Phantasy Star Nova Translation [We need your help!]

tenkai_2.0 · Sep 23, 2016

So if I buy the cart (vita version.)will I be able to use the patch?
My ps vita has been collecting dust since sonic all stars racing.

sj33 · Sep 23, 2016

tenkai_2.0 said:
So if I buy the cart (vita version.)will I be able to use the patch?
My ps vita has been collecting dust since sonic all stars racing.

Yes, but you also need to be able to use the HEHkaku exploit. In other words, firmware 3.60 NOT the latest 3.61.

Skardale · Sep 23, 2016

Awesome too see the progress. Just gonna miss watching it happen behind the scenes! Though stuff happens! Always rooting for this team though! Awesome work @ Aida, synth, dka, nagato, everyone else! ! ! !

AIDA · Sep 23, 2016

Good news! We have a proper text dump now, so we've started working on the story! \ o / Speaking of:

whateverg1012 said:
Any plans on putting subtitles for the prerendered video cutscenes or is that impossible?

Great work so far

Yep! All the videos will have subtitles on them in a separate (optional) CPK, since it will be a bit larger. It *should* only be a one-time download, though.

reinzhart · Sep 23, 2016

AIDA said:
Good news! We have a proper text dump now, so we've started working on the story! \ o / Speaking of:

Yep! All the videos will have subtitles on them in a separate (optional) CPK, since it will be a bit larger. It *should* only be a one-time download, though.

That was pretty fast progress, so the script was nearly 100% identical with PC counterpart?

sj33 · Sep 23, 2016

reinzhart said:
That was pretty fast progress, so the script was nearly 100% identical with PC counterpart?

Well, Nova is a completely different game to PSO2.

reinzhart · Sep 23, 2016

sj33 said:
Well, Nova is a completely different game to PSO2.

I see, so it's not just bring the old PC translation but it had something new to be translated if i get it right.
By the way thanks for the reply/confirmation, I'm really exited with this project it's going to be.

AIDA · Sep 23, 2016

reinzhart said:
That was pretty fast progress, so the script was nearly 100% identical with PC counterpart?

Not at all! The compression, packing, display system - Everything was different. Luckily, Nagato had just developed a tool for another game, and was able to modify it to suit ours. At first we had to dump "images" of the text, and then I used a OCR (A program that reads the JP like a human and tries to translate it to text) which worked "okay" - 1 out of every 5 or so lines was nonsense text, 3 of 5 would have incorrect japanese, but from the 2/5 that were usually correct, I was able to surmise what was what and begin mapping things while I translated them.

EDIT: Reading your response, maybe you meant content wise? Yeah, PS: Nova is a completely different game, taking place in the same "universe", but using all new stuff. It was also developed by Tri-Ace instead of SEGA, so everything is different ; _ ;

Maverick81PL · Sep 23, 2016

Are You planing make 100% complete translation of this game?? With DLC and Updates??

leon315 · Sep 23, 2016

hi huys, it's psdead's game, did i miss anything bout its hacking scene or is it possible to run backups on our henka-jacked psdead now?

AIDA · Sep 23, 2016

Maverick81PL said:
Are You planing make 100% complete translation of this game?? With DLC and Updates??

Yup!

Maverick81PL · Sep 23, 2016

Yup!

Nice! TMO is proud ;-)

reinzhart · Sep 23, 2016

AIDA said:
Not at all! The compression, packing, display system - Everything was different. Luckily, Nagato had just developed a tool for another game, and was able to modify it to suit ours. At first we had to dump "images" of the text, and then I used a OCR (A program that reads the JP like a human and tries to translate it to text) which worked "okay" - 1 out of every 5 or so lines was nonsense text, 3 of 5 would have incorrect japanese, but from the 2/5 that were usually correct, I was able to surmise what was what and begin mapping things while I translated them.

EDIT: Reading your response, maybe you meant content wise? Yeah, PS: Nova is a completely different game, taking place in the same "universe", but using all new stuff. It was also developed by Tri-Ace instead of SEGA, so everything is different ; _ ;

Yeah i mean content wise.
I had used Capture2Text for capturing text(image of text)for old game before and it's was pretty accurate and light program, it might be slightly better than you already had and hope this will help a little bit.
Thank you.

Maverick81PL · Sep 23, 2016

AIDA said:
Yup!

Is there any progress status of translation??

Abu_Senpai · Sep 23, 2016

reinzhart said:
Yeah i mean content wise.
I had used Capture2Text for capturing text(image of text)for old game before and it's was pretty accurate and light program, it might be slightly better than you already had and hope this will help a little bit.
Thank you.

When you meant content. were you by chance talking about their PS02 vita transalation? if so then yeah this team of awesome peeps are transalating both games!

but i dont now if ps02 on pc and vita are the same??

AIDA · Sep 23, 2016

reinzhart said:
Yeah i mean content wise.
I had used Capture2Text for capturing text(image of text)for old game before and it's was pretty accurate and light program, it might be slightly better than you already had and hope this will help a little bit.
Thank you.

No problem, and thanks for the recommendation!

Maverick81PL said:
Is there any progress status of translation??

At the moment, 99% of character creation, the basic main menu, NPC names, items, most weapons, basic enemies, and much more is translated! We're still trying to find where a lot of the text is (I'm about 1/4 of the way through mapping all the files). I'm almost done with the settings menu now.

Abu_Senpai said:
When you meant content. were you by chance talking about their PS02 vita transalation? if so then yeah this team of awesome peeps are transalating both games!

but i dont now if ps02 on pc and vita are the same??

Yup! They're very similar - The issue is you'll need the latest update to play it online. We've come up with a few solutions for this, but (among other things) I would need a 32GB memcard, and I'm waiting for some finances to clear up before I can purchase it.

For the record, here's our current thoughts on how it would work:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/translation-phantasy-star-online-2-vita.441936/#post-6701467

Opinions on this are more than welcome in the other thread.

Toni456 · Sep 23, 2016

sj33 said:
Yes, but you also need to be able to use the HEHkaku exploit. In other words, firmware 3.60 NOT the latest 3.61.

If you have access to a HENkaku vita then yes you can use it on 3.61

Awesome work btw! so excited for this

RazorX2014 · Sep 23, 2016

@AIDA why dont you make a homebrew installer/updater similar to VPKMIRROR so you launch it and it lets you install/update the translation file, it would be so sweet

tenkai_2.0 · Sep 23, 2016

sj33 said:
Yes, but you also need to be able to use the HEHkaku exploit. In other words, firmware 3.60 NOT the latest 3.61.

Shinigati said:
If you have access to a HENkaku vita then yes you can use it on 3.61

Awesome work btw! so excited for this

Thanks but how can i check what my ps vita is on?
EDIT: I have system software 3.52 so I guess I am ok? Also nova has local and online multiplayer correct?

Maverick81PL · Sep 23, 2016

Translation works amazing! Waiting for newest version ;-)

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