Add Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

[tonyjih]

Added Traditional Chinese translation, however current font are missing some Chinese characters such as "步", need replace font to work, tested with ZPix (https://github.com/SolidZORO/zpix-pixel-font)

[Lojemiru]

Hello, thank you for the contribution! Unfortunately, any time we've looked over Chinese-character-based localizations in the past it appeared that it would involve replacing Japanese characters in the font(s) we include with the game, which we don't want to do out of respect for the series' origin. Would this just involve adding characters to the existing font, or would some need to be replaced?

[tonyjih]

Hello, thank you for the contribution! Unfortunately, any time we've looked over Chinese-character-based localizations in the past it appeared that it would involve replacing Japanese characters in the font(s) we include with the game, which we don't want to do out of respect for the series' origin. Would this just involve adding characters to the existing font, or would some need to be replaced?

Unfortunately font need to be replaced, I think some code changes in main game is required, I can do the work if it is possible !

[Lojemiru]

Unfortunately we are not making new releases of the game at this time as development of version 2.0 is happening on a separate (private) branch. I will however review the viability of including Chinese localizations when we get to that stage of development (we're working with some different fonts now) and I'll try to reach out to you then if it looks possible.

[tonyjih]

Unfortunately we are not making new releases of the game at this time as development of version 2.0 is happening on a separate (private) branch. I will however review the viability of including Chinese localizations when we get to that stage of development (we're working with some different fonts now) and I'll try to reach out to you then if it looks possible.

Ok! I'm also a experienced C / GML programmer, I can also help if any Chinese language related programming work needed 👍

[Hambaka]

关于字体问题，我记得大概2022年和开发人员聊的时候，他们提到中文字体最好是和AM2R的开源协议兼容的，这样才能进行编辑，再被AM2R包含进游戏本体中去。但是想找个符合条件的中文点阵像素字体真的太难太难了。Zpix的话肯定就不行了，包括我当时用的文泉驿点阵正黑因为是GPL所以也不被考虑，没记错的话当时聊到最后认可的结果是协议很宽松的TakWolf做的Fusion Pixel，其实理论上同作者的Ark Pixel更好但是开发很早期，缺字比Fusion Pixel严重得多，我也不知道现在这三年后情况是否有改善。
关于其他问题，我印象里日文设置里的字体大小有点小，可读性有点差，所以我一直用的是12px，至少看起来清楚不费劲，但是那样的话和UI又有点不和谐。细微的小问题暂且不谈，大的问题比如说萨姆斯的装备查看界面那里就会特别乱，最早2017年我单独做1.1的中文版的时候是一顿瞎搞单独重新针对12px中文调整的，不清楚AM2R现在是否会考虑针对特定语言特意调整部分UI的大小和布局，但我并不懂GML开发所以也帮不上忙。

因为年头太久了加上精力也不在这里，其他一些问题我也想不起来太多，我只能说我想得起来的部分（记忆可能有偏差）。

1. 游戏末尾的鸟人族加密信息的日志，它的解密后的明文就在翻译文件里，但是加密前的版本不在翻译文件里的，如果字体不做特别调整你会看到它加密文本其实是英文，可能是全角英文？AM2R单独做了鸟人族字母替换掉那些英文字母来显示那些文本，使其看上去像加密文本。但是如果想和12px的中文字体一起使用估计又会是个问题？
2. 游戏通关的制作人员滚动字幕？好像是换了字体和大小后，那个滚动字幕就会过快结束或者过慢结束来着。
3. 其他的应该就是图片了，添加繁体中文的话也可以考虑加一下这些图片（详细信息在DistributionCenter的faq中有写）。主要是两个，一个是titles里的图片，其实就游戏开始界面标题的图片，会跟随游戏语言走；headers里的那些图片，每到一个新区域的时候，游戏会显示一个类似提示字幕一样的东西告知目前玩家是在哪里，这些也是跟随游戏语言走，目前是纯人工手画，不知道未来官方会不会改。

[tonyjih]

Fusion Pixel確實是個好選擇，我後來也發現了這個字體XD 字體Size的問題，8px塞中文確實難搞，我測試了10px配上小修改，我覺得是還算不錯，但細節的調整還是等大佬們Release 2.0後再細修吧

另外有關不同語言字體會衝突的問題，我目前初步的想法是可以根據不同的語言讀取不同的字體，但原版中使用的字體似乎已經是好幾種不同的字體嵌合而成，到時真的要做還是要和大佬們討論一下...

[Lojemiru]

Yes! We're using Fusion Pixel both 8px and 12px versions for a lot of the text in 2.0. We're also still using Acknowledge for some of the smaller menu elements, but those should be the only two fonts we are using.

[tonyjih]

Yes! We're using Fusion Pixel both 8px and 12px versions for a lot of the text in 2.0. We're also still using Acknowledge for some of the smaller menu elements, but those should be the only two fonts we are using.

Would it be possible to use 10px in 2.0? 8px makes Traditional Chinese feel a bit too tight — it’s still readable, but not very comfortable to read. Maybe consider using multiple fonts to improve legibility?

[Hambaka]

For reference, the size of Simplified Chinese pixel font should be at least 12px to make sure that the font is very easy for Chinese players to read.
That's why so many Simplified Chinese fan translations of NES/SNES/GB/GBA/NDS games would replace 8px and 10px fonts with 12px font when it's possible.

About official Simplified Chinese version of Zero Mission and Fusion by iQue, they also replaced those fonts with 12px ones.
ZM:

FU:

So back in 2017, I followed this widely accepted rule and replaced all fonts with 12px ones for the best readability when I made Simplified Chinese version AM2R 1.1. However, after 8 years, I have no memory how I did this at that time...

(More screenshots here)

So I wonder if it's possible that 2.0 can adjust the UI layout and size/scale for specific languages to solve this issue.
I also wonder if it's possible to use different fonts for different languages, for example, to solve a classic CJK issue, that some hanzi/kanji share same code point, but they have different glyph shapes depending on regions

From left to right: 灰、令、火
(Left: Simplified Chinese; Right: Japanese)

Edited: I forgot to attached the images.

[Lojemiru]

2.0 is unfortunately really tight on menu screen space, but when we get to our localization pass I will see if it seems possible to use a larger font. 12px is probably just not doable for some things like the inventory screen, but we may be able to sneak in 10px somewhere.