2014-09-06, 05:15 AM
Welcome, higado2!
OK, so I thought I was missing a bunch of the NPC discussions, and started searching through the binary again. (But went about it slightly differently.) I spoke too soon before - I just uncovered a whole pile of new (unique) blocks to translate. 
I do think I have almost everything identified now. I count up a total of 700~ish kB of raw text in the game. That may not sound like much if you're used to seeing MB sized pdfs and whatnot, but remember this is raw text size. To put this in perspective, averaging 2 bytes per Shift-JIS character, that's roughly 350,000 Japanese characters. Typical words average about 2 characters, so... you get the idea. 
With the new stuff added into the mix, I'm at about 20% finished.
But, I don't see that as a discouragement, just a shift in expectations. The fight will go on. 
OK, so I thought I was missing a bunch of the NPC discussions, and started searching through the binary again. (But went about it slightly differently.) I spoke too soon before - I just uncovered a whole pile of new (unique) blocks to translate.
I do think I have almost everything identified now. I count up a total of 700~ish kB of raw text in the game. That may not sound like much if you're used to seeing MB sized pdfs and whatnot, but remember this is raw text size. To put this in perspective, averaging 2 bytes per Shift-JIS character, that's roughly 350,000 Japanese characters. Typical words average about 2 characters, so... you get the idea.
With the new stuff added into the mix, I'm at about 20% finished.
But, I don't see that as a discouragement, just a shift in expectations. The fight will go on.