I figured you geniuses would be able to point me in the right direction on this. I have a Japanese ISO of a PSX game (serial experiments lain) that I want to extract the Japanese text from (as well as the audio and video files) possibly for the purposes of translating. Does anyone know of how to go about this? Links to a guide perhaps? It would be much appreciated.
Oooh never knew there was a game of that! I believe the majority of it is just done in hex editors, it will also depend if the text is in text or an image of some sort.
This is about all I know about ripping music data from some Playstation games: http://www.zophar.net/psf/
Great, thanks guys. And yes, there was indeed a game and it's fascinating. Not really a game per say, but a massive collection of text, audio and video files taking place in an alternate Lain universe. Basically your surfing "the Wired" and have to piece the story together by analyzing the fragments you find. That in itself gives me hope that the text is actual text and not images, because that would be alot to fit on 2CDs. *Crosses fingers* I think I have a pet project for the summer. Edit: Is there any specific hex editor you'd recommend for PSX?
Never done anything of that scale myself, I have used WinHEX a few times, but wouldn't know if there's anything better suited to the task you are undertaking. Let us know how you progress though, if you can make a decent ppf file to translate it, I would be interested in buying a copy of the game and patching it to English.
I'm pretty sure you can't go around hex editing values in an ISO like you can in a ROM, by the way, you'll screw up the ISO. I'd be really interested in seeing the game if you did manage to make some headway translating it though, Lain is one of the best as far as anime series go.
I assumed that I'm more interested in getting the text and maybe creating a patch. I really just want to know what's going on as far as the plot. :katamari:
If it's a PSX game, then all the files *should* be in the regular file directories on the ISO. For scanning for pictures, audio and video, I recommend the PC programs PSicture and PSXMC.
