With the addition of Recca and Red Soul to our dynamic team, we at Dynamic Designs are no longer limited to English as our soul language expertise. These fine fellows both hail from other parts of our lovely world and English is not their native language of the areas in which they reside. It is in fact their second language. This means that our team is now primed and ready to handle translations involving other languages.

However, we aren't just limited to the languages of our core members. We are working behind the scenes on partnerships with other fine fellows to bring games we worked on to many more languages in the future. These may be core projects, joint projects or non-joint projects. Our interest is seeing that the entire world enjoys these games. To that end, we'd like to start taking the steps necessary to see that this occurs. I'm going to start working with some of our past releases to add new fonts that will have accent marks for foreign languages. Then we will work with fine trustworthy fellows to try and get these games into other languages.

For now, thanks to Recca, I'd like to announce Chrono Trigger Romanian as an official Dynamic Designs project and the first of what I hope are many fine things to come. This is a project Recca brought to us as he entered the group. It is already mostly complete with a few technical glitches to be worked out. We hope to be releasing this project to the world quite soon and thank Recca for bringing this project with him.

As a final note, please feel free to speak the native language of the project in that particular forum. I will also be modifying the main site in the next couple of days to add this project to our list of projects under Non-English translations just like the Forum. We look forward to the new avenues of game awareness this will bring to our Non-English speaking friends around the world.

Great news, thanks Taskforce! Hopefully, this will help attract more people who share our passion in romhacking/translating, as well as vintage games and increase the popularity of D-D's projects. I also thought that I should add a bit of info about my CT project. Initially, I had actually started translating it to brush up on my Romanian grammar (I live in an English speaking country - Canada; which I moved to when I was very young). So in a way ironically, English was my first language and Romanian my second. Afterwards, after seeing the progress I made, I decided to pursue it to the end and to polish the script which I had translated about a year and a half ago. As Taskforce mentioned, there's some bugs in the patch which need to be cleared before it's released. This is currently being worked on now and hopefully won't take too long. Now, let us all pay homage to our Divine Emperor Red Soul! May he show us the way to salvation!

I too believe "localization" of our english patches, as it were, shouldn't take long since the system is very well in place.
I could even start with Silva Saga 2 since PH's table modifications worked wonderfully and all those dreadful diacritical markings display correctly.
I'm inclined to believe a french font and table is sufficient to create a Portuguese translation.

I think that would be a great start Red Soul, seeing as that was the project you're probably most familiar with. Also, it will take me a bit of time to get fonts into other games. Remember that I am not a Non-English speaker and all those needed accents are foreign to me. I don't know who needs what for which language. What is absolutely required and what isn't. Building them will take time on my part.

That leads me to a question for Bongo`. There are two ways to do accents for fonts. Most everyone considers the only way is to add them to the font tiles, however I do know of a clever way to do it that I've seen in other games that might be a better option if he wants to do the assembly hack(s).

That is to use the same font and modify the font display routine to add them where needed. Then you can either use a trigger byte for those symbols and/or use a separate table section for those symbols.

like
a=30
b=31
c=32
d=33
e=34

Then you can have

é=F034
ê=F134
ë=F234
è=F334

of

é=a0
ê=a1
ë=a2
è=a3

(this is just a very small snippet example. I know I didn't even cover all of the options for the one letter I chose)

and the font display routine would move above the character when it encounters this situation and add the accent above the letter (where there is space for this to happen)

As I've said. I've seen this in a few games in the past and it worked beautifully. However, the question is, what kind of work it would take to do it this way.

Would it be easier just to build a full graphic set of fonts or just the accents and let the display routine handle them.

How about showing the world a Portuguese graphic in SS-II using 4ph's font?