Stuff for translating and further demystifying Digital Devil Story - Reincarnation of the Goddess by Telenet.
I have a page about the game and its other versions on my website but it's still a work in progress.
Another, much more detailed, place to learn more about the game is this reddit post by Natreg.
The latest official release can be found at romhacking.net and in the releases page.
The MSX version is now fully translated. All that is left is for the manual to be translated and preferably rescanned.
The game loads the character graphics from the BIOS of the MSX. English letters are always going to be included of the BIOS regardless of the region, so I'm just able to change the value in the text data.
Because the English text is going to be larger than the space allotted for the original Japanese text, I expanded the ROM by one bank (from 128kb to 134kb) and just change banks as needed.
Have wla-dx installed and have the game's ROM as Digital Devil Story.rom. Then run make and it will result in the new DDSE.rom file.
Make sure your ROM has a CRC-32 of 25FC11FA otherwise loading the text may fail.
If you want to help with translation, we have a Spreadsheet for all the lines.
Please request for access on the Google Sheets page, or message me for access.
Getting to the text in the game is very tedious as they're few and far between. I'm going to need help with accessing the text, collecting passwords, and documenting maps. Please contact me if you want to help with testing.
DDSLibrary Has maps for all the levels. While the site doesn't specifically have maps for the MSX release. I assume the content is the same.
The one thing to make testing overall easier is figuring out the game's password system. Leina and I have already put in a lot of work in figuring out how it works, but I still have not fully reversed-engineered it.
I am also interested in getting the manual translated. The best scan of the manual I could find is on necretro.org.
You can contact me on Discord with the username kaisaan or you can join the Classic Persona Modding to see updates on this project in the #msx-megaten-telenet-translation channel.
Gabriulio - Initial Translation
MKCA - Translation, Testing, Giving lots of Advice
Leina - Lots of Hacking help
Calindro - Hacking and Debugging help, also creator of Emulicious
abridgewater - Hacking and Japanese help
YasaSheep - Japanese help
Zarby89 - Extra table file help
Z64Gaming - Title Screen Graphics
agarpac - Other Graphics
NightScript - Sephiroth spelling advice
Sugunii - Special Thanks
Supporters - comrade_hee_ho, seatsafteyswitch, eiowlta, quantumdog, reachforthemoon, naoyatoudou, Scone#6977, amazingcretin, alison1337, liamcarney, theoomslayer, boimses, hiking., xzippyzachx, yoush03, lorenzoiscool, Honse, Zooperwoop, Bluerose32, katorishintaro, jonkerkujo, kularian, felipe1020, cookiestew
Specific people and resources:
MarshSMT - The only other relatively comprehensive English video of the game
DDS Library - Having maps and info on the non-MSX releases of the game
Natreg - Comprehensive Reddit post of FM-7 version
ReyVGM & real_mukimuki - Contributing to this game's cheats page on GameFAQs
fm-7.com - Having a page for this game with useful info
necretro.org - Having a scan of the manual
Discord Servers that helped:
Classic Persona Modding - Where I'm able to post progress
Romhacking.net - Where I got a lot of hacking help and advice
PC-9800 Series Central - Advice on working with real hardware
SMT Modding Discord - Extra support
GDYU - Moral Support
my server - where i posted random out of context progress