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SamIAm

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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #180 on: January 07, 2012, 12:07:16 PM »
Esperknight has been putting in good time and is making progress.

The original script dump that I worked on contained all kinds of mysterious junk-text mixed in with the Japanese text. In the process of dealing with compression and making his inserter, Esperknight got to the point where he understood enough to modify his old program and produce a totally clean script-dump from one section of the game. This was just last night, actually. It may not seem like much, but it shows that we're close to getting things inserted properly. It sounds like there are just a few more pointer issues to be solved.

Maybe I'll prod him to come around here and give an update from his perspective.

EDIT: Got a screenshot! I'll keep it under my hat for now (it's a bit rough), but I can assure you that we've got English displaying in the game.
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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #181 on: January 07, 2012, 06:25:53 PM »
And to show my rejoicing, I shall agree with Burnt Lasagna!!


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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #182 on: January 07, 2012, 07:22:05 PM »
This is awesome news! I cant wait to finally play this game.

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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #183 on: January 07, 2012, 09:34:34 PM »
Seen the comment NightWolve made over at the ME forums recently, so it does appear that this thing is approaching fast.  Thanks to all involved!  :)

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« Reply #184 on: January 08, 2012, 01:46:13 PM »
I'm pretty excited at the prospect of playing through Legend of Xanadu II in English.  I'm slowly working my way through the first one at the moment, and even with decent Japanese ability, I still get bogged down reading through all that text as my mind still doesn't process it nearly as fast as it would with English.  It's always much easier to just kick back and enjoy playing through something in your native tongue.  Thanks for all your hard work on this SamIAm!

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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #185 on: March 14, 2012, 06:59:15 AM »
Bump.

How are things going SamIAm? We haven't heard from you in a while. :)
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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #186 on: March 14, 2012, 07:33:52 AM »
Well, things stand pretty much as they have for a while. There's not a lot for me to do until Esperknight either inserts the script we have or dumps the last pieces that we don't have. He did some good work toward insertion in January, and he has recently gotten some of the stuff we were missing before. It's not quite enough for me to do anything yet, though.

Esperknight has a full-time job and a family, not to mention other hobbies, so it's rare for him to spend more than a couple of hours a week on hacking games. What's more, he's the type of person who prefers to keep several projects going at once, so I think I wind up with some fraction of that time for this and Zeroigar. I send him an email every day to make sure we don't lose touch and to encourage him. Just yesterday, he made some pretty concrete progress on Zeroigar. Before long, I hope we can finally get that 100% dump for Xanadu II, and a fully functional inserter.

Here is what he sent me a couple months ago. This screenshot shows how we still don't have punctuation working yet. There are other issues to overcome as well. Anyway, it's still pretty neat.


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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #187 on: March 14, 2012, 07:38:12 AM »
Nice.  I will be glad to finally be able to play this game.

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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #188 on: May 20, 2012, 01:34:55 AM »
Believe it or not, Esperknight and I still email each other about this a few times a week. Steady progress is being made, whatever the pace.

This has been a far more difficult game to hack than I anticipated. I won't bore you with details or tease you with promises of results soon, but I will say that I'm feeling good about the progress I've seen recently.

To give you a little idea of how much a pain in the ass this is, I had to play Xanadu II in an emulator and make savestates at every last event dialogue in the entire game so we could get a proper and complete dump of the script. That was last month. The current dumper is now getting all the script, but there's still more to be done.

Don't worry, though. It's happening.

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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #189 on: May 20, 2012, 12:02:07 PM »
Thanks for the update. As long as progress is being made and it gets done eventually, I'm happy. :)
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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #190 on: August 17, 2012, 10:11:42 AM »
Just thought I'd bump this thread to remind people of the project's existence... :P

BTW, SamIAm, how are things going? Not too hectic, I hope.
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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #191 on: August 19, 2012, 05:27:32 AM »
Just thought I'd bump this thread to remind people of the project's existence... :P

BTW, SamIAm, how are things going? Not too hectic, I hope.







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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #192 on: August 20, 2012, 04:16:15 AM »
I had a super-busy July and first half of August, but things are settling down, and I'm hoping to get back in the habit of working on this with Esperknight.

It's really mostly hacking that has to be done. Again, Esperknight is a guy for whom this hobby is something he does for a few hours every month, and that's the kind of pace we're talking about. He does make progress, it's just slow. Maybe I can inspire him to put in another burst of effort like he did in January, but no promises.

There is one more big task for me to do, and it kind of sucks. The first dump was a little f*cked up and loaded with junk characters, and second dump, which is done properly, is so different that we can't whip up a program to automatically copy the translated lines from the first one. In other words, I have to manually search, copy and paste every line. This only takes slightly less time than retranslating the entire thing. It's mighty tedious.

I'm still working on Princess Crown, by the way. It's coming along. I'll see about getting Bazaru Degozaru done, too.
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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #193 on: August 20, 2012, 07:08:22 PM »
I'm still working on Princess Crown, by the way. It's coming along. I'll see about getting Bazaru Degozaru done, too.


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Re: Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!
« Reply #194 on: August 21, 2012, 02:10:14 AM »
I'll see about getting Bazaru Degozaru done, too.
Awesome! As soon as I get some translation materiel I'll start working more on this project  :)

Also, don't know if this is entirely appropriate for this thread, but did anything ever come of Spriggan Mark 2? I know Bonknuts (Tom) was doing the hacking and he sort of dropped off of the rom hacking scene in recent months due to some personal issues.
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