EDIT: DLL issue cited here has been fixed. So now I'll post news about the translation here if it's okay...
Ok, I'm kinda ashamed for asking this as I've already asked via PM to some users around here, but I think it's better to publish it here rather than being PM some user for assistance everytime. To those who've beel helping me so far via PM, my thanks. If this is the incorrect forum section for this, my apologies.
So, as the title explains, I (along with a friend I'll call pixl_man and mrpeanut188) are working a complete spanish translation for Cry of Fear, for the spanish users who have a hard time understanding english stuff (and for a friend that has me bored trying to explaining him what to do). I've only started to edit the subtitle files that come with the game but I wanted to take to a whole new level. I can safely say that transaltion is half completed by now, me and pixl_man are translating the check.tga files while mrpeanut will send me some other stuff (I feel guilty for bothering him to help me xD). Now I'm translating the in-game generated text and hopefully, this will be finished before the month ends.
I know that those in-game text are in the client.dll and hl.dll. I downloaded the CoF full russian translation to see what they did to change those texts. I discovered that the translation has a .bat files that formats the dll files and replace the texts. I tried to do it with the spanish translations and it worked... sort of. The game crashes when I use the patcher in the client.dll (says an error that it couldn't load library) and if I use it on the hl.dll it runs fine until I try to grab a syringe or dual-wield weapons. I don't know what to do to solve this matter (the originals dll files are backed-up, obviously). I just need the client.dll file to be patched properly and that should be 1 less giant blocking my path. Before patching the dll, its size is 1,168KB, after patching it changes to 1,169KB. If I'm correct, it must not surpass the original size.
Oh, I almost forgot, here are some screenshots of some of the translations:
Instead of translating "Game Over" I decided to put "You Died" in spanish as a small reference to Resident Evil.
Main menu.
Extras section.
That's the "you can't drop your phone" text translated via the patcher, meaning that it works with the hl.dll
What the translation will cover will be:
-Main Menu
-Inventory and items descrptions
-in-game generated texts
-introductions and conclusions (fixing typos as these are already made)
What will not include will be:
-Launcher (not sure how to do it and I don't wanna mess up with files that are beyond my comprehension)
-Voices (They're sacred. I'd be killing 50% of the game's magic finding someone to make a spanish voice for Simon. Plus, the team members would not allow it.)
-2D Menu
-Custom Campaigns
EDIT -Statistics and grade screen: The translated DLL lines to edit are too long and will crash the dll file, so it has been decided to keep that screen in english to prevent issues.
That's all everyone. See ya!!
