Hungry Ghosts Fan Translation

A fan-led effort to provide an English translation for 2003 Deep Space survival horror game Hungry Ghosts.

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We have a discord server! (updated link)
https://t.co/3sNvSyTaAA

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@JowiJoestar there’s a good amount of duplication but there are just shy of 300 of these “interaction” matrices 😊

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Examining objects in Hungry Ghosts can produce different messages depending on the state the object is in. The message can also depend on the state the player is in. *Additionally*, any message can have an optional "extra helpful" version once you obtain a special item. 🤯

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More menu graphics and text polish!

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@_Kimimi @stephenfinn3 🙂

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This has had the additional effect of giving us significantly more screen space to work with especially on text-dense areas like diary entries. :)

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We patched the font!

Hungry Ghosts originally shipped with built-in support for latin characters, and even has support for variable-width fonts. This has been a godsend and made the romhacking job significantly easier. However after making progress on the translation…

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Since we were going to have to fix the alignment issues anyway, why not patch in a nicer-looking font! While we were at it, we also modified the vwf code to support proper kerning pairs, and added support for some non-standard characters like emdashes and ellipses.

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WIP obviously, but progress!

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@unsexpistols thanks dood

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We have a discord server! (updated link)
https://t.co/3sNvSyTaAA

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Small update - Many of the 4bpp textures in the game are stored as a scrambled pattern of 32x16 tiles. Our graphics tool now properly support this so we can easily replace them with English-language graphics!

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@ZAZAZAZAZA74 Whoops sorry about that https://t.co/3sNvSySCL2

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thanks to @anFerzy for the hard work on graphics

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The start of something great!