Thanks for the tip, I found Project ICKX's games on DL Site and they show some promise, especially "EFFY". I see also now they are all on steam too, hopefully sometime will get an offical release + translation.
Since they appear to be created using RS3 engine, does that mean the tools you used to translate RS3 can work on them?
I'd love to have a crack at it, even if it's just translating the UI elements so the player can make informed decisions during the loadout phase.
You could translate the Project ICKX games in a similar way, but they structure some of the data a little differently, so you may have to dig around a bit to find where the strings are. They mentioned on Twitter once that they'd rather not have fan translations floating around though, I assume because they reasonably want everyone to go for the official ones once those exist.
I saw your readme after posting and managed to find the strings for dialogue, briefing and weapon descriptions.
I am having a tough time finding the strings for the menu items, like options items and Start Mission from the loadout screen. Do you know what file type you had to edit for RS3? I have a bad feeling they are in some .dpd files that on the install.
Thanks for the heads up on them not liking fan translations, I'm sure mine will be vastly inferior to what they have working, I'll have to consider if I want to post it prominently if I do.
Strings not dictated by other assets (like mission metadata and aircraft/weapon entries) were all baked into the executable, I had to go in and hex edit all of those manually. But I remember that executable being more or less identical between games using the engine, so you should be able to just drop the patched one into the other games' directories and use that.
Thanks I've tried it on all the Project ICXK games and the options all seem to be translated.
I sure feel like a dope now having struggled with the menu items when the solution was right in front of me.
Translation work is going well, thanks to your work the challenge is mostly my workflow and making sure the text makes sense.
I was curious about ICKX's other works and noticed they have games not available digitally, I'm considering using one of those buy from Japan services to obtain them and see if I can translate them.
You're translation has awakened a dangerous rabbit hole for me lol =).
