#project rambling

[kaiowut99]

Quick TFSP Update/Poll!

So! I have started work on translating Gilag's in-duel lines and plan to blitz through more of the ZEXAL cast's lines soon (before starting on the ARC-V Tier 2 overworld text and then setting up for GX 149/150 work), but I've been taking a detour to finalize my Deluxe-version custom Field Spell animation code functions--which I don't think I've mentioned here 😅 Last fall/winter, I started looking into restoring the Field Spell animations from TF1-6 that don't get kept for TFSP (the functionality for it all is still in the game's duel-drawing module and just gets coded away from running) while also accounting for Field Spells released after TF6 that don't have Field Spell animations (by randomly loading one of the four stock duel background animations that wasn't already used for the duel's initial background) and Master Rule 3's two-Field-Spells-allowed rule (by storing data in a custom data block and tracking the latest player to play a Field Spell), and had it all working pretty well, but I'd left a mess of functions I was no longer using by the end, so I've been going back to free up that space for stuff that gets added later. (I did record a video showing off the animations being restored, but I'm likely going to re-record most of it given these improvements, lol.)

I'm almost done with all that, but part of it's involved fully accounting for cards like Last Resort (of which there are 4 in the game: it, Demise of the Land, Vampire Takeover, and Pop-Up) that play Field Spells from elsewhere, and also Maiden of the Aqua, Gravekeeper's Priestess, and Forgotten Temple of the Deep, which are the only cards that can treat the field as a Field Spell and which I didn't think about as I first set things up--though Forgotten Temple's inclusion there is the interesting thing: while Temple only names itself "Umi" per its effect text, the game will still try to load a Field animation for it if made to through my functions as it does for Maiden and Priestess to load Umi's and Necrovalley's animations (it should be the same in TF1-6 [or well, whichever game Temple was first added to lol]), setting both players' Active Field Spell ID data slots in their duel-state-data blocks to Umi to treat both fields as it in the process (which could be partially leftover from the pre-Master Rules 3 Field Spell handling in TF1-6):

I assume it's partly the game trying to be cute/fanservicey and going "Hey, it's calling itself 'Umi,' so you get the animation anyway as a treat," but given how, especially rulings-wise, it really just renames itself and doesn't explicitly treat the field as anything like Maiden or Priestess do, I'm debating modding the game's duel engine a little to remove that so it doesn't try to change the field to Umi and save that little bit of work on it (it handles Maiden and Priestess slightly differently)--also not really mentioned here lol, I've also been doing some deep-diving into the duel engine for a while now and comparing it to Duel Generation's [which has its debug symbols intact] to get a sense of how it works for future potential, and I've actually already modded it slightly in a few spots to save some info I need for my functions to my custom data block, like tracking the player activating/resolving a Field Spell so I get an accurate read as they set up a Field Spell animation, or saving a data pointer during its DUELACT_EndOfDuel function (run right as a duel ends) that I'll read when entering a Free Duel or other rematch to reset my data block, so it's all been paying off some hehe--and figured I'd put it to a vote (one I've posed in a few places for more of a consensus):

Should Forgotten Temple of the Deep, whose effect text has it treat its name as Umi and not either field itself, still load its Field Spell animation and treat both fields as Umi (current process), or should it just treat its name as Umi and not either field (per its text)?

Load the field animation and treat both fields as Umi

Keep it to just treating itself as Umi by name per its text

Voting ended on1h

(As noted, this won't apply to the base version which, aside from some character key card textline inclusions I've mentioned in prior updates, will be the game as-is.)

[jemandtherobots]

did not expect to be using google maps in my project, but here i am, confusing the google algorithm by looking up seemingly random coordinates across europe

[kaiowut99]

lol poor Kite gets overshadowed more than you'd think for having a Light-Attribute ace

[kaiowut99]

Action… Duel! | Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Episode 2 "Dub-Uncut" (ENG Dub w/ JP OST) - WIP #2 (WIP #1) (Series Masterpost)

Getting back to polishing up what I've worked on for episode 2 here, after getting more GX-finalizing (with my subs for episode 131 just finalized) and TFSP-re-translating done; I've done some more leveling and finalizing of the audio, currently up to the end of the Yuya/Yuzu duel, and I'd say everything here is about final, barring some minor tweaks I might make as I listen back to the full thing later.

A lot of episode 2, being more series/worldbuilding setup, is handled decently overall by 4K, so this is one section where, outside of the Action Duel chant and some de-fluffing/line rearrangements to match the original Japanese script more, I didn't have to make too many changes. One thing was that part of Yuzu's shout at the crowd about being the villain was cut for time (the full line being "Then, that's what I'll be--the villain!", the "the villain!" part was trimmed), so I threw in some audio from episode 29's dub trying to have her say "Now, enjoy it!" for some cover, lol. I then moved Shuzou's (more or less accurate) lines about how good the augmented reality system is to be timed per the Japanese script and remove the added fluff about his taking off his trunks and taking a swim… Then, for the Action Duel chant, I repurposed their lines from Duel Links adapting the chant from the Japanese version, adding in some extra bits from their other Duel Links lines to pad them out and fill their lip-flaps; I do like how it came out, but I also added an alternate take at the end using the original dub lines which still adapted some of the chant to show how that sounds with the original OST--which one sounds better if you were to go into it not having heard the dub? 🤔 lol

Anywho, lemme know what you think! Hope to wrap with the audio-leveling sometime soon, but first I'll be going back to TFSP for a bit. Stay tuned--the fun's just getting started!

[kaiowut99]

TFSP Translation Progress Update: Shark Nasch's Lines

get it Nasch's Lines/Nazca Lines er anyway

ding Shark's all done! After finishing up Yuma's last two stories (I'd done his first two as I was prepping my announcement video for this whole thing), I just wrapped up re-translating Shark's story events in TFSP, and it's kinda neat how Yuma's gets you to this bit from his POV while Shark's story events get you here from his POV after he comes to terms with his past memories (so the "it's been ages" line was in both stories, just a little differently lol; these are from his last event). And while I wish they'd coded in Nasch (and the other Barians' Barian forms) so he could turn into him in these bits, to the game's credit, Shark's sprite early into his story has him without his Barian necklace, but he gets it once he starts accepting that he's Nasch.

I've already worked on Shark's in-duel dialogue from my work on that video, so I'll be giving those a once-over next and then working fresh on his bio, which I thought I'd already done. That'll then do it for this go-around of TFSP work as I jump back into GX and finalize my subs for episodes 122 and 123; I'll likely put up a little video of some of Shark's story translation and in-duel lines once done, so stay tuned!

[kaiowut99]

TFSP so lower-budget vs the other Tag Force games that they didn't even code in Shark and Rio transforming into Nasch and Merag to be show-accurate, smh

[kaiowut99]

Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Episode 1 "Dub-Uncut" (ENG Dub w/ JP OST) WIP #1 | Ladies & Gentlemen!

Soooo, after plugging away at this little project for more than a year, I'm pretty sure, I think I'm just about done with it--a "dub-uncut" take on ARC-V episode 1's dub! Like when I worked on those 5D's "dub-uncut" episodes, I find that there's some potential in the 4K/KCM dubs, but overall it's hampered by the dub's music [which especially hurts for ARC-V given the awesome score by Kotaro Nakagawa], some writing choices, and other little oddities/cuts. (I also did plan on trying to sub ARC-V up until Crunchyroll took the wheel on that, and I did want to do something with the work I'd put into prepping the OP/EN for that, lol; I think I actually started this a little in early 2022 at some point, but due to my SSD dying on me in October of that year, I pretty much lost everything and had to dig through what little backups I did to not start from scratch (I had to restart this though). This has also been an ongoing idea, since I did do a dub-with-JP-OST take on episode 10's first 10-or-so minutes years back.

Of course, since working on that version of episode 10, we now have things like UltimateVocalRemover out there to help with things like this, as well as Duel Links or Cross Duel (RIP) for better/more accurate takes on different lines. So, after using UVR to isolate episode 1's audio in both versions, I got to work piecing the dub back together with the JP OST/SFX, using lines from later episodes and Duel Links as helpful to make the dialogue more in line with the original; I'd been chipping away at it mostly for the past year, but worked a bit more on finalizing it and leveling the audio over the past few months to get it off the backburner, lol, along with revamping my subs for BelieveXBelieve and One Step (which I'll be showing off separately).

For this clip, I made Gongenzaka properly say his Monsters' names while tributing them by pulling audio from 138's dub (and one other); Yuya's "Ladies & Gentlemen!" and "Quick-Play Hippo Carnival" lines are from DL, and I found an AI-voice-generating site that had the voice of the Narrator from Pokemon's dub, which I thought would fit for the Action Duel narration before the OP. [Also, yes, I will be correcting every instance of "Zuzu" to "Yuzu" using lines with "you" in them because why.]

Lemme know what you think! I'll likely post another couple progress videos while I apply some finishing touches, and I should probably be posting about the full thing in the next week or two.

[kaiowut99]

TFSP Re-Translation Progress: Aki (5D's Stories: 2/5 Done)

DING, finished re-translating Aki's TFSP story events! Worked on it over a couple evenings and this weekend, and it does feel like a hint of the Arcadia Movement arc we should've gotten in-show that gives that part of her some more closure; finding out that the Arcadia Movement is still around and using kids in distress (from the old Satellite, as revealed later) as their pawns, Aki sets out to put an end to them once and for all, only to come up against Divine being the one trying to get her to rejoin.

Also thought this was a good exchange as Yusei jumps in and acknowledges how much she's grown (I can hear "Hopeless Battle" faintly in the background):

(It is wild how often I bump up against the original story "translation" maybe trying in a few places but then completely missing the mark on things most everywhere else and making things up [and needlessly worse in spots] to get the card game side of things out there--but then again, maybe Aki saying "I'm going to fucking destroy you" to Divine instead of "I'm here to put an end to the Arcadia Movement" is a good thing)

Now, to give her in-duel lines (which I roughly worked on to include some in the announcement video I did) another look-through, and then she should be good to go; once I do that, I'll likely start more work on my finalized GX 111-112 subs, so stay tuned!