Ys V: Lost Kefin - Kingdom of Sand (PS2) English Translation

Currently using Sam Farron's translation from his Translation Series with permission

Building

Copy the contents of the game's .iso into the extracted and translated folders
Run build.bat or manually run the commands

Hacking Notes

The game uses SHIFT-JIS encoding for the most part
The game's base pointer is $FFF80
Extracted .bin files with _anm in the filename are animation files with indexed 8BPP graphics
Extracted .HGB files are texture files with 32BPP RGBA graphics
Music files are .hd (header), .bd (header), and .sq (sequence) files
In SLPM_663.60 the font is located at $1A3E90 as 4BPP graphics, its palette is stored at $25E4C0, and the fontmap is at $1A31F0

Extracting the DATA.BIN Files

extract.py extracts all the files from DATA.BIN and its folders into a DATA folder but does not extract the files into their correct folders yet, a logfile.txt is also created for fixing issues with the script

To do

Create a proper table file (since the game does not use SHIFT-JIS encoding fully)
Updated extractiong script to extract DATA0.BIN, DATA1.BIN, and SLPM_663.60
Add more hacking notes (my notes.txt file is a mess so I haven't added it here)
Continue inserting the English script

Credits

Hilltop - Providing valuable videos such as hacking with Ghidra and PS1/PS2 graphics
Life Bottle Productions - Providing me with their isotool.py script and their tutorial for finding the base pointer

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