[Arc_Impulse]

2021 Edit: As there's now a full patch of the game available over at https://www.romhacking.net/translations/5817/ as of now, I (unsurprisingly) won't be doing anything more here. Feel free to grab that full patch, and thank the team who worked on it!

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Heyo folks, as I've been working on this for a while and today is the 10th anniversary of the game, I thought I'd do an initial public release of this patch to celebrate.

It's very much still a work-in-progress, but it covers the menus for the moment, as well as most other information needed to play the game like names, units, weapons, etc. I'll be continuing work to get everything relating to the menus out of the way, as well as taking any feedback that folks might have about choices made so far. Ultimately, I'd love to find out if there's anyone who'd be willing to help out by translating the story from Japanese in this case, as there are additional scenes and content not present in the GBA versions. Especially as some existing things were also completely altered to better fit with the OG continuity going on from that point forward.

I also have a video up on YouTube as a preview of what some of this looks like in action. For anyone interested, this can be found at the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxSKxnEih0

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Patch Download:

You can grab the latest version of the patch at the following link:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/bwbbzkki53gi6bu/SRW_OGs_English_v1.zip

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Patch Contents:

At the moment this patch covers the majority of the menus, barring the odd description here and there. Because of this, it's easier to list what hasn't been touched at this point to be simpler.

A list of what isn't translated can be found below:

Spoiler:

- Unit descriptions
- Character biographies
- Glossary terms
- Intermission dialogue
- Stage dialogue (Including mission objectives)
- Battle lines
- Suspend data skits
- The Q&A section
- Scenario chart summaries
- Save data summaries
- The majority of graphics that need translated
- Some help descriptions for skills/abilities/menu items/etc when viewed in certain ways.

I've added support for ASCII as the game originally used SJIS encoding, as well as decreasing the font size to allow for English text to better fit onscreen. This means that for a lot of the above, the main work lies in dumping the text for that portion of the game, then translating and reinserting it. Some hacking work still remains, as menu positioning has yet to be addressed, along with work on some other issues for specific text strings that appear in-game.

More general details about the patch can be found inside the readme included with it.

Additionally, a rough English version of Ryusei Stages 1 and 2 has been included with this patch. It's mostly held together via context from the GBA version, and a lot of patience while editing, and shouldn't be indicative of any real translation quality. It's mainly included as a preview for how the main dialogue scenes and glossary links look and function in English, and is more a proof of concept than anything.

Further story/skit text is unlikely until I find someone who'd be willing to help out with that side of things.

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Staff:

Arc Impulse - Hacking, other busy work.

So far it's just myself at the moment. If anyone is interested in helping out, especially when it comes to the Japanese translation side of things, please feel free to reach out to me!
It also means that you can forward any complaints or feedback to me as well (Saber vs Saviour, Alteisen vs Alt Eisen, etc) and I can take that on board for future releases.

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I'll see about posting more updates on how things are going as I work on it. Until then, please feel free to report any issues, and let me know if you have any questions!

[Rai]

This project looks great so far! Keep up the good work! Do you guys plan to add a VWF?

[Arc_Impulse]

Yep, I plan on taking a look into a VWF again once I get some of the other description text out of the way. I gave it a shot back when I was a little less familiar with the game, which didn't go incredibly well. I do want to look into trying again in future, just to try and cut down on the amount of space that punctuation takes up at the very least.

[Rai]

Yep, I plan on taking a look into a VWF again once I get some of the other description text out of the way. I gave it a shot back when I was a little less familiar with the game, which didn't go incredibly well. I do want to look into trying again in future, just to try and cut down on the amount of space that punctuation takes up at the very least.

Cool, good luck with that. If it's like the other ps2 SRW games, it probably loads a fixed width value somewhere. To add a VWF, you would find where that value is loaded and then add code to read from a width table.

[WildWolf21]

It's good to finally see someone translate the PS2 version of OGs. 
Tried to slog through the game in Japanese, but stopped after the 2nd chapter in Kyosuke's Route.

So, quick question: Is it possible to play through both games on the disc with just the menu patch, if i know the story??

Regardless, keep up the awesome work, and i can't wait to play the final product!!!

[Arc_Impulse]

Cool, good luck with that. If it's like the other ps2 SRW games, it probably loads a fixed width value somewhere. To add a VWF, you would find where that value is loaded and then add code to read from a width table.

Yep, it loads in the value and starts doing some floating point manipulation to it as part of some of the text routines. At the moment I've essentially loaded in a fixed value so the font is half width compared to what it was before. Since I've since gotten a bit more familiar with the horizontal positioning side of things since I last tried, it should go a bit better once I get back around to it at least.

It's good to finally see someone translate the PS2 version of OGs. 
Tried to slog through the game in Japanese, but stopped after the 2nd chapter in Kyosuke's Route.

So, quick question: Is it possible to play through both games on the disc with just the menu patch, if i know the story??

Regardless, keep up the awesome work, and i can't wait to play the final product!!!

You shouldn't have any issues playing through the game at the moment, especially if you're already familiar with it. The main menus are in English, as well as all of the character names, unit names, and weapon names.

Here's an example image from the endgame OG2 save I use for testing for example:



The odd effect description might not be in-game when you use Select to view what it does, but those can usually be inferred, or quickly looked up. Descriptions of Spirits, pilot skills and unit abilities are all in as well, but as there's some duplicates in the strings for those, a Japanese description may pop up. If that does happen, you can check the effect in the Search menu for sure though.

[WildWolf21]

Yep, it loads in the value and starts doing some floating point manipulation to it as part of some of the text routines. At the moment I've essentially loaded in a fixed value so the font is half width compared to what it was before. Since I've since gotten a bit more familiar with the horizontal positioning side of things since I last tried, it should go a bit better once I get back around to it at least.

You shouldn't have any issues playing through the game at the moment, especially if you're already familiar with it. The main menus are in English, as well as all of the character names, unit names, and weapon names.

Here's an example image from the endgame OG2 save I use for testing for example:



The odd effect description might not be in-game when you use Select to view what it does, but those can usually be inferred, or quickly looked up. Descriptions of Spirits, pilot skills and unit abilities are all in as well, but as there's some duplicates in the strings for those, a Japanese description may pop up. If that does happen, you can check the effect in the Search menu for sure though.

Good to know. Also, if you need someone to do Beta Testing for the final patch, when you get to that point, let me know.
I have a softmodded ps2 i can test this out on, should the need arise.

[phuctorres]

please help me!. I follow your instruction exactly but when i use the xdelta patcher, it appear that error log:

[11:23:56 PM] Original file "SUPER_ROBOT_TAISEN_OG.iso" selected.
[11:24:00 PM] Patch file "SRW_OGs_Patch.xdelta" selected, description found:

Make sure to use the following MD5 for your original ISO in this case.

ISO MD5 Checksum:
5f8ef32e8497c403c3a39fbabc4f90ec

[11:24:04 PM] Applying patch, please wait... (don't panic!)
[11:24:04 PM] An error has occurred: xdelta3: file open failed: read: D:\Gia? lâ?p PS2\SRW OG\SRW_OGs_English_v1\SRW_OGs_Patch.xdelta: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

http://imgur.com/9waT0i9

[gtcaphi]

I'd love to help with translating the script/dialogue. I'm Caphi everywhere and I've done some translation around various things and the SRWZ2 LP on SA. I can help program tools and scripts and I don't hate being edited.

[Bring Stabity]

Wishing you guys all the best of luck, and to avoid the sub ninjas that struck us on the GC tralstion project.

To add a VWF, you would find where that value is loaded and then add code to read from a width table.

That's what I did with GC. Dashman found where that value was being loaded, then I replaced that with a call to a method that I cooked up in PPC to lookup the width from a table.

[Badbufon]

you, good sir, made my day... i was waiting for a translation for this game for ages!!! ((i tried to learn japanese, but, i didnt get very far)), let's hope for the best!!

[Reiska]

Okay, I have to ask - sub ninjas?

[Bonesy]

sub ninjas, you know, ninjas that prevent things from being translated.

[dullahan81]

This is the best news i've heard in weeks. Thanks a lot for doing this. SRW FTW !