[Translation] Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Cobi and Tara's Marvelous Mysterious Key [WIP | v0.4]

I don't think that would speed up the process. Just one example: If an NPC says two dialog boxes, the content of the second one may need to be discarded in order to display all the important information contained in the first of those boxes. So you sometimes have to completely rethink what information to keep and two people thinking about how to word a certain phrase just takes double the time. The translation tools out there are good enough to get the meaning of dialog texts and for things like names we have a spreadsheet.

If you think that your English is good enough to compete with the English of a native speaker feel free to PM me. Personally I have decided - although I wouldn't consider my English particularly bad - that it is good enough for menu texts, but not for the story. So this is where I reach my limits.

 

Yes. I found out how that works but haven't had the time to implement it in BinJ Editor yet. But I'm planning to do this!

 

I'm on the Discord server mentioned some posts ago.

 

Release v0.4.0

As I already mentioned in a previous post @Locke-92 reached out to me and he helped a lot. Big thanks to you, Frank.

Before I begin talking about the additions and changes, I want to let you know that I wrote a program to simplify the installation process to a point where it is basically trivial. You just need to put your dumped cia file, the zip file with the patches and the program in the same folder and run the progam. That's it. Then you have your patched cia file that you can install on your 3ds. And... it works for the official v1.1 update as well. You just need to additionally put the update cia and the v1.1 patches in the same folder before running the program. Then you install the patched game, then the patched update. Easy as that. The LayeredFS patch is also a lot simpler to do than it was at the time of the previous release. Everything you need to know can be found in the spoiler "Installation".

This release includes a lot of small changes to remove duplicate namings, inconsistent namings and a lot more. I also took the time to improve both custom fonts. So the large font no longer has small borders around the text and in general the spacing of characters like v,x,y,t,i looks more natural. We now also know how to edit the layout of arc files so I was able to improve the quest start message and translate the location names shown on the map. I also translated many images like the quest rewards, party and standby party texts, location names, judge points for farm battles etc. Another exciting addition is the translation of the customization dialog for your partner monster Montner that you can access by talking to Montner at the monster farm.

I also want to let you know that @Blark and I were working on improving the DQM2 Guide. It now includes a list of all monsters with complete information about from which eggs and dream eggs the monsters can hatch, with which keys you can obtain them and a lot more. There is also a list of all first keyword halfs showing which regions the key will have, a list of all items, traits, actions, titles and even a few gift codes. You need to check it out and if you like it consider filling out missing information about monster stats, skills, traits and scout locations. You don't need any account to edit the list, just open it and start editing.

My next step is to upgrade BinJ Editor so that we can add more dialogue boxes to the story texts stored in e files. Like I wrote three posts ago I know how to do this but I do not have much time at the moment so I cannot say how long this is going to take me. I hope you're enjoying this translation project as much as I do.

Translation Progress [EN]

• New: Support for the official v1.1 update
• New: Updated custom banner
• New: Improved custom default and large font
• New: Menu translation at 84%
  • Complete translation for monster names, skills, actions, items, library entries, keys and titles
    
  • New: Complete montner creation translation
    
  • Most field, menu, battle, wifi and traveler tips translations
    
  • A few other translations
    
  • New: Small changes and fixes
• New: Story translation at 6%
  • New: Most speaker names translated
• New: Translated images
  • New: Updated title logo
    
  • Custom lv, rank, miss and button icons
    
  • Custom speed up battle, complete quest and fail quest images
    
  • New: Improved start quest image
    
  • New: Custom quest present images
    
  • New: Translated location names
    
  • New: Translated battle reward multiplier images
    
  • New: A few other images

Download Link: DQM2 Fan Translation [EN, DE, ES] v0.4.0

Spoiler: Screenshots

Updated: 13.11.2020 (v0.4.0)

Banner


Title Screen


Quest Start


Map Locations


Montner Customization

Spoiler: Details

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• [DE] German
• [EN] English
• [ES] Spanish
• [FR] French
• [IT] Italian

Spoiler: Installation

Release Notes: DQM2 Fan Translation [EN, DE, ES] v0.4.0
To install the latest release as a cia file read the following instructions: Installing Releases
To install the latest updates using Luma's LayeredFS Patching read the following instructions: Installing LayeredFS
To install the latest updates using Citra's LayeredFS Patching read the following instructions: Installing on Citra

 

It enables online play. The main change is the code and then like six other files. So nothing critical except for the online play if you want to do that.

Yes, I know I realized that an hour ago when someone wrote me. But I can add that feature for sure! I wrote it on my todo list.
So if that's what you want, just wait a few days. Perhaps I can finish that tomorrow.

 

It now does! Game Patcher v1.1.0
If you need instructions: Installing on Citra (Release)

 

Hey there, I'm here to give you all some exciting updates.

Story Translation
... is comming. When? There is no release date yet, so remain patient!
I'm happy to announce that I and @Helmax' team have partnered up to finish making a full translation of the game. Meaning that once the story translation is done and the remaining images are edited, you can simply install or update the translation as you're used to using my repository.
Latest Release Notes: DQM2 Fan Translation


Character Limit
A thing many of you certainly know is that the game has a character limit for dialog boxes preventing us from rendering more than a certain number of characters on screen.
But not anymore! @Locke-92 was able to edit the required bytes in the code.bin file so we can now display as many characters as fit in the dialogue box. And we had to change the names of Cobi and Tara via the code.bin as well. Take a look:



He also did many other awesome changes to the code. If you're interested in the details: Editing the Code


As always, I'll keep you updated
Ich_73