Joined: 8/30/2020
Posts: 123
Location: Sydney, Australia
This game is more of a musical desk toy than an actual rhythm game, and so doesn't have any TASing potential.
I just wanted to post my translations (not localisation) of the game's text, which is almost entirely Japanese, as I didn't see any posted anywhere online. You can consult existing guides for what the controls are (they're barely mentioned in-game, though it's possible the manual, also in Japanese, had more information) and how to play each "instrument". EDIT: I was an idiot and didn't realise the NA/EU releases were actually localised. Disregard all this I guess. It was at the very least good practice for me—I'm now working on Kanji sono mama DS Rakubiki Jiten, which was DEFINITELY never localised.
I'm not fluent in Japanese but I know enough to guide Google Translate to a reasonable result. Tool-assisted, if you will. For reasons unknown, the text is written solely in katakana, though it at least has spaces. (Also, apart from in the name "Marine-Snow", they use 'ウ' or 'オ' for -ō everywhere instead of a chōonpu?) I've included the original text in case future humans want to do a better job.
Level select:
Description for species #1 トレーシー "Tracy":
Please place eggs with the stylus.
The plankton become bigger while
producing sound.
I thought the English name for these guys might have been a mistranslation, but no, it's the common name of various sun-shaped microbes. Their name in Japanese is 太陽虫 (タイヨーチュウ).
Also I've just assumed "なっていきます" means the same as "なっています", either a redundant morpheme or a typo, but it could easily have a meaning I'm not aware of.
Description for species #5 レックレック "Rec-Rec":
Please keep twirling the stylus
over the plankton.
The lights and sounds spread.
This species' Japanese name is 光の輪, literally "ring/circle of light", which I think is just a descriptor and of no relation to the religious group of the same name.
I think "まわしつづけて" is "continue turning" (from "回る"), but Google Translate is also offering it as "continue [to do] in turn".
Description for species #8 マリンスノー "Marine-Snow":
Please touch the heads and bodies
of these plankton with the stylus.
They'll remember your performance.
Again, this species takes its Japanese name from the real-life microbes it resembles, this time 釣鐘虫 (ツリガネムシ), known only as the genus vorticella in English.
Description for species #10 ボルボイス "Volvoice":
This is a plankton that remembers words.
Please tap on its body and talk.
It speaks with various voices.
Misc:
Title screen:
エンソウ スル
カンショウ スル
演奏する
鑑賞する
Perform
Appreciate
Pause overlay:
キュウケイ チュウ
休憩中
Inside/during the break
I contribute to BizHawk as Linux/cross-platform lead, testing and automation lead, and UI designer. This year, I'm experimenting with streaming BizHawk development on Twitch. nope
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Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like "What is software," because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems. For instance, how am I gonna stop some high-wattage thread-ripping monster of a CPU dead in its tracks? The answer: use code. And if that don't work? Use more code.