What's Shenmue Translation Patch

This is the source code and assets for the What's Shenmue translation patch. This will generate disc images in GDI or MDS/MDF format with CDDA audio tracks.

Requirements

• Visual Studio 2015 (Maybe it works with a previous version?)
• Have 7-zip installed. Version 9.20 is the one that has been used, but it should work with a more recent version.
• Have all the external programs necessary for the patching process.
  • They need to go inside the folder WSPatcher/WhatsShenmueTranslation/Utils.
  • Inside that folder there's a text file that specifies the required programs.

Instructions

To build the patcher, you need to follow these steps:

1. Generate the binary file with the patch contents. This can be done with WSPatcher/Compress Data.bat. 7-zip is required.
2. That will generate file called data with the contents found in WSPatcher/WhatsShenmueTranslation.
3. That file is already included inside the Visual Studio project and its Build Action needs to be set as Embedded Resource.
4. Just select Release configuration and build the project. And that sould do it.

For debugging purposes, you can also have the patch contents in a folder next to the patch and update that folder every time you update the patch, instead of having to recreate the binary data file and rebuild the patcher.

1. Set the project configuration as Debug_ExternalPatch.
2. Set the Build Action of the data file to None.
3. Build the project.
4. Now, the patcher will read the data from some folders next to the program instead of the embedded data. Just copy the contents inside of WSPatcher/WhatsShenmueTranslation next to the program. So you should see WSPatcher.exe and the folders Utils, Patch-ES, Patch-EN, etc. in the same folder.