Hacking Danganronpa 2 backporting Vita English translation to PSP (discussion)

[reprep]

Hi there,

As we can now dump Vita games, i wanted to have a look at Vita Danganronpa 2 with the aim of backporting the English translation to PSP. Here is what i got so far:

1)There is a big DR_us.cpk file on Vita dump. It can be extracted with a .cpk unpacker, you can use this tutorial. https://github.com/s1cp/VitaGuide/wiki
2)Having a look at PSP ISO via UMDGen you can see data00.cpk and data01.cpk, both can be decrpyted with the same method above.
3)I copied back the Dr2/data/us/script folder in vita to jp/script in data01.cpk of psp.
4)Encrypted the contents back to data01.cpk again as explained in wiki above.
5)Replaced the data01.cpk in UMDGen and saved the psp iso back.
6)Here is the result, more stuff needed for backport.

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There are some weird characters and text is cut off at the half of the screen. Need more tries.

Please mess with the files and share me what you succeeded. I would love a working english psp version.

Thanks.

EDIT: Here are some more info, thanks to @SMG0000000, we can now unpack the .pak files within the cpk files. here is the quickbms script, save it as .bms file.

get FILES long
get OFFSET long
for i = 1 <= FILES
if i == FILES
get NEXT_OFF asize
else
get NEXT_OFF long
endif
xmath SIZE "NEXT_OFF - OFFSET"
log "" OFFSET SIZE
math OFFSET = NEXT_OFF
next i

also, to see the japanese text in psp version, use wxMEdit as hex editor, choose Unicode 16 bit little Endian encoding and see the text and change it to whatever you like. I am now trying to solve the problem where some characters like "?" "," isn't displayed.

EDIT2: Question mark display is corrected, just change hex 3F 00 to 1F FF in the relevant .lin file in script directory. For comma change 2C 00 to 01 30.

EDIT3: New video added with corrected characters, still can't solve the issue where the text goes to the next line when 28 character limit is hit, i guess it is hardcoded. Need help.

EDIT4: Demonstration of the problem, on psp:

On vita:

EDIT5: Forgot to say, first scripts are in file e00_001_180.lin so you can view your changes instantly from there. PPSSPP debugger might help to overcome 28 char limit but i couldnt succeed.
EDIT6: Tools to extract .lin files to .txt files and vice versa. https://github.com/vn-tools/danganronpa-tools this way you can easily edit, insert stuff. I am not the author. lin_compiler -d -dr2 e00_001_180.lin e00_001_180.txt this command line should give you the first dialogues in a text file.

EDIT7: 2 links to help me edit eboot.bin to accomadate for longer strings. I couldn't succeed, maybe you can.
http://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/11313-super-dangan-ronpa-2-psp-translation-help-needed/

https://github.com/ThunderGemios10/The-Super-Duper-Script-Editor-2

EDIT8: eboot.bin edit for longer strings done thanks to super duper script editor 2 and Mikotolli. Now, we need a way to make the font smaller. Font.pak file is located at jp/font folder in data01.cpk file for psp. Font.pak file can be extracted/reinserted with the quickbms script i linked above. I couldn't find a way to make the font size smaller though.

HELP HELP HELP, the more the merrier.

EDIT9: I am not working on this anymore. I still believe it can be done but it needs some programming knowledge, some manual hex editing, plenty of time and dedication.

 

[Abu_Senpai]

This is awesome for those who havent played SDRP2 yet. Are there any other vita titles which are on the vita and on the psp but not in engish

 

[Deleted User]

This is awesome for those who havent played SDRP2 yet. Are there any other vita titles which are on the vita and on the psp but not in engish

There's dungeon travelers 2. Could try that one

 

[Enigma Hall]

There's dungeon travelers 2. Could try that one

Yeah. Its a gooooooood game to translate. ^^

 

[Garro]

Is Danganronpa 2 backport needed? I mean, there's already a release for PC.

 

[Lumstar]

This is awesome for those who havent played SDRP2 yet. Are there any other vita titles which are on the vita and on the psp but not in engish

Sure, not that I can really tell you what's different. Toukiden Kiwami, Blazblue Continuum Shift Extend...

 

[Abu_Senpai]

Sure, not that I can really tell you what's different. Toukiden Kiwami, Blazblue Continuum Shift Extend...

No i just was asking since if its as simple as the op states it is. Then maybe more vita games could be transalated for the psp. Obviously via moving around the JAp and Eng text

Is Danganronpa 2 backport needed? I mean, there's already a release for PC.

i played it on PC too but i prayed that it was on the psp too prior to me getting my pc. So i understand how non vita and pc users feel

There's dungeon travelers 2. Could try that one

Its on my vita backlog so ill pick it up soon. And if its got easy to decrypt files then i wouldnt mind giving it ago.

 

[reprep]

No i just was asking since if its as simple as the op states it is.

Nope, i dont state it is simple. I explained what i did, what are the problems i observed and i tried to encourage people to mess with the files.

It is not simple, lots of things are needed to be corrected.

 

[Abu_Senpai]

Nope, i dont state it is simple. I explained what i did, what are the problems i observed and i tried to encourage people to mess with the files.

It is not simple, lots of things are needed to be corrected.

sorry by simple i meant that you diddnt have to unpack much excluding the .cpks. Unless i read wrong

there are many games that have a cpk and then 3 more encrypted unheard of files which require a programmer to make tools for which is what holds back many transalations. well at least on the hacking side of things

XD

 

[Lycan911]

Huh, this is interesting, subscribing to the thread to follow the progress, good luck to anyone who decides to continue the project!

Edit:

Now I'm wondering, would it be possible to do this with Steins;Gate as well?

 

[Wuigi]

I think that backporting Danganronpa 1 would be also great as the Translation is a bit super-duper and I really like the English voice acting in the PS Vita release and some sh*t from Mondo would be nice to hear.

 

[reprep]

It seems game is hardcoded to go to the next line after 28 characters. This limit may be enough for japanese, but english text cuts off because of this limitation. I couldn't solve this issue so far.

 

[Lycan911]

Just attempted doing this with Steins;Gate, but it didn't go so well. The script files do have the same file names in both Vita and PSP versions, but they have different file extensions (.bin for PSP and .scr for Vita), so they aren't compatible. Simply changing the extension didn't work (go figure lol), and I'm not smart enough to do the fancy hacking to make it work. Here are the extracted scripts from both versions if someone wants to take a look.

 

[AlexTCGPro]

Just attempted doing this with Steins;Gate, but it didn't go so well. The script files do have the same file names in both Vita and PSP versions, but they have different file extensions (.bin for PSP and .scr for Vita), so they aren't compatible. Simply changing the extension didn't work (go figure lol), and I'm not smart enough to do the fancy hacking to make it work. Here are the extracted scripts from both versions if someone wants to take a look.

Maybe using a hex editor to manually combine them?

 

[Lycan911]

Maybe using a hex editor to manually combine them?

Tried opening them in a hex editor, it just appears as gibberish. I guess the Vita scripts have to be uncompressed or something to be readable and usable on the PSP.

 

[reprep]

Can anyone compile an eboot.bin according to researches made here? http://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/11313-super-dangan-ronpa-2-psp-translation-help-needed/

i couldnt dl the precompiled one.

https://github.com/ThunderGemios10/The-Super-Duper-Script-Editor-2

I also couldnt install this editor and run editor.pyw. I installed the requirements but it still doesn't work. Help is appreciated, this should allow eboot.bin to let for long strings.

 

[MikotoIIi]

Figured i'd contribute here instead of just on twitter.

Things that i've done so far:
ripped the vita script and files.
Unpacked both vita and psp files
Replaced the script, still need to run the punctuation fixes.
Installed the script editor and started trying to get the eboot.bin patched.
Got a listing of the files from both versions and found the common files. Replacing them causes bad graphic errors though.

More to come on Wed when i can get back to it.

 

[MikotoIIi]

As promised, here's an update:
I got the eboot patched this morning, and tested a little bit. I've been using my Vita version as my QC test to make sure that it's working properly


One of the big things that I've found with the patch is it modifies the text in the message boxes as well. This might be fixed with the translation, or it might be because of the patch that I had to comment out in order to get the patching to run to remove the limit. Either way, I'm going to look more into the python scripts and see if I can figure out why the other patch is failing.

 

[Deleted member 401374]

@reprep Hello! I am the current developer of The Super Duper Script Editor 2, And may i ask why do you need to make an English translation for PSP? When the PC version is already in Steam and it's on English?

 

[Sono]

@reprep Hello! I am the current developer of The Super Duper Script Editor 2, And may i ask why do you need to make an English translation for PSP? When the PC version is already in Steam and it's on English?

Welp, people who don't know Japanese and can't bring a PC with them may want the game a little bit more portable and understandable