look at this quality comparison here. This on the left was from UltimateGraphics; one of the best quality images we had of Bart's portrait up until now (the other being my scan from the Chocobo's/XG VJump which ofc is full of print dots)

↙ VS what we have now ↘

Look at this glowup.
"Depressed Fei"

Yet another where (as you can see from the added "(c) Squaresoft") the best version we had was from UltimateGraphics' folder. ...Which I still have no idea where they got it from, tbh

Yeah, and then on top of it all they finally transliterated the PW-only term for Chu-Chu's tribe, the Ooki tribe. (one big star wars reference)

Which is the exact same way that UltimateGraphics transliterated it in their 2008 PW translation, so people over here are already familiar with that

yeahhh, that'd be so many people at once across multiple languages.
Jake Murray, 街針, UltimateGraphics... I don't know the other artists' names and can't find the pieces currently (which are usually super easy to find lol)

This was the other project I had been working on—rescanning the entire Xenogears Perfect Works from my personal copy. It's my hope that I can clean it up enough for a retranslation effort that feels more refined than UltimateGraphics' 2009 release, if I can ever find dedicated translators...

Fans have begun working on a new translation of the Perfect Works book (highly recommend, now that you're done watching the story), but it'll be quite some time before its finished. The old UltimateGraphics translation does have its issues, but its generally alright for getting the overall meaning.

I remember Tanyuu asking whether I found a higher quality, more full portrait of the Executioner.

That on the left is as good as we had before, a combination of wherever UltimateGraphics got theirs and the most complete portrait I was able to find last August in Tips & Tricks Issue 047, Jan/1999. 🙃

What I'm saying is, I don't want any of my edits to be claimed/curated/preserved as 100% official bc the notes weren't carried over with the images. This happens enough already with UltimateGraphics' edits, except they have no edit notes like that in their Flickr album, afaik.

Anywho

(As always, no offense to UltimateGraphics, he did amazing work to do all of that in 2008 while learning the language and doing all the editing as well.)

fun fact: hobgobs are called Tsuchinoko in the Japanese version.
Hence the "hammer" part of the UltimateGraphics translation beside the hobgob sketch.

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Turns out there IS an official romanization of the time-unit for Gear specs. Before, we were going with tsitol (bc that's what UltimateGraphics used in his old 2008 PW translation) but a while back I changed it to tsaitol bc that was closer to the katakana.

...but its zeitl.
guess where i found it

Hobgobs are called Tsuchinoko in the Japanese version.
Hence the "hammer" part of the UltimateGraphics fan translation beside the hobgob sketch, if that confused you before.
3rd image is mtl of that JP text in the book.