Translate ScummVM in other languages

saulob · Post by **saulob** » Mon Dec 20, 2010 2:04 pm

Hm...

There's no way to "invisible" update the last official exe file to fix it?

Or apply a small update and on the official post inform it?
Just the translation update, no other code changed...

Machiner · Post by **Machiner** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 12:38 pm

Hi,
in this 1st post of mine, I'd like to inform that, since (apparently) Freeshadow and tempsanity gave up on translating ScummVM into Polish, my friends from Grajpopolsku.pl (Polish game translators community) have prepared a working, Polish version of the software. They uploaded it to the tracker a few days ago, so our request is that you update the first post in this topic and the Wiki page at http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/HOWTO ... cummVM_GUI
Thx,
cheers

Nikioko · Post by **Nikioko** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:18 pm

Is there any Klingon translation available yet?

saulob · Post by **saulob** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:04 pm

Nikioko wrote:Is there any Klingon translation available yet?

Really?

We can try translating... can you try? It's not that hard

I'm not one Klingon expert. Is there any Google translator?

Cousin Sven · Post by **Cousin Sven** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 10:11 pm

I've started work on a Swedish translation. It's about 50% done. I'll aim to have it finished this weekend. If I have any questions about terminology that aren't covered by the wiki I'll ask them in this thread.

EDIT 1: Currently 84% done.

Here's a question I couldn't find the answer to in the wiki or this thread:

Do the "(built on %s)", "Features compiled in:" and "Supported engines:" strings appear anywhere else outside the "About" window? If not, should they be translated?

I'm asking because the rest of the credits in the "About" window are in English, and these strings are not available in the .pot file, as far as I can see. It might look odd if three of the strings were translated while the others weren't.

EDIT 2: 96% done. 15 fuzzy strings, 3 not translated (the ones mentioned in the question above). If there's no response to the question above by tomorrow, I'll send the current file with the remaining 3 strings not translated.

EDIT 3: 99% done. 0 fuzzy strings, 3 not translated.

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:00 am

Hi Sven,
thanks for your contribution! Somebody should soon look at adding it to our code base.

The translation of these three strings currently only appear in the about dialog, yes. The text also is printed in a terminal window, if one runs ScummVM from a terminal with certain options (such as "scummvm --version"). However, we don't seem to translate it there yet.

This, as well as the fact that we don't translate the rest of the about dialog, is really a missing feature (it's almost a bug, but not quite, in my opinion

. If you care about this a bit, then please do not hesitate to file a feature request on our website, pointing out any places (such as the about dialog, the command line help/version texts, and others) that are not currently translatable. This won't guarantee that the issue is resolved, but at least it won't be as easily forgotten.

Thanks again for your work!

Post by **criezy** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:25 pm

Hi sven,

Once you have finished the translation, put it on the patch tracker (as describe in my first post) and I will add it to our code base.

Concerning the translation of the about dialog, I discussed this with another translator some time ago and then forgot about it (which is where having a feature request is good

).

Cousin Sven · Post by **Cousin Sven** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:48 pm

Thank you both for the information.
I've uploaded my proposed translation to the patch tracker (ID: 3232066).

EDIT: And it is my pleasure to contribute to the project. I haven't any money to donate but it's nice to give something back for all the fun I've derived from ScummVM.

saulob · Post by **saulob** » Tue May 03, 2011 10:25 pm

Updated the PT-BR one. Thanks

bckpkol · Post by **bckpkol** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:31 am

What about translation of kyra.dat (win1251 (text), dos866 (CREDITS.TXT))?
I translate The Legend of Kyrandia on Russian. Translation completed by 75%.
The game runs on ScummVM.
Current version: LINK REMOVED BECAUSE IT CONTAINED A FULL KYRANDIA 1 VERSION
Screenshots: Slideshow BMP PNG
But there are three problems: KYRANDIA.WSA, GEMCUT.EMC and kyra.dat.
KYRANDIA.WSA: http://animatedpng.com/ The current version has an animated KYRANDIA.PNG.
GEMCUT.EMC: The current version has GEMCUT.RMC.
kyra.dat: I don't know...

LordHoto · Post by **LordHoto** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:29 pm

bckpkol wrote:What about translation of kyra.dat (win1251 (text), dos866 (CREDITS.TXT))?
I translate The Legend of Kyrandia on Russian. Translation completed by 75%.
The game runs on ScummVM.
Current version: LINK REMOVED BECAUSE IT CONTAINED A FULL KYRANDIA 1 VERSION
Screenshots: Slideshow BMP PNG
But there are three problems: KYRANDIA.WSA, GEMCUT.EMC and kyra.dat.
KYRANDIA.WSA: http://animatedpng.com/ The current version has an animated KYRANDIA.PNG.
GEMCUT.EMC: The current version has GEMCUT.RMC.
kyra.dat: I don't know...

There is already a working Russian translation of Kyrandia 1-3. You should probably check them out.

About your version:
1) We won't support any animated PNG files or the like.
2) Name script files .EMC and not .RMC, we will not support changes like this.
3) You don't need to change anything in kyra.dat yourself, what you usually do is translate the strings inside the original executable and we will pick them up afterwards.

Anyway as currently there is a working fan translation I don't really see a point in adding support for a new translation. I heard the translation we support is fine language wise too.

I also removed the link to your translation, currently it is a zip containing all game data not only a patch against a normal English floppy version. That is illegal and we do not want that here. If you have a patch against a English floppy version (or any other legal version) you are free to link it here.

bckpkol · Post by **bckpkol** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 4:20 pm

LordHoto wrote:There is already a working Russian translation of Kyrandia 1-3. You should probably check them out.

This version does not work well under DOSBox.
What is it you think? http://files.planetcnc.ru/sg/text/SSTEditor.rar
This is a string table editor, incompatible with ScummVM.
I have to write to the same offsets.
Translations, incompatible with ScummVM:
http://katkov.net/Kyrandia/dl/kyrand1r.exe - Taras Katkov, patch only
https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D6937683_8098138_665543 - SPK, patch only

LordHoto wrote:1) We won't support any animated PNG files or the like.

OK, KYRANDIA.VQA.

LordHoto wrote:2) Name script files .EMC and not .RMC, we will not support changes like this.

User picked target 'kyra1' (gameid 'kyra1')...
Looking for a plugin supporting this gameid... Kyra
Starting 'The Legend of Kyrandia'
The game in 'E:\scummvm1.1\Kyra1\' seems to be unknown.
Please, report the following data to the ScummVM team along with name
of the game you tried to add and its version/language/etc.:
{"GEMCUT.EMC", 0, "40c8f9f17c42cdf28ee5d9b150a5dc53", 6792},
{"BEAD.CPS", 0, "0bfcb978aca1ba1123704d6e0373438c", 738},

WARNING: Kyra failed to instantiate engine: Game data not found (target 'kyra1',
path 'E:\scummvm1.1\Kyra1\')!

OK, GOLDEN.EMC, GOLDEN.CPS, GOLDEN.DAT, GOLDEN.MSC (Scene 66: crashes game)

LordHoto wrote:3) You don't need to change anything in kyra.dat yourself, what you usually do is translate the strings inside the original executable and we will pick them up afterwards.

I will do it.
ADD: https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D6937683_8098138_667553 - it's legal?
I do not think that all ScummVM developers have the original version of Kyrandia.

LordHoto · Post by **LordHoto** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:43 pm

bckpkol wrote:
LordHoto wrote:There is already a working Russian translation of Kyrandia 1-3. You should probably check them out.
This version does not work well under DOSBox.
What is it you think? http://files.planetcnc.ru/sg/text/SSTEditor.rar
This is a string table editor, incompatible with ScummVM.
You have to write to the same offsets.
Translations, incompatible with ScummVM:
http://katkov.net/Kyrandia/dl/kyrand1r.exe - Taras Katkov, patch only
https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D6937683_8098138_665543 - SPK, patch only

I am not sure about what the translators use, you will have to ask other translators about this.

I am also not sure how well the Russian translation we support works under DOSBox, I just know it's based as a patch on an old English floppy version. If you patch it against a working old floppy version it should work, at least I remember someone saying it worked for him when he did that...

bckpkol wrote:
LordHoto wrote:1) We won't support any animated PNG files or the like.
OK, KYRANDIA.VQA.

I think I didn't express myself clearly enough: Changes like these (even when you use a VQA movie, which *might* be the same format as Kyra3 supports, depending on the VQA version) will not be supported. If you want to translate any movies and/or graphics files you'll need to create WSA and/or CPS files. Everything else will not be supported by us, since it will require hackery for an unofficial game version.

bckpkol wrote:
LordHoto wrote:2) Name script files .EMC and not .RMC, we will not support changes like this.

User picked target 'kyra1' (gameid 'kyra1')...
Looking for a plugin supporting this gameid... Kyra
Starting 'The Legend of Kyrandia'
The game in 'E:\scummvm1.1\Kyra1\' seems to be unknown.
Please, report the following data to the ScummVM team along with name
of the game you tried to add and its version/language/etc.:
{"GEMCUT.EMC", 0, "40c8f9f17c42cdf28ee5d9b150a5dc53", 6792},
{"BEAD.CPS", 0, "0bfcb978aca1ba1123704d6e0373438c", 738},

WARNING: Kyra failed to instantiate engine: Game data not found (target 'kyra1',
path 'E:\scummvm1.1\Kyra1\')!

Yeah that's to be expected since it doesn't know your modified version. If we will support it one day we will add the detection entries to the official source tree.

bckpkol wrote: OK, GOLDEN.EMC, GOLDEN.CPS, GOLDEN.DAT, GOLDEN.MSC (Scene 66: crashes game)

Yeah there's several unused scenes in Kyra1 which might crash the game. I think 66 is one of them.

PS: This is not the right topic to discuss this anyway, this is about translating the ScummVM GUI etc. and not about translating games.

saulob · Post by **saulob** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 6:47 pm

criezy, hello.

I'm updated the PT-BR translation for the latest version, but got one question.

Line 1359,
"Are you sure you want to restart? (Y/N)"

Can we translate the (Y/N) too?
I mean here we use (S/N)
[(Sim/Não)]

I don't know if the keyboard shortcut will work with the translated strings.

Thanks.

Post by **criezy** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:18 pm

saulob wrote:Line 1359,
"Are you sure you want to restart? (Y/N)"

Can we translate the (Y/N) too?
I mean here we use (S/N)
[(Sim/Não)]

I don't know if the keyboard shortcut will work with the translated strings.

You should have a comment above (if not this means you are not working with an up to date po file) that says:

#. I18N: You may specify 'Yes' symbol at the end of the line, like this:
#. "Moechten Sie wirklich neu starten? (J/N)J"
#. Will react to J as 'Yes'

So in your case you can indeed use (S/N) but you need to also add 'S' at the end of the string (it will not be displayed but it tells ScummVM 'S' means 'Yes').