[Game] Umineko no Naku Koro ni - Translation Project

[zeroexia]

I will disprove your red with both red and my blue!

Ryuskishi07 and 07th expansion made the pure awesome Umineko games and Witch Hunt has brought said awesome games into English for us

Therefore both Ryukishi07 and Witch Hunt are the best!

[chronotrig]

We do plan on releasing an updated version of EP1-4 soon which includes some changes we made in EP5. For example, the word "kakera" is now translated as "Fragment", something we've been considering for some time now.

In addition, as we have already said, the EP6 compatible version of the game that we plan on releasing may include further updates depending on the new information we get from EP6.

[Proto]

Geez, everytime I try to promote my little linux gaming thread someone comes and throws a bigger bomb and buries my little advertising under a pile of 100 congratulating posts. Thank you, WH, thank you.

[Keriaku]

YES. Thank you so much. I'm about to go on a 5 hour trip to visit family tomorrow morning, and now I can spend that time reading Umineko <333333

[Mercurius]

There are not enough words to thank the WH team for this amazing gift. Thank you all so much for the hard work and dedication to not only deliver this great work ahead of schedule, but for also contributing to all the other threads and discussions surrounding Umineko. You have ensured that this tumultuous year will end on the very highest of notes.

Enjoy your rest and praises, O great Witch Hunt!

[Aeriven]

Thank you so much for all the hard work, Witch Hunt!! <3

[~Diru~]

I guess this will be a long night
Anyways, thank you for your efforts to deliver this perfect ending of the year
And now have a good rest, you more than deserve it

[June 1983]

This is so awesome.

Of course I'm having trouble installing it, because I'm so special. D: I've obviously done it before, so I don't know what the problem is. I even reinstalled the game (I had it installed to play the anon patch and still).

- Vista
- Japanese locale
- arc.nsa is 968mb
- the patch folder is directly in the EP 5 folder
- there are 74 files in the bgm folder, and I manually copied and replaced those four files that were just mentioned.
- The Japanese version of the game works fine.

But when I start up the patched game I still keep getting that message about it not being properly installed. :/ I tried restarting my computer too, just in case.

[Misuzu]

Thank you so, so much for all your hard work. I'm so excited to play this my hands are shaking. It is just incredible to be able to play this game at all, let alone to be able to play it so shortly after it was released. I really can't thank you guys enough. <3

[Symphie]

OH GOD! YAYYYYYY! THANKS W-H, AGAIN! Q__Q <3

Too bad its 03:00 (uh, we dun have AM or PM so i don't know which it is... -stupid-) here in sweden right now... i have to wait some hours before i can start to play or else i'll wake my parents with my FANGIRL SCREAM.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU . *excited and crazy* 8D

WITCH HUNT IS THE BEST!

[StainGlass]

Massive thanks to everyone from Witch-Hunt! =)

[xHopE]

Whoa, thank you, Witch Hunt <33

[Xplosivv]

So, translation of Episode 6, when?

Spoiler for Hehe:

Just kidding, obviously. Thanks, WH, you're awesome.

[luckyssol]

To the Witch Hunt, I have a question:

Spoiler for Dlanor, Episode 5:

Why was FINISHED chosen?

デス = Death, therefore I would have gone with something like:

CheckDONE checkDONE checkDONE checkcheckcheck DEATHDEATHDEATH checkcheckcheckcheckcheckcheckcheckcheck DEATHDEATHDEATHDEATHDEATHDEATHDEATHDEATHDEATH
<Die The death>!
<Sentence to death>!
<Great Equalizer is The Death>!!

On a seperate note, I think the choice of using all caps for the ending of all Dlanor's sentences is an interesting choice. I think it works well.

[Klashikari]

That was something that would have been explained on the grimoire, but it couldn't be done in time.

Spoiler for Dlanor, Episode 5, chapter 12 (?):

Basically, the issue is that it is a pun, between death in katakana, but also the usual "desu".
Because Dlanor is usually ending all of her sentences with such katakana, we had to make a choice here.

Chrono might give more details about that, but the major reason is that we had to keep a certain consistent way to translate that peculiar word, even if it doesn't convey the whole thing in a specific case, such like yours.
Finally, since Dlanor's speech was sort of "mechanical", using "finished" all the time were kinda more appropriate, especially "death" was already mentioned anyway.

[luckyssol]

I see, thank you. Well, it works either way in my opinion.

Spoiler for EP5:

The point was she kinda went a bit insane at that part and at the part when the court was adjourned.

[chronotrig]

Spoiler for EP5:

Also, it wouldn't work to say "the room has been death'ed"...

No point in translating every word literally when the joke itself doesn't translate.
I think our version qualifies as "going insane"

[Bernks]

Calling to my boss:
"Sorry, I cant come into work tomorrow"
"Why not?"
"Umineko patch came out" 'hangs up'

Seriously guys, you made my holiday just even more awesome.

[StillDaggerX]

anyone have 　螺旋_Choir.ogg handy?

[AlmostAngel]

omg!! thanks a bunch WH!!! I love you XD! I'm so fucking happy X3333!
Eternal thanks *O*!