Disgaea 4 PS3 Translation / Fix Project WIP

[Tobster7]

I put in the name.bin and it worked!!! NO complicated HEX shit needed!

YES one step further to a complete english version!

[Tidusnake666]

I've managed to repack a new START.DAT with some english files (name, nameplate, talks...) And here's what I get:

I can swear I saw this problem on some french site, translating Disgaea 1 or 2, so it can be fixed!

Edit: and it's not the zombie manner of talk, it's everyone talks so
Edit2: hope to see a great progress tomorrow morning!

[xiaoie]

Wow, you guys are really something!

Mad props guys!

[Tobster7]

English as base version

Can be overwritten:

script.dat
name.dat (main character name still japanese)
nameplate.dat
magic.bin
talk.bin BUG: Strange formated text and stuck in talk (but no crash)
font.lzs BUG: Game cannot load kanji & hiragana because of the jap. language engine but works
zukan.bin NFO: classes & class info
*.lzs
*.pak
*.txf

CANNOT be overwritten:

char.dat BUG: Every Character is the main character, but Name is correct
dungeon.dat CRASH: On stage start SOLUTION: HEX-Edit the name of JAP dungeon.bin
mitem.dat CRASH: On stage start
mskill.dat CRASH: On stage start but some skill names right

It will be some work to find the right combinations of files to get a good working game...

Next I will try to use the japanese version as base version and change only files with important stuff.

Important files to change:

InProgramTxt.dat
Contains: ALL Menus texts

char.dat
Contains: Char names & char info for main characters

talk.dat
Contains: All talk texts

mitem.dat Contains: Item text
mskill.dat Contains: Skill texts
magic.bin
Contains: Skill texts & magic info

zukan.bin
Contains: Class infos

dungeon.dat
Contains: All Stage names

charhelp.dat
Contains: All town folk texts info

charPersonal.dat
Contains: All character titles

committee.dat
Contains: All Dark Assembly texts

GE.dat
Contains: All geo info texts

HABIT.dat Contains: All item habitans texts

and many more...

[rpgguy999]

Woohoo!

You guys are AWESOME!

[Tobster7]

For your entertainment:

The Attack of the Clones™ Bug (if you mess up the "char.bin" file)

The really funny thing is that you will get a PS3 trophy for it (reaching LV 9999 with the main character). Because one of the town character has this high level und this character is tagged with your name. Really messed up...

[Kazekeil]

I was actually trying to do this yesterday to no avail, now with the tools available, I'll report in what I find while trying different replacements.

I'll be using the JAP version as a base.

[skalmanman]

The repeating characters bug with the talk.dat file seems to caused by the game expecting the text to be in Shift-JIS format, not ASCII. So converting the single-byte ASCII characters to their two-byte Shift-JIS equivalents looks like one way of fixing that problem. Will have figure out exactly how the talk.dat file is constructed before I can write a tool to do the convertin'.

[Tidusnake666]

It's also safe to include ToenEditMEssage - but it gives the same bug as talks.dat

Anyways, thanks for info! I see together we can achieve this!

Next I will try to use the japanese version as base version and change only files with important stuff.

I'm actually doing this. It's no difference, as you can see there'so no real difference - eexcept audio files and start.dat neraly all files are the same.

The repeating characters bug with the talk.dat file seems to caused by the game expecting the text to be in Shift-JIS format, not ASCII. So converting the single-byte ASCII characters to their two-byte Shift-JIS equivalents looks like one way of fixing that problem. Will have figure out exactly how the talk.dat file is constructed before I can write a tool to do the convertin'.

You're absolutely right. I've looked in the file and figured out some pointers. But editing that can be really painful. I think somewhere it should be stored, why character names, titles are not doubled?

I've found some info on "double-chars problem" here: gbatemp.net/t92717-disgaea-translation?&st=15

The guy was trying to translate jap. Disgaea 1 and ran into the same problem. He didn't make it out in the end, but maybe some comments are useful

[winsbydefault]

I want to contribute somehow, if you guys need some help (within my limited means) its yours to wield as you see fit.

Also, which hex edit and associated programs are you guys using to hex edit?