CHERRY'S PROFILE

Oh, I forgot that "Order" is grey by default if there is only one party member...

But we can patch this away so that "Order" is always enabled (that's much easier than the other way round - creating a way to control it by switch, etc.), so you can use it as "Save" item:

Yes, we can draw on top, this would actually work. However I think the save menu solution is much easier (the whole "don't fade in" stuff and everything is already a giant hack, so don't worry about this trick^^) and also solves the buzzer issue.

I mean, you just need to swap the switches used for save/load and party, swap the order of the menu items in the system2 settings and swap their captions in the vocabulary, that's it. Then you can use "Enable save menu" to control if "Party" is enabled or disabled (= grey with buzzer sound).

I don't think this has anything to do with "the stack".
Instead, it looks like an awkward bug which I would yet have to analyze... Can you send me a demo project which can reproduze the error?

No, actually it's quite hard to translate it completely. The reason is that not all strings can be found in the resources, many are actually hardcoded (including all string which appear in the event editor listbox). Therefore you need a hex editor to find and change the hardcoded strings, and you have to be careful not to change things which are used internally and shouldn't be changed (like "(OFF)" at sound/music selection) and also you cannot increase the length of these strings without reverse engineering and assembly knowledge (exception: Many can be increased by 1, 2 or 3 bytes if there is enough space at the end. If there is more than one NUL byte you can use the other ones, except for the last one, and then you need to update the length value which is 4 bytes before the start of the string).

Also, Resource Hacker has some bugs with string tables. Normally I'd suggest using XN Resource Editor instead, but in this case the best choice would actually be Resource Tuner (there is a 30 day evaluation version available) because it allows you to graphically edit the Delphi form data (including images, etc.) so you can also see if a new text wouldn't fit into the space on the dialog box and change the dialog box layout to fit the new texts.

This is something I don't understand... There are a few games where I saw something like this, and I was always annoyed that it's wasting my time for nothing. I really appreciate that the RM2k3 can instantly save (and load) games, so I wonder why one would want to artificially reduce this convenience? The only point where I could imagine a progress bar is before the custom save/load menu shows up, because it takes a moment.