Editing Wikifang:Telefang 1 Translation Patch/Tasks

== Things to do ==

These are the things that still need to be worked on/finished for the patch, in no particular order.

=== Translation work ===

* Finish the rest of the story
* Phone calls (Phone questions will require a text-width calculator and possibly extra hacking)
* Denjuu encyclopedia entries (Ditto)
* Text messages (Needs to be made functional before translation can even start.)

=== Hacking ===

* <s>Complete the Telefang Patch disassembly (2.9kbytes remain)</s>
* Implement proper text centering so that VWF text is properly centered
* Implement text compression.
** 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
** Current idea: "Call with implicit return" opcode that calls a particular address and returns after n bytes regardless of it's contents.
** 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.
* Translate the opening credits (Concept: Kino Kozue, Denjuu Design: Takaki Saiko, leave the Comic BomBom logo alone.)
* Make the text input screen cycle from uppercase-lowercase-numbers, instead of uppercase-numbers-lowercase.
* 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.)