It is now the time to announce this project out to the wild.
This game is one of my most sought after translation projects ever since a long time ago... right there, next to Zill O'll Infinite plus and Magna Carta Portable.
Utawarerumono is by far my most favourite VN game to this day. I've played thought it many, many times and it never stops being just as awesome as it was the first time i played it.
in the past time, i've started looking at this game multiple times, sometimes figuring out a little, and sometimes just giving up and leaving it be again.
now that i've finally managed to figure it out on the most part, it's time for work.
in the past days i managed to extract and rebuild the main data archive (data.dar), figure out most of the graphics format (*.tpl), locate, dump and uncompress the game's script (*.p) and hence, it's time i can start working on it now.
to further speed things up:
I was in contact with ArchDemon of MirrorMoon (utawarerumono PC english translation) who kindly enough provided me with the translated script and the text editing tool for the game.
while the script isnt a 100% match in terms of data (it is very close) and the tool requires some modifications to be usable for the PSP version, this still saved up more than enough time.
Assuming i ever finish this patch, make sure to give credits where credits is due, and say thanks to ArchDemon and MirrorMoon for the generous contributions.
if you want to play it in english, the pc version (with hentai scenes!!) was translated a long time ago othervise, you might die of old age before my project is done :P
You have no idea how happy i am with this project going on!
i guess i dont :P but i know im very happy this project is going on. i've attempted to deal with this game many, many times before, and usually just dropped it soon after :P Not today though, it'll get done, and it'll be fucking epic.
yeah, we are doing a "vanilla" version as the main version of the patch, it will be without the sex scenes and completely true to the psp version.
a separate naughty patch will be worked on afterwards. It is still unsure whether we will complete it or not, mostly because of the hacking involved in that. Restoring them to the psp version is not as simple as it might look due to the amount of data altered and removed from the game compared to the pc version.
There is also the thing with them, that the sex scene graphics are censored, and unless we manage to properly uncensor them, there's no real point in restoring them to begin with.
on a side note, restoring some graphics has already been done, and the restored graphics will stay on both versions of the patch.
these involve the naked Touka on the bath scene (it's not a sex scene) and several other things such as the CG of Kamyu with her panties visible and Urtoriy's tits when she breastfeeds Fumiruir. (how does breastfeeding even work when you're clothed anyway ?)
either way, we are paying a great deal of attention on perfecting this patch and i hope you'll find it enjoyable once it's done.
Edit:
Im sorry to get you dissappointed though, but there are no replacement scenes for the hentai pretty much. they've just either been completely cut out (like Yuzuha's) or changed to something more softcore (hugging with Eruruw or Kamyu actually sucking blood instead of .......*cough* sucking something else)
Message edited by ムギ - Thursday, 2014-04-03, 11:47 PM
