ROM Hack WIP Symphonic Rain Translation

[wwwklopar]

Hello! We are from russian translation group FaceOff! We want to port english and russian translation for such a beautiful novel as Symphonic Rain from PC version, but we are faced with several problems that we cannot solve, so we are looking for help here.
Problems:
1) Font size for Russian translation
2) The distance between the letters for the Russian translation
3) Border of the text field
Most likely all of this data is stored in exefs of rom, because in the PC version it was stored in the .exe game.
Can someone help us with this?

 

[wwwklopar]

Ahh... I messed with title( Sorry for this
Symphonic Rain Translation

We can send all the files with messages. Thanks for attention to the thread.

 

[masagrator]

Ah, so it was border issue... I was looking to port English translation, but when I checked that it's going out of border, then I was thinking it will need additional break lines and I gave up.

I will check tomorrow if I can help with exefs.
Could you write how it was found in exe? It can make searching easier.

 

[wwwklopar]

Ah, so it was border issue... I was looking to port English translation, but when I checked that it's going out of border, then I was thinking it will need additional break lines and I gave up.

I will check tomorrow if I can help with exefs.
Could you write how it was found in exe? It can make searching easier.

Well... I maybe wrong about boarders because that's first KOGADO novel novel with which i am working. In exe i found only info about font, so maybe your suggestion about additional break lines was correct.

 

[masagrator]

There may be an issue because this texts were made for PC version with smaller font, so on Switch, where is bigger font, it goes out of border. So only solution is changing font size/spacing/other if we don't want to work with changing brake lines - that's my hunch.
So strings were English in exe? Because I don't know Kana or Kanji.

 

[wwwklopar]

There may be an issue because this texts were made for PC version with smaller font, so on Switch, where is bigger font, it goes out of border. So only solution is changing font size/spacing/other if we don't want to work with changing brake lines - that's my hunch.
So strings were English in exe? Because I don't know Kana or Kanji.

If i'm not wrong, on english exept font's name.

FontSize = 34\r\n
Font.Charset = SHIFTJIS_CHARSET\r\n
Font.Color = clWindowText\r\n
Font.Height = 34\r\n
Font.Name = 'ＭＳ ゴシック'\r\n
Font.Pitch = fpFixed\r\n
Font.Style = []\r\n
Left = 128\r\n
Top = 136\r\n

 

[Wika]

do you guys have a discord or something along that line?

 

[wwwklopar]

do you guys have a discord or something along that line?

https://discord.gg/Za7ruKw - group for russian community, but i created there channel #symphonic-rain and warned people about it.
Morgank#6819 - my nick and tag.

 

[masagrator]

So exefs doesn't contain any informations about font size etc (or it's hardcoded). I can't help. There are functions for setting font properties, but there are no strings to edit.

Better try to find where is font, because it can't be in exefs (probably bntx textures). If it's the same size for letters, then probably whole font is fixed. Because I see they used Nintendo tools beside SDK to port this, so maybe this game doesn't have much in common with PC release.

 

[wwwklopar]

So exefs doesn't contain any informations about font size etc (or it's hardcoded). I can't help. There are functions for setting font properties, but there are no strings to edit.

Better try to find where is font, because it can't be in exefs (probably bntx textures). If it's the same size for letters, then probably whole font is fixed. Because I see they used Nintendo tools beside SDK to port this, so maybe this game doesn't have much in common with PC release.

Well... This is bad because I have not found any font texture ... Can the game then use the system font?

 

[masagrator]

I think it can.

 

[wwwklopar]

Also i think that scripts mustt be reworked, cause they are causing errors during the game, but i don't know how to edit them, because header was changes from times of old .kgo script and Kogado Assembly Tools now not working with them.

 

[masagrator]

Yeah, it looks like is using Switch UI font bold variant. Here is regular font. It's very similar (but ofc thinner).
https://www.dafontfree.net/freefonts-nintendo-switch-ui-f172186.htm

 

[linuxares]

title fixed!

 

[wwwklopar]

title fixed!

Thanks a lot!

 

[Wika]

Warning Large photos. Changing Images/ui Is pretty easy at least.

Spoiler

 

[masagrator]

If you are interested in porting other English vn translations, then I recommend Dies Irae.
Localization file has the same ToC and text sectors construction as Steam release, but:
1. has more lines and because of that & ToC localization is messed up (and it needs some customization because few audio files are merged/splitted in comparison to PC)
2. text in PC release has UTF-16 LE fixed (all characters have 2 bytes), when Switch release not (Unicode characters under 256 have 1 byte, 256-65535 2 bytes).

It needs someone who can make tool to export and import text (it can be done in python). Game even has working windows debugger in game files.

And it doesn't have issue with no border.

 

[Meda]

I'm sorry to reply to old post.
Is there anyone who knows how to edit the script file of the Kogado studio game?
I can't find a known infomation for the .kgo file...

 

[mbombo3]

I'm sorry to reply to old post.
Is there anyone who knows how to edit the script file of the Kogado studio game?
I can't find a known infomation for the .kgo file...

Hi, I'm also sorry for reviving an old thread, but I open kgo script files in Notepad++ (like a txt file) changing ANSI to UTF-8

 

[masagrator]

Because I don't have anything to do, I went back to this game.
Disassembled fully scr0001.kgo and it seems it doesn't have any info about font size, so executable needs patching.

Game is using class "nn::fontll::ScalableFontEngine", so I guess I need to patch there some stuff.