I wish to get a Spanish (Latin America) translation working. Where to start?

[dravenlh4]

Hi!

I am licensed English-Spanish translator (from South America), and I would love to work on a Latam Spanish language pack, since the final update for SH2EE has been released as of now and many text strings have changed to accomodate to those modifications. The available official Spanish language is serviceable enough, but since there's an excellent updated Castillian (Spain) pack available, I would love to work on one for us, latin-american players.

Where should I start? I know my basic translation software but I'm not familiar with the tools needed to edit those ".mes" files I see. I would appreciate any guidance.

EDIT: Found the translation guide doc file... reading it...

Cheers, and congrats on this grand milestone!

[Polymega]

Hi there,

Just a heads-up that the person who made the Castilian translation pack also re-did the entire official Spanish language in the game. His work for Latin American Spanish is included in our project and replaces the game's original Spanish language files.

[dravenlh4]

Hi,

Yes. From what I understand, a lot of the now-present Spanish files have been updated, as I have read, to make up for a "neutral" experience for any Spanish speaker, by the same folks who worked on the Castillian translation.

While a lot of it is great, there's some stuff that may have been overlooked, like some expressions, names for things, adjectives or cases of structural verb tense that are more common in Spain but not so much over here (most noticeable in notes, newspapers and riddles found throughout the game, and also during exploration, things like interactive objects or some dialogues).

Just to give an example, there is this "Dear Tim" note, where "to run errands" is used. In the game it reads "hacer recados" in the current Spanish option, but in Latin America (where "recado" is related to given messages) we would say "hacer mandados". That's one of the many discrepancies found, which is reasonable enough, to be honest.

So yeah, if not an issue, I would still love to give it a go.

[danuffo]

Hi,

Yes. From what I understand, a lot of the now-present Spanish files have been updated, as I have read, to make up for a "neutral" experience for any Spanish speaker, by the same folks who worked on the Castillian translation.

While a lot of it is great, there's some stuff that may have been overlooked, like some expressions, names for things, adjectives or cases of structural verb tense that are more common in Spain but not so much over here (most noticeable in notes, newspapers and riddles found throughout the game, and also during exploration, things like interactive objects or some dialogues).

Just to give an example, there is this "Dear Tim" note, where "to run errands" is used. In the game it reads "hacer recados" in the current Spanish option, but in Latin America (where "recado" is related to given messages) we would say "hacer mandados". That's one of the many discrepancies found, which is reasonable enough, to be honest.

So yeah, if not an issue, I would still love to give it a go.

Hello, I could help.

I have recently finished my Latinamerican Spanish translation for Silent Hill 4 (PlayStation 2), and I know Silent Hill 2 in the console also has .mes files, I will be releasing it soon on romhacking.net, blog and any other good place I can find.

I will try by myself later because it's the same idea I got, but if you wish to team up, just tell me.

[dravenlh4]

Hello, I could help.

I have recently finished my Latinamerican Spanish translation for Silent Hill 4 (PlayStation 2), and I know Silent Hill 2 in the console also has .mes files, I will be releasing it soon on romhacking.net, blog and any other good place I can find.

I will try by myself later because it's the same idea I got, but if you wish to team up, just tell me.

Yo. I just saw this! I recently figured how to mess with the .mes files and I've been experimenting a little. I would definitely love to team up, tho.

I just looked up your username on Discord. Mine is "fandreios".