CT075 Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 (edited) you really aren't (helping) gharnef seems like a pretty intelligent person, he should be able to figure the rest out himself Edited May 31, 2013 by CT075 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowofchaos Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Sorry if I didn't understand your post! Jeeze, I'm just trying to help! "Motivational posting" doesn't work when you're up against a wall of hexadecimal values that translates into game code that you're not capable of reading. Cam is a hell of a lot more capable of understanding SNES graphics compression than me, and I can understand his reasonings for quitting the "bashing my head into this until it works". What I DO suggest when it comes to the graphics department and bugfixing... contact the one making a fresh new FE5 patch. The one who's making it from scratch. They look like they have some SNES hacking experience. Where the hell is Pukachi when you need her? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM Nick Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 "Motivational posting" doesn't work when you're up against a wall of hexadecimal values that translates into game code that you're not capable of reading.Cam is a hell of a lot more capable of understanding SNES graphics compression than me, and I can understand his reasonings for quitting the "bashing my head into this until it works".What I DO suggest when it comes to the graphics department and bugfixing... contact the one making a fresh new FE5 patch. The one who's making it from scratch. They look like they have some SNES hacking experience. Where the hell is Pukachi when you need her?Dude I just got into the hacking business. I was only trying to help out the cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eCut Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Keep it civil people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gharnef Posted May 31, 2013 Author Share Posted May 31, 2013 (edited) gharnef seems like a pretty intelligent person, he should be able to figure the rest out himself Ha, thanks :) Dude I just got into the hacking business. I was only trying to help out the cause. I appreciate everyone's help so far :) Nick, here's a description of what's going on with the graphics - the graphics for some things are visible if you open up the ROM in a sprite editor program. Things like the Holy Weapons are plainly visible and you could edit them in place in the ROM. Other images - like character portraits - are not visible in a sprite editor, even though they're in the ROM somewhere. This is because they're compressed - like what Winzip does to a .zip file, shrinks it down - and compressed data is much harder to work with than its uncompressed form. I was able to change Sigurd's compressed portrait because I knew where in the ROM his compressed portrait data was. How did I know this? I have some Japanese documents that detail the starting location and ending location for portrait graphics. I'm not sure how the author came about this information, but I bet they did something like run the game through an ASM debugger, found a routine that's called to decompress graphics, watched for that routine to be called and made notes of the data areas referenced. ... whew So why can't I just replace the Holy Blood chart graphics for the names, like Holsety with Forseti? Because, since they're compressed, I don't know where they're stored as data inside of the ROM. If I look at a save state for the game in YY-CHR - which is a snapshot of the running MEMORY set - I can see the graphics in their UNCOMPRESSED form. They have to be uncompressed to be displayed as a graphic. But this does not tell me where they are loaded from, or stored in compressed fashion in the ROM. So... I could probably do what others did to get the compressed portrait locations BUT I don't have the time to dedicate to just this right now. I'm planning on tackling the rest of the text changes in the next few days and updating the patch. That should do it for most text based issues. Graphics, missing translations... those are the things that are going to take a while. Edited May 31, 2013 by Gharnef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gharnef Posted May 31, 2013 Author Share Posted May 31, 2013 * PATCH UPDATED 5/31/2013 1:54 PM EST * Same location as in the first post. http://diablo3gemcalculator.com/fe4/fe4.ips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Marth 64 Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 (edited) Also, I think that the Chapter 7 boss "Liza" needs to be changed to an another name since there is an another character already got that name. Edited June 6, 2013 by King Marth 64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booton Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 (edited) I have another suggestion. How about changing MtnThief to Brigand? Also in the talk conversation in the prologue between Sigurd and Ethlyn, I feel it would be better if Sigurd said "mother" instead of "mum". Edited June 6, 2013 by Boo Mansion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klokinator Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 I have another suggestion. How about changing MtnThief to Brigand? Dear god yes, MtnThief is so awful, it's not even funny. Brigand is vastly superior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJWalker Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Also, I think that the Chapter 7 boss "Liza" needs to be changed to an another name since there is an another character already got that name. FE4 Liza is a pretty minor character though. Lisa would conflict with Lissa, Riza would be engrish I guess. As for MtnThief, we got both Brigand and Barbarian as options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klokinator Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Brigand is shorter though and within the 8 character limit therefore more preferable. Also in the talk conversation in the prologue between Sigurd and Ethlyn, I feel it would be better if Sigurd said "mother" instead of "mum". Yeah this always felt a little too British, and also a little too babylike. Sigurd, a fully grown man, calls hismother 'mum'? I don't think so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJWalker Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Mum seems fine to me. And yeah, totally derped on the 8 character limit. Brigand works best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klokinator Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 (edited) Mum is terrible. Is he the fearless leader of Jugdral or is he the little mummy's boy? Is he the peerless unit that can cheese gen 1 or is he some wimp that cowers behind mummy's frock? I think mum always sounded terrible lol. Besides, most FE games use "mother" as the proper translation anyway, unless a character has a clearly defined accent. And uh, Sigurd doesn't have an accent. Edited June 6, 2013 by Klok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simmeh Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Well, since we're on the topic of mostly inconsequential script changes... This should probably read, "I'm going to back up Sigurd." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquaguy34 Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Also, should Theif Fighter be changed to Rogue since both classes seem to be pretty similar? Just wondering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowofchaos Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 I have another suggestion. How about changing MtnThief to Brigand? Yes that would be for the best... considering it's a literal translation that sounds stupid. FE6 didn't use that for 山賊, and neither should an updated patch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKLucas531 Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Also, should Theif Fighter be changed to Rogue since both classes seem to be pretty similar? Just wondering. This change was already made. The change was probably done in the previous version, before Gharnef even did anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Marth 64 Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 (edited) FE4 Liza is a pretty minor character though. Lisa would conflict with Lissa, Riza would be engrish I guess. As for MtnThief, we got both Brigand and Barbarian as options. Yeah, I definitely think Riza would work out for avoiding sharing with Marth's mother. Mum is terrible. Is he the fearless leader of Jugdral or is he the little mummy's boy? Is he the peerless unit that can cheese gen 1 or is he some wimp that cowers behind mummy's frock? I think mum always sounded terrible lol. Besides, most FE games use "mother" as the proper translation anyway, unless a character has a clearly defined accent. And uh, Sigurd doesn't have an accent. Hhm... What about "Mom" be a better replacement for "Mum"? Edited June 6, 2013 by King Marth 64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
js394 Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Do you also plan to fix the movie that plays if you wait at the title screen? The text is all garbled letters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookofholsety Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 (edited) re "mum": twilkitri is Australian so the base patch is full of Australian spellings for things, including "mum" (which is pronounced no different to "mom" unless you're some obscure British accent). honestly i'm surprised you're all leaping on THIS instead of, oh say, spellings like "armour" and "colour" re liza: who the fuck cares there are plenty of minor bosses who share names with minor characters in other games it doesn't matter if a minor boss shares a name with a character who only ever appeared for like ten seconds, and even then only in the anime Edited June 6, 2013 by bookofholsety Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klokinator Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 honestly i'm surprised you're all leaping on THIS instead of, oh say, spellings like "armour" and "colour" Actually those bugged me but that's a slightly different spelling that's pronounced the same as its american way of spelling. Mum and Mom sound different when read or spoken aloud therefore there's an actual important distinction to be made. Also, honour and armour sound kind of... noble? They don't bug me too much. Mum does though :B I don't think the word should be Mom either, I think it should be Mother, which is a more respectful term considering the fact that Sigurd is born of nobility and whatnot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simmeh Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I just started Chapter 2 and was reminded of something else that bugs me: Eve is a feminine name (and so is Eva, for that matter). Realizing that IE has used gender-swapped names before, and that these are pretty inconsequential characters, does anyone else feel like these could be changed? 'Eve' at least seems like a pretty simple fix: change it to 'Yves', which has the exact same pronunciation but is a masculine name. As for Eva... I dunno, maybe 'Ebba' or something? All this is assuming that I'm not completely missing some sort of subtext where the Kamikaze Brothers (including Alva) are supposed to have feminine names for a reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookofholsety Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I don't think the word should be Mom either, I think it should be Mother, which is a more respectful term considering the fact that Sigurd is born of nobility and whatnot. being of nobility doesn't automatically mean exacting and respectful speech, and the FE series is full of characters like that - Hector, Lissa, this patch's interpretations of Lewyn and Lex, and even Ephraim and Chrom to an extent. additionally, as the script currently stands, Sigurd's speech patterns fit into this particular "noble without sounding it" mold and are fairly rough and relaxed, with precious little of the uptight respect mode, so him using "mum" feels far more natural and fitting than "mother" would of course if someone is willing to rewrite the entirety of FE4's first half so that Sigurd is the single most polite motherfucker on the face of the planet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jave Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Is Arvis' line "We. Are. In. Love." from Chapter 5 in the most recent patch? I've always found that line weird, but does it play like that in the original, with pauses after every word? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookofholsety Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 (edited) Is Arvis' line "We. Are. In. Love." from Chapter 5 in the most recent patch? I've always found that line weird, but does it play like that in the original, with pauses after every word? the japanese script for that part goes: 言うな！ マンフロイ！！ (Silence! Manfroy!!) 私たちは愛し合っている (We are in love) もはや誰にも、じゃまはさせない！ (Nobody will get in our way anymore!) that said, the patch's broken-up interpretation of the line is a really nice touch for conveying the frustrated emphasis Arvis is putting on the declaration, and really should be retained (maybe altered to "We! Are! In! Love!; exclamation marks convey it better than periods) Edited June 8, 2013 by bookofholsety Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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