Dutch Zelda OOT translation

[TRS]

I have started to translate Zelda OOT to dutch. It is going to be a hell of a job, so I thought it might be a good idea to check wether there is a dutch version available? If anyone out there knows or ever heard of such a version, please post some info on it in this thread so I won't be doing useless work!



Thanks in advance, TRS

[Anchel]

I was going to say that the European version already has a "select language option" for dutch, but I got confused with German, sorry. I've just edited it.

[Anton]

It seems that there are no dutch version. Don't know about german, though.
As long as I know - there are french, spanish, japan, english
(jap+eng - in same USA rom)
Also there are 100% finished portugues & italian translation patches.
And 82% ready - russian patch

[Mayco]

TRS, afaik there is no dutch version, but i would like to help you to translate if you need some help

[TRS]

Mayco,

I sure could use all the help I can get! So far I have only translated and implemented the intro-part. I also took al the text from the rom and put it in a textfile, so I can do the translation even when I'm not at my PC. If you want to I can send you the text-file so you can see what you can do. I'm not planning to get this done as quick as possible though, caus' I cannot afford to work on this project 8 hours a day. I do however want to make a 'decent' translation that doesn't take away any of the game touch.

The difficulty is that the translated text has to be about the same length as the original english text because to program will be looking for the different pieces of text at fixed adresses. The textfile I made is about 70 pages long, so if you're still interested, let me hear!

Greetings,

TRS

[Anton]

TRS - how you'll hack graphics?
If you want a 'decent' translation - you should repaint all names in rom to dutch, such as places names, names in the inventory, bosses names, etc.. to make a FULL translation if you want.
If you interested - I wrote a small tutorial, translating Zelda:OoT to russian:
available at: http://www.zophar.net/tech/n64.html
Maybe this will help a bit...
I described some stuff there, related to Zelda only.
Sorry for some mistyping, if so... This tutorial was translated from russian under some beer...

[Anton]

Another question.
How you'll insert back all translated text?
(without errors in game)

[TRS]

Anton,

Thanks for the usefull tip. I had already figured out how to change the text, but I might do the graphics afterwards!

I was thinking on first trying to translate al the text to dutch, if I still have some motivation left after that, I might give it a try to hack the graphics! It did cross my mind though, but as I have limited available time, I will first concentrate on just the plane text.

As for you're second question, I already implemented the intro part so I think I know what problems you are reffering to. That's why I said in my previous post, when translating the text, the sentences will have to be about the same length as the english sentences. Using the hex-editor included with Visual C++, I can modify the text. It isn't that hard to figure out what the codes, that are not characters, mean, so if you keep them at the right places, everything works fine! Check the screenshots, they are from the original english version, as well as the modified dutch version. As you can see, I used the codes to change the color of the text and the end of line codes to match line-length.

Greetings,

TRS

[TRS]

The english version:

[CpU MasteR]

Wow, Very Good Work...