ROM Hack Tales of Hearts Translation Project

[last_fencer]

It's been almost 10 years since this game was released and still it hasn't been translated.
Even though there's a PS Vita remake, I still think that this version deserves a translation.

So, after checking the game files I managed to extract and insert some files. The problem is that the script files are hard for me to understand and write a tool to extract/insert.
At the moment I can edit menu, items, materials, skills and a few other texts.

Here are some screens that show what it's possible at the moment:



So, since I don't understand japanese, this project can only progress with help from people who wants and knows how to translate.

Sheets with some texts.

docs. google. com /spreadsheets/d/1IvPuyTRGFB1eWEARogNQa1z_rIyk3S54dI4mG4VxFdQ/edit?usp=sharing
docs. google. com /spreadsheets/d/1Jwz26hLTiKqJPjH_PKEVOS9XWtf7KfqIaEN7ujqtMeM/edit?usp=sharing
docs. google. com /spreadsheets/d/1PotxTyh9g2kjfH0IigwtWzSO4jcut4VQYXlW7hA5Dfs/edit?usp=sharing

This is intended to be a a full translation, but right now it will be mostly a menu translation.

Help Needed:

• Translators: Knowledge of japanese and preferably familiar with the game's terms.
• Romhackers:
  • Variable width font: The game uses VWF, I assume it's somewhere in arm9, but since I don't know asm I can't edit it.
  • Understanding the script format: The script files are packed in the m.dat, where m.b have the pointers and the file structure. Then again, the files are packed using the same structure. Once unpacked, each folder has at least one .SCP file, which is compressed (LZ10), and that's is the script file. Help is needed to understand the pointers.

If you want to help translating, just send me a PM and I will send you the text files.

 

[NANASHI89]

Will you translate the CGI version, too?

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[last_fencer]

Will you translate the CGI version, too?

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Yes, both versions.

 

[pikatsu]

WHy do not you use the translated demo patch from here to get some help and this script?

 

[last_fencer]

Because that would be plagiarism, I want to start from scratch.
Thanks for the script translation, do you know who did this?
Like I said, I don't know how to edit the script files, I need help to understand them so I can edit the files.
And I don't know japanese so I can't just replace the sentences with the translated ones, but if someone knows it's just matter of replacing them.

 

[pikatsu]

Because that would be plagiarism, I want to start from scratch.
Thanks for the script translation, do you know who did this?
Like I said, I don't know how to edit the script files, I need help to understand them so I can edit the files.
And I don't know japanese so I can't just replace the sentences with the translated ones, but if someone knows it's just matter of replacing them.

I do not remember. I have found it in a game translation forum many years ago. I grubbed the post just in case but the original post does not exist anymore or i cannot locate it. As for the files hacking part you could ask Kuriimu guys for help.

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Wait i found in in another post http://www.mediafire.com/file/n45lmndz2nlxag5/TALES+OF+HEARTS+SCRIPT+TRANSLATION.txt or make a google search with this: TALES OF HEARTS SCRIPT TRANSLATION—by Jasmine B

 

[last_fencer]

I do not remember. I have found it in a game translation forum many years ago. I grubbed the post just in case but the original post does not exist anymore or i cannot locate it. As for the files hacking part you could ask Kuriimu guys for help.

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Wait i found in in another post or make a google search with this: TALES OF HEARTS SCRIPT TRANSLATION—by Jasmine B

It seems we can use the translation as long as we give credit to the author, not bad.

I edited the first post to link some sheets with menu texts, if someone want to help just talk to me and I'll give you permission to edit.

 

[pikatsu]

In which folder are the script files. Can you locate them for me. I want to take a look

 

[last_fencer]

In which folder are the script files. Can you locate them for me. I want to take a look

m/m.dat and m.b, you need to extract them, then extract, for example, FSHT00/FSHT00.SCP.

I'll put some samples here.

 

[pikatsu]

Script files are actually .fps4 files right (the common tales series format)? Here are some info of .fps4 files used by a similar game
http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=11609
https://www.maxconsole.com/threads/tales-of-vesperia-english-dlc-help-fixing-a-problem.36884/

Maybe you can find something usefull or not

 

[last_fencer]

Script files are actually .fps4 files right (the common tales series format)? Here are some info of .fps4 files used by a similar game

Maybe you can find something usefull or not

I already made a unpacker/packer for FPS4 files like I said. The script files are inside those files, and those are the files that I need help. I uploaded a few in the previous post.

 

[pikatsu]

You can ask for help here https://discordapp.com/invite/3nYQ9aG. They can explain you the file format if you provide them the samples or even better can make a text plugin for you

 

[bajol]

Because that would be plagiarism, I want to start from scratch.
Thanks for the script translation, do you know who did this?

here
http://www.blade2187.com/

 

[takechiyo]

this would be cool

 

[tehwes]

I found a code repo from the team who did the PS3 Tales of Vesperia fan translation, and it has code for working with the FPS4 archives and the TSS script format.

https://github.com/AdmiralCurtiss/HyoutaTools/tree/master/Tales/Vesperia

The TSS code is kinda all tied into dumping the data to databases for the translation website but you should be able to hack something together to output it in other ways. Just note that the header values in the DS files have the opposite endian-ness to what's used in TSSHeader.cs.

Maybe you could contact that team and see if they're willing to help or shed some light on how they organised things? Seems like they were working off local databases to hold the translated strings, then combining them together later.

 

[last_fencer]

I found a code repo from the team who did the PS3 Tales of Vesperia fan translation, and it has code for working with the FPS4 archives and the TSS script format.

https://github.com/AdmiralCurtiss/HyoutaTools/tree/master/Tales/Vesperia

The TSS code is kinda all tied into dumping the data to databases for the translation website but you should be able to hack something together to output it in other ways. Just note that the header values in the DS files have the opposite endian-ness to what's used in TSSHeader.cs.

Maybe you could contact that team and see if they're willing to help or shed some light on how they organised things? Seems like they were working off local databases to hold the translated strings, then combining them together later.

Thanks.
I'm really busy at the moment, I'll take a look when I have more free time.

 

[Raytheon_Thunder]

Hope somebody tries to take on translating this one day.

 

[RagoXXXX]

It'd be great if we had more Tales games, especially because of the remake and re-editions that were lunched in west

 

[NoobCycle]

I really hope someone would continue this project... Tales of Hearts DS is very differenct compared to the Vita version and in my opinion much better in term of combat, graphics style, and content...

 

[pikatsu]

Is this dead?