Gaming Lord of Apocalypse - Getting a translation team together.

[zephor]

Tried this before around a month after the game came out as I had no hope of a western release, but everyone was dead set that it was going to be localized at least for the Vita. Looks like that isn't going to happen, so I'm going to try this again. I know very little programming but can definitely help with actual translations. The problem, as mentioned from someone a while back, is "The game used a custom encoding... so its needs a custom table too.. that's most the menu stuff, the story script are encrypted with a 128bit hash inside a PGD file.."

So come on guys! I know it might not seem like it, but there's many people that would appreciate playing this game in English. It's improved so much over Lord of Arcana. If anyone could even point me in the direction of anywhere else I can get help, that would be great also.

Translators:
Zephor

Programmers:

 

[UlissesAlexandre]

No localization's are going to happen.
As such I wish this game could really really be translated. ...

Power to you, Translators and Programmers.

 

[zephor]

Exactly, and everyone was so dead set that this game was going to be localized. Lord of Arcana sold beyond terrible in the states so they didn't want to take a chance with Apocalypse..

 

[Kuragari Ryo]

I thought it was coming out for the vita?

 

[UlissesAlexandre]

As far as I know, nope. :/

Wish I knew some epic mad skills so I could translate all this stuff for everyone.. *sigh*. It's a great game too.

 

[zephor]

I thought it was coming out for the vita?

Sadly, it's not.

 

[BORTZ]

No localization's are going to happen.
As such I wish this game could really really be translated. ...

Power to you, Translators and Programmers.

I would like to award your longest and most ridiculous username.
Translations take a long time and lots of people. There is also a better place for this thread.

 

[zephor]

No localization's are going to happen.
As such I wish this game could really really be translated. ...

Power to you, Translators and Programmers.

I would like to award your longest and most ridiculous username.
Translations take a long time and lots of people. There is also a better place for this thread.

Would you be kind enough to point me in that direction? If it's another website PM it to me. I just posted this here because it seemed like Digimon World Reigitize was getting a lot of attention so I might have been able to ride it's traffic. Thanks!

 

[juggalomars]

FYI It's been out on the vita for ages, just in Japan.

 

[BORTZ]

No localization's are going to happen.
As such I wish this game could really really be translated. ...

Power to you, Translators and Programmers.

I would like to award your longest and most ridiculous username.
Translations take a long time and lots of people. There is also a better place for this thread.

Would you be kind enough to point me in that direction? If it's another website PM it to me. I just posted this here because it seemed like Digimon World Reigitize was getting a lot of attention so I might have been able to ride it's traffic. Thanks!

I would think this might get more attention in the PSP hacking and homebrew. But this is a nintendo based site, so you might wanna look elsewhere.

 

[UlissesAlexandre]

No localization's are going to happen.
As such I wish this game could really really be translated. ...

Power to you, Translators and Programmers.

I would like to award your longest and most ridiculous username.
Translations take a long time and lots of people. There is also a better place for this thread.

Meh, logged in with Facebook, uses my real name. Thanks for the Ridiculous award though.

 

[BORTZ]

Unfortunately, I cant actually award you that. If thats your real name, change your username on here. Just for security reasons.

 

[shengtian]

Can find Personnel work here.

 

[Phantom_User]

Darn.. It's pretty empty this thread.. No one has interest in this game?

 

[Garedayn]

Are there tools for extracting data for the text related files?

im planning to do a patch on this and see how it goes.

i got the info on the game and just need tools to get me started on this long and tedious journey.

 

[pokefloote]

Why does everyone expect tools for translating like it'll be the easiest thing in the world...?

Somebody has to make a tool, specific for each game, that can extract text and edit it easily. Without it, you'd need a program like UMDgen to open the iso file up, extract the game's files, then use a hex editor to edit those files. Then UMDgen to put them back in. Most of the time you'd also need to decrypt the eboot.bin using an app on your PSP to get anything readable from a hex editor.

It's easy enough to do, I've made a full menu patch for Tales of the Heroes: Twin Brave without any prior editing experience, it's just a matter of learning how to do stuff yourself without relying on tools made by others.

 

[Garedayn]

Why does everyone expect tools for translating like it'll be the easiest thing in the world...?

Somebody has to make a tool, specific for each game, that can extract text and edit it easily. Without it, you'd need a program like UMDgen to open the iso file up, extract the game's files, then use a hex editor to edit those files. Then UMDgen to put them back in. Most of the time you'd also need to decrypt the eboot.bin using an app on your PSP to get anything readable from a hex editor.

It's easy enough to do, I've made a full menu patch for Tales of the Heroes: Twin Brave without any prior editing experience, it's just a matter of learning how to do stuff yourself without relying on tools made by others.

ok i went tools hunting and i found an (what seems to be) unpacker. it was from xentax.

after i unpack it and there seems to be a problem. i cant find the files containing the in-game text.

i have madEdit which kenma9123 recommended on his blog/website for rewriting the in-game text

 

[Foxi4]

You're not going to translate the game, not because of the lack of tools but because it's a Vita game. You don't have a dump, you don't have a method of launching a dump, you don't have a way to encrypt and sign the patched files and you don't have a method of injecting patches in real-time to avoid re-signing.

At this point in time, it's undoable.

 

[Garedayn]

You're not going to translate the game, not because of the lack of tools but because it's a Vita game. You don't have a dump, you don't have a method of launching a dump, you don't have a way to encrypt and sign the patched files and you don't have a method of injecting patches in real-time to avoid re-signing.

At this point in time, it's undoable.

i am not really sure what you are mentioning but i have a copy if the psp version of the game.

and i am just lacking in knowledge of how to go about finding the files that containing the text in-game.

 

[pokefloote]

Yup, it's a PSP game. Also on the Vita.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/psp/643394-lord-of-apocalypse