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== Things to do ==
==Completed LP Tasks==
* Edit the tile mappings so that the "G" in Telefang can hang with the rest of the family.
: Accepted as patch v58 and then new graphics inserted in patch v59.
* Remove kana selection from the naming screens, so that you can't use the weird precomposed glyphs.
: Fixed in patch v59. Now the glyphs after letters in the naming screens are punctuation, which is expected.


These are the things that still need to be worked on/finished for the patch, in no particular order.
==High Priority Tasks==
# Implement proper text centering so that VWF text is properly centered
# Enable VWF on all other text
# Make it possible to nickname Denjuu with their full names, and have it appear properly on all screens.


=== Translation work ===
==Low Priority Tasks==
The following "polish tasks" are low priority, should be done before the translation hits release-v1.0, and are part of producing a well-polished translation. Also, they should be relatively easy to do.


* Finish the rest of the story
# Alter the titlescreen bottom copyright string, so that Kodansha can be written out in English.
* Phone calls (Phone questions will require a text-width calculator and possibly extra hacking)
# Translate the "opening credits" and figure out what to do with Comic Bombom's logo.
* Denjuu encyclopedia entries (Ditto)
#* BomBom can be left alone, the credits say "Concept: Kino Kozue, Denjuu Design: Takaki Saiko" ~ [[User:Kimbles|Kimbles]]
* Text messages (Needs to be made functional before translation can even start.)
# Write better insertion - extraction tools, preferably ones that can also alter Speed Version
 
#* This could include simple resource editors or even something that can make code patches easier to monkey-patch
=== Hacking ===
# Fix the DMG/SGB Game Boy version of the menus, which use different compressed graphics.
 
# The DMG/SGB Game Boy titlescreen has different sprite layouts from the CGB version.
* <s>Complete the Telefang Patch disassembly (2.9kbytes remain)</s>
# Alter the encounter screen so that denjuu encounters have 9 tiles of text space, and t-fanger encounters have 11.
* Implement proper text centering so that VWF text is properly centered
#* Currently both are set to 8 so that they can be centered by the [[User:Kmeisthax/Findings/2011/6/10/ROM_34_7F40_Disassembly|text centering routine]]. But this results in the text being off center slightly, which means that to properly center we need to have the whole window space.
* Implement text compression.
# Automatic word-wrap, so that lines don't have to be formatted by the text injection tools, and that player and denjuu names don't have to be formatted as if they were "WWWWWWWW".
** Right now it's not needed since we have the overflow bank, but given that we're branching out into other languages with larger strings it may be useful
# Change the icon for Chiru on the overworld to something that says Chiru.
** Current idea: "Call with implicit return" opcode that calls a particular address and returns after n bytes regardless of it's contents.
# Make the text input screen cycle from uppercase-lowercase-numbers, instead of uppercase-numbers-lowercase.
** Is there a way to do efficient huffman table decoding on GBz80?
* Automatic word-wrap, so that lines don't have to be formatted by the text injection tools (Is this still possible?)
** Yes this is still possible
* Make text messages display properly again
* Fix any patch-related oddities with the nickname entry screen
* Check the longer Denjuu/attack names to make sure they display properly.
* Change the icon for Chiru on the overworld to something that says Chiru.
* Fix any issues with the menus and title screen in DMG/SGB mode (Are there any?)
* Redraw the copyright information on the title screen to say "Kodansha" in English.
* <s>Translate the opening credits (Concept: Kino Kozue, Denjuu Design: Takaki Saiko, leave the Comic BomBom logo alone.)</s> Done!
* <s>Make the text input screen cycle from uppercase-lowercase-numbers, instead of uppercase-numbers-lowercase.</s> Done!
* Change the text placeholder strings to say "Placeholder" as well as the pointer for the string.
 
=== Tools ===
 
* <s>Write better insertion-extraction tools (What's wrong with them?)</s>
* Write a text-width calculator to help with translating
* Fully document the bugfixes that have been added to the patch
* Find a way to eventually make the patch work on Speed
 
== Completed stuff ==
 
* Enabled VWF on all text
* Edited the tile mappings so that the "G" in the Telefang logo can hang with the rest of the family.
: (Accepted as patch v58 and then new graphics inserted in patch v59.)
* Removed kana selection from the naming screens, so that you can't use the weird precomposed glyphs.
: (Fixed in patch v59. Now the glyphs after letters in the naming screens are punctuation, which is expected.)
* Made it possible to nickname Denjuu with their full names. (Which version?)
: (Can use default names by not entering a nickname, but nicknames are still limited to 6 characters with no plans to change it.)
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