ROM Hack [Request] Culdcept DS

[Juicii]

What does that mean?

 

[Glacius0]

It means that if nobody is willing to put my translation into the game (which requires knowledge + time that I don't have), this game will not be translated.

 

[Zane]

Could always ask a rom hacker, if he can spare some time to put the stuff you translate into a patch? =)

 

[psycoblaster]

the problem is that the text is in the arm9 binary

 

[Glacius0]

the problem is that the text is in the arm9 binary

So I guess you're saying that the rom is too complex to easily extract and reinsert the text? That's too bad..

 

[Zane]

Aw, poo. =(

 

[Juicii]

Damn, will this game ever come to US?

 

[Glacius0]

Unfortunately it doesn't have a US release date as of yet:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/data/943921.html

Culdcept on xbox360 took over a year to come out and I don't think it sold well enough to warrant another release.. It's an awesome game but I have to admit that it's not exactly mainstream.

Hence I said I'd be willing to translate the game but unless someone steps up and does some serious hacking it's not gonna happen.

 

[Juicii]

I would if I knew how to hack, but I don't. Damn, I was hoping for a translated one so I can play it on my 14 hour plane ride.

 

[Glacius0]

Well, the single player isn't actually that great (still decent, but it gets kind of tedious and is somewhat based on luck at first since you don't have a lot of cards available). Multiplayer online is pure gold though.

 

[Maxkhoon]

I really want this game.. show support by replying..
too bad no one can succesfull hack it..

 

[Juicii]

come on please translate it

 

[Juicii]

I really want this game.. show support by replying..
too bad no one can succesfull hack it..

I am trying to show support by replying.

 

[theli]

still interested? here is PoC

arm9.bin is indeed compressed, strings(at least menus) are there in Shift-JIS

 

[Googer]

I love Culdcept! This would be great to follow through on, even though I should be able to pretty much figure it out on my own since I already know the game mechanics, etc.

 

[UScr00ge]

Proof of concept looks great!

Wish the game would just come out in English but I guess maybe the 360 version didn't do so hot sales-wise.

 

[theli]

since i would like to see such game in English on a DS ... but have less then zero Japanese knowledge - here is my contribution:
a very simple lame buggy feature-incomplete Culdcept DS messages/menus editor :


works in windows with .net 2.0 framework and Linux with mono
it needs ndstool in PATH
windows users can just put ndstool.exe in the same directory as CuldceptDSEditor.exe

 

[theli]

also it would be nice if someone write a description of pair of cards as they appear in game
(so i can find them in ROM and try to add card descriptions editor)

 

[twiztidsinz]

I'm interested in this too...
Hopefully someone will pick this up as a group and get a translation/patch out.

 

[Glacius0]

I'll cover the translation part.

OK here's some stuff you may need. I expect though that the cards will mainly made up of control characters though. I cut off the sentences the way they are cut off in the game. I don't know if this is necessary information or not. I'll leave that up to you.

Some random lines from story mode (which deal with explaining the game mechanics):

まず、勝利の条件です

次に、手順です

とりあえずはここまで
ダイスで進んだ後に、
またお会いしましょう

Some card explanations:

card name:
グレムリン
description:
戦闘開始時、対戦相手
のアイテムを破壊する

card name：
グロースボディ
description：
対象クリーチャーのMH
P+10（最大100）

Some explanation that appears when floating over one of the buttons in-game:

ゲームの進め方を説明
します。
マニュアルも見られま
す。

Information that appears when pressing the "select" button in-game:

スペルカードを使うと魔力を消費します

Hopefully you can get the compressed text out of there. Thanks for all the effort so far and I hope you can make the rest work as well^^ I didn't check out your editor yet. I'll do so once I have some more spare time.