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

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

Font info

font.py extracts the fontmap from SLPM_663.60 to create a quick font.tbl table file. Use kefin.tbl for corrected values and control codes (also used by patch.asm) 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

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

• Sam Farron - Allowing me to use his translation as the basis of this project
• 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
• Falcom for making Ys