ROM Hack Nanashi no Game

[Sora de Eclaune]

This is amazing. I never would have guessed this thread would spawn an actual translation! This makes me so excited I can only explain my excitement with this picture.

 

[Issac]

Bravo!

Great work all of you!

 

[hunter291]

I could test it on a scds2 if needed. i can't test for translation and stuff, but I can test if everything works. nice to see that there is some progress

 

[ChrisTheEmpoleon]

I'd love to be a tester as well. I have a DSTWO, but a friend of mine has an original R4 with Wood that I can use as well.

Good luck, you guys, I'd love to see this (as well as maybe its sequel) translated.

 

[Sora de Eclaune]

I could test it on a scds2 if needed. i can't test for translation and stuff, but I can test if everything works. nice to see that there is some progress

QUOTE(ChrisTheEmpoleon @ Aug 4 2011, 03:48 PM) I'd love to be a tester as well. I have a DSTWO, but a friend of mine has an original R4 with Wood that I can use as well.

Good luck, you guys, I'd love to see this (as well as maybe its sequel) translated.

Let them finish the translation before you start asking to be a tester. I mean, some of the translators might even be testing the game as they go and the game might not even need testers for the carts you own.

 

[hunter291]

Yeah

I was just offering. I meant to test it when it is finished

 

[Sora de Eclaune]

Yeah

I was just offering. I meant to test it when it is finished

Yes, but at this state in the translating process it would be a lot better to wait until the translators/hackers ask for testers, since your offer might be lost in a page or two.

 

[Goveynetcom]

Great to see this is getting some serious work. Seems like a great team, and I can't wait to see what comes of this.
Good luck everyone

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[choconado]

This is amazing. I never would have guessed this thread would spawn an actual translation! This makes me so excited I can only explain my excitement with this picture.

 

[Nagato]

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[Normmatt]

So I started working on the limited text problem a bit more. Turns out the cause of the problem is a hardware restriction, meaning that I will never be able to fix it unless I wanted to rewrite a good bit of stuff to avoid hitting the restriction. The limitation in particular is the OAM entry limit so there's only 128 possible objects at a time per screen. That can be confirmed to be the problem by checking out the OAM tab in the Vram viewer of no$gba. If there's anyone around who's had to deal with this problem in another game and was able to solve it I'd be interested in hearing how you did it.

Splitting the lines will probably be best done manually with warnings during assembly when a line is too big.

Meh.

Only way to work around that is to say hardcode the maximum displayable sprites (those that makeup the box) then draw a vwf directly to oam. I can probably help with the vwf stuff but I really dislike working how where to modify the oam entries (atleast in the gba/nds games i've worked on they tend to be annoying to rework).

Is this limit for the 16x16 font?

 

[Nagato]

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[Ryusui]

Talk to Tomato and company. Mother 3 used to have a hardcoded limit of 40 characters per dialogue box. They fixed that reeeeeal good. :3

EDIT: On a further note: take a look at BoF1 and 2 for GBA. Both games use the "sane" OAM approach; that is, sprite "canvases" rather than using a single sprite for each character.

At any rate, the "hard route" is probably well worth the extra effort.

 

[Nagato]

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[Sora de Eclaune]

Those screens being in English makes me want to pass out from excitement.

 

[G-Han]

Looks good, Nagato. Really promising!

Currently, I'm not at home so I don't have access to my wordtank, so I started translating the kanji-less RPG texts. For now, it doesn't seem like Nagato has to widen the box in which the text appears, as I've managed (with some difficulty) to fit everything within the limit of 18 characters per line. I estimated the amount by using this screenshot:

 

[DarkShinigami]

what exactly is Nanashi no Game? i never heard of it it could be a game i'd be interested in when the translations done(no im not rushing)

 

[G-Han]

what exactly is Nanashi no Game? i never heard of it it could be a game i'd be interested in when the translations done(no im not rushing)

Have you seen the Japanese horror film 'Ringu/The Ring'? It's about the same, but with a video game instead of a video. That's the best description, I think.

 

[DarkShinigami]

no i mean is it a VN or a point and click or what(what is the genre of the game)?

 

[G-Han]

no i mean is it a VN or a point and click or what(what is the genre of the game)?

First-person point-and-click horror.