2011-02-23, 05:44 AM
(2011-01-15, 05:16 PM)Madison Lastrega link Wrote:John did a bunch of adds when he did his custom work.......... ( he did not like the crappy grass textures ect.........)
Just to clarify, the only things I changed (other than text) with my SoM translation patch were obvious mistakes by From (texture holes, misaligned models etc). I didn't do any "adds" based on my personal preferences- that would be unfair to KF fans. I added my name as "company" to mark translated exes. The new grass texture was part of my separate, home made "house Piece set" add-on and I mentioned the texture change in the readme specifically so people could choose not to use it.
(2011-01-15, 05:16 PM)Madison Lastrega link Wrote:I figured out why the source comments were question marks.......when John reassembled the package with all his goodies...... he did not recompile using a japanese compiler...... the compilier not reconising the kanji, just replaced ALL the coments with little question marks...... when I broke the source EXE's down I used that Jap res hacker I posted, and I recompiled with that same compiler ( IMPORTANT) I did not apply ANY patches on the install....... and boom all the kanji remained intact:) then me and babylon.com went to work:) once again I think the little coments He made to sorce alters the memory values, and that is why we have two versoins , of SOM_DB.EXE.......
Windows exe 'resources' are mostly language independent and its extremely unlikely the question marks you saw were caused by my translation. There is a lot of untranslated Japanese sub-text even after my translation patch and it shows up as Japanese (no ????s) just fine on my PC.
SoM's exes are still actually 100% Japanese- Japanese exes just support English letters so I was able to make the translation without any serious changes. If you were seeing "????" instead of Japanese, you probably didn't have the needed Japanese font or language configuration setup on your PC. The ????s are displayed when your current font is blank in the 'slot' referenced in the text's data. When I first played a Japanese SoM game, all the menus were "?????" because I didn't have MS Gothic installed. The Japanese resource editor may have installed the font you were missing.
Diver was just wrong- the updated Som_db.exe is in From's official SoM update.