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On 11/23/2022 at 9:50 AM, bigtpsychoboy said:

I am looking for help in extracting the script for two games.

The first is sisters ~Natsu no Saigo no Hi. According to VNDB this is using a game engine called ISM. I used GARbro to look at the .isa data files. Within the data file there are .ism files which I am assuming contain the script. These are binary files from what I can find, but I am not sure how to decrypt/open them to begin translating.

The second game is Kanojo x Kanojo x Kanojo. This game uses the AST engine according to VNDB. The data files for this are named dat01, dat02, etc... with no extension. Viewing dat01 with GARbro shows all of the script files. These are in .adv and when I extract them they are easily edited as straight text files. The problem I am having is being able to repack the dat01 file without an extension.

So I guess what I am looking for is any tools anyone has that can be used to unpack and repack AST and/or ISM game files. Anything helps.

I have tool for both of them, but the question is are you doing mtl or real transaltion :))

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Hello,

Can anyone, please, tell me how to decompile or simply open .sdat and .tex files? I'm currently trying to find english dialogs in the scripts of Utawarerumono Prelude to the Fallen 2021, but I don't even understand which engine it uses. I found that Leaf made some games on xlvns, but it seems like XlvnsScriptTool can't decompile .sdat, only .sdt. Maybe Utawarerumono doesn't even use xlvns, I don't know. Couldn't find the actual info about it's engine, as well.

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I  need help extracting the script from the Konosuba VN(Judgement on this greedy game!) the script_body is a .bin file but everything I've tried so far hasn't worked.
if you know of any thing that could work please lmk.

so far i have tried: StscTextractor and EscudeEditor to no avail. 

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On 1/29/2023 at 7:05 AM, bigtpsychoboy said:

Hey there! It would be a manual translation. Might take me a long time though since it would be my first time translating a game, but I am not willing to back down!

For Sisters Natsu you can contact this guy: [email protected] game since he's porting the game to renpy link
For Kanojox3, do you have discord?

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I've made a modification on https://github.com/Doddler/PrismArkTools

To work on the newer version of engine  "Pajama Adventure System", named "2RM - Adventure Engine".

This engine is used on quite a few games of the brand PRODUCTION PENCIL https://vndb.org/p557
Which has several known sub-brands and imprints such as Pajama Soft, BOOT UP, Eroit.

Here is the resulting tools and the source code that I've changed.
I've made some simple tests on an Eroit game is it seems to be working. 

The biggest problem was that the tool couldn't process the new engine files and after solving that it was not recognizing the 'show image' command in the newer engine.
I fixed that and it all should work. In case someone wants to give a go at translating one of this games, here are the resulting tools and tests I've made.

Here are the source files

https://anonfiles.com/Y4Va60x6z3/Eroit_translation_tool_source_2RM_Adventure_Engine_rar

And here are the compiled binaries together with the files I was testing with:

https://anonfiles.com/1aU769x1z4/Eroit_translation_tool_binaries_rar

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20 hours ago, darksshades said:

I've made a modification on https://github.com/Doddler/PrismArkTools

To work on the newer version of engine  "Pajama Adventure System", named "2RM - Adventure Engine".

This engine is used on quite a few games of the brand PRODUCTION PENCIL https://vndb.org/p557
Which has several known sub-brands and imprints such as Pajama Soft, BOOT UP, Eroit.

Here is the resulting tools and the source code that I've changed.
I've made some simple tests on an Eroit game is it seems to be working. 

The biggest problem was that the tool couldn't process the new engine files and after solving that it was not recognizing the 'show image' command in the newer engine.
I fixed that and it all should work. In case someone wants to give a go at translating one of this games, here are the resulting tools and tests I've made.

Here are the source files

https://anonfiles.com/Y4Va60x6z3/Eroit_translation_tool_source_2RM_Adventure_Engine_rar

And here are the compiled binaries together with the files I was testing with:

https://anonfiles.com/1aU769x1z4/Eroit_translation_tool_binaries_rar

There're some tools available for the engine on github. Like:
https://github.com/jpnoob/vn-packunpack/tree/main/Pajamas/nanaextr
https://github.com/Inori/FuckGalEngine/tree/master/PJADV
But the hardest of the engine is not the script, it's how to bypass the characters limit and 3 lines limit

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Hi, I need some help dumping the game script for translation from Jinguuji Saburou: Ashes and Diamonds: https://vndb.org/v19010

Inspecting the game contents, there are directories like:

  • psp_game
    • usrdir
      • script
      • script_outline
      • script_pass

Within these directories, there are .DAT files that have names like 03_32_02.dat. Inspecting these files shows a 4-byte header specifying the size of the decompressed file, and then a gzip header (1F 8B). Thinking I'd figured it out, I stripped out the headers and gunzipped, but I can't make sense of the resulting files. The script directory also contains .AT3 and .PMF files for the BGM and movies. It's possible some of these decompressed .DAT files are images, I'm not even sure. I'm just trying to decode them as Shift-JIS, EUC-JP or UTF-8/16 and not having much luck. There are some other directories with other extensions like .ZPK that I've unpacked since they contain GZipped data also, but they're generally pretty small and I'm not sure they're the scripts. In any case, their contents have the same problem.

I know people here are generally pretty experienced with script dumping, can anyone give me some pointers on how to find the encoding? Or am I going about this entirely wrong, and there's a better way to unpack these .DAT files? I've been looking through as many threads as I can. This game is by WorkJam, and seems different than many other ".DAT" format files that other people have successfully dumped.

Thanks in advance! 

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Hello,

The tools for malie engine are listed here so it's not that I need help finding something for my specific game engine, but I was wondering if anybody would be able to help me actually understand how to use it?

I apologise for being incompetent, I have never done this before and this seems like the best place to ask. 

I couldn't find any script data within my game's directory, (only data I could open using garbro was obviously just cg, sprites, audio, menu buttons and the like) so I assume the code listed is used to unpack that, I don't know how to download or use the GitHub link with so many folders of things I don't understand.

If anybody could help, I would be very grateful thank you!

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On 6/20/2023 at 8:37 AM, Sisulizer said:

There're some tools available for the engine on github. Like:
https://github.com/jpnoob/vn-packunpack/tree/main/Pajamas/nanaextr
https://github.com/Inori/FuckGalEngine/tree/master/PJADV
But the hardest of the engine is not the script, it's how to bypass the characters limit and 3 lines limit

Any idea how you'd get around those character limits for this engine?

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21 hours ago, NEL1391 said:

Any idea how you'd get around those character limits for this engine?

You need to modify the exe, meaning reverse engineering is needed.
There's an old thread about how to fix the choices in old version of the engine link

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On 7/30/2023 at 3:45 AM, Sisulizer said:

You need to modify the exe, meaning reverse engineering is needed.
There's an old thread about how to fix the choices in old version of the engine link

Damn, that's unfortunate. It looks like even normal text is screwed in the Eroit games I'm trying, the limit is way too short and it doesn't look easy to insert lines too. Will have to try this when I have a lot more time then.

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On 11/28/2021 at 10:55 AM, Sisulizer said:

I know how to hack reminiscence, I tried both Ineditor and mjodev, guess what it works, if you want to translate to English then it's easy. I tried with my language:unknown.png?width=754&height=452

Hi, maybe late, but can you explain how to use them ? Plz pm

 

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Hello, i need help with a problem i have. The game is Ninnin days and it uses artemis engine..

I'm able to extract the files using GarBRO, scripts are .ast and the engine reads it directly from the extracted folder, so the translation process is relatively easy, but the problem is when i get to a choice, even tho the ast file that has the choice is translated into my language (spanish), it keeps showing the english text ingame. i was pretty motivated to start this project, and i still am, i want to translate a lot of the "Days" series visual novel from qureate so i would like to have a solution in case the others have the same problem.

If someone has the game or has worked with the engine and knows how to make it work, please tell me.

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I seems unlikely, but I'd love if anyone could give me some advice.
I'm trying to translate a game by the company "route2/DELTA". I can find the game's script easily enough in a file called "MPEN.SD", which seems to be unencrypted but as soon as I just enter a single character within a dialog line the game stops functioning, it doesn't just crash and give me an error message, but it never goes beyond the first screen. I can still save/load scenes which then don't progress after one line of dialog. 

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