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RadSil - Jul 13, 2001

		RadSil	Jul 13, 2001
		I got the English Grandia for PSX from the local video rental. Copied it (shh! don't tell ) and looked over it... all of its text is ASCII. Jesus... Upon further investigation of the Saturn version: thanks to the PSX version, I believe I found the text. It does not appear to be in _any_ JIS or Unicode format though... some kanji appear, but all hiragana don't show. (Different hex values for hiragana/katakana? or the viewer sucks?) What I have seen of the kanji, though not definitive, appear to be relevant to the game's storyline, respective to the scene scripts. There is also the chance that it could be coincidental, unfortunately. I'll keep you all 'updated' if I find anything else. No font yet...

		RadSil	Jul 24, 2001
		Well, I've come to a decision -- for now, I will be holding off this project until I know a little more about translating in general. Until then I will be taking on a much smaller translation, a translation of a game(s?) I really enjoy. Hints: 1. It's a shooter (so, not much text) 2. Its name is also a naturally occuring fiber

		FLEABttn	Jul 26, 2001
		COTTON!!!!!!!!!!!

		sonic1687	Jul 27, 2001
		oh well, there went 'our' 'project'

		RadSil	Jul 27, 2001
		FLEABttn: I guess you won the contest. But I can't award you with much, except a download of Cotton 2 which I have uploaded to a free space provider. Its still up after a couple of days... so hopefully it will stay. sonic1687: Don't worry, it's not a dead project... yet. I just realized how much work it would be to translate Grandia, even if the translation was done for me already. Maybe after I have more experience, I can take it on. If anyone wants (needs?) Cotton 2, it can be snagged from: http://www.brinkster.com/radsilsaturn/Cotton2.htm...

		FLEABttn	Jul 27, 2001
		Wow, its gone already.

		RadSil	Jul 28, 2001
		...no, fortunately, it isn't (when I log in, the files still appear on the account) but they aren't accessible? Weird. Also... I found the font for the intro. There appear to be different fonts for different scenarios, like the ones at the end of levels, I guess (the font and some variants appear in many different files). It is stored in some wierd SNES mode 7 type format and is 16x16 in size. I'm still trying to get it into an editable state. I tried blacking out all of the font by drawing over it, and then I made a bin/cue and used cdmage to stick the modified file in. I ran the game, and I apparently hit the font area, because it (the intro) printed some garbage and locked up. I suspect this is due to graphics compression. Now, I guess I'll have to find some docs on SNES mode 7 and write my own 16x16 decoder for tilemod... unless I can find some other prog.

		RadSil	Jul 28, 2001
		...oh, and can somebody find me some decent space for the ISO? I only need about 15 megs, less actually. The files are still there, but how useful is that when you can't get to them?

		RadSil	Jul 29, 2001
		Ooh, now I feel stupid: http://www22.brinkster.com/radsilsaturn/cotton2.ht... It is part of my site, Japanese Seizure Robots (not related to the gag webpage)... http://jsr.sphosting.com... They were there all along, I just forgot the "22" in the www. (Edited by RadSil at 8:06 pm on July 29, 2001)

		RadSil	Aug 2, 2001
		Not much progress. I still have a distorted font that I can't edit. Not sure about the graphic format... as stated before, it's similar to SNES mode 7, but either isn't exactly the same, or uses a different tile size. This really makes me angry because I've found fonts in many other games, but I don't want to translate those, I want to translate Cotton 2!!

		CyberWarriorX	Aug 2, 2001
		Where exactly is this font? Maybe i'll take a quick look myself. Cyber Warrior X