ROM Hack Translation Medarot DS: Kabuto Ver. [Portuguese-BR]

[MeiBunny]

Medarot DS: Kabuto Ver.

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Hello, I am starting a project to translate Medarot DS into Brazilian Portuguese

I'm new in GBATemp and also in question of ROMhack and translation.
I'm doing this to learn and have fun, while also learning Japanese in the process (I have support from a person who speaks fluent Japanese to answer questions about the translation).

I am translating primarily into Portuguese as it is my native language, but I am leaving support in the documentation for the English translation as well

I will use this thread to update on the project and post my doubts

At the moment I'm structuring the translation documentation and trying to understand what each type of file is, if I can open it, if it needs to be translated and how I can translate them

As I am learning, I still have a lot of doubts about what each file is and how I open some of them, like .b files.
And I'm also having trouble opening some textures, I can get the palette, but when I try to find the image resolution, it just gets very shuffled.


Translation progress [PT-BR]:
Story: 001%
Images: 000%
Menus: 001% (only the start menu)
Parts Names: 000% (I don't know if it will be possible)
Parts Description: 000%
Medals: 000%
NPCs: 000%

Screenshots:

Spoiler: Screenshots:

 

[YuseiFD]

Good luck bro, if you need any help let me know

 

[MeiBunny]

Good luck bro, if you need any help let me know

Do you know if there is any part in the hex code of the .tex files that helps to find out the resolution of the image?
Because when I open some files by CT2 and adjust the palette, the image that appears is below, it looks correct but shuffled.

But if I export the image, the file is just a green square of 8 pixels.
I don't know what to do, I try to change the height and width parameters, but it ends up getting scrambled.

And Tinke also only shows the image all scrambled.

I didn't find anything on GBATemp about this either :/

 

[YuseiFD]

Do you know if there is any part in the hex code of the .tex files that helps to find out the resolution of the image?
Because when I open some files by CT2 and adjust the palette, the image that appears is below, it looks correct but shuffled.

View attachment 383259
But if I export the image, the file is just a green square of 8 pixels.
I don't know what to do, I try to change the height and width parameters, but it ends up getting scrambled.

View attachment 383260

And Tinke also only shows the image all scrambled.

View attachment 383261
I didn't find anything on GBATemp about this either :/

It's really confusing, because in the header at about 0x0C you can find the height and 0x0E the width (2 bytes), but it's not consistent, as for the puzzled image, usually the game uses some third file, to get the image offset and size, for now you have to edit them puzzled and just paste everything together and when importing, import them puzzled again

FYI, can you do that for the english translation aswell, this will save us a lot of time

 

[MeiBunny]

It's really confusing, because in the header at about 0x0C you can find the height and 0x0E the width (2 bytes), but it's not consistent, as for the puzzled image, usually the game uses some third file, to get the image offset and size, for now you have to edit them puzzled and just paste everything together and when importing, import them puzzled again

FYI, can you do that for the english translation aswell, this will save us a lot of time

I couldn't do it in the hex code, I couldn't find it
Could you show where it is?

Yup, I'll translate the images to English too when I'm editing them.

 

[YuseiFD]

I couldn't do it in the hex code, I couldn't find it
Could you show where it is?

Yup, I'll translate the images to English too when I'm editing them.

remember to read them inverted, the first value is 0x00D8, while the second is 0x0100

EDIT: @MeiBunny actually i think i found a workaround, use Image Pattern ObjH-1234 and the settings in this screenshot

 

[MeiBunny]

View attachment 383329
remember to read them inverted, the first value is 0x00D8, while the second is 0x0100

EDIT: @MeiBunny actually i think i found a workaround, use Image Pattern ObjH-1234 and the settings in this screenshot
View attachment 383334

I managed to edit the image
I'm trying to use the game fonts to make it more faithful to the original so it's been taking a while.
But when I went to save in CT2, it did not change the image in the file (I even tried running CT2 in administrator mode), but nothing.
Maybe my version of CT2 has a problem?
And change the image by tinke just made the screen below go black (did not load the image files) and it does not have the option to change the type to ObjH- 1234

 

[YuseiFD]

I managed to edit the image
I'm trying to use the game fonts to make it more faithful to the original so it's been taking a while.
But when I went to save in CT2, it did not change the image in the file (I even tried running CT2 in administrator mode), but nothing.
Maybe my version of CT2 has a problem?
And change the image by tinke just made the screen below go black (did not load the image files) and it does not have the option to change the type to ObjH- 1234

Yeah you're gonna have to go through CT2 for now i guess

I don't know why i'm gonna try this on my side for the title screen.

 

[MeiBunny]

Yeah you're gonna have to go through CT2 for now i guess

I don't know why i'm gonna try this on my side for the title screen.

I found out how to save!

You have to double click on the image that appears on the right of CT2, link of the post that I found the answer (https://gbatemp.net/threads/crystaltile2-wont-save-imported-images.193816/)

I'm testing where each cut is in the image to see how much space I have for the words, so it's broken a little.

 

[YuseiFD]

I found out how to save!

You have to double click on the image that appears on the right of CT2, link of the post that I found the answer (https://gbatemp.net/threads/crystaltile2-wont-save-imported-images.193816/)

I'm testing where each cut is in the image to see how much space I have for the words, so it's broken a little.
View attachment 383383

Great progress, i would highly suggest doing images first as they will help with story progression once you translate

 

[MeiBunny]

Great progress, i would highly suggest doing images first as they will help with story progression once you translate

Thank you
I am documenting what is in each image file and which one needs to be translated.
I have translated the menu and the top screen of the parts menu

The help and save button is in the process of being translated.

 

[YuseiFD]

Thank you
I am documenting what is in each image file and which one needs to be translated.
I have translated the menu and the top screen of the parts menu

The help and save button is in the process of being translated.

View attachment 383522View attachment 383523

This looks perfect ! Amazing job, glad this is progressing as intended !!

 

[MeiBunny]

A little update on how the menus are progressing. :3

Parts menu and first setup menu.

PS: I need to locate the file that contains the name of the parts and medals and how to translate it. It doesn't seem to be in a .spt :/

 

[YuseiFD]

A little update on how the menus are progressing. :3

Parts menu and first setup menu.

PS: I need to locate the file that contains the name of the parts and medals and how to translate it. It doesn't seem to be in a .spt :/


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It's in a .b file, seems to be fixed width for all names, i can make a quick tool to extract repack all .b files for you

Edit: They're mostly easy and friendly to edit, Example:
Atkmsg: it's a fixed width text file, every message is 50 (49 to be safe, always leave a 0x00 at the end to indicate end of string) bytes long
PartsText: Plain text, every line is a description of a part
ItemData: Just Strings of test with a 2 bytes describing their byte length
etc...
In Short, they all follow an easy to learn pattern that can be automated to export and import into and from a readable format

 

[MeiBunny]

It's in a .b file, seems to be fixed width for all names, i can make a quick tool to extract repack all .b files for you

Edit: They're mostly easy and friendly to edit, Example:
Atkmsg: it's a fixed width text file, every message is 50 (49 to be safe, always leave a 0x00 at the end to indicate end of string) bytes long
PartsText: Plain text, every line is a description of a part
ItemData: Just Strings of test with a 2 bytes describing their byte length
etc...
In Short, they all follow an easy to learn pattern that can be automated to export and import into and from a readable format

I tried to edit "メターミサイル" to "Meta-Misselle" inside the headparts.b file using wxMEdit and when I put it in the game the part name didn't appear anymore.

Could you please make this tool? Because I don't have that much knowledge in creating software, I just change the backend of an existing one normally.

 

[Mateus Quinto Alves]

auem tem o link para download

 

[MeiBunny]

auem tem o link para download

Not yet, the project is at a very early stage, I'll be updating the post as I make progress.

PS: There are rules on GBATemp that only English is allowed for posts

Post automatically merged: Aug 17, 2023

Small update​

I've made some initial progress with the images. Currently, 40% have been translated into English, which is easier at the moment due to the similarities in the ENG - JP structure.

The translation of the texts into Portuguese will continue after I finish the images.

However, I've had some personal problems that have meant I've had to devote much less time to the project, and I haven't even been able to post updates because it's been so sudden.
But I'm still working on it.
Here are some screenshots of the translated images:

 

[Kyech]

Not yet, the project is at a very early stage, I'll be updating the post as I make progress.

PS: There are rules on GBATemp that only English is allowed for posts

Post automatically merged: Aug 17, 2023

Small update​

I've made some initial progress with the images. Currently, 40% have been translated into English, which is easier at the moment due to the similarities in the ENG - JP structure.

The translation of the texts into Portuguese will continue after I finish the images.

However, I've had some personal problems that have meant I've had to devote much less time to the project, and I haven't even been able to post updates because it's been so sudden.
But I'm still working on it.
Here are some screenshots of the translated images:

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This is awessome dude

How are things going

Need some help?

 

[pikatsu]

Have you tried this?
https://github.com/rissole/medarot-translation

 

[YuseiFD]

Have you tried this?
https://github.com/rissole/medarot-translation

The issue atm is the font being loaded in half gylphs for half byte characters