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General Discussion / Re: English Retranslation Hopes for FF8 Update: Cancelled, unless...?
« on: 2024-07-20 11:14:35 »
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General Discussion / Is anyone working on this kind of mod?
« on: 2024-07-20 11:12:16 »
In this video it says that Squall is inappropriately translated SEVERAL times from Japanese to English, where they mistranslate so many responses to "Whatever". It would be awesome if this is something on the list to get fixed.
https://youtu.be/YSavCIms638?feature=shared
I'd also like to add that it doesn't necessarily have to be a 1:1 translation. In other words, context is important. So in some cases he could say "Why is she bothering me?" or "Is this really important?" or "Do we really have to listen to this?" or "Great, here we go..." or "Pardon me". There are so many ways things can be written and make the dialogue way more interesting but stay close to the original intent.
https://legendsoflocalization.com/squalls-whatever-line-in-japanese-final-fantasy-viii/
https://youtu.be/YSavCIms638?feature=shared
I'd also like to add that it doesn't necessarily have to be a 1:1 translation. In other words, context is important. So in some cases he could say "Why is she bothering me?" or "Is this really important?" or "Do we really have to listen to this?" or "Great, here we go..." or "Pardon me". There are so many ways things can be written and make the dialogue way more interesting but stay close to the original intent.
https://legendsoflocalization.com/squalls-whatever-line-in-japanese-final-fantasy-viii/
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WIP / WIP New Music Mod in the works
« on: 2024-07-20 08:20:30 »
I recently decided to compile a a personal playlist of all the best FF8 remakes in existence, and found a few were missing or lacking, so I decided to remake some of them myself. Now I want to add them into a mod and want to make sure I have everything covered before I go further.
1:The first thing is I want to make sure all the tracks are covered. So far I have everything replaced in a folder except for the following files:
tracks 002s, 003s, 006s, 010s, 011s, 030s-034s, 037s-040s, 043s-045s, 050s, 074s, 087s, 088s, 094s, 095s, and 098s.
I realize some of these may be trivial or not even used by the game, but it would still be interesting to look at them (the curious musician in me wants to know). So hopefully I can extract the vanilla files and find out. Mybe they are missing completely or unused. Either way I want to know. Does the FF8Audio tool extract these music files? if so what format are they and what can they be converted to?
2: I have all the tracks I've chosen converted to OGG and renamed to the correct file names. The next thing I need to know is: Do I need to mark a loop on them and how is that done?
3: Finally, how do I get them in the game? Is OGG good enough as long as it's in the right folder?
4: As a bonus here are some of the tracks I remade for this mod.
https://soundcloud.com/josie-lewis-46777343/sets/ffviii-covers?si=9fa47e1f16934961b74ca22ad7ef0621&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
EDIT: I guess I should also add that some of the tracks I have are way long (12 to 20 minutes) and I'd like to chop them down to properly loop them instead of them being looped into a gigantic file. I see no reason why a file should be 20 minutes long if the original is way shorter. This is why I think they need to have loop marks designated for each file or you can end up with really long play music files like a few I've seen.
1:The first thing is I want to make sure all the tracks are covered. So far I have everything replaced in a folder except for the following files:
tracks 002s, 003s, 006s, 010s, 011s, 030s-034s, 037s-040s, 043s-045s, 050s, 074s, 087s, 088s, 094s, 095s, and 098s.
I realize some of these may be trivial or not even used by the game, but it would still be interesting to look at them (the curious musician in me wants to know). So hopefully I can extract the vanilla files and find out. Mybe they are missing completely or unused. Either way I want to know. Does the FF8Audio tool extract these music files? if so what format are they and what can they be converted to?
2: I have all the tracks I've chosen converted to OGG and renamed to the correct file names. The next thing I need to know is: Do I need to mark a loop on them and how is that done?
3: Finally, how do I get them in the game? Is OGG good enough as long as it's in the right folder?
4: As a bonus here are some of the tracks I remade for this mod.
https://soundcloud.com/josie-lewis-46777343/sets/ffviii-covers?si=9fa47e1f16934961b74ca22ad7ef0621&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
EDIT: I guess I should also add that some of the tracks I have are way long (12 to 20 minutes) and I'd like to chop them down to properly loop them instead of them being looped into a gigantic file. I see no reason why a file should be 20 minutes long if the original is way shorter. This is why I think they need to have loop marks designated for each file or you can end up with really long play music files like a few I've seen.
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Releases / Re: [FF8:Remastered] Darz FMV's - 4k Upscaled
« on: 2024-01-19 08:01:29 »
I know this might be a little late but there is a program by Topaz labs that does upscaling to 4K beautifully. I use it all the time on videos. It is GPU intensive though but the results are phenomenal. It's called Topaz Video AI and it has the ability to add frames for increased FPS if you know how to. Or if that's too hard to figure out you can always use Davinci Resolve to adjust FPS for smoother play. I do this all day.
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