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cyberdog, posted Sat Nov 28, 2020 6:39 am (60690)

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Hi, i want to translate Dragon Quest to another language, but i am stuck with it.
I am unpacked games with QuickBMS and get game resources, but i can't decompile text *.bin file.
Text bin file looks like a normal text file, but when i edit this, and run games - it's crashed
How can i safely edit this bin? I so trying comtype_scan2 for extract text, but it's not helpfully

cyberdog, posted Sat Nov 28, 2020 11:53 am (60703)

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I'm continue researching this files.
Strings in file have next structure:
{ count variation of one event (like string array) } {weight of next block text (in byte)} {text block}
{weight of next block text (in byte)} {text block}

Zmkiy, posted Sat Nov 28, 2020 6:22 pm (60724)

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Use reimport3 for import

DQString.bms

cyberdog, posted Sat Nov 28, 2020 8:26 pm (60728)

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Zmkiy wrote:

Use reimport3 for import

Wow, it's awesome.
Can you see please another file like a stringDataEn.bin?
it's contain's some artefacts after import at line 324 for dq2 bin

p.s. thank you very much ^^

cyberdog, posted Sat Nov 28, 2020 8:53 pm (60729)

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If you want to joke, here is my java import tool (not completed)
I spend 9 hours for research file's at this topic, but i'am very newbie in it.
I newbie in reverse engineering, because i working in enterprise development, but i like this expirience

cyberdog, posted Sun Nov 29, 2020 10:26 am (60749)

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Oops, i update stringDataEn.bin for first part of game.

cyberdog, posted Sun Nov 29, 2020 12:15 pm (60752)

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I found why script for stringMap don't extract stringData.
Because in 5430h have text array:
-> 00 00 2E 00 20 what means
-> 00 00 2E (count elements in array) - 46 (dec)
-> 00 20 (size of first element) - 32 (dec)
--> skipping 32 bytes
-> 00 00 16 (size of second element) - 22 (dec)
--> skipping 22 bytes
-> etc.. to 46 element's end

But what interesting too:
at start of bin file contains some arrays like that:
-> 00 00 07 00 4C
-> 00 00 07 (7 elements)
-> 00 4C (76 byte next string)

and it's working good, hmmm...

Zmkiy, posted Sun Nov 29, 2020 1:26 pm (60755)

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Here's how it actually works

Code:

2 byte COUNT
for k = 0    2 byte COUNT1
   j =0
   while (j       2 byte COUNT2 
      for i = 0          2 byte STRING_SIZE
         STRING
         1 byte NULL
      end
      j  = COUNT2
   end
end

But for "StringData", it has a variant structure

DQ2DataString.bms

DQ1DataString.bms

cyberdog, posted Fri Dec 04, 2020 5:50 pm (60901)

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Zmkiy wrote:

Here's how it actually works

Code:

2 byte COUNT
for k = 0    2 byte COUNT1
   j =0
   while (j       2 byte COUNT2 
      for i = 0          2 byte STRING_SIZE
         STRING
         1 byte NULL
      end
      j  = COUNT2
   end
end

But for "StringData", it has a variant structure

Thank you very much, it's very helpfull

heraldopkg, posted Sun Jan 02, 2022 2:36 am (68603)

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And the dragon quest III strings bms, any news?