Here I explain how to translate and play Idolm@ster SP. This will work for the untranslated routes, which are: Ami&Mami's in Wandering Star, and Azusa's and Ritsuko's in Missing Moon. I'm using the partially English patched versions of the games.
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What you will need:
ITH VNR Engine:
I used the 3.4253.0 version, but I just learned a new version is out and seems to work much better with this game:
http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthr...
PPSSPP 0.9.8:
http://www.ppsspp.org/downloads.html
Translator Aggregator: http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthr...
Compatibility list:
http://sakuradite.com/wiki/en/VNR/PSP
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Instructions from the video:
1) First, run PPSSPP and enable the Pause When Not Focus option.
If this is not enabled, both PPSSPP and ITH will freeze and crash when the thread is selected on ITH.
This will allow you to pause the game by clicking outside the PPSSPP window, which is necessary for copying the text of the game.
2)Next, open ITH VNR Engine and attach the PPSSPP process; it can attach by itself if you wait for a while though.
You should always open ITH VNR Engine after running the game on PPSSPP.
3) Play the game for a while and wait for ITH to start generating valid threads, they are displayed as 'vnrhost: DispatchText: found new thread'
Choose the one that displays the same text as the game. Note that for some reason the current text from the game will be infinitely repeated, but you'll only need one line.
5) To copy the text, just select it and it'll automatically paste to the clipboard if the option is enabled on ITH VNR Engine and Translator Aggregator.
6) The text can be hooked from a saved state, though it will take a while, and maybe there's the possibility it won't happen, in that case closing and reopening PPSSPP and ITH and repeating the process from the beginning might help (?)
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Note that you should constantly make save states as much as possible since random crashes are likely to happen.
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Another note: You should only play the game with this version of PPSSPP 0.9.8. I played Wandering Star on 0.9.9.1 and for most of the game I could use ITH VNR Engine for hooking the text, but it isn't a stable method, the hooking is not guaranteed. I thought that maybe the hooking method stopped working because I entered certain stage of the game where that wasn't possible anymore, but even starting a new game on 0.9.9.1 the hooking is rarely successful. Weird.
In any case, in this page: http://sakuradite.com/wiki/en/VNR/PSP is stated that games with the Bandai engine (which, if I'm not mistaken, is the one this game uses) only will work with PPSSPP 0.9.8.
So my suggestion is to not using anything else but PPSSPP 0.9.8 for hooking the text of this game!
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And that's pretty much it. Hope it'll work for you guys for the whole game. I'll try making the loli twins Top Idols!
