English translation of the Utena Saturn video game has reached version 1.0, with 100% of script texts translated and fully playable!

Game ISOs (in Japanese):
Disc 1
Disc 2
The ISOs have been removed from the site for the moment because of bandwidth issues!  Forum member prumm has hosted them on mediafire; you can find the links here.

Download link for the translator v1.04:
https://mega.nz/#!ywtDzDza!ZXNxaD4q2V-P … IOJQkbrzz4

Mirrors for the translator:
http://www.4shared.com/rar/5lVaHN-Gba/u … r_104.html
https://www.sendspace.com/file/6rbnaz

Instructions:

To translate the Japanese isos, follow these steps:

- Place the Japanese isos of the game in the translator directory. They should be named "Utena_Sega1.iso" and "Utena_Sega2.iso"

- (Optional but recommended step)
Right click on "translate.bat" and select "Edit". Near the beginning, you will find these two lines:

set name=default
set surname=default

Change "default" in both lines, with the desired name and surname for your character, respectively, and save the file.

This step is optional, if you don't do this step, your character will have the name you enter in game, which is
very limited (only 3 chars for name and surname).

The name and surname you enter here don't have any length limit but you must use only valid English characters, don't use tildes or
special symbols from other languages.
Japanese characters can also be used, but in that case, the .bat file must be edited in UTF-8 mode.

- Run (double-click) translate.bat.

That's all. Now you will have two new files: "Utena_English1.iso" and "Utena_English2.iso", which are the ones
you must use with the emulator. The original Japanese isos remain untouched by the program.
Please keep your Japanese isos, you will need them for updates of the translation or to change the name of your character.

If you changed the name of your character in the .bat file, you can change it again at any moment by editing and running the .bat again.


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Setting up the emulator and running the game (you can skip this if you already know how to do it)

- Download the emulator from internet. The recommended emulator is "SSF 0.12 beta R3".
  There is a more updated version of the emulator, "SSF 0.12 beta R4", but on my tests, it can be problematic
  with some NVIDIA cards or drivers (not in all of them).
 
  The game can also work on the other main Saturn emulator: Yabause, but unfortunately sound will not work on it; it is only  recommended if you can't make SSF work in your system.
 
- Because SSF can't load ISO files, you will need a Virtual CD emulator. There are a lot of them, but not all of them are compatible with SSF.
  The recommended one is "Virtual CloneDrive", which is free and compatible with SSF.
 
- Saturn BIOS: good news, you don't need any bios file for SSF. The internal one of SSF works pretty well with this game.
  You will need one if you use Yabause emulator, though.

- Mount "Utena_English1.iso" with Virtual CloneDrive.

- Run SSF. In Options->CD Drive, select the unit of CloneDrive (ELBY CLONEDRIVE or something like that).

- Optionally set the keys for the Saturn buttons (you can use keyboard or controller).

- Now you can run the game. Use Alt+Enter to put the game in full screen, and Alt+Enter again to leave full screen mode.

- When you create a new game, you will be asked to enter a name for your character.
  If you did the optional step of setting the name of your character in the .bat file, then this one will be ignored in the game, but
  it must be filled anyway.
 
  The name here will still appear in the load/save screen though, so maybe you want to make a short version of the name (otherwise just select letters randomly).
  To enter western characters, go to the top-right Japanese letter, which will open a box with the western letters.
 
- Enjoy the game! At some point of the game, you will be asked to change the disc, just follow the instructions in screen.
 
 
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TODO section / Things that can still be worked on

What is currently translated:

- 100% of script texts.
- The most visible parts of the GUI in regular game usage. (main menu, load/save menu, errors related with loading/saving, disc change instructions and nobility screen)

What is not translated:

- Videos. Except for the introduction of Ohtori Academy near the beginning of the game, the rest of the videos don't have much audio anyway, and you won't be missing anything important.
For this video, it was decided to include a translation in text form after the video has played. This will be removed if in the future we find a way to reencode and subtitle videos for the game.
- Name tags of characters
- Student handbook (this includes some information about characters, controls, etc). The main concern when translating these ones will be fitting the translation in that tiny space, and make the letters look good.

If there is someone that is good editing images, you can collaborate to translate the name tags of the characters. Read the file "Advanced Usage.txt" to know how to extract all the images from the original isos, and to learn about requirements of formats for the images. After image extraction, you will find the nametags in the extracted folder, in the subfolder /SSCD/NAMETAG

Additionally, if you want to improve on current translated images, the translator includes in the "resources_english" all intermediate files that were used when creating the currently translated images.
   

CREDITS
PROGRAMMING/TEXT & IMAGE EDITING: Endless
TRANSLATION/TEXT EDITING: Dallbun
TRANSLATION/TEXT EDITING: Ayu Ohseki
AYU'S SUPPORT TEXT EDITORS: LuxLustravi, Loki, Josh Breitbart

SPECIAL THANKS
esperknight and gpink, for figuring out stuff
Giovanna and Yasha for hosting ohtori.nu site
User kingshriek of "gemot encubed" site for initially figuring out some of the image formats in this post: http://forums.novelnews.net/showthread.php?t=35733
Jacrad for providing some base images for name tags, although nametags aren't currently translated in this release.

Last edited by satyreyes (10-22-2015 09:54:55 PM)