RENT-A-HERO No.1 - ENG

[VincentNL]

Just a quick heads up, I'm currently looking for programming support (any language, even Python Tkinter module would do!) to assemble together a quick text viewer / editor before beta-testing phase

If you are interested please send me a PM, thanks!

[VincentNL]

Progress update:

"General use text" stored in game executable has been reversed!
This was necessary in order to have an english working interface ( menus / items / moves..).
As Xbox stores it differently, an update to "binary--> ASCII script" is mandatory

More info on:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/48576840

[colgate]

This is definitely in my playlist.

[SMiTH]

keep it up, you are doing awesome work here

[Punx2511]

So happy this game is getting a translation ive been wanting to play it ever since i came across it. Thank u for the hard work ur putting into all this its very much appreciated. And the teaser vid is a class touch

[OriginalName]

Excited about this one! I've always had a soft spot for this franchise, and I'm really glad to see and English version of this one finally coming home to Dreamcast. Thank you, and keep up the great work!

[VincentNL]

Xbox english text has several chunks of untranslated text which we needed to locate.

As fonts are stored with an unknown compression algorithm, I had to manually extract the whole set (+ mapping game special variables of course).

After setting up an evironment ( Changing camera offset targeting black BG), thanks to Egregiousguy's spectacular work all fonts have been mapped to JIS ASCII.

With QBMS game binary -> ASCII script rewritten, we are able to convert 100% of text, proceeding with translation and matching phase.



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If you know Python or any programming language, Rent A Hero No.1 is looking for your help!

[VincentNL]

Text Editor! Weekly Progress Report

This week were very intense for RAH translation:
USC joined the party and just released an awesome alpha text viewer/editor for RENT-A-HERO NO.1!

For more info:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/48956064

[VincentNL]

With continued efforts on text extraction plus USC speed-of-light Text Editor coding, the very first in-house prototype Test Build Ver.0.02 is now taking shape!

Talking about technical feats, a new type of text layout has been found and reversed. Only used for mail, but still a necessity for a proper 100% translation.

If you too wanna help out RAH translation, we are currently looking for:

1) Text reviewers
2) Anyone familiar with Ghidra / IDA PRO, to help me narrowing down a couple of text-related functions

[Ro Magnus Larsson]

Spanish is included? Every language put takes another complete work?