Chapter 2 Progress Log

[Mudvayne]

And the anticipation continues to build! 

[Pandemoniu]

I'll also be writing 'Guidebooks' to go in the Bravestory menu, explaining more about the Synth and Soldier Office upgrade systems.

Thanks for this!

[3lric]

Haha, of course. lol

[bx7]

Yes, I am super excited about this new chapter!!!! I just finished chapter yesterday. Aghhhh.. Lol.
But I will play through again because I went a little too fast, I didn't really build into all of the new class much less explored all of the main characters special classes abilities.

This is amazing!!!! I have mentioned it to many of my gamer friends, maybe I can find a friend here in Japan to translate the text into Japanese so I can have my Japanese friends also play hey friend here in japan to translate the text into japanese so I can have my japanese friend also play.

Thank you again for all of your time and effort you put into this game.

[3lric]

Greetings and thank you very much I think you are the first Japanese member we've had in a long time and I'm very glad Jot5 has made it that far! I would love to have Jot5 in other languages and would gladly share my scripts if it ever comes to that point.

Don't worry about not being too thorough with Ch1 initially, as the re-release adds soo much stuff, it's extremely worth the re-play anyhow

[Xifanie]

Sorry, to tell you this, but JotF cannot be translated to Japanese. The reason we can use so many modifications is that the kanji character space (where our roman languages do not require nearly that many characters), offers a lot of space for these custom modifications. Sorry

It would be possible if you were willing to translate it to hiragana/katakana only...

[Hyraldelita]

But Xifanie, i could understand if you translate script, but the story only it's still not possible to put in kanji?

Even if they're japanese it wont be a problem for skills and class description since is nothing complicated, but if it's story only, it would still be a problem to translate it in japanese?

[Nyzer]

I believe she's saying that they've axed the kanji characters from the game's base "alphabet" entirely. I could be wrong, though.

[Xifanie]

There are 2200 kanji characters in the game, both located in BATTLE.BIN and WORLD.BIN. We overwrote some of them indiscriminately because -we- don't need them. And we're talking about a lot of them. And not the same kanjis in both files. I'm sure you don't know of another location in RAM that we could use with such a big amount of space.
2200 x 35 = 77000 bytes; that allows us to have many modifications.

[Zyrku]

How much do we need to wait? D:

[Angel]

Chapter 1 re-release honestly shouldn't be much longer. A recent change has been made that will expedite its release, as well as improve a particular feature. Chapter 2 will take a bit more (partially my fault there), but is near-complete. Hard to quantify in days, sorry.

[Zyrku]

Oh thanks, also, does this re-release involve that port for the psp?

[3lric]

It's not a port to PSP, we don't work on the WotL version.

All it is is that the SCUS will be a number that PSX2PSP will recognize. So people actually will be able to make a eboot of it now to play it on PSP.

[Hyraldelita]

i'm replaying the game for the 4th time, and i will a 5th when the re relase come out pretty much fun to play, if only Jp were gained a bit faster^^ good thing you guys fixed that in the re relase. 

P.S

spoiler

after a saw zack and aeris sprite i hope you'll put tifa too, and let us use them all XD

And why something is telling me the guy/girl who give link the stone is meliadoul?XD

[3lric]

And why something is telling me the guy/girl who give link the stone is meliadoul?XD

Nope

[Hyraldelita]

damn xD ahhaha  was so sure ahahha , i'm getting crazy about it! then who has to "repent" from TTF?XD i can't think about anyone else.
Izlude = Dead..
Wiegraf same as izlude..
Miluda? you killed it so no..
Olan have nothing to repent for...


all the shrine knights are dead..

oh my i really hope i can find it out in chapter 2 , this is making me think too much ahahah

[Nyzer]

After being renamed and raised as a Deathknight in WotL, Algus ("Argath" in WotL) has plenty to repent for before his ghost can move on to his final rest. In the spirit of sticking to his inconsistent name, he now calls himself "Ahhgorf".

[3lric]

LOL like I would ever use that chode, I mean, look at his haircut, he's showing the beginning signs of going bald

[Pandemoniu]

Speaking of Izlude, I always felt he got the short end of the stick.

It would have been nice if the game didn't off him like it did, or if the story of the stones more favored him by giving him a the power of a "good" stone, or something like that.

Maybe I just feel sorry for him. He seemed like a cool character otherwise.

[3lric]

Nah, i completely agree, poor guy never had a shot. Unfortunately not much I can use him for, being as he's dead and rotting at this point lol.