Hey everyone! So I've been lurking the forums and especially this thread for a while now, but after moonblood666 posted a link to the Geofront translation in plain text, I thought that maybe I could take my own swing at "translating" Trails from Zero Evolution (I honestly don't know how to read any Japanese and all I would be doing is replacing the Japanese text with English, so using translating very loosely here). I do also have to state that I have never really done any modding before but I would say when it comes to experience that I'm a jack of all trades and master of none kinda thing-- I have done some programming, done a bit of photoshop and video editing, and etc.
Anyways getting to the main point of this post, I was trying to extract the data1.psarc using Total Commander and the PSARC plugin, however I keep running into an error issue, as seen in the photo below:
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Not sure if I messed something up during installation or if it may just be my copy of the game? The installation of the Total Commander and it's PSARC plugin seemed pretty straightforward so I'm leaning towards my copy of the game being at fault.
Regardless I was able to get around this by using VitaShell and extracting all the folders out of data1 and onto the my SD Card and navigated to the scena folder. There I was able to find all the bin files that seem to match the the filename that's on the "Trails in the Database" website. I then did a quick look up of one of the lines to see if it existed in the bin file and yeah, it was there as shown in the pic below:
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So now my other question is what can I/should I do next? Is it really as easy as just replacing all the Japanese text with English in the bin files (like using the find and replace function in notepad++ for starters before going into how to automate the process using a script) or is there maybe another way to do things? Also not sure what to do once I'm done with some modifications, as I don't know how to compress everything back into a PSARC file for testing or if that's the right way to go about it. I haven't spent too much time on this, only started looking into this yesterday, but if someone could point me in the right direction at what links to look at and such, that would be awesome!