ROM Hack Ace Attorney Investigations French Translation

[Aguilera_87]

lasssssticos

 

[Kay Faraday]

Sorry to stray alittle off topic but why are you guys talking about a german translation in a french translation thread? ;x

Yep. Quite intelligent, eh? Sorry... Guess that wasn't even half funny...

 

[Tychon]

I'm from Germany. That means I could help you with translating the game into German, if you wouldn't mind. I already wanted to start a translations and now I just came across with your post. So, here's my question: Could I help you with translating AAI:ME into German?

Sure. I just created a blog for that in my sig; if you'd like to join in, send me an e-mail to the e-mail address on the blog, along with whatever IM address you're using.

I have dumped all the text, but right now, it's not pleasant to read. I'm going to make it look all nice before sharing it around.

Sorry to stray alittle off topic but why are you guys talking about a german translation in a french translation thread? ;x

Because my thread wasn't receiving much attention initially, so I jumped over here. There's been talk of an Italian patch too.

 

[Dark315055Vash]

could you write down some documentation about the overlay files' structure please?

 

[Tychon]

could you write down some documentation about the overlay files' structure please?

It actually wasn't particularly easy getting something out of those overlays, but basically, besides including the text in the game, they control how the text flows as xvirus has already mentioned, and probably when certain sounds should sound, the quaking, their color, etc. Unfortunately, I have no idea how they determine who's speaking, and which text to go to next because it's not in the right order. I mean the cases are probably all in the correct order, as 0000 starts with the first case and goes from there, but within each overlay, the text isn't in the right order.

*
:centered dialogue?
= centered line break
T moderate pause
E pause
4 other in game event?
7 short pause
B stop event?
F pause
J long pause
N pause
(no break between words) line break in the middle of a paragraph (so basically, if you were to change the text and ignored the maximum number of characters allowed on one line, your next word would start on the space after the first, and it would look something like this:
Capcom
(space)Capcom)
s, . centered line break?
2 player can click to continue
thought text
7 0 chime
AI Not too sure, but I think it might have something to do with wrapping the dialogue in parentheses.
L5 elipses are sometimes preceded by this
L2 line break?
!
8117 0 text quake
10 Emphasis (orange) 1

I think you are allowed at most 32 characters per line.

If other people have been doing some debugging, some sharing around would be nice.

 

[Dark315055Vash]

many thanks but what about pointers?

 

[azerty1]

watch out for pointers. text in overlay files are usually pointed by the y9.bin. even if you know what commands there are in the text, you will still need to repoint the y9.

 

[Dark315055Vash]

y9 is too small to point everything but it contains 221 "portions" enumerated...221 like overlays..suspicious

 

[DarthNemesis]

That's not surprising, since y9.bin is the overlay table. You shouldn't need to update it unless you're changing the size of the overlay, but you do need it to get the memory offset for each overlay.

Each overlay has a 32-byte entry with the following data (4 bytes each):
overlay ID
RAM address
RAM size
BSS size
stat start
stat end
file ID
reserved (usually compressed size, for overlays with LZ77)

Add the offset of the text in the overlay file to the RAM address to get the pointer.
Subtract the RAM address from the pointer to get the offset of the text in the overlay file.

 

[Dark315055Vash]

thanks, I'll try to write something down but I have a problem..I saw that size before your post and I tried to add 0x10 byte to the text portion and manually edit the size bytes but the rom crashes...

 

[Daviex]

I've extracted file from rom, but i no have overlay_0194 o_o

 

[Tychon]

You should get two files: one called data, and the other overlays. You get the overlay .bin files from the latter.

 

[azerty1]

y9 is too small to point everything but it contains 221 "portions" enumerated...221 like overlays..suspicious

Yes, that's what I meant. It points to where the text is in the rom, rather than in the overlay file.
Darth explains it better than i can, though.

oh, and DarkVash, does the rom crash upon booting, or is it only when you get to that specific point in the text, or is the whole scene that screws up?
there might be a pointer table in the overlays themselves, which would thus need to be updated.

 

[DarthNemesis]

thanks, I'll try to write something down but I have a problem..I saw that size before your post and I tried to add 0x10 byte to the text portion and manually edit the size bytes but the rom crashes...

Since overlays work by overwriting parts of the arm9, expanding an overlay runs the risk of corrupting any executable code that comes after it. If that's what's happening in this case, I don't know of any easy way around that.

 

[Dark315055Vash]

I'll try to use the padding 0x00s at the beginning and at the end of the file.

oh, and DarkVash, does the rom crash upon booting, or is it only when you get to that specific point in the text, or is the whole scene that screws up?

It crashes when it loads the file. I just added 0x10 bytes at the end of the file and I updated the size in the y9.bin file wthout modifying anything else.

Mmm wait..maybe i have to update the ram pointers of the other overlay files...

 

[bahamut920]

So is this actually a project now? Should I put it in the Index?

 

[Tychon]

The German one is. It's just that no one's bothering with the thread I made. Perhaps changing the title of this thread to translations to European languages would be more suitable.

 

[Daviex]

If you want, i can partecipe for translate to Italian Language.

Tell me if for you is okay ^^

 

[Tychon]

Does anyone know if there is something like a "font" table in the rom somewhere? I've been looking for it in tile editors, but to no avail.

I need it to add umlauts to the German translation.

 

[koimayeul]

sweet game and project im offering my support and help, being french myself.. i could help some with eng to french, just PM