ROM Hack Summon Night Swordcraft Story: Beginnings Stone

[Reploid]

I'm in the server, and even part of the project itself. Basically, the gist is this:
We've got the entire script translated already. The issue is getting said script inside of the game. Our latest development is that our leader is currently crafting a tool that should make this much easier for us. We have already had ways to insert script (we already have Days 0 and 1 translated as a playable beta!) but they have proven to be really hard and stuff.

English Patch done?
NOT YET. There is a DEMO that goes up to the end of Day 1 but not the beginning of Day 2. Link is on Page 1.

Now to work on making my profile...


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Good to know. Ah, if Only atlus would support GBA for just a bit longer in due time. I wonder what kind of tools they used back in the day.

 

[AmanitaRose]

I'm using a gba emulator (more specifically my boy) on my phone so I'm wondering if I have to do something else to use the translated file?

Btw Thank you and your team for doing your best to translate the entire game!

Post automatically merged: May 12, 2023

I'm using a gba emulator on my phone so I wondering what I should do to be able to use the translated file?
Btw thank you guys for doing your best to translate the entire game!

 

[KishiAri]

I'm using a gba emulator (more specifically my boy) on my phone so I'm wondering if I have to do something else to use the translated file?

Btw Thank you and your team for doing your best to translate the entire game!

Post automatically merged: May 12, 2023

I'm using a gba emulator on my phone so I wondering what I should do to be able to use the translated file?
Btw thank you guys for doing your best to translate the entire game!

i'm sure that the patching process is going to work regardless. When in doubt, you can try a libretro frontend emulator like Lemuroid, RetroArch, or Pegasus, then download a GBA core from there.

 

[PacBunnyXV07]

Question: Is there a translation for the Summon Night Granthese: Horobi no Tsurugi to Yakusoku no Kishi?

More importantly, is there a way to get it running on OPL?

 

[Warrax1]

Update

The Subtitler v3

As promised here's the new release of The Subtitler!


This release adds an updater. Simply double click updater.exe and it will download the latest translation from salixa's github, and convert it to the subtitles format.

It now replaces correctly tags in the game's script like your name, your partner's name, etc when they appear in dialog. It doesn't work in 100% of cases because there's weird combinations that rarely appear and are not worthy of spending lots of time working on. It still works for more than 99% of the times tags appear.

There's a new feature (more like a workaround) to get translations for when the game gives you options (when you're talking to someone and it gives you answers to choose from like "I'll do it"/"I'm not going to do that").
Since it seems impossible to detect when the game gives you options without doing lots of reverse engineering and rewriting most of the subtitler I took a different approach.
When the game gives you options right click inside the subtitler's window and notepad will open with the translations for the options from the current script in the game (it may show more options than the ones currently ongoing). It's a little annoying but it's the only way I could do it. The japanese text in the game won't completely match the real japanese text you'll see in the notepad window if the ROM is patched but you'll be able to identify the text easily.

This is probably going to be the last release of The Subtitler unless there's some important bug to fix or new feature needed that I haven't noticed while testing it.

Are there any heroes who still have this Subtitler stashed away somewhere? The download links from mega have been dead for a long time...

 

[RixuKiri]

Can someone please link a new discord invite please?

 

[Jayro]

Can someone please link a new discord invite please?

I asked for you, as I'm in the server. It seems they've disabled user-makable invites which is stupid.

Are there any heroes who still have this Subtitler stashed away somewhere? The download links from mega have been dead for a long time...

https://mega.nz/file/D1l0EIpC#XKVaP9faCBTwxptm_kNudB0XOfuXNJfyAp6hByMxbn0

 

[Zelly_9191]

Link isn't dead for the discord it's fixed. The person in question was temporarily banned as they had been hacked.

 

[AllHailSwordCraftStory3]

Hello, I have studied several languages, including japanese. I tried going on discord but had problems connecting to my account, so if anyone wants to contact me and ask me to translate anything from Summon night Hajimari no ishi, send me at once a private message with other means of contacting one another. I am a loser with no job, so hopefully I can do something good in my life and help with translating this great game.

 

[Jayro]

Hello, I have studied several languages, including japanese. I tried going on discord but had problems connecting to my account, so if anyone wants to contact me and ask me to translate anything from Summon night Hajimari no ishi, send me at once a private message with other means of contacting one another. I am a loser with no job, so hopefully I can do something good in my life and help with translating this great game.

Join the discord, they can get you started there much quicker.

 

[Ninja-Eule]

Hello, I have studied several languages, including japanese. I tried going on discord but had problems connecting to my account, so if anyone wants to contact me and ask me to translate anything from Summon night Hajimari no ishi, send me at once a private message with other means of contacting one another. I am a loser with no job, so hopefully I can do something good in my life and help with translating this great game.

Just so you know, you aren't a loser. If you studied multiple languages and can translate stuff then that's a marketable skill that can help you land a job.

 

[mwahaha]

Hello, if it's not rude, can I ask the state of the translation currently? If it's not require any coding knowledge, I can help to insert the script to the game. Interested to see full release of this game.

 

[KishiAri]

Hello, if it's not rude, can I ask the state of the translation currently? If it's not require any coding knowledge, I can help to insert the script to the game. Interested to see full release of this game.

Since last month, we've actually been able to make some steady progress.

Up until now, we have only had a patch for Days 0 + 1 fully translated, but we have just made a patch to include Day 2!

IMPORTANT POINTS​

• [U][B]It's only for Day 2.[/B][/U] This isn't a full patch yet. It only has Days 0-2 in it.
• [U][B]This is not a public release.[/B][/U] We are currently testing the beta patch to make sure we haven't missed any dialogue, and to find any other possible bugs.
• [U][B]When will we have a public release?[/B][/U] The plan is for the next release to be a full patch. So, the answer is "[U]when it's done[/U]". We plan on making announcements as each day is finished.
• [U][B]State of the project.[/B][/U] We've finally got to the point where we could make a new patch! Most of the game had already been translated, but we had some programming issues preventing us from getting the translations into a patch. These issues have been mostly resolved, which is why we are hoping for more regular progress. At the moment, we're currently doing a lot of proofreading and fixing some visual bugs. About 95% of the game has been translated. However, it's been done by a few different groups of people over the years. We've been proofreading the script to make sure all the dialogue is consistent, and to raise the quality of the translation in general.
  
  Many thanks for the offer for importing, but the team has that part covered lately with a brand-new script importer. There have been talks about importing fixes for Days 0-1 along with importing Day 3 for the Testers and Proofreaders to go fixing. Changes include but are not limited to:
• a couple of named characters, all who have had official Anglicizations contained within the official promotional material for the game. Vee is actually supposed to be V.E, Serg is supposed to be spelled Sarge, among others.
• a bunch of graphical bugs have been repaired, such as that funny overlapped space for when you get a sword shapestone as a level up reward.
• "Summon Stones" being reworded as Summonite, and every mention of "blacksmith" to be replaced with Craftknights, to be more consistent with what Atlus has put down as translations in previous games. As mentioned, the translation has been performed by multiple members throughout the years. The proofreaders' role is to lay down these ground rules and check the translated script for inconsistencies.
• Fix weapon upgrade menu, confirm button
• Fix popup when crafted golden weapon

 

[KishiAri]

Happy belated New Years!
dropping 2 updates down~ this first one is form exactly last month (Jan 23) from team lead CornStarch:

Quote: "
Hello everyone,
This is the first patch announcement of the new year and we have some big news! (No, the patch isn't finished yet.)

Previously, about 90% of the in-game text had a translation. Now, it's like 99%. (There's a few graphics we haven't gotten to yet, but all the game menus and dialogue are done.)

So we went ahead and slapped it all into a patch, so the game is mostly all translated now.

So then, why isn't the patch finished? Aside from the few graphics we have yet to finish translating, we still need to do a lot of proofreading.

As I said in the last update, the project has passed a few different hands over the years. There are a lot of inconsistencies in various things like character names, item names, and how some characters' personalities have been translated.

Our current goals are to thoroughly proofread everything to make sure everything is consistent, and to increase the quality of the translations. A lot of the translations are literal translations, so we also want to round them out and make them feel more lively.

Otherwise, there's still a couple graphics that need a little tweaking, and the odd bug here or there that we're fixing.
" End Quote.

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Then this following one is from last week, Feb 16:
Quote: "
We previously procured a plethora of passionate, patient, proofreading persons and a truckload of tactical, tenacious, testing troopers. Pardon my alliteration. It has been going very well, and we've made more progress in a shorter amount of time than I thought we would. It almost makes me think we should have done this sooner. Almost.

At the time of the last announcement we were about halfway through proofreading Day 4. Now we've finished proofing up to Day 7. Except Day 6; it's most of the way done though. We're also going back over the first two days, Day 0 and Day 1. We actually hadn't touched anything from those Days since whenever that one public patch came out years ago.

Aside from the proofreading, there have been a few other changes. One big one is that we made a new text font. Now it looks similar to the font used in Swordcraft 2. I actually booted up Swordcraft 2 like an hour ago to check something. But then I noticed the period in our font is one pixel wider than Swordcraft's and it bugs me a little.
Another small change has to do with the name of a character. There was a character whose name was spelled four different ways for some reason, so we took a vote and decided on one. His name is Serge. I don't think he appeared in Day 0 or Day 1.

As usual, while we have made some significant progress in this last month, there is no set release date. It's done when it's done.This is a volunteer project, so we all just do this for fun. I hope.
" End Quote.

Post automatically merged: Feb 23, 2026

here's the bit i worked on today, i hope you'll appreciate seeing a visual of something in the works for once

 

[Jayro]

This entire translation rollercoaster for this game has been a real shit-show to watch. I appreciate everyone's hard work, but jeez, I've never seen so much drama happen over a single game translation.

 

[Hojin]

Sorry for my ignorance.. But is there an estimated release date? Also very grateful for all the efforts and love for the game. I'm literally desperate for the patch. Sorry for not being able to contribute.

My deepest hug for all the team

 

[Jayro]

Sorry for my ignorance.. But is there an estimated release date? Also very grateful for all the efforts and love for the game. I'm literally desperate for the patch. Sorry for not being able to contribute.

My deepest hug for all the team

Nope, it's been going on for over a decade, with no end in sight.

 

[Hojin]

Nope, it's been going on for over a decade, with no end in sight.

 

[CornStarch]

team lead CornStarch

Hello. I am the aforementioned (word of the day!) CornStarch. I've been a part of the translation team for about 2 years, and team leader for about 4 months. Since I became leader, I've been posting monthly updates to the discord server. I usually do it in the back half of the month. I'm going to start posting them here as well. I've been meaning to make an account here and post something for a while, but I've been a bit intimidated by the process. I don't really participate in any kind of social media much. (I assume forum sites count as social media.)


Here's a general overview of the project:
As you know, the project has been going on for a long time. I know just about nothing about events before I joined 2 years ago, just that team leadership and members have changed hands a good few times.

When I joined, the team leader at the time had recruited a good handful of people for various positions. I had a few roles, but I mostly focused on programming (not romhacking). She wanted the programmers to work on making some tools that would streamline the translation process. Long story short, the process used to be very inefficient with a lot of manual copy pasting. Now it is not.

A few months ago, I was asked to take over as leader. Since then, the process has been streamlined a bit more, and we are capable of making steady progress now. As @KishiAri said before, the proofreading process has gotten up to Day 7 of 13~ish. The game is about 100% translated, it's just been done by different groups, who were not all native English speakers, hence the proofreading. Also different groups would use different names for the same characters or items sometimes.

I'd also like to state that we can't promise an estimated release date, we can only promise that we'll keep working on it. I honestly just have no idea how long it would take. I've never done anything like this before. I'm also not too good at estimating time anyways.

 

[Hojin]

Hello. I am the aforementioned (word of the day!) CornStarch. I've been a part of the translation team for about 2 years, and team leader for about 4 months. Since I became leader, I've been posting monthly updates to the discord server. I usually do it in the back half of the month. I'm going to start posting them here as well. I've been meaning to make an account here and post something for a while, but I've been a bit intimidated by the process. I don't really participate in any kind of social media much. (I assume forum sites count as social media.)


Here's a general overview of the project:
As you know, the project has been going on for a long time. I know just about nothing about events before I joined 2 years ago, just that team leadership and members have changed hands a good few times.

When I joined, the team leader at the time had recruited a good handful of people for various positions. I had a few roles, but I mostly focused on programming (not romhacking). She wanted the programmers to work on making some tools that would streamline the translation process. Long story short, the process used to be very inefficient with a lot of manual copy pasting. Now it is not.

A few months ago, I was asked to take over as leader. Since then, the process has been streamlined a bit more, and we are capable of making steady progress now. As @KishiAri said before, the proofreading process has gotten up to Day 7 of 13~ish. The game is about 100% translated, it's just been done by different groups, who were not all native English speakers, hence the proofreading. Also different groups would use different names for the same characters or items sometimes.

I'd also like to state that we can't promise an estimated release date, we can only promise that we'll keep working on it. I honestly just have no idea how long it would take. I've never done anything like this before. I'm also not too good at estimating time anyways.

Thank you very much for the response~! Really appreciate it!