Final Fantasy 8 Translating

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Hi! I'm a hungarian guy who want to translate the FF8 to hungarian language. I have a question. How can I edit the FF8's Battle Texts, Menus, Tutorials, etc.? With Qhimm's Garden program I can edit the field text data but I want to translate the whole game. Please help!
 
To the best of my understanding Garden was somewhat incomplete... It worked and all, but had bugs.. consider it like an alpha release.. I didnt think that it would edit all that stuff.. I thought it was just for the field text...
 
Yes, the Garden is incomplete. But there is no other way to translate the battle texts and the others?
 
If I recall correctly the text inside the Ff8 data files jumps around a lot.  Also, does Hungarian use special characters ? These may not be supported.

Ofcourse you can translate it.. but its going to require a lot of work with a hex editor.
 
Except the "Ő" the FF8 support all the hungarian character. Which file contains the texts? If I must make with hexedtior, I make with that.

And another question. How can I decompress-edit-compress the background images of the FF8 if I want to redraw them.
 
Here, in poland we're trying to translate FF8 too, but it's not our (FF7PL) team ;). AFAIK they know how to translate menu and few other things. They've enhanced Garden too. Maybe I can catch their project coordinator's email, and contact him with you ;)
 
Oh, man! Please make it! I need that Garden :) The hungarian peoples will be very happy and your name goes to the FF8 Hungarian Translator Team's Credits list.

If you don't understand what I want to say, it's because i don't speak english very vell. Sorry!
 
Me too :P. But I have to disappoint you. The only change they made this far to Garden is that now it's extracting all files from game. And still they don't know how to import translated files (eg. Menu) to game.
 
No problem. I know few hungarian programmers who very clever. Perhaps we could make it. Two cleverer than one. How can I get it?
 
Finally :D. I wrote a program to manage archives in FF8. It can extract and import files to them. Link Here. I translated it to English, but leaved Help menu in Polish, cause I don't have time now :P. Hope this will help you translate the game ^^.
 
You'r the best, man! Very thanks and of course your name goes to the credits list. At Saturday i refresh my page and write your name. Then I write here the link if you want to visit it. But it's hungarian.
 
I tried out your program. It's working! BUT. I can decompress the data files, but i can't edit them. The files full of incomprehensible letter. I can't find the text anywhere. Where is it and how can i edit them?

Here is a picture from the hungarian version. It's now 60% complete (60% of the field text data). If you want to see it.

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Great job man! Glad I could help :). As for the dialogs... They're of course in field.fs. There are sereral (900) archives in it, and in them, you can find .msd files. In this files, you can see some text, but it's completely unreadable. It's because small characters are "shifted" by 2 letters (for eg. a means c), and big characters are shifted by 5 letters back (X means T). Maybe I'll write a program for editing dialogs from single files if I'll find a while or two :).
 
The upper translation made with the Garden. But if my understanding good, the battle texts and the menus are unreadable, too. Why the Squaresoft hide the datas?
 
I don't now, I'm new to FF8 :P. You have to check that ;). If I'll find more time, I'll search for that :).
Edit: Oh, forgot to add: In FF7 menu texts were in .exe file. Try to search for them there ;).
 
Ok, I'll try. And thanks for the so much help! Please inform me if you find something.
 
IIRC, the Menu text is all in kernel2.bin. The file is LZS compressed. However, you can already edit all of it with Cosmo--just use the "Internal Editor" tool.

M4v3R: Very cool. I going to have to check out this new FF8 archive editor of yours.
 
Srethron: You're talking about FF7 and we're talking about FF8 :P.
BTW, my program has a bug - if you replace a file that is compressed, it'll ruin all files after it. I've repaired it, and here it is:
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I still didn't tested it in-game, I've only checked if Eight is able to extract all files from archive I changed.
 
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