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neo-engine / neo

A homebrew Pokémon nds game; written from scratch using libnds and devkitPro
GNU General Public License v3.0
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More language？ #24

Open ICE-AGE-X opened 2 years ago

ICE-AGE-X commented 2 years ago

Hi , its will add more language ?

PH111P commented 2 years ago

Hi, in theory adding new languages (using extended ASCII characters) is easily doable (but labor-intensive). Further, the currently used fonts do contain both hiragana and katakana, so (simple) Japanese will also be possible at some point (but that requires some extra work). More languages (using different scripts) are of course possible in theory, but require significantly more work.

That being said, the major obstacle for adding new languages is having someone with decent fluency doing the actual translations; naturally, the more strings there are in the game, the more time-intensive such a translation will become.

Regarding concrete plans for additional languages, most likely there will be a Japanese translation at some point, but this will take some time. (Of course, help is always welcome and could change this last statement.)