question: does it support half-width font?

[0xh3LL0]

i have da capo 3 x-rated japanese release, and i have not try it yet, but does it support half-width font (english)? and will this support another circus based games as well, e.g fortissimo exa/exs?

here is why i'm asking this, as we know that mangagamer release the da capo 3 with unity engine, and they using bgi/ethornell for da capo 1 & 2... why are they doing that? probably, they aware that adv32 doesnt support half-width font... why i know this, because i already tried with fortissimo exa, unless it use full-width font, it wont load...

[marcussacana]

I think he change the engine because the space is a problem sometimes... in the circus all string bytes have 0x20 decremented, and the " " (yes, space) is exactally 0x20, And now, with the encryption 0x20-0x20=0x00.... And 0x00 = String End "Flag", so isn't possible put space in some builds of this engine, others builds have the $ replaced to space when run... I think this is the reason to change the engine. About the half-width... is shift-jis... SJIS contains by default half-width chars... or are you talking about the monospaced font?

[0xh3LL0]

maybe something like that, here is the example i did with fortissimo exa, when i type "ABCDEFGH" with half-width font, it appear as "A C E G", yes with the "space" between them, and the B, D, F, H are missing? does this problem appear as well on da capo 3? or is it not?

[marcussacana]

I don't have the Da capo 3 here, but with D.S works fine. Try launch the game with this executable DSAO.zip

[0xh3LL0]

thats great! but too bad that i cant play any game at the moment cause my drive is broken, and i'm on the way to recover it... however, here is both fortissimo script, will you take a look at it?

[marcussacana]

I think the script will not help, maybe is needed modify the game executable, if you have lucky maybe other game executable can run this game? like that dsao i upload in the comment above...

Test and say-me the results after...

[0xh3LL0]

okay, i'll get the result tomorrow... thanks!

[0xh3LL0]

okay, here is it... circuseditor did nothing when i load the MES file https://i.imgur.com/YfPXvIf.png

and this one is my test with fortissimo_exa_text (which is not compatible with da capo 3) at the first line, the text is typed in full-width, resulting bigger text, and took much place, also the text is cutted (unless i put the line-breaks) and the second line, i put the same text as above in a half-width (english), but as you can see, it just appear as "T E" the "H" and the rest of the text is missing... https://i.imgur.com/Kt9jWD3.png

i have tried with your attached dalsegno exe, but it did nothing...

btw, this is the directory structure, same as circus games, right? https://i.imgur.com/OXDTa0v.png

[marcussacana]

Okay, i have added initial support to both games, he can miss some dialogs, if you found any line missing, write to me the line (i don't know japanese) and i will try give a look.

About the problem with ascii letters, maybe you need a hack in your team to modify the engine.

[0xh3LL0]

okay, here is it... the MES is editable now https://i.imgur.com/WMcEnxV.png but this problem is remain, some text still missing... https://i.imgur.com/nliTbgl.png

[marcussacana]

Test this line:｛ ／The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog｝

[0xh3LL0]

here is the result...

{ /THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG} or { ／THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG} https://i.imgur.com/tHf4F5r.png

{ /the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog} or { ／the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog} https://i.imgur.com/OCxOBcT.png

[marcussacana]

Looks the engine really don't support non-monospaced fonts... Without download the game i can't have sure of what is the problem, srry...

[0xh3LL0]

nope, its okay, maybe the newer adv32 engine updated with english font support (like in the dal segno does), btw, thanks for your time, i'll close it anyway...