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UPDATE: v1.0 patch released (click here).
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Hi everyone!

For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you've likely seen my recent updates about me and my team's in-progress English translation patch of Rainbow Cotton. If not, well, I figured I'd share the news here!



While this game may not be a heavy hitter that is extremely unplayable to those who don't speak Japanese, it's functioning as something of a "palette cleanser" after the incredible amount of work that I put into Sakura Wars: Columns 2. From a technical perspective, all reverse-engineering/hacking has already been done, and in fact all Japanese text found throughout the game, including stylized text in certain images, has been translated except for the level-progress screen, which is requiring extra outside help for some image clean-up.





Outside of those level-progress screens I mentioned above, the other work-in-progress area right now is transcribing, translating, subtitling, and re-encoding the 16 cutscene FMVs found throughout the game. As of right now, I can at least prove that it's possible. The example below is just for proof-of-concept purposes, so ignore the stretched out subtitle text.



Well, that's it for now! Stay tuned for more updates and eventually a full release!

SHOUTOUT: I'm lucky enough to be joined by the same core team that helped make Sakura Wars: Columns 2 possible. Those awesome people are:

• • Natsume38 - Transcribing/Translation
  • Burntends - Translation
  • Danthrax - Translation/Editing
  • Patrick "TraynoCo" Traynor - FMV Subtitling

Yay!
If you need a tool or anything drop a line

mrneo240 wrote:Yay!
If you need a tool or anything drop a line

Thank you!

I just want to make mention here that both mrneo240 and VincentNL helped me out with some weird PVR textures issues I encountered, which in the process taught me a few new things about how PVR file headers worked!

I always appreciate the awesome community we have and how both knowledge-sharing and willingness to help truly are at the core of our love for SEGA's swan song console.

YEY have not seen this 3D cute'm'up in ages!

I love that our beloved Dreamcast is getting so much love from the modding community!

I also wanted to add that I came across a new archive/container format in this game I haven't previously seen. It has the file extension .PLK, which is likely just arbitrary. That being said, I went ahead and wrote an extractor and builder CLI utility in order to more easily manage the files inside of these archives as I continue to work on the game.

If anyone else comes across this format, these tools will be part of the patch release. As you can see, they work in both Windows and Linux.

mrneo240 wrote:Yay!
If you need a tool or anything drop a line

Well, if I can request a little help here without abusing you...

https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/vi ... 91#p149991

If you have a little time. Sorry for the inconvenience.


Anyway, amazing project Can't wait to see the result

Can't wait to give this a try!

Hum I don't understand what is VISUAL ON/OFF setting in Option

EDIT: Nothing, NOTHING CUTE ABOUT THIS! I passed the longgg train 'boss' shit and the cart guys I see them flash but it's like I dealing no damage and I died into the next segment and I start alllllll over >.<

Better get a save if infinite HP is a possible or Codebreaker

EDIT 2: Uhoh, gamehacking.org don't have infinite health much less Rainbow Cotton whatsoever! I make them request next week

mistamontiel wrote:Hum I don't understand what is VISUAL ON/OFF setting in Option

To answer your question, it toggles cutscenes on/off: