Posted by Kitsune Sniper (mxli-TNTarbol3-121.telnor.net/200.56.109.121) on March 18, 2002 at 20:32:01
In Response to Re: I think this says it all pretty much: posted by MO on March 18, 2002 at 20:24:37:
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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.
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> Well, if push came to shove, I guess I *could* do it...especially if I was being paid... ;-) Prolly not in a week though, but that prolly has more to do with my overthinking translations then anything else...
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> Which leads to a good question...anyone know what the rate of pay is for translating an RPG? Either back in the day or nowadays for the Next Gen consoles?
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> -MO
I'm interested in this too - particularly because my college major is translation. :)