UPD: translated what said earlier + some minor fixes.
TODO: Dark assembly, Item world menus.
This japanese is an overkill for me. Even doing this way it is hard as nails. I'll attach uncompressed eboot here, so take a look and help with translation. When translated soomething, post it back here, I'll wrap it back to playable self again
Alright here's the DA stuff. It's in the area with offset 00467D20. By the way the most written options are in this area. Take 2 or 3 hiragana from a JIS-table and search them.
The voting moods are not in the eboot.elf. I looked for different hiragana combinations like どちら でもいい (Either Way) but found nothing. Maybe these moods are in a different file.
Use the search function to find hiragana combinations. It's "fast".
Okay, here's the file with the Item World menus and some of the translations of the special attack vendor. I think in this area is the description of the item world gates too. There's something about "POP". We'll see it in another cycle with new pictures soon.
I don't have the tools to rebuild an eboot.bin by my own. But Tidus can to do it.
Let's give it a shot and see how it works and looks.
The battle menus are japanese now. Maybe you have used an old eboot.bin. But it's not so bad, I have an eboot with english battle menus. So we can replace it. We should only use "one" eboot.elf all the time. So if anybody wants to edit it, only this person works on this file.
It works great. I took some photos.
I corrected some minor things in the "Item Worlder" and replaced all (なし) with empty.
Tidus: What setup of tools do you use to rebuild that eboot? I don't want to annoy you everytime I made some changes in the eboot.elf. If the set of tools is small enough maybe you can upload it for me as a package.
Hacking evening resulted in a failure, seems like everything in trophies is NP-signed, even XML description file. For some reason we can't "feed" a japanese eboot US trophy file even after some pathing to both of files, changing COMMIDs etc.
The verdict for tonight - trophies will remain japanese.
Tobster, the last elf file that you've sent me is manually-corrected, so it just needs only signing from here on. I've sent you a PM with archive, took some time to build it cygwin-free, so you can run it from windows no prob.