Oh, I would have never expected that an Americano would be interested in our work.

As for the extent of the hacking... well, you may be interested in the fact that I managed to edit the Drop% (from 8% to 100% ) of the Holy Win and the Romphaia (I needed this hack in order test all of the weapons. Of course, I put the normal values back after obtaining the swords).
In fact, those values are right after monster names... I must admit I still don't know much of the format that Square used for storing stats, dropped items and their drop%... but, since I know their location, I do not think it would be too hard to understand it completely.

If you're interested in ripping the pictures, I can send you PSPicture+Vagrant Story plugin. It will allow you to extract almost every picture of the game (this too was very useful to test on the fly our translated images, since VS uses a weird system to map RAWs...).

And, if you want more info about how-to-edit Weapons stats and MUCH more, you'll find some very interesting documents on Gamefaqs. There is someone who studied quite well the game, even if not for translations issue.

Hope to have been of help.
If you want some infos, don't be afraid to ask. But be aware that we didn't study the game more than we needed, excluding this drop%.

Ciao

P.S. BTW, maybe you can find this piesce of information interesting. It seems that Damascus was meant to be Gold, since there is a "G" left near the letters that are used to show which material is a weapon made of.

Why not? These Gringos have always been interested in my projects.

Korean, actually.

Seriously though, there's a few non-US people here who have projects that are interesting to Americans. Gemini is the one that gets the most exposure.

Side note on where Gringos come's from.. sometime in the 1800's a popular song in the US was called "Green Grows the Lilacs", because so many US people were singing that (stupid) song to themselves while wandering in Mexico. Mexicans were exposed to such insane popular music from the US. US people were called Gringos  because it kind of sounds like the inane utterances of those wandering in Mexico.  It is sad where this particular 'name' comes from and it really is applicable to any idiot who goes around singing something no one cares to hear or wants too.  Hence why it is derogatory. It's kind of like "hey there's that babbling idiot singing Beat It!" only with one word.

As for why not.  I don't see why American's  wouldn't be interested.  In fact I dare say a certain group would be EXTREMELY interested (however we are only 1/5 american to be truthful).  What I would like to see is if anyone knows how the data is organized. I have the game so I suppose I should sometime finish altering PCSX (yes I have to hack that thing to death to add a port for an Insite compatible interface (or Eclipse like Palm's SDK has)).  I loved the game (as the story was absolutely briliant I thought). Mostly I am interested in making an Engine for Q-gears to run this little gem.   It's a Square game so we are interested (in fact it's been mentioned a few times).  Anything such as SCRIPT, or locations of data within the files will make our ears perk up.

Cyb

Moulinoski: if it makes you feel better, how about gringitos?

 Not trying to derail this thread, but: Cyberman, gringo is a Spanish term older than the 1800's.

Here in Brazil we call 'gringo' any person from another country. But that's not an insult.

"It means a bumkin that doesn't know which way is up!"
"Gaijin, I like that." [/Cowboy Bebop]