January 2020 Patch Release [Patch #24]

Hey all, hope you enjoyed the Animal Crossing: New Horizons direct! I personally think the game looks amazing! I'll be super interested in writing a save editor for it. Anyways, let's talk about this month's patch!

First of all, I apologize for the delay in the patch release. I reverted a few changes I made very early on that are still causing minor problems. This actually caused a lot of text to be R E A L L Y  S P A C E D  O U T. This was required though, as it allowed me to get the spacing for certain inputs fixed! Check out the way the password box looks now:

There are some other cool changes like complete rewrites for the notice board and diary width calculation functions:

Before:

After:

And here's the diary entry showing correctly:

The message board also got translated images, but the model geometry needs adjusting! Right now it's looking a bit trippy:

Anyway, let's talk a bit about everyone's favorite subject: burnout! This project has been going on for over two years now! While I wasn't as serious in the early days, I've been grinding away at this consistently for the past two years. The project has come a really long way in that time, and I couldn't have done it without your support. However I realize that I can't get this done by New Horizons release date. I think it could take anywhere from another 3 months or more. On top of all of that, I've been incredibly busy the past month as my college semester has started and I've working hard there as well! I enjoy working on this translation, but I think I really need to take a single month off. As such, I'll likely skip the March patch release (Patch #26, so not the next patch but the one after). That'll also give me some time to relax and play New Horizons with you all! Again, I really do apologize and totally understand if you would like to skip pledging!

Now that all of that is out of the way, let's get into the change log!

Changes

• The password system now uses the English alphabet and numbers! No more messing around with hiragana anymore!
• The diary and message board have fixed line width calculations! This means that you won't be seeing "Press the A butt" any longer sadly.
• Font spacing in password input and other areas is fixed! NOTE: This regressed font in some areas (mainly map but I'm sure its odd elsewhere too, it will  be fixed in the next release!)
• Message board images are now in English... but a bit buggy until next month.
• Villager quest 3 dialog has been partially translated. All the requests to "deliver a gift to my best friend" are now in English!
• A few other dialogs for K.K.'s birthday message prompts and other special NPCs have been translated.
• Minor spelling/grammar errors have been fixed.
  

Next month will be almost entirely focused on dialog. I'm working on finishing up quest 3 and 4 which are the final two quests besides sickness! After that I'll continue working linearly up the dialog id numbers. The bugs introduced by this month's changes will also be fixed as well!

See you all next month! Thanks once again for your continued support! If any of you want the updated password generator, just let me know by messaging me on Patreon or Discord!