FFVII: Shinra Archaeology Cut

[Thestrifeisrife]

Great to see this project not losing any steam!

Thanks for all your work!

Good timing, we just released version 0.43 lol. Gonna hot the end of disc 1 before we know it.

[Thestrifeisrife]

Considering how frequent progress is getting, i probably don't need to update the thread every time, but version 0.44 is out now lol. This update has the date scene retranslated.

[manwithamachinegun]

I have to say, really looking forward to being able to play the whole game with this retranslation. I loved watching Tim Rogers "Let's Mosey" series about a lot of the missing meaning from the English script, but I applaud the team for keeping the iconic English lines. The spirit of the original game is there in the Shinra Archaeology Cut, and some of the new lines had me rolling laughing.

[Thestrifeisrife]

Version 0.5 is out now, bringing us all the way to the end of Disc 1. I'd say that puts us at about 70% of the way there, since most NPC text for Disc 2 has already been translated as well.

[Marchombre]

Could anyone help me with the new puzzle from the mayor in the Shinra building ? I must be stupid, I don't see how the strategy from looking at displaced archives and the numbers given to them actually gives clues the password.... I get unuseful letters, I'm doing something wrong here...

[Thestrifeisrife]

Could anyone help me with the new puzzle from the mayor in the Shinra building ? I must be stupid, I don't see how the strategy from looking at displaced archives and the numbers given to them actually gives clues the password.... I get unuseful letters, I'm doing something wrong here...

We changed the way the puzzle works a bit compared with the original English version. Instead of looking at the letter the number points to, you should be looking at the word it points to.

i.e., if you find the document titled "7   Private Proposal from Heidegger for Special Shinra Public Security Act", the word it's pointing to is "Shinra." Once you've found all four words, you can make a password phrase out of the word options domino gives you, such as "Shinra Company the worst."

[Marchombre]

A Big thank you ! I must have tried every combination except this one 

[Thestrifeisrife]

A Big thank you ! I must have tried every combination except this one 

One of the shortcomings of our implementation is that anyone with English grammar sense would want it to be "Shinra is the worst," but the Japanese equivalent has a different character as the second letter than the one we chose to make "is," so we had to opt for "company" instead.