Rune Jade Translation W.I.P.

[pcwzrd13]

Decided to throw my hat in the game translation ring and give a crack at translating Rune Jade. Managed to make some good progress in a week or so. Here's a video preview.

[Ian Micheal]

I have been wanting this since it first came out hehe thank you for your work on this

[The-Amazing-Mr_V]

This looks awesome!

[Rolly]

Is this the official start of the project or just test-translated pieces of the game? Maybe you looking for help? I'll add it to the list of projects on DC-Talk, and it's worth spreading the news.

Most of the text is packed in the RUNE.EXE file, you can use English characters, but unfortunately it plays a limited number of characters that can be mixed up in the dialog using the standard font.
All interested users will find the script in the topic: viewtopic.php?p=144074#p144074

[pcwzrd13]

Is this the official start of the project or just test-translated pieces of the game? Maybe you looking for help?

Official start. No guarantees I'll be able to translate the entire thing but I'll do everything I can. As you said, it's hard to work with the limited space and the font the game uses so dialog will likely be tricky. At the very least all the menus are just about done and I'm confident I can do all the items and descriptions.

Maybe you looking for help?

Not at the moment. If I hit a brick wall at some point I may look for help but I'm doing well solo so far.

[dubcity]

very cool pcwzrd13. I'm loving the push to translate more games everyone is on. keep it up.

[Nico0020]

Very awesome. I love all the translation projects that have been popping up. I know nothing of programming, but if you run into anything incomprehensible in Japanese I'd gladly offer some assistance. Good luck on this!

[Ragfish]

Looks great. Even if you can't get the whole thing translated, just having the menus, stats screens, and item names would make it infinitely more playable.

[pcwzrd13]

Worked on some of the starting dialog over the last couple days just to see how it would work out. It's not as much of a problem as I thought it might be. They're pretty generous with space in the dialog boxes so I could pretty easily fit what I needed in them. It's a bit wonky with the text wrapping and weird font but works nonetheless.

[ateam]

Assuming you're using a hexeditor for these initial tests, you can probably use hex value "0A" to do a newline or carriage return, or perhaps "0D 0A 09", or just "0D 0A". You'll have to experiment.

I'm also curious why it's changing the color of the first character. If you post some samples, I may be able to provide some insight.