Hack [WIP] S3K multilanguage

Ok, but I forgot to highlight something: Jardín Mármol.
You'll have to draw additional characters or at least append that above the existing ones. French will have even more of those.

 

To do the translations of the zones you can look at the game manuals:

-Sonic 3:https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_3/Manuals
-Sonic & Knuckles:https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_&_Knuckles/Manuals

 

I guess something like that could work for Greek too. S3 zone names could look something like:

Ζώνη Νησιού των Αγγέλων
Ζώνη Υδροπόλης/Υδροπόλεως (if written in caps, the first writing could cause the same problem as the name "Hydrocity" in English in terms of pronunciation)
Ζώνη Μαρμάρινου Κήπου
Ζώνη Νύχτας Καρναβαλιού
Ζώνη Παγοκαλύμματος
Ζώνη Βάσης Εκτόξευσης

But again, there's that same issue as with a bunch of other languages where there are accent marks. I think the best way to solve this issue with any language would be to load the marks separately to save ROM space; for example Greek would require an extra 11 characters if we were to include the full characters, as opposed to just 3 if the accent marks are included separately.

Then again, Greek would only really need one accent mark (¨) when the zone names are written in caps, so this problem can be mostly avoided, especially since only two extra characters (Ϊ, Ϋ) would be needed, and they'd most likely go unused anyway.

 

Honestly I'd keep the names as-is... almost. In German it would be "Sonic der Igel", "Knuckles der Ameisenigel".. as for Tails.. I'd keep it as it is.

 

Oh wow, that screenshot of the wiki makes me think that they used the wrong meaning of "Carnival" for the international translations. According to Wiktionary, they used meaning 1 (e.g. "festival"), but I always assumed it was meant to be the third one (e.g. "funfair"). On a related note, I never knew that they translated the zone names.

 

I can't wait for a complete French translation. I was also thinking this French translation would be used for the Proto tracks. You can use my translation mod: French Tanslation [Sonic 3 A.I.R.] [Mods] (gamebanana.com)

 

In case you didn't know, It's the Carnival Night, Ice Cap, Launch Base, the S3 credits, the competition menu, and the unused (super) themes.

 

Sorry, I haven't seen that. I'm I blind or you mean Hivebrain's Sonic 1 list?

 

Here you go. I included some notes to explain my train of thoughts and choices you have. I can already tell you there's no good choice for Knuckles' name in the HUD.

 

I don't like much how I translated "Match Race", so I'll try to give you a better translation if I find it. Special and Bonus Stages are alright, but I think I can find a better term for "stage" than the one I chose, so I might change that one too.

 

Got A Chaos Emerald translates to J'ai une Emeraude du Chaos, Got All Chaos Emeralds to J'ai obtenu toutes les émeraudes du Chaos, Now can be Super/Hyper to Peut maintenant être Super/Hyper, Can Go to Hidden Palace to Peut aller au Palais caché, Time/Game Over to Temps/jeu terminé, Got Through to Je suis passé à travers, Act to Acte, Azure Lake to Lac d'Azure, Balloon Park to Parc à ballons, Chrome Gadget to Gadget Chrome, Desert Palace to Palais du désert, Endless Mine to Mine sans fin, Bonus Stage to Bonus Scène, Exit to Sortie, Time Attack to Contre la montre, Match Race to Course de match, Data Select to Sélection des données, 1 Player to 1 Joueur, Competition to Concours, Sound test to Test de son, and Get Blue Spheres to Obtenir des sphères bleues. You can use flamedriver for those tracks.