‘Ello folks! I’ve gotten all the items translated now, so I’m just going through the task of putting them in the game and swapping pointers around to make it all work. I (badly) wrote up a little app to simplify the process. Sadly the text in the game doesn’t seem to be in a really uniform order, so I wasn’t able to write any sort of auto-insertion program 
Doing this by hand sucks XD
Unexciting screenshot time 
Nice nice!, can’t you like release some “demo” translations so we can have a go at what’s been translated sofar?
Not quite yet.. I mean.. I could, but it wouldn’t be very enjoyable yet. Since I’m working with other translators on this one rather than just by myself, we’ve been translating a text dump that I put up on google docs. It wasn’t until just yesterday that I started adding those translations into the game.
There’s a chance that I might put out an early version patch once I find that it is at a “playable” point in the translation. Since this is planned to be a complete translation though, I’m not sure if I want to wait for all the dialogue to be finished and inserted so that when people play the translation, they’ll be able to enjoy all of the story and whatnot that they would miss if they played an early release unless they wanted to start a new game.
…what a predicament XD
I personally just want to get ingame and kill some stuff. xD
Doesn’t matter if the whole story is translated, just the items would be enough.
Well I’ll see what I can do
There’s still a few things that I can’t quite figure out, though. Hopefully I can get these figured out before then. The menu and status texts(exp, power, etc.) don’t seem to be stored like the regular text and I can’t figure out how to change it or where it even is stored for the life of me XD
Hey can I like.. help you out or something? I’d really like to help if I can.
I don’t know Japanese or anything, but I’ve been messing around with data files and such for other games, made applications (I can code in different languages) so I might be of value. Drop me a mail if you. :]
Well, I could definitely use some help from someone with ASM knowledge. I think to figure out where and how the other values are stored would be by tracing the code backwards, but I wasn’t able to make much headway with that method. …not that I know much of anything about ASM at all XD
It’s been a week, you guys not got a demo ready yet or anything? D:
Not quite yet. There’s over 500 lines that were translated and need to be put in manually and have the pointers changed accordingly. Since I’m the only one who is doing the text insertion and I also work full time and am a part-time student, I don’t get a ton of free time to work on this XD Progress is happening, but it all takes time.
Oh.. and it seems that beyond whats been translated, things are probably going to go slower as our translator has disappeared. I’m not sure if he’ll be back since I haven’t been able to get in contact with him. So I’ll have to be handling all the translations myself until we get a new translator something.