So this is an odd forum for this topic, if it's wrong then feel free to move it, however it kinda hits on Homebrew, Emulation and Online - as well as modifying disc-based assets.
For those who don't know, Dream Library was an official SEGA Mega Drive (and PC Engine, if that can ever be recovered) emulator program built into Dream Passport 3 and Dream Passport Premier (the later Japanese web browsers - their version of Dreamkey/PlanetWeb). It wasn't the best emulator, but the unique element of Dream Library was that you could rent Mega Drive ROMs from SEGA online, download the ROM and play it on your Dreamcast (until you powered the system off). Essentially it was one of the first console versions of something akin to XBLA.
Now that's out of the way, myself and -drez01- have been working our arses off on a project called DreamArena 3. Part of that (my part) is the building of website asset materials, including the new DreamArena homepage. -drez01-'s part is compiling a new browser disc that essentially incorporates the best of all the browsers, including translations of Dream Passport and functional interchanges between Dreamkey and Dream Passport, the revival of the built-in IRC capabilities of Passport and more. One of the assets we want to translate is Dream Library.
I am happy to do the translating, and happy to do the modifications to the images to keep the style as close to the originals as possible (I've already converted the PVRs to PNGs to allow me the ability to mod them in Photoshop). However I am currently a bit confused as to where some of the assets are for Dream Library and I was hoping someone with some knowledge of coding could give me a nudge in the right direction as to how the interface operates.
All I can find in the assets are the following;
- From DREAMLIB/MD_EMU
FONT16, FONT20_3 and FONT20_4 are all Japanese letters
MOJI01 is an English alphabet
HAIKEI is English language credits for the Mega Drive Emulator
OPTION appears to be the main menu image with additional control info assets stored to the side
- From DREAMLIB
ERROR is a copy of OPTION from above, however loses all control info and adds Japanese text over the image (presumably an error message)
TITLE04 is English language credits for the Dream Library itself
I can't find the title screen to Dream Library itself, or the Main Menu assets, or the Dricas Dialling assets. Can someone help me to locate where these might actually be on the disc? The PNGs would be nice, but even the location of the PVRs would be a huge help as I can convert them to PNGs myself.
I'm aware it won't connect atm, but that's not my key concern atm. Thank you for your help guys.