Siglus Hacking

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#81

I think you’re right and that’s what I figured, which is totally fine. This could entirely just be a perceptual thing, but I’m thinking about the goal here of what the reader is supposed to feel about Kanade in this instance. Is she normal but mysterious, much like the girl you just spoke to? Are you supposed to trust her more than the girl you just spoke to? Are you supposed to feel on an even ground in distrusting the two?

I’ll be less opinionated ignorant once I read your TL and start to QC, but I personally took the scene (in knowing Kanade a bit) that she’s very matter-of-fact but simply aiming to help Otonashi who’s being a bit of a raging bull to grasp the situation, much like how she treats most people who she runs into ie Yusa in Heaven’s Door. Your choice could be totally fine and work perfectly, but from a writing and tone standpoint with her voiced lines and appearance here, she doesn’t strike me as peculiar, simply the situation is odd.

Perhaps to make more sense: I think a major point of this whole scenario is deciding who you want to trust, them both being presented fairly. As such, presenting one side as more or less believable skews the purpose of the reader coming to their own conclusion, and rather pushes them towards one.

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#82

Tone is definitely the important thing here. Her lines are very matter-of-fact in the script, so I did try to keep that much at least. I’d have to go back and listen to her voice to confirm, but I’ll keep your points in mind when I have the time to continue again.

#83

She is very matter-of-fact, but I would agree with Biz and say she isnt mechanical. She is kinda presented as such in the anime, but in HD she seems much more human, getting very annoyed and bored and tired of the SSS messing with her, calling her an Angel. (HD light spoilers)She even gets pretty angry and tells Yusa to go away when Yusa, (supposedly having never met her before) comes to Kanade for help.

As Biz said, the important thing is how Otonashi sees her. In the first scene she goes from “The crazy girl with a gun who thinks we’re all dead called her an angel and the enemy, but dear god I hope this is a normal girl who can actually help me” to “Oh, she’s in on it too, trying to make fun of me. Now her matter-of fact-ness is starting to piss me off.” At least, thats the vibe I got.

Basically, she’s quiet, matter-of-fact, and polite. Now, would she use contractions… maybe not, because she’s being polite? I dont know, Id have to go back and look and just how formal she is being.

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#84

@ArdWar What instructions are you using to tell the g00 files to cut the same area of an image twice?

#85

I went ahead and added some AB terminology to the day 00 script, and fixed some slight mistranslations. There’s some TLs that were given leeway for personality reasons, so you might want to check it and see if there’s anything to dispute.

I’ve noticed some punctuation errors, and names still need to be TLed, so I’ll do them along with the terminology stuff tomorrow.

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#86

Is there a non-critical section that I can have a try at translating? I’m not particularly skilled, so if there’s an area that’s preferred for testing the waters that would be perfect.

Aside: It seems I’ve been given write access on the repo already.

#87

Yup, I gave you access when you watched it, so that if you ever wanted to try joining in you’d be able to~

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#88

Just specify the area twice:

<vas_g00 format="2">
  <regions>
    <region x1="0" y1="0" x2="95" y2="25"/>
    <region x1="0" y1="0" x2="95" y2="25"/>
    <region x1="0" y1="26" x2="95" y2="51"/>
    <region x1="0" y1="52" x2="95" y2="77"/>
    <region x1="0" y1="52" x2="95" y2="77"/>
  </regions>
</vas_g00>

Honestly, it came with the png when I decompress g00 files with vaconv.

#89

Oh, I don’t know if those xmls work with the tools I’m using… I’ll try it out though.

#90

Just a quick note, we’ll be moving over to the 1.1 version of Angel Beats, as it is more accessible and has more content. I don’t know if it adds any new scenes (still downloading it right now) but it did unlock some new choices.

#91

It does add new scenes! For one, I know it includes The fight with Tenshi at the bottom of Guild!

#92

Looks like the new version uses a different XOR key, so the tools will need updating for it. We can continue with the old version and just port it over later.

No, I meant, I don’t know if they added new script files. That scene may have already been in, but inaccessible.

#93

I’m feeling this way too. There were some instances that I just couldn’t figure out, but it appears they’ve become accessible here. However they did add Niku Udon and Light Drop!

#94

So, I’m working on translating Hisako’s thing (05_ひさ子_01.txt) I haven’t pushed to the Git repo yet though. Which works out since I need to move over to the 1.10 trial version.

Anyway, if somebody wants to take over that one (or already has and I haven’t noticed) feel free to. I think the whole file will need extensive TL-Checks. xP

That aside I ran across a funny phrase that took no time at all to translate. (Spoilered in case spoilers) アメリカンエロドッグ (American Ero Dog is how I have it translated)

My biggest problem right now is context for where / how the strings are used (for proper context). But I haven’t invested greatly into my workflow yet, so that may be fixed soon.

I may look at doing some code for tool related things as well.

#95

That’s one of Otonashi’s, extremely numerous, nicknames. I’ve been looking at those. If they are all translated then it becomes a massive copy-pasting grind so I wasn’t sure it was best to do early or leave for last.

#96

You can hold out for now. Transferring would get in the way of current progress~

I’ve just been going through and adding them while TL checking. Did it with Yuri in day 00 iirc.

#97

How numerous are they? I’m starting to wonder if there are assets for more nickname options in the full release or something, or if despite him getting his proper name early on you start getting these other names from other characters regardless for fun. I’m not quite sure I’m understanding it just yet lol. I know there’s the Hinata title thing but I just don’t know.

#98

Every time Otonashi has a line it lists 22 names. The first 11 are obtainable in the event on the first day, the rest I don’t know. The screen shots on the side with the download links said “You leveled up to just an ero boy” so it must be through a series of choices; it’s obtainable before you meet Yui so it must be early.
Edit: I guess it could be that you keep names across playthroughs and that’s how you get that line from Yui.

#99

1.10 key is 0x41,0x69,0x96,0x12,0x48,0x98,0x57,0xD8,0xC8,0x7F,0xD7,0x55,0x99,0x38,0xEC,0x6D

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#100

Thanks @Kelebek! I was just about to post an update to the tools for v1.1: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58805276/AngelBeats_1stBeat_Trial_Tools.zip

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