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Old Aug 14, 2012, 04:20 PM
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I added a romaji tracklist. Please let me know if there's anything to correct.
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Old Aug 14, 2012, 04:21 PM
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You had it as the default so I just changed English back to the default one <3
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Old Aug 14, 2012, 04:23 PM
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I thought romaji tracklists were preferred... I saw almost instantly that there was one error in the English tracklist.

バンド演奏曲 for example. 演奏曲 is not just "music".
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Old Aug 14, 2012, 04:38 PM
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It shouldn't be prefered. Rule #2349012384012984134098230489230498 in Guide #239048234908234902384 for formatting? English site, English default. Until user preferences allow picking your default, it should be English > Native > anything else. But this argument is for another thread anyway.
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Old Aug 14, 2012, 05:18 PM
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I thought romaji tracklists were preferred... I saw almost instantly that there was one error in the English tracklist.

バンド演奏曲 for example. 演奏曲 is not just "music".
If you want to be literal, perhaps, but "Band-Performed Piece of Music" is just laborious without any reason. Semantically, it is the same.
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Old Aug 14, 2012, 06:41 PM
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Oh, well, since we're here, discussing translations...

I have track 9 translated as "Ripples of the Mind".
心 [kokoro] mind, spirit, heart
の [no] possessive ("of")
さざ波 [sazanami] ripple, wavelet ("nami" is wave)

We have "Ripples on Mind", I'm not sure where the "on" comes from and it's a little nonsensical in English. I'll change it to "Ripples of the Mind", of course someone object or chime in with a better translation if you want. I mean, you can get creative with this say "Mindwave", that's pretty cool, right?
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Old Aug 14, 2012, 08:04 PM
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I think "Ripples on Mind" sounds really weird, too. Google Translate gives "Ripples of the Heart" which actually doesn't sound too bad. The question is if that's accurate though. Hard to tell what they really want to say with Japanese track titles sometimes...

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Old Aug 14, 2012, 08:13 PM
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Well Nisto, this game is called Another Mind. I think that even if we don't know much of the game context, it's safe to go with "mind"! However, just for some backstory, the protagonist of the story is involved in a car accident and wakes up in the hospital with the consciousness of another mind (the role assumed by the player). I haven't played the game so I don't know for a fact or anything, but the safe assumption is that 心 refers to the mind.
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Old Aug 14, 2012, 08:23 PM
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Yeah, that must be it. I'm stupid.
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Old Aug 14, 2012, 08:25 PM
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You're not stupid! Sometimes the best hiding place is just in plain sight, the most obvious thing is the most easily overlooked. Besides, who knows, somebody will come in here and prove it to be "heart" after all!
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Old Aug 14, 2012, 08:25 PM
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Also, the "Impulsive Heart" tracks maybe should also be changed to "Impulsive Mind" then?
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Old Aug 14, 2012, 08:29 PM
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Ah, I didn't notice that, I don't think those tracks were my cup of tea so I must have never paid attention to them. I would vote in favor of that, simply because it's the obvious assumption and I don't know the game. We could only hope somebody who's played the game could come in and confirm or deny, but until then maybe it's best to go with "mind" for 心.
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