Hacking Xenoblade menu translation

[squallxxx]

How edit .DAP and .LOD files Extracted of .PKB Files and Repack the .PKB files???

Hi my name is Paulo, i m Brazilian. I m translate Xenoblade to portuguese. I need extract the .PKB files, edit the DAP files inside e repack. i only Extract with tutorial in page 9, but

thanksss!!!!! need a little explication!!!!!

 

[Cyan]

All the tools used by this team are available in this topic.

If it's not covered, then they don't know how to do it

Maybe you can send a message to the hackers, but they stopped working on it since the English version has been officially announced for Europe.

 

[Jehuty25]

The tutorial and the tools have been taken down.

 

[squallxxx]

The tutorial and the tools have been taken down.

hi man!!!! you have it????? please send if you have!!!!!!

 

[Cyan]

The tutorial and the tools have been taken down.

Aw, yes

I don't know why he didn't leave it available for users wanting to play the game with translated menu (like me, I tried Xenoblade for the first time yesterday. went up to the falling metallics cut scene).
Or even why not sharing the knowledge with other translation group so they can work on another translation not included in the European retail version.

If I remember, you had to extract the static.arc with wiiscrubber, then extract its content into bdat files and converted Bdat files to xls files.
Replace xls with the one from google code, repack all and replace into the game with wiiscruber.

 

[Jehuty25]

Yeah, I would have been quite satisfied with only a menu patch. I was going to try and do it myself the other day.

 

[squallxxx]

The tutorial and the tools have been taken down.

Aw, yes

I don't know why he didn't leave it available for users wanting to play the game with translated menu (like me, I tried Xenoblade for the first time yesterday. went up to the falling metallics cut scene).
Or even why not sharing the knowledge with other translation group so they can work on another translation not included in the European retail version.

If I remember, you had to extract the static.arc with wiiscrubber, then extract its content into bdat files and converted Bdat files to xls files.
Replace xls with the one from google code, repack all and replace into the game with wiiscruber.

Hi i m working in file map.pkb . I extract your files using a hexadecimal softtware with script found in this forum, but inside have some files .DAP etc. and i dont know how edit this files. and if i edit it. how repack the file .PKB.?????

Thanksss for you help!!!!! Istill need it!!!! Sorry my english!! i am Brazilian!!

 

[squallxxx]

how rise text space!!!???????????? my text stay cut!!!!

 

[iamatmylimit]

"How edit .DAP and .LOD files Extracted of .PKB Files and Repack the .PKB files???"

you cant do anything with .lod files...they dont have text...

to edit .dap the only way that worked was using falo's script and quickbms which extracts bdats if there are any.but theres no way to put dap back inside the map.pkb

..the truth is the last tool zeforte released made it easy to extract and repack text for sstatic and common..........we never got as far as translating map.pkb so the dap files in there not sure how you would put them back in....so you can get dap files out of map but you cant put it back in easily.....




part1 = extracting all files from xenoblade (pkb,pkh,static etc)
http://www.mediafire.com/?cxks60suf07vsrf


part2 = extracting adx,ahx,tpl and static+hbm files (extracting audio and images basically)
http://www.mediafire.com/?h1n92jpg26w8ab1


part3 = extracting dap,lod etc (extracting what inside pkb files)
http://www.mediafire.com/?0ddg0d0vxwsqu28
(get static.arc from tutorial 1)


part4 = extracting text and putting it back inside (the translation part)
http://www.mediafire.com/?lksjz6dceri8z1r


you dont need bdats anymore..zeforte made it easier...just static.arc,common.pkb and the xls your replacing...

 

[squallxxx]

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I unpack common.pkb and have some DAT files. How edit him????

i see some member talsking in XLS file, have to converter???

 

[Cyan]

Thank you for the links and the re-uploaded video

For end users wanted a menu-patch, only follow video part1 and part4.
(You can extract static.arc and common.pkb only instead of all the unencrypted partition in the tutorial part1)

Latest available translated xls from google's doc link on page 15 (only 39 files)
Older translated xls (from 2011 02 22) : 102 files
they don't have the same names, maybe the tools used to extract has changed, and now only 39 files are needed?

is there a pack with complete latest modified files?

Edit1 :
I tried the extract all, I don't have bdat folder created.
I have java 6.13, maybe it's not enough.

Edit2:
updated my Java to 6.24.
It still doesn't create the bdat folder, even if there's no error in the command line window.

edit3 :
ok, that's normal!
XBSE has been updated and doesn't create bdat folder anymore.

 

[Jehuty25]

When it says "extract tpl", which tpl file? Any of them? Because there's 9 files with the .tpl extension.

 

[Cyan]

You don't need to extract the tpl if you are not hacking or translating the game.
If you want only the menu patch, just extract static.arc and common.pkb and follow step4

 

[wyndcrosser]

This game came out in the US, why are you still using the menu translation?

Wynd

 

[Cyan]

it didn't came out yet, and it's not in US, it's announced for Europe.
I tried the game this weekend for the first time, because I was curious, and a menu patch would have been nice.

Some people don't want to play the game, but translate it in language that won't be included in european release, or just for fun, to learn how to hack, etc.

 

[squallxxx]

I Give to translate the game!!! I only go translate the Menu!!!

I only want to know rise SPACES to put more words in game!!!!!!

 

[iamatmylimit]

for now we cant fix the space issues...the only solution is to wait for the europe release and see how they fixed or implemented this themselves....as cyan said its usefull for those who want to learn a few things about programming,hacking,translating.......

so these files and videos arent useless.....mario games have been released all over and yet we still see people interested in hacking the game to edit levels,sound etc for fun or for knowledge

 

[squallxxx]

Thankssssss for all who help me!!!!! Now i am playing with Portuguese Menu and know what i am doing!! LOL

Japanese is Baddddd!!!!

 

[Jehuty25]

You don't need to extract the tpl if you are not hacking or translating the game.
If you want only the menu patch, just extract static.arc and common.pkb and follow step4

I did this, but when I used extracteverything, I only get two folders. static_arc and xls.

 

[Cyan]

I think the 3rd folder is not created anymore with the new XBSE. (there are two XBSE versions).
The first one used WBSE -x to create the bdat folder (and didn't need common.pkb), the new one use XBSE -eb, and try to load common.pkb

I tried yesterday to inject xls files I linked in my latest post, I got the game menu in english

Step 1. Download file from Iamatmylimit post's Step 4, and extract the content to your computer.

Step 2. using Wiiscrubber, Extract common.pkb and static.arc from xenoblade.iso into the same folder as Zeforte's tools.

Step 3. launch ExtractEverything.bat, it will create 2 folders.

Step 4. replace the xls files with the one from the files I posted just above.

Step 5. launch CompileEverything.bat

As Both common.pkb and static.arc has been modified, in wiiscrubber I replace static.arc AND common.pkb, but the game is freezing the wii when I try to enter into a menu/map/etc.
Maybe some xls are bad or too old, they are not all available on google code.

Zeforte made great tools to automate all the process like that.