Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity English Translation Guide. ★ 100% FINAL [4/1/12]

[DeviFoxx]

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Current Completion Rate Of The Guide: ★ 100%

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Old Information from when the guide was still being written:

Spoiler!

Alright, I had mentioned earlier in another thread that because of me trying to help a non-Japanese-speaking friend of mine make the transition from PSP2 English to PSP2i Japanese, added with the decreased likelihood of SEGA of America bringing Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity to English-speaking territories, that I was going to create a Full Translation Guide covering the majority of Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity.

I'm going to be using Microsoft Word to write this guide, including screenshots and Japanese text, while posting and upating this thread to track progress on the guide.

The things I plan to include:

· Translations of the majority of all the buttons and menues.
· Translations of basic terms. "Photon Arts", "Save Game", "Network Play", etc.
· Translations of the names of all Photon Arts.
· Which choices to make during storymode.
· The main objectives for Storymode on a chapter-by-chapter basis, and Parameters for getting S-Rank.
· Plot Script, so you'll understand 100% of the story. (That way, all you people whining about "I wanna play the story in English" won't be able to complain.)
· A complete overview and guide (with screenshots) on how Infinity Missions work and how to successfully synthesize missions. (I got really adept at Synthing missions over the past couple of months)
· Translations of Monster Spawn Tables for Infinity Missions (only).
· Glossary Indexes with names of the following translated:
===Inventory Items & Consumable Items
===Names of Weapons (You'll have to look up stats on your own, or the Japanese Wiki)
===Names of Bosses (I don't plan on doing names of basic Monsters. You can figure those out on your own.)
===Basic names and terms of Modules and Lineshields / weaves.
· A 2-page sheet of Hiragana & Katakana Alphabets translated to English so you can read / decipher Japanese on a basic level.
· URLs of places you can go to dig up more information.


With that having been said...

Here's where you guys come in. List off things you'd like to potentially see included in this guide.

In case I miss anything you feel is important, and I'll see about getting them into the guide as I write it.

I figure I'd do this since I guess I need a "follow-up" to the guide I wrote for Japanese Vanilla PSP2 on GameFAQs. That, and I have some time-off from college due having relatively easy classes.

And don't worry, I've done my best to make this guide printer-friendly and saved it into the form of a .PDF file.

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LIST OF WHAT HAS BEEN COMPLETED THUS FAR :

Anything highlighted is what has been completed in the guide thus far:


Table of Contents
• [Pg. 003] 1 : Forward & Version List
• [Pg. 003] 2 : The Japanese Alphabet & Romanization
[Pg. 003] • Overview & Explanation: How to Read Elementary Level Japanese
[Pg. 004] • Notes on Pronunciation and how to Read
[Pg. 006] • Hiragana Chart
[Pg. 007] • Katakana Chart
[Pg. 009] • Lower-Case Letters, Extended Voicing and the Letters “Tsu” [ つ / ツ ] and “Wo” [ を / ヲ ]
• [Pg. 010] 3 : Changes from Phantasy Star Portable 2 to Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity
• [Pg. 011] 4 : Controls & Basic Gameplay Functions
• [Pg. 015] 5 : Menu Translations In-Game: Options and Shopping Menus
• [Pg. 027] 6 : Network & Lobby Functions
• [Pg. 029] 7 : How to get Fullyen Curtz and Vasque’s Partner Cards
• [Pg. 034] 8 : Story Mode Walkthrough
• [Pg. 035] Prologue
• [Pg. 040] Chapter 1: Act 1
• [Pg. 051] Chapter 2: Act 1
• [Pg. 060] Chapter 2: Act 2
• [Pg. 069] Chapter 3: Act 1
• [Pg. 076] Chapter 3: Act 2
• [Pg. 084] Chapter 4: Act 1
• [Pg. 098] Chapter 4: Act 2
• [Pg. 104] Chapter 5: Act 1
• [Pg. 112] Chapter 5: Act 2
• [Pg. 117] Chapter 5: Act 3
• [Pg. 118] Epilogue
• [Pg. 128] Side-Story 1
• [Pg. 135] Side-Story 2
• [Pg. 149] 9 : Infinity Missions
[Pg. 149] • What are Infinity Missions?
[Pg. 150] • Synthesizing Missions
[Pg. 151] • Need-to-Know Facts
[Pg. 152] • Special Effects, Areas, and Bosses
[Pg. 156] • Planetary Treasure
[Pg. 157] • Monster Spawn / Drop Tables
[Pg. 165] • How to Synthesize Missions Effectively and Efficiently
• [Pg. 168] 10 : Glossary of Translated Names
[Pg. 168] • Important Items: Inventory / Consumables
[Pg. 170] • Photon Arts – Skills / Bullets / TECHNIC Disks
[Pg. 173] • Type Abilities, Old & New
[Pg. 184] • Weapons / Shields / Modules
[Pg. 226] • Bestiary
[Pg. 229] • Translated Names of Missions: Old & New
[Pg. 229] • Free Missions
[Pg. 230] • Extra Missions
[Pg. 231] • Exchange Missions
[Pg. 232] • Client Orders
• [Pg. 234] 11 : Further reading on using Japanese
[Pg. 234] • How to type in Japanese using the Soft Keyboard / How to use Lobby Actions & Animations
[Pg. 235] • “If I want to learn Japanese, where are some good places to get started?”




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NOTICE:

DOWNLOAD HERE ==>> This is a portion of the guide available for download by clicking on this link <<== DOWNLOAD HERE

The guide will be done eventually, but I felt that this was most important for a lot of you, so I released this first. Don't worry, for the most part I don't need help in translating. I know that "certain people" are eager to try and help, though. I appreciate the concern, but I'm alright.

... Also.

Something important I would also like to note. In order to use this guide I'm writing effectively, and in order to print it out, (if you are running an older operating system like Windows XP) the computer you are accessing it from MUST have East Asian Language Support to be able to view and have the computer recognize the Japanese characters in it. Most of you already have this covered and don't need to worry, but those who don't, I'm letting you know now.

To Enable this on a Windows PC, you may go to START >> Control Panel >> Regional and Language Settings to add support for Japanese there.

Mac users shouldn't have to worry about this, though.

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Quoted for those who're still concerned about the English Patch that ColdBird is working in and keep asking me about it:

Originally Stated On April 23rd, 2012 - Allow me to clarify things once again:

I started my Infinity Translation Guide around June 15th, 2011. Infinity had been out in Japan since February 24th, 2011 and by the time I started working on the guide, it was more than evident that there would be no official English release due to Sega's track record.

During that time, people--mainly those on GameFAQs.com were still clamoring for an English Patch in spite of the fact that I was working on my guide.

Somewhere down the line around October, word of my guide had spread far enough to the point where Coldbird (Creator of the PRO CFW series of firmware, and fan of Phantasy Star) had found out about it and ultimately gave him inspiration for his next project.

After joining up on PSO-World, Coldbird began to spearhead the project for a Translation Patch (existing separately from my guide). Myself and others volunteered to aid in translating text dumps and scripts that Coldbird had directly lifted from the game's coding.

Everything for the most part was going fine.

Coldbird had (and presumably still has) big aspirations for the patch--one of the biggest being inserting Anti-Cheating Measures installed within the patch in an effort to keep Infinity from turning into USA / EUR Vanilla PSPo2.

But he then hit a snag.

He was designing the patch around the idea of it being used in conjunction with his PRO CFW. After I basically backed off from translating the script dumps so I could finally finish the guide (for you guys, mind you), after little over a month Coldbird eventually backed off from working on the patch in favor of other things having to take priority. Mainly working on his latest PRO CFW for PSP (and ultimately maximizing the effectiveness of the planned patch and all its new features).

Quite some time ago, to ease everyone's minds a bit, I went in Skype and spoke with Coldbird for a bit to confirm the fact that he was busy with other things at the moment. I also asked him if he'd make a brief appearance here on the forums to give everyone an update on the situation--which he did.

The translation patch has been on hiatus since roughly the end of October / Beginning of November of 2011.

I finished my translation GUIDE (Not the same as the patch.) somewhere around the end of March 2012, with the last update having been on April 1st 2012 on the basis that I don't like leaving my own projects unfinished, and I felt that Phantasy Star fans should have the game in English in at least SOME kind of form.

To this day, people still confuse my guide and Coldbird's patch to be the same thing, when they're not.

And the other thread, detailing the patch has pretty much derailed from its original topic, and is continually bumped by people who haven't been reading the past few pages, or people fresh off of GameFAQs or some-such looking for the patch that was never released--thus causing people to think that the patch is still currently being worked on.

At best, the patch only exists in the form of a Beta dump plugin that only a select few [myself included] have actually tested with only a minimal amount of things translated (like the character creation menu, that's about it). Plus, it's somewhat buggy in that it causes the game to freeze up every now and again.

Will ColdBird come back to finish the patch? There's a chance he will. He's a pretty nice guy.

From a realistic standpoint though, given the nature of patches for RPGs, a decent patch for Infinity that includes the story text and everything is still a long ways off. Months to a year. That's from my personal experience, though.

[ShinMaruku]

WHat makes you think they won't translate it to the US?
Sega is just slow with their shit. And unlike SE is not burning in hell for being stupid. (A shame really, they need to be caressed by fire)

[DeviFoxx]

WHat makes you think they won't translate it to the US?
Sega is just slow with their shit. And unlike SE is not burning in hell for being stupid. (A shame really, they need to be caressed by fire)

Never said they flat-out wouldn't. I did say there's a decreased likelihood though. Sega's pretty focused on PSO2 and working with PS Vita at the moment. I don't think there's too much interest in them bringing Infinity to the West. Or if they do bring it, it probably won't be all the way until the end of this year.

There's a whole 'nother thread unrelated to this one debating whether or not they'll bring it to the West.

I just started this thread to be independent of that one. This thread is about a guide for the Japanese version that anyone can play right now. Not about a guide for a "possible" release in the West.

[IsaacGravity]

Will the gist of those Planet Treasures also be explained in the Infinity Mission section?

That aside, the entire guide sounds chock full of meat and then some.

how difficult would it to be be to play this game if one only knows katakana?

I reckon not too bad as you can make it out and keep sounding them out until you get it. That and you have backlog knowledge of how the game already plays (keep in mind button configurations change to "O" being the dominant button for confirmations and stuff).

[Tycho]

Here's a dump of PSUP translations I once put together for a wiki translation script, though probably not updated for official translations.
Perhaps if you could way to mass-replace them into the original tables they'd be of use (and in case you do know of a way to do that, I'd be interested to learn as well).

[DeviFoxx]

Here's a dump of PSUP translations I once put together for a wiki translation script, though probably not updated for official translations.
Perhaps if you could way to mass-replace them into the original tables they'd be of use (and in case you do know of a way to do that, I'd be interested to learn as well).

I already have all the Monsters, Weapons, Items, and Mission Names translated in my guide for some time now, but I appreciate you lending a hand. Much obliged.

The only names I didn't bother with was Furniture, Room Tickets, and Clothes since the community didn't express interest about including it in the guide. Nevertheless, your list will help, and I will see to it that this gets forwarded to Coldbird and inserted into the working patch.

As far as my guide goes, the only thing I'm working on at this point is finishing the rest of storymode. I'm hoping to hit Chapter 4 by next week, since I'm in the middle of Chapter 3 right now.

[HUcastRyu]

Oh wow 92% finished! Just in time as well cause I finally got enough cash to buy psp2i yes!

[SammaeltheDark]

WHat makes you think they won't translate it to the US?
Sega is just slow with their shit. And unlike SE is not burning in hell for being stupid. (A shame really, they need to be caressed by fire)

Your blindly devout fanaticism makes me veil my visage with my metacarpus in exasperation.

Otherwise this guide sounds like a great start to help importers. Heck there are parts I'd prolly reference frequently.

My suggestions
-I say you should also include names of normal monsters. It's just another chart and is useful info.
-Pair the localized mission names with the Japanese ones. Translate the new ones (get EspioKaos to help there, he's amazing at it). And include the Japanese shorthand for missions to facilitate looking up drops on JP wikis
-In fact, include a guide on how to reference Japanese drop charts and item tables. Dems useful info and can preempt "Where do I find <x>" topics.
-Move the Hiragana/Katakana chart to the first thing and include a paragraph explaining that Katakana can be memorized in a couple of hours and will greatly improve your ability to play the Japanese version of PSP2i.

[DeviFoxx]

My suggestions
-I say you should also include names of normal monsters. It's just another chart and is useful info.
-Pair the localized mission names with the Japanese ones. Translate the new ones (get EspioKaos to help there, he's amazing at it). And include the Japanese shorthand for missions to facilitate looking up drops on JP wikis
-In fact, include a guide on how to reference Japanese drop charts and item tables. Dems useful info and can preempt "Where do I find <x>" topics.
-Move the Hiragana/Katakana chart to the first thing and include a paragraph explaining that Katakana can be memorized in a couple of hours and will greatly improve your ability to play the Japanese version of PSP2i.

-I suppose I'll include the names of normal monsters. Just doing the names, though. Not the descriptions.

-The Localized Mission names being paired with the Japanese names I was going to do anyway. As far as translating the names of the New Missions, that's something I'm fairly confident can do on my own. Like the Clad 6 Free Mission, -終焉の銀河　「しゅうえんのぎんが」- is "The End of the Galaxy". But the idea about including how the Japanese abbreviate Mission Names on the Wiki sounds like a good idea. I hadn't thought of including it. Like when looking up on the Wiki, the charts for the Swords that dropped off Dark Falz Dios' clear box was listed as "終焉", short for "The End of the Galaxy" mission.

-I thought about whether or not I should just put the entire drop charts translated into English altogether in the guide instead of pointing people to the Japanese Wiki. I don't know, what do you guys think?

-Yeah, maybe moving it to the front would be a good idea. I know that there are some whiny folks who begrudgingly don't want to learn Hiragana and Katakana. And hey, it's not like they're being made to learn Kanji.

[ShinMaruku]

Your blindly devout fanaticism makes me veil my visage with my metacarpus in exasperation.

Not fanaticism but more that Sega does not give a fuck due to their games have good profit set ups.