Sorry I was too busy partying and drinking during actual New Years Eve. Anyways here’s some development updates from, well, me.
![[11/01/2011] Load Game screen](https://openxcom.org/wp-content/gallery/v0-2/110111_loadgame.png "[11/01/2011] Load Game screen")
Saved games have been really requested for some reason, even though they’re not that handy this early on, but they’ll make debugging easier. Plus infinite saves!
![[11/01/2011] Internationalization](https://openxcom.org/wp-content/gallery/v0-2/110111_i18n.png "[11/01/2011] Internationalization")
More languages! The format had to be tweaked to tie in with the new savegame format, so to try it out I decided to port the Italian and Spanish languages from the PSX version too.
On that note, there seems to be a bunch of interest in translating the game to bold new languages popping up. Support isn’t quite finalized yet, but still, if you’ve already done/know of a fan-translation for the original X-Com,
Great news, Sup.
Well, there was (a long time ago 😉 i was a kid back then) a russian translation, which i used to play. It was super-messy, though (pirate version, arrrrr~).
But, what the hell, I’d love to try to make a new one.
Someone already sent me the russian version, I can put it up somewhere if you wanna improve it, though languages with completely new fonts will probably take longer to support. 😛
Please do so~ I want to take a look.
For russian support there required 21 additional glyphes (upper and lower case) for big and small font charset. I can provide these glyphes.
Hey,
I’d like to translate the game to Czech. There is a very old version of translation, so I’m going to do it all over again instead of patching up the old one.
I would like to try translating to Finnish.
I’d like to know what’s involved so that I might be able to translate into ygyde language. Even though it’s not too popular, as a bonus the ygyde glyph set, a TTF font, looks kind of alien, like the glyphs on the outside of scouts. So it could be a novelty as a sort of “Cydonia Mode”.
Thanks, Good to see new developments in OpenXcom.
I’ve lots of translated stuff at russian also, becourse there is already translated version of original X-Com, so I can prepare language files in case Winterheart will provide you glyphes for correct displaying russian alphabetical symbols.
@Andrey: You can find details on the Russian translation here – http://openxcom.ninex.info/forum/index.php?topic=161.0 – Strings/glyphs will probably be adapted from the existing X-Com russian translation.
I don’t know how much programming knowledge is needed to make these translations, but as far as only text is involved, I would volunteer to translate the game into Portuguese, since I have no programming skills whatsoever.
I meant Brazilian Portuguese, since there are some slight differences from the Portuguese used in Portugal.
@Leandro: See here: http://openxcom.ninex.info/forum/index.php?board=6.0