ROM Hack Taiko no Tatsujin DS translation project

[Phoenix Goddess]

I am, although while working on translations.

That may be so, but for this game, you have to understand quite a bit, including how to check and change pointers in the arm9, if needed.
From knowledge, I know you haven't gotten the hang of that.

 

[Shiro09]

I am, although while working on translations.

That may be so, but for this game, you have to understand quite a bit, including how to check and change pointers in the arm9, if needed.
From knowledge, I know you haven't gotten the hang of that.

I havent got the hang of it, but I can still do it.

 

[Noitora]

I am, although while working on translations.

That may be so, but for this game, you have to understand quite a bit, including how to check and change pointers in the arm9, if needed.
From knowledge, I know you haven't gotten the hang of that.

I havent got the hang of it, but I can still do it.

How is that even possible?

 

[Shiro09]

I am, although while working on translations.

That may be so, but for this game, you have to understand quite a bit, including how to check and change pointers in the arm9, if needed.
From knowledge, I know you haven't gotten the hang of that.

I havent got the hang of it, but I can still do it.

How is that even possible?

I can do it but im not that great at it

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

I can do it but im not that great at it

I think what Noitora is trying to say is since this is a hard game to hack it's not good for people who are still learning the first lessons of romhacking.
Besides, your translation needs your utmost attention right now, you may be waiting on translations, but you can easily use a Japanese dictionary to find skill words and translate those menus.

 

[Shiro09]

I can do it but im not that great at it

I think what Noitora is trying to say is since this is a hard game to hack it's not good for people who are still learning the first lessons of romhacking.
Besides, your translation needs your utmost attention right now, you may be waiting on translations, but you can easily use a Japanese dictionary to find skill words and translate those menus.

Its alright, Im ordering a japanese dictionary.

 

[theli]

so, i guess this died unborn? too bad ...

 

[Didu50]

I hope not. This is one of the easier games to translate, just mainly menues.

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

so, i guess this died unborn? too bad ...

I believe you're right, sorry

There were a few who had trouble hacking this game, Didu, that's why it never went anywhere.

 

[theli]

I hope not. This is one of the easier games to translate, just mainly menues.

i just looked into taiko's files again, and its not "one of the easier games to translate" from technical point of view.
text is embedded into compiled script files interpreted by game engine, to be able to properly translate it one needs to figure out those scripts' format

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

i just looked into taiko's files again, and its not "one of the easier games to translate" from technical point of view.
text is embedded into compiled script files interpreted by game engine, to be able to properly translate it one needs to figure out those scripts' format

Well, in a way... his signature kind of told us he doesn't really know what he's talking about

I took a look at the files whenever the project was announced to offer some tips, but I couldn't get very far :/

 

[seatab]

Yes, not so simple.

And yeah, the text is all UTF-8, I have a feeling these SWG files are Scaleform or something similar.

 

[theli]

Yes, not so simple.

And yeah, the text is all UTF-8, I have a feeling these SWG files are Scaleform or something similar.

i don't think it has anything to do with scaleform

 

[seatab]

i don't think it has anything to do with scaleform

It probably doesn't, the *.swg files just have very similar layout and structure to the Scaleform GFx (and by extension, Flash SWF) formats, which is why I mentioned them.

 

[theli]

i don't think it has anything to do with scaleform

It probably doesn't, the *.swg files just have very similar layout and structure to the Scaleform GFx (and by extension, Flash SWF) formats, which is why I mentioned them.

i take my words back, i just examined swg files yet again, along with examining arm9 binary .. and such references as 'gotoAndPlay', '_root' , etc make me beleive swg files are indeed some kind of compiled actionscript files and this may be connected to some framework from scaleform (since their frameworks are based on flash)

 

[seatab]

i take my words back, i just examined swg files yet again, along with examining arm9 binary .. and such references as 'gotoAndPlay', '_root' , etc make me beleive swg files are indeed some kind of compiled actionscript files and this may be connected to some framework from scaleform (since their frameworks are based on flash)

Yep.

 

[Rubedo]

Kind of off topic, but I think that people interested in the Taiko games would be interested in Utacchi!, another DS rhythm game made by Konami. It's extremely fun and relatively obscure. Maybe if Taiko is too hard to translate due to technical issues, maybe you could take a swing at that game instead? >_>

 

[boktor666]

Darnit! I wish I knew how to do romhacking. I'm looking into it right now... This must be translated, this game is kind of addictive.

 

[theli]

i take my words back, i just examined swg files yet again, along with examining arm9 binary .. and such references as 'gotoAndPlay', '_root' , etc make me beleive swg files are indeed some kind of compiled actionscript files and this may be connected to some framework from scaleform (since their frameworks are based on flash)

Yep.

too bad they are not standard swf files then, it would be trivial to translate if they were (disassemble with flasm, edit, assemble back)

 

[seatab]

too bad they are not standard swf files then, it would be trivial to translate if they were (disassemble with flasm, edit, assemble back)

Yeah, unfortunately it's not virtually the same format like GFx is.