ROM Hack YS DS translation project

[Noitora]

I ain't dying! I just have a lot of studies to do and I won't have enough spare time to do translations.
I'll be back by the beginning of the Summer.

 

[Oath]

I ain't dying! I just have a lot of studies to do and I won't have enough spare time to do translations.
I'll be back by the beginning of the Summer.

Oh

 

[psycoblaster]

now if I was able to quickly create an extra text box or delete one, then I wouldn't care too much...
(I can by just hex editing, by changing the pointers, and writing the text with the right header, but it will take an awful lot of time to put ALL the rest of the pointers in the right spot, and darth's tool won't be able to recognize the new text, and I don't know why. (probably because I'm not understanding the format well enough...))

You want to be able to add lines and edit headers? Here's a version that will let you do that.
Download YsTrans v0.2

Naturally, you'll need to re-export .sjs files from your edited .bins.

It seems you can use any unused line number for the new line, so you shouldn't have to renumber everything afterwards. I can make it prettier than just dumping the header bytes, but you'll have to tell me what each line type does.

thanks, darth

is there a way to take out a line?
There wasn't much "adding" to do for right now, but we need to be able to delete unused lines...

 

[DarthNemesis]

thanks, darth

is there a way to take out a line?
There wasn't much "adding" to do for right now, but we need to be able to delete unused lines...

Yeah, just delete it and change headers as appropriate.

 

[psycoblaster]

so if I want to add/ delete lines, I'll just need to get the headers strait. that's all?

 

[DarthNemesis]

so if I want to add/ delete lines, I'll just need to get the headers strait. that's all?

Well, I don't know what the game actually uses to determine which line to play for which conversation. If it's based off of the line number, you're fine. But if it's based off of the pointer table index, then changing the number of lines at all could mess everything up. That information isn't contained in the script .bin files, so if all the lines get messed up after you remove one, you'll probably need to look for the event script.

Edit: Tried removing a line and it seemed to work fine. You're probably safer only removing lines that come after a type 3, since those are just additional text boxes and most likely wouldn't be referenced directly by an event cue.

 

[psycoblaster]

yeah... only need to remove additional text boxes...

Can you tell me what you did to remove the extra text box?
(I still don't get the headers on your script editor, so I just wanted to follow what you did to familiarize myself..)

 

[DarthNemesis]

yeah... only need to remove additional text boxes...

Can you tell me what you did to remove the extra text box?
(I still don't get the headers on your script editor, so I just wanted to follow what you did to familiarize myself..)It's just [line number]header.

Before:

[01ae]0300ae01af017a00
??????????????????\n??????????
[01af]0200af017a00
???????????
[01b0]0300b001b1017a00
???????????\n???????????????

After:
CODE[01ae]0200ae017a00
??????????????????\n??????????
[01b0]0300b001b1017a00
???????????\n???????????????

 

[psycoblaster]

so all you've done was delete it?

 

[DarthNemesis]

so all you've done was delete it, and it won't crash because the line # is still there?Apparently. Also, changed the type 3 before it to a type 2 since it's now the last line in the message box.

Like I said before, I can change the format of that header line to whatever style you want if you figure out what each part does for the different header types. For example,
CODE0200 af01 7a00 = Type 2: line number 0x1af, speaker number 0x7a
0300 ae01 af01 7a00 = Type 3: line number 0x1ae, next line number 0x1af, speaker number 0x7a

 

[psycoblaster]

oh, so that's what 02 and 03 was

Great thanks, darthnemesis.

 

[psycoblaster]

using darthnemesis's great tool, i finally finished all the NPC texts of minea

(well, all NPCs outside houses, of course)

warning: a large amount of screens

Spoiler

 

[kryss]

Erm, I didn't put "spirit" in that sentence twice.

 

[kjean]

WoW, my nick's on the 1st page. I'm totally honored.

Hail to the YS translation team.

 

[psycoblaster]

Erm, I didn't put "spirit" in that sentence twice.

fixed, but changed the sentence from the spreadsheet (didn't fit)
and the awkward line breaks where I could have fit in an extra word or two at the end of the line has been fixed

 

[DarthNemesis]

What are you using to determine how much text can fit onto a line? I'm thinking of adding a max line length option to NFTRedit...

 

[psycoblaster]

Using your NFTR editor... I got a text that perfectly fits the size of the maximum pixels on the screen
and I match my text up with it
but that max line thing would be nice

 

[aznanimefreak1]

I actually decided to take a quick look at the script and wow...is it long...

 

[psycoblaster]

after we are done with minea, there is only 1 long script file left... for Zepik..
and then when we are done with zepik, we will start on the compressed text and left over graphics. And we'll be done

(but still, that's a long process)

and where the heck is noitora??

 

[DarthNemesis]

Using your NFTR editor... I got a text that perfectly fits the size of the maximum pixels on the screen
and I match my text up with it
but that max line thing would be nice

Ok, added.