"Dragon Ball Online" Discussion Thread

[DNA]

Old habits die hard my friend. I've manage to completely eliminate every single dub name from the dub I had here in Portugal, but the result is that I either have to explain myself when referring to a character, or resort to using the dub name once again. It's just how it is.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

There seems to be a new update that upgrades the scouters.

[omegalucas]

Old habits die hard my friend. I've manage to completely eliminate every single dub name from the dub I had here in Portugal, but the result is that I either have to explain myself when referring to a character, or resort to using the dub name once again. It's just how it is.

Me too. I no longer associate the name Satan with the character Piccolo. Interestingly, my younger cousin got used to the Funi terms when refering to the characters because of the games (mainly Tenkaichi 3). It annoying to hear him talk while using such terms as Vegeta (scouter) or Goku (mid).

[DNA]

Me too. I no longer associate the name Satan with the character Piccolo. Interestingly, my younger cousin got used to the Funi terms when refering to the characters because of the games (mainly Tenkaichi 3). It annoying to hear him talk while using such terms as Vegeta (scouter) or Goku (mid). :wtf:

That does sound obnoxious >_<

[Herms]

It's pretty sad that he had to do that just to please people who get irked by something like name translations. And, it's not even the fact that the names are different, it's more or less the spellings. That's pretty sad, even for this fandom.

No, it's not just the spellings. Well OK, some of it is. "Kuririn" versus "Krillin" is a spelling issue; one spelling is closer to the name pun, but both are valid romanizations. Where it gets problematic is with Funi dub terms that are mistranslations, or just completely different from the original names. "Muten Roushi" does not mean "Master Roshi", Kikouhou translates roughly as "Ki-Control Cannon" rather than "Tri-Beam", Dende is the God of Earth and not the Guardian of Earth, etc etc. These are all things the Funi dub gets wrong, but also all things which the Viz translation of the manga gets right. There's no actual reason why an English fan should be unfamiliar with the correct terms. I think everybody naturally wants an English translation of this game to be accurate, and it's hard to be accurate if you deliberately mistranslate certain names and terminology just to be consistent with an old mistranslated version of the series.

[hleV]

They go with what they like (old, non-Kai dub), not with what's more appropriate.

[VegettoEX]

I think there are some great examples right there that show how English has become this defacto "second language" for Dragon Ball fandom, since we've thrust our English language onto so many others of you internationally.

You have all these folks coming from different countries and different backgrounds (and different localizations of the series), but the common thread is "we all can at least sorta read English". Why should these poor folks have to deal with what dudes in Texas decided 17 years ago? Lord knows I'd hate to have to deal with "Satan Petit-Cœur" in everything I came across.

If English is going to be the second language everyone's coming to, and the game's not even originally an English product, why should the "localization" be subject to some other localization's mistakes?

[DNA]

I agree with you completely. I don't mind that English is the 'official' second language of Dragon Ball because it actually kind of is. According to Toriyama himself, everyone speaks English in the Dragon World, right? But it should be correctly translated and adapted.

It's like you say, I've got Portuguese friends who use Portuguese dub names and then I've got Portuguese friends who use English dub names. I'm the only one who really uses the correct romanizations as best as I can and I've been trying to lead my friends to use it as well, but like I said, old habits die hard. At least most of them have started using Kuririn... It's a start ^^

[Insertclevername]

According to Toriyama itself, everyone speaks English in the Dragon World, right? But it should be correctly translated and adapted.

Wait, he seriously said that?!

[DBZGTKOSDH]

According to Toriyama itself, everyone speaks English in the Dragon World, right? But it should be correctly translated and adapted.

Why is this the first time I hear that?

[DNA]

I'm sure I've read it before in an interview. Can someone verify that for me?

[mysticboy]

I'm sure I've read it before in an interview. Can someone verify that for me?

I think I remember him saying that too, but I can't verify it though.

[Herms]

I'm sure I've read it before in an interview. Can someone verify that for me?

It's news to me.

[Kaboom]

I could swear that Eiichiro Oda's said that about the world of One Piece, and if so then maybe that's what you're thinking of? I can't track down a source though, so maybe I'm mistaken.

[backthen]

http://dbocom.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32447

The Language Patcher also allows for 3 different tiers of translation files: translations.txt, alternate_translations.txt, and prefered_translations.txt. These files allow users to set the priority of certain translations, and the relation between them is as follows:

prefered_translations.txt > translations.txt > alternate_translations.txt

Looks like you can get the correct translations.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

English Patch Version 2 is released, containing 5.8% of the game translated.
With the pace the translation is going, I believe we will have the complete patch before 2014.

[Saiga]

English Patch Version 2 is released, containing 5.8% of the game translated.
With the pace the translation is going, I believe we will have the complete patch before 2014.

Oh, neat. Really looking forward to it!

[Saimaroimaru]

English Patch Version 2 is released, containing 5.8% of the game translated.
With the pace the translation is going, I believe we will have the complete patch before 2014.

Excuse my ignorance but is that fast for fan translation mmo projects or is that average?

[Raykugen]

If there are so many people in this project, is it so difficult to commish a person who knows korean and could translate it?

[hunterxhunter21]

English Patch Version 2 is released, containing 5.8% of the game translated.
With the pace the translation is going, I believe we will have the complete patch before 2014.

Sorry for not knowing the answer to this, but I have not kept up on DBO news. How can the patch go from only being 5.8% complete go finished in less than a year? Are there more people working on it now? The oldest update on the site is from Aug 11. If it took atleast a year and a half to get to only 5.8%, how can the other 94.2% get done before 2014? I'm just curious about the project and at the same time excited. Thanks for all the hard work you guys have put into this.