This is just some info that might interest people who would like to get into game translating.
While inserting the translated Special Quest text, I ran into some serious space problems. In BGE, each Special Quest is loaded off the CD into RAM individually as needed and there is only 2048 letters worth of space for each quest on the CD. I needed more room that for several of the Special Quests. You can resize a Playstation game CD and move data around, but it's fairly complicated. Instead, I thought I'd try to write the long quests in the Dummy file.
Dummy files are basically blank files written to a CD in order push the important data further out on the disk where the CD read speed is faster. They are still a perfectly viable space to store data.
With a little tracing, I found the routine which BGE uses to load data off the CD into RAM. You provide this routine with 3 numbers and it does the rest of the work. The 3 numbers being
1 Source data's location on the CD
2 Destination location in RAM
3 Length of Data to transfer
I edited the "Source data's location" for the long Special Quests to read from the dummy file. This Dummy file has about 12MB worth of space available (HUGE!) so it may be useful for other things as well.
The edit seems to be working so far and was a lot easier that resizing the entire CD!
While inserting the translated Special Quest text, I ran into some serious space problems. In BGE, each Special Quest is loaded off the CD into RAM individually as needed and there is only 2048 letters worth of space for each quest on the CD. I needed more room that for several of the Special Quests. You can resize a Playstation game CD and move data around, but it's fairly complicated. Instead, I thought I'd try to write the long quests in the Dummy file.
Dummy files are basically blank files written to a CD in order push the important data further out on the disk where the CD read speed is faster. They are still a perfectly viable space to store data.
With a little tracing, I found the routine which BGE uses to load data off the CD into RAM. You provide this routine with 3 numbers and it does the rest of the work. The 3 numbers being
1 Source data's location on the CD
2 Destination location in RAM
3 Length of Data to transfer
I edited the "Source data's location" for the long Special Quests to read from the dummy file. This Dummy file has about 12MB worth of space available (HUGE!) so it may be useful for other things as well.
The edit seems to be working so far and was a lot easier that resizing the entire CD!