Posted by Ian Kelley (CHASNEWSERVER.OSIS.UPENN.EDU/165.123.40.225) on March 18, 2002 at 14:33:28
In Response to I think this says it all pretty much: posted by MO on March 15, 2002 at 11:14:03:
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> I wonder, is there anyone on this board who could translate the entire SOM script in 30 days? I don't think I could. Certainly I couldn't do a very good job of it.
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Well, at the risk of sounding really arrogant, I think that I probably could. Working eight-hour days, I bet I could do it in less than a week. In terms of translation speed, I find I can usually translate about 30-50k worth of text in an hour, depending on the simplicity of the dialogue. That works out to over a meg of text in a standard working week, and there aren't a lot of SNES games that have that much. 30 days? We're talking over 5 megs worth of text there, and that's subtracting 8 days worth for weekends. That's enough for several SNES RPGs.