Translating the Systemmenu into a NEW language

wilsoff · 15 Mar 2010, 04:54

This post talks about translating the system menu into a language not available officially from Nintendo. E.g. Chinese or Portuguese. A lot of the info came from diddy81.

I've included this here as it's come up a few times. I'll try to tidy this up. Anyone else with mod access please feel free to help.

Brick protect first!

It would be a huge amount of work though with a huge number of files to edit.

In 3.2E (v289) it is in:
Systemmenu-v289/00000042_app_OUT/html/US2/iplsetting.ash

This is not actually an ash, but a u8archive, so rename it to iplsetting.arc.

Unpack it with u8tool

Then you get lots of js / html files.

These are lz77 compressed. Decompress them with wiilz77.exe (comes with wadder 2.7.3.

Edit them, pack it all up.

Some useful links:
http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?27,7959,8622#msg-8622
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=138128
http://hackmii.com/2008/04/wii-system-menu-html/#more-13 (demo has gone, but comments are helpful)

iplsetting.ash only edits the setting menu right
wouldn't it be better to edit ipl_common.bmg

it's in the message\eng\ folder
and you dont unpack it you edit it with a hex editer
and just edit the thae ASCII table
heres a small example of the english one

Code:

D.i.s.c. .C.h.a.n.n.e.l...W.i.i. .M.e.n.u...S.t.a.r.t.....P.l.e.a.s.e. .i.n.s.e.r.t. .a. .d.i.s.c.......U.n.a.b.l.e. .t.o. .r.e.a.d. .t.h.e. .d.i.s.c.......C.h.e.c.k. .t.h.e. .W.i.i. .O.p.e.r.a.t.i.o.n.s. .M.a.n.u.a.l...f.o.r. .h.e.l.p.

Cool. I guess the text strings have to be the same length as the originals, or shorter? Or is there a way around that?

If you want to play with the html from the settings menu here are some examples:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/vmdolhfgjmg/...ettingsHTML.zip

Systemmenu 3.2J
000003f_app_OUT\html\JP2\iplsetting_ash_OUT\JP\JP\JPN\index01.html
or online here: http://wiisystemsettings.webs.com/JP/JP/JPN/index01.html

Systemmenu 3.2U
0000042_app_OUT\html\US2\iplsetting_ash_OUT\FIX\US\ENG\index01.html

Here are some batch files that will help you do the unlz77ing / lz77ing quickly:

Code:

unlz77.bat
for /r %%x in (*.html) do start wiilz77.exe "%%x" "%%~nx".htmltxt -unpack
for /r %%x in (*.css) do start wiilz77.exe "%%x" "%%~nx".csstxt -unpack
for /r %%x in (*.js) do start wiilz77.exe "%%x" "%%~nx".jstxt -unpack
pause

lz77.bat
for /r %%x in (*.htmltxt) do start wiilz77.exe "%%x" "%%~nx".html -pack
for /r %%x in (*.csstxt) do start wiilz77.exe "%%x" "%%~nx".css -pack
for /r %%x in (*.jstxt) do start wiilz77.exe "%%x" "%%~nx".js -pack
pause

/r      recursive (looks in sub-directories
~nx    removes extension

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