Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 3 Translation Project

Really happy for this huge progress. Congrats for the half-width font, it looks nice
Not even Capcpom bothered to fix it for their recent Monster Hunter iOS release.

It's nice you're not relying on the FAQ solely for getting the translations like many suggested Sword Art Online PSP translators should do.
Hopefully the end result will rival what a commercial localization would have looked like

 

Looks great, even if i have to wait 2 years i'll be able to play this awesome game so i don't care, take your time!

 

i guess this needs a more proper tool, i'll be rewriting a better tool to include every need for this project.

 

You could change "Serious Woman" to "Serious Lady" btw.
"SeriousWoman" looks like a 16-bit Final Fantasy magic spell.
If it doesn't fit, you could use instead abbreviations like "Serious W."
It has been bugging me for a while actually as I tend to obsess over these tiny details

 

I'm taking a peek at Mato's Mother 3 tools, and I found out how he handled a very similar problem.

See those useless kanji/kana?
You could use them and draw the entire word for commonly used words (Lady, Man, Girl, ...) that would appear in the area with the 12 letter limit, on the font in a style similar to the normal letters, but in a more cramped way, so that they take up less space.

For example, the word Girl (with a small space before G)t would be written with only three kana letters, since i, r, l can fit in less than 8px.
Same goes for all Japanese names (or else you won't be able to fit them).

 

I found the tm2 for the background earlier so we can just edit that, can't remember which it was though

 

"Also, the main characters first and last name is limited to 4 characters. Is this changeable?"

"The names will be hard to change since PPSSPP doesn't work with character screens, JPCSP might work though"

When you asked before I understood this as the keyboard only lets you put 4 characters, is that not what you meant?

Oh, and look at the other thread if you haven't since I found the location of the menu images but there's some problems with compression

 

Looking back its not surprising you didn't get it, "The names will be hard to change since PPSSPP doesn't work with character screens, JPCSP might work though" was supposed to mean

"The names will need asm hacking but since PPSSPP doesn't work with character screens debugging won't be possible, JPCSP's debugger might work though"

I actually just tried the name change, not only is it limited to 4 you can't use English alphabet, you can use numbers though.
But personally I think the default names are a better choice since you get the audio

 

If I had a working PPSSPP version I might be able to do it though

 

Even though it's probably a controversial solution...
You could handle it the Tales of Symphonia way, and purge the naming screen entirely (using asm as well, but not needing as much work)
Meaning, the game skips that screen altogether and begins with the in-game script using a translation of the standard name used where the variable for calling the name would be. And the audio would be fully working

 

It's an idea since the game pops up with a yes/no dialog for "do you wish to change name?", the dialog could be removed as if always saying no.
The problem still remains to get a working version of PPSSPP but I think that's actually quite a clever solution