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Ben · Site Admin Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 437

Amazing !

gargatar · Joined: 04 Apr 2009 Posts: 92

Some recent, though minor progress

The intro has had Engrish removed and the character names translated. The original options at the introduction have also been translated.

Screenshots:

Snake Plissken · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:45 am Post subject:

Great!
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gargatar · Joined: 04 Apr 2009 Posts: 92

Finally got back to working on this game.

New screen shots, the first few screens have been completely translated.

Snake Plissken · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:06 pm Post subject:

Great!

So have you solved that compression problem you told me?
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gargatar · Joined: 04 Apr 2009 Posts: 92

Well, I'm pretty sure I'm not seeing all of the in-game text in my hex editor at the moment. There seem to be two hiragana encodings used in the game. Although what is a big problem is the fact that second hiragana encoding has the same hex values as the latin letters, so I hope there is a second set of latin characters within the game or I won't be able to translate everything. I don't think the game uses any compression, and I don't ever remember telling anyone I had a compression problem.

EsperKnight · Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Posts: 6

When your saying it uses the same latin characters, are you talking about it using 1 byte for the kana? Most times they seem to convert it to SJIS at the end so it may be possible to use the same set (I've looked at couple for the PC88 and this seems common, mostly been looking at the X68000 though), you'd just need to find the values (which can be a pain if you don't have the dissassembly in front of you).

Also if it'll help, I have a debugger version of M88 (2.19 though, but I'll update it to the 2.21 since the code has been posted) compiled that enables the CPU logging feature, it seems to work pretty well except it crashes when you stop logging it (need to fix it) if you want it.

Ashura · Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 207

I haven't looked much at the code (and I'm not intending to Wink

), but it seems that all hiragana is enclosed by two 7Ch characters.
Haven't checked for katakana, but I can see some 7Ds and 7Es in the text.
Between the escape characters the table looks like this:

あ = 31h, い = 32h, ..., ろ = 5Bh.
を is 26h apparently, while small ゃ　ゅ　ょ are 2Ch-2Eh.
5Fh is new line character, 5Eh is for ﾞ, and so on...
If you need it you should be able to complete the table by examining some text.

In any case all ASCII appears as it is, so you'll probably only have to remove those 7xh characters (which gives you some extra space for translation Laughing

).

Test:

gargatar · Joined: 04 Apr 2009 Posts: 92

I actually figured that out just before you posted, Ashura. Thanks anyway.

And EsperKnight, that debug version of m88 will be quite useful. Please upload it.

Edit:
Town menus have been finished!

Next up, battle menu and monster names.

Takechi · Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Posts: 29

gargatar · Joined: 04 Apr 2009 Posts: 92

It's been a little while since I've uploaded screenshots showing progress, so here's various bits of the game that have been translated.

Demonolith · Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 41

that looks like a fun ass game

good work man!

Snake Plissken · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:32 am Post subject:

So the work on this baby hasn't stopped. Great! Very Happy

Now what is still in japanese?
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Snake Plissken · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:38 pm Post subject:

Have a happy new year, PC-88 section...a new decade opens for you Very Happy

Are there any news on the translation projects?
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