Help for Policenauts PS1 Italian Fan Translation

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Help for Policenauts PS1 Italian Fan Translation

Post by A_alla_quarta »

Hello there!

About a week ago, I've sent an e-mail to the address contact@policenauts.net, but unfortunately I didn't get any replies, so I'm going to ask here as well.
I'm interested in creating a project to make an Italian patch for the game, starting from the english fan translation.
The italian hackers I contacted told me that everything would be much easier if the guys who worked on the original project could share the tools they used.

If there is someone who created the english fan translation patch for the PS1 version of the game here, please let me know if you're willing to help us.
It would mean a lot for every italian retrogamer who's not able to understand english.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to let me know.

Thank you all!
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Re: Help for Policenauts PS1 Italian Fan Translation

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Good evening,

This is IlDucci from the Saturn project. Our current toolset works on both PSX and Saturn, but somebody else by the nickname Scorpion2k7 contacted me as well for an italian version. Is he from your crew?

The current tools are still not finished for any non-English translation and I need help finishing them. Your hackers know about V/A format modifications and compression hacking?
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Re: Help for Policenauts PS1 Italian Fan Translation

Post by A_alla_quarta »

Good afternoon, IlDucci, thank you for your reply.

I'm not really a member of a crew, I just recently got in touch with a group of italian hackers through their forum and one of them asked me to contact the english fan translation's creators and ask them if they could share their toolset.
I'm pretty sure Scorpion2k7 is totally unrelated to this crew.

The guy I'm in touch with would like to know something more specific about the kind of help you need to finish the tools.
For example, he didn't understand what you meant when you talked about V/A format. Does V/A stand for Voice acting?
But he told me his crew is perfectly familiar with compression hacking.
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Re: Help for Policenauts PS1 Italian Fan Translation

Post by IlDucci »

While I am interested in the latter, in this case I’m talking about video and audio. Were having issues editing the video container format for PSX (Required to change the FMV’s subtitles).

In any case, if you are not from the crew, please... “Take me to your leader”.
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Re: Help for Policenauts PS1 Italian Fan Translation

Post by A_alla_quarta »

You're absolutely right, IlDucci, I'm not the right one to talk to about this subject.
I'll make one of the guys from the crew ask these technical questions by himself here.
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