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Originally Posted by alexh
It was an incredible feat to translate the entire game using the tools you had.
It really is much more simple with Pyrdacor's tools. It extracts and fixes all the text files automatically. Removes all non UTF-8 characters, garbage at the end of text files etc. Editing text is as simple as... editing text, the tool changes all the string lengths automatically. It can even re-compress in LOB format so they fit back on the original disks.
The data checkers he created found bugs no-one ever reported. Large areas of the map in permanent darkness due to wrong map flags, bosses who don't have the boss flag set so they can flea during a battle making the game impossible, and lots of others. (Mainly cosmetic but interesting non-the less)
I scripted english spell checking on the extracted files and found lots of untranslated bits never reported or patched before and spelling mistakes.
A cool discovery where two rooms have two text files both identical in German but not in English because they were translated on different days / by different people.
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interesting. Well anyway, you know that the engine has nasty bugs in it.
The interesting thing, is that his tool will maybe allow to reimplement the missing part due to text flag errors.
In the french version, i have reinstalled the missing part.