The Lone Moogle is making it a policy to never post estimates on releases, because, as he’s proven, he can’t judge time for beans.
Anyhow, chapter 40 is out, with chapter 41 in the works. At this point the Lone Moogle would like to ask if anyone has high quality scans of chapter 42, because the ones available at his usual source are low res, grainy, and watermarked (or MSPaintmarked) to high heaven.
See you next release!
Releases to come tomorrow soon. Here’s a preview to tide you over (mostly because I love this page):
I love this chapter so much.
I was trying to be all cool and have a triple-release (Chapter 39, 38v2, and the first WKC chapter), but no such luck. In any event, chapter 39 of Hoshi wa Utau is here. The rest will be out in two weeks, along with HwU chapter 40.
If anyone was wondering abotu the delays, this chapter proved a bit more emotionally draining (and talky) than I was perpared for, so it took longer, and everyone wondering if I had died made me care even less about finishing quickly. This is a really depressing chapter, and I can’t wait to be done with this arc so I can work quickly without fearing for my soul. It’s done now, and the next chapter is much lighter, so that sort of delay won’t happen again.
Also, translation notes have been added for chapters 38 and 39, as well as the series in general. Not much there for now, but they’ll fill themselves in.
Not like anyone reads these anyway, but I’ll post here for archival purposes and pretend like I’ll be noticed. The Lone Moogle has taken up the fine craft of manga scanlating, starting with two series of excellent quality.
Firstly, Natsuki Takaya’s excellent (and hoo boy angsty) Hoshi wa Utau. Since the (one) group scanlating it is MIA (but still releasing raws) the Lone Moogle has taken it upon himself to continue their noble work, whether or not they want him to (which remains to be seen). First chapter by the Lone Moogle is here (Chapter 38). As he did with Crescent
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there will be detailed notes and a project page up later. Expect releases weekly until he catches up with the monthly chapters in Hana to yume.
The second most excellent manga the Lone Moogle will be working on is White Knight Chronicles: The Dogma War, a prequel to the critically panned PS3 RPG, available online in Japanese since 2007. As each chapter is significantly longer, this one will be relesed much slower, starting with (a somewhat redundant) Chapter 1 next week.
In a somewhat unprecedented move, Crescent Pale Mist has been licensed by Rockin’ Android, and will be receiving an official localization. As such, I am no longer providing my Crescent patch (and you shouldn’t either). I’ll still keep the moderately unhelpful item guide up for people who want it.
Rather than decry the capitalist tyranny keeping me from distributing a free patch, I personally think it’s actually pretty fantastic that Crescent is getting the treatment it deserves (a commercial localization). From my sparse correspondence with a Rockin’ Android translator, and their track record, I’m pretty sure it’s in capable hands.
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This is me, editing the string table. The line I’m changing originally read “Ninerives blade works” and served no real purpose other than as a pointer to the rest of the table. (Quite cleverly, the strings that show up as button combos are in standard numpad notation. Just something I noticed.)
I’ve been browsing the wide world of doujinsoft, looking for a(nother) game I could feasibly translate on my own. I’ve been playing Crucis for a while, but only recently have I gotten back into it (mostly because of my new self-built gaming PC) and I find I like it well enough to waste my time cracking it.
It is finished, kupo! The Lone Moogle’s first translation project, Crescent Pale Mist, is now released to the world.
Crescent Pale Mist English Patch 1.0:
MediaFire
I’ll mirror it later. Maybe. I’ll also be posting translation notes for the next week or so, on certain points of interest in the localization (it can hardly be called a straight-up translation after how I butchered edited it). For now, I am going to take a quick rest, then go break the news to /jp/.
Feel free to leave comments to tell me what you think. (Translation: comment or I might cry.)
UPDATE: Translation Notes have been added. Expect updates to that page every now an then.
UPDATE 2: A quick-patched translation of the demo is now available for people without the game.
It’s moving along pretty well. I doubt anyone’s reading this but if they are, hello!
The script is completely translated (has been for a while now), including a (possibly) deleted scene and the alternate epilogues, making there one per difficulty level (except Easy). Every test run I make reveals some new typos and formatting glitches which I’ll try to have ironed out by release time. As it is, editing is the only thing holding up the release, but I want to make sure it all reads well.
All image text has been done, including all 98 item notifications, which had to be converted by hand to the game’s format. Fun times. The translated credits screen images don’t seem to want to show up for the moment, probably due to a picky BMP reader. I may have to hold off on that if it takes longer to fix then the last of the event scripts.
The executable has been completely translated, including some custom error messages I didn’t even know were there. All the modified pointers are working, with the exception of the aforementioned credits screen (for some reason). Item/Artifact descriptions are still in beta as I figure out how to reword the text to fit in the allotted spaces and keep them accurate. Some of them are clues to item locations, so I need to make sure that they make sense in context. I don’t want to have to rewrite the string pointers if I can avoid it.
All that said, there’s only so much more work to be done, so it’ll probably be ready for this weekend.
Nothing really here at the moment, but take a look around, anyway. Or check the Crescent Pale Mist project page, because that’s probably the only reason you’d be here at this point.
