[Strings] Faster Strings (Updated 10.11.2022)

[ShaoYuWeiZZ]

Updated to speed up Halloween event.

 

Thought I'd share my strings modification since it covers just about everything for endgame characters.

https://github.com/Slyyxp/Shao-Strings

 

These strings are compatible with Gilians Encounter Counter.

 

I won't post every small update to this thread as I do them, you can check Github for that.

But I will post batches of updates every so often when they have changed significantly enough.

 

• Nurse Joy / Healing dialogue removed
• Relearners dialogue removed
• HM's dialogue removed
• Ocarina dialogue removed
• Region link ferry dialogue removed
• Faster Breeding
• Faster Berries
• Faster Fishing
• Gym leader dialogue removed
• All Sinnoh trainers dialogue removed
• All Unova trainers dialogue removed
• Most Hoenn trainers dialogue removed
• Most Kanto trainers dialogue removed
• + More Misc. Changes

 

All existing strings modifications I found were not so well documented so they weren't easy to just go in and edit, so I made my own which should be easier for me to keep track of.

 

Thanks to @nurver9 for the informative post on the topic which helped me finish off the modifications I wanted.

Maybe someone else can benefit from this repository so I'll post them here.

Edited November 10, 2022 by ShaoYuWeiZZ

[Duffy]

Is this supported by mobile? I was unable to import it to my game 😞 looks cool tho

[ShaoYuWeiZZ]

Typo in CPU_0.xml prevented this from being imported.

Fixed it now, should work on mobile. Never played on the mobile client though but just assuming it works since it can be imported fine.

Edited October 27, 2022 by ShaoYuWeiZZ

[Cahriah]

Alright, so, Ig I am too stupid to understand what I'm doing wrong. I'm putting the .xml files into the /pokeMMO/data/strings but it doesn't seem to change anything. The way I'm testing to see if I changed anything is with Nuse Joy and I get the same text box every time no matter what. I know you said to "dump" them, I assumed that just meant copy/cut paste, the attached image is to show what I mean, sorry for misunderstanding. 

Edited October 27, 2022 by Cahriah

[ShaoYuWeiZZ]

Change the in-game language to `English - ShaoYuWei`

I have updated the README.md with this screenshot.

Deprecated

 

'en'/'English' is now used.

Edited October 28, 2022 by ShaoYuWeiZZ

[ShaoYuWeiZZ]

Few updates:

- Elite 4 dialogue removed in all regions

- Petalburg Gym doors dialogue removed

- "Item has worn off, use another?" Text shortened.

[nurver9]

@ShaoYuWeiZZ

Hi, thanks for the mention.

Here is the aforementioned thread containing localization documentation: https://forums.pokemmo.com/index.php?/topic/150771-docs-localization-files-understanding-syntax-and-load-order/ for reference.

That being said- I have to mention a few important things.

The way your files are currently formatted they are:

• NOT GEC compatible; as per my post: custom language codes break it and the "is_primary=0" flag allows Gilan's Encounter Counter to function properly.
• NOT Archetype Counter compatible; as the battle text is modified and replaced with a blank entry as well as the day-care man dialog.
• NOT multi-language compatible, only works for whatever ROM the strings were formatted for (in this case English.) and some areas will also display string ids instead of the actual contents of the string.

I would highly recommend modifying your file header to match the ones I put in the examples, e.g., remove your custom language flag and name and match the one you natively play the game using. There is no reason to define a custom language, it only causes problems.

 

[ShaoYuWeiZZ]

3 minutes ago, nurver9 said:

@ShaoYuWeiZZ

The way your files are currently formatted they are:

• NOT GEC compatible; as per my post: custom language codes break it and the "is_primary=0" flag allows Gilan's Encounter Counter to function properly.
• NOT Archetype Counter compatible; as the battle text is modified and replaced with a blank entry as well as the day-care man dialog.
• NOT multi-language compatible, only works for whatever ROM the strings were formatted for (in this case English.) and some areas will also display string ids instead of the actual contents of the string.

I would highly recommend modifying your file header to match the ones I put in the examples, e.g., remove your custom language flag and name and match the one you natively play the game using. There is no reason to define a custom language, it only causes problems.

Thanks for the information!

These strings actually haven't broken GEC as far as I can tell. Horde encounters and single encounters seem to work fine but I have not tested other types of encounters.

 

Which strings specifically are the Archetype encounter looking for?

[nurver9]

1 hour ago, ShaoYuWeiZZ said:

These strings actually haven't broken GEC as far as I can tell.

They do, here is an example of how installing strings that contain custom language codes breaks GEC:

(tell tale sign is sprites disappearing from GEC.)




Here I am testing encounters with the custom language file selected and after restarting the client:





 

1 hour ago, ShaoYuWeiZZ said:

Which strings specifically are the Archetype encounter looking for?

content that cannot be modified (or included with custom files.) in order to retain Archetype Counter functionality:

string block_id="0" entry_id="5" table_id="547"

string block_id="0" entry_id="7" table_id="426

string id="1832746"

string id="271131044"

Edited October 27, 2022 by nurver9
flipped region ids by mistake

[ShaoYuWeiZZ]

43 minutes ago, nurver9 said:

region id 2 string block_id="0" entry_id="5" table_id="547"

region id 3 string block_id="0" entry_id="7" table_id="426

string id="1832746"

string id="271131044"

I believe you got region id 2 and 3 reversed there for those particular strings.

I have done as suggested and not edited the received an egg string in each region.

<string id="271131044">{01} received the EGG from\nthe DAY-CARE MAN.</string>

 

However it still doesn't seem to be tracking eggs whatsoever?

 

Testing horde's at Rapidash on Rt12 counted 4 per horde.

Edit: Also tracking hoppip swarms as 1x Golbat, 1x bulbasaur, 2x bulbasaur.

 

This just seems to be a bug in the counter. Probably more suited to your own thread.

Edited October 27, 2022 by ShaoYuWeiZZ

[CommisionerQ]

i dont see it in the language thing
it doesnt appear its already in the folder

[ShaoYuWeiZZ]

1 minute ago, CommisionerQ said:

i dont see it in the language thing
it doesnt appear its already in the folder

Custom language was removed.

Strings are set to use English, as long as you're on Engilsh it should work fine.

[nurver9]

15 hours ago, ShaoYuWeiZZ said:

as long as you're on Engilsh it should work fine.

Updated my documentation. Please revisit the Unova section.

Any custom Unova string is breaking the user's game.

It doesn't matter if you use the side-load method or use a custom language flag.

We found a workaround, but in the meantime I would highly recommend double checking modifications like this.

Everyone must continue to collaborate as a community.

Relevant section of my post:
 

Spoiler

 

Before continuing it is extremely important to understand that when you re-import Unova strings while using English or a custom client language, you will encounter an "issue" where the game will revert to using the internal dump version of files. That means if you have any string that edits region_id="2" on your system- all MMO specific dialog is not being displayed.

Correct dialog with "proper" string files:

 
Updated Smoke Ball description / breeding item text

Incorrect dialog from "bad" string files:

 
Old Smoke Ball description / missing breeding item text

These are single examples of dialog displaying improperly / straight from the ROMs. There's approximately 48 thousand lines of dialog in the Unova region alone, that is essentially the entire game's worth of monster, item and ability descriptions, conversations etc- anything the developers made specifically for the MMO is not being displayed.

To circumvent this, use this placeholder file @realmadrid1809 and I created.

Create a new XML file in PokeMMO\data\strings titled a_placeholder_for_enabling_unova_edits:
 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<strings lang="en" lang_full="English" is_primary="1">
  <string id="0987654321234567890"> </string>
</strings>

Without a file similar to this, your game is displaying dialog from the ROMs, not the MMO. In other words, your game is outdated.

 

Edited October 28, 2022 by nurver9

[ShaoYuWeiZZ]

Some Changes:

- Berries watering dialogue box removed entirely (Instantaneous Watering)

- Berry harvesting improved

- GAME FREAK Morimoto dialogue removed

- Improved E4 dialogue again.

- Confirmed to be compatible with Gilians Encounter Counter. (I have personally been using it successfully)

- BP Exchanges in all regions have had their dialogue removed. (Excluding confirmation of item/price which has not been removed but instead shortened).

- @nurver9's post has been referenced and his .xml file has been used to properly load from the intended locations.

[ShaoYuWeiZZ]

Updated for Halloween grinding:

 

- Faster wisps

- Faster turn in dialogues

- Faster Pumpking dialogues

- Faster Kids dialogue.

 

Note: I have not been able to test this yet since servers are offline, should work fine though. I will edit this post to confirm, or you can try it yourself when servers are online.

 

Edited: Tested. Works fine and kids added to list of strings removed.

 

Edited October 31, 2022 by ShaoYuWeiZZ

[ClosedBox]

Which one of all the .xmls should we use?

[ShaoYuWeiZZ]

11 hours ago, ClosedBox said:

Which one of all the .xmls should we use?

All of them.

 

The unova "placeholder" file breaks mobile though so I wouldn't use that if you're on mobile.

I'll look into that sometime after Halloween.

[Thekingofglory]

good job

[nurver9]

2 hours ago, ShaoYuWeiZZ said:

All of them.

 

The unova "placeholder" file breaks mobile though so I wouldn't use that if you're on mobile.

I'll look into that sometime after Halloween.

without that placeholder file the game is displaying 48,000 lines of incorrect dialog.

 

I cannot stress this enough. replace the dummy string with an actual string like string 0 or something from the game. 

 

otherwise, Unova edits are breaking users games.

 

alternatively, set another language like Spanish as primary 1 flag and English to 0.

[ClosedBox]

What I ended doing is dumping all strings, and then just looking for the dialogs I wanted to modify, and adding them accordingly to the strings files.

[nurver9]

2 hours ago, ClosedBox said:

What I ended doing is dumping all strings, and then just looking for the dialogs I wanted to modify, and adding them accordingly to the strings files.

Just a heads up- when the game receives regular updates to the strings files it will overwrite those modifications.

[ClosedBox]

I noticed, made a 'back' up with the strings I modified to just paste them at the end of the file. Seems it only updates the _en.xml, not the CRB_01 ones.

[papita14]

podrían hacer algún video sobre como instalarlo?? lo leí completo pero ni aun así entendí :(

[shamorunner]

Ayo o7,

 

I was wondering if it is possible to reduce the lines of text, through strings, that pops up in combat when a pokemon levels up and also when it learns a move

I am shunting shedinja, and reducing such level up and learning move text would be of benefit. If this might be possible, please let me know.

[ShaoYuWeiZZ]

No.

It being fast is the point.

 

If you want to keep the original text uncomment the ocarina section in `strings_en_shao.xml`

 

<!-- Ocarina / Summon -->
	<string id="16780155">\n</string>