[Unfinished] [Translation in progress!] Pokémon Card Game Asokabita DS

Alex4U · Sep 19, 2017

EDIT 28/9/17 Since I'm a little bit busy, I couldn't translate, and I have no free time, this is still alive, but this will be in slow mode.
Also, cheuble is helping me for this time
Also, i must thanks to Ploaj for helping me with the damn .std files! thanks dude! :3
Thank you guys!

Join to the official Project Snipy: Pokémon Card Game Asokabita DS translation Discord server!
https://discord.gg/72FEngN
*I will put my log right here now.
*sometimes i will record a video about the progress.
*You can discuss about the game and the translation right here.

Well folks! since i have 2 months of vacations and i don't have nothing better to do, i'm translating Pokémon Card Game Asokabita DS! finally after years...

-Tools i'm currently using:
*CrystalTile2 (Text Hex Editor)
*NFTEdit (Font editor -- i remplaced Katakana and Hiragana with ABC font)
*DSLazy (Unpacker and Packer)
*KiwiDS (file viewer and modifier)
*Quick Pokémon Card Thing (lol Ploaj did this for .std files)

-Issues:
*Can't open SFA and STD files ;O; (basically, images are STD files? so i can't modify the images ;w; - Idk about NAF files. ----also the game have a test menu and debug stuff uhhh? )
We did it thanks to Ploaj from The VG Resource! Thanks!
*Some little issues in game-text, like:

NANAMI
Then, let me bring
my
2 decks!
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Nah, it's fixed. lol

But sometimes, the game is so weird that i just wrote "The coin too!"
and the game acts weird, and types:

The coin too! oin to
o!
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Yeah! I will learn how to play
this! earn how to play this!!
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-I decided translate the game because:

*I'm bored as heck in my vacations lol.
*I love Pokémon Trading Card Game.
*I saw there's no translation of this game.
*I know now use Hex Editors.
*Japanese stuff pls.
*since i know japanese, i can understand and modify the text to english

THE TRANSLATION IS STILL IN PROGRESS. DON'T ASK FOR DOWNLOAD. I WILL PUT THE PATCH WHEN I'VE TRANSLATED MOST TEXT OF THE GAME.
Probably i will add the patch when i had like 40% or 50%

Basically, progress is...:
Text: New update! 7/7/7 11:17PM! 8%
*Some rules has been translated
*Some anime-cutscenes has been translated, but with minor text issues.
Images: Nah.
11/07/27 4:52PM
Text: 14% (too much battle text!)
Images: 2%
Not here! now in discord!
I repeat again, i can't access to .NAF and .STD files, I think .STD files are the images?/card images? because i can see the folder name is "card" and inside comes the cards images (?) with .STD file extension.

(Also for those who can't find the ROM, i guess uhh... put the rom in my mega folder?)

*The translation will be a patch. so you just need patch it with your favorite IPS patcher

I will leave you with some pics of what i've translating

Logs:

Updates
7/7/17 (Wow!)
I created this thread, or was yesterday? anyway.
*Some more text has been translated like:
*some titles
*some anime-cutscene
Now doesn't have text issues. like:

Then let me bring my
2
decks!
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Now it's fixed. now current display is:

Then let me bring my
2 decks to battle!
7/7/17 2:38PM
*Some more text translated!
-Rules has been updated.
-Some Battle text has been translated.
7/7/7 11:07PM
*Finally first anime-cutscence finished!
*fixed some text issues.
*Font looks a little bit better.
8/7/2017 12:38AM
*Trying to access to SDT files...
*Mini-katakana and hiragana has been translated. this applies for characters names, (in anime-cutscene) and in rules menu (like Poison, Burned, Board, Coin, etc.)
I WILL NO POST ANYMORE MY LOG HERE. CHECK OUT THE DISCORD LOG CHANNEL.
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Alex4U · Jul 7, 2017

I will upload a video of my current progress!
Sadly, i only recorded one anime-cutscence. it's semi-finished that part. i didn't recorded the rules menu because DeSmume was too laggy. so... :L
Also i think this will be my first project i make in my life. lol. name? uhhh, project snipy?
i think i will upload more often videos about text updates or idk. lol. and about my progress i guess i will post right here.

hug0-a7x · Jul 7, 2017

I've been thinking about this game the other day.

Alex4U · Jul 7, 2017

As i promised, here is the video of one anime-cutscene. it's semi-finished. i stop it because the emu got so laggy. but there is some translated text

DarthDub · Jul 7, 2017

I never knew this existed! I'm stoked.

Dionicio3 · Jul 7, 2017

I should mention I'm going to be helping out with stuff like grammar and trying to figure out how to edit these damn .std files.
Also, for anyone wondering what the icon looks like

Alex4U · Jul 8, 2017

Logs added
now you can see every update i've doing in the game. most are text.

Alex4U · Jul 8, 2017

I created a Discord Server. now i will put my log right there, and if i complete a anime-cutscene or the rules. i will record a video showing it.

https://discord.gg/72FEngN
This invite will never expire.

Keep a eye to the log channel to see what i've doing!

yyjukjun · Jul 8, 2017

Looking forward to this!!

This got me thinking we need a new Pokemon TCG for 3ds or Switch, not that online tcg game.

Alex4U · Jul 10, 2017

yyjukjun said: ↑

Looking forward to this!!

This got me thinking we need a new Pokemon TCG for 3ds or Switch, not that online tcg game.
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You're right. i'm still waiting for Pokémon Card GB 3 because:

amn spoilers, don't open if you didn't finished PTCG2 TEAM GR or just want know. lol
In Pokémon Card GB When you finish the game, it says at the final "To be continued..." (english patch pls)

so, i'm still waiting for Pokémon Card GB3. after Pokémon Card GB2, this game came (Pokémon Card Game Asobikata DS) and they never did Pokémon Card Game 3

Pablitox · Jul 11, 2017

you could add a vwf, the letter spacing is kinda bad, and that way you could add more characters

Alex4U · Jul 11, 2017

Pablitox said: ↑

you could add a vwf, the letter spacing is kinda bad, and that way you could add more characters
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vwf?
I remplaced ll ghe katakana and hiragana with ABC font, so, i cannot make it more "lighter".because every font uses 4 pixels (incluiding Hex value) to show it in the game.
More characters? uhh.. this is the reason why is a game, right? Every chapter has new characters.
The only issue i currently have: can't open .std files and .saf files, and i have some text issues, i've fixing most text issues.

Pablitox · Jul 11, 2017

Alex4U said: ↑

vwf?
I remplaced ll ghe katakana and hiragana with ABC font, so, i cannot make it more "lighter".because every font uses 4 pixels (incluiding Hex value) to show it in the game.
More characters? uhh.. this is the reason why is a game, right? Every chapter has new characters.
The only issue i currently have: can't open .std files and .saf files, and i have some text issues, i've fixing most text issues.
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Variable Width Font. From the pics you have the game uses a fixed width font, which takes a lot of space and you will end up with stiff sounding sentences. A VWF will serve as a workaround to that issue, letting you add more characters per text-box.

more info here: http://www.romhacking.net/?page=documents&title=vwf

Alex4U · Jul 11, 2017

Pablitox said: ↑

Variable Width Font. From the pics you have the game uses a fixed width font, which takes a lot of space and you will end up with stiff sounding sentences. A VWF will serve as a workaround to that issue, letting you add more characters per text-box.

more info here: http://www.romhacking.net/?page=documents&title=vwf
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Oh sorry if i missread. lol.
I will try, but there's no for NDS. so, i will see how. also, remember it's my first translation and it's still with many issues.

Dionicio3 · Jul 13, 2017

I should mention that we're now able to edit some std files, so woo!

Alex4U · Jul 13, 2017

Just for this time, i will reply this.

We have access to .std files, some .std files and other nah. i wonder why
Anyway, this time, didn't freezed! so we can start editing images and images-text too!
but of course, we need to load the others .std files because most files are just .std (images) and .saf (animations?) files. aren't common NDS files...

Alex4U · Jul 13, 2017

I also finished the first, and the second anime-cutscene. now, i will translate the battle text of the second anime-cutscene. lol

cheuble · Jul 14, 2017

Pablitox said: ↑

Variable Width Font. From the pics you have the game uses a fixed width font, which takes a lot of space and you will end up with stiff sounding sentences. A VWF will serve as a workaround to that issue, letting you add more characters per text-box.

more info here: http://www.romhacking.net/?page=documents&title=vwf
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The font is being fixed now

Pablitox · Jul 14, 2017

cheuble said: ↑

The font is being fixed now

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SWEET. Me loves vwfs. Can you change the spacing of the l letter? I remember i had to modify the font file of the game to make the l's spacing a bit lower. Btw how did you do it?

cheuble · Jul 14, 2017

Pablitox said: ↑

SWEET. Me loves vwfs. Can you change the spacing of the l letter? I remember i had to modify the font file of the game to make the l's spacing a bit lower. Btw how did you do it?
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I simply edited the font with NFTRedit. You simply have to edit the option "Next Offset" for each character you want to modify.