"I don't think anyone should be counting on fan translations for any game that is of a significant scope. It's all too likely that the fans involved (since they are, after all, fans and not pros getting paid to do this) will either decide that it's too time consuming or lose interest and start on another project. Once they figure out that it's too crappy of a job to do for free, they all either quit or start looking for a paying translation job. You'd have to be pretty insane not to."
-- Ex-S Woo, professional translator for Peach Princess (the bishoujo game company that localizes some wonderful thought-provoking games such as X-Change and X-Change 2) |
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| 2003 |
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| Early June |
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UFG forms the Wind Translation Project with sagara (Kevin Tardif) and Kokushi_Musou. |
| July |
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UFG asks No Name Losers for assistance with the project. NNL agrees to complete the demo. |
| September |
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Demo translation completed. Project on hiatus due to insertion problems. |
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"Wind. Don't make me laugh; the demo translation has been out since January, and since then there has been exactly ZERO progress. ... Seriously, I have zero confidence in the fan-translation scene. In fact, I don't think there is a SINGLE productive subbing operation in existence. The community is quite pathetic. ... I didn't like Wind that much. None of the girls really did it for me. Not the best plot. Often boring. The H was little, [not] great, and really had [zero] impact on anything -- you might as well not even have [it]. The worst thing about it is the fact that it has so few CGs [for me to fap-fap with]."
-- GUTB, self-proclaimed troll and sex-starved kiddie |
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| 2004 |
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| Early January |
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Edward Keyes solves the CD script format. |
| January 31 |
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Demo 1.0 released. |
| March |
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UFG leaves IRC, and presumably the project as well. GipFace takes over as director. |
| April 29 |
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Demo 1.1 released. |
| May 15 |
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gp32 joins the team as the second translator. |
| June 30 |
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Wind TV anime airs. |
| July 17 |
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With translation progress at 31.04%, Kokushi_Musou leaves the team. |
| August |
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insani is founded with gp32 and Edward Keyes as the primary members. GipFace is part of the team only for the Wind project. |
| September 1 |
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Haru no Ashioto demo, a side project from the same members of the Wind project, is released. |
| September 14 |
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Trunk and branches are translated. |
| November 2 |
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Endgames translated. Translation is complete. |
| November 9 |
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Pass 1 editing and alpha-testing begins. |
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"No matter what [happens in] the fansub scene, the translation of any involving visual novel will end up being only a shadow of its original release for one simple reason. English simply needs to evolve."
-- TsubameGaishii, a Japanese otaku |
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| 2005 |
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| Early January |
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Work sabbatical begins. |
| Early April |
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Work sabbatical ends. |
| June 27 |
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roxfan solves minori's .paz format used in Wind -a breath of heart- DVD. |
| July 3 |
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Pass 1 editing complete. |
| August 7 |
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Final report from the last remaining alpha-tester received. |
| September 20 |
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CD implementation scrapped. NNL starts creating tools for the DVD implementation. |
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"Why is it that pretend-talking fan translators always choose the most poplular games? If only they had chosen shorter games or games with segmented stories like AIR or SUIKA, then they might get stuff released and not look like total failures. But I suppose for fan translators, bragging rights for translating the most popular game is all that matters. That kind of reminds me of anime fansubbers."
-- maito, a Japanese otaku |
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| 2006 |
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| January 15 |
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Pass 1 technical QC complete. |
| March 26 |
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Pass 2 editing (hardcopy) complete. |
| June 11 |
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Demo 1.2 released, then recalled for a last-minute edit. |
| June 14 |
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Pass 2 technical QC complete. Script is at gold status. |
| June 21 |
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The 100% patch is released. Demo 1.2 corrected. |
