Gaming Persona 2: Eternal Punishment - Time for a Fan Translation?

[cj_iwakura]

This might help.

https://github.com/esperknight/CriPakTools

EsperKnight created a series of tools for CriWare, which is basically what most late era PSP RPGs run on. It should make your life a bit easier.

 

[CaptainGenesis]

I tried to play Innocent Sin, but every iso freezes after Lisa meets you in the car park :[

 

[cj_iwakura]

Which version? Sounds corrupt.

 

[tathra]

You need help from the hackers from other projects try to talk with ChepChep , JamRules or SkyBladeCloud. see if they can help with the hacking maybe make a tool so you can recruit translators to get this started.

you might also try contacting the group that did the innocent sin psx translation to see if they might help with creating some of the tools needed. they had a blog at tsumi.wordpress which might have contact info.

 

[cj_iwakura]

you might also try contacting the group that did the innocent sin psx translation to see if they might help with creating some of the tools needed. they had a blog at tsumi.wordpress which might have contact info.

I wouldn't count on it, Gemini's got all kinds of other stuff going on. But hey, maybe you'll get lucky.

 

[GDW]

This might help.

https://github.com/esperknight/CriPakTools

EsperKnight created a series of tools for CriWare, which is basically what most late era PSP RPGs run on. It should make your life a bit easier.

This looks like a professional chunk of work!

Unfortunately, all of this seems to be work I'd already done in my tool. The only hurdle at this point is (still) re-compression into CRILAYLA. It's sliding-window compression, standard stuff, just implemented in a funny way. I wrote a tool that does it linearly, but it's not 1:1 with what the official CRI software does, and as a result, on re-insertion the game locks up in places in a somewhat unpredictable way. A satisfactory implementation of the compression will involve sliding-window tree manipulation, and I've started it -- I just haven't had the time to finish my solution this summer. If someone savvy wants to write an implementation, I'll put up a doc about it.

That's the only big part of the hack itself that's left. xyz implemented a VWF and other things related to that, and detailed what he's figured out about the script format, which can be checked out at the link he posted. The work on character encoding is far enough along that we could write a decently-formatted script dump to start work on. I just hate releasing part of an unfinished hack.


@Interested parties: Come by irc.paradoxirc.net:#Zelda if you want to be in the loop. That's where you'll hear about goings-on first -- I only stop in here when I remember to.

 

[thexyz]

The work on character encoding is far enough along that we could write a decently-formatted script dump to start work on.

Actually, I've done that and sent scripts to Frequency_Modulation

 

[Frequency_Modulation]

It's true, I have them.

 

[Arizato]

So... What's the actual status on this by now? Are people even interested in translating this?

EDIT: Is a full translation really necessary now that I think about it? What about just translating Tatsuya's scenario and just play the PSX version for the rest?

 

[Elementalchevalier]

Hi I'm new here, and have been watching this post for a while! Rooting for you guys! Thanks so much for working on getting a translated version of p2EP!

I don't know a thing about translating, hacking, or homebrewing psp or whatnot... But I am curious... If this translation is successful, will we need the umd of P2EP in our psp for this to work, or will this be completely digital? If completely digital, can this be brought over to the vita in its completed state?

Sorry for all the noob questions :/ and thanks for your hard work!

 

[DarkenRaul1]

Hey guys, I love this idea for a English translation. Someone mentioned in the first page of this thread that there was a script for Tatsuya's extra scenario thing (and since I'm lazy and didn't check to see if anyone else had already posted a link to that yet Imma do dat now )

http://pastebin.com/uiqvLAcV Hope this helps!

 

[ARCBUser]

So... how's the work on this going?

Don't tell me you all have given up on this...

 

[JuliusEra]

http://www.tradukosoft.info/post/97790891230/persona-2-eternal-punishment-announced

the other team is translation is on the move...[you can ask them if you want to help them]

 

[Arizato]

http://www.tradukosoft.info/post/97790891230/persona-2-eternal-punishment-announced

the other team is translation is on the move...[you can ask them if you want to help them]

Amazing! Thanks for the heads up!

 

[Elementalchevalier]

So does this mean there are two teams working on this project? Also, will with translations be playable on the vita? Hmmm...now that I think about it, did they ever make p2:EP a digital download?

 

[thexyz]

Also, will with translations be playable on the vita? Hmmm...now that I think about it, did they ever make p2:EP a digital download?

You should be able to play it using a custom PSP emulator firmware on your Vita.

 

[ceifadorx]

http://www.tradukosoft.info/post/97790891230/persona-2-eternal-punishment-announced

the other team is translation is on the move...[you can ask them if you want to help them]

Nice to see someone is working in this game.
Are you guys going to join force to the other team?

 

[Arizato]

Nice to see someone is working in this game.
Are you guys going to join force to the other team?

Well, judging from the comments on their article they seem to be interested in working with GDW and cj_iwakura at least!

 

[ceifadorx]

Well, judging from the comments on their article they seem to be interested in working with GDW and cj_iwakura at least!

yeah, i made the same question for them. is nice to see they want to join forces

 

[Diag]

nice choice of games from tradukosoft :o

persona 2 eternal punishment psp and conception 1 - i´m very interesseted in both these games ^^