Re: (Finally Complete) Telefang English Translation

[Kid Sonic(imported)]

Bek still works fine

This of it as a whole Satoshi to Ash conversion.

[Blaziken257]

Bek doesn't even make sense though. That's just the bootleg translation, because the pirate had absolutely no idea what (s)he was doing. By your logic, let's either call Pokémon "PET" or "ELF." And let's call Prof. Oak "Aochider." Hey, look! Aochider has three PET!

[andwhyisit]

2. Hey, andwhyisit and I helped too! And RacieB helped with the attack/item translations (which andwhyisit put into the ROM)...

I think that this is everyone:
RacieB, DeKaFu and Milnivri - Some translation work and possibly other stuff.
Blaziken257 - Pointer-based text hacking plus rom mapping.
andwhyisit - Various non-pointer-based hacks and tile edits.
Kimbles - Translations and text dumping.

Also, something I've been meaning to ask for a long time... do you think one of us should post this translation-in-progress to romhacking.net? Maybe it could get more people to know about it.

Probably not a good idea to announce it just yet.

And maybe it could get someone who knows how to decompress tiles (like the blasted tiles for the phone screen, for example) to help out (though I did notice you're not allowed to request people to do work for you on that site, which is stupid).

There is a "help wanted" section at romhacking.net (just not on the forums). I can submit a help wanted ad if you want.

What we need the most:
- Decompression of title screen tiles.
- Decompression of menu font.

Optional:
- Smaller or more compact font for Denjuu names.
- Denjuu name character limit expanded to 12 characters.
- Expansion of preset name from "Shi" to "Shigeki".

[RacieB]

I just manually named him Shigeki while I was playing with the patch.. I think "Shi" is the best bet until a solution is found for the default name length. Bek is a bad choice because A) it's meaningless and apparently picked at random, and B) the bootleg puts Telefang in a pretty bad light so why use it as reference x_x?

EDIT-

- Denjuu name character limit expanded to 12 characters.

Is that even possible with the space provided? It seems to have issues with 8-character names as it is..

[andwhyisit]

Is that even possible with the space provided? It seems to have issues with 8-character names as it is..

VWF (8x6? 6x5? 8x5?) and repositioning the data elsewhere in the rom should do it.

[RacieB]

Speaking of the Denjuu name font, how does this look for some of the letter-pair tiles? I just felt like messing with them to see what I could come up with..

[andwhyisit]

Speaking of the Denjuu name font, how does this look for some of the letter-pair tiles? I just felt like messing with them to see what I could come up with..

Which ones are changed?

[Kimbles(imported)]

If we are avoiding doing variable width fonts for sure for the time being, I am still all for using 2-letter combination tiles for items, attacks, status effects, and stats, assuming it will be possible to add more slots for letters at this point? D: We wouldn't need every combination either, just the ones that we end up using. It should be possible to fit each uppercase letter into 3 pixels width and have it still readable (I have seen it done), so I'd rather we use that than make a special case for each individual thing... *nod*

The issue I see with Denjuu names for that is that you won't be able to nickname Denjuu as long as their normal names, and if you erase a tile you won't be able to type it again, but I guess we have that problem right now anyway... ): Meh, I dunno.

By the way, I have the text for the credits for the game, so I'll try to get those done soon. XD Maybe we could add Tulunk Village to the special thanks...^^;

[andwhyisit]

If we are avoiding doing variable width fonts for sure for the time being, I am still all for using 2-letter combination tiles for items, attacks, status effects, and stats, assuming it will be possible to add more slots for letters at this point? D: We wouldn't need every combination either, just the ones that we end up using. It should be possible to fit each uppercase letter into 3 pixels width and have it still readable (I have seen it done), so I'd rather we use that than make a special case for each individual thing... *nod*

The issue I see with Denjuu names for that is that you won't be able to nickname Denjuu as long as their normal names, and if you erase a tile you won't be able to type it again, but I guess we have that problem right now anyway... ): Meh, I dunno.

The issue is that I am incredibly limited in the number of letter combinations that I can use, along with my inability to use lowercase characters with such a setup.

VWF and an increase in possible characters would be a solution to all naming issues. But Denjuu names are the most important.

By the way, I have the text for the credits for the game, so I'll try to get those done soon. XD Maybe we could add Tulunk Village to the special thanks...^^;

Yay!

[Kid Sonic(imported)]

Bek doesn't even make sense though. That's just the bootleg translation, because the pirate had absolutely no idea what (s)he was doing. By your logic, let's either call Pokémon "PET" or "ELF." And let's call Prof. Oak "Aochider." Hey, look! Aochider has three PET!

Are you mocking me?

Bek = Beck

Names just get changed........

Satoshi = Ash
Kasumi = Misty
Haruka = May
Hikari = Dawn
Shinji = Paul

And besides, people could name the protagonist what ever they want. Even no name.