Thread:TornadoMan.EXE/@comment-45834469-20200803222941/@comment-45834469-20200806005103

Quick wrote: Well, there are Spanish translations of several Rockman manga by Rockyou78, would not it be easier to translate from those instead of the Japanese or Chinese ones?

Yes. However, there's two issues with this, both of which are just personal.

1. I don't have a link to this translation (though that could be easily fixed)

2. A translation from a translation is very likely to get telephone-gamed, and I'd like to keep the final translations as accurate as possible.

TornadoMan.EXE wrote: I would actually highly suggest making this a fan project and finding other Mega Man fans who are literate in Japanese to help without paying.

While this would be ideal, and I will search for such people, I don't think this is very practical. Many of these scans have been online for close to a decade now, and nobody has yet been willing to come up to the task. Granted, this is possibly because it's seen as too daunting without dividing up the project and nobody has yet been able or willing to organize such a thing, but still.

TornadoMan.EXE wrote: Commissioning translators is not only a waste of money if this is not an official release, but it also may be seen as an illegal distribution worthy of legal action by Capcom

This is somewhat true.

Translating a series for your own personal use is not illegal, even if you pay someone to do so. What is illegal is distributing the series as a derivative work.

There's no way around that second part, but that part applies regardless of method of translation.