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The one what does the toy design credits.
Low level staff. Not a dude.
Usually working on squirrely older Takara stuff, fiction wise.
My specialties in no particular order:
If you need help with something Japanese I probably at least know a guy.
Anyway stream Go! Go!
I will be talking in terms of Japanese-to-English translation, as that's what I'm usually doing, but these tools work with most any language, including English!
The long story short for this one is browser extensions.
I use the "Translate Web Page" open-source extension for Firefox. It allows you to feed plain text on any web page through Google Translate and convert it into any other language in Google's library. While you should NEVER rely on a single algorithm for translation, this should provide more than enough information to get around parts of the internet in languages for which you aren't fluent.
For those curious about the guts of the thing, the extension's github can be found here.
Now that you've found your source, the next step is arguably more important than the translation itself: Harvesting the relevant text and saving it in a kind of article called a "Source page." Source pages are not so much a "front facing" articles for reader consumption as a local back-up of non-English primary sources[1] to reference while composing articles.
These articles are structured mirroring their formatting in the original source with translations below each section of raw text. Why bother including the raw text? The raw text is important for future editors to touch up your translation work including, hopefully, an editor fluent in the relevant language some day.
One example of a fully fleshed out source page can be seen here.
Now if you're lucky, all the relevant material will be rendered in plain text on a web page that you're free to copy and paste in one step. You will not usually be lucky. When working with stuff like photographs, scans, or fancy graphics on web pages, your next step will be feeding the file through machine transcription software, formally referred to as an optical character recognition algorithm. My go-to at the moment is the free website "Image to Text Convertor."
It's often best practice to help the algorithm along by cropping down to the relevant text and, if possible, futzing with the colors to exaggerate the contrast between the text and the background/surrounding graphics.
After you get your resultant plain text, make sure to hold it up to the original graphic to do a cursory spot check for errors. You may not be able to read, but you still possess the power of pattern recognition! If you spot errors, go back and make another pass at isolating the text. If all else fails you may need to hunt around for another OCR program.
When your text matches the graphic to the best of your ability, then, and only then, is it safe to add to your source page.
Finding the best algorithm is something of an eternal struggle, but my preferred free-ware at the moment is Deepl.
Again, never take the algorithm's word for it! After you get your text into the desired language, read it back. As a human being with a real thinking brain and working knowledge of Transformers lore, you will almost certainly find basic errors it is within your power to correct. If parts of the text don't make sense at all, there are a couple things you can do:
(machine translated by me)
I've checked as far back as Power of the Primes and as far as I can tell these didn't start including useful story information until 2022:
Collating dialogue from, to, and about Primus in the Generations Selects Special Comic in an attempt to nail down a motive for porting in each G1 World warrior to the Precursor World in the greater context of his plot to destroy the universe.
PRIMUS: O children of the stars... This world is on the brink of crisis...
GALVATRON: The hell is that?!
CONVOY: The Earth!
(Primus gives the pair his command as he charges Convoy’s MATRIX with a new power.)
PRIMUS: Return history to its proper flow with the power of the Silver Matrix!
PRIMUS: Gather the Star Power within this Silver Matrix...
PRIMUS: Once gathered, it will hold power that rivals the very forces of creation.
PRIMUS: With that power defend this world... your future...
PRIMUS: Bring light... to this world...!
NARRATION: A mysterious entity has charged Convoy with a great mission! What's more, his waiting fate has been revealed...
CONVOY: Primus?!
PRIMUS: Use the power of the Silver Matrix to return history to its proper flow!
PRIMUS: Now, o Convoy of another world.
PRIMUS: This world is the universe that predated your own.
PRIMUS: It is the proper destruction of this world that will lead to the birth of yours.
PRIMUS: The Vok attacked this universe in order to reset the failed experiment they conducted in yours.
PRIMUS: O Convoy, in order to protect your future, you must thus protect this world.
NARRATION: Convoy would be granted the Silver Matrix by Primus, and was evolved into his ultimate form, Star Convoy, defeating the Vok in the process.
NARRATION: He was then bestowed with a mission from Primus: to gather the seven Star Powers and complete the Silver Matrix in order to protect the universe.
STAR CONVOY: Right now my mission is to delay the creation of Primacron's universe, even for a little while.
STAR CONVOY: This isn't just for sentient life. I will defend the freedom of life itself.
STAR CONVOY: That's what it is to defend the universe, the world, and everything in it.
STAR CONVOY: That is what I’ve learned here.
PRIMUS: Heh!
PRIMUS: That's what I thought, Star Convoy! That's the kind of thing men like you do.
PRIMUS: Which is exactly why I used you.
PRIMUS: That's why I had you defeat the Vok.
PRIMUS: O children of the stars... This world is on the brink of crisis...
GALVATRON: The hell is that?!
CONVOY: The Earth!
(Primus gives the pair his command as he charges Convoy’s MATRIX with a new power.)
PRIMUS: Return history to its proper flow with the power of the Silver Matrix!
STAR CONVOY: The Blue Warriors have suffered great losses...
PRIMUS: It's alright Convoy.
PRIMUS: These lives... Their sparks shall all come aboard my Ark...
PRIMUS: They shall be led to the next world....
PRIMUS: It's why I led Megatron to this world, you see.
STAR CONVOY: What on Earth are you talking about?!
NARRATION: The higher beings known as the Vok, who failed during the Beast Wars-
NARRATION: Arrived to destroy the universe.
NARRATION: In order to stop them-
NARRATION: Convoy, who held the power to defeat the Vok-
NARRATION: And Megatron, who held the power to merge with them, were summoned to the universe by Primus.
TURTLER: Come on you Gulfs! Seacon Combination!
KING POSEIDON: King Poseidon!!
(Halfshell watches the battle as mechanical arms work on his body.)
HALFSHELL: Hoho. Not bad, moldmate. I'd say the Clone Seacon Combination Experiment was a rousin’ success... All accordin’ to plan.
HALFSHELL: We’re one step closer.
(Halfshell looks upon his pirate crew contained in glowing tubes.)
HALFSHELL: Closer to the future He desires!
HALFSHELL: I’ve got the White Matrix!
(The Seacon pirates come together, carrying their stolen Matrixes.)
HALFSHELL: And me ‘n me crew-
HALFSHELL-just like Gigastorm-
HALFSHELL-are restored and refitted!
HALFSHELL: All hands on deck, lads! Let’s bring it together!
(The Seacons transform into their combiner limb modes and join with Halfshell’s torso mode.)
SEACONS: AYE-AYE!
(God Neptune stands, now equipped with the various Matrixes of the Primus Vanguard.)
GOD NEPTUNE: God Neptune!!
GOD NEPTUNE: This universe’s ultimate treasure, Star Power, is ours!
GOD NEPTUNE: With this power, I’ll become a god! And my creation will be just as He wished it!
STAR CONVOY: What did he mean… “He”...?
HALFSHELL: And Lawbhammer...
HALFSHELL: Even though ye’re just a swab, ye protected me all the same.
(A shadowy figure appears before Halfshell, who cradles Lawbhammer’s body.)
SHADOWY FIGURE: Would you like him revived?
HALFSHELL: Who goes there!
SHADOWY FIGURE: Just call me “someone’s servant”, if you please.
SHADOWY FIGURE: If you do exactly what I say, him and the rest will be reborn.
(Lawbhammer’s body is sucked into a spaceship as Halfshell watches.)
SHADOWY FIGURE: But I'll be taking this one as collateral.
SHADOWY FIGURE: Now go, Halfshell! First to the year 2020!
(PRIMUS and his golden entourage step through a portal!)
PRIMUS: The complete Silver Matrix... With this, there's no longer a need for senseless conflict.
STARSCREAM: As for the future you envisioned, Lord Primus...
PRIMUS: Yes... I am the He you spoke of... and all has proceeded according to my grand design.
(An image of Turtler and Halfshell)
NARRATION: When Primus summoned Convoy and Galvatron from the Known World, a new enemy appeared to face them.
NARRATION: A being known only as “He” summoned Transformers to the Precursor Universe in order to create the future he desired.
(Lawbhammer forcibly combines with God Neptune, taking control of him.)
GOD NEPTUNE: W-what are you doing?!
GOD NEPTUNE: I can't control myself!
STARSCREAM: With this, five of the Star Powers are now ours!
STARSCREAM: We’re one step closer!
STARSCREAM: To the future He envisioned!
PRIMUS: You asked me what I'm planning, Primacron.
PRIMUS: Only the destruction-
PRIMUS: -of your ambition!
(Primus shouts, creating a wormhole.)
PRIMUS: With this power!
PRIMUS: To me!
PRIMUS: My Primitives!
PRIMUS: To me!
(Primus rejoices as the Dinobots arrive on the Blue Planet from a time portal, to the surprise of Star Convoy and Turtler.)
PRIMUS: To me, my Primitives! My Dinobots!
NARRATION: But another inhabitant of the Precursor World had the same plan! He who would create Unicron in the Known World: the scientist, Primacron.
NARRATION: Using the “Divine Power” he developed, Angolmois Energy, he planned to become god of the new world.
(Primus summons his Primitives: the Dinobots.)
NARRATION: In order to stop him, Primus once again summoned new warriors from the Known World.
PRIMUS: Primacron's getting away!
PRIMUS: Grimlock, stop him!
GRIMLOCK: Me Grimlock, and you Oracle! Primacron up to old tricks again?
PRIMUS: Yes! Though the one you defeated was from the far future!
GRIMLOCK: Me Grimlock no get it! But me Grimlock get Primacron!
PRIMUS: My Primitives, stop Primacron!
(The Dinobots combine.)
GRIMLOCK: Combine! Form Volcanicus!
(Volcanicus fires a chest laser right at Neo Primus.)
VOLCANICUS: Volca Fire!
PRIMUS: Excellent work, my Primitives!
PRIMUS: This is exactly why I called you here!
Honestly not sure Primus meant to summon these guys, they hitchhiked through the Dinobots' portal and share no scenes with him so far that I can find.
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