Legend of Cao Cao English Version

[Lady Wu]

Please make sure you download the Nov 17 update, and copy the files into the main directory of the game

Nov 09 Edit: This is the last major update I'll do for Legend of Cao Cao. Everything is translated except for the system error messages (I'm lazy, plus you should never see them pop up anyway) and the credits. The deployment screen is still not ideally rendered but currently there seems to be no way around it.

Nov 17 Edit: Not a major update, but fixed some nagging issues (including a "long-name crash"). See note below.

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LoCC.zip

The one file to rule them all. Unzip into its own folder and run LoCC.exe.

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Nov 09 Update:

If you have an earlier version of the LoCC translation, download your LoCC Version 1.01 update here!

Features:

- A smoother translation.
- Xu Zijiang's all-item-unlock bonus.
- Typos, "brown boxes", incorrect speaker references fixed.
- New item names: The Jewels of Legends are now the Dragon/Phoenix/Tortoise/Tiger Orbs; Black Robe is now Raven Robe; White Fan is now Crane Fan.

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Nov 17 Update:

Download here

Features:
- Fixed the long file name problem for the battle against Ma Chao.
- Han Sui's name is now spelled correctly (thus solving the brown box problem for his dialogue).
- In the credits, the job titles (Director, Artistic Design, etc.) are now translated. I can't translate the names, though, because they are Japanese names and I don't know enough Japanese to know how they're supposed to be pronounced.

[Lady Wu]

This will get you all the way up to the fall of Dong Zhuo and to Cao Cao preparing to fight the remnant Yellow Turbans at Qingzhou:

R_04.EEX

This is a partially hacked data file. It'll give you the battle names, the power attack lines, and retreat dialogue in English:

Imsg.e5

Make sure you back up the original files first, as always!

[Sun Gongli]

Thanks, Lady Wu! Does this mean I can stop trying to get used to LoCC's clunky editor now?

[Lady Wu]

Thanks, Lady Wu! Does this mean I can stop trying to get used to LoCC's clunky editor now?

What editor? Are you also translating the game? (Actually, if you know how to use the editors, do you want to help hacking the non-dialogue files?)

R_05.eex

(Sorry, skipped an S file.)

[Lady Wu]

Was mucking around with the exe.

Ekd5.exe, English hack version 1.0

This gives you menus in English. But not much else...

[James]

Lady Wu! You’ve done a wonderful job!

Thank you sooooo much!



[i]Click on an item to equip it. I clicked on the book I received (it was one of the moon letter awards that appeared in the first battle) to equip it to Cao Cao. You can use the 'next' button to switch between officers so you can give other people new moon letter gear as well.


Click on a dude to assign them to a slot.
More on this when I actually do something interesting in this menu. Or maybe someone else will fully elaborate on this window. Plunge!

[Taishi Ci 2.0]

For the Plunge screen (Plunge into battle?) the darkened officers are mandatory for that battle, and the others are optional. The arrows on the tiles show how many units you have to take, so you have to use at least that many people; the blank tiles are for if you want to bring more officers than you are required to. The buttons in the corner sort the officers. I hope you know what OK and Cancel do.

Edit:

Played a bit with the translation. Looks good so far.

"Working" means I tested it, not that the ones not listed don't work.

Working Camp Dialog
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Everything so far works, but pre-Hulao, Li Dian's last line has a stray "g" in the corner of the box.

Working Critical Quotes
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Cao Cao, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu.

Working Death Quotes
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Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang, Guo Si, Li Jue, Li Su, Lu Bu, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Yu Jin, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Sun Jian, Tao Qian.

Duels
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Guan Yu/Hua Xiong: Works, no problems.

Zhang Fei/Lu Bu: Works, but on Lu Bu's last line, the side of the box has some misc. symbols on it.

Guan Yu/Lu Bu: Works, but on Guan Yu's first line, the side of the box has some misc. symbols on it.

Misc.
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Noticed some awkward lines:
"That's what every man of the emperor's thinks." Could be: "That's what all the Emperor's men think"?
"The fortune of the Han is ended." Could be: "The fortune of the Han has ended/is over."?
"It's only this way would Yuan Shao be willing to provide money for the cause." Could be: "This is the only way Yuan Shao..."?

"Defeat Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang" goes off and wraps around the screen. I guess it can't be helped, though, unless you want to try a smaller font?

At the end of the Yellow Turban's battle, when Lui Bei says "We can worry about the future when we get there", there is a stray "n" in the corner of the dialog box.

In the Chapter 1 title, Chapter 1 is untranslated, although "The Hegemon" is in English.

In the menu screen, when you click a button the first time and Cao Cao talks to an officer, it is untranslated. However, when Cao Cao says "Let's go" after deploying, that is translated. You probably knew this, just pointing it out.

At Sishui pre-battle, when Cao Cao says "... to fight well, we will be viewed more highly by others.", there is a stray "y" in the corner of the dialog box.

Before battles, on the tile-background sceen, it's blank now. Is it supposed to be this way?

At Yingyang, when Lu Bu appears and says his line, there is a stray period in the corner.

[Lady Wu]

Stray letters all squished! Thanks!

"Defeat Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang" goes off and wraps around the screen. I guess it can't be helped, though, unless you want to try a smaller font?

Yeah, I need to figure out how to squish the font size. This one I could reword as "Kill Zhangs Bao and Liang" or something, but there are other cases that don't work as well. Battle descriptors, like "Battle of Yingchuan", need to be a few font sizes down (as you'll see with longer battle names). It should be in the exe when I can find it.

In the Chapter 1 title, Chapter 1 is untranslated, although "The Hegemon" is in English.

"Chapter 1" is in the exe. (How silly is that?)

In the menu screen, when you click a button the first time and Cao Cao talks to an officer, it is untranslated. However, when Cao Cao says "Let's go" after deploying, that is translated. You probably knew this, just pointing it out.

Yeah. When you're equipping/buying/selling, the dialogue is in the exe. The exe is really unforgiving in line length, so I may have to revert to early ROM-hack translation speech. I need to figure out what to do with item names, too (you get at most 5 ASCII characters per item name. Eep!).

Before battles, on the tile-background sceen, it's blank now. Is it supposed to be this way?

How do you mean? Screenshot please?

Thanks so much James and Taishi. I can't trigger all the dialogue and events on my own, so it helps to have extra pairs of eyes to look out for stuff!

I'm not going to touch the exe today. I must have mucked around with it too much yesterday and it started to chew up my save files (James, did you figure out what was going on? Did things clear up when you used the original exe?).

[James]

For the Plunge screen (Plunge into battle?) the darkened officers are mandatory for that battle, and the others are optional. The arrows on the tiles show how many units you have to take, so you have to use at least that many people; the blank tiles are for if you want to bring more officers than you are required to. The buttons in the corner sort the officers. I hope you know what OK and Cancel do.

Inside joke! In the poorly subtitled translation of Great Conquest officers scream, “Plunge!” when charging into battle—never something that might make sense like, “Charge!” You simply must watch this DVD if you get a chance. You will appreciate gems like, “I accept with gladness!”

Yeah, I need to figure out how to squish the font size. This one I could reword as "Kill Zhangs Bao and Liang" or something, but there are other cases that don't work as well. Battle descriptors, like "Battle of Yingchuan", need to be a few font sizes down (as you'll see with longer battle names). It should be in the exe when I can find it.

Defeat Zhang Bao and Liang
Defeat the Zhang Brothers

In the Chapter 1 title, Chapter 1 is untranslated, although "The Hegemon" is in English.

"Chapter 1" is in the exe. (How silly is that?)

Yeah. When you're equipping/buying/selling, the dialogue is in the exe. The exe is really unforgiving in line length, so I may have to revert to early ROM-hack translation speech. I need to figure out what to do with item names, too (you get at most 5 ASCII characters per item name. Eep!).

I guess even SHelm is good?
MBean! (Are there multiple beans? 1Bean, 2Bean; ABean, BBean).
HrseW

Thanks so much James and Taishi. I can't trigger all the dialogue and events on my own, so it helps to have extra pairs of eyes to look out for stuff!

You’re welcome! Plenty of harassment yet to come!

I'm not going to touch the exe today. I must have mucked around with it too much yesterday and it started to chew up my save files (James, did you figure out what was going on? Did things clear up when you used the original exe?).

I’m going to take another swing at it soon! Right now I’ve got to siphon through all the routine house-tasks (and health tasks!) that the bloody elves have stopped doing for me.

[Lady Wu]

I just noticed something weird. I'm playing with my English hacked exe, and the descriptors of the saves go weird during battle (James, this may be our problem last night). When I'm saving in camp, the location overwrites the descriptor of the previous save. So, if I'm in the camp during the scenario "Raising an army - before Sishui Pass", and I save over a game called "Battle of Yingchuan, round 1", the name will come out as "Raising an army - before Sishui Pass". But if I'm in the Battle of Sishui, round 4, saving over "Battle of Yingchuan, round 1", it comes out as "Raising an army - Battle of Sishui Pass -Battle of Yingchuan, round 1". I don't know what causes this, but this may be the thing that corrupts the files after several recursions.

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Regarding names and items: the descriptions of the items and tactics, as well as the mini-biographies of the characters, are in Imsg.e5. That file contains a generous amount of blank space (not infinite, but way more than just an extra byte per item, unlike in *cough* ekd5.exe *cough*). I was just thinking that even if I don't hack the exe, I could just put the item name and description in those little boxes populated by Imsg.e5, and people can just right-click on the item/character to get the relevant info.