[English Translation][Update 4] The Hardest Interview

[SolarWindCatcher]

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Title: The Hardest Interview (The interview is a bit rough)
Original Title: 這個面試有點硬
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Game download: no need, just download Update3 , it includes complete game and install latest updates on top of it. If you for some reason need original game in Chinese:

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(thanks to Enkel , check his thread for installation instructions of original game in Chinese language)
F95 game thread: https://f95zone.to/threads/the-hardest-interview-update-4-masobu.240986/
OS: Windows
Language: Traditional Chinese/Simplified Chinese

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Translation author: SolarWindCatcher
Translation Download: Update 3 (you must install it first as it includes complete game):

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Update 4 (install on top of Update 3):

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Installation:

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Before starting the game, make sure you have at least 36+ GB of free space on your system drive (where you have your Windows installation) because game will create Unity cache of that size!

NEVER click on Delete Characters Data and Download Characters Data in Settings! By pressing first one you will delete 30+ GB of content from your disk, basically all girls. And second option is for licensed game's owners who have valid serial number and can login to Masobu servers and download girls' data again ingame.

Table with useful info about all girls in the game with their photos: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Same table but without photos and in one post: Full table

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[Enkel]

Holy Shit ! MY HERO !

 

[SolarWindCatcher]

Holy Shit ! MY HERO !

Thank you, could be done much faster but devs made 66 separate archives with interviews data instead of one big archive with everything. I didn't find a tool that allow properly batch export/import from Unity archives using cmd line, so I had to use GUI tool manually for every archive to export subtitles then translate it with my Python scripts and then manually import it back and recompress archive. A lot of tedious manual work that require attention. I said that I started working on the translation in your old topic, it was like 2 months ago? Lost count of time

Please test the game as I didn't have time to play it, only tested several interview scenes.

 

[black33253325]

how to install the game

 

[Enkel]

how to install the game

Install notes an more in our Mainthread : https://f95zone.to/threads/fmv-games-and-novels-discussion-links-tipps.231056/

 

[Enkel]

Tried 2 of the 5 Star Girls but the girls are not translated. Menu, Laptop, Questions, overlay was ok but the Vids with the answers where not. The Parts in your Picture 3 and 4 are not translated here. DLC Is Loaded at the start and Language is in simple chinese, the UI is OK.
Reinstall everything to a new path now...

 

[Blades1138]

Tried 2 of the 5 Star Girls but the girls are not translated. Menu, Laptop, Questions, overlay was ok but the Vids with the answers where not. The Parts in your Picture 3 and 4 are not translated here. DLC Is Loaded at the start and Language is in simple chinese, the UI is OK.

Same for me, I did find some girls whose conversations were translated, but it's a hit or miss.

 

[Enkel]

I deleted my save and the intro had Subs now but the Interviews dont.
Save path :
C:\Users\"your name"\AppData\LocalLow\Joybrick

 

[zkawai]

SolarWindCatcher , any way to unlock the gallery?

 

[Narakin]

Nice! Thank You!!

 

[SolarWindCatcher]

Tried 2 of the 5 Star Girls but the girls are not translated. Menu, Laptop, Questions, overlay was ok but the Vids with the answers where not. The Parts in your Picture 3 and 4 are not translated here. DLC Is Loaded at the start and Language is in simple chinese, the UI is OK.
Reinstall everything to a new path now...

why language is set to Simplified Chinese? It's not translated because there were less subtitle files with it so no point. Main language is Traditional Chinese, and I translated all subtitle files with it. See "Troubleshooting" section in the first post, I specially created it foreseeing such a development of events

 

[SolarWindCatcher]

Same for me, I did find some girls whose conversations were translated, but it's a hit or miss.

Name of the girl?

 

[Enkel]

K, I mean traditional...like i said the ui is translated, not in he other Language. I found no translated Interview yet.

 

[SolarWindCatcher]

K, I mean traditional...like i said the ui is translated, not in he other Language. I found no translated Interview yet.

Most likely files in "Content" folder were not replaced by files from the "TheHardestInterviewET.zip".

I did a clean test. I unpacked the game from original archives from TG to new place, erased Appdata\...\Joybrick and Unity folders. Then unpacked "TheHardestInterviewET.zip" to the game folder, replacing files.

Then I recorded a video with OBS how I start and play the game from the begining.

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You can watch it online or download. Never interviewed this girl before and discovered a bug in subtitle translation in her answer about her figure so it was all worth it haha.

 

[Blades1138]

Most likely files in "Content" folder were not replaced by files from the "TheHardestInterviewET.zip".

I did a clean test. I unpacked the game from original archives from TG to new place, erased Appdata\...\Joybrick and Unity folders. Then unpacked "TheHardestInterviewET.zip" to the game folder, replacing files.

Then I recorded a video with OBS how I start and play the game from the begining.

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You can watch it online or download. Never interviewed this girl before and discovered a bug in subtitle translation in her answer about her figure so it was all worth it haha.

I have it set to Traditional Chinese, that's not the problem for me.
Do I have to start an entirely new save for everything to be completely translated ?
Also I've noticed some videos have visual artifacts after using your files.

Example of girls that don't have translated dialogue:

 

[SolarWindCatcher]

Okay guys, I think mystery is solved. Most likely you have problems because this game (or Unity in general) caches used resource files in "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Unity\Joybrick_The Hardest Interview\"

Before doing clean test I mentioned above I erased that folder. When I did first interview with girl in demo video I posted above and exited game, big unity resource file with name "__data" with size of 703 megabytes appeared inside that folder in several letter-numbers subfolders. Then I did another interview - second unity resource file "__data" in another letter-number subfolders appeared. These files are renamed "dlc_model_0XX_asset_assets_all_xxxx.bundle" from "Content\Model_0XX\Asset\" folder. So, when you played untranslated game before, it cached all untranslated data files inside Appdata and CONTINUED to use it even though you unpacked translated .bundle files into the game's "Content" folder.

TLDR: go to "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Unity\" and delete "Joybrick_The Hardest Interview" folder. I think you DON'T need to erase savegame files in "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Joybrick\The Hardest Interview\SaveData\"

I have it set to Traditional Chinese, that's not the problem for me.
Do I have to start an entirely new save for everything to be completely translated ?
Also I've noticed some videos have visual artifacts after using your files.

Check method above and clear unity cache, most likely you don't need to start completly new game. I've just recorded video with Li RongRong, she is translated. I repeat guys, ALL interviews are translated. I unpacked all .bundle files from "\Content\Model_0xx" folders and translated all *_zh.srt files, which are Traditional Chinese subtitle files. About video artifacts, I didn't touch .mp4 files at all, only .srt files were exported, translated and imported back.

 

[Blades1138]

Okay guys, I think mystery is solved. Most likely you have problems because this game (or Unity in general) caches used resource files in "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Unity\Joybrick_The Hardest Interview\"

Before doing clean test I mentioned above I erased that folder. When I did first interview with girl in demo video I posted above and exited game, big unity resource file with name "__data" with size of 703 megabytes appeared inside that folder in several letter-numbers subfolders. Then I did another interview - second unity resource file "__data" in another letter-number subfolders appeared. These files are renamed "dlc_model_0XX_asset_assets_all_xxxx.bundle" from "Content\Model_0XX\Asset\" folder. So, when you played untranslated game before, it cached all untranslated data files inside Appdata and CONTINUED to use it even though you unpacked translated .bundle files into the game's "Content" folder.

TLDR: go to "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Unity\" and delete "Joybrick_The Hardest Interview" folder. I think you DON'T need to erase savegame files in "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Joybrick\The Hardest Interview\SaveData\"



Check method above and clear unity cache, most likely you don't need to start completly new game. I've just recorded video with Li RongRong, she is translated. I repeat guys, ALL interviews are translated. I unpacked all .bundle files from "\Content\Model_0xx" folders and translated all *_zh.srt files, which are Traditional Chinese subtitle files. About video artefacts, I didn't touch .mp4 files at all, only .srt files were exported, translated and imported back.

You're completely right, that solved the problem, although it seems the picture/video redeem prompts are still in Chinese.
Did I need to clear some other files as well ?

Also Unity is crazy for caching files like that - I had 26GB on my system drive because of this nonsense.

 

[Enkel]

Damn and I deleted almost every Folder to find the Save File but not the Unity and I didnt look into it -.-
And had almost 32gig oO
Works fine now, everything complete translated ! THX again

 

[SolarWindCatcher]

You're completely right, that solved the problem, although it seems the picture/video redeem prompts are still in Chinese.
Did I need to clear some other files as well ?
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Also Unity is crazy for caching files like that - I had 26GB on my system drive because of this nonsense.

Some small things are still untranslated, I will fix it later. I can't just blindly translate all chinese text I found with regexp inside textassets of the game to English because some of that text are names of different databases fields and game code expects it to be in chinese or game just doesn't start.

Thanks for testing and feedback guys, I think together we will make this game perfect

 

[SolarWindCatcher]

SolarWindCatcher , any way to unlock the gallery?

I don't know. Most likely you have to modify game's code and it's not that easy as with Renpy games.