Super Robot Wars GC Translation Thread #27: Moon Dwellers edition

>>14600439
> I'll try to get some work done on the decompression code today after I get back from the grocery store.
Waw Bring - I wish I had the same ASM grocery store nearby! You gotta tell them to spread their franchise overseas!

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>>14600997
They'll never export them. That could result in indigestion for a lot of people.

Yet another awesome breakthrough for Overworld. Danikk (god bless this man) managed to make lines go on for as long as we need them as well as add in as many pages as we need! We are in full translation mode now!

Going to have to go back and re-write quite a bit, but we already have a basic translation of most stages done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSjF7b8YY-A

>>14600883
is moondwellers good?
like, worth my $60 good?

yeah, i know its our first english SRW game in 10 years, but im hoping its at least somewhat long.

>>14602442
Have I ever mentioned how much I love you guys?
Not only are you translating a game in your free time, but you post frequent updates all over the place. It's refreshing to see something other than an announcement, and then nothing ever again.

That goes for the GC team and especially Black, who I mentally equate with a squirrel on coffee because he's also everywhere.

>>14602442
I was grinning like a madman watching this.

>>14600997
>Waw Bring - I wish I had the same ASM grocery store nearby! You gotta tell them to spread their franchise overseas!
I wish there was a grocery store that sold ASM fruit. You eat it, and suddenly you have the motivation and the knowledge to do ASM hacking.

Also, a note that probably won't apply to anyone else, if you're using LLE, make sure you have the correct bios for Japan. I set up LLE to mess around with GC - GBA connection. Then, the emulator kept giving me errors when I tried running SRW GC. I fixed it by switching back to HLE. Moral of the story, don't mess around with BIOS, stick to HLE, unless you need to connect to a GBA, then you don't have any choice.

>>14602442
>Yet another awesome breakthrough for Overworld. Danikk (god bless this man) managed to make lines go on for as long as we need them as well as add in as many pages as we need! We are in full translation mode now!
>Going to have to go back and re-write quite a bit, but we already have a basic translation of most stages done.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSjF7b8YY-A [Embed]
I love this. Really, really! Does Danikk need any help with VWF?

>>14602623
>That goes for the GC team and especially Black, who I mentally equate with a squirrel on coffee because he's also everywhere.
Ha ha! I like that. I've got to make it my next emblem. Thank you for your support.

>>14602623
>That goes for the GC team and especially Black, who I mentally equate with a squirrel on coffee because he's also everywhere.
Which reminds me - I don't really contribute to the GC project. I only gave a hand to suggest to switch from texture-based to a patch, that's all. So I'm everywhere on AP, DESU.

>>14604227
>I love this. Really, really! Does Danikk need any help with VWF?

I honestly have no idea. As far as I can tell most of it is VWF, but for some things (like the dialog) and the numbers, it's not.

So, I've been following along with the decompression seeing if I can't make sense of things. I get to a line where IDA and Dolphin seemed to branch to two different locations.

Turns out IDA just gave a bad default location name. def_8012A978 for address 8012A9D0. In hind sight I see why they did it, I still don't appreciate it.

>>14604233
We'll you're everywhere hyping AP, and contributing to discussion here at least.

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>>14605037
>We'll you're everywhere hyping AP, and contributing to discussion here at least.
Just trying to push the ball forward, within my humble reach. Also, chatting here is just plain pleasure!

>>14602564
I think OGMD is something like 48 missions long. Two or three route splits, maybe? I bought the JP and Asian releases, but I'm kind of a collector when it comes to SRW, anyway.

The English translation in the Asian release is super awkward, and it feels like they had three or four translators working on it at the same time who never communicated with each other. I'd say the dialogue is 90% understandable, 5% confusing, and 5% what the fuck am I even reading.

Almost all of the character and unit names are either official Banpresto names or what Atlus used in the past, in a few cases (like Latooni). The dialogue itself is wonky, with odd or no punctuation. Kind of reminds me of Breath of Fire 3, and its aversion to using periods.

It's readable for the most part, but it's definitely not a very good localization. Personally, I don't regret picking it up, though.

I wish that SRW GC didn't have this much sanity checking in it. I'm trying to make sense of the decompression function, and I keep running into all these subroutines that start to look like they're doing something, and then it turns out to just be sanity-checking. Then I run into something that also looks like sanity checking, and it turns out it does a fair bit of memory updates. Bleh.

I am full of Animus!

Side note: SRW GC LP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD1hj1e3ObI
It's pretty bad.

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>>14608615
>all those sanity checks
Maybe they were afraid the game would pull a joker on them.

>It's pretty bad.
The audio is beyond bad.

>>14608615
>sanity-checking
I didn't know Demonbane was in GC.

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>>14600883
I hadn't clicked on that image. Dooood... Bring, to get more people here, you shouldn't have the spoiler mark.
Of course, it depends on the kind of people you're after...

>>14609226
>>14609294
Maybe they played a bunch of Eternal Darkness, that game has the best Sanity effects.

>>14610669
The target audience is people that want to play Super Robot Whores, right?

Oh, but in unrelated news, I finished a linked game of Oracle of Ages (that I hadn't touched for three years). I also got all 60 possible rings in a two-game playthrough. Now I just need to play the games in the other direction (Oracle of Ages with Hero's Secret, to linked Oracle of Season) to get the last four rings and the rest of the story. Maybe I'll do that by the end of the decade.

>>14609226
Dash, I sent you a message on RHDN.

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I'm leaving for a week today for holidays, see you guys soon.

>>14610923
>Super Robot Whores
When you think about it, GC (and NEO) have really "innocent" character designs when you compare it to any other SRW that appeared on the PS2 by that time. Compare Femkimi in GC against Akimi in OGMD.

Did Banpresto think "Gamecube is for kids, let's not get them confused" or was it more like Nintendo giving the no-no look?

>>14614026
Possibly the latter. One can only imagine the reaction of young GC fans playing OGMD after they got older, it's like the equivalent of doing busty fan art of kid show ladies that aren't that stacked.

Then again, it's not like Nintendo is entirely adverse to eye-pleasing stuff either (see the princesses and Rosalina wearing biker suits in Mario Kart).

And so, my vacation comes to a close once again.

>>14620788
Bumping

>>14619589
Yeah, shit happens, mate, shit happens.

>>14623372
True, and work is blah.

>>14623211
HNNNNNNNNGH

>>14625753
The GC girls are real cuties.

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>>14632322
Page 9 bump.

>>14630122
Dem is shitty character

>>14636702
What?

>>14638288
I think he's trying to say that Alan and Shinobu are not well-developed characters, but he's choosing to do so in a vernacular that identifies himself as part of an out-group.

>>14614675
>>14614026
Is there no gainaxing on GC?

>>14640416
GC doesn't have any cut-ins, unfortunately. Those were added to XO.

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I'm back.

The next 2 weeks I'm gonna be a bit busy moving to a new apartment, but I'll try to keep working on this.

>>14645743
Welcome back.

>>14645743
>moving to a new apartment
Bigger? Better view? Better beers?

>>14600883
Even though this is taking years, I'm glad I still keep seeing updates and know it's still going on.

This game is one of the reasons I got a USB loader program set up for playing Game Cube isos on the Wii. Still got a spot on the drive ready for when it finally will be done.Granted, I have no idea if it'll work with Nintendont or not. Though I guess it doesn't matter since post people will just be emulating it with Dolphin.

Anyway, I just wanted to hop in say thank you all for what you're doing and for sticking with it so long. You're doing God Gundam's work.

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>>14642874
AAAAAAAAY SHINOBU

Never get tired of seeing the Dancouga family in an SRW. They bring the best personalities and the best music.

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Didn't manage to do a lot today, still adjusting to not being on holidays.

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Page 10? Not on my watch

>>14651163
Dash, I sent you a fair bit of info over Skype.

A bump?

Translation done when

You guys see this already?

>>>/i/479487

>>14664660
Yes.

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Sorry for the lack of updates. This week and the next one are being terribly annoying since I have to move twice.

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>>14670107
I don't see no lack fo no nothing.
It's good to see you keep moving forward!

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Guys how is Moon Dwellers? gonna buy it. will I get the story for the most part? I hear the translation is decent.

>>14678151
I wouldn't call the translation "decent," but you'll understand it, for the most part.

A lot of the problems you'll run into are grammar fails, misspelled words, inconsistent naming, and some translations so literal, they still use the Japanese sentence structure. Some terms are left untranslated, like Gyokuza Ki (Throne Unit / Machine, referring to Granteed), Nen / Nendo, and some others.

I spotted a few instances of the wrong names being used, like how Touya calls Tenia's name in battle, but the text reads "Katia." Also, Brigandy's Blasted Mode has three different names in the translated text, depending on which sub pilot you use (but the voiced lines always say Blasted).

Every once in a while, you run into crabstick lines that are WAY off, and all but impossible to understand. Thankfully, those are kind of rare.

As for the game itself, it's pretty fun. Not quite on-par with 2nd OG, but still great. One of my biggest complaints is that Granteed is kind of garbage until you get Dracodeus.

>>14678151
>>14678353
What Steve said. The translation is pretty much a butcher's job at trying to paint, but you'll understand the meaning almost always. (The tutorial mission explains final attacks in such away the sentences don't make sense...) The encyclopaedia is the part that got the smaller end of the stick. Calvina's dialogue is particularly better than the rest, making you think they got one "translator" (was tempted to say "transgressor") per character or something.

The gameplay is good as ever. I don'tthink much has changes since OG2, actually.
People say the game is very easy, but I find it "just" medium-easy.
Animations are a real pleasure to the eye.
Voice acting and BGM's are their usual great selves.
Story-wise, I haven't played enough into it to comment properly yet, but it is fairly obvious to me that having played the 2 previous Japanese-only games is a great plus. In part because the encyclopaedia which is supposed to help you get background on the many groups that got involved, is plain crap. But also because you'll be spoiling yourself significantly (from my perspective) when you read those.
As the publisher said essentially the story was independent and this was a good entry for newcomers to join the OG fray, I thought the story would just mention "incidents" from the previous game entries. But there are actually characters being reused, to the point you're told who was absorbed into what villain entity and such.

Overall, an OK experience. I'm wondering if playing OG2 with the great translation guide available isn't as good an experience.

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>>14649440
>and the best music.

They haven't brought anything other than their combination theme since fucking Alpha 3 though. I mean, I guess OE had XO's Honto No Kiss, but that's just reuse, so.

Back to work and everything is crazy busy bump.

Dash, do you have one of the compressed font files that I could take a look at?

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>>14689349

That image is fucking awesome

>>14693559
OK.

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The heck is this doing on page 10?

>>14691688
There's a "font.bin" file in the iso that contains all the font files compressed. Sorry for the late answer, busy as a bee.

>>14701175
No worries. I removed most of the GC ISO tools that I had, so I figured I'd ask if you had the file handy before digging it up again. I'll just extract the ISO again.

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Finally got a desk in my new apartment... and even a TV!

Have a screenshot to celebrate.

>>14711867
Yay! Looks nice. I mean, the menu - I don't know for the desk.

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>>14711867
Looks great!

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Moooornin bump!
Keep up the good work on the menus!

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...and I'm lacking one screwdriver specific to the desk chair I was mounting, so I'm stuck for a couple of days with what I'm sure is the chair that some 8-year old got a loooong time ago in this appartment. Yay.

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Are any of the PSP SRW games translated?

What are the best games if you like sprite animations?

Have a Gradius wallpaper for your trouble.

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>>14727799
Let's see...
Masou Kishin 1&2? Nope.
AP? Not yet, on-going. (Demo patch available!)
MXP? Nope. MX is supposedly still on-going.
Z2.1 / Z2.2? A rough (but exhaustive) menu translation exists.
OE? A menu translation exists (with people reporting side effects on a given mission).

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>>14727799
>What are the best games if you like sprite animations?
I've forgotten to answer your second question (Axel syndrom).
There's OG Moon Dwellers for good animations. It's transgrated (translated into Engrish) on PS4 only, if I'm not mistaken. Animations rock there.

J's animations are OK. Alpha Gaiden's are still OK by me, but depends on your own personal perceptions.
OG1 and OG2 rock, of course!
GC is translated up to stage 20 and has OK animations too, with a slightly different damage system, which I personally like.

>>14727799
Stop playing PSP games and bump back here!

Hey, uh, I don't know if this is the right thread, but wasn't it true that one of the OG series could be played in English on PS4 but had to be imported?

>>14729588

I thought J was one of the best that I played. I agree with you OG2 though I'd argue that OG1 is kinda middling.

>>14732535
Yes the newest OG game Moon Dwellers is in English for PS4 in the Asia region.

>>14732558

And PS4s aren't region locked...though DLC is. I guess I'll just have to hate my life if there's any DLC.

>>14729570
Archibald Grims was doing something with MXP, and I know Dash helped a little. Then, Archibald got Royal Heart Broken and is still licking his wounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz0nBQyWOsA

>>14732561
I haven't heard any news for DLC so you're probably in the clear anon.

>>14732605

I'm just happy that one of my favorite Originals is apparently in another game.

I can live with not being able to get DLC if they happen to invent that shit.

Looks like my investment is going to end up being about $400, depending on shipping fees/international horse shit.

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Super busy bump.

Page 9 bump

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Bump
Also, thanks for all the hard work you guys are putting into this

Up from page 9 again

Bumped in the name of God, ye not schwifty.

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I'm beyond busy, but have a bump.

>>14754328
You and me both.

Page 10 bump!

W translation prospects are kill.

Still best handheld SRW.

>>14759409
Pretty much. There may be a small possibility that the translator that showed up here and the guy from Aerie (was it Kingcom?) are working on it in secret, but that's not something to count on.

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Let's keep this alive.

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I want to marry Akemi!

>>14766878
That's not that great of a picture of her.

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>>14768397
Well considering that there are only like 12 pictures of her, and half of those aren't allowed to be posted on a blue board.

>>14768786
Worst girl

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Piece of trivia: There's graphics for choosing between using continuous / continual attack (連続攻撃) or not in the game.

I've never got to the point in which such an option is given and there's no skills for that. Was it cut off?

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Page 10 bump

>>14678353

as much as I want to see more english SRW games I really can't bring myself to pay for something that unprofessional.

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>>14774662
>as much as I want to see more english SRW games I really can't bring myself to pay for something that unprofessional.
Well it is still a great step forward to help fan translators in the future. Don't forget to takr that into account in your purchase decision.

Nothing quite ruins catching up on work and thinking I might see if the font file can't be INFLATEd, than getting sick and ruining everything.

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>>14778504
Don't be too hard on yourself. We'll manage to make it work eventually, like this mess of a menu. Get well soon!

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I was wondering if someone could help out.

A translator approached me and said he'd like to translate this game.

I know nothing about extracting text from games, or how to modify the game so that you could insert English text instead of Japanese, but I was hoping someone might have some leads that could point my friend into the right direction.

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>>14782894
Good one, good one. Oh wait - that was probably a honest question.
The Saturn isn't the platform of choice for you to get started with these tasks, to be honest. It's one of the most complex ones ever created. RHDN offers a few posts where people who have handled some Saturn translations can help - hopefully. There are very few such people.
A Visual Novel, on the other hand, is a good choice for starter projects, and that's one I'd love to read too.

>>14780016
I like how you get retreat % info.
Also, get well, Bring!

>>14783334
>The Saturn isn't the platform of choice for you to get started with these tasks, to be honest. It's one of the most complex ones ever created. RHDN offers a few posts where people who have handled some Saturn translations can help - hopefully. There are very few such people.
Yeah, I was afraid of that.

I assume RHDN is romhacking dot net? Would that be a good place to advertise this project and see if anyone would be willing to handle the hacking?

>>14783447
That would be correct VF.

Page nine bump. This whole being sick business is crap. My brain always turns to mush whenever I get sick. Fortunately, I'm almost better.

>>14787385
Woo! Finally feeling better. Getting 10 hours of sleep always seems to do the trick.

And another page 10.

>>14795334
photoshop re-coloring?

>>14795334
Nice, but throw some nipples on her.

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>>14798581
Thanks.

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Hello, I'm alive. Sorry to be gone for so long without notice, but things happened and I didn't even browse 4chan for several weeks. I've been back for a little while now, but was delaying posting here because I wanted to get some work done first. But the longer I wait the more awkward it feels, so I figured I'll just post now to say that I'm here and I still want to work on this. In fact, it's nice to see that the project didn't die or anything while I was gone. Well done, guys.

I'll make sure to post more frequently now, even when I don't have progress to report.

>>14804262
Rocket Tits! Glad you're back. Don't worry. You're not the only one that hasn't been making any progress. It's been 100% Dashman recently.

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>>14804262
I'm very glad to see you're still around, Oppai! And that you're willing to continue, too.
Let this bond between you 3 (and a bit us lurkers) remain!

>>14804482
Commence the Y/u/ri-posting to make sure Oppai Missile doesn't leave again.

http://www.hentai-foundry.com/pictures/user/Santystuff/449096/Excellen-and-Lamia

Partially yuri:
http://imgur.com/a/bxw6a


Not yuri, but topical
http://www.hentai-foundry.com/pictures/user/Santystuff/454041/Sally

>>14804262
Howdy! Unfortunately, hell in a handbasket is currently occurring for the site in general, but VF decided to make Eternity-chan a proverbial Noah's Ark for those wanting /srwg/ to survive.

Welcome back Oppai

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>>14804262
Welcome back indeed. Let me know if I can do anything to make your life easier with the tools.

>>14804517
I haven't paid much attention to 4chan lately, what's going on?

>>14807465
Long story short, Hiro turns out to be fluent in English and did a sleazy business deal, so the site is at risk of having its various boards pruned.

>>14807744
Guy with a history of sleazy business deals does a sleazy business deal. Why is anyone surprised?

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I'm about to do something wicked. I just downloaded the newest version of SRW X-O.

>>14814977
And fortunately, I'm already sick of it.

>>14816773
>SRW X-O
Waw - that was quick!

After trying it for almost a couple of hours, I have to say it is frustrating to have to wait for Japanese servers to answer. It's a good Japanese learning exercise, though.

>>14804482
>ChinaYui
Ew.

>>14814977
>>14816773
I got baited by Shatte's design and gave the game a try some time ago. Only played it for a few minutes and then never touched it again.

>>14819614
I'm naturally a collector, so games like this can be pretty bad for me. However, I also refuse to spend money on shitty mobile games, so I'm not tempted to do anything like that. My way of having fun on this is collecting and maxing the common, uncommon, and rare units, while completely ignoring the super rare and super super rare units.

Fortunately, the mod makes that possible.

>>14819623
>I'm naturally a collector, so games like this can be pretty bad for me. However, I also refuse to spend money on shitty mobile games, so I'm not tempted to do anything like that. My way of having fun on this is collecting and maxing the common, uncommon, and rare units, while completely ignoring the super rare and super super rare units.
You sound like a G Generation customer! Which one is your favorite?

>>14819958
Wars, which is why I did this. http://ggenwars.shoutwiki.com/

However, I just wish they weren't such grind-fests. In my ideal G-Gen game would be one of two things:

Either something like Wars, but with as many units and pilots as can be crammed in, an evolution tree where every unit in the game can be unlocked through capture and evolution (with the possible exception of secrets that need to be unlocked by beating the game (like 0 Gundam type ACD) and exchanged while having a part equipped (like 00 Gundam to 00 Raiser)), and a way to make it far less of a grind-fest.

Alternatively, a game with a campaign mode that sticks close to canon. However, if you fulfill certain criteria, you unlock alternate timelines (just like in Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam).

Also, back in the day, there was a guy on the Stencyl forums (back when it was still in pre-beta), that was working on making a G Gen game. He made a bunch of awesome sprites for the game. I wanted to volunteer my programming skills and help with that project, but for various reasons I wasn't able to.

Badump

And I managed to sucked back into X-O again. Fortunately, with the mod, I can let the battles go on full auto using a team of UCs. I just got done with the 50 stage campaign thing. Also, I noticed that no one has been keeping Akurasu updated with X-O info because it's shit.

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I'm thinking of getting Moon Dwellers but never played any of the OG games. Are the two OG anime series worth watching at all? Or would it be a waste of time and I should just go balls deep on MD raw?

>>14829812
You'll get different opinions on this one. But first...
- Moon Dwellers is Engrish heavy. Beware.
- Although it's been advertised as independent from previous OG entries, Moon Dwellers builds events that happen after OG1, 2, 2nd. Which means you'll get references to those. Not really spoilers if you don't read the glossary too much, but it's a bit of a pain to hear about many factions and events without much substance.
That's why I'd really recommend you play OG1, OG2, and 2nd OG before you play Moon Dwellers.
(2nd OG has a web playthrough with translation that works pretty well.)

As for watching the animes, everyone agrees that the Insepector series is one step above the early one. Then you'll hear people say the first series isn't worth watching, or same thing for the second one.
As far as I'm concerned, I enjoyed both, probably because I watched them after playing OG1 and OG2 on the GBA (which was a blast, even just on a GBA screen).
On a side-note, I'm generally not a big watcher of battle animations and my perception focuses on a good story and a good gameplay.

>>14830825
Alright, moon dwellers look cool so I kinda wanna just jump in on that and was lookin to see if just watching the animu would provide decent background knowledge for it.

>>14829812
You can read this LP to get the story from OG1 and OG2 if you don't want to play.
forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3656748

Then, Mneidengard's summary of OGG on gamefaqs.

Then read the translation of 2nd OG.
http://2ndsrwoge.com

Then, you can play Moon Dwellers.
Or you can just play Moon Dwellers from the start and occasionally get confused as to what's going on.

>>14831596
Yep, I'd probably say play Moon Dwellers and don't mind the small confusion here and there.
If you watch the animes, you'll spoil yourself a bit more than necessary to play MD.

So here's a thing: we learned how to re-insert edited movies. In otherwords, we can now subtitle the CG cutscenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dstun2xG23Y

>>14834849
That's freakin' awesome!

>>14829812
GBA OG games are easily pirated.

>>14835811
True, but not everyone wants to play an old GBA game.

Slow day today

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Haro

Retarded anon here. I'm having a bit of trouble splitting files, as command prompt keeps telling me it's unable to access jarfile bin_splitter.jar

I have the splitter in the same place as the file I wish to place, so what am I doing wrong?

>>14850845
Do you mean the "jarfile" command isn't available (if entered without the rest of the line)?

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>>14851606
I managed to solve my old problem, but now it's looking like this.

>>14853189
Do you have a non-US character in your username?

>>14853231
No, although it's a Canadian keyboard I doubt there'd be too much of a difference

>>14853246
Why use "/" in the path after "java -jar" instead of "\"?

>>14853476
I'm not too good at coding honestly, and I don't know much outside of a bit of c++ so I didn't think it'd be different

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>>14853506
Does it work with "\" then?

>>14853246
you have to manually remove the extra "eh?" it puts at the end of your sentences

>>14855748
Nope. I'll just try the older translation method then

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>>14853189
Hm... just a wild guess here, but since the program is in the same path as the file, you might want to put the pathname on the .jar file AND the .bin file.

...or just open a command window in the same folder where everything is and execute normally as instructed in the readme...

Hey, does anyone have any good art of the originals, or just general GC related art? I'm going to be uploading the second half of the OST sometime soon, and I don't have many good images for it.

>>14860646
>you have to manually remove the extra "eh?" it puts at the end of your sentences
Would MD images do? There's a bunch of those floating arounf.

>>14864182
Thanks for the bumps. I've been making great progress... on unrelated things. I was hoping to have my comps done in March or so, but they're still dragging on. The end is in sight though. I have one presentation and two reports left. Only thing holding me back right now is the fact that a paper that I need in order to understand another paper doesn't exist on the internet. Hopefully my adviser has a copy, physical or electronic.

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Well I spent the past few days reinstalling my OS. Never done this before by myself actually, it's quite the hassle if you're not prepared. A lot of time was wasted locating drivers, figuring out how to get things working, starting over a couple of times. Nice learning experience there.
Currently in the process of restoring and reorganizing my porn files and documents. At least I'm smart enough to have backups.

>>14858505
A month and a half later, I finally have font.pak and I'm afraid that this might be double compressed. Something like a tar.gz, but backwards, each file is compressed, and then the whole thing is packed (hence the pak extension) into a single container.

Do you have one of the decompressed font files I could use to see if I'm going in the right direction?

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>>14867447
Sent you a PM through RHDN.

By the way, does the new PAK file look like this? Because if yes, you made it.

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>>14868235
I replied on RHDN. The pak file header is somewhat clear. However, I can't make sense of the rest of the file.

>>14868235
OK. I can confidently say this much. There are two types of pak files (with header 00 00 XX XX and XX 00 00 00). The first variety appear to not be compressed. so I don't care about these.

The second variety have two possibilities for XX, 01 and 08. I'm not sure what that means yet. The next four bytes contain the size of the rest of the header (call this value Y). The next Y bytes are the name of the file. Many of these file names are actually not xxx.pak, but xxx.pak_. The underscore at the end is the key thing. However, this underscore does not appear in the TOC.

The data after this initial header is incomprehensible to me at the moment.

>>14870729
>The next Y bytes are the name of the file. Many of these file names are actually not xxx.pak, but xxx.pak_. The underscore at the end is the key thing. However, this underscore does not appear in the TOC.
Hry Bring, while I'm definitely not in depth like you, could it be that the TOC tells you the compressed file names, while the "pak_" names are just the names of the uncompressed files? It's common practice to add an underscore to show that (I mean, unless you use tar).
Again, I'm not on the thing so, just an opinion.

>>14871071
I've honestly never seen that convention before, but that would make sense.

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Page 10? Maybe not

>>14872677
Thanks. page 9 bump.

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And now it's on page 9 again

>>14876710
Oh, shit. Page 10.

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Is page 9 our lucky page or what?

>>14883886
Just us keeping busy and not having time to work on this.

>>14887657
I have to ask: is it the art that you like, or do you seriously like Dancouga that much? I couldn't wait until I finished it, just the worst parts of low budget robot animes.

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>>14888000
I actually do like Dancouga a lot!

...Yes, it has a lot of issues, QUALITY and stupid plotpoints. Oh 80's, why

It also happens to be the one series out of the ones in GC I have most art of, so I tend to post mostly that. Probably what led to me being nicknamed "Dancouganon" in these threads

>>14890329
I definitely liked the movie more than the show, so I can see the appeal. The show was just a bit too much for me.

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Hey guys, in what chapter the story translation is?

Thanks!

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>>14600883
Bump
Bump

>>14893979
Thanks for all the bumps Dancouganon. I'll be sure to limit break an R, SR, and SSR Final Dancouga just for you.

Bumpan for question

You guys ever thought of adding this project to the romhacking.net database?

I mean, this is awesome and as a Gamecube (as opposed to the 9999th SNES hack) fan-translation, also a pretty big deal all things considered.

>>14899221
>You guys ever thought of adding this project to the romhacking.net database?
There's already a thread for the project on RHDN. As for the patch, it's on-going work (right? right?) so usually it waits for until the project is done to be posted. It's probably too big for RHDN, too.

>>14899274
Project pages can exist regardless of the patch being there or not. It's a database after all.

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>>14898655
Amazing

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>>14901585
Haven't gotten it to level cap, but it's been limit broken.

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So, during one of my occasional searches for SRW LPs, I found out that Matt was LPing GC.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/tenacious-and-strong-bonds-lets-play-super-robot-wars-gc.395161/

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Good news. I made some more progress understanding the header file. This was so freaking obvious, but I was so focused on the second word being size, that I didn't consider that the first word could be size.

The approach from the PPC side is pretty much stalled. The decompression is way to crazy for me.

The compressed file is 0x4DE40 bytes, so it makes sense that the compressed data is 0x4DE31 long. Best of all, >>14868235 this file is 637,644 bytes long. In other words, 0x9BACC

Haha!

>>14910576
I just realized that the brown box is not 0 padding. Compressed data starts at 0x19

For clarity's sake, I still don't know what 0x1 means in this context. It may be a magic number, it may mean that there's only 1 file compressed here. 0x9 is the size of the original filename. font.bin_ is the original filename (nine bytes long). 0x4DE31 is the size of the compressed data (from 0x19 to the end of the file), 0x9BACC is the size of font.bin_.

When I deleted the header (first 0x19 bytes), the file was 0x4DE31 bytes long.

>>14910621
And unfortunately, INFLATE doesn't do the trick. I just wrote a quick and dirty program in Java to apply INFLATE on the compressed data and it throw:

Exception in thread "main" java.util.zip.DataFormatException: unknown compression method
at java.util.zip.Inflater.inflateBytes(Native Method)
at java.util.zip.Inflater.inflate(Unknown Source)
at java.util.zip.Inflater.inflate(Unknown Source)
at inflation.Inflate_Test.main(Inflate_Test.java:19)


So, unknown compression method, which brings us right back to the original point that I need to get into the PPC guts and figure out how the decompression works.

The one thing that remains promising is that the first three bytes of the compressed data are 00 00 00, and the first three bytes of the decompressed data is also 00 00 00. That's my next lead, and my only hope for not having to dig through PPC guts.

To decompress the stuff as a first step you can just translate the PPC code 1:1 into Java or whatever is comfortable for you. Just treat every register as a variable and transcribe the instructions. Maybe that's even enough and you won't have to figure out how to compress it in that format again, many games support both compressed and uncompressed data.

What is it you are trying to decompress btw, jumped in at the end of the conversation.

>>14911271
The question is what I need to compress. We need to replace the Japanese font with the font that Dash made. The game has the font compressed. We're able to jury-rig it to memory edit the font in, but it's not a practical long-term solution. We know what the decompressed Japanese font looks like (see Dash's screenshot >>14868235, so just interpreting the decompression won't help. I need to reverse engineer it and be able to compress something.

Alternatively, I know where the master pointer table is in the code. We could add the uncompressed files to the disc, I could figure out how the game loads files from disc to RAM, move them to take up the space originally used by the decompressed font files, and go from there. However, that will require me to learn how to load stuff from disc to RAM, and make sure we have sufficient space. It may be what I'll have to do if we can't get the compression approach to work, so there's that.

>>14912110
>I need to be able to compress something.
Have you tried quickBMS's comrpession scan?

hi there

the game works with dolphin 5.0 ?

It want to load texture...

>>14912484
I hadn't, but I just did. No luck, I tried both with the original file, and with the header taken off. I'm running it one more time having pruned the header and the three leading 0s to get back to word alignment. Maybe I was correct in my initial guess that those were padding bytes.

>>14913141
Yes, it works with Dolphin 5.0

>>14913230
thanks for response !
I've put the same settings like 3.0 but It won't load, why is missing ?

another thing : i'm currently try to do VWF files

I've manage to split files but I can't merge
here's my line :

java -jar bin_splitter.jar -m add00dat.bin_new files.list

what's my error ?

>>14913247
I'm not sure why the textures aren't loading. As for merging files, you'll need to ask Dash for help.

>>14913259

Ok I'll wait his return

thanks for help anyway, I'll try to investigate why he won't load texture

you have translate until stage 20, right ?

are they difference between old and new method ?

>>14913270
The old method is dropping all the textures in the \Dolphin Emulator\Load\Textures\ folder. The new method requires manually editing the ISO.

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>>14913270
>are they difference between old and new method ?
>>14913331
>The old method is dropping all the textures in the \Dolphin Emulator\Load\Textures\ folder. The new method requires manually editing the ISO.
I guess he was asking if the translation contents is the same.

>>14913270
>>14915037
Ah. I'm not sure. In all the time that we've had the new method, I've never actually built it, so I'm not sure where we stand. I think the only difference is that we're now at stage 20 with both characters and robots.

>>14915037
>>14915384
thanks to you two for help

yes, I've asking if there any changes in new and it seems that yes, so I've to merge those files but can't get them to work

wait for Dash

or Black you know how we merge ?

thanks Bring Stabity for your precious help until now ;)

it's ok, i've managed to merge them, will continue to follow the tuto...

>>14608615
Aw man, I wish I could be scuba diving while doing a let's play of SRW.

>>14915448
I know, it's mind-boggling how he manages to do it.

sorry to bother you again, I've managed to implemante vwf to the game, and I can (now) run it with dolphin 5.0 and it works with english translation

I've encounter a slighty problem, there are some text remains in japanese like the name of pilots (when we start the game, and we have to choose one either male or female)

and few texts remains in japanse (narrator)

i've missed one line ?

(i've retry with old method and the pilots name are translated)

other than that, the new method works perfectly, i've english subs when the characters speaks :D

thanks to all