Legend of Xanadu II Translation Patch announced!

[Black Tiger]

A two-year delay at that point in the PCE's lifespan could only hurt overall sales, I would think...

One thing I remember reading is that during the more than two years between the original release date and the actual release date, another Monster Maker game was announced and released on the SNES. That's part of why I imagine NEC Avenue's execs would have demanded that they rush the game out after a certain point.

Now that's totally crazy/ridiculous. SFC announced. Released. PCE version? Nowhere to be found.

I'm pretty sure that the first SFC Monster Maker title was just a board game.

[SamIAm]

Nope, it's the second one. First one was Monster Maker III in Dec. 1993, then Monster Maker Kids (the board game) in Nov. 1994.

My bad about the PCE one, though - it came out in March 1994, not later in the year.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Huzzah, just checked mine, & yes indeedy, it has the pink slip

[SamIAm]

Weeee!



By the way, I don't know for sure, but I think the plan is to eventually use a variable-width-font.

[EsperKnight]

Man your fast Sam   But yeah I'd say hopefully all of the kinks have been worked out of the compressor.  One big thing I forgot since I hadn't looked at it in so long (but was reminded when typing up about the RLE use in LZSS) was that I also implemented the RLE as well (this code is used by other projects).  This of course causes issue with Falcom's routine or can if you hit it just right with the RLE... oi.  So with that removed and a few other things I think it should be hopefully accurate enough to work through the whole game.  I did extensive testing this time and can at least confirm I can uncompress all my compressed versions of the chunks with 100% accuracy   So now that this is out of the way it's just tweaking the text extractor since I still haven't captured all the different codes and we have some messed up lines due to it.  This at least is much simpler to fix and just needs to be handled by a case by cases basis.  Also need to remove any junk output in the scripts themselves but at least it's easy.  Just tedious is all   So yeah I'd say from here on out it should be a lot easier to test and fix, yay

And yup, plan is to implement a VWF.  I just wanted to make sure everything else was working before hand before starting in on it again (I still have my old version for TMZ that I need to redo as it breaks on the real deal) and I'm thinking we may be there

And thanks all for the support everyone

[dshadoff]

You don't even have to implement variable-width... fixed-width would be fine (as long as it's better than the system font).
Something like 8x12 could work really well, and require less code and effort.

[EsperKnight]

Very true but you need a nice font for that I think...  Would you happen to have any that would fit?  I suck at font creation and usually just use the system font but VWFed

[Bonknuts]

I'd say go with a 6x12 font. It looks great (Dracula X intro uses it). It's great in that it's easy because almost all PCE CD games use the 12x12 system card font, so hacking the 12x12 print routine to show FWF 6x12 is pretty minimal, with great results.

[NightWolve]

Very true but you need a nice font for that I think...  Would you happen to have any that would fit?  I suck at font creation and usually just use the system font but VWFed

Well, if you can do 8x12, here go two Ys-related fonts attached. The first is Courrier and is what the current Ys IV patch uses. The 2nd one is a hacked version (converted to 8x12) taken from Ys Book Iⅈ it might be used on a future Ys IV patch, that or perhaps I give the user an option to choose between the two during the patching phase.

[Arjak]

Awesome screens, SamIAm! I'm super excited about this project coming together. EsperKnight, you're doing an excellent job. Keep up the good work, you two!

[Keranu]

it might be used on a future Ys IV patch, that or perhaps I give the user an option to choose between the two during the patching phase.

That would be rad if you could pull that off, I love the Ys I & II font!

[seieienbu]

Can't wait to play this game in English.  Also, the courier font looks pretty sharp, imo.

[esteban]

Weeee!



By the way, I don't know for sure, but I think the plan is to eventually use a variable-width-font.

Thank you SamIAm and EsperKnight! Looks fantastic...

[Arjak]

I just thought I'd let you guys know that my copy of Legend of Xanadu II is in the mail out of anticipation! I can't wait!

[SamIAm]

Cool, Arjak! I hope you enjoy the game as much as I do.

A little status update: I finished manually putting the old dump into the new dump, and with Esperknight's recent inserter, we have all of the text going into the game and displaying. Now the only things to do are to settle on a font/print routine, and to get the menu hacked. There are a few other loose ends, but they're fairly minor.

With a little luck, I'll be doing some play testing before the year is out.