You could add a proof of concept screenshot with a "hello world" sample dialogue in English replacing some random Japanese one, as part of your announcement. Unless you're not planning to insert anything in the iso and settling with a text-based translation, which could be also fine.
The prospect of having this game in English even as a menu-only translation is exciting, as any official release would be never for the PSP version but rather the PS4 one (an enhanced version of the same game).

 

Not exactly a proof of concept screenshot of ingame dialogs but how about an ISO unpack screenshot instead?
Its a unpack of the latest 1.40 Version Update First Layer, the second layers are linked inside the .res files.

All the text is contained inside the .tr2 table files, those are in turn packed in a deflate based blz2 ZIP file.
We have working tools for both client unpacking and blz2 uncompression / recompression, I also have a tool for TR2 to CSV conversion (and back) from my times when I translated the original God Eater (before Burst was released).

And in case people don't believe said tools do exist...
Here is a fun-sub I did using those tools for the original God Eater back in the day, the file formats didn't change since the very first God Eater, so luckily those tools I coded back then still work today.

 

There has been no news regarding that either.

And one way or another this still has purpose because Rage Burst is Vita + PS4 only... PSP users will benefit from this, and so will PC and Android users playing this on PPSSPP.

 

I've finished the file unpacker today, God Eater 2 (without the 1.40 patch) consists of 161386 files... Quite a lot if you ask me.
Fully unpacked the archive files are 1.84GB (without cross-reference deduplication).

With cross-reference deduplication its around 1.40GB.
I will upload a dump of all text-related files to a cloud-based translation platform sometime over this week (if I can get it done tomorrow that would be great, but I hate to give ETAs that I don't know whether I can keep up for sure).

Either way, I will be providing you guys with a online-translation-website where you guys can contribute translations to this project or proofread other peoples translations.
I think this is the best way we can manage a translation effort like this.

Noname, the topic OP here, will take care of the recruiting and organisation of said group and cloud translation platform (because I can't be assed to set such things up honestly).
I also suggest that everyone that can and is willing to help PM me their Google Hangouts contact information as direct contact between Team Members is usually the best way to go about such things.

 

Coldbird, would you upload extract/unpack/pack tool sources on github? Could be useful for other games with similar structure.

 

Okay Just curious, maybe you can then describe briefly (but more detailed than before) the hack background? Fonts were extracted (or this is a rare situation when there is no need to change font at all)?

 

That was an awesome job, hope you guys can get some translators. good luck!

pd: hope you can help us get the script of the Summon Night games for the psp later, there's a bit of an interest trying to translate it.

 

(I couldn't resist...)

Words can't describe what I feel, so stick with the video!

 

hey coldbird, i would like to do some translations in the text dump but where do i input the text and how.... sorry im a bit new to this kinda thing. I just wanted to help out to boost this project a bit, so that everyone can get an english translation.. sorry about this, and thank you.

 

I've gone ahead and done the first folder (the save data and system messages folder) but I'd like a second opinion.

I've made a branch of the main project and uploaded what I've done into it -- would it be alright to make my branch public as well?

Also, some of these seem like they're from GEB and not GE2?

And has anyone found the story text folder yet? I've dug through most of the files and found everything except weapon names and story text so far. There are some places (especially with titles) where it seems like a lot is missing...