Translating Itadaki Street Portable

@DaMarsMan
No doubt about that! 


Editing the graphic texts has now taken its toll on me so I decided to take a long break and give this thread a bumb. 
I've managed to translate the title page using the fonts DaMarsMan provided but I went for the official localization (Fortune Street). I'll put them up once I'm done editing all the images which might take a few more weeks. 

*Noob rant warning*
I'm probably,  well,  I am doing it (image editing) wrong because I'm having a really hard time since I found out that I just can't simply type a text in Photoshop using the same color the Japanese characters used, and scale it down. It seems that each TIM2 file only uses a specific palette and using colors not in it ruins the Alpha Channel. So I ended up having to pick similar colors from the original image and replace EACH PIXEL on the translated image text then I have to do the same for the Alpha Channel.
*Noob rant end*

Game Graphic studio had the convenience to show the palette of each TIM2 and edit it pixel by pixel but I don't want to spend more time figuring out how to use the tool efficiently. I wonder if you guys know any tools I could use that might help me a bit. I'm pretty sure Photoshop alone could do this but I'm not in the mood to Google how tos.

Oh wait! DaMarsMan, If you don't mind, can you give me some tips concerning my trouble? You've already tested your images on the PS2 game right?


Anyway, I've changed some of the terms I used in the game to the terms used in the official localization like "VENTURE" for the "CHANCE."
The only text left for me to noob translate are the WLAN mode texts (The WLAN switch is off, please blah blah blah) and the characters' dialogues, which I now also know that it can't be translated like the normal japanase statements used in the game (Aliahan's shop prices 30% UP!). I think I'm gonna leave the dialogue alone but I'm really curious what the characters are commenting to each other with their annoying smirks and all that. I'm sure it'd really add much fun in the game if someone's would help me translate it. I think the dialogue makes up about 25% of the entire text in this game. Each character I think has more that 20 lines.
I've also translated some of the character bios. It sounds silly though thanks to my lack of knowledge in DTEs and Pointers. I didn't really translate it for people to read and understand it. I just wanted to lessen the Japanese "feel" of the game. Haha!

Sigh! This is the only PSP game that has Dragon Quest in it....

This is a 2 am post in middles of 400 people in a disco with some drinks in my head so take it as possible and not as sure.
If you have the chance to export the graphics in BMP or PNG format, they have the palette in the file so you should not have a problem with the colors anymore.

As for the character text, make a dump, upload it somewhere and somebody will sure take a look at it.

@Lightpost

As you have found out, there are more to graphic formats than simply an extension. Not all are created equal and many have specific palettes. Take a look at the text file in my images folder called 'convert_psd_to_insertable.bat'. If you double click this file you'll notice it converts my psds into pngs and then converts them into the correct format I needed to insert into the ps2 version... It uses a free tool called nconvert.

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del title.png
nconvert -transpcolor 4 150 68 -colors 256 -out png -o title.png title.psd
del mat000_6.png
nconvert -transpcolor 4 150 68 -colors 256 -out png -o mat000_6.png mat000_6.psd
del mat000_2.png
nconvert -transpcolor 4 150 68 -colors 256 -out png -o mat000_2.png mat000_2.psd
del mat000_1.png
nconvert -transpcolor 4 150 68 -colors 256 -out png -o mat000_1.png mat000_1.psd

::Conversion to to 16 bit first to reduce color
::Then converts to 256 for compatibility with Game Graphic Studio
del se.png
nconvert -colors 16 -out png -o se_16c.png se.psd
nconvert -colors 256 -out png -o se.png se_16c.png
del se_16c.png

del MAT003.png
nconvert -colors 16 -out png -o MAT003_16c.png MAT003.psd
nconvert -transpcolor 4 150 68 -colors 256 -out png -o MAT003.png MAT003_16c.png
del MAT003_16c.png


You can see some things about the initial conversion...

1) I delete the old file with the 'del' command.
2) I call nconvert with some specific options
     -transpcolor r,g,b     <- This converts a specific color to alpha.... Mine happened to be 4, 150, 68 but you need to figure out if you have one and what it is
     -colors depth            <- This converts to a specific number of colors... Most of the ones in the ps2 are 256 colors but some are 16

3) Insert with Game Graphic Studio


As you can see about, I had one specific case where I had a 256 palette image that only used 16 colors. Sloppy programmers... Anyway, I had to convert down to 16bit then convert back up to 256 to get it working. You may encounter similar anomalies.

Nconvert can do a ton of things with images...
Take a look at the command line options.

There is also a gui version called InfranView but I really suggest doing it with a batch file because you can easily do everything with one execution. Then when you edit a psd, you simply double click it and insert the resulting image with game graphic studio again.

GOOD LUCK

Hey Lightpost, I saw this thread and was wondering if the project is still going. And was wondering if you are going to release a patch.

I profusely apologize for not posting that my project is currently put on hold as I've finally landed a job. 

Even though I could manage to find time to work on it even with my very busy, stressful work schedule, the computer I was working on is way back in my province and that I wasn't able to bring along the project with me. The only texts left to be translated are the Chance Card descriptions, Character bios/infos and dialogue but
the game is now fully understandable (for me, that is. Hehe!).

I don't know when I can get back to it. Maybe when I've finally adapted to working. I just started a month ago, and I also have a lot of errands to do.

 

Lugia2009: Your avatar is made of win, sir. Good show.

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I profusely apologize for not posting that my project is currently put on hold

That's okay. Don't worry about it.

I don't know when I can get back to it. Maybe when I've finally adapted to working. I just started a month ago, and I also have a lot of errands to do.

Take your time, there's no rush.

Congratulations on the new job.

Is there any chance you could release this as it currently is? We'd be able to play the game with the work you've currently done on it and that would be awesome.