Menherafflesia: Flowering Abyss Switch - English Translation: Difference between revisions

Menherafflesia: Flowering Abyss
Menherafflesia: Flowering Abyss
General
Author	masagrator
Type	Translations
Version	1.0
License	N/A
Last Updated	2024/06/02
Links
	Download
	Website
	Source

Latest revision as of 15:37, 3 Haziran 2024

This is an English translation patch for "Menherafflesia: Flowering Abyss" (メンヘラフレシアフラワリングアビス) on Nintendo Switch.

The translation is based on the PC mods by ijedi1234 and Tico Translations.

Age rating: 17+

Installation

The mod is only compatible with version 1.0.0 of game. It was not tested on emulators.

To install, download MeherafflesiaENX.zip from Releases, then unpack it to the atmosphere folder on the root of your SD card. Accept any popup about overwriting folders.

User guide

Author's/Translation notes:

Why plugin is necessary:
- Replacing XTX textures with PNG on the fly.
- Changed Clear Password from Japanese text to English text by also blocking swkbd to use only ASCII characters.
- Translated hardcoded chapter names, notifications, Playing Log texts, settings descriptions, scenario endings names.
Ported translation has some slight changes to better fit into how text is rendered in Regista engine. Fixed also multiple mistranslations from ijedi1234's mod.
Changes on top of porting original fantranslations:
- Restored all removed texts affected by censorship.
- Translated all movies.
- Translated textures unique to Switch release.
- Replaced ascii glyphs in original fonts with glyphs rendered with Noto Sans Mono ExtraCondensed Regular and Bold.
Scenario files were altered to not use precalculated animations for chapters names and endings names, instead using message text rendering. Reason is because there was not enough information about how to decode animation table included with each file representing one text.
This release is based on ijedi1234 work which used machine translation (ijedi1234 never admitted to using it, but by looking at translation quality it shows signs of using chatGPT-like tools). Since I'm good at finding discrepancies in translation when lines are voiced, I have fixed many mistranslations (but because I'm not native English speaker I was using Google Translate to translate Japanese to English, and then I was fixing discrepancies - Google Translate was doing much better job at translation than GPT). I didn't use Tico Translations as base solely because scenario files of original game have completely different layout than Flowering Abyss version (plus there are some differences in scenarios), so it would take much longer time to finish this mod.

Screenshots

Media

【Nintendo Switch™】メンヘラフレシアフラワリングアビス PV【フリーゲーム/リメイク作品 (CHARON ヤンデレホラーゲーム)

Changelog

v1.0

First Release.

Credits

Thanks to:

ijedi1234 for making translation mod, this mod is mainly based on this translation (not directly involved with this project)
Tico Translations for translating scenes that in Flowering Abyss version are stored as videos and were not translated in ijedi1234's mod (not directly involved with this project)

External links

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 To install, download [https://github.com/masagrator/Menherafflesia-ENX/releases MeherafflesiaENX.zip from Releases], then unpack it to the atmosphere folder on the root of your SD card. Accept any popup about overwriting folders.
+==User guide==
+Author's/Translation notes:
+* Why plugin is necessary:
+** Replacing XTX textures with PNG on the fly.
+** Changed Clear Password from Japanese text to English text by also blocking swkbd to use only ASCII characters.
+** Translated hardcoded chapter names, notifications, Playing Log texts, settings descriptions, scenario endings names.
+* Ported translation has some slight changes to better fit into how text is rendered in Regista engine. Fixed also multiple mistranslations from <code>ijedi1234</code>'s mod.
+* Changes on top of porting original fantranslations:
+** Restored all removed texts affected by censorship.
+** Translated all movies.
+** Translated textures unique to Switch release.
+** Replaced ascii glyphs in original fonts with glyphs rendered with Noto Sans Mono ExtraCondensed Regular and Bold.
+* Scenario files were altered to not use precalculated animations for chapters names and endings names, instead using message text rendering. Reason is because there was not enough information about how to decode animation table included with each file representing one text.
+* This release is based on <code>ijedi1234</code> work which used machine translation (<code>ijedi1234</code> never admitted to using it, but by looking at translation quality it shows signs of using chatGPT-like tools). Since I'm good at finding discrepancies in translation when lines are voiced, I have fixed many mistranslations (but because I'm not native English speaker I was using Google Translate to translate Japanese to English, and then I was fixing discrepancies - Google Translate was doing much better job at translation than GPT). I didn't use Tico Translations as base solely because scenario files of original game have completely different layout than Flowering Abyss version (plus there are some differences in scenarios), so it would take much longer time to finish this mod.
 ==Screenshots==