[NARFNra]

Oh, that's really useful to have, 4ph! Thank you for linking!

I will try my best to get started with the work soon. I have also ordered a copy of the Elnard adventure guide book in case it contains any useful information, although that won't get here for a good while. Will we be mostly communicating through this thread?

[4ph]

I’m definitely interested in doing this and I can start later tonight. 7th saga is the only reason i started programming and I have many plans for it.

You should see this with SlidelJohn.

[slidelljohn]

@4ph
Thanks 4ph! That link to the dump should definitely help. 

Will we be mostly communicating through this thread?

Yes, this thread will work unless you prefer another way to communicate. Unfortunately my message box is full and the messages that I currently have I don’t want to delete. I wish we could have more messages that we can store in our inboxes.
What I’m going to do is start looking at the asm and the data for the text and I’ll see if I can create a text editor in c++.  I’m not sure if you have seen my different books/items that I have for elnard that I posted in this thread but I also have that elnard guide book. Not only do I have that book but I have 2 of those same guide books. The second book(y’all don’t kill me) I cut all of the pages out so I could create perfect scans of each page so I could one day get it translated. I want to create a translated hd version of the book. I haven’t scanned all of the pages yet but I might do that next year.

[Dulcineax28]

Yeah I guess they are horns after looking into it a little more.



But then you have images like this one that make them look like flat ears or wings or whatever...

That was some insane artistic liberty that American Lejes took lmfao. How did he go from looking like a pretty interesting Goat Demon to a....... Goblin?

[Sanedan56]

I have notes on the game text if you need them.

[Zorlac]

Yes! So excited work may be beginning on this!

I bought the two Elnard mangas along with the Encyclopedia of Adventure.

Wish I was a programmer because I would love to help. Will be watching this thread for sure.

[DragonAtma]

So I've been modding 7th Saga myself; I've certainly been making progress, but I will need a coder to get things done. I did look at your data collection.

Fortunately, I can handle design and graphics, so don't worry. Case in point:



Graphics are not 100% final (I think I should darken the Trick's base, and quite possibly add a bit of shadowing around the edge).

[slidelljohn]

Sorry for disappearing, I have been really busy.

I have made some modifications to elnard to load english text.
I had to transfer some asm and text compression table files from 7th saga to elnard to
get it to load 7th saga's english text. Here is a video showing the english text loading
in elnard.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/it84wb15qqyu650/elnard_english.mp4/file

Its probably not going to be completed for some time but hopefully sometime this year
we will have elnard in english. There will probably be 2 versions, one having the
japanese text translated to english and another using 7th saga's text.

@NARFNra
I need to make a tool for the text and I'm not sure when I'll have that ready but hopefully
you will still be willing to do the translation when I finish creating the tool for it.

@Sanedan56
I'm not sure if I need them or not but I'll definitely take a look at them if you want to share.

@DragonAtma
Nice work my friend! Glad to see you on here! If you are interested in working on new enemies
I can make a tool to not only add new gfx but I can also edit animations and AI scripts. I have all
enemy data and asm documented.

[DragonAtma]

Welcome back! A new tool would definitely be useful; I'm good with ideas and graphics, but not so much with snes coding.

There's some more info in my modding thread, https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=31858.0; naturally there are also some other mods, both complete and not-so-complete. Recolored Chimera is there too; like the knights, going up from 8 to 16 colors is definitely a good thing.

[4ph]

Great job, Slidelljohn! 
Elnard will finally have a translation worthy of the name!

[Sanedan56]

Here is the text used for the dialogue and menus, along with the flags the game uses.

I haven't touched this in a long time, so some of the information may be wrong.

"Buffer" is used for certain things like names, I believe.

Events may be a part of NPCs themselves; I'm pretty sure their using code.

The flags offset is at 7E4E00.

The game separates the flags into event flags, treasure flags, and hidden flags. The event and treasure flags take up exactly 100 bytes. The hidden flags are used for hidden objects. The hidden flags themselves are used in an indiscriminate order, and presumably use up the rest of the allowed ram (Flags are two bytes long).

A note about the game flags; The first few are for which character you're using. If you plan on adding an eight character, you will have to rework the game flags, as the first one is used for yes/no questions.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/55f901omrz1szif/AADP0xApDKJ9EUQM_SptpGpAa?dl=0

[RomerPlayer]

Hi all. I want to request for this Hack, IF it´s possible:

 * Can you please change the warrior sprite for something more Knight style / "Knigthy"?
 - Fluted Kninght armor: https://imgur.com/30AfBco
   https://imgur.com/7vTH7cQ

 * Please add more weapons like: Rapiers, Estocs, Messers, Longsword, bastard sword etc.

 * For the weapons sprite, I suggest this:  https://www.samuraikatanaswordphilippines.com/photos/Custom-Made-Albion-Borderwatch-Ithilien-Ranger-Longsword/IMG_3610.JPG

 * For the default sprite shield: https://www.swordsandarmor.com/images/SN-Lion_Shield.jpg

Regards!

[xeenmusic]

I haven't been able to locate any sort of scan/PDF of the Elnard "Encyclopedia of Adventure." I used to have most of the NTT "Final Fantasy" books, and I know that they, like the Elnard one, have somewhat English translations of characters and locations that are completely independent of the USA Translations and usually official, and many other key terms, and sometimes even enemies. I know it might be a chore, but is there a way that you could make a list of all the official English names (of anything) that was given in the Encyclopedia?

Also, I'm the one who added most of this information to the Cutting Room Floor article with the JP vs. USA stats, as well as the unused monsters and locations (stuff which I knew 15 years ago, but never shared until recently). I know the JP ROM is arranged differently than the USA Rom. Have you noticed in either any more information related to the unused enemy data? Are there enemy graphics present that simply were not called? Is there more AI that isn't called? Is there any more leftovers from the nver finished locations?
https://tcrf.net/The_7th_Saga


Thanks,
Andrew