I've uploaded the first section of the script dumped with romjuice, it's not formatted very well but basically the text is usually between the [START] and [END] / [PARAGRAPH] tags, the [LINE] tag generates a new line, the [PAUSE] tag is used to create a slight delay before moving on which is used to emphasize certain parts of the script, and the [PARAGRAPH] tag is used to clear the current message window.

I thought I'd better upload something for you guys to work with just so I can get some feedback on whether I should keep going with attempting to make cleaner dumps or whether that's fine to work with.

You can include extra line and paragraph tags if you want, or you can just leave them alone and insert the english text directly in between the [START] and [END] / [PARAGRAPH] tags and I'll work with them myself to get them looking alright.

I think until either Spikeman can finish his dumper and inserter, or I can figure out how to use atlas properly, it looks like it'll be the manual insertion route.

It's not a problem for me, it just makes it a little trickier to work with.

Let me know what you guys think of the dumps, they're stored in S-JIS format.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/i7027d

When I ran notepad by AppLocate (Japanese),I could see it perfectly....

oh...and after [paragraph] there are two "kanji" which are not part of the text (they may be a little bit confusing, but once we're aware of them they shouldn't be very troublesome)...

[PARAGRAPH]主 点ここでは まず[LINE]「クロウカ‐ド編」の[LINE]できごとを おさらいするで![PARAGRAPH]

just to make sure, you did check to make sure the game isn't using a standard font encoding, right? like, shift-jis, or unicode, or something.

also, any word on the VWF document? i'd be interested in trying to stick one into Narikiri Dungeon 2, but i have no idea where to start. i've never really used assembly for anything, but i know how it works in general. ARM/THUMB and the GBA architecture specifically, on the other hand, i know little about. i also know some general programming (C++/Java), if that helps any.

yeah, i just checked up on that, and i noticed it was on a bg layer, not sprites :/

it seems like it's already doing part of what VWF is all about anyway, though... the font is 12 pixels wide, so it can't just be directly dumping tiles from ROM into memory... i guess it's dynamically combining them, or something.

I think that it looks ok and is clear enough for me
The only thing I would like to know is the length of the line (how many characters are there). This would help to make fitting translation. (I know you've mentioned that it is possible to add lines and paragraph, but we can try to fit in and if that's not enough space then add more lines.)


I think that if you could dump each chapter in one file, translators would work separately on different parts of the game. One file would also be better for the understanding of comlex parts on dialogue (for example when some parts are omitted but they were mentioned in the previous sentence).

That's my oppinion but I don't have much script translation experience...

It seems like it'd be easier to have the script done up in chunks, to me - only because otherwise you're going to have to do some copy-pasting to put the whole thing together when the translation is finished.

Or, now that I think about it, I suppose that's not so much work, since there'd only be two or three people's work to put together. So, maybe one file is the way to go.

Off topic, but you'll get the fastest responses from me via email, I think. So if there's ever a hurry, hit that first.

Right I've PMed Shadowless and o_mo_shiroi the first two dumps, for anyone else that's interested in helping out with the translation could they please post here? I'd like to keep track of exactly who's doing what.

BTW Shadowless I reported the size wrong for your script dump, it's actually 94kb, not 14 but like I said it's probably mostly control codes anyway.

I suggest the title of "one hot tamale" for Sakura, and "closet freak" for Tomoyo.
Also, let's make Tomoyo talk in jive.