Hacking Phantom Kingdom Portable: English Translation

[heatblade12]

i encountered a "hard to recreate bug", im currently on chapter 3-1 and my main character was pummeled with 5+ npc's in one go, he lived, but it seems theres an odd chance that after npcs perform this special hit chain attacks and before the "YOUR TURN", it bricks my PSP.
im running a PSP 2000.'
by brick i mean, all my buttons will simply not work, only the power off works, the animations and music still play on the screen. but simply restarting the psp seems to make it work, i have tried this "get ganged up on" thing at least 20 times (i know, i have no life ) and it only happened twice...

EDIT 1: very rare problem, might of just been my psp acting up from overheat or what have you, i never encountered this problem again. must of been nothing to worry about, will update if it ever happens again, doubt it tho...

 

[Elaugaufein]

Are you still having problems with the IMY format ChepChep ? I've got some spare time in the next couple of days and I think I have the gist of Sky's post and I wouldn't mind taking a shot at writing a python script to decompress and deinterlace IMY files.

 

[ChepChep]

Elaugaufein,

Yes I am... I am not really that good with the assembly decoding. I also have little experience with image formats. I can figure out the basics but anything compressed is beyond my skillset right now.

Any help will be appreciated... The main thing I need is an algorithm to decoded the image and convert it to png and then create a png to IMY encoder.

If you have any questions just pmail me.
-ChepChep

 

[Belmondo]

eboot.bin patch for home screen to be in English

@100 change 25 20 00 00 to 01 00 04 24

 

[heatblade12]

Bug encountered, its small, but when i created 12 pickpockets (thieves) one of them had the pickpocket label half way across the screen, it also conflicted with other text that if they where in the same spot created a mass of white or black on screen. the "pickpocket" text remains next to the thief i created, and appears no where else, so, its not a big bug at all, as its just a small odd thing to see... XD

 

[ChepChep]

heatblade,

There are tons of places where text goes outside the textboxes... too many to keep track of them all... We will figure it out at some point.

 

[heatblade12]

lol thanks chep chep, and i thought i would throw it out there

 

[ChepChep]

Thanks for the bug report though... I do appreciate it since most people do not report anything they find...

 

[Bacomnom]

Installing the game data causes the game to revert most of the dialogue to Japanese.

Just adding that, because i had the problem and i thought it was everything else BUT the game.

 

[heatblade12]

yeah, for psp users, uninstall the install data XD i had too, thats why my patch did not work, the first time

 

[Elaugaufein]

Looking at the file structure on the disc, it looks like the install data is actually stored in a separate DAT file, I'm guessing that ChepChep hasn't translated it yet.

 

[Deleted User]

You don't need install data if you are running an iso.

 

[ChepChep]

I am surprised running the data install even worked. Every time I try it, it crashes my PSP.

There is no need to run the data install since you will have to patch the iso and run it from the memory stick.

 

[Star-scream]

Awesome going to start now

 

[Belmondo]

I am surprised running the data install even worked. Every time I try it, it crashes my PSP.

There is no need to run the data install since you will have to patch the iso and run it from the memory stick.

The data install would only be cool for people who own the game on a jap psn account and don't have a hacked vita/vita tv. I take it most of the files would be the same inside the unencrypted DATA.DAT and the encrypted PGD DATA2.DAT?

 

[ChepChep]

Belmondo,

I tried your "quick" patch for english title screen and it does nothing for PKP.

-ChepChep

 

[Belmondo]

Belmondo,

I tried your "quick" patch for english title screen and it does nothing for PKP.

-ChepChep

It works, I dunno what you did wrong, so I sent you the modified eboot.bin I use.

 

[ChepChep]

I got it working... I will include it in the next patch...

Just beat the Petta Mode. I can confirm no major crashes or bugs

 

[heatblade12]

Tried a second quick playthrough on the main story,

Bug Encountered!

at the end of Mission 3-6, during the scene of Alex walking away from zetta, disappearing, and dropping a note ect,
at the end of the scene, when the camara pans upwards and shows us a ghostly Alex Laughing at Zetta, after i select/press O or X to close the dialog of his laugh,
his animation plays on a forever loop of him holding his belly laughing..

tried twice and it happened both times.

 

[ChepChep]

I found the bug... it was one of the new opcodes I found later in the game... I will release a patch latter today with the fix.