Aki96 Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Hello everyone, as you can see in the title I am trying to find a way how to repack the .ARC files for Tayutama 2. I managed to extract the files from the .ARC archive, I managed to change script lines from JP to EN (just a few sentences for a test), but I could not find ANY way how to repack the files back to .ARC with maintaining the size and archive's information. Every tool I could find was just for extracting... Unfortunately I could not find ANY repacker that supports Tayutama 2 on google... Is there anyone who has any experience in programming and could try to make a repacker for this game? Is it even possible? Thank you for your answers, Aki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Ling Yin Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 (edited) use ae vn tools,it's support buriko v2 archive http://wks.arai-kibou.ru/ae.php?p=dl tested with tayutama 2 and sen no hatou edit: you edit the script with hex editor...? i dont think that work... Edited February 8, 2017 by Huang Ling Yin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 Hey, my colleague found out something: " I noticed that it detects that the format of the .arc file is BGI v2. Doing some searching, I found that BGI novels may accept a modified .arc file, but in order to do this, you need to find the script where the checksum is located, and rewrite it in such a way that it points to an unmodified .arc file and reads our .arc file at the same time. " " In other words, we may need to worry about something else other than the size of the .arc file. " Regarding the HEX: It's no problem to edit it in the Hex editor, for me it's the most comfortable way, because I am familiar with it, also if you change the header in the hex, you can both resize and shrink the text. So HEX is not the issue... I am going to took onto the BGI extension for now! Anyways, thank you for your reply (I used AE VN tools for unpacking, but after repacking back the ARC. archive has 9MB instead of 1.8, obviously it didn't work). Aki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 Yep, I've got it... But there is one thing I can't get into my head. I simply put the unpacked script file into the root folder and it works for some reason... Don't ask me why, I don't know myself... but that means our group can start translating it... I can't repack it back to the ARC because there is checksum that controls if the archive was edited or not... if it detects the edited archive the game won't run... Yeah, it can be disassembled but it's not necessary since you can just put the edited script itself into the root folder => Fighting with checksum is pointless... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 All right issue n0. 2 - Unfortunately my favorite HEX editor won't do here, because some sentences are much more longer than in English... is there any way how to edit scripts in these files without extensions? Got no idea how to extract the text? Someone has an experience with this engine I guess... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Ling Yin Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 (edited) about the size, yes thats how the AE works, its PACKING not COMPRESSING... here is comparation, folder contain extracted script and a packed script with AE... Spoiler [ P R I V A T E ] and yes, put the script on instalation directory also works, but you need to copy a bunch of extensionless script file there which make it uneffective for patch (which only one file only) btw, it works for me for packing the script with AE, if yours didnt works, something must be happened during packing, or simply you didnt using win xp (you must see warning if you use AE on later windows than xp) Spoiler [ P R I V A T E ] and i dont understand technical stuff, so idk what are you talking about... and yes, there is a tool to deal with buriko script... Edited February 10, 2017 by Huang Ling Yin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 I was focusing myself on the technical issues that much that I forgot to switch the compatibility mode for AE... but still after setting the compatibility for WIN XP SP3 the result is the same... The is error basically telling me that I made changes and that's the reason why the game can't run. Regarding the Buriko scripts: Is this the program for it? Because I couldn't find any "exe" here and opening through CMD in windows failed, console in Linux failed, console in MAC failed (yeah I've got all these Operating systems) Which program did I miss then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 I forgot to attach this... I hope we are using the same program... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Ling Yin Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 yes, you can use that one from amemiya, but please take a note that BGIkit change the locale to chinese instead of japanese (which he used to translate JP > CN) you need to change some encodings parameter, here is how the program works and how to use it (in chinese, you can use google translate) https://bbs.sumisora.org/read.php?tid=11042351 and since that is a code, of course you can not use it yet (cmd / terminal), you need to compile it first... yes, we use the same program, its AE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 (edited) I can't figure out a solution for the error after repacking the arc... Edited February 8, 2017 by Aki96 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Ling Yin Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 (edited) i use this, Spoiler [ P R I V A T E ] it based on amemiya's BGIkit (which you posted), but its better, include interface and support many encodes, with this i can change the encode for JP or CN with easy... for repacking the arc, as i said before, i use AE, no error for me though... Edited February 10, 2017 by Huang Ling Yin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 Can you show me the way you are repacking the files? Just to make sure. Thanks a lot for your advice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Ling Yin Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 (edited) this... Spoiler [ P R I V A T E ] Edited February 10, 2017 by Huang Ling Yin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 Did you just put the "GM" file into the .arc or every file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Ling Yin Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 the entry files, of course... not just the _GM, but also all files extracted from original arc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 Thanks... now I am going to fight with the compiler, I see it's written in C# so I must find something proper... again Thanks a lot! =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Ling Yin Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 its ok... good luck with your translation... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 Last question... Which program did you use for compiling the BGIScrViewer... is Visual Studio from Microsoft enough? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 Sigh... someone or something doesn't want me to do this... nevermind. Sorry for bothering you and thanks a lot again... Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Ling Yin Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 yes, you can use that, to begin with an sln file is a visual studio project, and its avaiable for free... lol, looks like you are not lucky yet, but keep trying... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 9, 2017 Author Share Posted February 9, 2017 So I managed with the Viewer to create an .txt file... but how do I return the _00 file back to the original? Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirHigginsXIX Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 Hello, I am working with aki96 on this project. Is there even a way of inserting sentences that are longer compared to the original Japanese text? While I am able to put English sentences in the _00 file with a hex editor and bypass the checksum to get the VN to read our translation, the VN crashes if our translation uses a different number of hexes compared to the original text. Meaning if we can't make our translations short enough, we might have to make up sentences that don't match the original text. Obviously this will impact the accuracy of our translation, but since there aren't any guides about how to put in long sentences, I fear that this might be the only way to continue the project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 9, 2017 Author Share Posted February 9, 2017 Ok so I managed to make work everything. Unpacking ARC, repacking ARC... Now for the last thing... Is there any other way to edit the scripts with something else than the HEX editor? I extracted the scripts with the tool you can see on the picture... But how can I make the edited TXT the original format? Is there any tool that can revert the txt file back to the original one? Thanks! Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huang Ling Yin Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) you can just click ctrl+s to save the script after you edit through editor, but i guess you dont understand chinese, so it cant be helped... sorry for the late reply (i read your reply yesterday though... and i'm seek for solution), now, lets assume that you still have visual studio installed on your pc... download this Spoiler [ P R I V A T E ] and do this Spoiler [ P R I V A T E ] this program is english, so there should be no problem... hope it help, sorry for the inconvenience though... edit: about the translation accuracy, just in case that your translation longer than the text box (i said text box, not compared with orig / JP sentences), your translation will cutted... solution, you can change with smaller / neater font... to do this, you need to change some parameter on ._bp files under sysgrp.arc or sysprg.arc (i forgot) (make sure you include the font file to the repacked arc) Spoiler [ P R I V A T E ] Edited February 10, 2017 by Huang Ling Yin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki96 Posted February 10, 2017 Author Share Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) Okay So... I compiled the file and got this: Spoiler But when I click something or put the txt file into the, the window just closes and does nothing else... Edit: Nevermind I am just blind, everything works fine. Thanks a lot for help man. I really appreciate it! Edited February 10, 2017 by Aki96 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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