Shenmue Gai conference translation

[Axm]

If any of you havent seen the press conference yet here it is:

Shenmue Gai Premiere Playlist (7 parts)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... e=bf-title

I imagine alot of you want to know more details about what was exactly said during the presentation past what sites have reported on. So using what Japanese I know and with further help from my wife, ive put together a rough translation of key bullet points in order from what they were discussing.
So far ive been able to do the first video. I'll try and do the rest when possible. If anyone else can translate well enough for the rest id appriciate that aswell.

Part 1

-The story of Shenmue takes place in a relitively peaceful time in the 1980's
-Player's will work with Ryo Hazuki towards accomplishing his goals
-Theirs three basic types of user selectable characters in Shenmue Gai.
-Kenshi: Use martial arts solely. Karate and Kung Fu
-Kishi: Use tools/weapons are "street fighters"
-Shenshi: Use magic
-Male or Female is selectable regardless of class type
-The fighting gameplay is similar to a more complex rock paper scissors (kinda like Pokemon)
-This will be a "social" fighting type game as you progress in the story
-The user is essentially playing through Shenmue 1's story. Supporting it in a new manner.
-The player starts out as a student of the Hazuki Dojo
-You can play with Ryo
-Yu Suzuki is adding some original untold side stories that were unable to make it into the original dreamcast game
-In My Page you can choose to "Explore", "Event", "Train or learn moves"
-At the momment Shenmue Gai will feature a total of 31 stages
-Character NPC's give new events to users
-Character NPC's can teach moves to the user, expanding the move list until you become a master
-Players will clear events to proceed to the next stage, this will usually end with a boss.
-You can choose which events you want to do when you obtain them
-Kung Fu is not selectable to use at first but rather later on in the game because it contains secret moves
-Players will have an ID card for themselves their Dojo and players that are a part of the Dojo
-Once you are able to own and build up your own Dojo, you can participate in multiplayer battles
-Dojo's have ranks and fight against other Dojo's
-If you dont play the game often, your Dojo rank with regressively go down

[zachthezombie]

cool nice work

[Panda_rapist]

sidestory's that didnt make it into the game sounds interesting, also the fact that if you dont play the game for a while your level go's down is pretty sneaky

[Segata Sanshiro]

Everything sounds great

Games like Mafia Wars and Ogame show how addicted people can get to this kind of games. One can only hope that the same happens with Shenmue Gai.

[UnHoly Bible]

This is very cool.

[dotsona]

Hmm I can't view the videos, says they are set to private.

[Peter]

Great job on the translations Alex!


I have no interest in playing this at all, but im absolutely over the moon at the potential this has, particularly in the Japanese market. If it takes off over there, then its a certainty Sega will try and resurrect Shenmue over here in the West, and that surely means Xbox/PSN release of Shenmue

[Axm]

Thanks guys.
Well now this is really tragic now isnt it... the user who uploaded video has set them to private and we can no longer view them.
Has anyone managed to save them?
I know we have another member out there, Segata Sanshiro, who is planning on posting more. I hope that can still be done.

[Ziming]

Thanks guys.
Well now this is really tragic now isnt it... the user who uploaded video has set them to private and we can no longer view them.
Has anyone managed to save them?
I know we have another member out there, Segata Sanshiro, who is planning on posting more. I hope that can still be done.

I'll have the videos provided by Segata Sanshiro up by later today or tomorrow.

[Axm]

Ok great fantastic!

[Ziming]

Ok great fantastic!

Would you be interested in doing some translations for each video? Subtitling the entire Shenmue Gai premiere is alot of work, but it shouldn't be too difficult to translate just the important parts. You would use the videos I uploaded and provide translations at specific points throughout the duration of each video. Example below:

Open a notepad:

2:34-2:39
(translation text)

4:18-4:23
(translation text)

6:40-6-44
(translation text)

After translating save the notepad with the same file name as the youtube video then send it to me. I'll add the translations directly to the video using annotations or as an srt file.

Edit: 7 parts uploaded and added to a playlist.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... e=bf-title

[Peter]

Is it possible to subtitle the actual videos? That wuld be the pinnacle surely?

[Ziming]

Is it possible to subtitle the actual videos? That wuld be the pinnacle surely?

It's possible as Youtube allows you to add .srt files or overlay annotations. The only problem is finding someone to do the cumbersome task of translating and timing it.

[Peter]

if there was a possibility of a line for line translation, id definitely look into getting software to add the txt. It would be some work, but it would be worth it. I wish there was a subtitled Project Berkley video. Ive wished for one for years.

[Axm]

Sorry guys, been so busy. Always am these days. I'll try and get around to more with my wife but it takes awhile to do it. Id love to get it done word for word. But if anyone else can that would be awesome too.