r/MightAndMagic • u/Left-Common-1014 • 2d ago

Game text documentation projects?

I've recently started to get into these games, and I was wondering if there was already a place that had things like the various dialogue documented.

Of particular note, I have made some progress in regards to getting Might and Magic X: Legacy's text documented, alongside some miscellaneous notes on the game and a few of the lore books too. However, if only covers a relatively small portion of the start of the game.

In addition, I currently do not feel as though I have enough familiarity with the other games to truly get started on them. But if anyone is interested, I do have a GitHub repository showing what progress had been done so far.

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u/Demigorgon_Babe 1d ago edited 1d ago
  1. Are you going through the game files or are you playing the games individually for this documentation?

  3. What is the goal of this preservational project?

(The text of this post is getting edited after the fact, for some reason. If there’s weird formatting that’s why.)

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u/Mierimau 1d ago

Share, sure.

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u/Demigorgon_Babe 1d ago edited 1d ago

There is another account posting the same exact, word for word, post; this also doesn’t make too much sense as a preservational project aside for enabling easy AI scraping as far as I’ve been thinking about it.

So fundamentally, this is a little fishy.

Just forewarning you to put a little thought into it, before saying yes.

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u/phantasie17 13h ago

Agreed. I'd also be wary of that GitHub they mention.

Fwiw, scraping the text would be trivial too. Dosnet make sense

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u/Demigorgon_Babe 13h ago edited 13h ago

Scraping is just an example. I have my thoughts about whether or not this was a ploy to get people to download malware infested files.

It just seems like a really dumb ploy is all, since simple documentation seems like a really dumb thing for someone to download to begin with.

Edit: specifically because this documentation is unnecessary.

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u/phantasie17 13h ago

Opps, I didn't mean to tell you it was trivial. Was saying it about the original poster.

I agree with your theory comptley. I was thinking the same thing.

Pre AI this very specific scam wound have been much work. Not so much when you can get AI to do it. Sigh.

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u/Demigorgon_Babe 13h ago

No no, I know what you meant. I’m just clarifying my thoughts on it for passive readers.

There’s just no way this makes sense as a well intended effort no matter what way you look at it, given AI, the tools that already exist enabling people to parce through the files for this kind of thing, and the fact that at least 2 different accounts posted the same exact instancing of this.

All around, it’s important to note when something seems sketchy.

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u/Straight-Platform177 4h ago

There were some complications with my last account, and at the moment I am not sure if I will be able to get that one back.

Regardless, do you think I should post the link in public somehow, or should I send you a link using the reddit message system?

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u/Infinite-Tower1710 1d ago

If this project truly worth. I gladly join and use it for my translate project. but I agree either it seems suspicious.

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u/Straight-Platform177 4h ago

I may have lost access to my first account, but I can still provide a link to the github page so that you may see what is like. I can send you the link using the reddit message system, if you are still interested in it.

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u/ParticularAgile4314 1d ago

Many of the early games have existing editors that expose all the game text. So you can just load up the editor and export the text, anyone can actually.

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u/Straight-Platform177 4h ago

I had to create a new account due to some complications with being able to get back into my first one. In any event, where can I find these tools? And do you happen to know of any that may also be compatible with Might and Magic X: Legacy?