The Translation Thread

If you require something translated from Japanese in to English then this is the place to post your request. Please understand that myself and other members who live in Japan have a life outside of this forum and are not in a hurry to translate stuff all of the time. This is not a translation service thread but more of a helping hand thread.

Yakumo

 

How about some basics to start people off? Maybe that would help people make a start for themselves?

Online Translators

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OCN (in Japanese) - How to use OCN
Excite (in Japanese) - How to use Excite Part 1 Part 2​

Reading Japanese

Kana tables and notes
Kana lessons and side-by-side charts
Kana and Kanji with pronunciation sounds
JPLT Kanji
Japanese lessions
More Japanese lessons
Basic and Intermediate lessons
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Common Words

Japanese for Gamers Website
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I have a very short (10 pages) hentai that I've wanted translated for years. It's very rare, maybe not even published other than on the web. It's obviously NSFW, so keep that in mind. I'm not even into hentai but this one was weird enough that it kept my interest in just what exactly was being said for at least 10 years now. Anyway, if anyone is interested let me know and I'll PM you a link. If not I understand. I have attempted to translate it myself but going through by hand trying to match each kanji from a list on my computer was time consuming and often turned out wrong as I can't tell the difference between a lot of them that look similar.

 

I would love to see a translation of the Nights artbook from the PS2 release (it was given out in E3 too?)

 

Anyone wanna take a crack at this?

It's an old metal sign:

Found it in an antique shop years ago for pretty cheap. I'm a typography nut; the large, sharply ground metal kana fastened to the metal backing are pretty cool. If this thing fell on your head it would kill you, or at least take off your scalp with the characters.

Never really tried to research its origins yet; it feels like it could be from the 30s, maybe the 50s at the latest? No idea. My Japanese friends didn't know most of the kanji. Cheers to anyone who can help.

Some closeups of its construction:



I thought these were rivets at first, but they're tiny metal screws fastening the characters.

 

VMS, that looks like it took an extraordinary ammount of effort to create, unless it was somehow mass produced in a way that I can't think of. What a neat find, I hope someone can trans that shit, I'm curious!

 

日本万国博覧会 [にほんばんこくはくらんかい] japan world exhibition
地域冷房 [ちいきれいぼう] central air-conditioning / district cooling
北プラント [きたプラント] north plant


i doubt it's mass production, but it's made of a modular letter (kanji) system.

 

Thanks, Tatsujin. That's really funny! I dug up some info.

If it's in fact from one of the official "world exhibhitions" (EXPOs), I think it could only be from the 1970 "Japan World Exhibition" - not as old as I thought. The only others in Japan were 1985 & 2005.

http://www.expo70.or.jp/e/

 

Today I bought an Anasin 2 Turbo wireless controller, unfortuatly I don't get the controller and receiver synced.

Can someone help me with translating the sync instructions? Thanks allot in advance.

http://segaonline.nl/img/dump/anasin2turbo.jpg

 

Yesterday I received my famicom completed game.
Can someone help me to translate the manual?
Here are the links:
- http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj190/simonbelmont2/1.jpg
- http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj190/simonbelmont2/2.jpg
- http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj190/simonbelmont2/3.jpg
- http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj190/simonbelmont2/4.jpg
- http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj190/simonbelmont2/5.jpg
- http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj190/simonbelmont2/6.jpg
- http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj190/simonbelmont2/7.jpg
- http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj190/simonbelmont2/8.jpg
If someone can help me with the translation I would be very greatfully.
Best regards, Simon

 

I need help.

I'm trying to translate this so I can into some archives, but it doesn't make any sense when I read it:

毎度おなじみパスワードかけちゃってます
ポケウォのつうしんの横にある項目は何？

It has something to do with inputting the right password, and the second line has something to do with the actual question. Yes, it has something to do with Pokemon. I think the "ポケヲ" in the second line has something to do with the PokeWalker (from HG/SS) and つうしん means "communication (between two objects)" I think. But it makes no sense when I try to read it. Is it something like "What's being sent by the PokeWalker" or "What is the PokeWalker sending [something] to"?

Also, if any of you know the answer to the question, please feel free to tell me. I have no idea what it could be.

 

I doubt anyone will translate all of that. Far too much work :nod:

 

Very true Yakumo. Then if someone can traslate the story and some things that are easy or not long.

Thanks!

 

My "Ninjakun Majou no Bouken" arcade PCB had some japanese writings on it, one at the connector and that looked like too be the title but then there was some more writings at the corner wich i did not think looked like the name of the game... so i am wonder what it means? here is a pic:

 

It's the first word of the title: "Ninjakun" : 忍者君

 

"This is password-protected"
"What data/item/subject is situated next to the PokeWalker communication ?"

 

i'm not familiar with this product, but i guess it could be also a pocket watch?

 

Don't really want to support piracy here. See: http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1356910&postcount=1823

At least be honest and say what it's for so people can decide if they want to help out or not.

 

Yeah. I wouldn't have translated it, had I known...

 

Because nobody can help me to translate the story of my game manual, I want to translate it but I have some problems with the spaces . How do you recognize the spaces in japan langauge because all the "letters" and "words" are close.