ROM Hack [Completed] Love Plus English Translation Patch

[XniJ]

Why not just learn Japanese instead of waiting on jjjewl to do all the work?

I am taking a course for it now

 

[RikuDawm]

Will we ever see LovePlus+ in English?

 

[Shinden]

Will we ever see LovePlus+ in English?

Please read a few pages back, thank you.

However, if you have the heart and the skill, YOU can make it happen. GO!

 

[RikuDawm]

Okay. I don't know if this is the place for ask for help on this. But I was wondering if there was any way that I could edit the game textures or whatever. Like editing the background or editing textures on clothes or hair or whatever.

 

[jjjewel]

Okay. I don't know if this is the place for ask for help on this. But I was wondering if there was any way that I could edit the game textures or whatever. Like editing the background or editing textures on clothes or hair or whatever.

I didn't touch the background or texture files when I worked on this game. But it's possible to change them. The files are packed in different archives though. If you know programming, you can try to write a program to unpack and edit them. I know the backgrounds are in standard NDS formats. (NCGR/NCSR/NCLR, etc.) But I don't know about the textures. (I've never edited any 3D textures in games though.) If they are in standard formats, Tinke might be the tool you can use to edit the files.

You can ask pleonex, Tinke's developer, if he has time to write a file unpacker for you. (I've been referring people who asked me about hacking to him lately. I'm afraid he might be very busy. ") Most of the files you need to edit are in /arc folder if I remember correctly. The .bin and .arc files have sub-file offsets in the headers and they are LZ10 compressed.

 

[astrangeone]

Thank you and your team for doing this patch!

I love this type of game, and it's pretty hard to find something like this.

 

[RikuDawm]

Okay. I don't know if this is the place for ask for help on this. But I was wondering if there was any way that I could edit the game textures or whatever. Like editing the background or editing textures on clothes or hair or whatever.

I didn't touch the background or texture files when I worked on this game. But it's possible to change them. The files are packed in different archives though. If you know programming, you can try to write a program to unpack and edit them. I know the backgrounds are in standard NDS formats. (NCGR/NCSR/NCLR, etc.) But I don't know about the textures. (I've never edited any 3D textures in games though.) If they are in standard formats, Tinke might be the tool you can use to edit the files.

You can ask pleonex, Tinke's developer, if he has time to write a file unpacker for you. (I've been referring people who asked me about hacking to him lately. I'm afraid he might be very busy. ") Most of the files you need to edit are in /arc folder if I remember correctly. The .bin and .arc files have sub-file offsets in the headers and they are LZ10 compressed.

Well, none of this is really new information to me. I already have a basic idea what I'm doing. I was just wondering if anybody knew specifically what files to edit and which programs to use. But thanks anyway.

 

[HyeVltg3]

You have no idea how much I love you and your team (cant remember if this was a solo project or team/group) Been crying over the fact that I could never play this game because it required too much J-reading. T_T but I only recently discovered this section of GBATemp (mostly because I just recently, a week ago, picked up a 3DS) and this was the first thread I saw and I was rolling around in joy to know that this project was completed! Thanks alot for all the awesome work.

 

[martiano16]

Thanks soooo much! I had a fantastic time playing this game. in English no less! Thanks alot, you have my full support

 

[SweetieBelle]

Like so many others', I can't thank you enough.

I am learning Japanese, I wish I could indeed help but my skill is far from what is required. I have always wanted to play Love Plus and never thought I would be able to at my current level of Japanese, thank you thank you domo arigato!

For the record, I am running an Australian 3ds, latest firmware, latest r4i gold 3ds with the latest moonshell and wood. I have had probably 2 bugs, one was the speech issue, the other the "how to: text for the love + mode (speech) was off centre and out of the screen, the touchable continue button selection area was in place, so not a problem. Hasn't happened since.

Arigato!

Mata ne.

 

[jjjewel]

For the record, I am running an Australian 3ds, latest firmware, latest r4i gold 3ds with the latest moonshell and wood. I have had probably 2 bugs, one was the speech issue, the other the "how to: text for the love + mode (speech) was off centre and out of the screen, the touchable continue button selection area was in place, so not a problem. Hasn't happened since.

If you could elaborate on what kind of problem you got for the "speech issue", that'd be much appreciated. (Like, because you had to say Japanese words or is it other technical issues. If it's the first case, that's not fixable, though. But if it's some other issues, I might be able to look into it.)

Also, which part of the Love Plus mode tutorial that got text off screen. The off-center part is due to the font and it can't be fixed. (It can but it needs high level ASM hacking which I can't do.) But there shouldn't be any off-screen text.

Just wonder if it's a specific problem in 3DS or I really missed something. Currently almost 100% of the errors people reported are things I can never reproduce on my DS Lite and R4 flash cart. And I got all kinds of harsh comments like 'your patch sucks' and stuff, when I had never encountered any problem they got T_T"

 

[plasturion]

Thanks for releasing this patch, I'm able to understand what Manaka says, and probably never try it if you wouldn't translated it. LP is good, nice music, 3d graphic, speech recognizing, but somehow i'm disappointed, not because your patch, but game itself. (for example in compare to phoenix wright - protagonist is much worse, and I didn't feel like I could feel in love, when she was trying confessing to me, and how boring is doing simply the same routines) For me game ends after first end.

 

[fafaffy]

Thanks for this translation! I really enjoyed it (Until it abruptly ended :|). I hope someone will figure out how to bypass all the difficulties of LovePlus+ and translates it

 

[SweetieBelle]

For the record, I am running an Australian 3ds, latest firmware, latest r4i gold 3ds with the latest moonshell and wood. I have had probably 2 bugs, one was the speech issue, the other the "how to: text for the love + mode (speech) was off centre and out of the screen, the touchable continue button selection area was in place, so not a problem. Hasn't happened since.

If you could elaborate on what kind of problem you got for the "speech issue", that'd be much appreciated. (Like, because you had to say Japanese words or is it other technical issues. If it's the first case, that's not fixable, though. But if it's some other issues, I might be able to look into it.)

Also, which part of the Love Plus mode tutorial that got text off screen. The off-center part is due to the font and it can't be fixed. (It can but it needs high level ASM hacking which I can't do.) But there shouldn't be any off-screen text.

Just wonder if it's a specific problem in 3DS or I really missed something. Currently almost 100% of the errors people reported are things I can never reproduce on my DS Lite and R4 flash cart. And I got all kinds of harsh comments like 'your patch sucks' and stuff, when I had never encountered any problem they got T_T"

By the speech issue, I mean the problem where the speech does not appear, but the character continues to speak.

I also had an issue with the game crashing at a certain point during dates, I found it was a bug with Moonshell. I copied the save file, but it didn't rename it, when the game tried to save during a conversation, it crashed. A cursory check with chkdsk found the issue.

As for the box moving out of the screen, it happens only about 10% of the time, I don't know why it does it some times and not others, it doesn't bother me. The game still works fine

Thank you so much for all of your hard work.

 

[jjjewel]

By the speech issue, I mean the problem where the speech does not appear, but the character continues to speak.

I also had an issue with the game crashing at a certain point during dates, I found it was a bug with Moonshell. I copied the save file, but it didn't rename it, when the game tried to save during a conversation, it crashed. A cursory check with chkdsk found the issue.

As for the box moving out of the screen, it happens only about 10% of the time, I don't know why it does it some times and not others, it doesn't bother me. The game still works fine

Thank you so much for all of your hard work.

Thank you for the feedback. I noticed from your username that you're the same person who submitted the Error Report a while back. I'll quote your report here in case it helps others solve their problem.

P.S. I never had the problem you mentioned with my flashcart. (I didn't play it with emulator since it runs too slow.) 10% of the time is quite a lot. Luckily it doesn't cause any crashes.

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Another solution for people who still have problem with the dates

"This is regarding the crashing, I had it as well, on green and pink Rinko. I ran chkdsk on the memory card and found that there were hidden duplicates of the save file, which caused a crash every time I was on a date. I duplicated the rom, placed it in a folder with a single savegame, and it worked fine. No more crashes.

 

[fafaffy]

Hey jjjewel, I know Love Plus+ has about a .1% chance of getting translated, and you already mentioned many problems with it, but what are the chances of you even attempting to try it again?
I only ask because the last time you said a word about it was months ago, and things could of changed (such as the tools to hack the roms) which might make things possible that were difficult in the past.

Other than that, I still can't thank you enough for translating Love Plus, it's truly an awesome game
*Now if only devs would make a game like this in America...*

 

[BiGnIcK_54g]

thanks for the patch jjjewel. ive been having a fun time with Manaka im also gonan try out your other patches for the otome games

 

[jjjewel]

Hey jjjewel, I know Love Plus+ has about a .1% chance of getting translated, and you already mentioned many problems with it, but what are the chances of you even attempting to try it again?
I only ask because the last time you said a word about it was months ago, and things could of changed (such as the tools to hack the roms) which might make things possible that were difficult in the past.

Other than that, I still can't thank you enough for translating Love Plus, it's truly an awesome game
*Now if only devs would make a game like this in America...*

Don't want to break anyone's heart, but if I don't update anything, my answer is still, "No." Especially while the forum is under Pokemon invasion. (Nothing's wrong with Pokemon, I just don't have any interest in this type of game and then there isn't anything else on this board that interests me. T_T)

 

[Maplemage]

Where do i locate the download link to download the patch?

 

[jjjewel]

Where do i locate the download link to download the patch?

The content on the first page went missing. (Probably from moving the forum to the new one.)

You can use this page to find the download links:
https://sites.google.com/site/loveplustrans/downloads
(Recommended v 1.0n. It's the newest one.)

I'll try to put all the links back on first page. Sorry for inconvenience.