Various Translations

Nice one Welsh, good to see you back!

Also of note here is the shop name ( a nice tidbit) and a personal infection time of 2 hours. Canonically then we are beginning to establish different zombification times for different people.

A few days for the dudes at the mansion.
2 hours for this guy.
A few seconds for the guard in Degeneration.

It would be interesting to know why this is the case, but its something we can only guess on.

Well for the guard in Degeneration...he got bit on the neck and wouldn't that be the case of how it took seconds for him to turn??? I mean look at how all the others got bit  -legs and arms- and they took like minutes or maybe hours for them to turn.  Am I right???

It could depend on how fast their heart is pumpin' or how good their immune system is. Or like zombieKingz stated, how close to the brain the area of infection is.

Yet with Film B, correct me if I'm wrong, the victim was completely mauled. That brings up another question, why did it take 2 hours for the victim in Film B to turn?

The virus affects different people in different ways, physically. Its the same with normal viruses or diseases.

Arukas was already known about. It's Sakura, backwards, and it appears in the opening section of RE2. It's quite close to Kendo's gunshop.

Other interesting things about the RE2 & RE3 locations:

http://www.capcom-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3601

The French Government bombs Loire Village same as Raccoon City.

It's a shame that none of the Drama cd's are considered canon. Looking forward to see them translated or at least summarized. That translation from the UC about Raccoon and Joe Kendo is from a file or something? I don't recall reading it before.

I think they would be considered canon if we had a translation. In fact, the following mission from Ada's RE3 epilogue seems to be Loire Village.

I wouldn't have known about them if it wern't for you, George. That's how unknown they are.

Also, I would like to ask your opinions on something.

I started a map of Raccoon City using four sources as a base. However, the outbreak website map shows the less industrialized city of RE2, city guide from archives is similar to the outbreak ingame map, less a few differences, and UC, while appearing more extensive, removes several rivers and completly removes the SW Arklay range.

The color scheme for the forested/park/industrial/residential areas in outbreak web and city guide also differ greatly.

So, I guess the question here is what does everyone want to see?

Street names, outlines of removed areas, different color scheme, etc.

There are differences in every one of the maps and the newer ones seem to go backwards in certain parts... For example, archives seems more complete than the actual ingame map found in outbreak.

This is your opportunity to contribute to the ultimate RC map.

Hey, the Loire village episode is quite interesting. I always thought that Capcom was planning to make a game out of this location, but sadly, they didn't.....

However, I'm also shocked by the French name given to the team members : Gaston, Jacob or Joel.....WTF?! LOL Those names belong to my grandparents generation, it's just ridiculous! But, nevermind...

It's also interesting to note that this event seems to be some kind of a combination between RE1 and RE2 in terms of plot.

Nice work WelshJ, I'm eager to know more about this Ada drama album.

The thing with Raccoon City is that is one messed shit hole. I was working on a similar project some months ago, but unfortunately my hard drive bought a pass to the trash can *sighs*. I restarted working on it a couple of weeks ago, once I managed to forget the loss, but work on it is going slow.

The major problem with mapping Raccoon City is the lack of punctual information on its size. Nonetheless, some details have been retconned in newer titles: The conceptual size of a 'small mid-western city' was changed to just a 'mid-western city' and the population count changed from being 100.000 citizens to being 100.000 deaths of a 100.000+ citizens city -check some BH DC files-. These are actually some pretty cool retcons from Capcom, maybe the only ones.

The are some other inconsistencies between and within the games and related sources, take BH2 and BH3 for example, they contradict each other on the matter of that crashed truck. Another example being in BH2... the fucking Sewage Disposal Plant is on top of the Office City Hall. On BH3 there was a major communication problem between the Graphic Team -particularly the Background Designers- and the Software Team, problem that gave us the BlackJack Bar being called just 'Bar Jack', the Office City Hall just 'City Hall', part of the Raccoon Sewage Disposal Plant being called by the plain name 'Construction Site', a bloody Bakery Store called M&M being turned into the Boutique (!)... and the thing goes on. Then, there comes a problem with the game and the guides, even when they provide us with vital info sometimes written by the developers themselves. In the pre-ordered BH3 guide, they took the liberty to name the streets as they wanted, giving the name of Ennerdale St. to Candem St., Jack St. to Sheryl St., and who knows what other changes. They even changed some streets sizes and added some stupid streets names like Flower St., Good St., Ivy St. or Kiss St. -arrgghhh!-. And the same mistakes passed on from guide to guide.

And even if I love the Outbreak series, I must admit that it sadly has some major fuck ups. The Umbrella Raccoon City Headquarters being on topof J's Bar for example, absolutely retarded. It's a shame that not even the zoo matches its old counterpart.

Regarding the map, sounds like a great idea overall, and just as a observation: Those border lines needto be up-scaled. They are there for informational purpose only, if that scale were right, then Raccoon would be like one and a half mile on size. Sounds like a cool project Welsh, I'd like to hear more about it.

I'm not sure where this came from but I've seen it plastered around quite a few places. There is no shared crashed truck between RE2 and RE3.

Sorry, I expressed myself wrong. I did not mean that the truck seen near the Trolley Station is the same one seen in the intro of BH2... though it kinda sound that way. What I was talking about, was the fact that the truck we saw on BH2 just can't fit in the street as seen on BH3, that's why I say they contradict each other.

I really don't know why the BH3 staff placed a crashed truck near the Trolley Station, it somewhat feels like if they were trying to retcon the place where BH2 starts, by changing the size of the street where it must have came from, to the size of a goddamn alley. Or, they just didn't remembered what the hell they did -and where- in the previous title.

I doubt the truck was intended to be the same one seen in the RE3 intro. The design of the street in RE2 is just too strikingly different from the street the Trolley Station is in. That, and the trucks themselves aren't even the same.

Remember, RE2 takes place on September 29th, RE3 takes place on September 28th. So it can't even be the same truck timeline-wise.

Nice catch, I forgot about that. Seems like they just fucked up there unintentionally.

Doesn't anyone find it interesting that the investigation orders were written by Birkin and Wesker? In the official version it's "William Birkin and First Investigation Unit".

I always assumed Birkin handled the investigation part and Wesker, security. However, it seems the team was composed of soldiers, researchers and engineers. I'd like to know more about it.

For example, did Umbrella send the team to its death knowing the dangers of the biohazard? Did Spencer have a bigger plan in mind?

I still have questions regarding this subject as well, Joel.  I remember going over this in detail on the old PU forum, but apparently we've lost access to that site.  It seems to me that I printed off a few of the more interesting threads, however, so I'll see if I can't dig them up somewhere.

I honestly doubt that those men were meant to die.  It is my personal belief that there may have been some connection between the dangerously high level of toxic chemicals which were discovered in the Arklay Mountain region and Umbrella's sudden decision to reopen Dr. Marcus' laboratories. 

I feel Umbrella decided to reopen the MTF mainly because they had just lost the Arklay Research Facility.  Consider:  Lots of Umbrella personnel were killed during the investigation of the MTF, yet only Birkin and Wesker are aware of that.  The investigation probably started no earlier than July 1998.  The Arklay Research Facility was contaminated in mid-May; it took some time for everyone there to die, but I'm sure that within days, Umbrella decided that the place and the personnel were unsalvageable, and that the best option was to wait for everyone involved to die.  Meanwhile, they had a perfectly good facility rotting away in the woods a few miles away; Spencer probably knew about the lab beneath the chapel, and figured the facility would be an acceptable replacement for the Arklay Research Facility.

This is really interesting. 

I've never heard of the Drama Album until now, so I'm very interested in what's in it. As much as I would like to help in translating, I only have very, VERY basic knowledge of Nihongo.

Oh, well.

That's all right.

Soon I'll have a translation of the Biohazard Sound Drama ~Tragedy of Makoba Village~ booklet complete. Here's a preview.

This village seems to be pictured on the outbreak website map.

^ On the Outbreak map? Wasn't that Arklay City?

It's just called "Arklay", but it fits geographically. On a different note, I just compared Trevor's Letters to the 15min demo files and they're all different.

That means there are 16 (-Invitation) new files that nobody has translated. The Biohazard Sound Drama will have to wait.

You mean there are 16 files in the biohazard trial editions including Trevor's Letters and The Invitation?

I also heard rumours many moons ago that there was another file entitled 'Kenneth's Diary'. I did see a picture of it somewhere, though I'm not sure if it was just a place holder and whether the file itself actually contained any text.

I actually posted that image. It's one of Trevor's Letters.

I'm saying there are 15 files (16, but invitation has been translated) new Trevor's Letters.

Really? Sounds very interesting.

Below is a translation from Wesker's final showdown with Sergi.

And Gun Survivor 2.

Proves that the Nemesis from Survivor 2 was American rather than European made after all.

DO we have any further details on these? How does one access these from the Rebirth demo, trial or beta ?

They're from the 15 min. demo. Mark Grass created the code to extract them.

Here's another translation from Bio2.