Baroque (Saturn) Translation, general hacking

[gauss]

Hello, everyone

I started messing with Baroque on the Saturn over the past few days, and I wanted to make this thread to share what I found

I'm relatively new to romhacking so bear with me.

All the text for the game is in these 4 files on the disc

AB_MES.MSB -> has text relating to settings options menus etc.
ALLMSG.MSB -> has all the dialogue in it
BP.MSB
ITEM.MSB -> Item info

I'm relatively certain .CAK files are movie files.

I've been scraping together a table file using a hex editor in order to extract the script.
https://pastebin.com/daBDmDUT   thats what I have so far.

Kanji are 2 bytes, kana and romanji character are 1 byte.  Kanji starts at F803, and goes up to FA0E so far

I've been able to substitute some English for the menus using the in game romanji fonts, but I have some issues with the spacing (title menu options are all 5 characters long and it doesn't display right with more or less).

Once I have all the kanji in the game mapped out, then I'm going to dump the script, and run it through a text analyzer for fun, find common words, find the script size, things like that.  Will probably update progress on this later, but for now Smash Ultimate is done downloading.

[MatatabiMitsu]

Do you have a translator lined up already? If not keep me in mind and let me know once you have the script dumped.

[Chalavet]

Sounds pretty awesome.  This game has been in my backlog for ages.  Great music too.  Looking forward to reading on the progress.  Best wishes!

[knight0fdragon]

we are taking a stab at this over at segaxtreme

https://segaxtreme.net/forums/saturn-dev.34/