Others [HotSoupProcessor] Rascou Games

[wasd123333]

Hello, I am on working on this as my next project to translate all of Rascou's games. I am extremely close to translating all of them (99% basically done). The problem is that the game needs either a wordwrap, or font change entirely as the text goes off the screen a lot and is way too big. If anyone knows hot soup processor code, I tried sticking in a font change command in editor but it crashes the game. I suspect there is font code embedded within the .exe of the game, but when I use resourcehacker, nothing points me to an editable script. Either rascou is using some FBI level tech here, or, there is some japanese software that I do not have. Please help.

I do not know how to capture the rasbook and text messages either, would love to hear a solution.

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[tupaiii]

Hello can you share the method to extract .dpm file......... if possible the way to repack to .dpm file too.......... thanks. I want to try translate rascou game to but seem cannot to extract the script file using GarBro.... but i can extract other file that contain cg and audio..... but i can extract script for their newest game using GarBro....

 

[tupaiii]

nvm i got it now.... and I also didn't manage to translate the messages script because the game will crash (but i manage to translate some messages and some will crash the game) ..... the game that i working now is Toaru Fuufu no Hensai Kenkaku now able to translate up to messages on 26 july...... if you have translation file for this game... do you mind to share it with me.... i want to focus on messages and cg translation....thanks

 

[Yambidexter]

I believe there is tread dedicated to Korean translation

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, maybe you'll find something useful there, they mess with .ax file.

Also here is another

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to pack/unpack Rascou games' files.

 

[tupaiii]

I believe there is tread dedicated to Korean translation

You must be registered to see the links

, maybe you'll find something useful there, they mess with .ax file.

Also here is another

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to pack/unpack Rascou games' files.

Thanks for this..... I manage to translate text message somehow but i still dont know how to change font size to make sure the text dialogue dont go out of text box....

 

[tupaiii]

I believe there is tread dedicated to Korean translation

You must be registered to see the links

, maybe you'll find something useful there, they mess with .ax file.

Also here is another

You must be registered to see the links

to pack/unpack Rascou games' files.

A little progress... I manage to change the font but still dont know how to change the font size...... maybe will give it a little bit try

 

[wasd123333]

I completely forgot about this game, but yes I still have not been able to figure out the font size change, but that is not the important bit. There is a critical problem with rascou's engine games in hot soup processor. For some reason, the game does not allow more than 3 lines per window, or else the game will crash. It's almost impossible to fit all the words and wordwrap this correctly into the windows, so if anyone knows how to decompile hot soup processor, I need a way to eliminate that 3 lines per window.

Somewhere in the game's files there is a setting a certain font and number of lines. We need to find and eliminate this.

Additionally, the font is determined in the game, it's not in the suzie files. I don't know where or how to change it exactly, but again, it's stuck somewhere in the .exe I suspect.

Lastly, I cannot figure how to translate rasbook. For some reason the rasbook freezes and crashes if any of the @ text is changed.

Again just an update from me. I gave up on rasbook if anyone knows how.

 

[wasd123333]

I believe there is tread dedicated to Korean translation

You must be registered to see the links

, maybe you'll find something useful there, they mess with .ax file.

Also here is another

You must be registered to see the links

to pack/unpack Rascou games' files.

OH man this was very helpful! So in that thread, those guys actually made a custom extractor, but it only works for korean language. The guy made it himself I guess, pretty smart. However, I now know that the font is stored in start.ax
I previously didn't think it was this file because the internet says a .ax file is a media or video file. I don't think any text was stored, but clearly that korean guy did it in the thread.

With that said, I just need to find a tool that can extract start.ax into text.

Still no word or idea about the rascou stuff.

 

[wasd123333]

Hello, i just discovered the masterpieces of Rascou, and immediately searched for a translation in english, i found this thread. At what point of the translation are you? i found that you had a problem about finding a tool that extract start.ax into text, maybe I can help.

The way I do all my translations is using RedSugoi MTL. I don't do hand manual translations because RedSugoi is pretty damn good, better than DeepL now. It is far superior than google/bing/regular sugoi so I use this. With that said, I have been stuck with rascou games with all my translations complete (I can do 1 game a day). The problem is that I could never figure out how to wordwrap or change the font in the game. It always runs off and the game for some reason is coded to only allow 3 lines of conversation. If there is 4, the game will crash.

I couldn't find where any of these settings were until that Korean post above showed that all the settings were stored in start.ax. I am very frustrated by this because start.ax is a very tiny filesize and I didn't think much of it. Additionally, google says its a video file, which made me dismiss it even more.

Now I know that the solution is to find a way to convert the start.ax to a text format, or at least find some way to be able to edit it. The guy in the Korean thread made his tool custom to only one of rascou's games. Even more unfortunate is that he has to custom code for each game separately, so there is no universal tool to translate all of rascou's games.

If you can find me a way to edit the start.ax into text or anything at all, I would be glad to share my translations. I only use translator++ and redsugoi

Lastly, LIME and the in-game texts seem impossible to translate. I have tried only editing one sentence and the whole thing made the game crash. Literally it must have tons of coding in it or settings. Again, could be start.ax

And also yes racsou is so freaking good in his milf shota works I hope he continues yukari

 

[wasd123333]

Yeah I totally agree, the Yukari serie is one of the TOP!

Anyway i tried one or two things, I don't know what exactly is needed to be found in order to change that settings, but did you try to change the .ax extension to .txt and then opening it as a normal txt file? I tried and it gives me all a sort of settings / commands like of the game, I can recognize the circled number from the game and other familiars text.

So I don't know if it can be helpful to you, anyway I'll keep searching for other infos

Haha yes but unfortunately that does not work. I wish it did then I would be so happy. Thank you I appreciate the help. These rascou games are my top priority so I am even willing to pay someone to find me a solution.

 

[wasd123333]

nvm i got it now.... and I also didn't manage to translate the messages script because the game will crash (but i manage to translate some messages and some will crash the game) ..... the game that i working now is Toaru Fuufu no Hensai Kenkaku now able to translate up to messages on 26 july...... if you have translation file for this game... do you mind to share it with me.... i want to focus on messages and cg translation....thanks

How did you manage to translate the lime messages? Did you get everything? Because one panel will be translated, but if you click another panel the game will crash.

Also, I don't mind sharing translation file but it's pointless right now because we don't have a way of making the game work. The game only accepts 3 lines and there is heavy word run off. It needs word wrap badly. The problem is that all these settings are stored in start.ax and we can't find a solution to make start.ax text and back. This is the final step we are so close but to no avail

 

[wasd123333]

Yeah me too, did you try to contact someone from the korean forum about these games? Maybe they know something.

I do not know how to navigate those forums or type in korean. I may try but that post you linked is from 2021 so I think most people there are long gone

 

[wasd123333]

Now I'm talking with a friend of mine that is very good with computer and has a lot of knowledge also from the chinese. He found that in a forum they translated the game in chinese, so i asked him if he could do some reverse engineering on the chinese version of the game

Chinese always get the best stuff .Us english readers always get the last straw

That would be great, if anything if he could share how they translated the game too that would be very welcome

 

[wasd123333]

So i registered and reached out to that forum. Surprisingly, that forum has a lot of really good tools, even for translating yuris and wolf engine, it looks like a gold mine! Except I can't understand anythign since it's all in korean. I reached out to that developer so hopefully he messages me back. I am also reaching out to Shisaye because perhaps he can give us a fresh perspective of how to approach this.

 

[wasd123333]

Nice! If I have new informations from my friend I'll tell you right away

Shisaye was able to figure it out by using ToolforHSP, this tool and succesffully got the text. However, there is a big misstep I realized. The way the dev uses this software is using hanja.txt, which is a dictionary that converts all japanese kanji to korean kanji. He has nothing for English. Therefore, even if we were to find a way to convert it, we don't have an English dictionary.

At this point, I think the best way is to research how to change just font style for hotsoupprocessor.

 

[tupaiii]

How did you manage to translate the lime messages? Did you get everything? Because one panel will be translated, but if you click another panel the game will crash.

Also, I don't mind sharing translation file but it's pointless right now because we don't have a way of making the game work. The game only accepts 3 lines and there is heavy word run off. It needs word wrap badly. The problem is that all these settings are stored in start.ax and we can't find a solution to make start.ax text and back. This is the final step we are so close but to no avail

Somehow i manage to translate it all.... but there are certain messages i didnt find in the scripts (maybe i missed it) so i just stop because i dont want to go back and search because the scripts is separated into a lot of files..... too tired to check one by one for some messages

 

[wasd123333]

So you managed to have a semi-full translated version of the game? I kindly ask if is it possible for you to share it?

The translation part is easy, it's getting the lines to not wordwrap or run off the window which is what I"m trying to figure out. Additionally, the LIME messages are limpossible to translate, I doubt he was able to do it unless he figured out wordwrap first.

 

[wasd123333]

I asked just to see if maybe he could find something and maybe have a semi-translated game. Also a partial translation might work, because it's pretty hard to follow the story with an ocr due to the long dialogues

Times like these I wish Mtool just did its magic lol

 

[tupaiii]

I dont know what I did but somehow just manage it (for example these are other messages) but there are certain rules to do this and it is very time consuming because it involve try and error.... but toaru hitozuma 2 dont have this problem all the messages is easy to translate (only this game is problem)

 

[maru2125]

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