Naruto Shippuuden: Dairansen! Kage Bunshin Emaki - Translation & Hacking Information
Last Update: August 11th, 2008
Translation InformationTesting Screenshots (latest)
Testing Screenshots (old)
Technical Documentation - .msg File Specifications
Downloads - Utilities
Deprecated / Unsupported
Translation Information
The project is stalled right now because it is lacking a translator for the game's script, because I am by no means fluent in Japanese. If you happen to know someone who is, and who might be interested in translating the game text, please contact me via the first of the following links. More information about the status of this translation is here and here.Testing Screenshots - May 24th, 2008
.msg files from the field and field_event directories can now be dumped by HeadSplitter. This shows some improvised translation and localization of the first event .msg file, data/msg/field_event/mfe000.msg, which covers Naruto and Jiraiya's return to the village.
Testing Screenshots - May 21st, 2008
Technical Documentation - .msg File Specifications
Example file: data/msg/ShopMessage.msg
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00000000 |
03 00 00 00 | 58 00 00 00 |
81 75 82 DC | 82 A2 82 C7 |
....X....u...... [...] 00000050 | 82 A4 81 49 | 00 00 00 00 | 08 00 00 00 | 1C 00 00 00 | ...I............ 00000060 | 34 00 00 00 | -- -- -- -- | -- -- -- -- | -- -- -- -- | 4...------------ |
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03 00 00 00 - Amount of messages in file, here 3 58 00 00 00 - Pointer to message pointer table, here at 0x00000058 xx xx xx xx - String data in Shift-JIS 08 00 00 00 | 1C 00 00 00 | 34 00 00 00 - Message pointer table; contains the offsets of all messages, here message #1 is at 0x00000008, message #2 at 0x0000001C and message #3 at 0x00000034 |
Downloads - Utilities
.msg File Custom Dumper - Project 'HeadSplitter'
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-------------------------------------------- HeadSplitter - NS Dairansen .msg file dumper Written in April/May 2008 by xdaniel/DZD -------------------------------------------- Dumping in progress... Message file: mfe000.msg Dump target file: mfe000.msg.sjs Done, 10 strings have been dumped in total! Exiting. |
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// Naruto Shippuuden: Dairansen! Kage Bunshin Emaki // Dump of mfe000.msg // Created using HeadSplitter, 2008 by xdaniel/DZD #VAR(InsTable, TABLE) #ADDTBL("Insert.tbl", InsTable) #ACTIVETBL(InsTable) #SMA("LINEAR") #VAR(NSMsg, CUSTOMPOINTER) #CREATEPTR(NSMsg, "LINEAR", $0, 32) #JMP($000000) // amount of messages in file <$0A><$00><$00><$00> // pointer to new message pointer table <$08><$00><$00><$00> #JMP($000030) #WRITE(NSMsg,$000008) // <$02><$01><$00><$00><$03><$01><$00><$00><$06><$01><$62><$00>「二年（ねん）はんぶり くらいだってばよ・・・」<key><pg> // <$06><$01><$62><$00>「そうだのォ・・・」<key><pg> // <end> #WRITE(NSMsg,$00000C) // <$02><$01><$00><$00><$03><$01><$00><$00><$01><$05><$00><$00><$40><$00><$90><$00><$00><$00><$00><$00><$06><$01><$00><$00>「なっつかしー！！<lf> // ぜんぜん かわってねーってばよ！！」<key><pg> // （オレの なまえは <color:blue><pg> // うずまきナルト<color:reset>）<key><pg> // （二年はんまえに 修業（しゅぎょう）の たびにでて・・・）<key><pg> // （木ノ葉隠れの里（このはがくれのさと）に<lf> // もどってきた ところだってばよ！）<key><pg> // <end> [...] |
The project name comes from the fact that I really did start to write this program under the influence of a truly head-splitting headache. Additionally, the "splitting" part also refers to the fact that it "splits" Dairansen's .msg files into readable - although field and field_event files tend to look rather ugly, as you can see above - and "Atlas-style" reinsertable text files. In retrospect, I think I should've called it "NerveSplitter", as that would've fit the acronym "NS" for "Naruto Shippuuden" better :)
Executable & source download: HeadSplitter build 734 - May 24th, 2008
No documentation is included, but it should be pretty self-explanatory anyway. Execute it via the command prompt and give it a .msg file as a parameter; for example "HeadSplitter MapName.msg" will have the program process and dump the .msg file MapName.msg into a file called MapName.msg.sjs in the same directory.
As of build 734, HeadSplitter can also correctly dump .msg files from the field and field_event directories. The previous build 583 contained a very messy character and control code recognization routine which was incapable of reliably determining the end of a string: Once a 0x0000 was encountered in the analyzation process, the string was terminated, no matter where in the string it appeared - this was the reason for the cut off strings of said .msg files. After throwing out and rewriting the entire recognization routine, this bug was squashed. It's still not 100% complete, I assume, but it should be enough to get all of the game's .msg files dumped and into a reinsertable state.
Deprecated / Unsupported
"Naruto Shippuuden: Dairansen! Kage Bunshin Emaki" - (C) Masashi Kishimoto, Scott/Shueisha, TV Tokyo, Studio Pierot, (C) 2007 TOMY
Technical information, utilities, etc. presented here are the experimentation & reverse-engineering results of xdaniel / DigitalZero Domain.