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(This question is about the US version.)
So the text in this game is very easy to access, thankfully. All you have to do is go into the file directory where there is a whole folder containing all the game's text. You can open up each text file with something like Notepad++ (which is what I normally use), and it all shows up fine--that is, the English text does.
However, there is some unused Japanese text, and that doesn't show up well at all. Normally it just displays as gobbledygook. Even if I change the encoding to Shift-JIS (i.e. the Japanese encoding), a couple Japanese characters will show up, but it's still mostly gobbledygook. I've also tried opening it up with other programs--Notepad, Wordpad, MS Word--all to no avail.
Does anyone know how to make the Japanese part of the text show up as Japanese? I was talking to some folks in IRC a few nights ago, and one of them suggested that the Japanese parts are displayed in hexadecimal--but I don't know how that finding can help me retrieve the Japanese text.
I know it's possible because a lot of the Japanese text is used as examples on the Unused Text page of the TTYD section on this website.
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance! |
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| Posted on 03-17-16 07:28:43 PM (last edited by Rew at 03-17-16 07:45:49 PM) |
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Originally posted by Joe
There's more than one Japanese encoding. Try EUC-JP.
If that doesn't work, upload a sample and I'll see if I can identify it.
There isn't an option to encode in EUC-JP that I can find in Notepad++ (the only Japanese option is Shift-JIS).
Also, how do I upload attachments on this forum? Or did you mean via PM?
EDIT: Okay, so I tried encoding in EUC-JP on my web browser (Chrome) in Dropbox (as well as another Japanese encoding, ISO-2022 JP)--still to no avail. Some characters will display in Japanese, but many will not. |
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| It's probably because the game is using the English/Latin character font file for displaying text rather than a Japanese one. Since English text is encoded in ASCII, and Shift-JIS is encoded in its own way, the two fonts files need to work in different ways. Thus, the font file used to display characters for the Japanese version of the game won't be the same used to display characters in the English version. |
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| Posted on 03-20-16 06:57:39 AM (last edited by einstein95 at 03-20-16 06:58:44 AM) |
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The Japanese text in global.txt is UTF-16LE but with 0x30 being a full-width space. If you don't remove it then most text readers will screw up.
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