Hanako Games

Some technical issues regarding the Chinese localization

#1 by Kumoi no Kari - Mar 11 2025

Hello developers,
We have encounter some technical issues in our translation progress. Well, they are not vital, but still we appreciate any help.
We are using the official SDK provided by renpy to extract the texts of the game.
And there exist two problems:
1. The texts are disordered. Well, not disordered when we repack them back into the game, but we have to translate them in disorder. This is not a big problem though.
2. The second problem is more serious. When using the official SDK to extract the texts, similar texts such as "No.","Right." and "Yeah." collapse into one word even there are multiple of them. This situation means that we can only insert one translation for these words although they have different meanings in different contexts. Our programmer said this is because we are using the official SDK of renpy and it will be very time consuming to find new solutions. He also guesses that these problems may occur because of the encryption and decryption process.
Do you have any idea on why these issues occur and on how to deal with them? We sincerely appreciate any help.

Re: Some technical issues regarding the Chinese localization

#2 by Kumoi no Kari - Mar 16 2025

OK, now we successfully solved these two problems.

Re: Some technical issues regarding the Chinese localization

#3 by hanako - Mar 18 2025

Sorry for slow reaction on this! The only solution I could think of to the collapsing texts would be to go through the script manually to insert invisible tags for disambiguation - not sure if that's what you guys ended up with.

Re: Some technical issues regarding the Chinese localization

#4 by Kumoi no Kari - Jun 30 2025

Well, I don't know how they achieved this because I don't know anything about programming...

And here is a new problem. Now this localization project is proceeding into the translation proofreading phase. We can finish this in July ( If I can continue putting my OCD under control...). So are you willing to accept this as an official translation patch or we distribute the patch as an independent fan translation patch?

Re: Some technical issues regarding the Chinese localization

#5 by hanako - Jul 1 2025

Best to distribute it as a fan patch. I mean, that's what it is really.

Re: Some technical issues regarding the Chinese localization

#6 by Kumoi no Kari - Aug 31 2025

OK, we have already posted our translation patch on the Guides section on steam.
From my personal perspective, I really like this game, especially after going though it again and again for translation.
Maybe we will make more patches in the future for your other lesbian games if nobody else makes them.
Thank you for making these wonderful games and hope our patch can at least attract some purchases.