i just found only yesterday about this masterpiece of a game. better yet its already english patched
its videos are in sfd format and english subtitles are intergraded inside them. but their downsample is very bad. i compared then using untouched gdi. the only downside of this game is it lacks vga. can a hack be made? i tryed forcing methods but no dice.
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before the link let me tell you i preserve some things just in case someone wants to sub the videos on other language and 2 people coming in my mind @fafadou and @Pitito so i left my srt's in the download all you have to do is translate the texts and to intergrade them in the m1v you need an untouched source of the sfd's. convert sfd to m1v (movie only) and sfa (audio only) then the job can be done using ffmpeg.
drop in the ffmpeg folder the m1v and the matching srt and run this example command
ffmpeg -i M001_e0.m1v -vf subtitles=M001.srt -b:v 1.226M -minrate 1.226M -maxrate 1.226M -bufsize 1M M001.m1v
the generated M001.m1v now has the subs inside and using the SEGA Dreamcast Movie Creator the new sfd can be made. the values in the command -b:v 1.226M -maxrate 1.226M -minrate 1.226M are adjustable values. that needs to match the original m1v. use mediainfo to find out. not all videos have same bitrate and pixel/sec. if your generated m1v has higher bitrate than original just lower the -minrate value as much it needs. there is a problem though all the video ive made has exacly or liitle lower bitrate as the original the end size of the generated m1v is always smaller compared to original m1v, but the generated SFD is always higher in size, the end video pack size grow from 800mb original size to 810mb problem is the game is 6mb higher the size the gdrom can handle. without a second guess i downsample 2 ending videos to gain back those 6 mb and the gdi image can now created so
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ive manage to replack the videos whitch needed subs, without get out of space and without touching the other ones that do not need to be touched
here's the videos tested and working on real dc
mega.nz
its videos are in sfd format and english subtitles are intergraded inside them. but their downsample is very bad. i compared then using untouched gdi. the only downside of this game is it lacks vga. can a hack be made? i tryed forcing methods but no dice.edit video pack relese
before the link let me tell you i preserve some things just in case someone wants to sub the videos on other language and 2 people coming in my mind @fafadou and @Pitito so i left my srt's in the download all you have to do is translate the texts and to intergrade them in the m1v you need an untouched source of the sfd's. convert sfd to m1v (movie only) and sfa (audio only) then the job can be done using ffmpeg.
drop in the ffmpeg folder the m1v and the matching srt and run this example command
ffmpeg -i M001_e0.m1v -vf subtitles=M001.srt -b:v 1.226M -minrate 1.226M -maxrate 1.226M -bufsize 1M M001.m1v
the generated M001.m1v now has the subs inside and using the SEGA Dreamcast Movie Creator the new sfd can be made. the values in the command -b:v 1.226M -maxrate 1.226M -minrate 1.226M are adjustable values. that needs to match the original m1v. use mediainfo to find out. not all videos have same bitrate and pixel/sec. if your generated m1v has higher bitrate than original just lower the -minrate value as much it needs. there is a problem though all the video ive made has exacly or liitle lower bitrate as the original the end size of the generated m1v is always smaller compared to original m1v, but the generated SFD is always higher in size, the end video pack size grow from 800mb original size to 810mb problem is the game is 6mb higher the size the gdrom can handle. without a second guess i downsample 2 ending videos to gain back those 6 mb and the gdi image can now created so
edit 2
ive manage to replack the videos whitch needed subs, without get out of space and without touching the other ones that do not need to be touched
here's the videos tested and working on real dc
File on MEGA
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