Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 3 Translation Project​

AKA Disaster Report 3​

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This is a full translation project for the game Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 3 for the PSP developed by Irem and now owned by Granzella.
All rights to belong to their respected owners. ​

http://granzellagames.com/ ​

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We love and support what Granzella has done to resurrect the series from Irem, We would love to see the future of the series include the west for releases.​

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If you like what we are doing and the Disaster Report games, Then please purchase them and support the people who made the game.

We make nothing from this, we do it all for free out of our own time because of our love for this game. We only ask for support that is it.​

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Team​

TwistedZeon - Project Leader​

JamRules - RomHacker​

Flame1234 - Translator ​

Omarrrio - Created our text insertion tool​

おしゃれ刑事 - Created the English Walkthrough we use for translation​

*We use this walkthrough as a guideline as it is not a full word for word translation*​

http://game-time-kouryaku.blogspot.ca/2011/03/faq-3.html​

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Photos of Progress​

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We have fixed the font width thanks to JamRules.​

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We have now successfully replaced an image file with translated text.​

Thanks again JamRules!​

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Videos​

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None as of right now.​

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Progress​

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ASM hack the system language (e.g. for save/load and home button): Half done​

Text Insertion tools: Done​

Translations: 86%​

Replace menu images: 0%​

*We can only extract images, we have yet to figure out how to re-compress them* ​

Font: In progress​

*Still needs Variable Width Font*​

Text typesetting, grammar, spell checking and insertion​

Text insertion​

-dialogue: 1% ​

(will be redone w/ new translation)​

-items: 0%​

-manuals: 0%​

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Contest!​

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We are now hosting a contest for who can make the best ​

English logo for our translation project.​

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To enter all you need to do is post your entry in the thread.​

The winner will have their logo used in our project.​

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This is the original Logo​

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Here is an example of what we are looking for​

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The English title will be up to you​

examples are:​

Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 3 (as romaji)​

City of Disaster 3 / Disaster City 3​

SOS: A maiden's song​

Disaster Report 3​

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Along with the subtitles they will also be up to you:​

"A fading city..."​

"A maiden's song..."​

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We will provide you with a template for the logo with just the 3.​

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Entries​

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- Omarrrio​

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- goth2191​

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Alternative - goth2191​

So what are you waiting for go and have fun!​

 

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