IP Library Granted Patent US 6,884,175
Granted Patent B2
US 6,884,175 · App. 09/973,037 · Granted Apr 26, 2005

Video game with additive translation dictionaries

Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
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Patent No.
US 6,884,175
App. No.
09/973,037
Granted
Apr 26, 2005
Kind
B2
Abstract

When starting a new game, saved translation dictionary data is selected and compared with other translation dictionary data. Based on the comparison result, translation dictionary parts differing from the saved translation dictionary parts are determined as un-obtained parts. Data corresponding to the un-obtained parts are then retrieved from the other translation dictionary data and stored in a predetermined area of a RAM as new translation dictionary data. Further, at a game start, translation dictionary data of saved data loaded at the beginning of a game and each of translation dictionary data in a memory card are compared. Based on the comparison result, translation dictionary parts differing from the saved translation dictionary parts are determined to be un-obtained parts. Data corresponding to the un-obtained parts are obtained from each of the translation dictionary data in the memory card and stored in a predetermined area of the RAM as new translation dictionary data.

Claims (25)

1. A computer-readable recording medium on which a video game program is recorded in a video game processing device to which a memory card can be connected, said program causing a computer to execute:

writing saved data, including acquired information acquired as the game advances, interrupted-game data, and character data, in said memory card in response to a player's manipulation, the acquired information being accessible separately from the interrupted-game data and character data;

comparing only each piece of acquired information of said saved data written in said memory card, with acquired information maintained in an internal memory of said video game processing device in response to the player's manipulation; and

obtaining a new piece of said acquired information from said acquired information written in said memory card, based on a comparison result.

2. The computer readable recording medium according to claim 1 , wherein said acquired information included in said saved data is translation dictionary data.

3. The computer readable recording medium according to claim 1 , said program further causing said computer to execute writing predetermined saved data in said memory card into said internal memory of said video game processing device.

4. A video game program in a video game processing device to which a memory card can be connected, said program causing a computer to execute:

writing saved data, including acquired information acquired as the game advances, and interrupted-game data, in said memory card in response to a player's manipulation, the acquired information being accessible separately from the interrupted-game;

comparing only each piece of acquired information of said saved data written in said memory card with acquired information maintained in an internal memory of said video game processing device in response to the player's manipulation; and

obtaining a new piece of said acquired information from said acquired information written in said memory card, based on a comparison result.

5. The program according to claim 4 , wherein said acquired information included in said saved data is translation dictionary data.

6. The program according to claim 4 , said program further causing said computer to execute writing predetermined saved data in said memory card into said internal memory of said video game processing device.

7. A video game processing method to which a memory card can be connected, comprising:

writing saved data, including acquired information acquired as the game advances, interrupted-game data, and character data, in said memory card in response to a player's manipulation, the acquired information being accessible separately from the interrupted-game data and character data;

comparing only each piece of acquired information of said saved data written in said memory card with acquired information maintained in an internal memory of said video game processing device in response to the player's manipulation; and

obtaining a new piece of said acquired information from said acquired information written in said memory card, based on a comparison result.

8. The video game processing method according to claim 7 , wherein said acquired information included in said saved data is translation dictionary data.

9. The video game processing method according to claim 7 , further comprising writing predetermined saved data in said memory card into said internal memory of said video game processing device.

10. A video game processing device, comprising:

a memory system that stores a video game program in said video game processing device to which a memory card can be connected;

a computer that executes said program read out from said memory system; and

a display device for screen display, which is provided as an output system of said computer,

wherein said computer executes said program so as to write saved data, including acquired information acquired as the game advances and interrupted-game data, in said memory card in response to player's manipulation, the acquired information being accessible separately from the interrupted-game data, to only compare each piece of acquired information of said saved data written in said memory card with acquired information maintained in an internal memory of said video game processing device in response to a player's manipulation, and, based on a comparison result from said comparison, to obtain a new piece of said acquired information from said acquired information written in said memory card.

11. The video game processing method according to claim 10 , wherein said acquired information included in said saved data is translation dictionary data.

12. The video game processing device according to claim 10 , wherein said computer further writes predetermined saved data in said memory card into said internal memory of said video game processing device.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 4, 2009
From: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (ALSO TRADING AS SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (ALSO AS SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
Reel/Frame 022368/0822 →
MERGER Recorded May 27, 2003
From: SQUARE CO., LTD.
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (ALSO TRADING AS SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
Reel/Frame 014074/0196 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 20, 2001
From: TORIYAMA, MOTUMU; KATANO, TAKASHI
To: SQUARE CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 012314/0598 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2001-199990 · Jun 29, 2001 · national
Continuity (1)
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