Brave Fencer Musashi¶

playstation · french · in development

I'm translating the North American PlayStation release (SLUS-00726) into French. So far it's mostly been tooling: compressed archives, the disc image, and a text engine with fixed line lengths.

Musashi's first line, in French

What I'm working on¶

An LZSS codec and archive rebuilder, checked against how the hardware decompresses.
A full extract, edit, recompress, rebuild pipeline down to the disc image, EDC/ECC included.
The font and renderer, with French accents.
Item, ability, shop, and quest-log text, edited in place and checked in-game.

Current state¶

Anything that fits the original length works in-game. Longer lines need a redirect control code in the text interpreter. I've written and assembled it, but I haven't found which copy of the interpreter draws scene dialogue yet, so it isn't hooked up. Menu labels are still English.

No release yet.