Simon the Sorcerer II - Translation

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Saturno
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Simon the Sorcerer II - Translation

Post by Saturno » Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:51 pm

Hi there.

I have the polish version of Simon the Sorcerer II - unfortunately, there are some mistakes in translation and the polish dubbing is horrible. So I have 2 questions:

1. How can I get into game's files to unpack, change text and rebuild it?
2. How can I change polish voices into english voices from orginal game?

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Re: Simon the Sorcerer II - Translation

Post by Polefish » Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:43 pm

You have to find out where and how all the data you want to change is stored. http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/AGOS/Formats and the sourcecode of scummvm has details about the engine (AGOS) and the formats.
After extracting the files there is the next problem: If you change something the new voices and text-data differs from the original and you most likely have to rewrite an "index-file" of some kind (pointers to the right text; information about the new length of the files and so on).

PS. If you just need to correct some typos and you don't change the number of characters you can edit the text by using a hexeditor. Its stored somewhere in the SIMON2.GME. It's more or less plain text. Just search for the text you want to correct. Going this way you don't have to rebuild whole archive.

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Re: Simon the Sorcerer II - Translation

Post by Saturno » Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:35 pm

Thanks, buy how can I find text in that hexeditor? I can only see marks.

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