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Translating Bomberman Manuals
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Post#441  Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:38 am  Reply with quote +
Very nice!

I believe that Ragey used to have a scanned copy of the SB5 manual up on his site. For some strange reason, the link to his old Super Bomberman 5 page now redirects to his new Super Bomberman 1 page. I have the manual, but they're not my scans... They might be Dragon Bomber's or something; but whatever the case may be, I doubt the owner would mind me reuploading them.

Here is the manual, uploaded for a limited time.

As for the guidebook, there was a guy on the Bomberman Wiki who bought that a year or two ago and was helping out by adding information from it. He never scanned the whole thing, though. I have a smattering of pages from it that he sent me.

Here are a few pages from the SB5 guidebook, also uploaded for a limited time.

The guidebook is seriously lacking in artwork, compared to the previous SFC guidebooks.

As for the translation of the Super Bomberman 5 manual, I'm almost certain that The Wayback Machine still has it. Unfortunately, I've lost the link to the original site, so I can't get there! If you still have the link, please try using The Wayback Machine and if it works, post that link here. I would meticulously reread this entire thread and try to unearth the original site (if it was indeed posted here), but I d rather not face the stupidity of multiple younger versions of me across the span of several years.
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Post#442  Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:54 am  Reply with quote +
Thanks for the scans! In return, I believe this should be the link to that SB5 translation site on TWM.
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Post#443  Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 11:31 am  Reply with quote +
Awesome. Thanks! :cool: 
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Post#444  Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 11:35 am  Reply with quote +
Very cool stuff, guys! Always curious about more Hero finds.
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Post#445  Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 5:04 pm  Reply with quote +
The enemies from Primus Star.



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Post#446  Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 6:49 pm  Reply with quote +
I love me some Bomberman Hero but I forgot how weird a lot of the enemies are. :surprise: 
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Post#447  Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 1:41 am  Reply with quote +
Onto Kanatia Star.





I also made minor edits to the first page of the Bomber Star enemies, one to fix a romanization and the other to point out a pun/portmanteau we missed the first time. The new image is in the post I made before.
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Post#448  Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 3:15 am  Reply with quote +
The last one, Mazone!


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Post#449  Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 3:39 am  Reply with quote +
On a side note, I remember someone way earlier in this thread was complaining about the difficulties of scanning the books and such. (I know those feelings, bro.) The only way to get a nearly-perfect scan job is to debind the book (in other words, tear it apart and pull out the pages) and scan each page separately. Which sucks because these things are already kind of a hassle to get a hold of, so to have to destroy them for the sake of sharing them with the world is a bit :cry: -inducing. I've already debound the Bomberman 64 4-Koma Gag Battle book, and while my scan job this time around is much better than when I tried it several years ago, the bibliophile in me continues to be appalled that I did such a thing to one of my books. The thought of repeating the process for 14+ volumes of assorted Bombermanga is just A-GO-NY, A-GO-NY all around.

(There is a way to rebind debound books, but I've yet to try it out.)
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Post#450  Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 3:08 am  Reply with quote +
I haven't posted in here in a while. Anyway, something reminded me that Ragey posted the Saturn Bomberman Hudson Official Guidebook some time ago with no fanfare that I know of, and I figured that I would translate the enemy characters' descriptions. So here they are:

[Expand] Japanese Text

[Expand] English Text
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Post#451  Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:54 pm  Reply with quote +
So among other things, Ragey has uploaded the guidebook for Super Bomberman Panic Bomber W. It has actual art of Space Bomber! This is a little surprising, given that Bomberman Maniax only showed his in-game pixel art despite showing art of the World Bombers.

It also has some text describing him. I figured that I would translate it, but it didn't yield anything that interesting (only the relevant parts are here):

[Expand] Japanese

[Expand] English

So all we really have is:

1) He literally lives in space.

2) He's the one who really controlled the World Bombers, not Bagura. Well, that was already pretty obvious.

3) His lair is specifically called a space station.

4) The ending is described in detail. That stuff was pretty clear in the credits anyway.

If anybody is still wondering and never checked my article on the Wiki, Space Bomber's goal - which the guidebook decides to leave ambiguous - is apparently to either eat the world or its inhabitants (or both?). He uses the word "itadakimasu" which is something people say when they're about to eat something. It's probably an allusion to "To Serve Man".
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Post#452  Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 3:04 pm  Reply with quote +
Hello, so I did some editing on the manga pages present in the Super Bomberman 5 manual, just for fun. I didn't wanted to create a thread just for this, so i'm posting it here in case anyone is interested:

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The script is based on a translation I saw on the wiki, along with my own knowledge of japanese. I took some liberties to build a more concise dialogue too. The original scans are from DragonBomber.
I apologize if this isn't the appropriate place to post it.
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Post#453  Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 3:50 pm  Reply with quote +
Wow, very nice! :veryhappy: 

There's a small typo in one panel ("With the aid of your stenght") but other than that, it looks very polished.

Yeah I don't mind people hijacking my thread to post scanlations. :happy: 
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Post#454  Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 11:18 pm  Reply with quote +
I see! Sorry for that. Although my English is decent sometimes i make silly mistakes, since its not my native language. Thanks for pointing it out.

Anyway, I discarded this script almost entirely, because I decided to redo the whole translation. Here it is the updated version:

Spoiler:

Again I made some adaptations, but now it's very minimal. If someone wants to give it a shot, here's the transcript:

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Feedback is welcome, feel free to point whatever you guys find wrong. I'm planning to do the entire manual.
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Post#455  Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 1:15 am  Reply with quote +
Great, but... any particular reason why? It was already translated a long time ago. I think that translation took some liberties as well though.
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Post#456  Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 1:44 am  Reply with quote +
It's more about training my japanese than anything, I'm not even sure if I'll retranslate the entire manual (What I really meant is that I plan to do the same image treatment I did with the manga pages). I retranslated the manga mostly because the sentences were bothering me a little, since it's a mix between literal translation (which doesn't go too well in narratives) and strange choices of adaptation. The rest should be fine since it's informative text in its majority, but I want to give it a try anyway (in fact I'll be using the old translation to do some proof-check too).
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Post#457  Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 1:49 am  Reply with quote +
Okay, I wondered if that might be the case. Cool!

...By the way, on a little tangent, that whole "the evil hand of [bad guy] drew near" thing sure is common in Japanese video game stories. I forgot it was in Super Bomberman 5's manga too. I wonder why it's so common, with the same phrasing and everything.
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Post#458  Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 9:34 am  Reply with quote +
Thanks Plasma and Jojoruteon for sharing this stuff. :peace:  I'm glad you guys can share this stuff with us. We must preserve Bomberman's history!
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Post#459  Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 9:38 pm  Reply with quote +
I guess since we're just all sharing Bombermanuals here...

A while back we scanslated some short comics that came with the manual for Panic Bomber W. Check 'em out here: http://bombermanga.tumblr.com/post/143915973669/translation-of-the-comics-from-the-panic-bomber-w
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Post#460  Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 10:51 pm  Reply with quote +
I remember seeing that. Nice job! :veryhappy: 
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