Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix Translation Patch (In progress)

How's it coming along? I would be honored to beta test a more completed version. You guys are doing Square's work!

 

That sounds SO much better than "A familiar sound".

 

Almost done with traverse Town, but still a lot of text. If anyone is willing to do the rest, because it's hard to find what everyone says outside of cutscenes (NPCs). So if anyone has the US copy to donate some text over you can edit this. Because I am finished

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u-f3kXN-CfcqoNPd8GmAceROLXoeykJwq672_BFwZYQ/edit?usp=sharing

 

Trilix, you can test for me

I fixed two item name:

PowShar <--to--> Power Shard
PoweGem <---to---> Power Gem

if it works perfectly, post a image?

if it works, I'll make a tutorial teaching how to add spaces for text

EDIT: I don't have free space in my PC and there is no test

 

You forgot the Space in One Winged Angel and EXP earring

 

Guys, heads up, I'm trying to add btltbl support in the ARD editor. It's able to read it fine, afaik; adding saving support now.

I'm interested in your method, if you want to post it sometime. ;)

 

I made a tutorial to teach adding spaces in the text

 

Tested it out and OH MY GOD YOU JUST BLEW MY MIND! Can I kiss you or something?
Expect a fully accurate btltbl.bin uploaded later :D

 

Just gonna post this:
ARD editor seems to work fine on btltbl now (unreleased version, still). I hit a bug earlier, but that might of been my fault, so I still have some testing to do.

 

Amazing. So what needs to be done to fix the alignment of letters like p and g? I'm more than willing.

 

Haha that's the exact one that I tested as well!

 

I read a little on variable width font. It's gonna take some editing I think

http://www.romhacking.net/dictionary/?page=dictionary#term23

 

Looks like it's not going to be worth the time.

 

Just to add my opinion of the font: The FM version of the font wasn't made to handle "handing letters". In the English font, the letters are actually a bit taller then in the Japanese one, and the hanging letters are just lower then the rest. I even found the line height in the FM ver, so I could try to make it bigger, but it's hard-coded. Every-time it's needed, a different version is used. So if you don't change every version, it won't work right. And if they do some fancy math that looks different somewhere, I'd probably miss it, so that part would always look broken when used. Or if something looks like it affects the font, but really doesn't, it could break the game.
Just too much to go wrong to be worth it, imo.

And the ARD editor btltbl.bin editor is working, just not complete. I have to add each table manually, and just found the keyblade table + format.

Edit:
Ok, so I got my ARD editor able to edit the btltbl.bin, and seems consistently OK. A bit annoying to make, though, since this bin has 3 separate tables of string pointers....
So look out for version 2 of that, soon; a few bugs\features to edit before I post it.

(BTLTBL## means that string was FM-only & I wasn't comfortable translating)
Also, this thing internally works the same as Gledson99's method, so thanks for that!

 

DAMN you're fast. All I did so far was fix the shortened items and translated only like 7 ability descriptions. Mind sharing your file? :P
Btw in your video you have Mermaid Kick and Glide both say they need X and O respectively, they should be swapped in the FM version.

Can't wait for v2 of the ARD editor! You are pumping out some amazing work :D

 

Made 2 "advanced" functions in the ARD editor: 1 exports all the sections separated by 2 line-breaks, 1 imports all the sections separated by a literal \n. So all I did is line the US export text with the FM text, added the few new names I could, then re-imported it. Took maybe 20 mins total. :p

I know the buttons need to be switched, was just a quick test. Also there's a "bug" where spaces for command code arguments are set to 0xFF instead of 0x01, so it can change their meaning. I plan I making it treat command code args as {0x00} codes, to prevent this. Also want to add in a size optimization for btltbl, which should be pretty fast since I already have a model in mind.

I'll throw up the file when I at least fix the 0x01->0xFF bug, that's really screwing some messages up.

 

Very well man, Crazycatz00 you are very good

then I want you to explain to me, what is the method of inserting the bigger texts in ISO, compared to japanese

example:

btltbl.bin=70kb

btltbl.bin edited=78kb

I have not had the opportunity to test their Awesome tool for KH1 FM, Then, I am still new in this issue

 

To add anything bigger with the current replacer, when it asks you "Do you want to append file to ISO (Increases size)? [Y,N]" press y then enter.
To do it manually, it's more involved.

ARD Editor v2.01 is up.
It detects file by their name now. If it ends in ".ard" it's an ARD, if its name is "btltbl*.bin" (where * is any characters) it's a btltbl, everything else it will complain and offer to parse as ARD.
Supports the 3 string tables in btltbl, I failed to find any more. (Do tell if there are :p) Make sure to use "KH1 US" for the US English version, "KH1 Final Mix SYS" on unmodified Final mix versions, and "KH1 Final Mix English SYS" for translations!
NOTE: I've only tried the btltbl.bin support for FM and US versions. It might work on others, but no guarantees.

And yes... I know it's a little annoying the way btltbl is presented... Just how the back-end works. That's why I made the 2 import\export buttons, which are disabled unless used through this link.

Also fixed a small bug in the String mapping arrays, where it failed to remember last selected type if it was "KH1 Final Mix English SYS".

Attached a semi-translated btltbl.bin (with swapped O<->X ;)). Note there's 2 files: 1 normal, and 1 not optimized. If you have problems with the normal one, but it's fine with the not-opti one, please tell me.

 

Yep looks like we have to deal unless someone is willing to fix it after we finished every with this patch

 

the ARD editor don't open the btltbl, how i doing?