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Media coverage following news of Playism's Western Touhou release
Romantique Tp:
Earlier patches took way longer. Out of the patches by gensokyo.org only the UFO and GFW patches took less time to complete.
Leon゠Helsing:
Speaking of thcrap, how's it doing nowadays?
Tengukami:
--- Quote from: Not Bigode on May 09, 2015, 03:12:33 PM ---What? English patches used to take months to come out. With thcrap you can play with a basic english translation just days after the game's release. Static patches aren't made anymore because they're obsolete, not because there's no interest in getting the games translated. The community is translating the official games faster than ever, so please don't say it's not a priority.
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Then I must be misremembering, but some English patches seemed to come out pretty quickly, like in a timeframe of weeks. But again, this could just be myopic hindsight.
And I wasn't taking a jab at thcrap. I use them myself, nor do I think translating isn't a priority, as all the work being done on the wiki attests.
mauve:
I was with GSO, and aside from the 12.8 which was a bit rushed for a 9/9 release(har har), most of the mainline games took 2~3 months, and the fighters around 6-9. The most time consuming aspect was not usually the translation itself, but editing, verifying, and getting all the images edited. (In the case of the fighting games, there's a hell of a lot more text scattered in there than you'd think.)
Which I would not consider terribly slow, but people are impatient these days, so whatever.
Tengukami:
--- Quote from: mauve on May 09, 2015, 06:30:08 PM ---I was with GSO, and aside from the 12.8 which was a bit rushed for a 9/9 release(har har), most of the mainline games took 2~3 months, and the fighters around 6-9. The most time consuming aspect was not usually the translation itself, but editing, verifying, and getting all the images edited. (In the case of the fighting games, there's a hell of a lot more text scattered in there than you'd think.)
Which I would not consider terribly slow, but people are impatient these days, so whatever.
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Huh, well I'll be. Guess I did shrink the timeline looking back!