- Heartium download page https://www.freem.ne.jp/win/game/9818
- Translation download page - replace data.dts in original with this one https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BxtL_nYXdOQv_43JWXuRQxRBm074eIiX/view?usp=drive_link
- Translated + untranslated chapter, weapon, skill, glossary and character profile files in case someone wants to look up the originals or something https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PuEGK8_42Sjbs_Crn3ptr9NJUYWpx8xJ?usp=drive_link
- alternative link https://mega.nz/folder/FKsFSRqC#Bi8o6cVjGYVX-8yogsMVBg
Claude Opus 4.5-4.6 translation - edited as I read through it, getting rid of mistranslations and fixing awkward sentences. Priority was on literal output, so as little localization as possible.
General notes:
- Traula's 'nickname' - Trau - can also mean tiger. Toraura = tora(tiger).
- 'Kuso' elevated to 'fuck' for Sepka when she's cursing, but 'shitty' about someone or something left as-is, since 'fucking' wouldn't fit well in some line iirc so I just kept it.
- It's a little awkward but I still kept the 'father'/'dad' addresses despite talking to someone else's father. Not an error.
- Eddie getting an idiom wrong isn't a mistake ("I'll win back my bad name!")
- Aile is french for 'wing'.
- Oni with an iron club - Japanese proverb meaning "making something already strong even stronger" (like giving an oni an iron club). "Overkill" if I were to localize.
- Glow Knight might be Grow Knight. I honestly have no clue.
- "Just like m-" "Just like marshmallows!" Original used cotton (wata, from cutoff watashi), neither makes much sense.
- Nayuta is an absurdly large Buddhist number (10^60 or similar). Basically "an impossibly huge number of times" in the context it's used.
Equipment notes:
- 'Infinity' refers to an ability unlocked later, pretty sure it's about the skill's compatibility with it.
- "Ignore halve attack" seems to be ignoring an attack reducing buff, apparently different from skills that ignore armor since it stacks - I truly do not want to dig deep into whatever the exact combat mechanics are, spare me.
- "Applied" and whatever slightly weird term might be left on equipment is because I could not find anything clearer/it wasnt clear in the first place. Not very important either way - it's understandable, just looks pretty ESL'ish.
- Lances were turned to spears for my own sanity. Kept 'lancer' for unit names though and iirc for spells. lol
- Strom isn't a typo. The katakana シュトロム (Shutoromu) corresponds to the German word Strom (meaning "current," "stream," or "torrent").
- Spirit silver is apparently the japanese kanji term for mithril. It was written both that way and in katakana, preserved the difference.
References:
- I can't be arsed to write out all the chemistry/physics ones - mostly fairly obvious, just know that locations are referencing scientists.
- Magicaloid weapons are a shinsetsu mahou shoujo reference.
- Save the queen sword is allegedly a final fantasy reference(?).
- Drill dragon is referencing https://x.com/ts_tassan/status/1084780157720612864
- Rest weapons I dunno, probably his other games.
Issues:
- Translation quality might slightly differ between chapters due to different context windows - im not talking about mistranslations and such, just that some chapters might read stiffer or more natural than others - as in how close they stick to japanese syntax or idiomatic english. Im not sure how much of that will be apparent - if at all - after the editing I've done, but it's still worth noting.
I also remember thinking that I should note finalizing the prompt around chapter 20 when I did it a few months ago, but I don't remember what that entails in practice or if it's even noticeable - probably more consistent formatting or some other minor quality increase.- Either way the game should be fully understandable etc, if I've left something unclear, or some particularly awful sentence remains, you can reach me on X (@ShoujoKusuri), or find me on the Room no.49 discord where I blog the games (just ask for the heartium translator or use ctrl+f magic since I use a diff nickname).
- A few of the combat animation screen lines might be too literal, don't really care to invest the time to fix that though, sorry.
- Runic defense is referred to differently by a few characters (protection, guard), not sure to what extent I standardized it to the same term.
- Inconsistencies with ellipsis length are in the original, I tried to keep it as ... and ..... generally while preserving very long ones, but how that worked out varies by chapter
- The formatting is slightly inconsistent: sometimes all line space (58 characters) is used, sometimes the sentence is broken into 2 lines even though it could fit in one - mostly due to following original newlines.
- Continuing on newline formatting (3 lines fit per message window) the game had an empty line sometimes to showcase shock or longer silence, I think I might've kept them at the start but opted to completely move them to next message window instead later. A few of these pauses might've been lost entirely due to having to introduce new newlines too - it's a very minor issue like the other two, but worth noting since it ruins the author's work somewhat.
To illustrate:
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If you enjoyed the translation, feel free to help pay back some of the MTL costs at https://buymeacoffee.com/mtledit
Though considering Heartium is free, I do not want to see any money unless you've also paid the original author first.
Here's his fanbox (R18 and guro warning if you scroll down on it though) https://tsnanntoka.fanbox.cc/