satyreyes wrote:

While we're on the subject of walkthroughs: I assume everyone knows about this site, but just in case:
http://moonreading.lunarpages.com/utena/index.html

Yes, between the two, it should be much easier to get somewhere in the game.

Oh gosh, I just played my first time through and can't believe what a fun game this. Thank you to everyone for the upload and such~ I've always wanted to play this game, and glad I've gotten the chance.

Archambeau wrote:

Thank you all so much for the wealth of resources.  I didn't even know that there was a Saturn emulator that worked, much less one that would play the Utena game itself.  Here's hoping that a translation project will pan out -- I'm no help when it comes to either translation or programming, but if storage space is needed, I would be happy to host some files on arisugawa.org.

I think at the very minimum, between the walkthrough already available and the willingness of people here to do crazy things, we could get a very, very dynamic translation/walkthrough that you could print out and follow while playing or something, if we can't actually translate the game.

What kind of hosting are we talking about? I'd really like to actually put this stuff online period, on EM or something, so people who aren't on the forums can get their hands on it, but as it stands, I don't think I have the bandwidth, and hosting is running me down to 200MB left on the server, which is cutting it close given that I have 2GB of space on this account. I'm going to talk to Yasha about upping the account to a larger one and maybe hosting the whole thing on Empty Movement, with all involved's permission and help. That said, mirrors for the game discs would be nice to have. I don't anticipate ever brutally needing them, but I've learned the hard way everyone jumps a boat at once. The gallery consumed 100GB of transfer in one month once, and that was with hotlink protection on.

Oh BTW, off topic, but now that the Saturn emulator doesn't entirely suck...I gotta find me Panzer Dragoon Saga.

Edit: And Astal.

Giovanna wrote:

What kind of hosting are we talking about? I'd really like to actually put this stuff online period, on EM or something, so people who aren't on the forums can get their hands on it, but as it stands, I don't think I have the bandwidth, and hosting is running me down to 200MB left on the server, which is cutting it close given that I have 2GB of space on this account. I'm going to talk to Yasha about upping the account to a larger one and maybe hosting the whole thing on Empty Movement, with all involved's permission and help. That said, mirrors for the game discs would be nice to have. I don't anticipate ever brutally needing them, but I've learned the hard way everyone jumps a boat at once. The gallery consumed 100GB of transfer in one month once, and that was with hotlink protection on.

I have almost 2GB of space free.  My bandwidth is hardly being used as present, considering my domain is essentially stagnant, so I'm sure I could handle the disc mirrors.

Giovanna wrote:

Oh BTW, off topic, but now that the Saturn emulator doesn't entirely suck...I gotta find me Panzer Dragoon Saga.

Edit: And Astal.

If you can't find the games that you want, email this guy. He's super nice, honest and friendly. Met him at a con. Bought my Sega Saturn from him. If he doesn't have it, he'll try to get it.
http://www.mad-gear.com/

I just want to say thanks to all of you guys for this -- I've been wanting to play this game forever, so now that I finally have a chance, I'm very happy!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a Juri to go seduce.


EDIT: Or not.. it seems the emulator doesn't want to open on my mom's computer (I know it won't open on mine, as it's a nice POS, but mom's is a really good computer).. I double click on it, and I get the standard windows Error message, and it asks me to send a bug report.

Last edited by Lins (11-27-2006 02:00:53 AM)

Translating Japanese is arduous enough for me that I have not exactly been translating every dialogue box as I've progressed through the game.  From what I've caught, the dialogue seems to follow the spirit of the show's dialogue pretty well.  I wanted to share one amusing translation, though.  When you have your first extended conversation with Utena, just after your first dialogue branch ("Do you have a girlfriend?"/"Do you have a boyfriend?"), the camera does its panning over Utena like you're really looking at her for the first time.

Your character's immediate reaction?  "OMG, she has boobs!"

About Kanji

Kanji is what makes translating Japanese a royal pain in the butt as there is up to 50,000 kanji altogether.

But these days, there is only is there 1,945 essential kanji that you really need to know.

There is up to 50,000 other kanji but any Japanese publication using Kanji outside of the essential 1,945 is legally required to print the Hiragana interpretation of the obscure Kanji symbol above it to make it easier to understand.

The average adult Japanese citizen knows between 5,000 to 8,000 different kanji.

Edit: I hope you all learnt something.

Last edited by Tamago (11-29-2006 03:02:54 AM)

....I know this is not what anyone wants to hear.

After about a week of trying, I'm going to have to give up on converting my PC to handle Japanese language fonts at the same time as English.  While Vista, by some accounts, supports this, WinXP doesn't in any way that doesn't severely mess up my other computer-related hobbies.  Maybe in another two years when I finally give in and do that upgrade I'll be able to help, but right now....

That said, I'm fully behind any attempt to get this project done.  I'm just not sure I can help.

For What I can do, I can create a copy of the game using RPG Maker XP. However I need someone that translates the dialogue, and I'm not sure that the program support videos. But we can make it.

T_T damn... there are 2 files I can't download anymore... those with 400 and 500 mb. Error 404

Yasha wrote:

We took the rom down because it was eating up so much space. We should be able to put it up for a little bit again, but I don't have a copy, so Gio will have to do it.

ok just tell when it's ready