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Mobile Suit Gundam (English v1.0) v1.0

Shadowmask - Sep 19, 2023

		Shadowmask		Sep 19, 2023
			Resource page: Mobile Suit Gundam (English)... Patch Notes: - FMV scenes translated using the Gundam Movie subtitles as a foundation. - Script editing and additional translation by @SoloNerfherder... (Special thanks to @malenko... ) - 480p Video source is from the PS2 release of Kidou Senshi Gundam (Japan) Additional notes: - The game will play cinepak clips encoded using the original stereo audio tracks, but this unsurprisingly created bugs and crashes after Stage 2. - Translating in-game dialogue is in progress, but not included in this patch. If you would like to help with crystaltile dev, this would be a good project to contribute to for someone with basic skill and a lot of time.

		EmeraldNova		Sep 21, 2023
			Honestly, I really want to see Z Gundam, hoping this work is a step in that direction.

		dibz		Sep 22, 2023
			If you'd like this can still be a resource under translations like the others, the download doesn't actually have to be hosted here. We can just set the download to your gdrive link as external instead (it's an option when creating resources). Then this could be the discussion thread for it. Up to you though!

		Shadowmask		Sep 22, 2023
			Thanks, I've created a resource page and uploaded the patch there

Shadowmask

Oct 2, 2023

	
	
		
		
			Patch Notes:



Translated all loadout menus between stages.

		aNACHRONiST		Oct 9, 2023
			Great work! This looks fantastic.

		Shadowmask		Oct 9, 2023
			Would anyone care to help find some illusive sprites for the stage select screens?

		Shadowmask		Nov 20, 2023
			Over the last weekend I received a completed script submission from @wiredcrackpot, who's recently done some great work on Silhouette Mirage. She's a total pro and is very passionate about contributing to game translations. The speed that she works at is impressive. We've also figured out some details about how the tilemap for the game's scripted dialogue is formatted and what control we have over it. This was an important issue to resolve so that we could freely move tiles around and not have to try and work around the original tile sequence, each with its own pattern of repeated tiles. An example of one of the lines of dialogue: There's also a sequential pattern in the header that seems to correspond to the number of 16x16 tiles present in each line. Changing these values has no noticable effect, but the formatting does seem to be used for line breaks. An example of a single row of dialogue with 8 16x16 characters: An example of a three-line dialogue with FF FF line breaks: The data is stored and recalled left-right. With a little work I was able to get it to repeat up to fifteen 16x16 tiles per row. I crudely attempted to add more tile data to the .MS2 files used to store them above, but without further modifications the game would only load up to the original end of tile data into memory. @Silos is trying to see if this can be done. That's about it for new developments. I'm going to start creating the new tiles for Stage 1's dialogue now.

Shadowmask

Nov 20, 2023

Oh and here's an awesome commercial for the game:

		LTH		Nov 21, 2023
			Hopefully subs can be added for the in-game dialogue scenes currently without subtitles

Shadowmask

Nov 24, 2023

		LTH said:

That's going to be tricky, and saved for the end.

Shadowmask

Nov 27, 2023

Just a quick progress update:

		Shadowmask		May 7, 2024
			Just a quick update. Game dialogue is 80% implemented. Mr Conan has been generous with his time, and has been looking into solutions for some of the compressed images on disc. However, his time is currently in high demand, so if you have experience with saturn compressed data formats and would like to help, please respond to this thread. The current patch is 0.6b, but I don't want to release an official update at this time because we're getting close to completing the game, and I don't want this to end up on CDRomance yet. So, if you want to play it, please keep it to yourself for now. Thanks! Mobile Suit Gundam (English Beta 0.6): Release Patches - Google Drive

		Jasvy		May 8, 2024
			Awesome, ShadowMask. I hope I could help... I cannnot. Thank you for your great work. I am looking forward to the finished version.

		Shadowmask		May 9, 2024
			I think I've learned the lesson that any project deserves a healthy discovery period where possible technical hurdles can be evaluated. I expected there may be issues that would require experience outside of my own, but I felt I had good enough reason to start working on the things I could do. Thanks to some timely good advice from friends, it was actually pretty breezy, if a little bit tedious. I'm sure it looks easy to some. I've just got this one final problem that, if solved, could take the project from a ~90% complete "play it when it's done" effort, to a professional looking, complete localization effort. It was my hope that if I put in the time with the game and applied myself to finishing as much as I could, that others might see that I'm serious about making this a really good patch, and hopefully lend their talents. Almost done!

		Shadowmask		Nov 10, 2024
			Stage title image decompression and re-positioning courtesy of @Mr Conan.... Thanks for all your work on this.

		Malenko		Nov 10, 2024
			Great work, both of you!

		Shadowmask		Nov 10, 2024
			These graphics turned out pretty well.

		Shadowmask		Feb 7, 2025
			So yeah, I haven't updated this very much along the way. Enormous thank you to Mr. Conan for his time spent on this project. The patch is sitting at 0.95b with all technical hurdles overcome, and over the weekend I'll be moving into a week of closed beta testing. I've made our developer chat public on my Discord channel which you can join if you'd like to request to be a beta tester. Please be able to complete at least a single playthrough by next weekend. Join the Shadowmask Discord Server!... Here are some highlights from the last 3 months of work: https://youtu.be/Ibv6WgJDtOc...

		Hiroshi Takahashi		Feb 8, 2025
			I'm curious of how the game plays, is it good?