Lets make a little interest check here.
i wasnt sure where to post this, or if i should even post this at all tbh...
as some of you who know me, know that i generally like to just mind my own business more or less, but the fact is that me and my group lack the manpower for this, and even if we did have it, we are still busy with other things. So here goes.
has anyone even heard of this game ? does anyone have any interest of seeing it in english ?
Zill o'll is a game originally released for ps1 back at 1998 (i think it was 1998) then remade for ps2 as Zill O'll infinity, and then ported to psp as Zill O'll infinity plus. all 3 titles are the same game, which never saw the light of day outside japan. Which is a terrible shame, this game is one of the most unknown/underrated rpg's in the history of videogames, a game with no real objective, an actual free roam, mission based RPG with hundreds of unique endings, tons of characters and pretty decent gameplay as far as RPG's go.
so anyway, why am i posting?
i made a menu translation patch for the psp version some years back and stated that I can indeed do more, but lack the manpower for doing it.
my boredom led me back to this game and hence some of that "do more" got a bit refined.
so here's what's done:
1) full filesystem access through the arc/bin and par archives.
2) full graphic access granted by reversing the fileformats above.
3) executable completely mapped and more or less completely translated.
4) full font engine access, the entire game font redone from scratch.
5) full script access extract, edit, reinsert.
tl;dr: it's completely pwn'd now.
now, i am considering crowdsourcing a translation for all the ~60000 lines of text this game contains, but is there any interest for such a thing ?
enjoy pics
some english text as a test with the new font.
new font compared to old font.
yup, shit's hacked.
i wasnt sure where to post this, or if i should even post this at all tbh...
as some of you who know me, know that i generally like to just mind my own business more or less, but the fact is that me and my group lack the manpower for this, and even if we did have it, we are still busy with other things. So here goes.
has anyone even heard of this game ? does anyone have any interest of seeing it in english ?
Zill o'll is a game originally released for ps1 back at 1998 (i think it was 1998) then remade for ps2 as Zill O'll infinity, and then ported to psp as Zill O'll infinity plus. all 3 titles are the same game, which never saw the light of day outside japan. Which is a terrible shame, this game is one of the most unknown/underrated rpg's in the history of videogames, a game with no real objective, an actual free roam, mission based RPG with hundreds of unique endings, tons of characters and pretty decent gameplay as far as RPG's go.
so anyway, why am i posting?
i made a menu translation patch for the psp version some years back and stated that I can indeed do more, but lack the manpower for doing it.
my boredom led me back to this game and hence some of that "do more" got a bit refined.
so here's what's done:
1) full filesystem access through the arc/bin and par archives.
2) full graphic access granted by reversing the fileformats above.
3) executable completely mapped and more or less completely translated.
4) full font engine access, the entire game font redone from scratch.
5) full script access extract, edit, reinsert.
tl;dr: it's completely pwn'd now.
now, i am considering crowdsourcing a translation for all the ~60000 lines of text this game contains, but is there any interest for such a thing ?
enjoy pics
some english text as a test with the new font.
new font compared to old font.
yup, shit's hacked.