martin2306 Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 (edited) Hi! Can anyone give me some advice or help on how to eport/import the font from this game to make it editable? I recently solved a problem with exporting/importing text from this game. That's solved. However, a new problem has appeared. Czech contains some specific letters ( ě š č ř ž ů ť ď ď ň ) and these are then displayed incorrectly in the game. I would need to edit the font in the game. There are two fonts in the game directory (help, diary, save game). I have edited those. But the font used directly for the in-game subtitles is probably inside some file (bs1dc.dat?). file bs1dc.dat: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dE24ZJxbXmDfQuMAmWC0NwsaAyAl91ZH/view?usp=sharing file bs1dc.exe: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qq3Jt-yw2NzxnVti2IUNYpThJfWRvNy2/view?usp=sharing Edited May 2 by martin2306 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikskoks Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 This DAT file is an archive. You can unpack data with quickbms script https://github.com/bartlomiejduda/Tools/blob/master/NEW Tools/Broken Sword/Broken_sword_DAT_script.bms or with Game Extractor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin2306 Posted May 3 Author Share Posted May 3 12 hours ago, ikskoks said: This DAT file is an archive. You can unpack data with quickbms script https://github.com/bartlomiejduda/Tools/blob/master/NEW Tools/Broken Sword/Broken_sword_DAT_script.bms or with Game Extractor. Thank you for your reply, I will explore and try! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin2306 Posted May 3 Author Share Posted May 3 (edited) I tried the quickbms script. I don't know if I did something wrong. I have a folder with 2550 DAT files. Is that correct? Edited May 3 by martin2306 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thief1987 Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 1 hour ago, martin2306 said: I tried the quickbms script. I don't know if I did something wrong. I have a folder with 2550 DAT files. Is that correct? Well yeah, there are no filenames stored in this archive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin2306 Posted May 3 Author Share Posted May 3 2 hours ago, Thief1987 said: Well yeah, there are no filenames stored in this archive. Well, but now the question is still how to find the font file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thief1987 Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 (edited) How did you find text files because as far as I can see they are also packed in the bs1dc.dat? Also, have you tried to edit two ttf fonts in the root folder? It seems like game is using them as it doesn't start without these files. Edit Yeah, game is using them, but unfortunately only partially, subs stay unaffected Edited May 3 by Thief1987 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikskoks Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 File formats from this game have not been documented anywhere. After extracting DAT archive, you can inspect each file using hex editor like hex workshop and you'll notice that some files starts with signatures like BACK BM16 FACE FG16 FORE SPR4 SPR8 SPRA. Signature indicate which file format are you looking at and one of these extracted file can be the font you're looking for. I would start with figuring out a way to preview or decode graphics from this game. This script may help you https://github.com/vpelletier/sword1-dc/blob/master/dump.py as well as this Game Extractor plugin: http://www.watto.org/specs.html?specs=Viewer_DAT_HSFS_SPR8_SPR8 But remember that it may be not enough. You may need to debug the game to see how the font is handled (like how the coordinates table is parsed etc.) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin2306 Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 16 hours ago, Thief1987 said: How did you find text files because as far as I can see they are also packed in the bs1dc.dat? Also, have you tried to edit two ttf fonts in the root folder? It seems like game is using them as it doesn't start without these files. Edit Yeah, game is using them, but unfortunately only partially, subs stay unaffected - I found the game texts using Notepad++ in the bs1dc.dat file. - I have already edited the two TTF files. But the font for the subtitles is somewhere inside the game. I can think of a bs1dc.dat or bs1dc.exe file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin2306 Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 3 hours ago, ikskoks said: File formats from this game have not been documented anywhere. After extracting DAT archive, you can inspect each file using hex editor like hex workshop and you'll notice that some files starts with signatures like BACK BM16 FACE FG16 FORE SPR4 SPR8 SPRA. Signature indicate which file format are you looking at and one of these extracted file can be the font you're looking for. I would start with figuring out a way to preview or decode graphics from this game. This script may help you https://github.com/vpelletier/sword1-dc/blob/master/dump.py as well as this Game Extractor plugin: http://www.watto.org/specs.html?specs=Viewer_DAT_HSFS_SPR8_SPR8 But remember that it may be not enough. You may need to debug the game to see how the font is handled (like how the coordinates table is parsed etc.) I will study the links but I am not a programmer. I can work with some utilities (e.g. QBMS). I also have Game Extractor, but I'm not very good with it yet. I am a translator (self-taught) rather than a technician. The turning point came a few days ago. While searching on the internet I discovered the Hungarian translation of this game. I contacted the translator and he sent me the files with which he translated this game. But the utilities were created for him by someone else. This solved the problem with exporting/importing the text, including the graphics with the text (buttons, comic). There was also a file to edit the font "inside" the game. Unfortunately, just by the name (bs1dc_hunfont_GUI.exe) it modified that font "inside" the game to the Hungarian character set. I'm attaching the file "bs1dc HU.zip" where is everything I got. bs1dc HU.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thief1987 Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 (edited) Texture font is in the exe, it has FONT magic. Devs used libftgl for creating this font, afaik it's bitmap but heavily modified for OpenGL API. Edited May 4 by Thief1987 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin2306 Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 Good detective work! Now how to get to the text (bitmap)... 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thief1987 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 (edited) Well I think I was wrong and libftgl only used for converting ttf fonts into bitmap in runtime so it doesn't needed in your case. Font is actually look similar to their sprite formats. There is a decompiler for SPR4, SPR8 and SPRA formats at that github repo that ikskoks posted, but even if it's look similar it doesn't look like any of them, so it needs separate researching and most likely reversing through debugging. Edited May 5 by Thief1987 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thief1987 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Thief1987 said: sorry, dp Edited May 5 by Thief1987 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin2306 Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 (edited) I don't understand it, but what about trying to look at the file "bs1dc_hunfont_GUI.exe" what changes are made by this file? Otherwise, I have a plan B. If the CZ translation doesn't have the correct characters, it will be a grammatical error, but it won't change the meaning of the word. It won't be a 10/10 translation, but a 7/10... Edited May 5 by martin2306 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thief1987 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 (edited) 38 minutes ago, martin2306 said: I don't understand it, but what about trying to look at the file "bs1dc_hunfont_GUI.exe" what changes are made by this file? Otherwise, I have a plan B. If the CZ translation doesn't have the correct characters, it will be a grammatical error, but it won't change the meaning of the word. It won't be a 10/10 translation, but a 7/10... Well, that program is patching the font data in the bs1dc.exe, that is all that it's doing, so person who did it reversed font format, maybe ask them Edited May 5 by Thief1987 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin2306 Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 12 minutes ago, Thief1987 said: Well, that program is patching the font data in the bs1dc.exe, that is all that it's doing Yes, it patches the font in the bs1dc file for Hungarian and I would need the same but for Czech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin2306 Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 2 hours ago, Thief1987 said: ...so person who did it reversed font format, maybe ask them I did. That seemed like the easiest solution. I haven't heard back from him yet. I'll wait a while. In the meantime, I'll translate and then there will be a plan "B". Thank you for your efforts and the time you have given me. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thief1987 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 48 minutes ago, martin2306 said: I did. That seemed like the easiest solution. I haven't heard back from him yet. I'll wait a while. In the meantime, I'll translate and then there will be a plan "B". Thank you for your efforts and the time you have given me. Thank you! Yeah, good luck with it. I will try to look at this thing, though I'm not very good at debugging so result is highly not guaranteed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer Rabatini Posted May 6 Engineer Share Posted May 6 If you attached the .exe containing the font, more people can take a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin2306 Posted May 6 Author Share Posted May 6 32 minutes ago, Rabatini said: If you attached the .exe containing the font, more people can take a look. The file "bs1dc.exe" is downloadable at the top of my question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer Rabatini Posted May 7 Engineer Share Posted May 7 Well, i find something, seems to be the font, but its tiled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin2306 Posted May 7 Author Share Posted May 7 7 hours ago, Rabatini said: Well, i find something, seems to be the font, but its tiled. I think it might be the font. I'm sending a picture of the game. Attached is the file "bs1dc_hunfont_GUI.exe" that the translator sent me. Unfortunately, it modifies the Hungarian character set. If it would be possible to find out what, where and how it was modified. bs1dc_hunfont_GUI.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer Rabatini Posted May 7 Engineer Share Posted May 7 Seems to be the font. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin2306 Posted May 7 Author Share Posted May 7 (edited) YES! That's definitely this font! It's only used in subtitles in game. The menu buttons are in graphics (pictures). The others ( tooltip, diary, savegame title...) use a different font (Linux Libertine type). Edited May 7 by martin2306 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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