Translation Mad Rat Dead Spanish translation, help needed!

[ozzydeoz]

Hey all! As the title says, I want to start working on translating this game and have it playable in spanish, and hopefully make it easier for others to translate it into different languages! As it is only available in english and japanese.

While any and all assistance would be nice, the help I need the most lies on the technical side of things.
I believe I've successfully extracted the files I needed, although they seem to be encripted, and all of it is in a a .DAT file.
While forcefully editing this file seems to work and it does change the text in game, the game really doesn't like this and it crashes instantly after reaching the edited lines.

So, if anyone can point me in the right direction, or if anyone is willing to help me, I'd really appreciate it! I've tried messing with a few of the tools I've seen out there, but I really don't know what I'm doing with any of this.

Thank you all for your attention! <3

 

[magarcan]

1- Use an hexadecimal editor.
2- Fin de character table.
3- Most of the stuff before plain text, are probably pointers.

 

[blashy101]

Hey all! As the title says, I want to start working on translating this game and have it playable in spanish, and hopefully make it easier for others to translate it into different languages! As it is only available in english and japanese.
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While any and all assistance would be nice, the help I need the most lies on the technical side of things.
I believe I've successfully extracted the files I needed, although they seem to be encripted, and all of it is in a a .DAT file.
While forcefully editing this file seems to work and it does change the text in game, the game really doesn't like this and it crashes instantly after reaching the edited lines.

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So, if anyone can point me in the right direction, or if anyone is willing to help me, I'd really appreciate it! I've tried messing with a few of the tools I've seen out there, but I really don't know what I'm doing with any of this.

Thank you all for your attention! <3

Changing the length of the plain text lines beyond the initial character amount usually will break it without some other change. The data before text is usually a pointer, there's also likely some data about character limit also you will want to try to find.

 

[ozzydeoz]

1- Use an hexadecimal editor.
2- Fin de character table.
3- Most of the stuff before plain text, are probably pointers.

I'll look for one and see what I can do! Thank you

Post automatically merged: Jun 3, 2025

Changing the length of the plain text lines beyond the initial character amount usually will break it without some other change. The data before text is usually a pointer, there's also likely some data about character limit also you will want to try to find.

Thank you! I've also replied to your message!

 

[ozzydeoz]

Update time!
Thanks to the assistance of Blashy, we've figured out that the font does indeed accept accents, "í, ó, ú, á" are possible!

The bad news is that we've also figured out that there's a character limit for the text, causing the game to crash instantly if it goes beyond it.

And there's also a minimum, which can be addressed by padding out the text in the file with 00's, making shorter sentences also possible.

So now the main thing is to figure out how to get around the character limit, with that out of the way, working on the actual translation would just be a matter of time.

I thank you all for your support so far!

 

[blashy101]

Each of the script files for text in the game have some sort of offset table or something similar and it's just a little outside my technical ability to figure out exactly how to alter this.