Post subject: "Morimoto About SMB Movie" page translation corrections
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I just stumbled across this page by chance while browsing the wiki, and while I realize it's an old page that probably gets viewed once in a blue moon, I feel I can improve significantly on the translation and clear things up in a couple spots. Unfortunately the page doesn't seem to be editable, so I'll post it here in case any staff member wants to update the page:
2ちゃんのスレにはマリオと一緒に、緋蜂ノーミスムビと、 アリカのテトリスデスモードクリアのアドが貼ってありました。
An advertisement of Tetris Death Mode Clear from Arika was pasted to the 2chan thread about Mario together with Hihati's no-miss movie.
I'd translate this as: "In the 2ch thread, together with Mario, a Hibachi no-miss movie and Arika's Tetris Death Mode Clear advertisement were posted." 緋蜂 is Hibachi, the true final boss of DoDonPachi DaiOuJou, a famously difficult shmup. Even getting to Hibachi is quite the accomplishment in itself, much less a no-miss against it. "No-miss" is actually Japanese shmup lingo for "never getting hit", I think it comes from a corruption of an abbreviation for "no-mistake" but I'm not sure. And Tetris Death Mode is referring to T.A. Death Mode in Arika's Tetris: The Grand Master 2 PLUS. At the time, it was widely considered to be by a country mile the hardest Tetris game ever commercially produced (although it would later be outdone by Tetris: The Grand Master 3 in 2005, which holds that distinction to this day).
オレはデスモードクリアできるんですわ。 っていうか結構初期のほうのマスターGmとかなんですね。
I can clear death mode. Saying like this, it's the master Gm of the way of the splendid beginning and such. (?)
I'm not entirely sure if I've gotten this right, but my interpretation is: "It's not like I said I can clear Death Mode, or that I was able to get Master Gm very quickly or something." Note that the "I" in "I can clear Death Mode" is "オレ", which (a) the author doesn't use anywhere else to refer to himself, and (b) generally comes off as overflowing with self-confidence. "Master Gm" refers to the Grandmaster rank in TGM2's Master Mode, also an incredibly tough feat to accomplish, probably even harder than clearing Death Mode.
んで彼は大往生の2周目もクリアしてる凄腕ゲーマーで、 実は緋蜂のノーミスは彼の依頼を受けて製作したのです。
... He is also second clearing resourceful gamer in Peaceful Death, and the no-miss of Hihati received and, to tell the truth, produced his request.
I'd translate this as: "And also the resourceful gamer who can clear the 2nd Loop of DaiOuJou, he actually recorded the Hibachi no-miss in response to a request." 大往生 is "DaiOuJou", short for DoDonPachi DaiOuJou. The subtitle literally translates to "peaceful death". 2周目 is official term for the 2nd Loop of DaiOuJou -- normally the game ends after the regular final boss, but if you've done extremely well up to that point, you go into the 2nd Loop, carrying over your remaining lives, score, etc. and starting over from the first stage, but with enemies' firepower drastically increased. Make it to the end of the 2nd Loop and you fight Hibachi after the final boss.
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2周目 is official term for the 2nd Loop of DaiOuJou -- normally the game ends after the regular final boss, but if you've done extremely well up to that point, you go into the 2nd Loop, carrying over your remaining lives, score, etc. and starting over from the first stage, but with enemies' firepower drastically increased. Make it to the end of the 2nd Loop and you fight Hibachi after the final boss.
You only carry your remaining lives over in Dodonpachi DaiOuJou Black Label. In Dodonpachi DaiOuJou (non black label, fan-nicknamed 'white label' to distinguish it) your lives get reset when you enter the second loop, and you earn them again by playing well. (Pretty much every other shmup's second loop preserves your lives. This is the only one I can think of to do something like this.) (I also don't know how to tell if a DaiOuJou clip is black label or not just from seeing the last stage.)
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Post subject: Re: "Morimoto About SMB Movie" page translation corrections
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The Wiki page linked to web archive showing what the page with the interview(?) looked like: http://web.archive.org/web/20040403201057/http://soramimi.egoism.jp/emu.htm The way the page is colored and structured, it appears as if there was more than one person involved in the production of the movie (Morimoto the TASer + someone who encoded it). Assuming so, Morimoto's comments are in red and the other person's comments are in white.
PoochyEXE wrote:
オレはデスモードクリアできるんですわ。 っていうか結構初期のほうのマスターGmとかなんですね。
I can clear death mode. Saying like this, it's the master Gm of the way of the splendid beginning and such. (?)
I'm not entirely sure if I've gotten this right, but my interpretation is: "It's not like I said I can clear Death Mode, or that I was able to get Master Gm very quickly or something."
I've been trying to translate everything again but I went over
ちょっと思い出したので。 第3者として読んだら面白いかもと思いまして。 自慢も入ってしまいますが、まぁこんな機会は滅多にないので、 イヤミっぽくなりますが、ぶっちゃけて書くことにします。
and
身内だったら知ってることなんですが。 オレはデスモードクリアできるんですわ。 っていうか結構初期のほうのマスターGmとかなんですね。
of which what you quoted was the last two lines. I find that those are very difficult for me to understand but are absolutely crucial to the context of the passage, to the point where I cannot tell if Morimoto (assuming he wrote this) is praising someone, or criticizing someone, or if he is actually part of the "Tetris group" and how much qualification he has in that regard, or if he is being sarcastic, or... (you get it). I am not a Japanese person. Most of everything else on that page is straightforward.
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Maybe if a link to this thread is put in the Japanese forum section, real Japanese people will easily resolve this?
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Sorry for not posting here sooner. Here are the translations I have so far. Some parts may still need a bit of tweaking.
基本的な解説。まずはよくある質問から
The basic explanation. First of all, the FAQ.


    ・ズルしてる?
Did you cheat?
	
    →ズルしています。エミュレータで30分の1秒まで落として動かしています。
Yes, I cheated. I slowed the emulator down to 1/30 of a second.
     ムービー記録中にセーブ、ロードを繰り返して収録しています。
I made the movie by repeatedly saving and loading during recording.
     危ないところの手前でセーブ、ミスしたらロードといった感じです。
Like this: Save before a dangerous place. If something goes wrong, then just reload.
     このムービーを見て「ゲームもうまくなればここまでできるようになるんだ!」 
     とか思った純粋な人の夢をぶち壊すようで非常に申し訳ないと思っています。
For those that merely thought "If I am good at this game, I can eventually play just like that",
and had their dream shattered, I am very sorry about that.
     前もって書いておくべきでした。
I should have written this beforehand.
	
    ・8Wのうずゾーンで手にさらわれないのは?
In the whirlpool zones of World 8, how come you are not grabbed by the hands? 
	
    →手が出てこないフレームを選んで回避しています。
I choose the frames on which the hands don't come out, to avoid them.

    ・1−3の白ブロックで裏に回っていないのに笛の部屋へ入ってる?
In 1-3, you don't go through the back of the white block, and yet you enter the flute house?
	
    →レバー斜め下でも裏に回れます。レバー斜め下の操作でもマリオは移動するので、
     真下にしばらく入れてから斜め下でBダッシュしています。
When pressing diagonally down, you can still go through the back. Furthermore, since Mario
is moving, then at the moment you enter the white block directly below, he is fully running.
     よく見ると白ブロックの右端でしっかり裏に回っています。
If you look carefully, I go through the back of the white block on the very edge.

    ・タイム表示が速くなったり遅くなったりしてる?
Why does the timer speed up or slow down?

    →画面のスクロールの際に起きる処理落ちです。Pダッシュ中は特に激しいです。
When the screen scrolls, the game starts to lag. It is especially severe during P-dash.

    ・戦車1の「?」ブロック直前でスパナに当たってる?
In Tank 1, didn't you get hit by a wrench right before the ? block.

    →エミュレータムービーは操作だけを記録しているということで、ご理解いただけると思います。
     胡散臭いですが当たっていません。当たらなかったのは奇跡ですが。
By looking at the movie recording, I can now understand how you see it.
It looks suspicious, but I did not get hit. It is a miracle that I did not get hit.

    ・戦車2の画面外近くで大砲に当たってる?
In Tank 2, didn't you get hit near the edge of the screen by a cannonball?
    →上の説明と同じです。当たらなかったのはゲームのシステムのおかげです。
     よくわかっていませんが、画面外ではマリオの判定が消えるようです。
Same explanation as above. It is how the game works that I did not get hit.
I don't fully understand, but at the edge, Mario's hit detection disappears.

    ・ファイアでクッパは死ぬの?
Bowser dies by fireball?
    →ブンブンはファイア5発、クッパは35発で倒せます。 
Boom Boom can be defeated by 5 fireballs, and Bowser by 35.
	
    ・8−1のクリアパネルできのこを取っているのは?
In 8-1, you take a mushroom on the panel?
    →お察しの通り5UPを避けるためにスターを回避しています。
As one would have guessed, I don't get a star in order to avoid 5UP.

    ・8砦の最後は壁抜けしたほうが早いのでは?
At the end of 8-Castle, is it faster to go through the wall?
    →壁抜けしないほうが早かったので、こちらを選びました。
Since it was faster not to go through the wall, I chose this route.
	
見解
Opinions

ということと、最近のフリーソフトを試したい(microsoft Windows Media Encorder,TMPEGencなど)
ためにこういう動画が出来上がって公表してしまいました。
Speaking of which, because I wanted to try some recent freeware (such as Windows Media Encoder and TMPEGenc),
this movie was finished and announced.
まじめに人の手によるプレイだと思われた方々に大変申し訳なく思っております。
To those who thought it was played by hand, I'm very sorry.
また、当方にはひたすらタイムアタックを追及した画像をエミュレーターなら作れるのではないか、
理想の動きをするマリオを見てみたい、との願望もありました。
Moreover, even if it took an emulator to pursue it, I earnestly desired to see an
perfect Mario play.
そういった経過からこの企画がスタートしているのをご了承願いたい。
Please understand that this is why I started the project.
あとがきで申し訳ございません。
In the end, I'm very sorry.

 

あと、製作者のコメント
Project maker's afterword

ちょっと思い出したので。
第3者として読んだら面白いかもと思いまして。
自慢も入ってしまいますが、まぁこんな機会は滅多にないので、
イヤミっぽくなりますが、ぶっちゃけて書くことにします。
I remember from before.
Reading it as a third party, I think it may be rather interesting.
It may be rather boastful, but since this chance is very rare, then I'll speak rather frankly, as if it were sarcasm.

2ちゃんのスレにはマリオと一緒に、緋蜂ノーミスムビと、
アリカのテトリスデスモードクリアのアドが貼ってありました。
んで書き込みで以下のようなものをときどき見かけました。
ログが残っていなかったのでうろ覚え。
On a 2ch thread, an ad for an Arika Tetris Death Mode Clear, along with a Hibachi No-Miss Movie was posted.
At times, statements like below can be seen. Since the log did not remain, I only remember vaguely.


>>マリオのは追記だからたいしたことない。
 それよりデスモードのクリアのほうがよっぽど価値がある。
>>Because of rerecording, Mario wasn't all that great.
The Death Mode Clear is so much more of worth.

身内だったら知ってることなんですが。
オレはデスモードクリアできるんですわ。
っていうか結構初期のほうのマスターGmとかなんですね。
で、テトリスやってる人達とはほとんど知り合いで、
あのデスムビのプレイヤーとも顔見知りです。
んで彼は大往生の2周目もクリアしてる凄腕ゲーマーで、
実は緋蜂のノーミスは彼の依頼を受けて製作したのです。
I would know if I was in his group.
"I can clear death mode!"
or rather, "he is a quite early master GM".
Just about everybody who plays Tetris is an acquaintance, and knows this Death Movie player.
And so, as the master gamer who cleared DaiOuJou 2nd Loop, he received a request to do Hibachi No Miss,
and actually did it.

考えてみると世間は狭いな。
ちなみにマリオを作るよりデスをクリアするほうが
難しいっていうのはあってます。自分は2年かかったし。
エミュムビは作るのは簡単ですからね。時間がかかるだけで。
If you think about it, the world is small.
By the way, it is correct to say that clearing Death Mode is more difficult than making Mario.
It took me two years. It is easy to make emulator movies. It just takes time.
 

ってな感じで。
That is his impression.