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Am I spoiling the game? I'm Playing Policenauts in Engrish

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:40 pm
by FOXHOUNDER
Ok so I found a way to play the PC-98 Policenauts using the 2 walkthroughs and 2 programs that displays the text firstly as it appears in Japanese in the game and a second program that translates the text displayed from the first program with 1 second of lag. I'm in the middle of Act 1 and so far, besides the engrish translation everything ok although the cutscenes don't have text so the programs won't translate it leaving me to rely on the walkthrough to tell what just happened. Both walkthoughs don't have much detail besides a sentence summarising what just happened. Should I quit while I'm ahead? Because I don't want the game to get to a point where I won't know whats going on.

Here's a screenshot of my set up with mild spoilers;

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Should I carry on or just wait patiently? I don't want to ruin the game.

Re: Am I spoiling the game? I'm Playing Policenauts in Engrish

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:36 pm
by Henry Spencer
The game gets really complicated later on, trust me on it (both in terms of story and gameplay). You may as well wait for the patch. If you can't wait, go right ahead.

Re: Am I spoiling the game? I'm Playing Policenauts in Engrish

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:46 pm
by Marc
My opinion is Engrishy translations like that do more harm than good.

Re: Am I spoiling the game? I'm Playing Policenauts in Engrish

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:38 pm
by JimboKudo
"I am a undoubted woman even if it sees it so."
The the heck does that even mean?!! :???:
That doesn't seem like it's a very good translation. You might want to go through the text before you continue playing, and then change it to something less transliterated (if that's possible. I've never used that program before).

Re: Am I spoiling the game? I'm Playing Policenauts in Engrish

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:08 am
by slowbeef
You know no one's actually even saying "Meryl" in that text. You're translating the character indicator as well. (Maybe she's saying: "Naturally." in response to something?)

I'd say who cares if it were a more gameplay oriented game, but it's story heavy - I mean, it's kinda like playing Metal Gear Solid; only the stealth engine is replaced with something someone coded up in Flash every so often. Or playing a board game version of Tetris.

I can understand wanting to play it now, but if you're going to, you might as well wait for something that captures the story better. I mean, I can't even really tell what Meryl's supposed to be saying there.

edit: Maybe something like: "Naturally. I am definitely a woman at the end of the day, though. Do you want to sleep with me?" I still feel like I'm guessing, though.

Re: Am I spoiling the game? I'm Playing Policenauts in Engrish

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:06 pm
by Jaws
how did you do that? could you explain or link me to someone who does?

Re: Am I spoiling the game? I'm Playing Policenauts in Engrish

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:50 pm
by Omega579
Cool, you're using my wallpaper!

Re: Am I spoiling the game? I'm Playing Policenauts in Engrish

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:58 pm
by Marc
Omega579 wrote:Cool, you're using my wallpaper!
I saw an MGS4 video on YT that uses it too. :)

Re: Am I spoiling the game? I'm Playing Policenauts in Engrish

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:50 pm
by Henry Spencer
I'm using that very same wallpaper on my desktop as well. It really is great work, mate!

Re: Am I spoiling the game? I'm Playing Policenauts in Engrish

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:42 pm
by Jack Stern
Is there any link to the wallpaper? Looks good :O

Re: Am I spoiling the game? I'm Playing Policenauts in Engrish

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:19 am
by Spike
Jack Stern wrote:Is there any link to the wallpaper? Looks good :O
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1690

Re: Am I spoiling the game? I'm Playing Policenauts in Engrish

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:10 am
by FOXHOUNDER
Really nice wallpaper Omega579, thanks for making it I'm still using it lol.

btw I stopped playing this game like a day or two after I posted this. Thing was the cutscenes kept getting longer and there is no text in the cutscenes so I didn't want to spoil anymore. Besides with the amount of progress made on the patch for the PSX version I won't even think about playing it again until I've played and completed the patched version.

Re: Am I spoiling the game? I'm Playing Policenauts in Engrish

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:23 pm
by Cy
If only there was a way to do this for a psx emulator. =P

Useless without text in the cutscenes.