Growlanser 6 is the sequel to Growlanser 5 / Growlanser: Heritage of War. This repository provides a Work-In-Progress English Translation.

In order to patch your original Growlanser 6 Game you can use the xDelta patches which you can find on the Releases. In order to build the patch by yourself you can reference the buildrelease.yml.

Directory structure:

/.github/workflows      GitHub Actions script to create xDelta patches
/build                  tools needed to patch the original game files
/source                 directory which contains all translated files
/source/GL6_CHAR.DAT    currently just a placeholder
/source/GL6_FACE.DAT    translated tm2 image files
/source/GL6_FILE.DAT    translated and modified data files 
/source/GL6_MAP.DAT     currently just a placeholder
/source/GL6_MOV.DAT     translated ingame movie files
/source/GL6_SCEN.DAT    translated script files
/source/SLPM_667.16     translated and modified ELF
/tools                  tools, scripts and various other things used in the translation of the game
/translation guide      translation guides and game manuals for the english translation

Tools

• quickBMS
• abcde
• armips
• Strawberry Perl
• xdelta
• PCSX2
• Ghidra
• Ghidra Emotion Engine Processor Reloaded

Special Thanks

• Mako for helping translate a lot of the game's image files
• Ethanol with his never-ending reverse engineering knowledge. You are awesome!
• Aluigi for developing quickBMS and creating the initial quickBMS Growlanser Script, which allowed us to dump the game's files
• adw for helping me get the Atlas and Cartographer Script to work, and for developing abcde
• Naldrag for showing that its possible to add subtitles to the movie files
• Klarth for helping figure out the .fnt files and developing the tool TileShop
• The NSA for making Ghidra Open Source and giving me a better tool to reverse engineer the ELF of the game
• Shokoniraya for creating a quickBMS script that lets me forget all about the worries of having script size restrictions
• A kind soul who provided us with the GL5 demo
• ChatGPT for being a good little bot

And all of the Growlanser fans around the world.

Links

Growlanser 6 English Translation Blog: https://growlanser6english.blogspot.com/
Growlanser 6 English Translation Discord: https://discord.gg/59Nw2U2
Growlanser 5/6 Toolkit: https://github.com/Risae/Growlanser-5-6-Toolkit
Growlanserver Discord: https://discord.gg/uVh3XxRGtG