Help Wanted: Pushing translation of Wrestle Kingdom (Xbox 360) across the finish

[Levine91]

I'm looking for some help pushing my translation of Wrestle Kingdom (Xbox 360) across the finish line.

I have a large portion of the game finished but there are some random pieces of house cleaning I need help identifying solutions for.

1.) Identifying pointers for move name strings. I have 99% of the moves translated but the few remaining need more bytes allocated to them. That is all found within the /dat/static_x.mpc file.
I've identified how the pointers work for wrestler card bios on a different file (/dat/menu/CardProf/Prof.pac), but it seems to be completely different for static_x.mpc

2.) Identifying pointers in /dat/menu/text.mtt - same situation as the move strings in static_x.mpc except there is a ton of different sections of the game that have their text strings living here. The biggest issue I'm facing for it is parts of the CAW menu. Same thing, 99% of this is translated, needing to allocate more bytes after finding the pointers.

3.) There is some bizarre issues in a few locations where either something I've translated isn't being translated on the game, the translated text appears but then reverts back to it's former state when changing menus, or a word is suddenly appearing in 2 spots (Example: One CAW menu should show "Eyes, Nose, Mouth, Beard" but instead it's showing "Eyes, Nose, Mouth, Mouth". It's rare instances for all of these but they are noticeable.

4.) There a few (not many) strings of text that I flat out can't find anywhere in the game. (I've been using ByteSearch throughout this process)

5.) Despite the game displaying 1-byte ASCII just fine in every other part of the game, for some reason the storymode dialog will be completely broken when trying accomplish this (Dialog is found at /dat/drama/words/ ). Letters overlapping, weird wide spacing, etc. Translating the storymode dialog was already dead last on my list so this issue is the least important one to tackle. I just am curious as to why it's only happening here.


What's Translated?
- Wrestler Names
- Moves/Taunts (99%, couple of unknown string locations + refinement)
- Loading Screen Tips (~80%)
- Wrestler Card Bios (~70%)
- Wrestler Main Menu Mini Bios
- Drama Menus (minus 1 problematic string)
- Workout/Training Menus & Descriptions (Translated but needs refinement)
- Drama Mode Mentor Names & Bios (Translated but needs refinement)
- Drama Mode Fake Wrestlers Names & Bios
- Match Type Menus
- Ring Select Menu
- Match Options Menu
- Card Menu
- Options Menu
- CAW Menus & Items (Translated but needs refinement)
- Questionnaire prior to CAW
- Pause Menu (97%, couple of unknown string locations, and 1 problematic string)
- Tutorial
- Help Text/Menu Descriptions

What's NOT Translated?
- Drama Mode Dialog
- Fighting Style Types for CAW (unknown string locations)
- Reversal Style Types for CAW (unknown string locations)
- Achievements (Unsure if it's safe to translate them)
- Xbox Live menu (Unable to test this aspect, not sure how much is needed)
- The remaining bits mentioned in previous list.


If I think of anything else, I'll come back and edit the post.

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I've also posted a bunch of screenshots of my progress here:
https://imgur.com/gallery/wk360-translation-A835kM2