Me and some friend in met in Fighter Maker have been investigating on making a translation of STGBuilder, a free japanese SHMUP engine that was released on 2007 and never got translated.
For a decade, STGBuilder has been always a great tool for Japanese users to make their own SHMUP games along with its unique programming system. It has been known for being the engine used for several games like Revolgear II, Kirisame Blade 2, Graze Counter and the Infinos series. However, the problem is that a English translation has never been considered and among non-Japanese fans like us view this program as pretty obscure. Since now, i've been revealing that i'm on the road to work on an unofficial English translation to this program.
The problem is that i literally am a European and i lack knowledge of Japanese. The first revision i've made so far is to do a very rough translation using a online translator (i used Bing Translator) to change literally every string i find in the RCData (i used Resource Tuner 2, a resource hacking tool for .exes) and the result is a quite mess. Let me show you a quick screenshot of what the translation looks like right now: Not all of the program has been translated due to other strings located in .data, which are hardcoded in the program, but a week ago, we managed to finish translating all the strings, our programmer, longbyte1, is busy on other projects and we won't know if we will manage to finish the translation. If anyone's interested helping me edit the program's strings, i'll be kind to give them permission! We can make this fantranslation come true, join me!
Come join us: https://discord.gg/sBg3Ws7
For a decade, STGBuilder has been always a great tool for Japanese users to make their own SHMUP games along with its unique programming system. It has been known for being the engine used for several games like Revolgear II, Kirisame Blade 2, Graze Counter and the Infinos series. However, the problem is that a English translation has never been considered and among non-Japanese fans like us view this program as pretty obscure. Since now, i've been revealing that i'm on the road to work on an unofficial English translation to this program.
The problem is that i literally am a European and i lack knowledge of Japanese. The first revision i've made so far is to do a very rough translation using a online translator (i used Bing Translator) to change literally every string i find in the RCData (i used Resource Tuner 2, a resource hacking tool for .exes) and the result is a quite mess. Let me show you a quick screenshot of what the translation looks like right now: Not all of the program has been translated due to other strings located in .data, which are hardcoded in the program, but a week ago, we managed to finish translating all the strings, our programmer, longbyte1, is busy on other projects and we won't know if we will manage to finish the translation. If anyone's interested helping me edit the program's strings, i'll be kind to give them permission! We can make this fantranslation come true, join me!
Come join us: https://discord.gg/sBg3Ws7