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pimoga
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« on: July 06, 2009, 04:24:40 pm »

excuse me, I'm new in this of translations, i read some guides about how translate games, and some about how make tables but i think I'm a bit clumsy  because i can't translate anything, i translated some words of tales of the world radiant (english-spanish) and now I'm trying to translate tales of rebirth (psp), i have a script translated of other web page and i think i could translate menus and the mainly story.

i extrated files of the game with umdgen, i find this structure of files:

psp_game---------->sysdir------------->boot.bin
                  | |                        |
                  | |                        --------->eboot.bin
                  | ------->usrdir-------------->movie--------------->tor_anime01.pss, tor_anime02.pss, tor_anime03.pss, tor_anime04.pss (and more files
                  |                           |                                             like this that i think they are movies XD)
                  |                           --------->prx------------------->libpsmfplayer.prx      
                  |                           |                       |
                  |                           |                       --------------->psmf.prx
                  |                           --------->Dammy.dammy
                  |                           |
                  |                           --------->dat.bin
                  |                           |
                  |                           --------->fld.bin
                  ---------->icon0.png
                  |
                  ---------->param.sfo
                  |
                  ---------->pic1.png

I'm search text in dat.bin and fld.bin with an hexeditor and i find in dat.bin some text and some characters like a table.


do you think that i can use this to make a table?

i also need some help with the pointers, i don't know how find them to adjust them later
thank you                  
« Last Edit: July 06, 2009, 04:32:23 pm by pimoga »
Sephiroth 1311
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« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2009, 05:54:24 am »

Actually, I think you should not start with that game.
The Tales series has a pretty bad fame, when it comes to hacking.
Also, the game is almost totally compressed for sure (every game of the series is).

So, I suggest you don't start with Rebirth, if you don't possess advanced hacking and programming skills.
pimoga
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« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2009, 08:47:14 am »

OK, although in the tales of the world radiant 1 almost the text of menus they aren't compress so i think that perhaps i could translate this one but if you think that i can translate better other game I'll try it.

can you suggest other?
Penance
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« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2009, 04:29:24 pm »

Quote from: Sephiroth 1311 on July 10, 2009, 05:54:24 am
Actually, I think you should not start with that game.
The Tales series has a pretty bad fame, when it comes to hacking.
Also, the game is almost totally compressed for sure (every game of the series is).

So, I suggest you don't start with Rebirth, if you don't possess advanced hacking and programming skills.

Tales of Rebirth isn't all that difficult to hack away at compared to the other games.

Anyway, a lot of the Menu text is in BOOT.BIN.
-Artes, Spells (NPC and PC)
-Items
-Titles
-Stratgey
-Enhance
-Shop Names
-Skit Names
-Etc.

Somethings are in the DAT.BIN folder.
-Menu navigation titles ("Artes", "Enhance", "Equip" etc.)
-Key Help ("Back", "Select", "Shop", "Talk", etc.)

This is all off the top of my head by the way.

As far as the dialogue script, skit script and synopsis script goes, both are completely compressed inside DAT.BIN. So you will obviously need a custom made tool for this. Unless you can make one yourself, I don't know who would be willing to do one...

Tales of Rebirth needs a complete font alteration IMO, but I can't find the font. Even though the game resizes English characters, it seems to do them a couple of sizes to small XD:
« Last Edit: July 10, 2009, 04:35:00 pm by Penance »
pimoga
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« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2009, 06:38:56 pm »

i though that the file boot.bin with eboot.bin were a firmware update that usually goes with every umd.
i have seen this files with an hexeditor (madedit) and only can see rare characters but i can't see hex code, is it normal?
Penance
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« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2009, 07:29:50 am »

You can only view the text with the correct .tbl file.
You can't use a hex editor with SHIFT-JIS support because Rebirth uses a custom encoding.
You can't just open the file in any old hex editor and expect to see the text clear as day.

Anyway, if you're using madedit you should have definitley seen some menu text, even if the encoding isn't correct. In BOOT.BIN, the text begins after the names. Character names start at 000EDE20. There are English ones and then Japanese ones so you'll see them both.
pimoga
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« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2009, 07:11:10 am »

ok i can see now select an option of madedit now i can see the hex adress too, i´m looking boot.bin.
but in dat.bin i found some characters like a table, can i use this to do a table?
Penance
Guest
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2009, 10:00:39 am »

I don't think that was designed for that purpose. It may be the alphabet used when you rename characters or for puzzles like the one in Babilograd where you have to write a word out to gain access to the Babilograd lift.
Try editing a portion of the table and see what happens Wink

Oh and by the way, don't let people discourage you from hacking a game that you want to hack.
A couple of my friends started on PSX games and are now some of the most knowledgable hackers I know.
pimoga
Guest
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2009, 12:27:34 pm »

i´ll try it
thank you

and they didn´t discourage me, i thougth that he think that other easier game was better to begin hacking to learn more.
but i never thought give up the idea about hacking this game.




edit: i have seen boot.bin but i don´t find the menu text for example i looked for 作戦 that mean Tactics and i didn´t find anything i also looked for バーンストライク that mean burn strike but i didn´t find anything, but i looked boot.bin and seem that call some functions and files like dat.bin and fld.bin, in the offset that you told me i can see some names like you said but they are in english an later some names that seem a call to some functions. i search マオ that is mao in english and i don´t find anything but in game the name of mao appear so (マオ). what should i do?
« Last Edit: July 12, 2009, 04:25:46 pm by pimoga »
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