AnnaBannana·7/26/2015 in General

Re-compiling Elona

Elona Custom

Latest Version: 1.57.2 Requires Elona+ 1.57
Mirror: Here (Provided by BloodyShade)
Installation: Simply extract ALL the files in the above archive into your Elona+ folder, overwriting as necessary.
Next Update: Friday, April 13th.
Complete Changelog & More (Troubleshooting, etc.): See this post.
Community Sourced To-Do List: Spreadsheet, 'To-Do" tab. Please add to the list of things that need to be translated! Bugs, typos, telling me to fix my crappy writing, etc. also welcome.

Recompiling Elona

Please note that this section is only for if you want to decompile and/or recompile Elona+ yourself. If you only want the recompiled game with English translations, ignore everything below this message.

What you need:

An HSP Decompiler
The HSP Compiler
A decent text-editor for large files (optional)

1)Run the decompiler. First select Elona.exe. This will extract 3 files into a directory named Elona in the directory that Elona.exe was in. With the decompiler, browse to this folder and select start.ax. This should yield start.hsp once the process is finished.

2)Open start.hsp in the compiler. Hit Ctrl+F9 to compile; it should throw an error. On line 155111 (E+1.51), delete the empty else{} statement. You should be able to compile now, but Elona will crash immediately after character generation.

3)Find the strings #defcfunc ibit, #defcfunc cdbit, and #defcfunc cbit. In each of these functions, you'll find a "return stat" line; replace it with "return abs(stat)" for each one. Elona should now successfully recompile and be runnable - just drop the built executable in your Elona directory.

To enable cut-scenes under the English setting:

1) Find this line in start.hsp: if ( var_2207 == 0 | (var_204 == 1 & var_1593 != 0) ) {

2) Remove the | (var_204 == 1 & var_1593 != 0) ) {. This should leave only if ( var_2207 == 0 ) {

The cutscenes will now trigger under the English language settings in Elona. Add a translated version of scene2.hsp to the Elona directory and the scenes should play with the rebuilt exe.

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Kosher pork·4/17/2016

Oh hey, new version update came out. No pressure.

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Nauya Kuuho·4/18/2016

Suddenly, 1.57

I wonder if we'll get a 1.56 change log at all.

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A Fandom user·4/18/2016

It was here for a while, actually.

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A Fandom user·4/19/2016

Hey Anna I don't know if it's already been mentioned but choosing to 'Feed' a pet an engagement ring acts as if you've given it to them normally and they don't seem to eat it.

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AnnaBannana·4/22/2016

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Hey Anna I don't know if it's already been mentioned but choosing to 'Feed' a pet an engagement ring acts as if you've given it to them normally and they don't seem to eat it.

That hadn't been reported, no. I'll take a look and see if there's anything I can do about it.

Anyways, here's an update build for 1.57. All that has been changed it updating for 1.57 and the removal of some things that are now fixed in normal E+ now. I haven't done any testing other than to see that it started up properly, so if something broke, please let me know.

Download: Elona Custom 1.57.1 (MEGA)

Source in the above archive.

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A Fandom user·4/23/2016

I started playing Elona for the first time this April and I immediately started with PlusCustom. Cannot imagine playing vanilla Plus. I know you get a lot of thank you's already, but this one is from me ;)

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AnnaBannana·4/29/2016

I had meant to post this earlier today, sorry I didn't get around to it.

Next release will come either tomorrow or Sunday, and will include new cutscene translations & flavor text read in from outside the executable.

I may also include an experimental feature which will allow NPC dialogue to be read in from external files. However, there's no easy way I can think of to dump all of it from the executable. So, this feature will essentially just create files with the EN/JP text as you encounter new lines from various NPCs. The Japanese text would be used as the key, and once the lines exist, it would read in the EN lines from the file.

For the moment, though, this would be for dialogue only. I've experimented with trying to catch all of the text, but doing it from within the game itself absolutely destroys performance. I still have some ideas, but it will likely involve some external tools. It might make things a bit more complicated from the user's end, but we'll cross that barrier if/when I see if it'll even work.

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AnnaBannana·5/2/2016

Alright, here you go. There's not a ton of immediate changes, but I suggest you read the details (particularly if you wonder what the new files are).

Download: Elona Custom 1.57.2 (MEGA)

Changes:

Added translations for the new cutscenes.
Added support for reading/modifying flavor text from outside the executable. Files for this can be found in /externalize/NPCData/, with the file name being the NPC ID.
Added support for reading translations from outside the executable.

With this update, the majority of the text should be readable from outside the executable now. Item descriptions, NPC flavor text, card descriptions, and (most) dialogue and various other bits of text in the game.

You'll notice that, outside of the files in the /externalize/ folder, that this release includes a few new files. textdb and devdb are database files and are used to replace text strings that use the lang() function in the Elona code. In other words, put in the Japanese line and the translation, and when that bit of text is encountered in Elona (when under the English settings), the text will be pulled from the database instead of the executable. The sqllite3 dll is the dll required for this to work.

The databases are empty for now, but it is how I will add new translations when possible, and I will (eventually) get around to migrating the old translations. The devdb is only used if you run the game with the "fulldb" parameter (the same way you run with "medit"), though I don't suggest doing so - it will dump any text that uses the lang() function that isn't already in the database, and since there's no way to do bulk inserts with this, that gets very, very slow. That includes strings that are composed dynamically (e.g. "x gold pieces"), so it will get cluttered quickly. It's mostly for my own testing purposes, but I wanted to fully disclose it in case anyone was wondering.

Anyways, while some bits of dialogue will still require modifying the executable, other than that, actual code changes, and bug fixes, it's possible now to do releases without requiring a new exe. I don't know how soon I'll make use of that, but hopefully pretty soon.

Thanks for your patience this week.

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A Fandom user·5/2/2016

Thanks for your hard work BanAnna !

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A Fandom user·5/13/2016

Oh no! 1.58 is out and I can't upgrade Elona Custom 1.57.2 because 1.57 Elona Plus is gone from dropbox! There isn't any chance for an archive lying around for us slow moving folks?

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