Sogna Abandonware game Animahjong V3 Translation patch
Patches are installed using bspatch(1) and are in the patch-files/ directory of this repository.
MAKE SURE TO BACKUP ALL FILES IN YOUR GAME HARD-DISK / FLOPPY DISK IMAGE
Run bspatch [file] [file] patch-files/[file].patch and then use edit disk to replace the old version of the file inside of the floppy disk image.
Animahjong V3 and Animahjong X use an archive format ending in .SIL. This is a relatively simple, non-copyprotected format which encodes text with a combination of SHIFT-JIS (for PC-98 system interfacing) and JIS x 0208 for encoding dialogue and game options. Moreover, there are a number of in-text control codes which I have constructed a non-exhaustive list of.
For contributers, the script JSON can be produced (with no english obviously) using:
node extract.js /path/to/archive.SIL.
Once a translation has been written into the JSON file, it can be applied to a SIL using:
node sil-patcher.js /path/to/archive.SIL /path/to/script.json
A new piece of dialogue is null-terminated always prepended with the byte sequence. CB is character byte:
02 21 73 23 <CB> <TEXT> 00
Clear the dialogue window.
02 21 30 00
Below is a rough map of the opcodes in SIL archives:
OC|OC<<1
--------
0F|1E <reads until 0x00> - select animation to play (A:...)
1C|38 <2 bytes> ; 8A 07
2C|58 <reads until 0x00> - reads all those 03, 0e, etc. inbetween A:...,B:... and start of text
39|72 <no args> - play loaded animation
07|0E <reads until 0x00> - select B:...
1F|3E <6 bytes> - plays panning animation ****
23|46 <not sure> - jumps to the very end of the file
17|2E <no args> - at the end of the file ; appears to load more instructions at the file end and jump 0x03
05|0A <not sure> - block until enter
09|12 <2 bytes> - display loaded B:...
15|2A <not sure> - reads a lot sometimes... maybe until 0e but not quite?
23|46 <2 bytes> - read byte at ax, +4000, return as si. ret address stored at 257e