www.romhacking.net/start


And use the search button, those kind of questions have been answered tons of times, also you can use google to search for "how to translate roms"
or look at the stickies in this board.

 

Perhaps it's YOU the one that needs to look around before they open their mouth, SCVgeo. There is a sticky on ROM hacking with thorough instructions on the subject. It also contains Pokemon-specific links which I'm sure would help TC.

If you would have also taken some time to look around, you would have noticed that this question gets asked a lot.

And by the way:

or is it one that requires knowledge of another language??

How else do you plan on translating the game to another language if you have no knowledge of the language? Unless you're planning on doing a quick google translate... but in that case, your cousin will probably be even more confused than when it was in Japanese.

 

Do search around for me, I think I know what I'm talking about. Giving him a link to a text editing utility won't solve all of his problems unless he only plans to do a half-assed translation without any translated graphics also your link won't help him compile a patch once he's done with the translation part and there are many more things I'm bored to type so please think before trying to act like the know-it-all guy.

 

He said Pokemon Diamond.

Also if you knew about thenewpoketext you would know its is as simple as just changing all the English to Portuguese. loadingNOW did most of the hard work for you.
But, War is correct in that it will take a couple of months. Maybe one month if you work fast.

 

Ah ok. Thanks. Yeah I got like 5 months or so to work on it, soo....

 

Yes, look at the stuff I said in my first post in this thread. Follow the instructions. Let me know if you get stuck.

 

No problem, I just got a bit frustrated of seeing such a response when editing the text for Pokemon DPP is so easy, as long as you are up to date with DPP hacking. My guess is he went to romhacking.net/start and did not find what he need. He probably did not follow my instructions otherwise he would be well into his translation.

If he was trying to become a DPP ROM hacker then, sure, I would point him to a tutorial on the basics he needs (I made on specifically for hacking DPP). But all he wants to do is translate. While it may not be a trivial task for other games it is for Pokemon DPP, thanks to loadingNOW.

Anyways so the instructions are a bit more clear I took some screen shots (see spoiler below, I did not take screen shots of all the in game changes).

1) Make sure you have thenewpoketext, ndstool and your rom in the same directory, preferably in a folder on the desktop.
2) open thenewpoketext and type the name of your rom. (I had already unpacked mine so I did not need to put pkmp.nds, rather I just typed pkmp.
3)use the getall function to extract all the text into an xml.
4)Find the text you want to edit, edit and save. Make sure to set change to true in the appropriate "file".
5)patch the changes to msg.narc (this is not something you will see, but that is what is happening).
6)rebuild the rom with "mkrom".
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Technical details you might wonder about:
The structure of the xml is basically a group of "files", identified by their file id.
Within each file are text entries.

This structure was implemented like that based on the structure of the decrypted text.

Warning: Spoilers inside!

 

Ah ok thanks svcgeo. unneon, eu vo da uma olhada.

 

Well i renamed it to xml, and got it to xml file. now how do i edit every time i open it it goes to the internet web page, and shows everthing, but i cant edit it.

 

Alright thanks^^