MOTHER 3 Chinese Translation

Is there anything about the Chinese language that would make a Chinese hack of Mother 3 more difficult–or even just different in some way–than an English one?

When you guys were finishing up the English translation, you were pretty open about sharing your work and tools with teams interested in translating the game into other languages. I’m wondering why this team went through the trouble of doing everything from scratch when the translation tools were already available. Did they not know about the English translation? Did they just want to do it themselves (a perfectly fine idea, just not how I’d have likely gone about it)?

The way the game was programmed it would be a lot easier for a Chinese translation to be made from the Japanese ROM, especially without a need for a variable width font (which was probably 75% of all the work for us). The programmers have most of the entire SJIS font set in the ROM already, and the encoding was 16-bit, so it was perfectly set up already for something like Chinese.

Using the English version as a base would’ve probably been a lot more headache, especially moving back to 16-bit and putting all the Chinese characters back into the font set somehow.

Mato: from my memory, there is only one currently-used written Chinese language (aside from zhuyin fuhao, pinyin, and Xiao’erjing, which are used as teaching tools exclusively), but all of the spoken languages say the characters differently, even though they communicate the same idea. tl;dr: it’s Simplified Chinese characters.

Great job! It’s always great when others get to play an awesome game like M3.

I wonder what’s the thought process behind 硫卡 for Lucas and 弗林特 for Flint. 克劳斯 seems to be the common way to write “Claus”, strangely.

@floydhead42

Traditional Chinese is still used in places such as Taiwan; it’s just that mainland China and most other places use Simplified.

BTW, I am Chinese myself, but I learned Traditional Chinese, so I can’t read too much of this from the screenshots.

this makes me happy. the power of the fans. very powerful

Heh, kinda neat how many langauges Mother 3 is getting into.

i think its mandarin.But its kinda hard to read for me as it looks much different when its typed and not written.Makes me wonder how far the german translation is?

Mother 3 is going international! 😀

Mato
check it out!
the spanish-ish traslation is already done they are just testing the game and then they’ll post it for download
when it comes out ill post a image for you!

Is it mandarin?

I made a short gameplay video of the Chinese Mother 3 translatio. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30QQgvWxXvU

This just makes me feel guilty because the German translation has pretty much stalled to a stop

ufff and the italian traslation is … dead….

latin american spanish translation is also dead…

Mandarin refers to a dialect of spoken Chinese.

Zhuyin, pinyin, etc. are not written languages but systems of transliteration.

The characters in the translation are simplified.

Macau, Taiwan and HK both use traditional characters, but there are many variants as to how to write particular characters.

Overseas Chinese (IE, in Singapore, the US, the UK, etc) use traditional characters.

China has/has had lots of written languages.

1) Xiandai Hanyu –> basically ‘Mandarin’, is what you find in the newspapers and in the current EB translation
2) Written Cantonese (uses different characters, is actively suppressed by the government)
3) Written dialect (when people IM they don’t use the sort of Chinese that’s being used for this translation. There are many Wikipedias in different dialects of Chinese.
4) Half/half written Cantonese (uses Mandarin characters instead of native Cantonese characters)
5) the list goes on and on… classical Chinese was used for literate communication until only very recently. There is an actively maintained classical Chinese wikipedia

Hello everyone,
I’m one member of the CHINESE translate team(but I don’t join this project).

Well，I just come here say something about some question UPON.

1.”地球冒险”（Earth Adventure）was a translated name create by some company (FC period), and spread in CHINA.
Maybe this name is not so good, but be afraid of fans miss our work, we finally used that name.

2.This CHINESE version ues the simplified Chinese,and we have no plan to made other version(like the traditional Chinese).
Because the fact is ,in CHINESE mainland,the people who use the simplified Chinese, can easily read the traditional Chinese. But inversely，that would be a reading problem.
So，when CHINESE mainland translate team offer their work,they usualy make two version for kindness (ONE simplified Chinese, OTHER traditional Chinese) .
Pity, our kindness don’t obtain a fair treat——some team some work only has the traditional Chinese VERSION.

THAT IS NOT FAIR，right?
OK, so this time we choose the same way, for nothing, but some little temper.

3. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ，ENJOY .
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漫游汉化组 全体成员 上。

Thanks for the information, yak! 😀

Is there any way to revive the Latin American Spanish translation? I’m only asking because I want to help with it.