Fire Emblem 12 Translation [HoS]

What is an update?

2012-01-25T11:09:00.002-05:00

A miserable little pile of base translations. (Namely, prologue, prelude, map openings, character endings, everyone's conditions and death quotes.)

~~Just thought I'd let you guys know Agromono and I are still working.~~

Base conversations - translation complete

2012-01-18T06:24:00.000-05:00

It isn't my intention to overshadow Blazer's post, but... translation news.

As the title says, the basic translation of the eight base conversation files has been finished. Our localizers are already working on them so they'll be more presentable and coherent with Shadow Dragon's US version - after all, we know that a good translation doesn't need to just be accurate, it needs to look accurate.

Now, what to translate next...

Preventing Another Translation

2012-01-17T23:49:00.003-05:00

I realize there are many flaws with this concept and it may sound silly, but I do not want to see another Fire Emblem be fan-translated like FE12 is. Ever. Again.

Thus I will be brief: a petition has been setup to support this idea--and support the series. This goes without saying but every signature matters, so don't whine, just sign, and everything will be fine--trolls, we don't want your kind, Japan, stop leaving us behind, with FE12 we wish we could rewind, and got some action time, for what didn't get localized, but now's our time to rise, and who knows, we might get some high-fives--but at the very least, we'll strengthen our ties, to new highs, so don't make "why"s, just sign.

http://www.change.org/petitions/nintendo-of-america-localize-the-13th-fire-emblem-installment-fire-emblem-kakusei-into-na

Base conversation progress 4

2012-01-11T14:56:00.002-05:00

While I was sitting around lazily minding my own business, TheEnd mentioned how the base conversations are now 75% complete (translation-wise). So without further ado, I think it's about time to post some more progress.

(Text not final!)

By the way, a little behind-the-scenes gossip, a certain somebody suggested that they might try their hand at translating more than just the base conversations. Dude, that's already a lot of text you've translated, but I can't exactly say "no" to the help!

New Year, new story & base progress

2012-01-01T11:44:00.002-05:00

Happy New Year! I've been meaning to post some progress earlier, but I've been carried away with the festive season and some side projects I've been working on.

As TheEnd mentioned, base conversation progress is now over the 50% mark. That's no mere feat, given that there are 366 conversations in total, so thanks to TheEnd for working on this task!

Additionally, progress on the main story is going steadily and Prologue 5 has now been completed, thanks to Agromono.

The localisation team has also been busy working behind the scenes, with over 20 files proof read at the time of writing. I don't believe these Heroes of Shadows have made their names known, but they are Illumio, Martze, Pandorakun, Ryan and Vi!

Prologue 5

Base conversations

(Text not final)

Minor Downtime Warning & Ideas

2011-12-29T22:59:00.005-05:00

Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up that I'm going to be doing some site maintenance on January 2nd, 2012. The site may be down for a few hours as I make these changes--rest assured this won't happen very often (once a year at most). Just expect a few new couple of things as we head into the new year.

On an unrelated note, what do you guys think of having prize giveaways and/or graphic contests? (I'd say "graphic contest prize giveaways" but that seems a little inclined toward the artistic and I'm not artistic so I can't endorse that :P.) Would you enter if there were such a thing? Just throwing out an idea for fun to keep the Fire Emblem community going, especially to get into gear for the release of Fire Emblem: Awakening (the Japanese 3DS installment coming April 12th, 2012).

Edit: Also, 200,000 hits for a translation blog shows that the people who really enjoy Fire Emblem haven't given up on it! =)

Boring base conversations progress report

2011-12-27T07:30:00.002-05:00

As most of you are probably not aware, New Mystery's base conversations are divided in 8 pairs (for male/female My Unit) of files. And those 8 pairs are divided in 3 types of dialogue.

Files 1 and 2 are mostly explanations given by various characters to My Unit about various topics. They mostly feature background info and various hints.

Files 3 and 4 are "support" talks between various characters of the game, like Marth/Caeda, Bantu/Tiki and Paola/Est. Since these don't involve My Unit directly, they're two pairs of identical files.

And finally, files 5 to 8 are My Unit's "support" conversations with pretty much every other playable member of the cast. (Those who have already played the original game probably have an idea of which characters don't get conversations, and why.)

The purpose of this post is to report that the base translation (before proofreading/localization) of those #5-8 files has been finished, which puts us at roughly 50% overall progress... well, actually a little more, but hey. It isn't exactly easy to count.

Expect teasers from Vincent soon! ~~He's going to kill me for saying this~~

Poll Results Summary

2011-12-18T09:03:00.002-05:00

A summary of some recent polls since nothing else is going on publicly (everyone is hard at work behind the scenes):

Fire Emblem 7 and 8 are the most played games, being almost equal. Given Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones' release for the 3DS Ambassador program, FE8 might get a little more playing done for it than FE7. FE9 and FE10 follow a little behind, with FE4 being the most commonly played "old generation" game (i.e. between FE1-5). Unsurprisingly a good portion of people have played FE6 despite it being a Japan-only release due to the long-time existent translation patch for it.

While a majority of people will NOT use the game's online functions, we intend to do whatever we can to make it so people CAN use it in English, to the best of our capability. The poll was close anyway, and we tend to favor doing a good job over a lazier one, so unless the poll said like 90% of people won't use online functions, we'd still end up translating it.

Lastly, Marth and Lyn are the two most wanted Fire Emblem characters in the next Super Smash Bros. game, followed by a good portion of people wanting the return of Ike, with decent support for Hector, Ephraim, Eirika, Roy, and Micaiah (other main characters, really).

Story progress 1

2011-12-08T10:39:00.002-05:00

I think it's been good news all around with regards to the translation team. As Blazer mentioned earlier, we've made a major breakthrough in terms of certain graphics... but I'll discuss that at a later date since the subject of this post is to show some progress of Agromono's hard work on the main story : )

Screenshots are from Prologue 2 and 3. As usual, the text is not final.

Wi-Fi Connection Setup Menu Translated

2011-12-06T06:29:00.004-05:00

~~Yay for long blog post titles!~~

The truth is guys, I failed at getting the graphics into the English ones for the Wi-Fi connection menu. Yup. Thankfully pleonex, the maker of Tinke, is much more capable than me and whipped up a solution for us that he graciously allowed us to use to remedy the old Japanese screen.

The 3rd Screenshot

Also due to some behind-the-scenes epic work from Vincent I think we've solved like 99% of all of our graphical hacking "problems" (as in graphics that we needed to hack but didn't know how so had to find out how--we should be able to hack ALL the graphics now :D).

I could be wrong though, you'll have to wait for Vincent's update for more info. See ya!

EDIT: Since it may not be clear, the in-game wi-fi settings menu is different from the one with the hardware. Thus the in-game one was Japanese and to make it English you had to actually hack the files within the game. Which is what pleonex helped us with. ^_^ Also a shout-out to Auryn for helping out as well (though we ultimately used pleonex's solution).

New kid on the block

2011-11-30T17:55:00.000-05:00

Hey there everybody,

I'm not really sure what the write here, but at the behest of the rest of the team I'm writing this post to say hi as your new translator!
VincentASM has put me to work on the script of the main story, so I've been working on the prologue, which has plenty of cheesy dialogue so it's been great to translate. I hope that I can see this project through to the very end, and look forward to the day that we can all play FE12... in English. I probably won't be making very many posts here, but you can be sure that I'll be working hard backstage to make sure this comes to fruition.

Base conversation progress 3

2011-11-29T11:31:00.002-05:00

~~Ahhhh, super-slow internet connection.~~

It's that time again! TheEnd has been patiently working on the base conversations and we're now 35% complete.

Screenshots:

(NOTE: Text is preliminary and hasn't been finalised. As usual, I've tried my hand at localising the text. However we now have a team of localisers who will hopefully do a better job than me, although this text is hot off the press so they haven't had time to touch it.)

In other news, a new translator has graced us with their presence and soon we may be able to post progress of Prologue 2. Dun dun dun!

Online functions...?

2011-11-25T15:52:00.004-05:00

A couple of things are going on behind the scenes, including somebody undergoing a gruelling ordeal from TheEnd. Meanwhile I'm busy playing Skyward Sword... Er, and working on the online text.

Which brings me to an important question. I'd like to know, is anybody actually planning on using the online functions (eg. multiplayer battles, online shop, loaning units, etc.) in conjunction with the translation patch? You can send a response by voting in the latest poll (to the top right) and/or by replying to this post.

I haven't looked up the state of DS emulation, but I have doubts that online support is well supported and I'm not sure how many people have a flashcard to play the patch on an actual DS system.

Progress report - Tutorials

2011-11-17T11:55:00.003-05:00

It's been a while since I did anything major, so I figured I'd tie up another loose end and complete the tutorial translations. Since there's been some important news recently (keep scrolling down), I'll just link the screenshots so this post doesn't take up too much space.

Screenshots:
001 - 002 - 003 - 004
(NOTE: You may notice some Japanese text still present- these are all graphics, so they'll be changed later. Probably much later, now that Zak has quit the team ^^;;;)
(NOTE2: I also left a small joke in one of the screenshots.)

I think the last menu-related text that needs to be translated are the online-related stuff. Not long until I'm done with this particular job!

Zak's Farewell

2011-11-17T03:17:00.000-05:00

Hi everybody,

Zak here with some unfortunate news. I'll be leaving the translation team due to my own personal work and commitments. I worked on the graphics side of things for a little while, but can't really continue due to other priorities.

However, I'm 100% confident this project will see completion, as the team behind it are all talented and wonderful individuals.

To save Blazer some hassle, please use this blog post to apply for the newly opened Graphics Manipulation position. If you've got some skill or experience with Photoshop or any other image manip software, please comment below with your email address and Blazer will get in touch.

Regards,
Zak

Proofreader Search Complete; Translator Search In-Progress

2011-11-16T00:57:00.003-05:00

See post below for translator search details.

The search for proofreaders and "localizers" is complete. I am not taking in any more applications. If you did not get a response to your application but you sent one please forward the e-mail you sent to me back to me--but I will not accept any late proofreaders as I already have enough and will only look at an application if I accidentally didn't give it a fair chance like the rest of them before the deadline ended.

Thanks to everyone who volunteered. It may not seem like it but the whole team appreciates the enthusiasm of people to help make this project go as fast and smooth as possible while still keeping it professional.

Last but not least, if anyone has a suggestion for a new poll, knock yourselves out--I'm all out of ideas and am not in the mood to invent a filler poll. XP

Translator Search #2

2011-11-15T11:38:00.003-05:00

We're not translating at the speed we'd like, to say the least. Thus I'm starting up my search for translators again. We need a Japanese to English translator with a good amount of experience and time, preferably 8 hours a week at minimum, though the more the merrier. If you are one or know anyone who could help us translate, please tell us, noting that there will be proofers and localizers to make the process as easy as possible for the translators. Also if we can get more than one more translator (I'd like a total of 4 and we have 2) that would be the best--just throwing that out there because most of the time I only expect 1-2 translators to actually be available and working. XP

Thank you for your time and have a great day!

Base Conversation & Misc. Progress Display

2011-11-10T00:14:00.006-05:00

Shows graphics and base convos (betas) in action. Description says:

"Please read the opening messages. Please do not report mistakes in the scripts yet. They are being worked on, wait until we've gone through and fully proofed them first before reporting them.

Note that this is just a progress display to show some things like the graphics, base conversations, and general stuff. I meant to show at the end that a dialog bug was fixed but I accidentally hit enter, so meh, whatever."

Take that into mind; please don't comment on the proofing yet, we know it has tons of errors. However we need some motivation and that includes us posting progress which gives us a false sense of accomplishment. XD

Special thanks to TheEnd and Zak for all their hard work on translating and graphic editing respectively. I can't give them enough props. There's also NomadicTrooperGirl who has also helped with graphics and proofing. And everyone knows VincentASM is doing awesome stuff 24/7. ~~Arch and I are just losers... I just update and manage shit and occasionally do some hacking now adays...~~

EDIT: Potential localizers should be receiving an e-mail or PM later today. Sorry for the delay, we're just finishing off the application. XP

EDIT2: The e-mail has been sent. If you did not receive it or want to sign up anyway, please post your e-mail, as it is not too late. See the added note a couple posts down for more information. Thank you.

EDIT3: Sorry for all the edits I've been hard at work haha, I updated the screenshots and videos page to reflect some more progress our personal version of the patch has made, even if it's not in the current download...

Patience on Localization Contact

2011-11-07T17:24:00.005-05:00

Have patience on being contacted about becoming a localization editor. It is not a small thing. Please do not ask when you are going to get e-mailed or PM'd or anything, everything should be revealed by the end of the week assuming preparations follow schedule. All I ask is that you continue to wait quietly. You have not been forgotten, I am simply not ready for the process to begin. When I do begin I have to commit myself and be prepared and I am not ready. Thanks to everyone who has had said patience.

P.S. We are using an American localization. You're free to discuss the localizing between yourselves but please refrain from questioning any of the teammates about how we're going about this. It will all be answered soon. Thank you and have a great week--hopefully you'll hear more from us later!

EDIT: I've just completed the rough draft of the e-mail you will be getting. It is currently undergoing approval and should be verified by tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest (EST). Thank you for your continued patience.

Base conversation progress 2

2011-11-01T11:17:00.003-04:00

It's been a month and a bit since the last progress report. Right now, progress on the base conversations is around 22%, thanks to TheEnd who has regularly put in much time and effort while working on this task!

Anyway, more images... As before, these screenshots are for illustrative purposes only (I've tentatively tried my hand at localising the text, but that's not my job).

This post has been hacked by Blazer to inform you that we are doing a strict search for professional proofers and localized well-versed in English language, especially dialog. If you think you can help, just post your email or a link to your profile on Serenes Forest forums if you have one. Don't be too afraid though, as we'll be testing first to see if you're cut out for the job, so if you aren't sure try anyway! :D

Rounding up the Final Technicalities...

2011-10-29T20:24:00.002-04:00

We're on a roll--with some more advice from Nagato I managed to fix a problem that limited the length of text entries, which would cut text from appearing if a dialog was too long. The new limit should be MORE than enough for any entry, and well, although I can't exactly show anything since it's a technical hacking matter, it's good news nonetheless.

This just leaves a couple more graphical problems and possibly a couple other random miscellaneous things before we don't have any new things to "solve" and it just becomes a matter of straight-up translating.

And since some people have asked how the main story progress is going, the truth is, our translator's "AFK"... i.e. he's busy and it seems like with just him we won't go as fast as we want to. But I'm totally not suggesting that we need another translator to help speed up the process or anything. :P I think if anything he needs some motivation, so send a word out to Snow and wish him best of luck in taking some precious time out for this community service. ^_^

The Dictionary

2011-10-24T10:55:00.003-04:00

With some expert advice from Nagato, who worked on the now-completed Nanashi no Game fan translation, we've managed to solve another technical issue, this time related to the in-game dictionary (guide).

Originally, we were struggling to figure out how to rename the symbols on the category sorting page, but as the first image shows, that is no longer an issue.

The other images just show some other basic progress. Before anybody asks, the names in the second image haven't been alphabetically sorted yet- this is easy, but I'd rather wait until finalising all the names before I start sorting them!

Additionally, the last screenshot still has a lot of Japanese left- those are all graphics, so we have to manually edit them and thus they'll be done later/last.

Supports vs. Base Conversation Deadlock

2011-10-09T20:39:00.002-04:00

Wooh! That poll is SO close. Almost everytime I check the amount of votes are within 2 of each other, if not the same #/%. It's crazy intense--but with that being said, which do you think is really better, and why? Do you prefer them to be in-battle and take-up turns or be part of a menu and be outside of the battle?

Oh and since I know I'm supposed to be talking about the translation, progress is going well. We're almost 12.5% done with base conversations already. Snow is Slow (he's the other translator who does the main dialog) but I'll get his ass rolling eventually whether he likes it or not. *wink* Graphics have sort of taken a halt as Zak and Arch are busy and I am waiting for them BUT there's not much left to do in that department so don't let it bother you, PROGRESS IS GOOD. ^_^

Here comes a new cha... I mean, member.

2011-10-02T17:31:00.004-04:00

Blazer told me to make an introduction post here, so... yeah.

As Vincent announced a few days ago, I've joined the group as an assistant translator. Hopefully I'll be of assistance in the noble task of translating this beautiful remake.

Don't expect to see me posting updates here (though others may or may not do it in my stead), but rest assured that I'll be working ~~slowly and~~ steadily behind the scenes, one support a day.

Base conversation progress 1

2011-09-26T15:09:00.003-04:00

As Blazer mentioned just a while ago, we've added a new translator to the team. This person is none other than TheEnd, who's no stranger to the fan translation scene; Fire Emblem fans may recognise him as the translator of the Hasha no Tsurugi manga. Here's what they had to say about their new job:

"Some people thought the addition of My Unit would ruin the story.

They were wrong."

If the clue wasn't immediately obvious, TheEnd will be helping us by translating the newly-added base conversations. There are a total of 366 (lengthy) conversations in all, so it's no easy task. However, having completed not one but two (and a bit) manga scanlations (one of which contained 12 volumes), I'm sure he will be a huge help to the project!

Also, images... By the way, these screenshots are for illustrative purposes only and the text has not been finalised (I tried my best to localise some of the lines, but this kind of work isn't really my forte. Arch, where you!?).

Yes, we're alive

2011-09-25T21:24:00.002-04:00

We're alive, and kicking. No worries. This will take a while though. When we have something worth showing we'll show it. In the mean time, sit back and enjoy life. Just a heads-up before people get cranky since we know we haven't been updating a whole lot. Unfortunately everyone on the team has a life. ^_^

Oh and we've hired a new translator. He'll say hi sooner than later, I think. You'll like him. He's pro. Super pro. Yes. Pro.

NEW FIRE EMBLEM 3DS!!!

2011-09-13T13:52:00.002-04:00

Hey guys, remember that poll to the right that I actually still haven't taken down in honor of this moment?

Well that's right guys. There actually IS a new Fire Emblem for the 3DS. It's the system you guys wanted the most, funny enough. And while I didn't want to say anything and end up being wrong, I had a good feeling a Fire Emblem game for the 3DS would come out, and I remember reading somewhere that VincentASM (one of the team members and owner of Serenes Forest) had that same feeling. The point being that we've been anticipating something new for a while, and it's finally come!

I'd put all the details here but there are far too many and this is technically a Fire Emblem 12 blog, so instead I'll link you to the greatest Fire Emblem resource ever.

http://www.serenesforest.net/

If you want to keep up with news, this site has everything. Seriously. My sites are always 500 steps behind this one and no general gaming site will have every single little thing you could want to know about this game like SF does. :D

Post what you think and what else you want to see etc... and let's all be positive and hope this game ends up awesome and comes out in North America and Europe!!!

A New Member Has Appeared...

2011-09-02T10:04:00.005-04:00

I joined the team recently as a graphical assistant and I'd just like to say "Hi!" to everyone and to show some progress. Zak did the english version of this "Multiplayer Battles" background image and then I helped to insert it into the game.

...hey, this whole screenshot is in english now! Doesn't that look cool?

Vergil Wins with a Landslide!

2011-08-28T13:40:00.002-04:00

Garnering 67% of 521 votes cast, it looks like Vergil has won with an outstanding margin! To put things in perspective, Vergil collected 3 times as many votes as its nearest challenger, Belves, and twice the votes of both challenges combined.

With such a landslide victory, it looks like Vergil will become the project's very first official outright name change. Goodbye, Belf, your name shall hardly be missed.

Stay tuned as we continue to ask for fan input. We've still got names to decide, so keep an eye for a new poll in the coming days.

More Menus

2011-08-23T13:29:00.003-04:00

Zak and I have been working our butts off, rest assured, Zak has done an incredible job with these menus IMO, the crap he has to deal with is pretty hard but he manages fine every time. Just gotta give my props to him. :)

Just a notice, most of the team is busy due to school/college/personal issues/whatever, progress isn't going to be as fast as it was during the rest of the summer. In fact I can't think of a member who isn't busy right now so you guys are just going to have to be patient.

Oh and we are looking for an extra translator to help lighten the load of Snow, our main dialog translator. Please e-mail me directly at smashfire17@gmail.com if you'd like to help and have plenty of experience and time, or know someone that does. Thank you.

Until next time~

EDIT: Before anyone asks again, the title text at the top of each screenshot WILL be translated, just not at the moment. We just do things as we can, so we'll get to everything when we do. ~~The title logo on the other hand might not be translated due to various complications... can't say for sure at the moment though...~~

Polling for a New Name

2011-08-18T17:27:00.006-04:00

In case you haven't noticed it yet, there's a new poll up here on the blog. We're testing opinions on the options for a renaming of this character (whose old name was a comic-book sound effect).

We're looking for what people feel is the best of the three names. The man is one of Grust's Sable Knights, a trusted ally of General Camus fighting alongside his fellow knights, Raiden and Robert. You get to let your voice be heard on this now-nameless man, so get voting!

Main Menu Graphics COMPLETE!

2011-08-16T18:46:00.003-04:00

Man, if only you guys knew how hard I worked/raged on this, you'd feel just how EPIC this breakthrough is. Now that I've FINALLY figured out all the details to these images I can FINALLY move on with getting more menus translated.

I have tested them and they all work great. I'll be slowly ripping the rest of the menu graphics now so that Zak, our awesome graphics editor, can keep up the awesome work.

Also please don't forget about the post below on transcripts V I kinda HAD to make a separate post on this leaving the other post to be unnoticed, sorry.

Transcripts Part 2

2011-08-16T17:09:00.002-04:00

I'd like to take this opportunity to move away from the touchy subject of translation and localization and get back to stuff that will affect when you get your patch, such as transcripts.

I've added a new poll on the right. Transcripts are a pretty much straightforward issue, I want to know when to release them. We'll release the transcript at a certain time depending on your votes (and when it's done, obviously). Keep in mind that doing it before or with the patch will in fact delay the patch.

The other post on transcripts has a bit of valuable information and insight on the matter, so feel free to check that out some posts below if you want to get a grasp on the 'schools of thought' if you will.

By the way, if you aren't one of the people giving a hard time about names, don't worry about the last post. We're still sane and we're handling this translation the same way as we did--still taking suggestions, still trying to make the best decisions, and view all perspectives before doing so. I apologize to those people who just want this translation to be over with (cough, me).

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Oh and to make it clear, if the poll is not decisive (one option wins by a largely significant percentage) we probably will make a decision on our own. Polls are more or less "we want to make sure we're not totally messing up here so we'll ask the fans if they think we're making decisions based by some sort of logic", not "we do whatever you say". If you guys mostly agree on one thing then that means the other options PROBABLY aren't viable options, which is why we sometimes go along with polls. :\

You Lose

2011-08-15T22:31:00.005-04:00

Dear Whiners,

I'm changing Malliesia to Malicia, and doing whatever else ~~I feel like~~I think is a good, worthwhile improvement. And when I say "I" I'm kind of speaking on behalf of the team--especially Arch, who wants to make name improvements the most.

You failed to translate this game before us and obtain the privilege of making the decision yourself. You're now going to have to live with the result, even if that means crying over improvements to names. You don't like change? Going to keep arguing your names? Go eat a sandwich, and then look in the mirror so you can see how ridiculous some of the names you're trying to have in the game are.

We still take suggestions but once we hear them and their reasoning that's all we need to hear--if we like it, TRUST ME, we'll do something about it. You arguing just slows down this translation, wastes my time, makes me want to stop for a few months, and makes me NOT want to use your suggestion, even if it's legitimate (although we wouldn't argue in the first place if it were legitimate).

So ultimately,

YOU LOSE

EDIT: Notice how I didn't use swear words or call anyone idiots in my post, this post is not "**** YOU YOU SUCK STFU", it's "GET A SENSE OF THE SITUATION HERE AND EASE UP ON THE EGOS BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT HELPING". If you don't know me at all then you might think this post is displaying MY ego, but trust me, I hate having to do crap like this. It's only because no one else wants to be the bad guy that I have to. And I'm used to being criticized for what I do so I can handle it. :\

New Poll on Transcript ->

2011-08-13T18:49:00.004-04:00

Someone brought up a transcript which I understood as a dump of the game's script for people to view for various reasons--whether they missed text, wanted to go back and check text without playing, go forward and read text to spoil themselves, aren't using the translation, or whatever...

Well, it's not totally out of the question for us to make one, but I wanted to know if people might use it. I'm not a fan of going out of my way to do unnecessary things but if people think an English transcript would be great, then the team could probably do something to accommodate that.

In the case that we do do it, the poll will also dictate how much of a priority it is--we may release a transcript before the final patch is released (if say, the dialog gets translated first), might do it WITH the release, or might do it AFTER the release. That kind of thing.

That's all ~~now I feel bad for bumping Vincent's post earlier since that font thing was a major breakthrough~~.

Dialogue issue resolved

2011-08-12T09:09:00.003-04:00

People not on the translation team will not be aware of this, but we faced a pretty nasty obstacle right upon starting this translation project. Something we English players normally take for granted was missing from the game, specifically lowercase English symbols during dialogue.

Those who watched the Prologue I demo video will know that lowercase symbols do appear in the dialogue, so support for lowercase symbols is definitely possible. However, what we did for the Prologue I demo was merely a lazy hack and wouldn't work for the whole game. I feel terrible for "tricking" people, but it was either that or state we had little confidence in translating the whole game.

Fast forward to today, I can now safely proclaim that all (major) issues with the lowercase symbols missing from dialogue have been fully resolved, all thanks to the expert advice of Nagato, a skilled hacker who's currently working on the Nanashi no Game fan translation.

This image probably means little, but it's a huge breakthrough for us!

What happened is that, purposely or not, there was a "bug" in one of the game's algorithms, which prevents lowercase symbols from appearing. All it took to fix this was a simple (I say "simple", but knowing what to do and where requires a lot of advanced knowledge) correction to one or two lines of the game code.

So what does this mean for the translation project? Put simply (and especially now that Blazer has got a lot of the graphic hacking worked out), there are no more major technical issues stopping this project. So hopefully you'll see progress rapidly increase from today onwards. Of course, this also depends on what the team members are busying themselves with right now. I think I might go and take a break myself!

Menu Graphics

2011-08-11T16:20:00.002-04:00

I don't have much actual progress to show but I figure that I've worked hard so this deserves a little update of its own:

What's the significance of a ripped menu? The significance is that Zak can get started on making these look more English-like so I don't have to trial-and-error when using the main menu anymore. :D

And I guess it's foreshadowing that we'll be translating menu graphics while we're waiting for the dialog font to be fixed... which is almost done--I'll leave a status update on THAT to Vincent as soon as we finish up a couple loose ends (and when I say that, I mean, ask Nagato, this awesome guy, for help).

Custom Title Logo, Anyone?

2011-08-05T18:58:00.003-04:00

I assure you Zak and I worked hard on this.

Well maybe not Zak, but I sure did. And I guess Arch helped by listening to me complain about hacking pains. Heheh. :) (Jk about Zak, he's been awesome)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy633brNlEs

There's video proof since with that plain of a background, it's easy to fake a screenshot. However this means graphical text should be possible... can't say how much possible though... as I mentioned before, opening scene text and moving texts won't be fun.

But for now, HUZZAH!

Introduction

2011-08-05T06:25:00.000-04:00

Greetings,

Writing a quick blog post to introduce myself. I am Zak, a new member of the translation team. We're now referring to ourselves as the Heroes of Shadow, for 3 reasons:

The name is relevant to the Fire Emblem game we are working on
It sounds cool, and not cliche, because if Fire Emblem can get away with it, so can we
See reason 1 again

Anyway, I'll be working on editing graphics for the game, replacing graphical text and tidying up images and whatnot. I also created the new banner for the site, so hopefully that means I'll get a pay rise soon. I can dream, right?

That's about all, so now that I've said 'hi' I shall retreat and probably start playing Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon for research purposes. Yes. Research purposes...

Later!

Status Update 4

2011-08-04T17:47:00.002-04:00

Following the public release of the version 2.0.1 menu patch, we've received a fair amount of feedback on various aspects of our patch. Originally I naively thought that everything was more or less done and dusted with regards to the menus. However, a number of critical fans have appeared to kill this thought, which is really cool; it helps keeps us on our toes!

Anyway, here are some screenshots of our progress.

Next time, hopefully we can show some new dialogue. (Note: this is just my random thoughts, I'm not actually promising anything!)

Special thanks to DarkTwilkitri for his advice and NomadicTrooperGirl for inserting the tiles.

Sorry, no more stripping characters!

Intro~

2011-08-02T22:39:00.004-04:00

People are about to get mad at me since I still haven't made a post on here, so I guess I better get it over with. ^.^"

Even though it's my summer break I've been running all over the place, so I haven't been around much, but a few weeks ago I translated the dialogue text for the prologue.

Recently I looked at the text in-game in the FEE3 video, and saw a lot of my text had been heavily edited in some manner or another. In particular, the sentence, "There sure are a lot of hopefuls here" seemed to stick out at me...Or should I say 'seemed to stick out and stab me'... XD I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so whenever I'm translating I try to make the best sentences that will carry across the original meaning to the reader. So seeing what I felt were 'perfectly' translated sentences so mutilated/edited left me with mixed feelings. XD

But that's what translation is, especially when dealing with translation from two languages without a common root (for example the Latin languages, such as French, Spanish, and English). There is no correct answer, no 'perfect' translation. The messy truth of translation nearly drove me to insanity, which is why I taught myself Japanese in the first place; so that I could understand what everyone was trying to tell me 'perfectly'.

Despite whatever small grumblings I had (mostly being a matter of pride), it was kind of nice to see my work on display. I have no interest in living the rest of my life out as a translator, as its imperfection would drive me insane, but as a Nintendo fan I'm glad to lend a hand to this project.

To any of you out there waiting excitedly for this translation, I would hope that if you have a similar passion as I and many do in anime, games and the like, that you would over time try to learn Japanese so that you can learn the true meaning that the game creators intended. There's also a lot of great games out there that don't get translated.

To end this, I'll leave you all with a little trivia:
Did you know, that the 'Palace of Darkness' and 'Shadow Temple' from A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time respectively actually have the same name in Japanese? In the original Japanese text, they are both named 闇の神殿->Yami no Shinden.

There's always more to the story, lost in translation.

Graphical Text Status

2011-08-02T20:08:00.002-04:00

Graphical text... some of it is easy, some ain't. To make things simple, non-moving text is easy, I've had that figured out for a while. I can hack pretty much anything that doesn't have effects or moves.

As for the rest, well, it's a bit of an issue. And if you don't think this kind of nonsensical, mis-sized, grey piece of garbage isn't enough proof, then I don't know what is. :P

So the reason for this post is if anyone knows of anyone who knows of anyone who knows something or might know something about NDS hacking, more specifically graphic hacking, let us know. Any documentation or program suggestions are cool too (although chances are I've seen it or something already XP).

Regarding Patch Formats

2011-08-01T14:45:00.002-04:00

Someone brought up that the patch format used for this translation isn't Mac-friendly, or multi-platform in general. I realize this is an issue and if anyone knows of an alternate patching method or some way for it to be run on other platforms WITHOUT them having to boot in Windows or whatever, please let me know.

NOTE: The following is technical information just for your knowledge and is not news regarding the translation. Thus if you have a hard time with such technical issues or do not wish to know about it, please stop reading and know that you did not miss out on much.

As for why I can't use something like NUPS (or the inferior Tsukiyomi, which also uses .UPS format), when Nintendo DS ROMs are re-assembled, their data is shifted a lot. Because the data is moved around so much, at a specific offset (offset is a place in the ROM), it is highly unlikely that the same piece of data is there as it was before.

Think of it like this: if you have a 10 floor hotel but you suddenly add a floor after floor 4 but before floor 5, well, floor 5 will become floor 6, floor 6 will become floor 7, floor 7 will become floor 8, etc...

A patch generally contains the changes between two files. UPS patches do so by recording what data is at what place, and any changes to that. Thus the problem is that if data is deleted, added, moved, etc., it thinks that the data has completely changed, and records all the data all over again. Thus if you were making a new map of the hotel after you added a floor and you were like a UPS patcher that didn't know that the other floors were just moved, you'd end up redrawing floors 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, as well as adding in the new floor 5. The patch format WE use only has the new floor--floor 5.

What's the problem with just giving the map that has floors 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11? Well, it's in-efficient--I'd be giving you a map of most of the hotel instead of just the changes. Back to the game, imagine if I had to give you half of the game in the patch when all it did was move, it wasn't even edited. It'd be like giving you the ROM, which we aren't going to do for legal and moral reasons I won't get into.

Now, that might be confusing, so I don't expect you to understand it, but that's the deal--we can't use UPS or IPS formats (IPS is even worse than UPS, let's leave it at that). However as I said, if you have any other suggestions, please go ahead and I'll look into them.

Menu Patch v2.0.1 Released!

2011-07-31T03:50:00.002-04:00

Vincent mentioned a patch earlier, and now you've got it! Thanks to everyone on the team's hard efforts we've come up with a much-improved menu patch from the last one I released over a year and a week ago! If you've visited the blog once every week or so you've probably seen how our progress is going, but if not, check out the Videos and Screenshots pages up above, as I've updated them with out latest progress.

Nothing's stopping you from going up ahead and downloading the patch right now--just click on "Downloads" up above! Here's the README with some more information and whatnot for those who aren't going to see the README in the patch download or for those who just want the information:

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README
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Fire Emblem: Shin Monsho no Nazo ~Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu~
AKA Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem ~Heroes of Light and Shadow~
English translation patch version 2.01 (menu patch)

Version history
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2.01 [Public menu patch created by the FE12 Translation Project Team]
-Congratulation and unlock messages (upon beating the game) translated
-Base conversation messages (not dialogue) translated
-Clock bonus and Training messages (not dialogue) translated
-Miscellaneous minor fixes

2.00 [Beta menu patch created from scratch by the FE12 Translation Project Team]
-All important menus translated
-Name input for My Unit has English symbols enabled
-Dialogue has been left untouched (Warning: Lowercase symbols are not currently supported in dialogue)

1.20
-Minor fixes

1.00 [Preliminary menu patch created by Blazer]

Information
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Please visit the official blog (link below) if you have any questions or comments. There's also a pretty handy FAQ there.

If have any suggestions or bug reports, please forward them to the "Menu patch version 2" blog post (not yet created at the time of writing).

Links
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http://fe12ds.blogspot.com/
Official FE12 Translation Project blog and site

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wZHbiR3uqI&feature=related
Prologue I trailer (contains preview of the dialogue translation)

smashfire17@gmail.com
Blazer's contact e-mail (we're looking for an experienced graphics editor and assembly programmer)

Credits
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[FE12 Translation Project Team]

Arch
-Director, Hacker, and Chief of Localization

Blazer
-Hacker and Chief Director

Nintenlord
-Hacker and Chief Programmer

sn0w75
-Chief Translator

VincentASM
-Director, Primary Hacker, and Project Host

[Other]

Nintendo/Intelligent Systems
-Developers of this awesome game

A message to Nintendo of America/Europe
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Please put us out of a job by officially releasing this game!

Let us know if there are any problems or if you have any questions not answered in the F.A.Q. Aside from that, we hope you enjoy!

Status update 3

2011-07-29T10:10:00.007-04:00

Kind of bored, so I figured I'd make my debut on this blog sooner rather than later.

Anyway, as you may have seen from the FEE3 demo, progress on the translation patch has been going rather well. To showcase our progress, we will be releasing a massively improved menu patch (hopefully) very soon. Unfortunately, due to certain reasons, the dialogue will remain completely untouched, so don't expect to see Prologue I in English like in the demo.

In the meantime, here are some screenshots of our recent progress. Hopefully people aren't getting tired of seeing menus before we do!

I'm also welcome to suggestions for what to name the option currently named "Bonus" (it's in the first screenshot). The Japanese name みんなの様子 literally means "Everyone's Conditions" or "How is everybody", but I'm struggling to think of a good term to use in English.

FAQ Page Added

2011-07-24T04:34:00.002-04:00

I've added a new FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page on VincentASM's request. I think it's a splendid idea, and will be more splendid if anyone has any suggestions on a common or likely question someone might have that could be added to it.

By the way, we're still looking for an experienced graphics editor who can manipulate existing images well as well as someone well-versed in assembly with a good amount of free time.

Lastly, I updated the site design due to a glitch in the Poll gadget where it used the wrong font. The poll should now be visible, sorry about that.

Item Name Poll

2011-07-23T18:41:00.003-04:00

Just a quick poll on which item name you think would be better:

- Star Potion

vs.

- Rainbow Ptn

Star Potion fits fine, however it has a 5-unit connotation unfitting for the item where as Rainbow potion has a 7-unit connotation (rainbow is 7 letters and ROYGBIV is 7 colors :P). However, Rainbow Potion does not fit, so the less-appealing Rainbow Ptn would have to be used. Rainbow Ptn seems to be the choice for many people who have played the Japanese game, but Star Potion is the in-game name (what is in the coding of the game, to put it simply).

Tell us what you think via the poll or even why via a post.

More coming soon so stay in tuned.

UPDATE: In case it wasn't obvious, Star Potion it is. I'll leave the poll up anyhow since I can't think of anything better to put. *shrug*

FEE3 Demo

2011-07-18T05:12:00.003-04:00

The FE12 Translation Team has come up with an entry for the Fire Emblem Entertainment Expo, AKA the FEE3.

Check out the FEE3 below and watch the FE12 translation segment for SURE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o-FtjJ348Q

Let us know what you think (but be nice about it, no "**** YOU FOR CHOOSING MALE MY UNIT" or something) and enjoy!

Awesome Progress

2011-07-05T00:30:00.002-04:00

With Nintenlord's awesome text editor boosting our work speeds (and motivation) 10 fold, we've been making good progress. And it's not even complete--he still has some work to do and I gave him some more text hacking information so he can make it even more awesome and double our speed once more!

I feel you guys need to have something to look at for keeping up with things for so long. This'll be the last screenshot update for more than a week though, and I probably won't be around to make the next update since I'm going on vacation, meaning you'll likely see Arch around here a bit more (but he's a cool guy or else I'd have forgotten him :D).

Okay so as you can see nothing's perfect and there's still MUCH more progress to be made even on the basic stuff. But we're making a shitload of progress IMO, and who do you have to thank? Not me, but everyone else on the team. VincentASM and Arch, the respective creators of Serenes Forest and Fire Emblem Universe (now Shrine of Seals), have been working their asses off and translating/hacking things left and right. In fact all I'm doing is making the posts about it lately, that's how useless I am.

Seriously, all those screenshots I posted are Vincent's and Arch's, so make a comment and compliment them on their hard work because they'd leave Nintendo in the dust in a race and we all know it. :D

Status Update 2

2011-06-30T17:26:00.003-04:00

The translation program is going well. Within a week to a month it should be ready to do dialog translations. In the mean time we've been debating/violently arguing* about what names we should use etc., taking into mind character limits, localization, correct translations, what sounds best, etc., and it's going pretty well. I think by the time I leave we should have most everything decided on leaving in terms of naming.

On that note, we decided to use FE11's (Shadow Dragon's) names... the U.S. version. Please don't try and get this to change, we've been through just about every argument now. Yes, some people don't like Caeda and it's not even a legitimate translation but oh well, it's what's best. Sure, that means that this isn't a pure translation because we WILL be localizing things, but I think everyone can overlook the fact that I don't want to call this the "Fire Emblem 12: Heroes of Light and Shadow English Translation and Localization Hybrid Project". XD

If you don't like it, we'll probably end up releasing the text editing program as soon as we are sure it's complete (well, we as in, Nintenlord, the creator--that's all up to him). You can then figure out how to edit text, which isn't hard, and do the names how you want to. I sincerely doubt we're going to try and prevent anyone from using our translated version as a base for other ROM hacks, so yeah.

Oh, I should probably add that this program supports FE11 text editing too. In fact, it supports it much better than it does FE12.

(Hint: the game normally doesn't use all caps and treat you like an idiot)

In terms of actually translating, we're going to start from scratch, throwing away v1.0 which I made a week after this game was initially released, just to help a tiny bit with people who didn't know any Japanese (myself included, I lose motivation in playing a game when I can't even read the menus without having to use logic skills to figure out what's what).

And we're currently doing names of all sorts. That's all the information I can give you.

I'll see ya guys around.

Okay, I'm Officially Starting

2011-06-19T01:44:00.002-04:00

Good news: I got a new computer (it's only downsides are that I have to add more RAM and that the processor is about half as fast as it should be and as how I'd like it to be, but I'll live).

Good news 2: I'm about to get back into things and start this project for real, even though it's not July 15th yet.

Bad news: I have to go on a trip from July 13th for a month. Not to mention there will be preparations before and resting after.

Good news: It's my senior year and I have no intention of showing up to school very often, never-mind actually doing stuff when I'm in school. MEANING more free time to work on this.

More good news: Just because I'm busy, doesn't mean everyone else helping out is.

Questions? Concerns? Okay then.

I'm going to go try and get myself motivated to move past me losing everything on my computer as well as all the other shit that's happened to me. After all, "IF YOU'RE A MAN, BE A MAN!"

Status Update 1

2011-06-10T00:22:00.002-04:00

Well, as far as I'm concerned, this project is pretty much a-go. We won't start until July 15th but I'm making preparations.

What preparations? Well, besides the fact that I'm still looking for people to help--a graphic artist to make random graphical shit for the website, and possibly including English versions of Japanese image text (or maybe we'll have 2 different people for that...), as well as a full-time translator and an assembly hacker--my computer broke down so I haven't been able to do much of anything.

While I'm looking for a computer and mourning the loss of everything on my old computer (don't suggest getting it recovered or fixed or whatever, I don't have $500+ to shoot out at an all-out data recovery that might not even work), I've pretty much just been playing and watching basketball, as well as Tales of Vesperia.

Speaking of that game, that's just one disappointment in terms of localizations. I'm stuck with the X360 version of the game because Scamco won't localize the PS3 one,.. but that's not NEARLY as bad as NoA or whoever does localizations not getting FE12 over to America. You know, I was ACTUALLY GOING TO BUY THE GAME IF THEY BROUGHT IT OVER HERE. >:(

Eh, that's enough for my rambling. I'm sure a lot of people feel the same way--unpredictable shit sucks, we all wish Japanese games could instantly be translated in English and made legally and easily available to English gamers, and we all wish (except for me) that this project would start sooner.

...

Totally unrelated, but go Mavs~

Response to the Poll: Entering the Preparation Phase

2011-05-14T16:42:00.003-04:00

47-2 in favor of starting the translation.... That's quite the landslide! It seems that the fandom wants this translation to happen, sooner rather than later. I understand the malaise over Fire Emblem 3's remake; there hasn't been a single sign of localization (save for the translated title appearing in a random list in Nintendo Power), and FE12 is arguably the best Fire Emblem game to be released in some time. Despite that, there is still time for Intelligent Systems to announce the game.

To prevent the chance of us starting a translation, only to have IS announce an official one, the actual work will not begin until July 15th, one year after the game's initial release. However, in the coming two months, barring the game's announcement, we will be assembling a team and laying the ground-work for this project.

What we really need for this translation are people to translate the text. Blazer and I will mostly be handling the technical end of things (although I may be the script editor as well), but all the hacking skills in the world are useless when there is no translated script. If you have any other skills that you feel would be valuable to a project like this, translators aren't the only thing we're looking for. E-mail Blazer at smashfire17@gmail.com if you're interested in helping.

The bottom line: bookmark this page, because the project has entered its preparation stages.

EDIT: Poll is now at 111-22 in favor of starting now (although I'm sorry to say it won't happen) with some people thinking we should wait even longer and 1 person saying we shouldn't do a translation at all (probably a joke...).

It's nice to see people are still voting though. Just the fact that people exist here who are reacting is motivation to work hard if we have to do this translation after all. Speaking of translating, I think we got ourselves a pretty good all-around translator. More details to come, though. :P

Full-Translation Possibility

2011-05-10T16:20:00.002-04:00

It's been a long time since the release of the last game. I waited almost a year since the announcement... and hopes are getting down.

But I'll wait until exactly one year after the game was released in Japan. If, by then, July 15th, 2011, the game is not even announced for a U.S. release, I will look into starting a translation.

I'm just throwing this out there. If you're a potential translator and have Japanese unicode fonts installed on your computer then make a post here or e-mail me at smashfire17@gmail.com because I can't read Japanese, not even if my life depended on it. (Okay, I remember some katakana, but that's almost nothing)

That is all.

Version 1.2 Minor Fix Release

2010-07-22T14:01:00.002-04:00

Includes a couple minor but needed fixes to item translations. You can find the download on the Downloads Page, of course.

Thanks to Arch for reporting them.

Enjoy.

Version 1.1 Released

2010-07-21T22:28:00.000-04:00

I've made several translation fixes and made a new patch with them. You can find V1.1 of the translation patch on the downloads page. Read the README for information on what general fixes were made.

Enjoy. ^_^

List of Issues

2010-07-16T17:50:00.002-04:00

Known Problems:

- BSFE chapters are mislabeled. :\
- Only the first letter of names in dialog show up. Idk why this happens, nor do I have the capability to fix it*.
- Some names were shortened because I didn't feel like repointing every text slot that didn't have enough space for its name. Also, everything isn't 100% consistent. Oh well*.
- Some names may extend past what the game's preferred character limit is. Again, oh well*.
- Hammer is mislabeled as "KillerAx"
- Lady Sword is buggy when being attacked*?
- "NULL" should be changed to (None) like FE11 does it.
- "Klein" should be changed to... uh.. Claine? Um... I'm taking suggestions on this one, but "Klein" sounds too male. *and not just because there was a sniper in FE6 with that same name*
- Chapter #s are all off by 1 chapter >_>
- Sidestory chapter names aren't translated, but that's because I didn't have any translations available for them*. D:

*most likely won't be changed.

Translation Patch V1.0 is Out

2010-07-15T23:52:00.004-04:00

You read the title right. I finished before midnight! :D

It's not the greatest patch ever, and it IS my first and hopefully last translation hack, but I don't care about how much isn't translated, because it has enough translated for me to call it quits.

That being said go ahead and enjoy the patch and let me know if you used it and thought it was cool. If you think it's lame, then I'm better off not knowing. :P

FYI you can find the Download on the downloads page. Also, I'll edit this post with a video of the "finished" translation patch later.

Good night!

~ Blazer

UPDATE 7/16/10 [7:43 AM]: More screenshots added.

UPDATE 7/16/10 [8:10 AM]: Two "release videos" (different gameplay) are out. You can find both of them on the videos page. The first one is below.

Chapter Names

2010-07-15T14:13:00.002-04:00

I found the chapter names, and I'm pretty sure I can tell which chapter is which, soooo, I might as well give it some translation, for the heck of it.

Unfortunately menus still aren't getting very far since I don't have a translator to tell me which text is which and what the heck it should be changed to. (I could guess, but still, I don't know where the text I'm supposed to edit is... T_T)

Translation Preview Video

2010-07-15T01:09:00.002-04:00

I've completed the class names, character names, and statsheet menu ~~as far as I'm concerned~~.

I'm looking forward to doing the items and then seeing if I can do some of the menus to help people out with that part of the game. Despite the fact that terrain names would be easy to do, I won't do them because what terrain is what is even more obvious than what class is what, for the most part.

Hopefully you like what you see so far, even if the video is crappily stretched. *I'll try and make it not stretched next time. D=*

If I can't get any menus translated I might just wrap up the patch tomorrow or Friday the latest and release it and then start playing the game myself.

P.S. Please comment! =D

Progress So Far

2010-07-14T19:43:00.001-04:00

Class Names 100% Done
Generic Enemy Names 100% Done
Character Names 1% Done (In-Progress)

What I Think About Menu Graphics

2010-07-14T19:32:00.003-04:00

Maybe you don't care what I think, but...

[19:31] fireblazerx17: I just pulled out some random graphics
[19:31] fireblazerx17: I'ma decompress them and check them out later
[19:31] fireblazerx17: and hope that one of them is for the menus
[19:31] fireblazerx17: and then I know which folder the right graphics are in
[19:31] fireblazerx17: then I have to actually edit those graphics, which is eh... I don't like editing graphics. >_>

If I do find it, I may or may not edit the menu graphics. If I can say, reuse Shadow Dragon's graphics, or somehow make my own English graphics very quickly, I might do it. If it's going to be a pain in the butt, then... nah. =\

What I Can Translate So Far

2010-07-14T17:26:00.002-04:00

Here's what I can translate so far:

- Character Names
- Class Names
- Item Names
- Some Wi-Fi Crap
- Terrain Names

Menus? I think some of them are graphics and I'll have to look into those. For the non-graphic ones, well, I don't have a translator, so I don't only not know what they say, but also don't know know where in the data they are located. =\

Here's a screen with character names translated:

Some Progress

2010-07-14T15:48:00.003-04:00

Well, this is sort of some progress.

I recall that the people who made a similar type of translation for FE11 had the same problem. Only the first letter would appear in the name box during dialog. I don't know how to fix it myself (I did type the full name in the data) but oh well.

Since no$GBA is stupid I haven't actually tested the character's name when you play the game. I will soon though. XP

About the Music

2010-07-14T14:54:00.000-04:00

The music IS in SDAT format, which is like the standard for DS games. However, there is something there that is interfering with the music being loaded by VGMTrans, which was what I was going to use to extract the songs. Some other programs can extract MIDIs, but I don't think people want to listen to MIDI versions of the songs (which use default "computer instruments" as opposed to the cooler sounding instruments you hear when you actually listen to the songs in-game).

That being said I'll see if I can do anything about it but ATM it seems simply ripping the songs won't work. I'm REALLY disappointed because I thought it'd be a piece of cake... Oh well.

Good news is that I have a report that there IS an English font in the game, so I'm looking into text editing as we speak.

ROM is Out

2010-07-14T14:16:00.002-04:00

The ROM is now easily findable (if that's a word). I got it myself (in fact, a friend of mine gave it to me as soon as I got online, nice guy isn't he?) and I've already started playing with it.

I extracted the data and thankfully everything resembles FE11, just with more chapters and text and stuff. That being said I haven't seen if an English font is already in the game so I have to check that first before I start hacking.

I'm also going to be working on ripping portraits (but only if VincentASM doesn't do it) and CGs (if there are any) and I'll take requests to rip anything that isn't a battle animation or spell animation because those take too long to rip.

I haven't cracked the music yet but it's on my list.

I'll update this blog with whatever info I come up with.

Project Started... Sort of.

2010-07-13T19:47:00.003-04:00

I have this project planned and have created a blog for it in case it goes through and I need a place to manage all this, which I probably will.

I'll update this frequently but then leave it dead for a while after the translation is done. XP

With that being said, the blog isn't even public yet, so... =P

Later.