Been thinking for a while but whenever I see a Fire Emblem Hack, while being only in English, and some with a few other Languages. I wonder if there would option to switch that language like the Europe Version of GBA where you can get 5 differents languages in one game.
I know a few of them do since there are Chinese and Japanese ones that have that option (Mainly that FEH Demake game I’ve noticed and the Demake of Fe9 and FE10) or just been translated from Japanese and Chinese to English.
I guess a few questions to wonder, is 1, What hacks did you guys always wanted to see to have that option to play in? and 2, has anyone ever used the European Version of Fire Emblem to use for hacking on? while giving people options to play in with there langauge. Or is it hard to do? I’m curious to know.
Sorta wonder about that since I had an idea that I wanted to have an option for people to play on those languages. while if english isn’t there main language.
I always wanted to play Sacred Echoes in German, because I’m a quarter German and my knowledge is… less than I’d like it to be… but alas, only a Latin(?) Spanish and some kind of Chinese translation ended up making it relatively far.
There’s not much reason to have in-game language switching for romhacks when it’s easier to just provide different patches for each supported language.
I’m a little confused- you are aware that the main barrier here is not technical, but the fact that translating the entirety of a game into a different language (and doing it well) is a big undertaking, right? You can’t just use the european version and then that magically results in proper translations for spanish/french/etc.
I’ve always thought that was what the question was about. Like, ideally, for something like Sacred Echoes, if you were bilingual, you’d have a boot-up screen that allows you to choose between English, Spanish and Chinese, the three relatively finished translations.
Text itself takes up space, yes, but there’s also custom images for certain menu text, which takes up even more. Then there’s the edited/extra text characters added like diacritics or hanzi, which takes up more space. Then there might be bugs that will only happen in certain languages that need to be fixed - there’s a Ratchet and Clank 3 glitch used in speedrunning that only works on certain languages.
And if the hack is still being updated, that will also demand more space as well as the possible shuffling of other text or code. It’s not impossible per se, especially if a hack is well and truly finished and has space to spare, it’s just easier to make dedicated patches for each language.
TL;DR: not impossible and not particularly gruelling, just tedious work.
ah true ^^; I suppose that’s an option to do that instead.
Ah, when you put it that way, I guess it is a big task ^^; I mean, no doubt it would be to do so. And it wouldn’t be all magically set up that easy. By what I mean by the Europe version for hacking, I mean’t to say if people would do use the Europe version just to add in the extra languages for people playing there hacks on. if that makes senses ^^;
of course there is translating those scripts to match from english ones. but I do know But that’s why I was curious
oh wow :o I didn’t think there was a chinese version for it. But… I might be missing on it since I don’t pay attention to the forum that much ^^; spanish I think I did noticed? It is fun to see different language in those hacks :3 german is interesting one. for me, I’m interested in the spanish a bit. even though I don’t know spanish as much ^^;
like the Europe Version of GBA where you can get 5 differents languages in one game.