Translations

[siread]

If you would like to translate New Star Grand Prix please have a look at the txt file attached. You will need Excel or something that can read Unicode files in spreadsheet form. Anyone that supplies a new translation will receive a license key to one New Star game.

To Load
- From Excel open the NSGP_TransFile.txt file and choose "Delimited". Next.
- Select Delimiters "Tab". Next.
- Select "General". Finish.

To Add Your Language
- Translate the words/sentences in column B into a new column.
- Don't worry about the language code (Tag) or nation number (Tag_NationId) as I will update these. Just put your nation name instead.
- Please do not change words that start with the $ character. These will be replaced by driver names/track names/items etc by the game.

To Save
- File > Save As... > Unicode .txt.
- Change the file name so it includes your language name.
- Attach the updated txt file to this thread.

This is the list of characters that can be safely used (otherwise some race text or screen messages might not display correctly):
(),-+\/0123456789:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ`abcdefghijkl mnopqrstuvwxyz€�ŠŽ��šœ�žŸÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×Ø ÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ

Help File Text
-Extract txt files from zip and open in notepad.
-Change the text to your language.
-Leave any words/letters that are followed by a / character.
-Save as UTF-8 format.


Any questions, just ask.

[ravezz]

Great, I'll work on the german translation right now.

[Thor]

Si, maybe you could leave the instruction for people using languages with special characters
Or maybe it's enough just to translate, and you'll be the person who'll convert it?
I'll try to do it until tomorrow evening

[ravezz]

Si, maybe you could leave the instruction for people using languages with special characters
Or maybe it's enough just to translate, and you'll be the person who'll convert it?

Interesting for me, because of the "ä", "ö", "ü" and so on in German..?

[Thor]

Si, look at the lines 110 and 111

[Cookie Monster]

Yeah, can we use letters like á, ã, ô, í, ì, õ, â, à, é, è, ê, û, ú and ù?

[Thor]

I have a few questions:

1) Names of sponsors like sports car, wrist watch:
Will they be used only in some sentences informing that they're offering you a contract or they'll be listed like in NSS4 (if they'll be listed I'll have to shorten their names since there were not too much place to display "firma zegarmistrzowska" )
2. Rest day - it means "spend your day relaxing" or what? I haven't noticed it anywhere...
3. GRID, like Malaysia Grid - what the heck GRID means here?

And generally that's it The rest of csv file is.. translated... gee, I didn't expect I'd do it so quickly
PS: I've converted it with Builder and... everything works fine, but during the race Polish letters are not displayed (casino, money, teams are displayed properly, but not in the race screen, I mean during racing... - no, no, there are no mistakes like @^ instead of ą or $%$ for ż, but these letters are disappearing, like in the case of LAP - instead of Okrążenie there's Okrenie ;-) ).

[siread]

1) The sponsor types are only announced in a message "You have been offered a wrist watch sponsorship." So no need to shorten.

2) Rest Day = A day of rest.

3) The grid is the starting line up. Not sure how to explain it properly but it means all the positions on the track for the cars at the start of the race.

The race uses a simplified font for speed. You can use unicode letters everywhere else. The Race text is limited to European (latin) characters. I'll have to get a full list of all the race text but it's the text like "Lap time", "Best lap", "Record lap", "Controls", "Pit Stop"...

[Thor]

Yea, there are also things like "Up" (Arrow up in Polish Strzałka w górę) etc.
However, I'm sending you 3 types of .csv file - the first, divided by ;'s, the second one are columns with only Polish translation (I recommend you to use it, copy, paste, since some lines tend to go left and mingle with English text), and one with everything in columns. It's your choice which one you'll choose If you wish, I can tamper with it tomorrow or on Wed and change the text displayed during racings into the text without Polish characters.
If you wish, I can translate the help files, but no sooner than on the next Monday
Cheers!

[Cookie Monster]

I suppose Latin would include the accented characters i've mentioned above?

[Martin]

I'll work on Brazilian Portuguese (it's almost done)

A few questions.
The following words I don't know if are noun or verb (or sometimes adjective).
Bet
Brake
Clear
Continue
Deal
Finish
Balance

Other questions:
Home = your house or "begining" (like front page)
B109 and B110 refer to NSS4 - I assume it should be NSGP?
B115 and B116 - they are both "continue" which is verb and which is noun?
Down = down key?
What are "Ground Tiles"?
Hit/Hold are for BlackJack?
Which are the clear/execute/help/screen/select keys? (I understand its about the keyboard, these are not regular keys, are they?)
What is the racing line?
What are the Joy Axis and Joy Hat?
In what phrase is 'handling' used?
In what context is 'skip time' used? And 'All time'?

[Nando]

Martin, I recommend you drop a PM to Cookie Monsters, as he is doing the Portuguese-PT translation (I believe).

[maivia87]

I will do it in italian

[Tom_VDB]

And this is the dutch one.

Obviously dutch is an english infected language , so you might see some words not being translated.

[siread]

Thanks Tom. I've added the help files now, so if you're interested in that...

I'll work on Brazilian Portuguese (it's almost done)

A few questions.
The following words I don't know if are noun or verb (or sometimes adjective).
BetVerb (Place a bet)
BrakeVerb (controlling the car)
ClearVerb (clear the bets places)
ContinueVerb (continue to next screen)
DealVerb (deal the cards)
FinishHmm, I think this just labels the results screen after a race. So in the sense "the end of the race". So noun? Never was very good at English language.
BalanceNoun (the balance of your accounts)

Other questions:
Home = your house or "begining" (like front page) Like the Home Page on a website.
B109 and B110 refer to NSS4 - I assume it should be NSGP? Oops. You are correct, well spotted.
B115 and B116 - they are both "continue" which is verb and which is noun?Whoops, there should only be one line for Continue really. It just means, continue to the next screen.
Down = down key? Yes
What are "Ground Tiles"?These are the grass, water tiles used in the editor.
Hit/Hold are for BlackJack?Yes
Which are the clear/execute/help/screen/select keys? (I understand its about the keyboard, these are not regular keys, are they?)You can leave these as they are. I don't think it matters.
What is the racing line?Again, this is in the editor. It is the line the com cars will follow.
What are the Joy Axis and Joy Hat?Analogue joysticks have an X axis (left/right) and a Y axis (up/down). There are also other axis' on some controllers. The hat is a special control on top of some flight sim joysticks. Don't worry too much about this word.
In what phrase is 'handling' used?How well the car can "handle" corners/bends.
In what context is 'skip time' used? And 'All time'?"Skip Time" means, finish the Qualifying session (skip to the end.) "All time" refers to the points that a driver/team have collected during their entire career/history.

Hope that helps.