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The German's have a freeware system similar to AGS that allows you to publish Maniac Mansion games in an episodic format. There are some English translation for a few episodes I reccomend you try. Anyways I talked to one of the authors about getting of one of the episodes translated and here's what he said.

Hi,

Where are you stuck? Maybe I can give you a hint.

To your question about an English transaltion of "Tales of the Weird Ed"
: We've been looking for a translator but we were not successfull at
all. Beside the lack of time the biggest problem is that we do not think
that our English-knowledge is good enough to create a really good
translation by our own. We're not fans of word-by-word translation, a
good translation has to have it's own style. The other episodes made by
us (34 and 67) are even much longer an there are so many jokes to
convert, so that finding a good translator is really difficult. If you
know any native English-Speeker, who has humor, who speaks German and
who is willig to translate our games we would be very thankfull

Greetings

Edison Interactive


So if anyone here is fluent in German and would like to help the adventure game cause please let me know.

VonGlower, but I haven't seen him around in awhile... Germany has had some major storms, I'm hoping he doesn't live where they struck...
He does get very busy now and then as well...

Find a post from him and send him a PM or maybe an email... If he doesn't have time to come to the board, I'm sure he checks his email...

Hmm, I´m sorry but i don´t have the time to translate whole MM episodes
I can start a thread on our german adventuresite, but unfortunately i doubt that someone will respond to it.

Starting is a thread is worth a shot. The episdoes rock.

Some good news at least:

The actor "has a broken arm, broken elbow and minor shoulder damage, but is in good spirits," according to a statement from Donna Lee, Freeman's publicist. A hospital spokeswoman said Freeman was in serious condition but would not discuss his injuries.

"He is having a little bit of surgery this afternoon or tomorrow to help correct the damage," Lee's statement said. "He says he'll be OK and is looking forward to a full recovery."

Source: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5huNB ... wD92BOAC00

-Cub. =o)