[Translations] [hibiki works] [English] ALL×CATION: Niizuma LOVELY×CATION

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Niizuma LOVELY×CATION

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Original Title: ALL×CATION 新妻ＬＯＶＥＬＹ×Ｃ∧ＴＩＯＮ
https://www.hibiki-site.com/products/niiduma_lc/index.html

Release Date: 2019-04-26
Developer/ Publisher: hibiki works
Operating System: Windows
For Game Version: 1.0
Censored: Yes (mosaics)
Language(s): English
Translation Type: Custom Translation Engine V5 - v0.3.1

Most Erotic Game will stop at the marriage phase. This game will allow you to experience the entire journey: the discovery phase, dating period, marriage and honeymoon time, and the challenges that follow. It is a very rare game. There are some light gameplay elements, and you may experience refusals in erotic scenes as well. You must properly build the relationship with your chosen partner.

Translated using Translation Engine Generation V. All GUI and menus have been translated, about 8,000 of them. The game is long, the story is deep, and it is well executed. I anticipate some oddities here and there. I spent three weeks playtesting, and the script went through six revisions, with many decisions to make. I'm reasonably satisfied with the current outcome. I had planned for a seventh revision, which would entail a small change in how Senpai's address is used in this game, but I've decided against it.

In short, Yuki will keep her Danna-sama signature speech after the marriage, but I've toned it down quite a bit.

Note that this one was done on Checkpoint 2, an older checkpoint than our latest.

Installation Instructions:
Attention: this patch only works on the ALL×CATION version, which also contain all appends.
1. Extract the entire zip file into the game root directory. Replacing the original file.
2. Use the custom binary to play the game, it is necessary for the correct translation injection and text parsing.

 

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Reserved for Change Log

 

[Checkmate]

A taste of what a married life would have looked like? 100/100 Best game ever.
Note: you attached the patch twice, I've removed one copy for you.

 

[rtxtrillihin]

gives me similar vibes to the amakano series. cozy, slice of life with an injection of sweetness dialed to 1000%. love it

 

[fegfb342]

Man, this is easily a top 5—maybe even #1—slice-of-life VN. Translating this was a great idea.

How does it handle gender and pronouns? That's always been the biggest hurdle when machine-translating Japanese, though I hear this problem is slowly fading away with every new generation of LLMs hitting the scene. The only major roadblock I see for MTL moving forward is censorship, like AI refusing to translate 18+ content.

I haven't heard of this "Custom Translation Engine V5" tool before, though. Is it similar to the Sugoi Toolkit? Interesting...

 

[navig75]

Man, this is easily a top 5—maybe even #1—slice-of-life VN. Translating this was a great idea.

How does it handle gender and pronouns? That's always been the biggest hurdle when machine-translating Japanese, though I hear this problem is slowly fading away with every new generation of LLMs hitting the scene. The only major roadblock I see for MTL moving forward is censorship, like AI refusing to translate 18+ content.

I haven't heard of this "Custom Translation Engine V5" tool before, though. Is it similar to the Sugoi Toolkit? Interesting...

For pronouns, it ultimately comes down to the translator's personal preference (mine). In English, I choose to retain honorifics wherever possible. I also keep "onii-chan" and "nii-san" if the characters are heroines. However, the translation is subject to what we refer to as a bond test: for unrelated side characters, it will be translated as "mister," "miss," "auntie," or similar terms. For "kouhai" and "senpai," the translation system determines when to use "junior" and "senior" rather than literally applying those words indiscriminately. This involves a delicate balance between flow and accuracy.

In Niizuma Lovely x Cation, Naruse address the protagonist as Onii-san during the discovery phase. I've decided to tone it down because keeping it sound unnatural, while translating everything into mister would feel distanced. Yuki keeps her signature Danna-Sama pronoun. I hope I get the tone right, I tried my best but I cannot please everyone.

The Translation Engine is a system to translate ADV erotic games (for RPGs, @Shisaye, the translation mod, was the person in charge).

It works by absorbing the entire plot, whether it is a thriller, a romantic slice of life, or something in between. It then begins to chunk the story into smaller parts, deciding when to reveal major events to the player and what to keep hidden according to the writer's intentions. It also reviews the Point of View to prevent drifts, whether this is a camera-panning storytelling perspective (for action-oriented story), protagonist's view, or the heroine's views. It understands the PoV so well that it would have no issue handling complicated sequencing.

Next, it constructs the cast and defines the personalities of the characters. It doesn't merely translate. it rebuilds the world and replays the scenario. This allows the Engine to accurately replicate the story while maintaining the narrative flow.

Since Generation V (every major generation is a redesign of the engine), it also handle graphics with full context, including the cast and scenario. I would playtest the story as it develops. Then I'd make the decision on the nuances of the pronouns and add my personal touch, the human element needed to finish it.

To be honest, Niizuma was translated using an early version of the engine, but the quality was so embarrassingly poor that I decided to shelve it altogether. It was only later that I gained enough confidence and experience to tackle this project again.

Much of this was made possible by the Anime-Sharing team and @Checkmate, who provided generous funding for research, inference access, model training and fine-tuning, along with his experience in ADV erotic games.

 

[Checkmate]

How does it handle gender and pronouns? That's always been the biggest hurdle when machine-translating Japanese, though I hear this problem is slowly fading away with every new generation of LLMs hitting the scene. The only major roadblock I see for MTL moving forward is censorship, like AI refusing to translate 18+ content.

We have our own in-house model trained for this purpose, we have full sovereignty and control of what it outputs.

The huge problem with commercial, off the counter LLM today would be content softening, and not refusal, basically, now even LLM will have the human woke we would like to avoid in the first place, with a touch of its bias.

The translation must stay faithful, or it's hot garbage. And the way I see it, everyone bends over for Visa/Master and Gaben overlord. It's a lost cause already.