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Not Shiki no Kyouken related at all, but I spent literally all night translating/subbing this song. For the last 4 days, I’ve been putting this on repeat whenever I’m not listening to audiobooks.

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Well, I haven’t seriously touched on 3D in a good forever, but I guess this is a good start back up.

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Voices by @paper-mario-wiki - view the original audio post here.

The skelebros are visited by a certain devious little yellow fiend.

This is all I’ve done for the past 5 days, it contains over 240 frames and lots and lots of internal screaming lovingly embroidered in every image. Enjoy!

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So I’m attempting to make car magnets and I’m running tests since it’s rainy season. I have some inkjet photo magnet sheets which I’ve printed Linne and Noel on and wanted to see the effects of rain against different methods of sealing.

Trial 1: Spray Sealer on top only, multiple coats

Surprisingly, this turned out fairly well. The day I applied them was mostly clear until evening hit. Bam, hail and heavy rain. After I got off my work shift, I went to check on them, and they weren’t that bad. You can see the water soaked into them and there was some minor bleeding, but nothing too noticeable from a distance. Linne took quite a few from the hail though, but still not too bad from a distance. Noel warped a little for some reason, but after drying out she went back to being flat again. I was not satisfied with the bleeding, and the seal job I did on Noel. I guess I held the spray can too close or used too much on the first pass, because it has a soaked look to it. Anyways, the next day I tried another attempt.

Trial 2: Contact paper on top with some extra edge, brush-on varnish behind edge, spray sealer on top, few coats

The rain wasn’t too heavy today, but it was still present. This try had some really good and bad results. The contact paper on top was for two reasons: To prevent nicks from objects like hail and to stop water from getting onto the image from the top. This seems to work perfectly the way I wanted (not that it hailed again, but I’ll just assume that it will if it does). There was no bleeding at all on the main image. The big problem comes to the edges. I thought 3 coats around the edges would be enough varnish to prevent water from leaking in, but I guess it wasn’t enough in some spots. It probably has to do with the corners mostly, because cutting those with scissors leaves tiny slits. I probably just missed when trying to seal it. What confused me a little is how extreme the bleeding is compared to the first attempt. It could either be the lack of sealing directly on the image or using the photo printing setting on my printer instead of default document printing. Almost quite sure it’s the lack of sealer, but just keeping tabs of the differences.

Trial 3: Coming soon

It’ll probably be almost exactly the same as the prior attempt, but sealing the corners better. I may use a knife instead of scissors to prevent the little slit dealies, but I am more comfortable with scissors. What I may end up doing is use spray sealer first and then apply the contact paper in an attempt to resist bleeding. Though, that shouldn’t be a problem if it’s fully sealed. We’ll see. I’ve already printed out the 3rd set, so I’ll let the ink dry overnight and decide what to do tomorrow.

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The art I’m using on my next button box. I should be getting my buttons in the mail tomorrow, hopefully!

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Linne in a Magical Beat sort of style

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Finished up the "Sound" and "Other" tabs today, of course, still excluding the help text at the bottom of the screen. I also spent a bit of time reorganizing the screenshots in the imgur gallery so it also includes originals for comparison now!

I'll probably start translating the help text at the bottom from tomorrow until next week or so. My mental kanji library is only around 400 or so big, so trying to decipher these is still really challenging...

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Alright, real quick update. This is what the Keys tab will look like as final, exception the captions or whatevers at the bottom, since I don't want to translate those at the moment. I think it looks alright, I guess. I couldn't figure out how to get the small ABC buttons to not look pixelated, but I honestly don't think I'm gonna' bother trying to fix it.

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Getting closer to finishing the "Keys" tab. I'm pretty sure I'm either going to 1) Change the characters to A, B, C or 2) Keep the current symbols, but make them not gross pixels. I'll save the all the caption text 'til the end of the Options translation.

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Jumping back into the project again. Nothing major, just a peek at the options menu. I haven't touched this thing since last November or something, so it took me a while to relearn everything. I did the right thing this time and started taking visual notes on what I was doing, instead of just writing everything up in one huge .txt file and not knowing what they meant.

Anyway, on the to-do list, in order of what I plan on starting on:

Options menu (ignoring text at bottom of screen for now)

Save/Loading screen headers

Maybe finishing up Stage/Music Select stuff on the versus menu (song names are probably going to be skipped for now)

Story mode menus or something

I need to figure out where to start hosting these files, soonish. Though, I doubt it matters, since no one knows about this game outside of Japan anyway, haha.

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New stuff in the mail~

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Shiki no Kyouken Translation [2014_10_16]

So it's been a while in terms of my translation project. In all honesty, I've just been procrastinating. I'm going to start picking it up again, and what I've finished today was the stage names. Thanks again to @beshibuki.

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So, I did a test seeing if liquid coating would work... Well, the good news is that this photo is 2 days old and my second trial is already set up and drying as I speak. The coating on the first one was great, except the ink smearing. Lesson learned: Never use brush on anything with inkjet printers, no matter the number of clear coats. Details and pictures of the second one will be up sometime this next afternoon, maybe.

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The name of the game is progress. Speaking of which, how the heck do I seal this thing? It's 3 different mediums for testing purposes. The emblem is acrylic paint, Kureha is just printer paper, the name and background is vinyl. Would I be able to acrylic clear coat spray, mod podge, sand, then another clear coat layer (multiple layers of each) That's probably what I'm gonna' end up trying to do. I might go out and buy the mod podge hard coat formula tomorrow morning. I definitely don't want the print to be peeling off.

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Threw together a "quick" vector redraw of Okada Kureha from Shiki no Kyouken. It actually took me all day, but I hope it'll be worth it. I don't know how printing it will turn out on my printer. :<

P.S. Don't try to iron plastic stencils to flatten them. It's a terrible idea~

Edit: Added/Fixed some minor details

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Guess who didn't sleep? I might get this thing working by tonight, but I highly doubt it. It feels ok, but I've never used hitbox style layout before, so this'll be interesting. The only thing I can try is soldering my old Chinese PS3 controller in, since I'm not willing to sacrifice any of my good PS3 controllers yet. Still waiting for the PS360+ to be restocked in one of the local shops here.

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A relic from the past. I'm going to be gutting the sticks and pushbuttons and I'm throwing away the rest of the body today. Shame, since the art I botched together for it was pretty nice looking in my opinion. The stick was terrible to use and I never got a proper PCB installed in it. I think I will never make a custom stick again, haha.