A stupid non-thread worthy question blahblah

[omgitznpv]

So I'm going to step ねこ巫女れいむ(少女綺想曲　～ Dream Battle) and ところが、私には通用しない(ヴォヤージュ1969) by IOSYS. There's one problem, though.

I don't know how to get SM to work with hiragana/katakana/kanji (the characters if you don't know). I've tried to simply paste the song title in; didn't work. I've opened up the .dwi/.sm files and playing around with them (like making it in unicode encoding), and nothing's worked yet. If I simply make everything the original title, it doesn't show up in SM at all. I'm aware other people have gotten it to work. I'm not bothering to simply use its English translation for two reasons; 1) I've seen a couple translations for this by people so it can get a bit confusing maybe and 2) I want it to leave it the way it is originally (I'm big on these kinds of things).

So does anybody know how to

[ninjaKIWI]

Re: A stupid non-thread worthy question blahblah

Just point your thumb in the direction you want the hiragana to go.

[dandandamdandan1111]

Re: A stupid non-thread worthy question blahblah

TitleFrom: "Song name in letters, not characters"
TitleTo: ねこ巫女れいむ(少女綺想曲　～ Dream Battle)
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TitleFrom: "Song name in letters, not characters"
TitleTo: ところが、私には通用しない(ヴォヤージュ1969)
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Open stepmania program folder --> Data --> Tanslations.dat --> Paste this at bottom. Then, in the .sm/.dwi, put the song name in what you put in "Song name in letters, not characters."

This might be right, but I'm not 100% sure.

[trumaestro]

Re: A stupid non-thread worthy question blahblah

Save the .sm with UTF-8 encoding.
Japanese goes in #TITLE line, English goes in the #TITLETRANSLIT line if you want (it's not necessary, but if you sort your sims alphabetically when you play, the sim will show up under the "Other" section. Adding the #TITLETRANSLIT makes it show up according to its English translation.).

Same with subtitles and artists.

I'm reasonably sure. It worked for one of my files that had a Japanese title.

[omgitznpv]

Re: A stupid non-thread worthy question blahblah

I tried what trumaestro said first, because it seemed less confusing, and yeah, it worked.

Though a bunch of blue/pink question marks come up for a few characters of the song title.

[Silvuh]

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I was wondering about this, too...

I have a Japanese subtitle for one of my files... I have the English in both the "Subtitle:" and "SubtitleTranslit:" fields. So I put the "SubtitleFrom:" and "SubtitleTo:" stuff under "[Songs]" in the translations.dat file, then I removed the songs from the index.cache file and the Songs cache folder... When I opened Step Mania, the Japanese only appears in three places. On the "Select Group" screen after selecting your difficulty, I can see the Japanese after the title on the song list below. In the song editor, I see the Japanese under "Sub title:" to the right. And if I select "Edit Song Info", the Japanese is displayed across from "Sub title". Everywhere else, like, when I'm selecting the song in the game or in the song editor, the English appears as the subtitle.
And not all of the Japanese appears. It should be "風のクロノア２世界が望んだ忘れもの", but it appears as "風のクロノア???が?んだ?れもの" with the ?s being magenta question marks in small cyan circles.

Anyone know why it does that?

[trumaestro]

Re: A stupid non-thread worthy question blahblah

I think it's because Stepmania doesn't have all the kanji that you need. It has some, but it doesn't have every single one.
I'm not sure how to fix it.

[emerald000]

Re: A stupid non-thread worthy question blahblah

In order for Stepmania to read unknown kanji, you will need to make a .png file with the white graph of the kanji on black background. So let's say you want a title which is: abc(kanji). You will need to make a kanji.png file with 50 px of height and put it in the song folder. Then, in the #title line, you would enter: abc{kanji.png}.

Note: You may also enter multiple kanji in the same .png file.

I hope it is clear.

[Ramengan]

Re: A stupid non-thread worthy question blahblah

In order for Stepmania to read unknown kanji, you will need to make a .png file with the white graph of the kanji on black background. So let's say you want a title which is: abc(kanji). You will need to make a kanji.png file with 50 px of height and put it in the song folder. Then, in the #title line, you would enter: abc{kanji.png}.

Note: You may also enter multiple kanji in the same .png file.

I hope it is clear.

I tried doing that before, but I think it only applies to .dwi files. I'm pretty sure .sm files don't use the pngs.

The suggestions posted by trumaestro and dan will work, but you need to make sure your theme supports the asian fonts. Some support more (much more) than others.

[Yesssss]

Re: A stupid non-thread worthy question blahblah

It won't work with other people if you decide to use the kanji. What I would do is just leave the unimportant parts of the song name out (like 少女綺想曲, and ところが、私には通用しない).