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Translations of wapanese games
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Nazrim Eldrak
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what game?
Arcturus, a quite dark RPG made by the worst koreans behind Ragnarok online. It'll take some time, but consider the translation feasible and ongoing 
They localized the game in Japanese and published it, but it was originally made by Gravity before their success with Ragnarok. It's the same engine and if you've played some RO you'll probably recognize some assets
Here is a patch for The Wild Rings on Xbox which translates the majority of the game including the player rosters.
There are still a few things left untranslated unfortunately due to compression and also the fact words are saved as graphics inaccessible but you should be able to navigate through the game for the most part a lot better than before. We hope you enjoy this release!
To setup just replace your original default.xbe and aikoh.arc files with the ones included with this compressed RAR.
Also included is a file which adds some known wrestlers and has most of the rest translated. If you wish to use it, it will need to be copied in the game’s specific UDATA directory where it’s saves are located.
Hacked by MrRichard999
Translated by Helly & Jink640
Don’t forget to backup your original files just in case!
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2673/
There are still a few things left untranslated unfortunately due to compression and also the fact words are saved as graphics inaccessible but you should be able to navigate through the game for the most part a lot better than before. We hope you enjoy this release!
To setup just replace your original default.xbe and aikoh.arc files with the ones included with this compressed RAR.
Also included is a file which adds some known wrestlers and has most of the rest translated. If you wish to use it, it will need to be copied in the game’s specific UDATA directory where it’s saves are located.
Hacked by MrRichard999
Translated by Helly & Jink640
Don’t forget to backup your original files just in case!
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2673/
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Ragnarok Online is a grindy korean isometric mmo that I used to like because, well, I love JRPGs and isometric RPGs. It does have p.cool graphics but the game itself was really really too grindy. Playing on private server with 100000xExp made it worthwhile though.They localized the game in Japanese and published it, but it was originally made by Gravity before their success with Ragnarok. It's the same engine and if you've played some RO you'll probably recognize some assets
I know nothing about Ragnarok except Ragnarok Tactics. Is that a good thing?
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Let's hope more pantie-sniffing sequences have also been added. Kojima's storytelling never fails to engage the player.
F-1 Racer Family Circuit for the NES now in English! :D http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2745/
Just released 2 translations for the NES. Hope you guys enjoy!
Sukeban Deka III - http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2756/
Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku - http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2758/
Sukeban Deka III - http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2756/
Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku - http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2758/
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I'm still hoping for a Cyber Doll translation... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHmh8OXU7OE MrRichard999
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Holy shit that looks fucking awesome.
Don't get too excited about that one... I doubt that anyone would make a font table for all those large letters anytime soon... It was one of the painstaking steps that luckily someone was able to do when starting the Wizardrt IV project. There could be also compression and ASM weird stuff going on also...
Sorry for being negative but its hard stuff here... This requires advanced know-how people who know how to use debuggers and stuff...
MrRichard999 Jinn
a prime example of when the sad reality that to fan-translate you not only need (or should be) fluent in the language, but also a way above-average reverse engineer aficionado; a decent and competent scripter (and wouldn't hurt also knowing how to code, for when programming that text-extraction-insertion-tool for that 1 game you're working on ! hah).
and if you want to replace "graphics" (textures for menus, etc, and goes up from there) then tack on knowledge of image editing and waaay more than "basic" usage of Photoshop (or GIMP, i suppose), because believe me the rigomarole involved in first reverse engineering a way to extract an art asset from a locked-down video game file archive and then having to find a way to somehow convert the game's retarded propietary "extensions", such as Sony's INFAMOUS usage of .gim and .mig for art assets (THEY'RE RE-BRANDED FUCKING PNGS!!!! OMGGG)...
...then once you have them in .png (or whatever) here comes that graphics knowledge in order to do whatever the hell it is you were gonna do to the art asset and then you have to figure out how to RE-INSERT the asset into the file archive/container and then, hopefully, you already have a tool someone else made that's made specifically for rebuilding the .ISO/.ROM/ your fucking waste of a life.
even editing text you end up having to learn a ton about how video games "handle fonts", how a font is created, what motherfucking GLYPHS are, GLYPHS PEOPLE, GLYPHS!, and it's not too shabby if also some knowledge of how the system you're rom-hacking at the moment handles functions such as whether it Draws from a font table and whether it utilizes triangles or rectangle prims when calling letters and, the worst of all (!), finding out days into hacking said game that the fucking thing has like 5 routine layers all for the purpose of having the game always spit out CANNED TEXT in the form of LETTER-TEXTURES AAAARGH OMG ARGJH
and, lastly, never forget, Jinn, the fan translator will always be alone. always. and i don't mean in the translating, it is a given no group of ppl like the game(s) you like enough to help translate it; i merely want to remind the cosmic truth
a prime example of when the sad reality that to fan-translate you not only need (or should be) fluent in the language, but also a way above-average reverse engineer aficionado; a decent and competent scripter (and wouldn't hurt also knowing how to code, for when programming that text-extraction-insertion-tool for that 1 game you're working on ! hah).
and if you want to replace "graphics" (textures for menus, etc, and goes up from there) then tack on knowledge of image editing and waaay more than "basic" usage of Photoshop (or GIMP, i suppose), because believe me the rigomarole involved in first reverse engineering a way to extract an art asset from a locked-down video game file archive and then having to find a way to somehow convert the game's retarded propietary "extensions", such as Sony's INFAMOUS usage of .gim and .mig for art assets (THEY'RE RE-BRANDED FUCKING PNGS!!!! OMGGG)...
...then once you have them in .png (or whatever) here comes that graphics knowledge in order to do whatever the hell it is you were gonna do to the art asset and then you have to figure out how to RE-INSERT the asset into the file archive/container and then, hopefully, you already have a tool someone else made that's made specifically for rebuilding the .ISO/.ROM/ your fucking waste of a life.
even editing text you end up having to learn a ton about how video games "handle fonts", how a font is created, what motherfucking GLYPHS are, GLYPHS PEOPLE, GLYPHS!, and it's not too shabby if also some knowledge of how the system you're rom-hacking at the moment handles functions such as whether it Draws from a font table and whether it utilizes triangles or rectangle prims when calling letters and, the worst of all (!), finding out days into hacking said game that the fucking thing has like 5 routine layers all for the purpose of having the game always spit out CANNED TEXT in the form of LETTER-TEXTURES AAAARGH OMG ARGJH
and, lastly, never forget, Jinn, the fan translator will always be alone. always. and i don't mean in the translating, it is a given no group of ppl like the game(s) you like enough to help translate it; i merely want to remind the cosmic truth
Honestly if I were to ever take on a project that uses double hex value font it would be Majin Tensei II. Every project I work on either uses Single-Hex value text or uses the default Shift-JIS as you can relatively search for stuff or its already in the standard format. I did take a quick look at Cyber Doll and I think I see items and single word stuff but no dialogue... Good chance there is compression involved in that.
that's what i was trying to remember! the MDA (?) and DTA's (?), or was it MDT's?
that's why I've been saying that elminage 2's psp text script is "horrendously formatted", it's just that i had completely forgotten about that basic lesson!
it uses tons of shit like EVERY TIME A CHARACTER/NPC BEGINS DIALOG THEIR NAME IS ALSO LIKE 50 DIFFERENT OTHER OPERATIONS/CONTROL CHARACTERS/SCRIPT SHIT
and the shenanigans continues in the dialog. The bits I've translated what i've done is i have begun making a completely seperate document that is basically my version of the elminage 2 NPC dialog script (which is gigantic) and going through piece of dialog-box by dialog-box and extrapolating the important kanjis and leaving out the ascii shit and then basically cleaning it up and copy/pasting the relevant kanji/katakana/hiragana on my seperate document.
THEN, _that_ seperate document is the one I eventually utilize as the base from which to begin translating the kanji and the caracters via several methos but primarily via an electronic japanese word processor. (google is atrocious: anything more complicated than a literal or phonetic spelling or something romaji and google just breaks its brain).
obviously question is why am i doing this rite... cos i love the game(s) and i want them in english, someday, but i have finally legitiamtely come to realize that when ppl on romhacking net told me i was going about things in a hard-headed, needlessly convuleted way... i finally understand where they were coming from.
Richard, do you still use Windhex?
that's why I've been saying that elminage 2's psp text script is "horrendously formatted", it's just that i had completely forgotten about that basic lesson!
it uses tons of shit like EVERY TIME A CHARACTER/NPC BEGINS DIALOG THEIR NAME IS ALSO LIKE 50 DIFFERENT OTHER OPERATIONS/CONTROL CHARACTERS/SCRIPT SHIT
and the shenanigans continues in the dialog. The bits I've translated what i've done is i have begun making a completely seperate document that is basically my version of the elminage 2 NPC dialog script (which is gigantic) and going through piece of dialog-box by dialog-box and extrapolating the important kanjis and leaving out the ascii shit and then basically cleaning it up and copy/pasting the relevant kanji/katakana/hiragana on my seperate document.
THEN, _that_ seperate document is the one I eventually utilize as the base from which to begin translating the kanji and the caracters via several methos but primarily via an electronic japanese word processor. (google is atrocious: anything more complicated than a literal or phonetic spelling or something romaji and google just breaks its brain).
obviously question is why am i doing this rite... cos i love the game(s) and i want them in english, someday, but i have finally legitiamtely come to realize that when ppl on romhacking net told me i was going about things in a hard-headed, needlessly convuleted way... i finally understand where they were coming from.
Richard, do you still use Windhex?
I use it all the time. I wish the guy would release the source-code so it could be built on and improved!
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