Disgaea 4 PS3 Translation / Fix Project WIP

[Tidusnake666]

Here's big update on Disgaea 4 Translation progress.

Today, we (Tidusnake666, Tobster7, Alexmagno) have finally been able to fix dialogues bugs. That means, that apart from some menu entries, the game is all in English text (we decided to exclude sound patching option, because it's still asynched, so you'll have japanese voices - if you don't like them - turn them off )

Yeah, you've read it right, now everyone can enjoy story! Dialogues, items, skills, pretty much everything is translated!

Instructions:

0. Make a backup of your Disgaea 4 JAP game (BLJS-10095), and place it somewhere, preferably on the root of the drive (there's no spacebar nor special chars problems, but it's more convinient this way), i.e - "C:\BLJS10095"

1. Donwload patcher (Pre-beta version) http://www.multiupload.com/V2AR162QI2 , extract it somewhere and run D4Trans.exe.

2. Ensure "Translate EBOOT" is checeked and the default START.DAT patching method is checked ("1: Glyphicate all"). Later, if you'll have some troubles you can always repatch it.

3. CLick "START!" and choose location of your Disgaea 4 dump. Patcher has a lot of fool-proff functions, so it won't accidently patch the wrong version or mess your game

NOTE: backups will be created: "START.OLD" and "EBOOT.OLD" (If you choose to patch it). Please, do NOT delete them, it may be required in future, although you can always dump your game once again.

4. Wait till everything finishes, and you'll get "Done!" message. You can now copy your game back and play it partially in English!

4* If you want English cutscenes and Main Menu, you may overwrite your's Japanese "ANM.DAT", ANM_HI.DAT", "BG.DAT", "BU.DAT", "Dis3_0.dat" with US version equivalents (if you happen to also have an US version of the game)

EXTRA - START.DAT PATCHING OPTIONS:
0: DO NOT PATCH - No patching to START.DAT will be made;
1: Glyphicate all - Default and recommended option. Best if you're starting a new game. If you have already played alpha version of this patch and would like to play with existing save (continue playing), please note, that you *may* experience some bugs (untested), although we tried hard that you won't. If you see some, please, report and repatch to one of the options below.
2: Glyphicate only talk.dat - use it if you have troubles with options above, or you want to be on the completely safe side when continuing playing from the old saves. Apart from talk.dat, other files remain as they were in alpha version.
3: SJIS-patch talk.dat - Select this if modified fonts gives crashes or freezes. All chars from talk.dat will be substituted by SJIS equivalents. Apart from talk.dat, other files remain as they were in alpha version.
4: Use alpha-version files - Uses old good alpha version files with most of the bugs fixed. Use it if the above options give you constant crashes.

NOTE: If you haven't saw any changes after patching the game, please reboot PS3, start any BD-Game (to clear the game cache) till the main menu, exit and try to load Disgaea 4 again.
NOTE2: It's still WIP, if you know/want to help us, or just say "thanks!" please do so at PS3News.com, we'll be glad!

SPECIAL THANKS to Kazekeil (for his helping hand in translation), Bakaboy (for awesome D4Pack), leenfox and necroziel (for some file translations).

KNOWN BUGS:

- None for now, except some portions of the menu not translated.

CHANGELOG:

Alpha to Alpha2:
- EBOOT patching is pretty much tested, works fine, so it's check by default in the patcher
- Bug, that caused the game to crash when looking at Emizel's stats fixed;
- Patched bug, that caused game to hang on startup screen, if played from internal HDD
- Fixed name of one of the helpers. Sorry, necroziel!
- Patcher updated to 0.12b

Alpha2 to Alpha3:
-Added option to patch SOUND with english one. Warning! Sound in dialogues is asynched! It goes further then the image on the screen.
-Patcher update to 0.2b

Alpha3 to Pre-Beta:
- Dialogues are now translated (some sophisticated hack)
- Special characters bugs are now fixed
- Spacing issues fixed
- All know bugs fixed
- Patcher updated to 0.3b, excluding "Patch sounds" option, added option to select 4 types of patching START.DAT

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[xiaoie]

I would really like to know this as well. I'd try it myself, but I can't seem to find a fixed eboot for the Japanese version (all the links that I ran into are dead..)

Anyone who can reupload, along with the JPN .sfo files?

[Tidusnake666]

Replacing just eboot and param.sfo gives black screen... goto try some more mixing..

[xiaoie]

Hmm, that's too bad

Really looking forward to play this game.

[Tidusnake666]

I've digged in a bit more, and I can say, filesystem is more-or-less alike, sound files are a bit odd, but map files are identical. Stay tuned!

[xiaoie]

Alright!

Hope a solution will come up

[Tobster7]

I'm also trying to run the game with a mix of the different versions. I think this is the main problem:

You can use all of the USA files of the data folder and run them with the JAP eboot and the JAP start.bin. The Game runs without problems but it's still japanese (title menu and intro is english). Because of the old japanese options menue you can't switch the language to english. So the game is using the english files but runs in japanese because it's the default language setting. If you use the USA start.bin the game won't pass the loading screen. Funny, isn't it?

You have to alter the JAP eboot (somehow) to run the USA start.bin (which is the last japanese file).

(I hope everybody understands my english because it's not my native language)

[xiaoie]

Well, that kinda sucks Still, it's nice to see some progress on getting the game to run.

Too bad I'm not talented enough to help

[Tidusnake666]

I've tried unpacking START.DAT, and I can say, that it contains ALL THE ENGLISH DATA (except Sound files, intro and some sprites), so it's not about swithching, I thinkm it's about that japanese START.DAT doesn't have any english files. Oh well, bad luck, but I also have some nice ideas.

[xiaoie]

So there's still hope?