpad and inject the next text into the game, and voila, you're done.

I didn't know about Dreamaker but the way you described it, RPG Maker Trans is the exact same thing. However, the latter doesn't work well with Ruby (XP and VX), translating such games can be a bit complicated apparently, so if Dreamaker can do better, we could consider it superior. Honestly, I don't mind if you send me text strings extracted by Dreamaker instead of RPG Maker Trans, I'll just have to read Dreamaker's README file so that I can understand its format.

author=Creation
Just load Dreamaker and translate. Wait until you see how much work it is first, then you can mess around with DIRECTIVES in all caps.

I'm a very patient man, plus I'm a writer so dealing with a lot of text is something I'm quite used to do.