Topic: "Translation Request" Thread

[LuxKiller65]

In the last photo, there's a small teaser article on Dracula X and Martial Champion. Is the girl shown there someone at Konami? Sound staff/vocalist maybe?

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g475889775

[Nagumo]

It's too small for me to read, sorry. 

[Shiroi Koumori]

Based on the positioning of the photo, the person is for the "Martial Champion" game.
I also cannot read the text.

[Dark Nemesis]

I've saved and resized the picture and then upload it, so now you can read the text.
https://ibb.co/ZfF3J1G

[Nagumo]

Oh, I recognize that person. That's Taeko Hayasaka. She was one of Konami's PR people at the time. She did the promotion for Rondo of Blood

[LuxKiller65]

thanks!!

[OldSchoolArikado]

Hi guys, I don't know if this is the right thread to make this request, but I would like to know the translation of the songs sung from Michiru Yamane's special album

For example this theme

https://youtu.be/j5SaiuOBBFE

I will be eternally grateful and sorry for the inconvenience.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Hi guys, I don't know if this is the right thread to make this request, but I would like to know the translation of the songs sung from Michiru Yamane's special album

For example this theme

https://youtu.be/j5SaiuOBBFE

I will be eternally grateful and sorry for the inconvenience.

I've translated this before.
Tadaaa!
https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?topic=5642.msg200773#msg200773

[rasgar]

Hello, I am looking to get one of the Castlevania gamebooks translated: https://archive.org/details/akumajou-dracula-kojou-no-shitou

I know this will be a big undertaking. But once I have the text, I intend to make a playable online version of the book, in the same vein as the Twinetroid project: https://www.metroid-database.com/wp-content/uploads/Metroid/Twinetroid/Twinetroid.html

I appreciate any help I can get. I've been trying to get part of the way there by OCR-ing the scans so that I can run it through Google Translate, but I've been having a hard time getting the characters to read in properly.

Thank you!

EDIT: I've just found a website which contains the book in text form: https://web.archive.org/web/20180416093420/http://www.geocities.jp/retorogeme1/Gframe1.htm

[Shiroi Koumori]

Hello, I am looking to get one of the Castlevania gamebooks translated

I'm sorry. I am not available for any translating services at the moment.

[Inccubus]

Heya! I have one for you guys.

Rather than a simple translation, I'm asking for a bit of a lesson.

十字架を胸に (Jūjika wo Mune, lit. "Cross at Chest")

I was updating the track list for Konami Game Music Collection Vol. 1 over on the Castlevania Wiki and for the sake of posterity and practice I re-translated the whole Haunted Castle soundtrack. I was primarily focused on literal translations and this track caught my attention because I'm not sure I'm understanding the original Japanese wording correctly.

I think I get the use of を as a particle that signifies a location.
I feel like I'm missing the context of the wording I need to be able to actually get the meaning across in a translation.

It seems to have two main interpretations as either "making the sign of the cross over your chest" as in "Cross Your Heart", and the other being the literal one I used of "a cross located your chest". I dunno, I feel like I'm missing something.

There's also the context of this being the theme for the game's first and it being set in a graveyard.

I have a similar doubt about the final stage theme:

夜まで待てない (Yorumade Matenai, lit. "Not Waiting Until Night")

Which I've seen translated as "I Can't Wait until Night" and more commonly as "Don't Wait until Night".
The first one sounds more like it conveys excitement where as the other is more like a warning.
Given that the actual stage appears to take place during the day, I'm thinking it should be something more like "No Waiting for the Night".

Any insight on these would be most appreciated.

[Shiroi Koumori]

十字架を胸に

Based on the context, this refers to making the sign of the cross since the location is a graveyard as Catholics will make said sign when passing a cemetery.

を is a particle for signifying the object of a sentence not the location.

夜まで待てない

I'm with the "Don't wait until night" translation. It's castlevania, it's got to be a warning.  But this is just my opinion.

[Inccubus]

Thanks for the insights!

[LuxKiller65]

I'm heading to VGMdb to suggest "Don't" instead of "Can't" because it makes a lot more sense. Especially when you realise the whole bridge level is clearly daytime, and Simon is rushing to kill Dracula (before night falls). The only one excited about the night is Dracula, but I don't think it's his point of view that we are following.