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Final Fantasy VIII The first game in the series to consistently use realistically proportioned characters, FF8 also threw more of a futuristic mix into the old (Hi-)potion that is Final Fantasy.

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Old March 29, 2008, 12:47 AM   #1
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So, i have the FFVIII Ultimania after a long wait. Now the problem of translating it...does anyone here read Japanese? I've seen snippets of the Ultimania translated in FAQs but never the full thing so I was wondering if anyone could help translate the parts I want?
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Old March 29, 2008, 8:26 AM   #2
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i didnt even know FFVIII had an ultimainia? Do you mean it's featured in Ultimania or it's got its own book?
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Old March 29, 2008, 1:53 PM   #3
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I'm pretty sure most FFs have an Ultimania or something like it...

Here's one page from the Character section in the Ultimania that I'd like translated as an example:
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Holy shit big-ness.

Anyway, I've searched around the net for translated versions of the Ultimania's before but only found bits and pieces of the FFX one.

Holic/Melancholy Rockit who is a buddy of mine and a member of this site knows some Japanese, but I'm not sure how much of it he could do. He's only studied parts of it in college I believe. You might be able to hit him up with a PM or email, but he hasn't been by the site in a while.
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What's this Ultimania anyway? This is the first time I've heard of it.
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It's a guide put out by Square-Enix that goes deeper into the stories, backgrounds, characters, plots, etc of the Final Fantasy games. It was made by the makers of the game to go beyond what you pick up superficially in the game and to describe what is easily missed or more in-depth.

These come in the form of Strategy guides I hear, but all of them in text are in the Japanese language and have yet to be published in English. You can find bits and pieces of translations around the net though.
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I've only seen 7 & 10 translated any, sorry.
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It's a guide put out by Square-Enix that goes deeper into the stories, backgrounds, characters, plots, etc of the Final Fantasy games. It was made by the makers of the game to go beyond what you pick up superficially in the game and to describe what is easily missed or more in-depth.

These come in the form of Strategy guides I hear, but all of them in text are in the Japanese language and have yet to be published in English. You can find bits and pieces of translations around the net though.
Much obliged ^^ I will take a look.
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