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Old July 21st, 2014 (11:32 PM).
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Title says it all.

I've seen quite a few hacks that look quite promising, but they are either in Spanish or German, and it got me wondering, how difficult would it be to translate these hacks to English?

Or to translate an English hack to another language, for that matter.

Any feedback is appreciated~!
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Old July 22nd, 2014 (12:19 AM).
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It would be very easy (assuming you speak the language) but very time consuming. After all, the only thing you're doing is text editing.
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Old July 22nd, 2014 (1:12 AM).
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It would be very easy (assuming you speak the language) but very time consuming. After all, the only thing you're doing is text editing.
Okay, then how about this...

How difficult would it be to create a language patch for a hack? Would it simply be a matter of creating an IPS patch based on the hack, instead of a clean rom?

Also, do you know of anyone (or any teams) that take translation requests? There are a few Spanish roms I'd like to try, but I don't speak any languages aside from English.
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Old July 22nd, 2014 (3:33 AM).
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Easy but sometimes pain in the ass...

As for your second question, yes, you just translate a ROM and then create an IPS of your ROM.
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Okay, then how about this...

How difficult would it be to create a language patch for a hack? Would it simply be a matter of creating an IPS patch based on the hack, instead of a clean rom?

Also, do you know of anyone (or any teams) that take translation requests? There are a few Spanish roms I'd like to try, but I don't speak any languages aside from English.
I mean, I know spanish but I wouldn't translate a hack because it's very time consuming. I don't think you'll find many people that are willing to.
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I mean, I know spanish but I wouldn't translate a hack because it's very time consuming. I don't think you'll find many people that are willing to.
Okay, thank for you taking the time to reply~

Guess I'll have to either learn Spanish or stick to English hacks.
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I might recommend copying and pasting in Google Translate. It would be time consuming but it would get the job done!
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Old July 23rd, 2014 (2:58 PM).
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I might recommend copying and pasting in Google Translate. It would be time consuming but it would get the job done!
Google translate isn't very good. It's good for short stuff, but with stuff like this, it's not gonna work.
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Old July 23rd, 2014 (3:53 PM).
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I might recommend copying and pasting in Google Translate. It would be time consuming but it would get the job done!
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Google translate isn't very good. It's good for short stuff, but with stuff like this, it's not gonna work.
^ I tried this once already. There are a lot of images and such that aren't able to be edited in this way either.

Regardless, thank you for the reply~

I've given up on playing hacks in other languages for the time being. I might try to learn another language or two later, but for now I'll just stick to English hacks.
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Old July 24th, 2014 (1:20 AM).
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Google translate isn't very good. It's good for short stuff, but with stuff like this, it's not gonna work.
It IS gonna work =D
You just need to convert the pseudo-English from uncle Google to normal English and then give it to translator checker.
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Completly depends on the knowledge of those languages.
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Old August 11th, 2014 (2:53 AM).
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I guess you would hire some1 that knows both languages.
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