Hello and welcome to my little pet project, a fan translation of the Radical Dreamers SNES/SatellaView game. The original english translation was put out by Demiforce, and now I'm working on my own.

This isn't being done by a group of people. So far, it's me doing the text editing and plugging with utunnels graciously posting original translations. This project was started to aid with therapy while I combat post-traumatic stress disorder, and has become quite an intense pet-project of mine. However, without a complete retranslation made available I am only able to change things in a limited scale.

So don't consider this a PERFECTIONIST translation until some kind soul decides to help me with a retranslation!

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Here's the story behind this:

One January day... I read a particularly enlightening article, hosted here: http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Radical_Dreamers_Translation_Differences.html. I was quite taken by the work put into it and started to repatch the RD script as a pet project. For fun, I decided to submit it to the forums for people to look at, even if it never becomes popular.

This is part of daily therapy as I combat post-traumatic stress disorder, to try and ready myself again for re-entry into college. So this is emulating homework on my part, where I do at least 30 minutes of work a day either rescripting or beta testing.

Graciously, utunnels has given me that aforemented guide and also posted a few notes for me in the original thread. As differences are pointed out, I go back and tweak.

This patch is called the 'Double D' patch for the fact Kid has become 'Kidd', since personally I never felt 'Kid' is a real name. (Perfectionists may hate me here, because in the native language her name is still Kid. I might, when finished, release a fix for people this bothers so her name is back to the native spelling.)

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You can download this and use it as I go along and work. Anything you see that ought to be changed would be a great help to me, if you should post it here. I will keep a list of changes and credits which will be entered into the final 'Readme' for this particular patch.
Remember, you need to provide your own unpatched Radical Dreamers ROM. This is only the patch. I will not, for legal issues, provide the ROM or the patched ROM in any circumstance, but you can easily find it via Google Search.
Run the EXE 'sour.exe' in the same folder of your ROM and go!

For people interested I have included the script-e.txt and the official encoder from DemiForce. You can then, if you please, compare it to the original and get an idea of how to edit things yourself. It's actually really easy when you learn the text, it's a bit like HTML!

For now, the Readme ReadME! is the first version writ for the original beta release of my patch. When I release a stable version this will include the full list of version changes and any credits due, and possibly become pretty. No promises on that though.

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Download the versions here! (Newest will be listed at top, click on the bold, italicized text for the download)

All patches are hosted on my premium account at Rapidshare. However, if mirrors are eventually added they'll be listed here. If someone needs zip instead of rars, ask and I will supply.

CURRENT RELEASE - Version 0.2
Details: Includes several wording changes and new breaks in text. Overall gameplay is still the same. Here's the changes -

Kid becomes 'Kidd'
Date and Spacing fixed in opening
Kidd's habit of growing extra D's has all been fixed.
In the Red Book, strange symbol appeared instead of it's. Changed to it is (still needs testing)
Goblin Battle 'Knife in Eye' needed a cleartext
Edited Nail File into 'Industrial Files'
Added detail to Mouth of Truth awakening
Tidied explination of Old Man in Catacombs
Fixed line 'She won't realized'
Venus's speech has a new Cleartext

Another Cleartext added to Kidd's offer to Serge

Major script changes:

Overhaul of the final meeting with Venus, taken from utunnel's raw translation. Going to go test this ASAP.
Not-so-major, but I fixed the 'Le Text Speed?' screen to English.

Original BETA release 0.0
Details: Original release. Runs stable, but has many over-length paragraphs and spelling issues. Considered to be the experimental launching pad.

Changes from the original are slight. Thus, credit to DemiForce is maintained since it is using that as a backbone here.
Most notable, the books in the library are rewritten. All the translation differences from utunnels's article have been inserted without editing, to test the system and learn the codes.

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Here's the projected future for this as of Jan/09/2009:

Continue beta-testing. Pass through ALL scenes to make sure nothing has accidentally altered or broken.
Add any script changes posted or noted by a translator must have details. See note at bottom of post.
Keep a list of errors and fix them ASAP
Flesh out and alter a few lines to make the text more interesting, yet ACCURATE, for originality.
Keep an eye on Kidd's accent, LOL! And also learn to stop turning Magil into Magus in the text.

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