None [Translation Request] Explorer of The Golden Planet

[Rat-attack]

Testing progress update for Step 3.2/6: Well....there's already a lot of changes to do and I was very delayed in actually checking just the HQ area....before doing the first few areas....also the BMP files need checking if not certainly need some changes. (They already did I felt but that was with different ones)

As I said in my Step 3.1 post I will be using these posts to keep notes for myself of what needs to be done for the Step 4 the correction step as I wasn't expecting to keep it all in my head. As a result of myself still feelingly vaguely familier with the game's story and how expansive and annoying the text system is....I have to be quite specific with my wording in ways that fit me. So while I still will try to not give spoilers for those that read my posts....it is pretty hard to be vague here so you don't get spoiled about story contents. (I've even just been spoiled from just the first short test session in terms of background on a character) This means you really should only read the spoiler if you accept that it could or will affect the surprise factor you may get or want from playing the game blind, you can't or don't want to risk it then well...I think it's obivious to not read inside it. I don't want people to complain I didn't give sufficient warning about this. Yes I am writing this so I can just template copy and paste it for future posts.

Spoiler: My notes of what needs fixing from this session

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Spoiler: The current plan

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Spoiler: The current draft thread post

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72 Days remain to the new estimate deadline (3 months), 15 days wasted/lost, 2 RL issues occured, 3 steps remain of 6, 0 play-through loops done, 1 game defeats, 12 corrections/missed text translated, 18 weird text to hunt for.

 

[Rat-attack]

Testing progress update for Step 3.3/6: From today's session I'm getting the feeling that attempting to find the untranslated text might be difficult to do unless I somehow missed an sprite not only once but twice in the common palette. As some text is from an specific sprite that I don't recall seeing and it is used multiple times but in specific points in areas. Additionally it seems like I messed up with formatting the text for some sprites as I added spaces rather than hitting enter which might have been the cause for some text to be indented when it's on an new line rather than being in the same column as everything else.
I have made good progress though with this play-through (3-4 boss fights won depending on your view of them) and although I did try to keep an eye out for how to get the secret variants of text I saw but I didn't manage it... I am hopefully going to make much faster progress now as those that know will know that: until you complete the Outlaw base escape and talk to the HQ Commander you are locked into a tiny portion of the map limiting your resource and upgrade material scavenging potential....like seriously it's hard to max your defence. As a result despite me being roughly 1/3 of the way through the game I believe, (if not 100%'ing it, so just the story I'm meaning here) I wouldn't be surprised if I get a lot more progress done tomorrow depending on text reading I need to do. (since noting down the problems I spot is lengthy since I'm being detailed for myself incase I completely forget about them, hence why I included screenshots even....totally also not me trying to relearn/figure out the game and get OP fast)
On another note I have messed up with keeping game defeats counted since uh...I did some certain death things to scout/test and reloaded the game while in other cases I used money to revive rather than withdraw....which I didn't add to the counter....but now in hindsight I realized that has meant I forgot to update the counter when I did end up withdrawing so......I've massively increased the count with roughly what I think my defeats were.

EDIT: I'm starting to think that correcting problems or trying to find them to fix the text or in one or two cases slow down the text auto advance is going to take more time than it will to do playthroughs especially since some of the text has translated parts right after them or it's stuff I haven't attempted to do to know if it's even possible.

As I said in my Step 3.1 post I will be using these posts to keep notes for myself of what needs to be done for the Step 4 the correction step as I wasn't expecting to keep it all in my head. As a result of myself still feelingly vaguely familier with the game's story and how expansive and annoying the text system is....I have to be quite specific with my wording in ways that fit me. So while I still will try to not give spoilers for those that read my posts....it is pretty hard to be vague here so you don't get spoiled about story contents. (I've even just been spoiled from just the first short test session in terms of background on a character) This means you really should only read the spoiler if you accept that it could or will affect the surprise factor you may get or want from playing the game blind, you can't or don't want to risk it then well...I think it's obivious to not read inside it. I don't want people to complain I didn't give sufficient warning about this. Yes I am writing this so I can just template copy and paste it for future posts.

Spoiler: My notes of what needs fixing from this session

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Spoiler: The current plan

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Spoiler: The current draft thread post

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71 Days remain to the new estimate deadline (3 months), 15 days wasted/lost, 2 RL issues occurred, 3 steps remain of 6, 0 play-through loops done, 28 game defeats, 12 corrections/missed text translated, 30 weird text to hunt for.

 

[Rat-attack]

Testing progress update for Step 3.9/6: I got fed up today with having the mini-map blocked off and lost in the Volcano (which the lava caused so many deaths) trying to find/remember how to progress that I went into the editor and spent a good hour shifting stuff around....if you want to see how it turned out then look in this spoiler though it's one of the final areas of the game so....spoilers. Though I needed to replicate what I did to several text entries...but now I can see the mini-map.

Spoiler: UI Change

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However I can report that after that I have completed the game and due to now the translation.....I now know that there was an New Game+..... (I think if I ever did encounter it previously I always did the partial reset which made it seem like it was mostly an new game according to descriptions) but this is good news with getting then future play-throughs done faster as I can take my very OP weaponry and upgrades to it and just blast on through. Additionally the corrections and fixes might help more too though honestly the game is mostly playable as is although it would be understandable if someone was confused about a few things. (Or don't know that they've gained something)
I have four-ish main things (see the end of my notes for that) that I want to get done next time since I decided to wrap up this play-through now to get working on fixes...which uh....annoyingly an majority are what I did via incorrect formatting that will take a bit to actually figure them out. So back I go to the common pallette's 483 sprites... to check them all over and adjust the text. But this makes me more glad that I didn't say 2 month estimate since yeah....it took me just under an month to do untranslated text....which editing to get the format right now I wouldn't be surprised if it takes at least half that time because of the editor. I will have saves now to use to check work but a lot of things came up by surprise so my saves aren't the best timed. Although some text I feel is going to be very tricky to find since some of them occurred at the start of conversations I know I fully translated and others require BMP editing.

PS I just want to say right now that I loved the background music of the Lakshumi Low Gravity Plateau or rather the Asteroid Belt (although that's when the....uh vocals? kicks in just after an minute) ; the name of it is bgm_maoudamashii_healing02 which if you have the game already you can find via following this folder chain: bgm\MaouDamasii\Field. If you don't then I managed to find it on Youtube from the source thanks for the folder name:


As I said in my Step 3.1 post I will be using these posts to keep notes for myself of what needs to be done for the Step 4 the correction step as I wasn't expecting to keep it all in my head. As a result of myself still feelingly vaguely familier with the game's story and how expansive and annoying the text system is....I have to be quite specific with my wording in ways that fit me. So while I still will try to not give spoilers for those that read my posts....it is pretty hard to be vague here so you don't get spoiled about story contents. (I've even just been spoiled from just the first short test session in terms of background on a character) This means you really should only read the spoiler if you accept that it could or will affect the surprise factor you may get or want from playing the game blind, you can't or don't want to risk it then well...I think it's obivious to not read inside it. I don't want people to complain I didn't give sufficient warning about this. Yes I am writing this so I can just template copy and paste it for future posts.

Spoiler: My notes of what needs fixing from this session

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Spoiler: The current plan

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Spoiler: The current draft thread post

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68 Days remain to the new estimate deadline (3 months), 16 days wasted/lost, 2 RL issues occurred, 2 steps remain of 6, 1 play-through loops done, 48 game defeats, 29 corrections/missed text translated, 38 weird text to hunt for.

 

[Rat-attack]

Quick post as today was meant to be an rest day but I've not done so as I've done quite a few....a lot of things.....but uh I had to post since...you know that Common Palette? Well there's an Item Palette and that appears to be where at the very the least one untranslated bit of text was stored.

I may edit or completely re-write this post so it's an proper post (If I do it'll be within 12 hours) or leave it alone for tomorrow where I'll properly do one. However safe to say I've found plenty more work to be done I think as the Palette has 290 sprites. (no idea if they all have text) Before you ask, yes there's another Palette but it's for blocks and it has no text entry place-able side part to it....unless that's hiding somewhere.

I'm now going to actually take a rest day.

 

[Rat-attack]

Testing progress update for Step 4.1/6: I'm going to start this off with a bit of an diversion as Artix0 brought my attention to an application called resource hacker which could allow you to translate the game's editor.
I had planned initially after reading the post to not use it since I was near the end of the test play-through I didn't think that an translated Editor would very useful. That changed after attempting to deal with the mini-map being covered up which resulted in myself deciding to attempting to translate key bits of it on my rest day yesterday. As a result of doing so I then discovered the Item Palette (which has 290 sprites in it with untranslated text in some) but I hadn't finished translating enough of the editor to have the commonly used key bits be in english only the basic elements in the main editor window. So before I can start actually correcting translation errors and finding untranslated bits I need to finish up translating the editor to a degree and try to figure out what I did wrong with formatting the Common Palette text before translating the Item Palette and then finally I can go through my notes list. (presuming doing the Item or Common Palette didn't change anything as I have saves now to check)

As a result what I said in my last update post about myself believing it would take half an month to do the formatting fixes for the Common Palette, I now think due to the Item Palette and then hunting down the weird text means that an month an few days is an better estimate at best. Mostly due to the fact that I'll be hunting for text or events that others have done so I have little idea as to where some might be. My best hope is that the Item Palette has most of the text in it and what isn't is revealed via translating parts of the editor.
Though before I do anything else I need to send Artix0 the BMP files (whom offered to help when I mentioned they needed correcting) and the corrections that they need....after I determine what those corrections are as some are to do with place names with extremely limited characters.

PS The 3 month extremely vague randomly thrown out estimate I gave will be hard to meet if this step does take over an month to do and any subsequent Correction Steps require anywhere near the same amount of time. If I also knew about the resource hacker prior to starting this reboot of the translating I would have focused that down first as it's also possible to adjust the UI elements of the editor to be bigger it seems....no idea if it's possible to make them auto resize via it though.

Spoiler: The current plan

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Spoiler: The current draft thread post

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66 Days remain to the new estimate deadline (3 months), 16 days wasted/lost, 2 RL issues occurred, 2 steps remain of 6, 1 play-through loops done, 48 game defeats, 29 corrections/missed text translated, 38 weird text to hunt for.

 

[Rat-attack]

Saying now as I just realized but today and tomorrow and maybe the next day are going to be wasted/lost due to an personal thing I forgot about creeping up every month. (It's felt like last month has been much longer than just 4-ish weeks honestly)

 

[TopHatCat]

Adore this creators games, been keeping a close eye on the updates (which I super appreciate), looking forwards to it! Keep up the great work!

 

[Rat-attack]

+1 to RL issues occurred as I have not been able to start at all with work as my head has been feeling weighed down (sometimes a headache) and weird lethargy feeling for the past few days. It's resulted in my actual life becoming backed up with various things not having been done or followed up on.
I wonder if it's from being constantly working or trying to get something done for nearly 2 months straight (or at the very least having it playing on my head) from an much less amount previously and so I just need to put my mind into an actual rest state or something. (just a guess though as haven't yet seen a doctor but might soon if gets worse or continues)
I do wonder if I might also just need to sit down and start work again to get through whatever wall or thing is going on.

 

[Naevera]

Drink more water man I swear every body issue ends up being solvable by drinking more water
Jokes aside look after yourself o7

 

[Rat-attack]

Naevera .....funny you should say that.... I have been drinking more water and also having more salty food/snacks and have gotten slightly better. (still not okay though) As I wondered if I'm having presyncope with an headache on the side and would line up since I found myself historically getting horrible leg cramps if I didn't have extra salt in my diet or water. (Protein drinks really dry you/me out)
Additionally the heat has suddenly been switched on in my country it seems so that could be contributing easily.