Translating Views (The Dagger of Amon Ra)

[Shaklin]

Hello ,

I try to translate the Options in The Dagger of Amon Ra into german.
Maybe I am blind, but I cant find the word "both".
In Game:
https://i.imgur.com/lg9PA0g.jpg

In SCICompanion:
https://i.imgur.com/hCmMBBy.jpg

I've already searched all "Views", I can't find it. Anyone know where it could be?

[ZvikaZ]

Strings to translate can be in texts/messages resources, they can be hard coded in the script themselves (more common as the game is older) and can be in the views.

In your case, I haven't checked it, but anothet possibility is that the 'both' doesn't exist in any of these resources.
ScummVM adds this button in some games that didn't originally had them.
Just open this game in Dosbox and see if that button exists.
If it's there - it's not related to ScummVM.
If it's not there - ScummVM added it.
Then, I don't remember all the details. They based it on some mechanism that was already in the game. But I *think* that the button view is in ScummVM code.

Edit
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For PQ4 there's a comment in ScummVM's code (https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob/101e016af176d95a43c31b1fdb1dd8338c409843/engines/sci/resource/resource_patcher.cpp#L147) that says that there isn't appropriate view in the game, so they added it.
But I haven't seen such a comment for other games...

[Shaklin]

Wow, didnt know that .
I just tried the game in Virtualbox (Win98) without ScummVM and there is no "both" button.
So I cant change it, without changing the SummVM'S code..
Thank you for your info and help .

[ZvikaZ]

Wow, didnt know that .
I just tried the game in Virtualbox (Win98) without ScummVM and there is no "both" button.
So I cant change it, without changing the SummVM'S code..
Thank you for your info and help .

• Next time you want to check something in the original game interpreter, it might be easier to use https://www.dosbox.com/.
• Changing ScummVM's code for translations isn't too hard. I have done it a few times when translating Sierra games to Hebrew.
• I found the 'both' view in ScummVM's code: https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob/60fdff423165994094ac1133798f97a52f1ceaaa/engines/sci/graphics/view.cpp#L51
• If you want, I can try to help you with adding your translated 'both' view to ScummVM.

EDIT
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The solution seems simple.
I have read ScummVM's code (same file, line 354) that injects their 'both' view - it depends (among other things) on the fact that 'View 995, Loop 13' has only 2 cells.
So, you just have to add your translated view as 'View 995, Loop 13, Cel 2' - and then it will (supposedly) be used to show that button, and will not be overridden by ScummVM.

[Shaklin]

Thank you so much ! It works:
https://i.imgur.com/i5AeOWb.jpg
So simple, but you have to know that first.
I am very impressed and really thank you for your time and help.
It's very interesting, and it's great that old games aren't forgotten.

Oh and I had already Win98 on VirtualBox, so it was faster ^^. But I will install DosBox .