Dragon Quest I - II - III string *.bin file

[cyberdog]

Hi, i want to translate Dragon Quest to another language, but i am stuck with it.
I am unpacked games with QuickBMS and get game resources, but i can't decompile text *.bin file.
Text bin file looks like a normal text file, but when i edit this, and run games - it's crashed
How can i safely edit this bin? I so trying comtype_scan2 for extract text, but it's not helpfully

[cyberdog]

I'm continue researching this files.
Strings in file have next structure:
{ count variation of one event (like string array) } {weight of next block text (in byte)} {text block}
{weight of next block text (in byte)} {text block}

[Zmkiy]

Use reimport3 for import

[cyberdog]

Use reimport3 for import

Wow, it's awesome.
Can you see please another file like a stringDataEn.bin?
it's contain's some artefacts after import at line 324 for dq2 bin

p.s. thank you very much ^^

[cyberdog]

If you want to joke, here is my java import tool (not completed)
I spend 9 hours for research file's at this topic, but i'am very newbie in it.
I newbie in reverse engineering, because i working in enterprise development, but i like this expirience

[cyberdog]

Oops, i update stringDataEn.bin for first part of game.

[cyberdog]

I found why script for stringMap don't extract stringData.
Because in 5430h have text array:
-> 00 00 2E 00 20 what means
-> 00 00 2E (count elements in array) - 46 (dec)
-> 00 20 (size of first element) - 32 (dec)
--> skipping 32 bytes
-> 00 00 16 (size of second element) - 22 (dec)
--> skipping 22 bytes
-> etc.. to 46 element's end

But what interesting too:
at start of bin file contains some arrays like that:
-> 00 00 07 00 4C
-> 00 00 07 (7 elements)
-> 00 4C (76 byte next string)

and it's working good, hmmm...

[Zmkiy]

Here's how it actually works

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2 byte COUNT
for k = 0 < COUNT ; k++
   2 byte COUNT1
   j =0
   while (j < COUNT1)
      2 byte COUNT2 
      for i = 0 < COUNT2 ; i++
         2 byte STRING_SIZE
         STRING
         1 byte NULL
      end
      j += COUNT2
   end
end

But for "StringData", it has a variant structure

[cyberdog]

Here's how it actually works

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2 byte COUNT
for k = 0 < COUNT ; k++
   2 byte COUNT1
   j =0
   while (j < COUNT1)
      2 byte COUNT2 
      for i = 0 < COUNT2 ; i++
         2 byte STRING_SIZE
         STRING
         1 byte NULL
      end
      j += COUNT2
   end
end

But for "StringData", it has a variant structure

Thank you very much, it's very helpfull

[heraldopkg]

And the dragon quest III strings bms, any news?