I recently acquired this little turn-based strategy gem, and it's expectedly 99% in Japanese, 0.7% in Engrish and 0.3% in English. It seems to be the HOLY GRAIL to Gundam fans, given...

- It comprises campaigns for each of the Gundam series released before 2000, which makes it like 20 campaigns in total.
- Contains hundreds of characters.
- Supposedly contains over a thousand units, be it warships, mobile suits and support units.
- Has multiplayer.
- It's damn good!

So I've been trying to find at least attempts of translation, but to no avail, oddly enough. Has anybody checked the files at least? Is it an impregnable fortress or is it that the PSX has such an intimidating power nobody has dared explore the structure of this marvelous game?

There are a couple good guides at GameFAQs that help English-speaking players understand most of the interface, but still, this game seriously needs a translation. A lot of the story and some gameplay elements are lost due to the language barrier.

I don't mean to request anything with this post, but rather get the community's opinion on this appalling situation. \

Well, yes, I would be lying if I said I wouldn't love a translation for this game, but I also want to know what people think.

OH YES.

I love G Gen F. Got two Space Arks filled a large ammount of Gundams. I've even gone as far as to make one of the Space Arks carry a full load of V Gundams 

Anyway as for the game, it's 3 discs but most of the data is on disc 1 (MS, WS, characters (I think...)), stuff like FMV and the missions are on each disc.

Also if this were to get translated, what about G Gen F if?

I'd be very much up for translating it if I didn't already have a list of projects crawling out my butt. I have a soft spot for most things Gundam. I might be in a better position when the script actually gets hacked out. I'm sure SOMEONE will want to work on the script at that point.

Well I have a lot of free time up until Friday, so if you sent me something I could see what I could do.

I don't know what could I possibly send you, I think the text is in a big file with lots of other data. This is the structure of the (3) CDs:



The folders MOVIE and VOICE are filled with several .STR and .XA files, respectively, and I doubt the text is there so I didn't take a screenshot of them. However, who knows?

The only visible differences between the CDs seems to be the names of SLPS_029 (which has a .00 extension on CD1, .01 on CD2 and .02 on CD3) and WARNING*.DA (WARNING1 in CD1, WARNING2 in CD2 and WARNING3 in CD3). The sizes of all the files in the root directories of all three CDs appears to be the same.

Experts, what can you make of this information?


PS: I don't know about Spirits, kern. That's for PS2 and I just have a PS1. \

Well basically whenever you get a dump of anything send it and I'll take a look and see what I can translate.

Adding to what Kern said I have a cool idea, that dub haters, however might hate. Since the story and dialogue is almost always directly ripped from the actual show, perhaps we could rip the audio from the English dubs and put it in the game? That would take a lot to do and might not be worth it. If not that, than we do subtitles.