Even though my eBay job is cushy... I've been looking for a job locally, and the only things available are:

A) Women only jobs
B) Jobs at Chinese-owned and operated stores.
C) Jobs in Mexican factories that only pay about $15 a day.

I'm sorry, but if I'm gonna work I'm gonna work with benefits, legitimate tax information (and unemployment registration) and regular 8 hour workdays, not with law-breaking, no overtime paying slave drivers. Oh, Wal-Mart requires proof of an earlier job, as well as references... which I do not have.

(Speaking of, I'll probably apply for a job at the movie theater I go to...)

Pretty much, yeah. :p

i have a question: how's it going with translation of summon night?

And now, to revive. Hacking work has continued. And along with it comes the need for technical help. So here we go.

Sorry, I just couldn't leave it alone when I had so many people asking me if it was going to be finished.  :laugh:

Ok so now. Here it comes.

Let me review for anyone reading --

The first and foremost thing I want to do is change the game's text routine to take a single character tile, process it(shadowing and stuff), and then writing it to the screen; rather than combine with a 2nd tile to fit the game's odd 16x12 font. The font i'm going to insert and work with thereafter is 8x12, alot easier to deal with (because GBA tiles are 8pixels wide anyways).

If I can accomplish that, the easy part comes. Where I change the game to take in 1 byte instead of 2 per script letter -- that way I can work with ASCII. Easy Easy Easy.

But I'm scared i'll never make it to the easy part.

Ive tried a few things, but in the end it all came down to me trying to completely skip over the 2nd character-in-a-pair's routine. If I could eliminate that routine from being run at all, I would only need to deal with 1 routine writing 1 character at a time. So I figured out how to get the assembler working and pumping out the correct hex codes (finally) and made a branch to the very END of the 2nd routine (and inserted it at the beginning of that very same 2nd routine -- so it would complete nothing).

I had hoped that after jumping directly past the 2nd routine like that, it would find its own way back to the first routine to deal with the next character.
Well, actually, no, it doesn't. In fact the game prefers to hang with a black screen and just play music before loading anything to the screen whatsoever -- (at the first sign of an area that loads text).

So obviously, things aren't going to be that easy for me here.

I've got tons of specific notes on how the routines work and exactly where they're located, but no matter how many times I look at it I can't figure what the easiest and least intrusive way for me to do this is.

So, lets talk.

BTW, If ANYONE would be willing to look at some of the routine's code and at least TELL me what I need to accomplish (no need to actually edit the assembly for me), I'd go wild. In fact, that'd make them a part of our small team. :p IM RECRUITING!

Anyways, anyone who helps out in anyways, thanks ahead of time.

Summon Night 3 English, please.

Well Kaio has made me aware to another aspect that could very well be the problem(hopefully not just a part of it). Im going to look into not ruining the stack order.

But please, no one else be disencouraged. If you have any other hints to what i should do please speak up

I wouldn't mind taking a look at some of the routines, can you PM me your notes?

So how is this doing?
Are you still trying to translate it or not?

I really don't mind how much you take because i really want to play the last part of the series Swordcraft story.

Well i hope you don't abandon the project pls.