Translating SCUMM games

[Khaveen]

So?

How can I translate in-game messages?

And I'd really love to hear how to modify monster.sou?

[Alien426]

thread a

thread b

thread c

[hibernatus]

I've made this little program. It works with every version of every game, except for loom pcengine and mm nes.

http://hibernatus34.free.fr/scumm/scummtr.exe

 

It's not very easy to use as i've been too lazy to make a readme. Feel free to ask me questions.

 

Oh well, maybe you'll also want to browse http://hibernatus34.free.fr/scumm/

scummrp extracts blocks and lets you replace them in the game files.

scummfont is a quick & dirty font to bmp & bmp to font converter (9x.LFL, 9xx.LFL, CHAR_xxxx). It *updates* a font, it doesn't create it.

[Khaveen]

Thanks for the utilities!

[Khaveen]

Oh hibernatus, could you please post a list of commands? I just can't read THAT fast...

[jannar85]

options:

 

-g gameid Select a game

-i Import text into the game files (Input)

-o Export text from the game files (Output)

-f path Path to the text file

-p path Path to the game directory

-w Use the CrLf format (for Windows)

-c Convert characters to the ANSI charset

-l xx Language (for V1 & V2 games): en, de, it, fr

-b Binary mode

-h Add line headers in exported text (with -o)

-H Hexadecimal char codes (with -o)

-I Show instruction opcode (with -o)

-a [oav] Pad Objects, Actors, Verbs with @ (with -o)

-A [oav] -a with variable ids taken into account (with -o)

-L List supported games

-v Verbose

-q Quiet

 

Examples:

scummtr -cw -gp monkey2 ./mi2 -if ./mi2_fr.txt

scummtr -o -A ov -g zaktowns

[hibernatus]

Khaveen: press Win+R on keyboard, then type "cmd"

For better shells: http://www.cygwin.com/

 

How were you going to use the program anyway? With a .bat? If so, you could have written:

scummtr

pause

[Darnn]

I apologize for bumping the thread, but I don't have much time to play around with things like this these days (cursed army), so I'm going to ask instead of trying to find out myself:

 

Does that tool support any languages in which the writing is right to left, like Hebrew?

[hibernatus]

If you can make a text file with 8 bits chars (excluding 0xFF and 0xFE), it should be ok. I think you'll need an editor which provides a conversion table (eg. "î" -> "\xEE"). I know somebody is translating a game in russian and he uses that kind of editor and scummtr.

You'll also need to make the font.

[crazymars]

Originally posted by hibernatus

If you can make a text file with 8 bits chars (excluding 0xFF and 0xFE), it should be ok. I think you'll need an editor which provides a conversion table (eg. "î" -> "\xEE"). I know somebody is translating a game in russian and he uses that kind of editor and scummtr.

 

- Where I can find the conversion table?

 

 

You'll also need to make the font.

 

- How can I do it?

[Alien426]

> Where I can find the conversion table?

 

ANSI table

 

You can use TextPad's clip library (I think you'll have to customize this yourself) to insert the code for the characters.