Hacking PSP Translating

[CrashmanX]

I've decided to start on a PSP translation, nothing fancy just a few unit names and menus. I was curious, does anyone know what tools to use to open up the BOOT.Bin so I can access the files/text within?

 

[xist]

If they're not encrypted at the most basic level you can just open them up with a Hex editor.

 

[CrashmanX]

If they're not encrypted at the most basic level you can just open them up with a Hex editor.

Which Hex Editor would you suggest? I've used a few before and some's menus are far more cryptic than others.

 

[dib]

XVI32 is the one I've always used.

 

[Rydian]

HxD's good for me.

 

[CrashmanX]

XVI32 is the one I've always used.


QUOTE(Rydian @ Feb 24 2011, 11:07 PM) HxD's good for me.

I'll try out both of those. Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[CrashmanX]

Sorry for double post.
Out of curiosity, are the BOOT.BIN files not supposed to have anything within them? I opened up the BOOT.BIN that I got from my game and it ends up with all the addresses being blank. Anyone got any idea why that is?

 

[steve-p]

BOOT.BIN has been a dummy file ever since GEN was released and had the option to run it.

you need the EBOOT.BIN and you decrypt it with Edecrypt 1.41

then you can poke inside with a hex editor.
be warned, if it's japanese you WILL need a hex editor that can display 16bit UNICODE characters.
i'm not sure if European languages are stored in unicode, but they probably are just to save re-writing the display code.

 

[CrashmanX]

BOOT.BIN has been a dummy file ever since GEN was released and had the option to run it.

you need the EBOOT.BIN and you decrypt it with Edecrypt 1.41

then you can poke inside with a hex editor.
be warned, if it's japanese you WILL need a hex editor that can display 16bit UNICODE characters.
i'm not sure if European languages are stored in unicode, but they probably are just to save re-writing the display code.

OK I'll poke around in the EBOOT later. Right now I've opened up the DATAUMD.CPK with HexWorkshop and found quite a bit of the moonrunes. Theres only one issue. I can't seem to find anyway to export the runes. I've got a friend who can translate the runes, but is inapt when it comes to tech. If I can find a way to get a Text file to him, he can translate this. I can then put said Translation back into files result in translated game.

 

[steve-p]

a good hex editor should export a selected part as text.

 

[CrashmanX]

a good hex editor should export a selected part as text.

See this one has the ability to "Copy as Text" but when I do I get this. NEVERMIND!
It appears to be working now. However it just wants to place the HEX in front of the text. Gonna have to work this out.
Hrm..... now instead of displaying Japanese I'm only getting question marks. I have the Japanese language pack installed though. Any idea why when I paste I get ?????? instead of moon runes?

 

[steve-p]

your text viewer needs to handle 16bit unicode characters.

 

[CrashmanX]

your text viewer needs to handle 16bit unicode characters.

OK. Thanks for the help dude. I'll have to start exporting this to some other program then. Thanks much.

EDIT: Well I tried using TextPad since I know it can handle 16-Bit unicode however whenever I past I still end up with question marks instead of characters.

 

[steve-p]

maybe it cant autodetect,
is there an option to manually select character encoding?

i'm using Linux and just about every editor has that option - usually hidden in the same place as the font selector.

it's very hard for any program to auto detect character encoding in a plaintext file because there are no embedded tag's

 

[xist]

Which game are you actually trying? Maybe it'd be an idea to try an English game first so you actually can see what you're doing....

 

[CrashmanX]

Which game are you actually trying? Maybe it'd be an idea to try an English game first so you actually can see what you're doing....

I'm trying to Translate SD Gundam G Generation World. The issue isn't in not being able to see what I'm doing. Its getting the program to copy the data in Unicode. I'm using HexWorkshop and while it does have a multiple of copy options (including as text) it doesn't appear to be copying in Unicode.

 

[fgghjjkll]

Personally, I use MadEdit.
If you want, I can PM you my email address and you can attach the EBOOT.bin for me to examine.

 

[CrashmanX]

Personally, I use MadEdit.
If you want, I can PM you my email address and you can attach the EBOOT.bin for me to examine.

I might try MadEdit as well. However the EBOOT is far too large for emailing. Just wish I could find some text program that specifically allows me to choose FORMAT>Unicode or something of that nature.

EDIT: Well it seems whenever I open a new document in text pad it automatically wants to format it to ANSI. If I'm not mistaken I want Unicode correct? Also it appears to be my font thats the issue. The default Courier font lacks Japanese characters. I think these maybe my issues.

EDIT2: well, that doesn't appear to be the issue. I can't seem to figure out what it is. I can view Japanese in my HexEditor but I can't seem to get it to output it in anyway shape or form.

Never mind. It seems I'm going to have to basically reverse engineer the whole thing just to figure it out. As far as PM'ing you the eboot, I realized it wasn't the Eboot that was large but rather the DataUMD.CPK
If you want I can go ahead and PM it to you.

 

[steve-p]

not the real answer,
but cant you view the ideograms (they arent called runes) in the hex editor,
then capture the screen as a png/jpg with a screendump program?

 

[CrashmanX]

not the real answer,
but cant you view the ideograms (they arent called runes) in the hex editor,
then capture the screen as a png/jpg with a screendump program?

I call them moonrunes just because I find it amusing, and thats what /m/ likes to refer to them as.
Also I suppose I could do that, however it would literally take hundreds of images. And from what I am able to translate it seems it would come out as gibberish, both in english and japanese. I'm going to try and ask the team working on the Monster Hunter 3rd Portable translation how exactly they're doing it. They maybe able to help me out. In the mean time, back to the drawing board!

EDIT: No one would happen to know how to contact TeamHGG would they? They're the team behind the Monster Hunter 3rd Portable Translation.