Menu Translations?

[D14BL0]

I was wondering if any of our fine, friendly, Japanese-speaking members would be up for putting together a translation of all the menus in the game (just the important ones like shops/missions, etc, not necessarily all the dialog).

I'm not sure how complete my screenshots are, because I'm just kinda jumping around through menus and snapping them, so if I'm missing anything and you happen to notice it, let me know.

Right now, I'm only grabbing shots of things that I think are critical to effectively playing the game. I'm not going to screencap story mode conversations for two reasons:

1. The text is dynamic depending on the way you respond to questions asked to you. Putting these translations together in a way that allowed somebody to actually understand the story would simply take much longer than waiting for SEGA to localize it would.
   
2. It's way too long and would take several runs through the entire story mode for it to be worth it.

If anybody has any requests for any particular menus, please let me know and I'll grab them. The only ones I cannot take at all are going to be anything related to online play as, I admit, I'm playing a pirate copy. Until the GEN team manages to get their CFW to handle PSN properly, I can't take these shots. However, I'm sure there's other people out there, somewhere, who could grab those for us.

I ran through and took a bunch of screengrabs for all the menus on the shops. Would anybody mind creating a list of translations on these? I could go back and edit the translated menus on top of the images so that it's easier to follow along with.

Here's the gallery to all the menu shots I took if anybody's up for the challenge.

http://yfrog.com/5jfrmbuf030px

EDIT:

First batch of translated screens has come in. Right now, this will kinda be a mess as I'm just getting all the data in this post. I'll clean it once I have enough translations to make it worth fully categorizing and stuff.



SHOPS

Spoiler!

Special thanks to WBMike for these translations.

APPEARANCE

Spoiler!

Special thanks to WBMike for these translations.

VISUAL PHONE

Spoiler!

Special thanks to WBMike for these translations.

PARTNER MACHINE (PM)

Spoiler!

Special thanks to WBMike for these translations.

CLIENT MISSIONS

Spoiler!

Special thanks to WBMike for these translations.

OPTIONS

Spoiler!

Main menu:
Items
Character
Map
Mission
Community
System

Items:
Set to palette - パレット入れ替え
Link PA - フォトンアーツをリンク
Link unit (armors) - ユニットをリンクする
Unlink all (units) - リンクを全てはずす
Learn (PAs) - 習得する
Drop - 置く
Send to box - 共有倉庫へ送る
Toss - 捨てる
back

Character:
Status
Equipment
PAs
Types

Status:
level, race
type, sex
hp
pp
atp
dfp
ata
evp
tp
mst
sta
exp
needed exp
meseta
right: praying effects, pm effects

Mission:
Mission progress (story, ilias, lolette, pitt)
Abandon mission

Community:
Party
Simple mail
Partner cards
Blacklist
Shortcut settings
Autoword settings
Chat log

Party:
Invite partner (NPC)
Leave party
Disband party (same as leave but for leader, while both kill the entire party, redundant)
Kick from party
Party settings
back

Simple mail:
Inbox
Compose
'recheck mail' (wtf) [NOTE: This is probably to refresh your inbox]
back

Partner cards:
Friend overview
Partner overview
My card details
Send card
Accept card
Edit card name
Ranking info
back

Friend overview (when you click someone, also, press triangle to sort):
Card details
Change sorting priority
Delete card
Send simple mail
back

Partner overview (when clicking someone):
Invite
Kick
back

My card details:
P1:
name
level
race
sex
type
card name
card number
latest change
comment (press circle to edit)
challenge rank
battle rank
player rank (upper right corner, noone understands this yet)
P2: class weapons
P3: class abilities
P4:
Weapons collected %
Costumes collected %
Monsters slain
Free missions done
Max damage
Titles
Battles won
Battles won consecutively
Best challenge time
Bosses slain (then all the bosses: de ragnus, de ragan, onma, dimma, adahna, magas, dulk, dulk2, zoal, arte, de rol, bil, mother, dark, dark2, reol, duga, fantazle, ajingoum, orga spiritus, spiritus rare, angelus, anatasis, dragon, orgadiran)
P5: 'rare' weapons you've found

Ranking info:
same as my card details, except ranking you against your friends

Blacklist:
Add user
Blacklist overview
back

System:
Save
Options
Return to title screen

Options:
Text speed (instant, normal)
BGM volume (= background music)
SE volume (= sound effects)
Radar map view (map, camera)
Attack/PA details (show, temp, off)
Menu cursor (save, don't)
Show character info (name, name+level, title, title+level, title+name, name+title+level, online ID, none) <-- choose your title at the Visio phone from the ones you already have
Camera controls (normal camera: horizontal, vertical, back; fpv camera: horizontal, vertical, back; back)
Switch weapon/techs (hold, click, back)
Lock-on (hold, click, back)
R/L button settings (default, swap)
Install (on/off)
back
all default

Special thanks to Tycho for these translations!

VIDEO DEMO: MENU WALKTHROUGH

Spoiler!

Thanks to Pentence for putting together this video walkthrough!

More to come!

[BahnKnakyu]

Take note. A lot of the weapons and stuff are in katakana. It might be useful for you in future PSU-style games to learn it. Takes a couple afternoons to learn and it's highly useful.

*drags Tycho into thread*

[D14BL0]

Take note. A lot of the weapons and stuff are in katakana. It might be useful for you in future PSU-style games to learn it. Takes a couple afternoons to learn and it's highly useful.

*drags Tycho into thread*

Without going too far off-topic, do you know of any decent resources to get started with?

[irukandjisyndrome]

Without going too far off-topic, do you know of any decent resources to get started with?

Try http://realkana.com/ - or, if you even want to buy a book on the subject, you can pick up James Heisig's "Remembering The Kana", though with due diligence, practice, and use of flashcards you can usually pick it up in less than two weeks. Most weapon names, spells, etc are written in Katakana, and can be figured out by sounding them out. For example スピア is "su pi a" or "spear". It gets easier as time goes on, as well.

Knowing the pronunciation is pretty essential to figuring katakana out. Japanese pronunciation is uniform, though. For example:

ha, sa, pa, ra - all have "ah" sounds as in "blah" or "saw"
hi, shi, pi, ri - all have "ee" sounds as in "see", "tea", "pee", etc
he, se, pe, re - all have "ay" sounds as in "say" or "hey"
fu, tsu, pu, ru - all have "ooh" sounds as in "do", "loo", "too"
ho, so, po, ro - all have "oh" sounds as in "dough" or "pro"

Good luck with it!

[WBMike]

Thanks, I've been asking my friend to take pictures of the menus, so I'll just use this instead to do translations.

[Chimeria]

This is an awesome website as well:
http://genkienglish.net/genkijapan/katakana.htm

Just place your mouse over the Japanese character and it pronounces itself. It's pretty helpful.

[Amherst_Wind]

All those menu options that lead to the text boxes with yellow titles are just a description of what the shop sells/does, I wouldn't worry about those.

[WBMike]

This one menu caused the most frustration ;3

BATTLEISH

Spoiler!

With Open Arms I Welcome You



Don't be fooled, she'd rather sell your items than grind them >:3


Type as I type


UNIT

STYLISH

Spoiler!

Come Pray Now, My Lord! Pray Discreetly.



MAKE UP!



Youuuu look sensational in that dress (hip shake hip shake) Youuuu look sensational in that dress (hip shake hip shake) -Let's zuiikin English


Emos can smile too

[Fox2Tails]

ha, sa, pa, ra - all have "ah" sounds as in "blah" or "saw"

How the hell do you pronounce 'saw'? O.o

[VorpalLord]

This one menu caused the most frustration ;3




Prayyyyyyyyyyyyy



MAKE UP!

any more? =o

like type customization menu or room phone menu