Monster Girl Quest

Hi everyone, sorry for no updates on the main page last month. I do post in the comments and on the 4chan /vg/ thread sometimes, plus I’m always on Rizon in #mgq if you’ve ever wondering whether I’ve fallen off the face of the Earth or not.

Torotoro recently released his big 1.10 patch for Paradox, but there were further bugs that he says will be fixed shortly with 1.11. In order to avoid excessive duplication of effort, I’m waiting for 1.11 for the next English translation patch. Hopefully that will be in a few days. MGL has been doing a superb job getting through skills, items, and other gameplay descriptions.

I’ve seen scattered offers for help, but I often miss them (or I reply and the offeror misses the reply). If you’re interested in helping out with the translation, your best bets are to either send a message to Dargoth on Rizon IRC or email me at h.dargoth@gmail.com . You don’t have to be fluent or even nearly fluent at Japanese to help translate. I’m certainly not. Being good at writing in English is much more important. I could also really use someone to help convert reused H-scenes from MGQ to Paradox, which requires little or no Japanese knowledge. It’s mostly just a copy/paste job that will require fixing typos and cleaning up any rough edges.

In other news, the official MGQ English version that Torotoro released awhile back does NOT use Rogue’s translation. It seems kind of crazy that he had the entire first chapter re-translated, especially since the new translation is definitely worse than Rogue’s. It isn’t Engrish bad, but it’s nowhere near good either.

Edit: Thanks to people that sent me emails offering to help. I’ve been busy this weekend and will get back to you this week.

Didn’t get as much done as I wanted, but this patch includes all the map content that was translated in the demo along with lots of abilities, skills, racial traits, etc. H-scenes are conspicuously absent, but we’ll probably patch again in April with more.

Torotoro’s improvements from his patch 1.02.01 aren’t incorporated into this patch yet. If you use his, it’ll untranslate some of the menu stuff, but otherwise shouldn’t conflict. Speaking of 1.02.01, new patch naming format since Torotoro copied mine…

Sorry for the lack of a readme.

Patch only compatible with version 1.02 of Paradox. You’ll need a fresh copy of the game. Don’t try to patch a previously patched version (it shouldn’t even let you). Also, make sure Torotoro’s 1.02.01 patch.rb isn’t in the /Patch directory when you try to patch. You need the regular 1.02 patch.rb in there. Just copy your saves over, there won’t be any problems. Party member names from saves still won’t be translated properly. We’ll get that fixed in the next patch hopefully.

This isn’t tested much so hopefully it works! You guys know the drill by now.

English patch 1.02a: https://mega.co.nz/#!zcYj2S4L!eyKrr0mbxH54RKTU5IWEvtychkXS1nkMCiGQbqD9i48
Backup: https://anonfiles.com/file/70050b789964250abc442cafb997b9c2

Alternative method if the patcher is giving you problems (e.g., out of memory, wrong version when you know you have 1.02):
1. Download an RPGMaker decrypter
2. Decrypt all files in Game.rgss3a
3. Move decrypted files into game directory, overwrite when asked
4. Rename/delete/move Game.rgss3a so it doesn’t conflict with the decrypted files
5. Move and overwrite these patched data files

Mega: https://mega.co.nz/#!GIBCjTiL!qwuEVRDf7aF_RXiTLkU01PUQ_YBTe0abylM6E_81dao
Anon: https://anonfiles.com/file/fe1443b0444d75daddd894f60f17efbe

Torotoro’s end of the month update comes with a special surprise, a preview video for Paradox!

You can view his blog update with links to the video on Niconico and a direct download link: http://b.dlsite.net/RG07939/archives/51730313.html

Video translation: http://pastebin.com/4dHXNA0R

Other things to note:
Promestein: Yes, I’d love to observe you… No, I want to help you.
Sonya responds with: you mean you want to turn Luka into a guinea pig?
promestein says she can inject something to turn bunni into a rabbit
bunni asks “oh yes, it must be carrot elixir”
promestein starts to explain DNA and then gives up and agrees with her
Brunhilde says she’s supposed to wake up at the end of the world and protect it
Sylph shown as a regular party member.

No release date yet, but “coming soon.” It says there will be approximately 230 monster races to choose from. Over 500 enemies, all of whom can become allies. Approximately 140 jobs. That’s probably for the entire Paradox trilogy and not just the first part though.

Demo translation is wrapping up too… Eventually. (Not never)

In the interest of getting something out there for people who want to play immediately, I’m releasing an incredibly bare bones translation of the interface, items/skills/etc., and the first few minutes of story.

First, you need an RPG Maker Decrypter. There are a few of these, but this one is good: http://rpgcrisis.net/forums/files/file/65-rgssad-rgss2a-rgss3a-decrypter/

If you’re having issues with that one, try this: http://www.mediafire.com/?xweoqp2ieep5mxv

1. Download and extract MGQ Paradox Demo into a directory. To avoid locale issues, you should probably rename the directory so that it does not contain Japanese characters.

2. Decrypt!
2a. Run the tool I linked.
2b. File->Open File, pick Game.rgss3a.
2c. Tools->Extract All Files
2d. Success! Close the decrypter.

3. Move decrypted Data and Graphics files from Extract to the game’s base directory, overwriting all duplicates in the game’s original Data and Graphics directories.

4. Delete or rename Game.rgss3a or you’ll get an error on launching the game.

5. Extract the patch into the game’s base directory, adding a Translation folder and overwriting Game.ini.

6. Launch Game.exe. That’s it!

Get v0.2: http://dargothtranslations.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/monster-girl-quest-paradox-demo-translation-v0-2/