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Well, the project is going relatively OK, considering I previously had no knowledge of Japanese or Hex Editing.

Using the tile viewer in Meka I managed to find the location of the first Japanese character.... wait for it... 01. That was quite a struggle to get, actually. The game appears to have complete Hirigana and Katakana character sets contained within, including all the accented characters. There's also about 9 others which I haven't identified yet.

A couple of mysteries are there (mysteries to me, anyhow).

Dynamic Tiles: it looks like Kujakuou loads one tile set over the other when required. For the title screen, a Roman font is just slapped over the hex positions of the Hirgana, corresponding to standard ASCII codes, and this is brought back for the final credits. I can't work out how to switch the tile set though... at least there is a US font in there somewhere.

Japanese Characters: Some words in the game are in Kana, some are in Hirigana and some are a mixture of the two. For the purposes of a script dump, is there any special meaning for using a hirigana character where a kana one would be equally effective? I'm also wondering what the hell these other characters are...

Mysterious Code: All spoken text in the game is prefixed with a right angle character, which I have the code for. Before this character, in the Hex Codes, is another character code which doesn't appear (01 or 02, usually). I thought this may define which name is written in the speaking window (which is not stored in the text), but an attempt to switch Dakiok and Kane's names failed, so I don't know what it is.

Tile flipping: After about AB new characters start to appear, identical to old ones, but either flipped, mirrored or shifted up. After seeing a bit of wall appear in one of these, I figured these must be linking to non-tile code and the whole thing is getting confused (or something).

Anyway, thanks in advance for the help. I'll pop the WIP table files up at some point.

H-Clone

Dude, couldn't you just Abbreviate Kane and Daikak's names from the Anime??? If that's Possible???

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H-Clone Guest	Kujakuou Update Posted: Wed Nov 03, 1999 10:14 am
H-Clone Guest	Well, the project is going relatively OK, considering I previously had no knowledge of Japanese or Hex Editing. Using the tile viewer in Meka I managed to find the location of the first Japanese character.... wait for it... 01. That was quite a struggle to get, actually. The game appears to have complete Hirigana and Katakana character sets contained within, including all the accented characters. There's also about 9 others which I haven't identified yet. A couple of mysteries are there (mysteries to me, anyhow). Dynamic Tiles: it looks like Kujakuou loads one tile set over the other when required. For the title screen, a Roman font is just slapped over the hex positions of the Hirgana, corresponding to standard ASCII codes, and this is brought back for the final credits. I can't work out how to switch the tile set though... at least there is a US font in there somewhere. Japanese Characters: Some words in the game are in Kana, some are in Hirigana and some are a mixture of the two. For the purposes of a script dump, is there any special meaning for using a hirigana character where a kana one would be equally effective? I'm also wondering what the hell these other characters are... Mysterious Code: All spoken text in the game is prefixed with a right angle character, which I have the code for. Before this character, in the Hex Codes, is another character code which doesn't appear (01 or 02, usually). I thought this may define which name is written in the speaking window (which is not stored in the text), but an attempt to switch Dakiok and Kane's names failed, so I don't know what it is. Tile flipping: After about AB new characters start to appear, identical to old ones, but either flipped, mirrored or shifted up. After seeing a bit of wall appear in one of these, I figured these must be linking to non-tile code and the whole thing is getting confused (or something). Anyway, thanks in advance for the help. I'll pop the WIP table files up at some point. H-Clone

NOMAD Guest	Posted: Sun Nov 07, 1999 6:48 pm
NOMAD Guest	Dude, couldn't you just Abbreviate Kane and Daikak's names from the Anime??? If that's Possible???

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