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[PC]Black Ops Text Tool

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[PC]Black Ops Text Tool

Post by Chronic »

Good day,

this tiny tool will help you in the process of translating Call of Duty: Black ops for PC into some other language or simply fooling around with the texts. I saw some people asking about that, so here is a solution. It can extract&inject all textual elements, such as objectives, dialogue subtitles, it should work with any language. If your language has some special characters, you'll have to find their ASCII codes and, if they aren't included in the font file, edit the font image to support your chars.
It works with .ff files located in your \zone\lang dir, where 'lang' represents your game's language.
Make backups of all .ff files if you're planning on injecting texts in there!

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Name = Black Ops Text Tool

Author = Chronic

Category = Rippers & injectors

Game supported = Call of Duty Black Ops

File formats = .txt, .ff

Platform = PC

Description = A tool that will take care of injecting and extracting all sorts of text data into/out of Call of Duty Black Ops for PC (for making translations/localizations)

Version = 1.2

Filesize = 465 KB

Download = http://gljivolog.com/data/releases/bo_tex_v12.rar

System = Windows

License = Public domain

Opensource = No
Last edited by Chronic on Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:10 am, edited 3 times in total.
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

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Cool :) But I've heard that almost all CoD translations respect string size, does it apply to the strings extracted from this tool?
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

Post by Chronic »

Thanks. No, you don't have to respect the original string size - your strings can be both shorter and longer than the originals and everything will be functional in-game.
All extracted strings, of course, will be identical to the ones in-game, then you can edit them as much as you like.
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

Post by oyunceviri »

Thanks for tool :)
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

Post by timartinelli »

Any chance of it working with the files on PS3?

Tks.
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

Post by Chronic »

^Sorry, but I doubt PS3 has the same .ff format. You can still try it yourself if you own the PS3 version, though.
Make backups!
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

Post by timartinelli »

Chronic wrote:^Sorry, but I doubt PS3 has the same .ff format. You can still try it yourself if you own the PS3 version, though.
Make backups!
I tested does not work, I can send you an arch ff the ps3? to you to take a peek.
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

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Sure, no problem.
Send to [email protected]
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

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thanks a lot nice tool
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

Post by JonhOliver »

Hello, sorry my bad English. I am wanting to translate the game, but I'm having a problem with the tool, so I could see, they should have the same size as the original. Thus it is impossible to a translation of the texts, would solve this problem of tool? Thanks.
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

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JonhOliver wrote:Hello, sorry my bad English. I am wanting to translate the game, but I'm having a problem with the tool, so I could see, they should have the same size as the original. Thus it is impossible to a translation of the texts, would solve this problem of tool? Thanks.
This tool dont work? :(
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

Post by qabRieL »

Well, of course it works. But you need to be very carefull when you translate the text.
You should test the every chapter one by one. Sometimes, a little mistake can make you give up.
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

Post by Dynamite Dan »

Yep. I see it on another thread about characters limits and language dependence.

Black Ops, Transformers and Brink are my games i cant not translate with english audio with spanish text.
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

Post by timartinelli »

You can post this tool for the files of the ps3??
if this is possible, I post them. ff the PS3 here.
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Re: [PC]Black Ops Text Tool

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I've uploaded the tools to the Tools blog. blog/ :)
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