2013-11-08, 01:17 AM
Smittox, nice to know you Chris, I'm John from central California in the US 
Prevch, I glad if the notes were understandable. I tend to be long winded so I struggle tryig to decide what information is actually needed and what is just me rambling.
Working with LoF made me remember how cool those 3D scenes were. I can't imaging why they dropped them in GE. I admit that I did turn them off around my 3rd playthough, but they were still awesome. I think they should have made the 3D scenes play randomly 10% of the time or so. That would have sped up the game while making the 3D even more special.
I like the changes you mention, Some of those tweaks should be quite easy to do, and some considerably harder. Sony actually released an official homebrew PS1 developers kit called Net Yazore so most of the PS1 proprietary formats are well documented. I know of at least one fan made PS1 game that is currently in production. It's just that there aren't ready-bake tools to edit everything. For example, the PS1 3D format (TMD) is thoroughly explained in the dev kit, but I only know of 1 tool that edits TMDs and it doesn't support animated models.
As far as timing on the translation, I actually have quite a ways to go before the full project is done. I haven't translated much of the dialog/quest text and I may have a hard time fitting the English for that section. I'm going to try to work steadily, and I might release a partial (menus translated) patch before long, but I'm just taking it step by step, hoping I don't run into anything I can't figure out. 
Prevch, I glad if the notes were understandable. I tend to be long winded so I struggle tryig to decide what information is actually needed and what is just me rambling.
Working with LoF made me remember how cool those 3D scenes were. I can't imaging why they dropped them in GE. I admit that I did turn them off around my 3rd playthough, but they were still awesome. I think they should have made the 3D scenes play randomly 10% of the time or so. That would have sped up the game while making the 3D even more special.
I like the changes you mention, Some of those tweaks should be quite easy to do, and some considerably harder. Sony actually released an official homebrew PS1 developers kit called Net Yazore so most of the PS1 proprietary formats are well documented. I know of at least one fan made PS1 game that is currently in production. It's just that there aren't ready-bake tools to edit everything. For example, the PS1 3D format (TMD) is thoroughly explained in the dev kit, but I only know of 1 tool that edits TMDs and it doesn't support animated models.
As far as timing on the translation, I actually have quite a ways to go before the full project is done. I haven't translated much of the dialog/quest text and I may have a hard time fitting the English for that section. I'm going to try to work steadily, and I might release a partial (menus translated) patch before long, but I'm just taking it step by step, hoping I don't run into anything I can't figure out.