Looking for Scans of "God-Slaying Story"

[Will-Bill]

Hello, everyone. I recently got my hands on a copy of God Slaying story, the non-canon Xenogears prequel novel, and have slowly been working my way through translating it. That said, I don't have access to a scanner, and I would like to ideally, put my translation into the scanned book, so that readers can see the images.
Does anyone know if scans of this book exist anywhere?

 

[tomxie]

It seems that someone uploaded a link on the previous XU forum, but the link seems to no longer exist

The God-Slaying Story, a Xenogears novel

I remember talking about this once but I can't find a thread anywhere about it (so maybe I talked about it elsewhere or in the old forum). Anyway, I found more

xeno-underground.forumotion.com

 

[Aidan Uzuki]

Sorry to say, but a cursory look through Google kinda shows that it may not have been scanned yet. One of the projects we have in the future for preservation is Thousands of Daggers, but we are hoping as more people get involved some of these more niche things will turn up or at least this can be added sometime in the future, but as far as when that's anyone's guess.

 

[Will-Bill]

Sorry to say, but a cursory look through Google kinda shows that it may not have been scanned yet. One of the projects we have in the future for preservation is Thousands of Daggers, but we are hoping as more people get involved some of these more niche things will turn up or at least this can be added sometime in the future, but as far as when that's anyone's guess.

I actually have a copy of thousands of daggers too, it really makes me wish I had access to a scanner. At the very least, I can tell you that the content in thousands of daggers isn't super important per se, it's just the games script with some screencaps from the game. That said, if I am ever presented the opportunity to use a scanner, I will keep this in mind and scan both of them.

 

[Aidan Uzuki]

At the very least, I can tell you that the content in thousands of daggers isn't super important per se, it's just the games script with some screencaps from the game.

One of the cool things about Thousands of Daggers, and by extension the Japanese script is that it lets us view the localization of the game through a more accurate lens. It has probably been saved in another format though e.g. the Japanese version of the game. People are hesitant to scan these books because they are still subject to copyright which is why we have run into issues scanning them through a 3rd party.

 

[Valkyrie]

It seems that someone uploaded a link on the previous XU forum, but the link seems to no longer exist

The God-Slaying Story, a Xenogears novel

I remember talking about this once but I can't find a thread anywhere about it (so maybe I talked about it elsewhere or in the old forum). Anyway, I found more

xeno-underground.forumotion.com

So, if I understand it correctly, the scans have been made by a person called OZkai.
FYI, you can contact OZkai via Twitter (he accepts DM) :
https://twitter.com/OZKai

 

[Elendraug]

One of the cool things about Thousands of Daggers, and by extension the Japanese script is that it lets us view the localization of the game through a more accurate lens.

This is why I'm so glad to have the scenario books for XSI and XSII. It's a shame they didn't release one for XSIII (as far as I can find; if it exists please let me know!) but in a pinch, I've checked subtitles from Japanese language YouTube footage.

 

[Will-Bill]

One of the cool things about Thousands of Daggers, and by extension the Japanese script is that it lets us view the localization of the game through a more accurate lens. It has probably been saved in another format though e.g. the Japanese version of the game. People are hesitant to scan these books because they are still subject to copyright which is why we have run into issues scanning them through a 3rd party.

Yes, it actually has been preserved. I've been using this site, which actually has a more complete japanese script, though with no images: http://xenodd.xxxxxxxx.jp/memory/stop.html
It has been exceptionally useful as part of the PWBuild retranslation. Having control+f is really nice. Prior to it, we were using Thousands of Daggers, but it was a little incomplete when it came to NPC/optional stuff.

So, if I understand it correctly, the scans have been made by a person called OZkai.
FYI, you can contact OZkai via Twitter (he accepts DM) :
https://twitter.com/OZKai

Thank you, I will get into contact with them.

EDIT: I talked to OZkai, he does in fact have scans. Thank you everyone. Whenever I finish my translation, I'll make sure to upload it here.

 

[Will-Bill]

Just a quick update to this. I finished my translation of the novel. You can find the download link here https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/2w9317tejzjkfrxs61j44/h?rlkey=yv5dqi0poqc5xr5slpbcehq3j&dl=0