How can I translate Phoenix Wright-Ace Attorney?I really need help

Hi Aptony,
I doubt that asking like that will get you any answer, you are probably more or less on undiscovered ground.

I can't remember alot about the first game because my head on the translation of  AAI2 but anyway:
1) Can u post an image of what u are searching so that it's more easy to see in the data.bin
Anyway they should be on the data.bin but just have some weeks of patience and I can maybe find it for you.
We will probably recycle some graphics from the game so we will split the data.bin into pieces.
How did you check the file?? Did u check the doc about that file on my site??

2) it's better if u write down a longer chain to try to understand where you are on the script and maybe post a screen on how the text get messed up.
The doc i have about those control codes, say that <35> is still unknown but take 2 values so it's seem correct; <36> is listed to be without values and actually {83} is a fix value that is copied directly to the output file.

Hi Auryn,thx for still visiting this tread)
1)
this is the buttons i need...
2) Okay,here it goes...i will talk about first meet of Maya in second case(picture above) when you meet her you can talk with her three times
*edit*"oh and sorry,but i used transleted version..but display of text is not an issue here..so its dont count pretty much"

each "talk scrpit" have this kinde of ending:



So how it should work..after you are talking about anything with her and after the last sentsence

you pressing the button you will be returned to "talk select" screen like thisone

But,if you have changed the text in script then you will be automaticly sended to another script (like if you delete one character you will be sended to the second script wich is "Kurain Village")

And if you changed this script too,then you will be redirected in it again and cycle like this for ever....furthermore in my case it was even worst(case obviusly i changed scripts alot) i was send almost to the middle of investigation(to place where Pearly fins blakc key)

Oh yes,and i forgot...if everything is correct(not changed) then after you succesfully talk with Maya three times, automaticly will be envoced script [27] wich do not contain those "35:"

and game will move forward.
And this kind of problem meets numerous times during the game.
*not sure he made his point more clear this time*

p.s.
Wow,you are working on AAI2? how it's going?I know lot of people who wants it in english(case well..capcom said they wont make a us version...)

Hi Aptony,
nothing to thanks, this games are almost my babies now heheh.

OK, what I say now is just my analysis on the fly of what i see from your screens because I stay at work and don't have time to check it myself.

Deufeufeu had the "bad" habit to convert values to decimals making sometime difficult to see some pattern in the hex code.

The first thing I do is to convert those big numbers to hex and u get:
<35:0052,7207><35:0053,7207><35:0054,7207> and to forget because always the same: <36>{82}
<35:0052,5804><35:0053,5804><35:0054,5804>
<35:0052,C607><35:0053,C607><35:0054,C607>

What sequence are those text in the script files?? I assume I am correct here.
[24]Today's Channeling
[25]Kurain Village
[26]The girl earlier
[27]After talk to her about the 3 things
[28]Continue with the game

Actually if you think it thrue, the game will have a code at he topic selection screen that say something like:
check if topic selected
if topic = Today's channeling, go to [24]
else if topic = Kurain Village, go to [25]
else if topic = The girl earlier, go to [26]
else if topic = all read, go to [27] (or by exiting from "topic selection screen")
else error
So u see that the pointers are elsewhere than on those scripts because those are after the selection and the text.
For me this <35> look for me like a "flagging" control code (set values "as read" and make the "visum" appear on the topic selection screen appear.

You said that just deleting 1 character in the first topic (Today's channeling) made it jump to the second topic (Kurain Village)??
If yes and the order is the same as above, it's strange...there must be something at the beginning of the text that say like "I am the text of a topic" and the game ignore everything till there.

There was other such windows before that already on the game (when talking with Grossberg or Maya on the Visitor center), you didn't have the same problems there??


I hope I gave you some ideas.
I have a version of the splitter but it need to write down the offsets by hand and i still didn't had time to do it.
I have already asked for another version that automatically read the pointers.
I will keep my eyes open for those buttons.


AAI2 will not be localized and there are already at least 3 groups (+1 group indirectly) working on it:
English at the court record: http://z11.invisionfree.com/court_records/index.php?showforum=26
French here but they have the priority on AAI1:http://aai-fr.keuf.net/
German group is in the same situation as the french
And the last is still is a secret.

We have sure enough people to translate the text and they are working on it but we are missing people that will work directly on the rom.
Anyway this a screenshot of a demo running on emulator i made


And the font resized,VWF and automatically the 3 lines and not only 2 like the Japanese:


At the moment exactly working into know the control codes and the jumps like yours :p