Hello, my fellow Americans and citizens of other countries. Today I will talk about the (lack of) progress being made.
As some of the commenters have surmised, the translation is not currently progressing very rapidly. This is due to a bunch of reasons that I won’t get into. There have been some improvements on the backend — the venerable Kingcom has reportedly gotten Qt5 and Visual Studio 2013 to play nice together! Theoretically, this means Hearts can be moved to the same GUI-based editing platform that is being developed for other Tales projects, such as Narikiri Dungeon X, making the translation easier on everyone involved. Work on the vaunted Higher EMOhgeez available only in the Translator’s Cut version of the game continues. During our team discussion, we estimated the current progress of the translation:
FMV Translation: 100%
Battle Voice Translation: 100%
Menu Translation: 70%
Story Translation: 10%
Graphics Editing: 30%
throughhim Worthlessness: 85%
Higher EMOhgeez: 40%
EMO Ratio: 90%
(* Please note that this is a one-time progress status report and its presence does not imply in any way, shape, or form that future updates will include similar statii. Please note that it may or may not be completely made-up.)
Down here is where I would normally plug the latest Tales game and encourage you to buy it, but let’s face it, Tales of Symphonia Chronicles HD, available in stores now for your Sony PlayStation 3, is a sloppy mess. Let’s look forward instead to Tales of Xillia 2!
February 28, 2014 at 11:59 pm | Permalink
I can await patiently moar time, meanwhile the final patch as I see in your updates will be a huge improvement over the original game. Thanks for your effort, Kaji! Keep goin’!
March 1, 2014 at 10:41 am | Permalink
I wonder when this project started… Was it 3 years ago ? 4 years? So much has happened during these years and yet I still await the final release of your patch anxiously. Keep going kaji.
March 2, 2014 at 11:51 am | Permalink
At this point I wouldn’t prefer these updates in any other way from you.
I look forward to the final release.
March 2, 2014 at 1:04 pm | Permalink
ooooh nice joke, a bit difficult, but i think i understand it! the key to it is the last paragraph, righ? that line about ToS being ‘a sloppy mess’. you are to funny!!! of course you didn’t mean to say that 2 nice Tales of games in english (20 bucks per each one) are a sloppy mess. what you were trying to say is your own project is a sloppy mess right?
March 2, 2014 at 2:08 pm | Permalink
I have be honest, since I check this page regularly, I think no updates until a solid release is in place would be best. I love the comical nature of the posts, but I almost feel like the project is even further from completion any time you post stuff now. It’s discouraging in a way, but God bless you and the team for whatever the hell progress your making day to day, week to week, month to……ah, you get what I’m saying. Actually, this update directed me to Kingcoms page, which I haven’t checked in a while. The Xenosaga DS translation screens made this mediocre post a semi worthwhile read. Any ways, keep up the……whatever it is you guys are doing. Hopefully it’s getting a translated ToH game out by 2015. I know, I’m pushing it, I’ll take my leave now.
March 4, 2014 at 9:52 am | Permalink
Wow 10% of Story Translation in 4 years? So i guess only my grandchildreen will play the game with this translation…
March 4, 2014 at 11:36 am | Permalink
the 10% story is a joke, as its about how long the demo is. and i bet the menus are done as well. my bet is on all the random crap in the game and NPC’s late game ect is whats taking up this last time, along side bug checking and whatnot, would not be suprised if they were adding more secret new content as well.
the question is, will it be released on april fools day (like the ToT patch) or not.
i could see it going either way.
March 4, 2014 at 7:31 pm | Permalink
If that Story Translation means Skit conversation as well, I think it’s likely roughly 10%.
As for Graphic Editing, I don’t think it is needed.
March 5, 2014 at 10:46 am | Permalink
“As for Graphic Editing, I don’t think it is needed.”
oh really
why?
March 6, 2014 at 4:40 am | Permalink
It would be time consuming job, which make this patch need more time to finish, on my definition of graphic editing though.
I know this is their project, so I don’t have any right to say they are wrong.
Just too much of a joke if this patch not out yet when 4DS is.
March 7, 2014 at 3:25 pm | Permalink
10 percent already?! Whoa, that’s really some rapid progress. Can’t believe the FF Type-0 translation team took the entirety of one YEAR to make it to full beta testing phase! They have a lot to learn from you, Kaji!
Oh, wait. NOT!
March 8, 2014 at 7:12 am | Permalink
10% is better than nothing… As for me I would like to play that demo translation.
March 9, 2014 at 12:38 am | Permalink
“throughhim Worthlessness: 85%”
That’s mean.
“Please note that it may or may not be completely made-up.”
Wasn’t expecting any less from you, Kaji,
On Symphonia Chronicles though, while it’s not the best HD repackaging out there, it’s far from being a disaster. Each game is actually available separately on the PS Store, thank God.
There’s no chance in hell I’m spending an extra 20 bucks on the gigantic turd that is Dawn of the New World.
March 9, 2014 at 1:45 pm | Permalink
Well Naridar, the Type-0 is in their second playthrough of the Beta Stage, everyone thought that the patch would be released at the end of this month but not.
It’ll be released in August. But it totally worth the wait!. And gotta say it that game is long AS HELL, it has about 60-70 Hours.
March 13, 2014 at 5:03 am | Permalink
gosh!, please keep battle voice like it be, originally.
March 13, 2014 at 10:34 pm | Permalink
Well, if taking your time will make it better that’s fine by me.
March 15, 2014 at 12:31 pm | Permalink
perhaps this is what Kaji meant by Symphonia Chronicles being a disaster???
https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/1922259_10203397127836769_705259453_n.jpg
March 17, 2014 at 12:46 am | Permalink
Symphonia Chronicles did have typos, and lots of missed spaces”meaning spaces between worlds missing a lot” I noticed at least 20 times it happened. Regardless, I still enjoyed playing the game again…though after defeating the hardest boss on my first playthrough, and defeating the final boss with my super jacked Devil Arm right as I used a magic lens trying to check his HP…was a bit funny. Took under 1 minute…
March 19, 2014 at 4:29 pm | Permalink
[…] definitely a little rough around the edges and has some obvious errors, but as long as you’re not Kaji, you can still re-live the nostalgia. Symphonia was the game that first brought me to the Tales […]
March 20, 2014 at 2:18 pm | Permalink
I just noticed that you changed your banner to say “eleven years”.
Please tell me you’re going to celebrate the 15 anniversary of your site with the release of the patch!
March 20, 2014 at 7:28 pm | Permalink
10%?
give up
March 20, 2014 at 7:39 pm | Permalink
Oh yeah, Tales of Symphonia Chronicles HD is a shame, better wait more eleven years and play u never ending translation right?
March 21, 2014 at 2:07 pm | Permalink
lol comments above, but i doubt that we are gonna get the patch on april fools since the kid called throughhim is playing ToS HD and being lazy, so, might as well we have to wait to 2015 april fool…I’ll stick to my GC ToS, way better that the HD version.
March 21, 2014 at 3:34 pm | Permalink
BAlor, you couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve pretty much beaten Symphonia. I’m starting in on FFX now.
March 25, 2014 at 7:32 am | Permalink
Why Tales of Synphonia HD is bad, I thinking of buying, so please explain so I can decide to buy or not.
March 25, 2014 at 7:46 am | Permalink
symphonia HD is ‘bad’ per say, its just… ‘not good’
if you never played symphonia 1 OR 2 is great, or neither of them, but altho symphonia 1 and 2 are great games, unless you played the origonals, the ML-LMBS is dated in ToS1. and ToS 2 ain’t that great except on unlocked difficulties. we COULD use a gamefaqs save to get them, but noone is posting ToS2 saves yet.
but really tho, unless you swallow old style games hard or played ToS1 origonalls on gamecube or ps2, your most likly not going to like the HD edition, ToS was kinda heavily over praised as ‘best in series’ when really it was just a major series turning point. If you can handle it tho, its a great game.
another worthy note is people who have ToS2 still can sell it for 20-15$ making the HD edition free. WOOT WOOT.
March 28, 2014 at 7:04 pm | Permalink
Meh, I already own the GC version so I see no reason to buy the game again. Especially when I only first played it about a year ago. More power to anybody who does like Symphonia and bought it, I hope you are enjoying it and having a good time.
I am personally more excited for Xillia 2 and Zestiria.
March 29, 2014 at 1:59 pm | Permalink
Dammit throughhim how the hell do you get so many games?, i’m sure you get new games every week.
March 30, 2014 at 8:29 am | Permalink
Please just translate, don’t do other things that not important in game, it will take more time to release a complete translation, players only want to know game’s story and menu to finish the game.
March 31, 2014 at 6:03 am | Permalink
@Star Violet
That’s not very nice. throughim isn’t doing for you ya know. He can take 10 years if he wanted to just like Phantasian Productions.
March 31, 2014 at 6:06 am | Permalink
Oops did I say throughim, I meant Kaji. Or both…
March 31, 2014 at 7:00 am | Permalink
most of players want a translated game just because they want to understand what characters say , and the translated menu to play through the game, so please don’t do supernumerary things in game and make the players/gamers wait too long.
March 31, 2014 at 12:02 pm | Permalink
star violet that isn’t true at all. we do it for the experience. if you want just the menus and story there is a patch and info for that already. kanjis doing a 100% patch so it includes everything. its a much more intense, involved gameplay experience that really draws you into the games world.
June 30, 2014 at 6:05 pm | Permalink
@dawnbomb Where’s the patch and is it just the one for Ch1?