Unofficial English Patch Update 2024

[surray]

Last year, TuanDragon, creator of the Romance X English patch (known as SwiftBlade here), allowed me to join him in updating the translation patch using the english PS2 text he extracted, and so since then I've been working on that in my free time.
Now it's finally time for the first release of the new version.
Much has changed, and it should be much more playable now, even if you don't already know the game.


What's been improved?

• Tons of text imported from english PS2 version
  
• Non-Chinese input for character and child naming (no tools required)
  
• Removed MSG number reference texts
  
• Battle, Duel and Debate dialogue fixed
  
• Fixed remaining quest, item and character text
  
• PUK trial mode menus translated
  
• Fully functional tutorial
  
• Ingame Help (? in the top right) partially implemented
  
• Many minor improvements

Known issues?

• Auto-Bio generation during child naming may cause a crash under certain circumstances, safer not to use it at this time
  
• Some words need to be abbreviated due to lack of UI space
  
• Linebreaks only partially applied due to variable text length
  
• Kingdom naming has some broken kingdom names (endgame)
  
• Some rare decisions may have broken choices
  
• Doesn't support Steam overlay

I also made a short video on this update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NddoxRcMQ9U

Download the new patch (Beta 1.1) at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HeXWoQpgwQZ6ABHjv2tUdXTE91A33SU3/view

Check TuanDragon's blog for more RTK translations
https://greenpig83.blogspot.com/

Let me know if you find any big problems... though I might need to replicate it to fix it, so if you can provide a savegame before it happens, or steps to reproduce the problem, that would be appreciated.


-Changelog-
Beta 1.2 - WORK IN PROGRESS

• Fixed some character name issues (rip Gug)
  
• Fixed some rare untranslated buttons
  
• Fixed some untranslated text in history mode
  
• Added more line breaks to dialogue
  
• Various minor translation refinements

Beta 1.1 - 24.09.2024

• Improved AutoBio generation for children (Thanks Motrini)
  
• Fixed Cao Cao event crash in 189 Scenario (Thanks Aithere)
  
• Some minor improvements

Beta 1.0 - 25.08.2024

• Initial release

[Nyght]

Oh my god this is AWESOME! I will get to trying this out soon and may make a followup video on the one I already made a couple years back. Thank you so much for your work and dedication. It's because of people like you we still get to play gems like this in the English speaking world.

[surray]

Cool!
You must be Blind Ghost then! Your video was good, I watched it too :-)
It's nice to see there's still some around who care for these old games.

Can't believe it's 20 years old already...

Looking forward to another video from you, or if not, let me know what you think here once you get to try it out!

[Nyght]

Originally posted by surray:

Cool!
You must be Blind Ghost then! Your video was good, I watched it too :-)
It's nice to see there's still some around who care for these old games.

Can't believe it's 20 years old already...

Looking forward to another video from you, or if not, let me know what you think here once you get to try it out!

I have gotten around to trying it out and it looks very good so far to me! I haven't played a lot but I can already tell you did a lot and I'm super grateful. I spread your work around a little in my circles.

[Fleetwood]

Thank you so much ! Years ago I wanted to try this game but it was hard in chinese. Now it's so comfortable to play it in english. The amount of work must have been huge.

[Nyght]

Originally posted by surray:

Cool!
You must be Blind Ghost then! Your video was good, I watched it too :-)
It's nice to see there's still some around who care for these old games.

Can't believe it's 20 years old already...

Looking forward to another video from you, or if not, let me know what you think here once you get to try it out!

Heyo! Made a small update video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcBjBtioYN4 I feel like being linked on TuanDragons Blog I'm obligated to also post an update.
Again thank you and TuanDragon for everything you've done for the community

[Aithere]

Thanks for the translation,

I have been getting crashes with the translation for Cao Cao's Qing Elite (when he gets the Qing Elite units from Pu Yang) event during the 189 scenario.

https://www.twitch.tv/aithere/clip/SlipperyFitPepperEagleEye-x4x0OS0Iw5ugNrnK

[surray]

Thanks, Aithere. I fixed it and uploaded a new version.

I watched some of your stream, it was entertaining, and it's nice to get your perspective on things in the translation as you seem to know the game and the book so you can point out problems others would not see.

I took some notes of things to fix next patch, like the Dong Zhou typo.
That's from the official translation, who would have thought :D


Perhaps you already figured this out by now, but I wanted to let you know you can use Enter instead of clicking to progress text boxes. You can hold it to skip more quickly.
Oh and right clicking makes a unit wait in battle and makes you return home on the map, a bit faster than clicking the button.




Beta 1.1 - 24.09.2024
Improved AutoBio generation for children (Thanks Motrini)
Fixed Cao Cao Qing event crash in 189 Scenario (Thanks Aithere)
Some minor improvements

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HeXWoQpgwQZ6ABHjv2tUdXTE91A33SU3/view

[RangerRyu]

Originally posted by surray:

Thanks, Aithere. I fixed it and uploaded a new version.

I watched some of your stream, it was entertaining, and it's nice to get your perspective on things in the translation as you seem to know the game and the book so you can point out problems others would not see.

I took some notes of things to fix next patch, like the Dong Zhou typo.
That's from the official translation, who would have thought :D


Perhaps you already figured this out by now, but I wanted to let you know you can use Enter instead of clicking to progress text boxes. You can hold it to skip more quickly.
Oh and right clicking makes a unit wait in battle and makes you return home on the map, a bit faster than clicking the button.




Beta 1.1 - 24.09.2024
Improved AutoBio generation for children (Thanks Motrini)
Fixed Cao Cao Qing event crash in 189 Scenario (Thanks Aithere)
Some minor improvements

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HeXWoQpgwQZ6ABHjv2tUdXTE91A33SU3/view

Hi! fantastic work by the way on this but just wanted to bring something to your attention my anti virus seems to not like this, it removes the .exe file and even comes up with this

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"Details

Threat name: IDP.Generic
Threat type: Miscellaneous - This is an app that you may have unknowingly installed and that may harm your computer performance.
Status: Moved to Quarantine
Detected by: Behavioral Protection
On PC from: 24/09/2024, 09:26
Last Used: 25/09/2024, 03:24
Startup Item: No

Very few
Very few in the Norton Community have used this file.

New
This file was released 9 days ago.

High
The file risk is high.
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Origin

Downloaded from: {LINK REMOVED}https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=1HeXWoQpgwQZ6ABHjv2tUdXTE91A33SU3&export=download&confirm=t&uuid=3d997fd3-7487-4851-a7ff-61e7f89eb661
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Activity

Path | Type | Status
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\San10WPK\San10WPK.exe | File | Deleted
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\San10WPK\San10WPK.exe | Process | Terminated
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\San10WPK\San10WPK.exe | Process | Terminated
C:\Windows\System32\csrss.exe | Process | Terminated
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeWebView\Application\129.0.2792.65\msedgewebview2.exe | Process | Terminated
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeWebView\Application\129.0.2792.65\msedgewebview2.exe | Process | Terminated"

wonder if these are meant to happen or just a bug

[surray]

False positive for sure. It happens with exe files in modding.

There is no danger from this file, but since it's unknown (only a few people worldwide have used this file, maybe nobody with Norton antivirus other than you), and it contains code to read your inputs (of course it does, it's a game) and has been modified, it can get flagged as some unknown possibly dangerous file.

On VirusTotal it gets flagged only by 3 out of 72 and also just some generic unknown possible threat
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2642ac0eff78f5a14624bc1b2f846967ce595d9d411a52f167bb1213e2b5cb76

[RangerRyu]

Originally posted by surray:

False positive for sure. It happens with exe files in modding.

There is no danger from this file, but since it's unknown (only a few people worldwide have used this file, maybe nobody with Norton antivirus other than you), and it contains code to read your inputs (of course it does, it's a game) and has been modified, it can get flagged as some unknown possibly dangerous file.

On VirusTotal it gets flagged only by 3 out of 72 and also just some generic unknown possible threat
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2642ac0eff78f5a14624bc1b2f846967ce595d9d411a52f167bb1213e2b5cb76

thank you,I have submitted it to Norton so hopefully they can change it

[Kongming]

I've downloaded and extracted to the appropriate file(San10WPK) per the video and it still launches in Chinese. I have it set to traditional Chinese in the properties as instructed.
Anything I am missing?

[surray]

Originally posted by Kongming:

I've downloaded and extracted to the appropriate file(San10WPK) per the video and it still launches in Chinese. I have it set to traditional Chinese in the properties as instructed.
Anything I am missing?

I unfortunately forgot mentioning this in my video, but launching through steam still shows the chinese launcher first, where you need to press the top button to start the actual game, which should then be in english.

If for some reason this is not the case you can launch San10WPK.exe directly too and that should take you straight into the english patched game without the launcher.

If it still doesn't work, something may have overwritten the english patch files (changing language of the game would do this for example, or updating it, or verifying files), I'd just try extracting the patch into the game directory again.

[ganglyguy]

The patch works flawlessly on my Windows PC, but a hot mess on my Steam Deck (SteamOS) where every translated text turns into a gibberish mix of chinese and alphanumerics. Any workarounds?

Note: BGMs also outright don't play though sound effects run just fine. Just putting it out there even if it's likely an unrelated issue.

[surray]

Audio problem is unfortunately known as you can see here for example
https://steamcommunity.com/app/628060/discussions/0/1696040635907668102/

I believe it's because the game uses old windows media player apis that don't exist for steam deck.

As for the text, I only know an issue like that if the font file isn't installed (FONTB.S10 file in the patch archive), since the english patch uses custom letters, without that file it doesn't match up and you get a lot of gibberish. You can check if that's installed, but if it is, I don't know what else to try. Might be another steam deck / linux issue.
I assume you checked that it's chinese and not japanese (not sure if that could lead to such an issue even but just in case)

[ganglyguy]

Originally posted by surray:

As for the text, I only know an issue like that if the font file isn't installed (FONTB.S10 file in the patch archive), since the english patch uses custom letters, without that file it doesn't match up and you get a lot of gibberish.

Thanks, you were definitely on to something. Turns out the SteamOS is case sensitive, hence the font files from the game (FontB.s10 and every files inside msg folder) were not immediately overwritten by the all-caps ones from the patch (FONTB.S10) upon extraction. Renaming everything sorted it out.

Still sucks nothing can be done about the music since it's a huge part of the nostalgia. Count your blessings I guess!