Hey, that's great news!ArcaneAria wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2017 9:26 pmI've been figuring out how Blue Forest Story works with some initial success but still some more technical work before I can start really translating.
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- Tue Dec 19, 2017 11:36 pm
- Forum: Homebrew Development
- Topic: Doctor Hauzer English 1.0 Released!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 74719
Re: Doctor Hauzer English 1.0 Released!
- Mon Sep 11, 2017 10:46 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Is this the most active 3DO forum on the web?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 45303
Re: Is this the most active 3DO forum on the web?
We are back on Google! Hopefully that should liven things up around here. Thanks, Devin, for your efforts in getting us visible to the wider world once again.
- Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:22 am
- Forum: Popular Topics
- Topic: Import games - pearls of wisdom.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 90825
Re: Import games - pearls of wisdom.
[quote=a31chris post_id=40484 time=1503682865 user_id=907] Looks like it didn't [/quote] Yeah, for some reason BBCode broke after my Aqua World post (as you can see from my failed attempt to quote you). Any ideas why? Is everyone else also unable to use bold/italic/etc. in their new posts in this th...
- Mon Aug 14, 2017 6:46 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Out of this World: 3DO still got it
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15372
Re: Out of this World: 3DO still got it
It's a good thing I put them in different sentences, then!Austin wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2017 9:21 amThese aren't usually two things you hear mentioned in the same sentence.goldenband wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 6:03 pmcertainly more than the Sega CD version, which I didn't like at all. But the SNES version is still nearest and dearest to my heart.
- Fri Aug 11, 2017 6:03 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Out of this World: 3DO still got it
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15372
Re: Out of this World: 3DO still got it
I enjoyed the 3DO version a lot more than I expected -- certainly more than the Sega CD version, which I didn't like at all. But the SNES version is still nearest and dearest to my heart. Maybe it's just nostalgia talking since it was my first version of the game, but despite all the slowdown, it ha...
- Sat Aug 05, 2017 6:26 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Introduce yourself.
- Replies: 825
- Views: 2978734
Re: Introduce yourself.
Aha, as we suspected! Thanks, Devin, for all your efforts in getting the 3DO side of things back in business -- and for hosting both this and the CD-i site!
- Thu Aug 03, 2017 7:08 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Introduce yourself.
- Replies: 825
- Views: 2978734
Re: Introduce yourself.
The main thing to get this site active again is to get it relisted on Google, since right now it's blacklisted. I know the issue is on Devin's radar.
Oh, and: welcome aboard, Taijigamer!
Oh, and: welcome aboard, Taijigamer!
- Tue Jun 13, 2017 1:19 am
- Forum: Popular Topics
- Topic: Import games - pearls of wisdom.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 90825
Re: Import games - pearls of wisdom.
[b]Testing[/b] to see if BBCode will work in this post...
- Fri Jun 09, 2017 5:41 am
- Forum: Suggested Projects
- Topic: Japanese Game Translation "Wish List"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 37484
Re: Japanese Game Translation "Wish List"
Excellent -- glad to see both of your replies! :D I agree with Martin III that a game like Short Warp would be nice -- or any game where it's just a matter of replacing a few messages or UI buttons. It might seem minor, but there's a lot of virtue in making a game fully accessible, even if you can s...
- Mon Jun 05, 2017 10:51 pm
- Forum: Suggested Projects
- Topic: Japanese Game Translation "Wish List"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 37484
Re: Japanese Game Translation "Wish List"
How on earth am I the only respondent to this topic? Even with the low traffic recently, surely I can't be the only person who would love to see ArcaneAria translate just about any untranslated game?
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:33 am
- Forum: Suggested Projects
- Topic: Japanese Game Translation "Wish List"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 37484
Re: Japanese Game Translation "Wish List"
Oh, man, this thread is music to my ears. :D Blue Forest Story would be a great choice, and a reasonable top pick if the text on disc is easily accessible. Grand Chef (Oukoku no Grand Chef) would be another top pick in my book. Theater Wars also seems promising. Down one tier from that would be game...
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 1:45 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Zelda's Adventure
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16206
Re: Zelda's Adventure
I'm in limbo too. Can someone who's registered over there get one of the admin to approve Martin's account and mine? I thought Bas might help but he didn't reply to my note on his website.Martin III wrote:Not a bad idea, but the admins at the CD-i forum don't seem to be accepting new members at the moment...
- Tue Jan 31, 2017 6:13 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Is this the most active 3DO forum on the web?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 45303
Re: Is this the most active 3DO forum on the web?
No need, because...it's alive!blabla wrote:A 3DO subforum on AtariAge would be the way to go but i'm unsure how to convince them to add such subforum...
http://atariage.com/forums/forum/191-3d ... ltiplayer/
Big thanks to Albert at AtariAge for creating it.
- Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:41 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Is this the most active 3DO forum on the web?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 45303
Re: Is this the most active 3DO forum on the web?
I think the most logical solution is to try to get the Google spider un-banned. The CD-i forum has no issues with that as it comes up in a Google search, so I don't see why it can't be fixed for the 3DO side. I completely agree, but the admin have been completely non-responsive. :( I think maybe 3D...
- Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:16 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Is this the most active 3DO forum on the web?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 45303
Re: Is this the most active 3DO forum on the web?
Unless someone is willing to do something to get us back listed on the major search engines, I think moving to a different forum is a great idea. I've actually made inquiries about that, and will post if/when I have an update.
- Wed Jan 11, 2017 8:06 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Is this the most active 3DO forum on the web?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 45303
Re: Is this the most active 3DO forum on the web?
Is it possible to unban the spider? I know I initially found this forum via google. I think they may have tried to, but it could be that the ban precipitated a blacklist that remains in effect & needs to be addressed manually, e.g. by contacting Google directly. Unfortunately the diagnostics one mi...
- Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:30 am
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Is this the most active 3DO forum on the web?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 45303
Re: Is this the most active 3DO forum on the web?
One of the admin somehow banned the Google spider, and now the site is blacklisted from both Google and Bing. (The CD-i side of things isn't blacklisted, just the 3DO half.) That, more than anything, is why it's so quiet -- and frankly the CD-i side isn't doing much better, since as far as I can tel...
- Wed Oct 19, 2016 5:49 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: 3DO and Gex sales
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10312
Re: 3DO and Gex sales
I've never been able to find reliable total sales figures for the 3DO, though I've seen everything from 1.38 million to 2 million. But there have been non-pack-in games with a 50+% purchase rate among console owners -- I think one of them was a PC Engine CD game, though I can't remember what it was ...
- Fri Oct 07, 2016 10:11 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: Question about Shelly Duvall's It's A Bird's Life
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14825
Re: Question about Shelly Duvall's It's A Bird's Life
CasetheCorvetteman wrote:And meAustin wrote:No one visits this forum anymore. Well, except the two that posted above.Dreamstate wrote:Really? No one knows?
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:18 pm
- Forum: Homebrew Development
- Topic: Doctor Hauzer English 1.0 Released!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 74719
Re: Doctor Hauzer Beta Test Thread
This is great! I assume I can use a standard 3DO cue file to burn this?
- Tue Mar 29, 2016 2:49 am
- Forum: Homebrew Development
- Topic: Doctor Hauzer English 1.0 Released!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 74719
Re: Doctor Hauzer Beta Test Thread
I can't beta-test right now -- maybe in a couple weeks -- but I just wanted to say that the work you're doing is awesome. So glad you've taken this on, the first 3DO fan-translation ever (at least in English)!
- Wed Feb 10, 2016 11:53 pm
- Forum: Homebrew Development
- Topic: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 68233
Re: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
Terrific progress! That font is more than adequate for the task at hand -- I actually rather like the way it looks. :) I've never been clear on how we'd handle patching 3DO ROMs, given the encryption problem. ROMHacking.net doesn't allow ISOs, but what's the alternative in this case? I guess it'd pr...
- Wed Dec 30, 2015 5:48 pm
- Forum: Homebrew Development
- Topic: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 68233
Re: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
Great news! And great to hear that the font is a straightforward bitmap. Variable-width fonts can be tricky to implement, but if you're able to pull one off that'd be fantastic. If not, we can live with clunky but readable fixed-width text.
- Mon Dec 28, 2015 6:26 am
- Forum: Homebrew Development
- Topic: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 68233
Re: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
From my end, the problem is that I simply don't know how the 3DO handles fonts: is there something at the BIOS level that renders them with anti-aliasing and so forth, or is it just tile-based graphics like what we see on 8- and 16-bit systems? Do developers have the option of either approach, or is...
- Sat Dec 26, 2015 6:44 pm
- Forum: Homebrew Development
- Topic: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 68233
Re: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
I can't figure out the format of the font information, but by copying the first part of the file (minus the header) to a text file and changing the encoding to Shift-JIS, I can see what I think is the approximate vocabulary of the file: "),-0123456789:;=@H_ 、.:?!ー()「」=#*12345GHINOTぁあいうえぉおかがきぎくけげこごさし...
- Fri Dec 25, 2015 6:20 pm
- Forum: Homebrew Development
- Topic: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 68233
Re: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
It seems to be a graphics file, so I'd have to cut/paste a font in place. I've been searching for tools to view/edit the font, but I'm a bit lost since I haven't done this before. Probably would need something for ancient Mac fonts haha. I use a Java-based program with the piquant name of TileMoles...
- Fri Dec 25, 2015 1:44 am
- Forum: Homebrew Development
- Topic: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 68233
Re: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
Just so I understand this, are you hex-editing a graphic file, or a text file? In conventional ROMS, with the right tools, it's usually easy to cut-and-paste font image data and just plop a different 8x8 or 16x16 Latin-alphabet graphic in the space where a Japanese character used to be. I don't know...
- Mon Dec 21, 2015 8:34 pm
- Forum: Homebrew Development
- Topic: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 68233
Re: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
If it were me I'd systematically step through the different hex values to build a table and see if Latin characters were hidden somewhere out of order. If not, someone would have to hack in the images of the Latin character sets, and ideally build a variable-width font to allow for more characters t...
- Sat Dec 19, 2015 10:26 pm
- Forum: Homebrew Development
- Topic: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 68233
Re: Recompiling Dr. Hauzer for Translation
Just wanted to say it's great you're working on this, since it could open the doors to 3DO translations for the first time.
- Mon Dec 07, 2015 11:05 pm
- Forum: 3DO Main Forum
- Topic: 3DO USB adapter arrived.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12014
Re: 3DO USB adapter arrived.
Very curious if Alfred Hitchcock Presents becomes beatable on Hard difficulty with this, since normally the disk loading/seeking times make it impossible.