You get the English Patch you deserve!
Site updated: Tue, 24 Oct, 2023
The patch is still a work in progress. Be patient.
Code: Fossil
Other functions of this project include: Replacing characters + dialogue
Several debug functions were found in a decompilation of BOOT.BIN left unstripped, including many NOP instructions left gapped in real code. For modding purposes, makes for great injection points. (TODO document them)
IRC is the main channel but it is also bridged to discord so you don't need an IRC client. Clicking the IRC link will open a Webchat, good for quick questions or trolling.
Long story. Essentially, this game packs all the content in a file called "DATA.BP", which contains even more of these "BP" files nested within. Unfortunately, it's not stored quite like your average zip/tape archive is stored, so I had to create some tools for extracting. This was easy and worked fine.
Next problem... I tried to make some tools for creating archives, and this worked.... but only for our own good. Game wouldn't take it. All files are stored in some weird Hashtree-like order that I'm unable to do much with. That doesn't stop me as I can just inject all the files and update all the offsets. Although this doesn't allow us to inject our own models... I think, but generally speaking, there is very little reason why you'd want to do this. My only concern is replacing textures and the .KSC file. (another hell story)
There are also some BOOT.BIN manipulation and string fuckery I could do there, but I am trying my hardest to avoid touching the unsigned binary file.
Finally, majority of the per-character dialogue... err, gameplay, is stored in a .KSC file. This file is confusing, as it contains way more than just Japanese text, but I'm still working my way around it some using some beautiful hex editors and diff tools. I could take the easy route and just replace all Japanese, but that limits how long I can make strings. I'm still looking on how to avoid doing such.
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