Swedish translations of SCUMM games

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Re: Swedish translations of SCUMM games

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I used German version with English script as I haven't found yet where to reorder the verbs. I will make a deep dive later on and see if I can hack this myself as I want "talk to" rather than simply "talk". If anyone knows where I can change this, please give a shout.

Beta 2 (fully translated up to part 3) is out now:
Https://aponshemlighet.home.blog
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Oh, I see. Did you use the Special Edition then (German version)? I have that in all available languages via Steam, but it seems more difficult to get scummtr to run on that (if possible at all).
I have the original CD (VGA) as well, which is the version I made my translation with.
First step will be to try that extractpack, I guess.

Good idea to use IPS to distribute it as a patch!
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The SE isn't translated but one can extract the original CD version off it. The patch works on any CD edition of SOMI, I only used the German version as basis as it already had modified verbs. After applying the English scripts I was able to translate it from there. The patch is binary modification so all modified assets are transferred when applying it, including the German verb hack.
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I've managed to reverse engineer the verb grid, I will disclose the info after implementing into my translation and doing some tests.

EDIT: Success!

Happy new year:
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=479 ... 8595060752
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thanius wrote: Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:34 pm I've managed to reverse engineer the verb grid, I will disclose the info after implementing into my translation and doing some tests.

EDIT: Success!

Happy new year:
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=479 ... 8595060752
Nice one. Well done!
Happy new year!
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thanius wrote: Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:34 pm I've managed to reverse engineer the verb grid
That's awesome!
Happy Newyear!
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The verb grid of Monkey Island 2 can be modified the same way by editing
DISK_0001/LECF/LFLF_0004/SCRP_0021

(I got inspired and even figured out the verb grid of Maniac Mansion :D )
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Nice! Are there any major differences between versions, in for example Maniac Mansion?
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There are no differences between both Monkey Islands.

Maniac Mansion is a bit different though: different coding of X and Y, 1 byte code for the adverb ("to", "with"), fixed verb widths...
I am still trying to locate those adverbs to translate them, but they seem to be encrypted or something in one of the files, as I can't seem to grep it. Also the other text doesn't display as it should in a hex editor, but since they're longer words it is easier to get a match and locate what I am looking for.

Once I figured out where to change/translate the adverbs, I will make a similar reference sheet.
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Sushi wrote: Wed Jan 02, 2019 9:39 am Maniac Mansion is a bit different though: different coding of X and Y, 1 byte code for the adverb ("to", "with"), fixed verb widths...
I am still trying to locate those adverbs to translate them, but they seem to be encrypted or something in one of the files, as I can't seem to grep it.
I believe they're hard-coded in ScummVM. See script_v2.cpp, ScummEngine_v2::drawPreposition().
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Thanks! Here is "Give key to Syd"

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Nice. I'll probably do Maniac Mansion next as well. There's already an official Swedish version released for the NES but it's all censored and badly translated. Length constraints might be interesting.
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as promised, here is the verbgrid for Maniac Mansion
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=576 ... 7725314864
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Great! This will help a lot of people trying to translate the game! Cheers
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I noticed that the death easter egg verb grid has different values, since they have no function connected to them.
I hacked together a version for my translation where I couldn't get "Stare" to fit where it's supposed to be.
I'll do more experiments using the original data and will update my reference sheet later.
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