2012-06-03, 09:50 PM
Ha, I surprised a post popped up about this right now. I've been working on translating this for about 6 months and just finished about a week ago, but I found out my translated movies freeze on an actual PS1 console. I'm looking into the playstation STR movie format to figure out why the console doesn't like the new ones.
Since the game is just short, I was originally going to do an easy but crummy looking wide/abbreviated translation but I couldn't do that to a piece of KF history so I did a decent job. It was almost as much work as a full game because I had to create a half width font and a "loader" system to load the long English words into the tiny spaces where the Japanese text was. Also, all the KF games after KFJ had tamper protection checksums on all the dialog text. If they are changed at all the game freezes. I had to figure out that system to make the new text work.
The current version plays on emulators and the PSP so I can just release it as-is if I can't figure out the movie problem.
Since the game is just short, I was originally going to do an easy but crummy looking wide/abbreviated translation but I couldn't do that to a piece of KF history so I did a decent job. It was almost as much work as a full game because I had to create a half width font and a "loader" system to load the long English words into the tiny spaces where the Japanese text was. Also, all the KF games after KFJ had tamper protection checksums on all the dialog text. If they are changed at all the game freezes. I had to figure out that system to make the new text work.
The current version plays on emulators and the PSP so I can just release it as-is if I can't figure out the movie problem.