Happy New Year!

Happy 2014 folks. One of my resolutions is to do more translating.

Still Alive - Happy 4th

Like psychotic computers and hockey masked killers, I return once again.

In regards to the long absence, I do this as a HOBBY in my free time. And since my free time is limited I have to prioritize. And to be quite honest I haven't felt the urge to do much translating until lately.

Yes I do feel guilty about it.

But such is life. I've been busy. I work fulltime. My brother needed help moving. I have other interests that I wish to indulge. My dad busted up his knee shortly before going to Canada with my Mom and Brother to compete in an International Choir Thing That I Can't Remember The NAme Of out in Toronto, while leaving me behind. :(

Oh and I got a new computer, and found out that several of my old programs and files are not compatible with it... :(
Does anyone know of any good converter progams for .wps files?

Also does anyone know how to enhance the text in old/poor scans like the ones I have for early Meteorix comics? PArt of the reason there hasn't been anything new until now is because of my frustration at deciphering the text of those images.

Anyway thanks to the 4th of July and the translation skills of the awesome (and dare I say lovely?) Shippo, here is a new Cyberisx page with hopefully more to follow.

Also Shippo I never got that second batch of translations you mentioned. we really got to figure out why that keeps happening.
-Also also did you translate the text colums from the two pages before this one? they didnt seem to be included in the file you sent me.

Blarg

Still alive. Still trying to translate. Will answer emails and comments when I have time.

Fixes

Apparently the Fifth release of Volume 2 is missing for Cyber...

Thanks to everyone who's let me know about it. I'll reupload it shortly.

Shippo the last email from you that I have is from September, is that the one you're asking about?

Still kicking

Hey folks I'm still around and working.

Unfortunately the work has not been on translations. Mostly inventory at work, orepping grandma's house for the new renters, stuff for home, and helping my folks prepare for their trip to Cabo San Lucas.

I'll post stuff for ya when I have it.

New News For A New Year

Hiya folks have some belated New Year News for y'all.

First of is some news on your translator.

I'm doing alright; I'm working fulltime now (I believe I mentioned this before, but meh...), and it's a fairly decent job with 7-4 Monday-Thursday and half days for Friday. My only real complaint is that I need to wake up at 5:30 in the morning and drive 40+ minutes to get there on time. (That and the occassional fear that I'll be working there forever sending shirts on down to be printed/embroidered until I retire.)

Family is doing ok, nothing too unusual there.

The holidays were pretty good. I got a Nook HD that I've been playing around with a bit. (I'll have to add .epub versions of the comics to the downloads later) I got some ninja turtle stuff and Last Stand of the Wreckers in hardcover, along with the regular scattering of shirts and movies.

I had a bit of a cold over New Years and didn't even stay up for it.

Now for some translation news.

As I'm sure you've noticed I've uploaded all of Part 1 for Cybersix volume 2. If I haven't put the link on the downloads page It'll be there soon.

So that I don't get burned out I've decided to do some Meteorix translating. I recently was able to find the last two issues and possibly a non-corrupted version of a page I was missing for number seven.

I do have one minor problem though; the raw scans I have for issues one through twenty are of poor quality, making them rather hard to read and therefore translate. If there is anyone who is willing to maybe take a whack at enhancing the pages in photoshop or something so that I can read the text, I would be very greatful. And remember the faster I get through some Meteorix the quicker I'll get back to Cybersix.

That's about all I have for a you now, so I'll post more later when I have more to type about.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone.

Christmas Is Coming

Allrighty folks Christmas is almost here, and I've got a new post for you.

What I would like to do is finish Part 1 of Cybersix Volume 2 before the 31st of December, before Christmas really.

What's actually going to happen is that I most likely won't finish in time...

I'm currently THINKING, just thinking, about maybe instead of going right into the next half of Volume 2, that I will work on the next issue of Metoerix. I've been feeling the itch to do some more work on it, despite the low quality images of the first several issues.

I've actually had a fair bit of luck regarding Meteorix lately. I've found a scan of the corrupted pages from Issue 7, I've come across a collection of unedited covers for the entire series, and just general good fortune regarding the series.

That being said here after the jump is a new page of Cybersix. I'm a little concerned about some of text balloons making sense in this page and some of the coming ones so if people could help me out and let me know what they think it would be very much appreciated.

Speedy Work

I assembled over 4 pages in record time today, while helping Grandma with her laundry (shudders). Here's one for y'all!

Progress and Problems and a Request for Aid

Heya Folks! It's your slow-ass translator here.

+Good News- I'm making majorly magnificent progress with all of my translation projects!

+Bad News- I'm only really able to work on it out where I don't have reasonable accsess to the Internet...

+Bad News Elaboration- That means I can only do the background/prep work since I rely on the Internet to do the actual translating. It's stuff that needs doing but not the stuff your interested in.

+How You Can Help- If anyone can help me find a FREE TRANSLATOR PROGRAM that I can DOWNLOAD and use OFFLINE that could help increase the releasing of translated pages.

Thanks for reading and sticking with me.

A Reminder

Just a reminder for everyone; After MEgaupload went kerflooey I reuploaded everything to another site. All the new download links are on the Cybersix page, use those instead of the old ones in the posts. Someday if I'm not feeling lazy I'll go and udate every old post...

In short working download links are the Cybersix page. If they stop let me know. Don't use the links in the old posts. :P

Progress YAY

I'm making progress so you all get a treat.

Also I'm making progress on the custom ebooks bit. Currently the only problem is that the ordering thingy is screwy going 1, 10, 11, 12,....19, 2, 20, 21,....., 49, 5, 6, 7, ... etc etc

Epub conversion?

Does anyone know of a reliable program that could be used to convert images to an epub file for reading on ebooks? I've done a little browsing via google but don't want to download stuff willy nilly and get something nasty... again...

Also stuff is going slow, but it is still going. I'll let you know when something of note happens or if I ever decide to stop.

Life Delays

Life is shitty at moment, causing delays. Project is still ongoing. Will post stuff when it is had.

Febuary

Well it's Febuary now... Either tonight or tommorow translations shall begin once more. I'm not quite sure how I'll be doing the releasing of Cybersix since it no longer ends in such nice chunks. Now its in huge pieces of around 100 pages per story...

Oh well I'll figure it out.

Preparedness

I have a question for ya folks. If mediafire should go down what do you think I should do for distribution of my translations.

I have a few ideas but I'd like to know what you all think.

Meteorix #3

Well here we have Meteorix #3 on the 1 year anniversary of my starting the series.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8bk67dg9ouvqqjf

The other Meteorix downloads have been reuploaded and are once again available, as are all other downloads. To find them please use the series pages.

Reupload Volume 1

The Complete Volume 1 of cybersix has been reuploaded. I'll reupload the individual chapter downloads as well but probably won't make a post about it until they're all done.

I would appreciate it if you folks could maybe share the chapters and what on forums/boards/galleries/etc so that they can be found in multiple places and not depenedent on merely this blog. But no pressure on that.

Trucking Through The Translations

Gotta say I expected a little more hubub from the finishing of Cybersix Volume 1. Ah well.

I haven't started on Volume 2 quite yet, I want to finish Meteorix #3 at least before I start it. Fortunately that's coming along fairly well, despite the extra work these early issues need.

To give you an idea of what I mean I go from this-

To this-

And this is one of the pretty good scans. Some of the others are going to be a real pain. My Cybersix scans while they aren't perfect are nice enough that I don't have to do anything than replace the text.
Anyway that's were it all stands. I'm going to at least finish Meteorix #3 before starting Cybersix Volume 2.

Cybersix Backcover

Was browsing through the Cybersix stuff and decided to translate the backcover after notcing it was the same for every volume. I'm not sure how close it is to the original text, but it's the best I could do and keep it sensible.