Translation Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 3 Translation Project

[GEO9875]

Thank you so much for the hard work and dedication to not give up! It's great to know people out there are very passionate about this underrated little gem of a series and managed to bring to us the only installment stuck in Japan land! Thank you!

 

[gyrogogozeppeli]

I've bookmarked this project so I can check its status once in awhile.
I'm glad you guys completed the project! Good job! Looking forward to trying this out when I can!

 

[NeonBlack79]

I was not tracking the project anymore and today I discovered that the translation is actually complete and the patch available.

Thanks to the whole team for this amazing gift

 

[Pokemonfan6498]

the game takes forever to load

 

[NocturnalMoon]

the game takes forever to load

It doesn't. We tested it on various platforms and the game always loads everything within a matter of a few seconds matching the loading times of the original. Please make sure to use the latest version of whatever you are using to play the game and provide more information in case the problem still persists.

 

[IX285]

You might want to take look at AD-HOC mode however,intro seems bugged,tested using latest PPSSPP between two local devices
Also to mention,weird bug can happen preventing players from actually finishing the level at all

 

[IX285]

I have yet to try using Clumsy to increase lag to see how does netcode behave,so i'll have more definite answer

 

[Pokemonfan6498]

It doesn't. We tested it on various platforms and the game always loads everything within a matter of a few seconds matching the loading times of the original. Please make sure to use the latest version of whatever you are using to play the game and provide more information in case the problem still persists.

strange why on my psp it takes eternity to load im using latest CFW

 

[IX285]

strange why on my psp it takes eternity to load im using latest CFW

Isn't like PSP always plagued by bad load times anyways (looking at you Sims)

 

[Pokemonfan6498]

Isn't like PSP always plagued by bad load times anyways (looking at you Sims)

idk but i saw same issue in final fantasy type-0 and several games

 

[IX285]

idk but i saw same issue in final fantasy type-0 and several games

Pretty sure you just answered your issue,FFT0 is very demanding game that takes up all RAM space
ZZT3 isn't any different,make sure you have enough and be sure you did patching correctly

 

[Pokemonfan6498]

Pretty sure you just answered your issue,FFT0 is very demanding game that takes up all RAM space
ZZT3 isn't any different,make sure you have enough and be sure you did patching correctly

Well i got pre patched version on rom megathread

 

[IX285]

Well i got pre patched version on rom megathread

You're supposed to patch your original .iso with the patch in the post,not give feedback for prepatched version

 

[NocturnalMoon]

You might want to take look at AD-HOC mode however,intro seems bugged,tested using latest PPSSPP between two local devices
Also to mention,weird bug can happen preventing players from actually finishing the level at all

Which level do you mean and what's the bug preventing the players from finishing it? It sounds a bit like a general problem with PPSSPP that would also occur with the japanese version but with more information I'd be happy to take a look.

 

[Pokemonfan6498]

Which level do you mean and what's the bug preventing the players from finishing it? It sounds a bit like a general problem with PPSSPP that would also occur with the japanese version but with more information I'd be happy to take a look.

well i got rid of issue only when i downloaded unpatched iso and used patch

 

[IX285]

Which level do you mean and what's the bug preventing the players from finishing it? It sounds a bit like a general problem with PPSSPP that would also occur with the japanese version but with more information I'd be happy to take a look.

I'd not be surprised considering PPSSPP developers perhaps care more about UI of emulator,not what kind of stuff
can they fix,so it might not be your problem at all,what would be hilarious considering they won't do anything

 

[IX285]

I've made Discord server for this and other games in the series,you can also seek for other quests by other survivors using VPN / Public Ad-Hoc method

Come join at https://discord.gg/2NQm6NP9y4

This server is not related to translation team

 

[GordonG]

Hello, I got a game breaking bug, not sure if it caused by translation or not, sadly the save is not working with the Japanese version.

At Toudai Street, where you need to go to the Magoya Mart's back door, first you need to go to the 2nd floor and got the key from a dead person, then return to 1st floor and open blocked door with the key, then if you get the purple costume inside that room, you can notice that the hand of main character glitched, and then if you go outside, game just freezes. I tried it on different emulator versions and OSs, but the bug never let me outside of the building. And even if you don't pick the costume, and avoid everything and just get to the 2nd floor and then return back - the game will freeze anyway.

But I found easy solution - you just need to equip gloves, boots, hat, and change costume to different one. Sometimes it makes no difference, but after a few tries if you found an appropriate set of clothing, the bug will dissapear, hand in the purple costume will not be bugged and the game can be continued without issues.

I uploaded saves for testing.



I checked full walkthrough in YouTube, the man passes this room in gloves. So I'm not sure if it's coincidence or maybe this bug was already known.

 

[NocturnalMoon]

Thank you very much for posting such a detailed description, @GordonG
I've read about bugs in Magoya Mart before in various Japanese blogs and one is even mentioned on the Japanese Wikipedia article for the game.
Unfortunately the descriptions on these sites are always a bit vague so it's hard to tell if this is the same bug, but there definitely is a problem in Magoya Mart with the official version of the game.
It seems likely to me that this issue is not caused by the patch so I can't make any promises about fixing this but at least I'll check if there's some obvious issue with this section of the game.

 

[swosho]

First off, thank you for the patch! You guys really did justice to the game!
That said, there are pretty major technical issues concerning the FMVs. For instance, the second Song FMV (JP ver.) on Rina's playthrough stops playing about a minute in on the actual PSP/Vita, while on PPSSPP that spot just stutters briefly but the playback carries on. And the post-credits epilogue that I got on Naoki's playthrough didn't play back at all on PSP/Vita. Edit: My bad, I was wrong!
There may be more broken videos but I didn't bother with testing out all of them, as all the re-encoded FMVs have to be re-done anyway...

Spoiler: Screenshots

Here's how the untouched video looks like:​

And here's the re-encoded one:​

Either the videos fed to UMD Stream Composer were encoded with full colour range, or/and the "brightness scale" in UMDSC was set to 0-255 instead of the default 16-235 value, resulting in severely crushed blacks and a loss of detail.

Here are some tips for addressing both of the issues:

Spoiler

1. Simply exporting uncompressed AVIs for UMD Stream Composer with the 4:2:2 YCbCr (YUY2) (BT.601) (Limited Range) pixel/colour format does the job to keep the colours and contrast as they were in the untouched FMVs. The "brightness scale" setting in UMDSC should also be left alone ofc.

2. In contrast with PPSSPP, the actual hardware is usually not tolerant to any "mishaps" in PMF headers. I bet it's the same case here, judging by a couple of re-encoded PMFs.
Make sure that the video & audio tracks have 1:1 the same length as their untouched counterparts so you can just copy-paste the whole 0x50-0xAF range from the original PMFs into the new ones.

You can also quickly check whether the modded PMFs have any playback issues and/or borked colours on PSP/Vita using this homebrew PMF player.

There's also this unrelated to the playback issues but still worth mentioning thing with re-encoded videos here being downgraded from progressive scan to interlaced for some reason...

Hit me up if you need any assistance with the videos.